after a miscarriage, sayaka became pregnant again.ut there were complications with the pregnancy and the teacher wanted to take her doctor's advice and stay home for a week. >> then my supervisor came here and sat right next to me. he said that i should resign. >> he accused her of being greedy because she didn't want to resign. instead of support, she was criticised for four hours. the next day, she dragged herself to work from 9:00 a.m. till midnight. two weeks later, she had another miscarriage. the 38-year old is angry, angry at her boss but above all at herself, because she allowed herself to be a prisoner of japanese cultural norms. >> it's really disgraceful to become a burden on society here. you can't forego your work because of your private life. that's not the japanese way -- it goes against japanese work culture. >> fujiko masumoto opted not to go against the grain. she decided to have a child, just like everyone else here. she is taking an exercise and nutrition course. it's for women who want to prepare themselves mental

but temperatures are far more mild than much of uranium as sayaka mori tells us in this update. >> yes, very cold air is grgripping many parts of southe euro europe with snowfall in athens. take a look at this video from sicilyly. people in the sicilian town started to clear snow off the streets on tuesday. the town is sitting at about 1,200 meters above sea level. the unusually heavy snowfall cut off the village. eight people died in italy last week because of cold weather. most of them are homeless. now the air is coming inin frm e the north. it will move into much of cecentral europe. it looks l like conditionons wi improve in turkey, howevever, another round of snow is expected to move into the balkan peninsula, so we will see snowfall persisting in several places. now these are your expected highs on your wednesday. minus 6 in warsaw. it's a little warmer than what we saw on tuesday. minus 4 in vienna, 1 in berlin with a chance for snowfall and mild across the west like madrid, 16 degrees for your high on wednesday. very heavy snow is falling across more th acroross northern areas

. >>> here with the weather update is sayaka mori who starts off with the wildfires plaguguing chilly. >> chilly temperatures have led to historic wildfires in the region of south america. i w want to takake you to the central portions of the country to show the situation. the worst wildfires in chile's modern history is ravaging wide areas of the central region. 10 people have been reportedly killed. there were 85 fires as of wednesday, covering 190,00000 hectares, more t than twice the area of new york city, in the town of santa olga, more than 1500 buildings have beeeen burn. forest f fires are unundmont coy in summer, this year is quite exceptional. we need rain and lower temperatures to stop the fires but a a high pressure systetem controlllling the weathe noo rnn is expected at least into next week. temperatures not as hot as compared to what we saw a couple of days ago. but still warm, 33 degrees expected in santiago on friday and saturday. very different story in peru, ongoing heavy rainfall has led to signinificantnt floods. we have some video from southern portions of the co

california were lashed by downpours and people in affected areas are bracing for more rainfall as sayakaori jojoins us with a weather updat. >> nearly one meter of f snow fl and california has had three millimeters of rain since frididay. the m moisture has been poundin parts of the western united states. i want to show you some video coming out of the western united states. serious floods are forcing thousands of people to evacuate from the western u.s. on monday, residents of east of lalake tahoe in nevada along wi portions in northern california were told to leave after heavy rainfall swept through the area. storm knocked out power to 70,000 customers. trees fell because of the stormy conditions. take a look at this picture. this is a sequoia tree. it toppled because of the loose ground due to the heavy rainfall.. it shattered on impact. very sad newsws. unfortunately the atmospheric river will continue to cause heavy rainfall orr heavy snowfal inin the higher elevations. nearly 150 -- millimeters of rain could happen in the area. san francisco, los angeles, with heavy rainfall especi

sigh sayaka mori has more. >> snow is accumulating over japan. 50 centimeters of snow has fallen in 24 hours. 1.5 meters of snow has fallen. to give you an idea how severe the situation is, we have some video coming out of northern japan. the coldest air of the season and strong winds are creating blowing snow or even blizzard conditions in parts of northern and western japan. visibility is near zero, making hazardous conditions. numerous car accidents were reported. a woman died when snow fell, snow from a roof fell on to her. authorities are advising people to stay home. year ago 200 cars were stranded in niigata prefecture and a similar situation may occur during the weekend. the snowfall depth has reached 2.5 meters in parts of the tohoku region. the problem is that we'll see more snowfall during the weekend. more intense snowfall on saturday as well as sunday. cold air is flowing in siberia, that is getting ample moisture over the sea of japan and a lot of snow clouds are forming along the northwestern side of the country. there's a high mountain range in the middle of the country