so he thinks that southern china started the 1918 flu. like he says, it started every other major pandemic in this century. c-span: now just three years ago, you just--you say hong kong had a big scare in 1997. >> guest: they did. c-span: what was that? and did--did we know about that here? i mean, did people... >> guest: well, i--i knew about it, but i didn't pay a lot of attention to it because i thought scientists were overreacting. i no longer think that. but at the time, what had happened was there were some--there was a flu in hong kong that seemed to be killing young people. they were getting really sick and they were dying. c-span: be--you mentioned one young... >> guest: well, first there was one young boy who died. he got sick and he died. and it was very strange, because this doesn't normally happen. and there was a big investigation: what kind of flu did he have? it turned out that he had a bird flu. and that's really weird, because bird flus don't normally infect people. so immediately sort of the alarm bells go off. is this

in towards southern china we see heavier rain as well. you could see also some locally heavy rain into tuesday too. temperatures are fairly seasonal. we're looking around the mid-20s in tokyo, seoul and beijing. let's go now to the americas. more severe storms hitting the southeast today. it's the same storm system that has just moved a bit further toward the east. the severe weather impacting georgia as well as alabama. you have tornado warnings posted at the moment. it's going to be heading up toward the northeast. the severe storms are going to be impacting the ohio valley while the tennessee valley and the mid-atlantic you'll be seeing the brunt of the rainfall. things will be clearing out in new england. out to the west another system is going to be intensifying that moves through eastern canada and will be bringing 15 centimeters of snow. let's go to europe where a couple of low pressure systems are dominating north western locations here. yesterday some pretty nasty storms through france. today it's justgoing to be pretty unsettled

. >> parts of southern china have been dealing with heavy rain. this is due to remnants of the typhoon. about 200 millimeters of rain has been recorded in parts of the province. the out towards the west a deep depression has formed east of ssri lanka. it will move over toward india toward the northwest over the next several days. as for the rest of east asia it's dry. a new system moves in from the sea of japan. thunderstorms and gusty winds are possibly. out towards the west a new system will form. that will be producing rain across seoul for tonight. looking at 14 degrees the beijing. it will continue to go down as we're heading to the next several days. the high on sunday is expected to be only 6 degrees. 12 degrees in tokyo. seasonal temperatures with high of 19 degrees. let's go to the americas. tropical cyclone sandy has made landfall in new jersey and it's continuing to move inland. very strong winds. sandy has a wintry aspect. it's also producing a mixture of rain and snow in the great lakes region and significant snowfall for the appalach

very closely, it has descended down from southern china, where it battered the coastal region. let me show you a video coming out from south china. after battering the philippines and vietnam, killing at least 30 people. remnants of the typhoon have brought rains to china. 250 millimeters have fallen. sunday into tuesday. and you see the flooding and drenching rain, causing serious flooding and making roads almost -- impassible. we can pull back. and we can show you this rain that has gone down and so -- it is clearing things out, and much of the country, which is really good news, really don't want any more additional rainfall. across, here in the korean peninsula. we have a low pressure system moving away. which has been creating coastal showers across the eastern sea boards. that is going to be developing over the sea of japan. moving into japan here in, in the northwestern regions of, of japan. side of japan. we may see some very unstable weather in the next 24 hours. thunderstorm activity will be the key effect in the region. lots of lightning could be found there. and also

let's go now to another storm, this one in southern china. now, this was son-tinh, which was a typhoon and is now a tropical depression, but it's still bringing some very heavy rain down through and spreading into guangdong province in the next couple days. you could see an additional 150 millimeters of rain or so, and that's in addition to about 200 millimeters in the last 24 hours. i want to show you some video briefly about what happened over the weekend. now, as ta typhoon, son-tinh hi on sad and the floods blocked roadways throughout the city leaving vehicles stranded. air travel was also disrupted. meanwhile, a tornado spawned from son-tinh hit wanting city in hainan province. houses sustained significant damage while trees came down as well. several people in the twister's path were injured. fortunately, there were no fa l fatalities reported from that tornado. all right. moving on, i want to take you to europe where we have a cold surge spreading out across much of the continent here. we've got storms hitting the southeast, as well so

the chinese did that in southern china. many places around the world have had malaria problems-- brazil-- that they've brought under control. not so in africa. eradication efforts are erratic. yellow fever is another mosquito-transmitted virus that the french encountered when they occupied west africa. so the way the french dealt with this was to conduct an ongoing every-four-year campaign to vaccinate every person in every country they occupied. they had groups of doctors and nurses--that's all they did. they just went from village to village on this four year cycle. that way, the most that could happen is you'd have a group of susceptible children, but it would never get very big before you'd be through vaccinating the next time around. that way, they kept yellow fever under control. now, when those countries became independent, there wasn't money for those programs. and i got introduced to yellow fever in africa because, in 1965... some seven or eight years after senegal got its independence, there was a big epidemic of

from around the world traveled to the tiny european country to celebrate and a fender-bender in southern china to a bunch of pigs. a truck carrying the pigs was rear-ended by another vehicle and overturned. police arrived to direct traffic as the pig's owner and others were eventually able to round up the animals. no one, including the pigs, were hurt in the accident. >> baltimore city hit with another lawsuit. why they're accused of unfair practices. >> and they can dart out of nowhere, what drivers can do to avoid deer collisions. >> keeping an eye on the tropics, still in hurricane season and something may be developing. [ female announcer ] having grands biscuits in the morning is easy. pop them in, go about your business, and in just 15 minutes, your family can enjoy warm fresh from the oven biscuits. pillsbury grands biscuits. let the making begin. that's been wrapped in a flaky crust stuffed with a gooey center toasted up all golden brown then given a delicious design? a toaster strudel. pillsbury toaster strudel. so delicious...so fun. as a pastor, my support for question 6 is rooted i

the chinese did that in southern china. many places around the world have had malaria problems-- brazil-- that they've brought under control. not so in africa. eradication efforts are erratic. yellow fever is another mosquito-transmitted virus that the french encountered when they occupied west africa. so the way the french dealt with this was to conduct an ongoing every-four-year campaign to vaccinate every person in every country they occupied. they had groups of doctors and nurses--that's all they did. they just went from village to village on this four year cycle. that way, the most that could happen is you'd have a group of susceptible children, but it would never get very big before you'd be through vaccinating the next time around. that way, they kept yellow fever under control. now, when those countries became independent, there wasn't money for those programs. and i got introduced to yellow fever in africa because, in 1965... some seven or eight years after senegal got its independence, there was a big epidemic of

however there was a typhoon that caused major disruptions in southern china. strong winds and rain caused flight cancellations and left thousands of travelers stranded as well as a result of all that on the west coast. pope benedict asking a crowd in st. peter's square to pray for victims of hurricane sandy. the storm already responsible for 60 deaths in the caribbean as it is making its way toward the u.s. mainland. and japanese anti-nuclear protesters are getting in their halloween spirit. costumes like the grim reaper and frankenstein were meant to draw attention to their cause. got some breaking news we want to pass along to you right now with regards to hurricane sandy. am trtrak announcing it will be canceling most train service for monday throughout the northeast, ahead of hurricane sandy. a number of airports, a number of airlines have already done the same thing. we of course continue to keep a very close eye on the massive storm. which stretches more than 800 miles from the east coast to the great lakes, sandy could bring record flooding along with h

. >> reporter: the latest installment of the china import on export fair opened in southern province of guangzhou on monday. about ,000 domestic and foreign are participating in the event which runs until november 4th. japanese companies are showing their products. some are from areas devastate bid the tsunami. makers have set up exhibition booth. this is almost double the number that took part last autumn. representatives from japan explained w their products work and exchanged business cards with potential chinese buyers. >> translator: there are many problems in relations between japan and china at present. we want to continue selling our products in china. i hope these issues will be resolved soon. >> reporter: about 6,000 japanese attended the fair last autumn looking to buy chinese goods. the event organizer warned that the number may be lower this time around. >>> russian voters have been casting ballots for governors for the first time in eight years and they've thrown their support behind the ruling party. five provinces held polls on sunday. ru the president began appointin

china. the three-time all-star formerly known close to signing with southern tiegs, according to yahoo. did i say that correctly? gilbert averaged four points in 17 games for the memphis grizzlies. the move to china means his nba career has likely reached an end. but the good as governor, i cut five billion dollars in spending and balanced the budget every year. and tim kaine and i both cut our own pay as governors, to lead by example. mark warner and i reached across party lines to get things done. we were a great team in richmond and we'll be a great team in washington. i'm tim kaine and i approve this message ...because we'll work together to restore fiscal responsibility, grow our economy and create jobs. [ male announcer ] tim kaine. bringing people together to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. >>> ellen degeneres was honored tonight with the mark twain prize for humor. degeneres is the host of her own shown right here on nbc 4. >> i just do what i do. i don't do it for any other reason other than making people happy. >> she's so important in every level of comedy with every level

. >> reporter: the latest installment of the china import and export fair opened in the southern province of guangdong on monday. it's held every spring and autumn. about 25,000 domestic and foreign firms are participating in the event, which runs until november 4th. representatives from japanese companies are showing off their products. some are from areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. 17 equipment and parts makers from japan have set up exhibition booths. this is almost double the number that took part last autumn. representatives from japan explained how their products work and exchanged business cards with potential chinese buyers. >> translator: there are many problems in relations between japan and china at present. but we want to continue selling our products in china. i hope these issues will be resolved soon. >> reporter: about 6,000 japanese attended the fair last autumn, looking to buy chinese goods. the event organizer warned that the number may be lower this time around. shun ishibe, nhk world, guangzhou. >>> myanmar's transition towards democracy is one of this y

it like china is doing extremely well. but when you go to the southernit should come no surprise to anybody there are fewer exports to europe than there were a year ago and so i think we're probably seeing relative weak ps in those parts of china. as we look -- you roll all those numbers today. they're still growing in the 7% to 10% range. it's still pretty good. we hope in hindsight that means we're a bit conservative but we think the right thing do is watch that market which seems to be slowing a little bit and not necessarily count on it. >> that's interesting. this is carl. i hope you'll allow me one campaign. what's the most level-headed thing you can say about his performance and how it alters the trajectory of the race? >> i thought it was a fascinating debate last night and i'm not here to endorse either candidate, but obviously governor romney came out very quickly and said to president obama, whatever you might think my tax cut and plan is irrelevant, hire's what i'm going to do, and what he described was much more moderate sounding than clearl

the southern european welfare states are dying. but china's doing well. germany's exports -- china's were up 10% year over year in august. >> the doom and gloom is not wrong yet. >> germany's exports -- the u.s. are up 15% year-on-year. the people who know how to do things right still show strength and if they're unleashed -- >> i want to get -- unleash. that's the key word. president obama has kept a short leash on american business with his regulatory and tax threats. that's why this guy from florida today was going crazy. but mike holland, as an investor, how are you playing this? i see opportunities galore. i'm in a very optimistic mood tonight. but i'm laser-like focusing in. here's in election, there's a predict revolution right in front of our noses and a lot of times we don't see it. if that's remotely true, what are you buying? >> you have to own the biggest quality companies that are at the lowest possible prices given just what you talked about. having said that, i want to pile on with david's comments about the world economy. china, the second

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southern economic countries. it also points out the european uncertainty is slowing growth in emerging nations such as china. the report projects the euro zone will shrink. japan and the united states should see 2.2% growth. global growth will increase to 3.3% next year but they warn europe's credit problems still pose a threat to the global economy. the bank's latest report project 7.2% growth across 14 countries. that's lower than the forecast in may. the region includes china but not japan. china's domestic demand is sluggish and it's hurt exports throughout the region. growth in east asia will rise to 7.6% next year. they say china will pick up steam and demand will grow within southeast asia. they are also being cautious. >>> chinese officials safe they have cancelled plans to aattend world meetings. japan controls the islands. chinese leaders say the territories belong to them. representatives of the industrial commercial bank of china, china construction bank will skip the world bank gathering. a ministry official was quoted as saying japan's unilateral actions are freezing relations. it's the world's

so the conditional probability that china will avoid the middle income trap is much higher and one in three. it's 50, 60, three chords. i mean, southern ocean that china will fall in the middle income crowd i just don't think it's likely, at least until china reaches 50, 55% of your standard of living. roughly where korea is today. yes, there is 18. it's a problem but i think -- aging. as i said, there's lots of things that china can do to overcome because it's still very poor to avoid this problem. i forgot to mention that, you know, america booster, u.s. boosters and china always draw japan and algae and say, you know, japan had this bubble, japan slow down, china is same situation. i think that is fundamentally ironic analogy because when china -- when japan penn state in the late '80s, early nights, japan was at u.s. standard of living, or close to the. so the scope for ketchup japan had was over. china is still at about 25% so there's tremendous scope, so china, japan and algae is just plain wrong. so it went to the aging point. so democracies is on the way up like indians believe it is. but equally, demography is our destiny on

southern california. all right, moving into the philippines, and another tropical system is now moving over the south china sea. this is tropical system, expected to become a severe tropical storm within the next 24 hours. may make the second landfall in vietnam, some time between saturday afternoon into your sunday morning, local time. heavy rain, of up to 100 millimeters is likely, from tonight into saturday night. and more heavy rain, will be coming down in central and northern vietnam, over the weekend. as for the philippines, the stormiest conditions have, have been over. but heavy rain is continuing, as much as 150 millimeters or more likely in the upper part of the philippines including manila over the next 72 hours or so. as for the rest of the -- the east asia, rain is intensifying over the river valley that is going to be spreading into the korean peninsula as well as japan into the weekend. all right. finally let's go to europe. the main story is going to be a big temperature contrast between the north and the south. and anywhere to the north of the front, very chilly. look at this. only 7 degre

defused the un an arab league envoy meanwhile has visited china to try to get support his efforts to broker peace. three separate attacks in southern afghanistan have claimed the lives of at least eighteen people a security checkpoint was ambushed killing seven afghani policeman the unknown attacker then collected the victim's weapons and fled the scene while a suspected taliban roadside bomb has killed at least ten civilians most of them women and children another person also died in a second blast in the same province. angry crowds of civilians and former rebels have stormed libya's parliament building in the capital forcing a vote on the new government lineup to be postponed their anger was directed at proposed cabinet ministers they consider too close to the old gadhafi regime the national general congress was elected as the ruling body in july wednesday's incident highlights the struggle to bring libya under control a year after the revolution. israel says iran has stepped away from its alleged pursuit of atomic weapons defense minister who had barak explained that her own use some enrich uranium to make fuel rods for medical

we have a storm over the south china sea which looks like it's going to be intensifying into a severe tropical storm in the next 24/48 before it makes landfall over southern vietnam. this system has the potential of -- capacity of bringing about 5 to 6 meters of very high waves. that will be moving in a westerly path in the later of this week, weekend, and into cambodia and thailand. now, this rainfall accumulation could be some staggering amounts. it could be about 300 milliliters or even more, so coastal flooding, especially in the rural areas, including da nang. and the line is focused on cambodia and the thailand region due to the monsoonal flow being very active this year. so we really don't want anymore rain, so be aware of land slides and mud slides that this storm could create. another storm to look out for over the marianas. this is likely to be organized in the next 24 hours, so this is another storm to watch out for and keep a very close eye on. but across much of japan, early this morning things were really unstable. let me show you some footage coming out from niigata prefecture. this is near the niigata airport. we can see three waterspouts

we have a storm over the south china sea which looks like it's going to be intensifying into a severe tropical storm in the next 24/48 before it makes landfall over southern vietnam. this system has the potential of -- capacity of bringing about 5 to 6 meters of very high waves. that will be moving in a westerly path in the later of this week, weekend, and into cambodia and thailand. now, this rainfall accumulation could be some staggering amounts. it could be about 300 milliliters or even more, so coastal flooding, especially in the rural areas, including da nang, could possibly be seen. and the line is focused on cambodia and the thailand region due to the southwestern monsoonal flow being very active this year. so we really don't want anymore rain, but do really be aware of land slides and mud slides that this storm could create. another storm to look out for over the marianas. this is likely to be organized in the next 24 hours, so this is another storm to watch out for and keep a very close eye on. but across much of japan, early this morning things were really unstable. let me show you some footage coming out from niigata prefecture. this is near th

china. formerly known as agent zero here in d.c. has signed a contract with the guangdong southern tigers. he averaged just 14 points a game with the memphis grizzlies last season. the move likely means his nba career is over. ♪ gangnam style >> this is for all you hoya fans. that is former georgetown university center and current indiana pacer roy hibbert putting his spin on gangnam style in a flash mob fashion. hibbert organized the whole thing, surprising mallgoers at the indianapolis circle center. he got into it. check that out. he was helped out by his personal cheering section called area 55. according to yahoo sports, he even had the white suit jacket made specially for the occasion. >> very good. of course he has his own cheering section. >>> halloween isn't just for people anymore. more and more people are picking out costumes for their pets. this morning we have to show you one that is going viral. this is from a halloween parade. in new york city. the biggest costume hit was this dog. the pup, more thing, probably didn't even know why people were laughing at his little bottom.

strategy to contain china now some other international news making headlines today two afghan intelligence officers have been killed in that blast targeting a local police station in the southern helmand province a car bomb attack to injure other security staff and thirteen civilians it comes a day after the taliban issued a statement saying that nato forces are close to defeat and are fleeing in. israel has attacked gaza from. air force second day leaving several children injured it was in response to around fifty rockets and mortars being fired from inside palestinian territory on sunday's israeli forces targeted alleged palestinian militants riding motorbikes several children was severely wounded them as well. julia saunders suing the australian prime minister for defamation he says it's raised on comments by julia gillard in twenty ten in which she called the release of u.s. diplomatic cables grossly irresponsible and illegal asuncion claims her comments actually authorized further attacks on him and weak leaks is currently holed up in ecuador's embassy in london to avoid being sent to read in the koreas on the extradition to the u.s. . congress ones are to blog to chinese

china. the korean peninsula will be affected from tomorrow. down toward the south, remnants of tropical storm gaemi is now situated over the sea. producing heavy rain along the coast of the southern half of myanmar and central and northern parts of thailand today. so flash floods and landslides are possible here. all right. moving toward the americas then. we an see this compact storm. this is tropical depression olivia. it's continuing to move toward the west. meanwhile, people in the western u.s. are experiencing dry and warm conditions under the influence of a high-pressure system. but it's a different story in central canada and the great lakes region. a potent storm is moving through these regions bringing heavy snow showers and wet conditions, mainly across the western parts of ontario. as much as 30 centimeters of snow is possible into tomorrow afternoon here. and gale-force winds will likely continue, will continue across the great lakes. the system will move toward the east. as it does so, the central parts of the mississippi river valley will turn wet from tuesday. and out east, there's another storm system producing widespread rain along the eastern seaboard. but that

china. the three-time all star formerly known as agent zero in d.c. is close to signing a contract with the huangdong southern tigers. the move likely means that his nba career is over. >>> you can call them the comeback kids. the san francisco giants are headed to the world series after rooting the st. louis cardinals in game seven 9-0. the giants had to win three straight games in both the conference and division series to keep their season alive, tying a record for the most must win games. they move on to face the detroit tigers for the championship. game one is tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. >> i know it's would have, could have, should have, but i know the nationals could have beat the giants, and we would have been in the world series. >> that's what a true nats fan would say. >>> it is now 5:26. coming up, putting foreign policy in the spotlight as president obama and mitt romney square off in their final debate. >>> plus the unexpected delivery made along the side of the beltway. ike leggett: gaming generated one hundred and eighty... million dollars for maryland schools. question seven will double it. r

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there is one area of the near sees for the three seas yearly the southern part of the sea will land-based coverage will not easily get chinanecessarily the influence that it wants in that critical area. and then of course going much further beyond into the indian ocean into the third layer or four fleer of capabilities, a very quickly becomes acutely vulnerable to the same types of physics based limitations that it has so attempted to a target in the u.s. foreign platforms. am i chapter was not able to address because of new things happening in china all the time. the second aircraft corporations apparent work on the j31 aircraft prototype also the potential the emergence of the type your defense destroyer and of course the commissioning of the aircraft carrier on the 25th of september. but i still maintain that these developments, however exciting and specific, fit into this larger rubric that i was able to lay out. looking forward to 2020 and beyond, there are many variables here. it's very difficult to say. researchers at the strategic navy think tank talked about by that time developing a regional blue water defensive

china has in reserves and the chinese have wisely decided not to bail europe out. >> my experience with chinese leadership is any idea of political correctness when it comes to describing the southern europeans or people like that, they talk about siesta breaks, they have an almost stereotypical view of people not doing anything at all. >> rose: similar to the german view? >> probably even harsher, i think. >> the germans are lazy. (laughter) the chinese really have -- >> rose: how do they view the americans? >> well, i've talked to a number of companies that have tried to get into the u.s. for example and some have managed despite the problems, the technology companies. there are others that have divisions and very innovative medical device devices companies said we have engineers in shenzhen in south china, we have a division in california. when we have a big project to work on with a big deadline the engineers in china work through the night, sleep under their desk, i don't have to ask them to do that. the guys in california, they go home at 5:00 to be home with their families. that's the difference between my country and america. >> rose: so what -- >> and i think as an america

structural problems, the fact that the southern countries had to borrow to finance importing, germany will have to have a trade deficit, or there's no going home again. in chinahey cannot grow forever on the basis of exporting to the americans and not buying from the americans, because then they smother their customers. these imbalances haven't been fixed so, yes, the danger is real, and it's grave. jenna: charlie, let's talk about the ways to fix i. peter was mentioning the different types of economies at play in europe, but one of the things mentioned overall a couple years ago everyone was saying you've got to fix their debt and deficit, so people cut spending, and that became part of the problem because it slowed down the economy. >> well -- jenna: there's a little bit of you're darned if you do, you're darned if you don't. >> the imf is not a great example of how to fix things. they like high taxes, they like all those measures that slow down the economy. one of the problems in europe, and i have family in europe, is that the welfare state is too big. in italy it's la doll they vida every day. they're still there and still living off that welfare state d

china, europe and u.s. barely growing economically. if we were to kickstart the economy there would be a huge surge in oil prices. >> one of problems in southernrnia, really no effective public transportation, you have to drive your car to and from work. those folks are getting hammered. that ruins their discretionary spending. it hurts retailers and small businesses. hate has a snowball affect. >> heather: what we talked about last weekend, car apocalypse. there is a lot of drivers in california. >> gregg: u.n. sanctions taking a huge toll on iran's economy but are they pushing leaders for a possible compromise over their nuclear program. we'll take a closer look at that in a moment. ♪ >>. >> gregg: iran denying looking to strike a deal to end the standoff over the nuclear program over one report that iranian officials made a compromise plan at the united nations last month. this coming as sanctions are apparently crippling their economy with recent protests there in years. is iran ready to budge? steven yates is former deputy assistant for national security affairs. great to see you. what are the chances that iran would actually capitulate t