. >>> heavy rain triggered mudslides in southwest china and at least eight people are missing there. authorities say the group was in a chemical plant when one of the mudslides hit. a major highway connecting southwest and northwest china was also shut down when a downpour of rocks and mud hit five different sections of the roadway. chinese authorities are also looking for 40 missing miners after two coal mine accidents in southern china. >>> back here, a serious crash sut down a main thorough fair in gaithersburg for several hours today. it happened just before 10:00 this morning along great seneca highway near an intersection of muddy drive. a car veered off the road and into woods. the driver was taken to the hospital. and great seneca highway was closed until late this afternoon. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. >>> still ahead, star as rives n washington to prepare for the capital fourth. >> how about a capital third? everything the fourth has except the fireworks. details coming up. >>> also, coming up at the top of the class with a very special report. and a

reports say the chinese government found five fake stores in southwest china where an american blogger stumbled upon them and posted about them last week. well, they have shut down two of them pending an investigation but they can't do anything about the others, this is weird and weirder, they weren't selling fake apple products. >> so you can't shut down a fake store if it's not selling fake apple -- okay. sure. i'll go with that. nicole lapin, cnb krrk, thank you. for the first time in a long time, california does not lead the united states in the most expensive gas. that honor goes to connecticut, at $4.04. that's unusual because california's usually at the top. trumped only by hawaii. in california, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded is $3.82. that's still up 68 cents from this time last year. here in the bay area, the price ranges from that $3.82 in san jose and oakland, $3.90 in san francisco. >> all right. meteorologist christina loren has a look at the forecast. >> good morning. why do you need to use all of that gas when you can stay here and get the best weath

twenty one workers are trapped in a mine in southwest china after a flood is there were twenty nine people on the ground when the incident happened but age of them managed to make it to safety a major rescue operation is still underway trying is coal mines the deadliest of the world thousands of miners killed every year. average or civil wrong consider uprooted new constitutional reforms put forward by king mohammad the sick the response to recent pro-democracy protests preliminary results show more than ninety eight percent supported the changes the reforms give more power to the prime minister but the king is still remains the head of the military religious authorities under judiciary because the actions come after protests inspired by uprisings across the arab world. right still ahead in the program or grandstanding her way to the final. rushes the queen of the courts grant way into a second wimbledon file. or is just as celebrated by a pro as on the beaches and the cat walls of the world as this gorgeous girls. girl power we meet days you know their future is in their hands a bee in th

parts of southwest china suffering from continued to heavy flooding with rain triggered mudslides cutting off access to a pivotal highway in the province. state media reports at least twenty five people have been killed across the country over the past week of downpours seasonal floods have already taken the lives of around two hundred sixty people in china over the last month. all right so now in our regular russia series our crew takes you to the gateway of siberia. russia has occurred again that regionalised south of the mighty ural mountains and is bisected by the famous trans siberian a railway the area is one of russia's main food suppliers giving it a rich agricultural heritage with one of siberia's oldest cities as its capital it also has an aging population but as artichokes on a boy found out it's found a way to give them a helping hand. she may be eighty nine but the xander avon a man doesn't have too many happy memories to dwell on a loveless childhood a work colored youth a hard working adult life at twenty five she married an older man and devoted her time to caring for him

parts of our southwest china suffering from continued heavy flooding it with rain triggered mudslides cutting off access to a pivotal highway in the province of a city one state media reports that at least twenty five people have been killed across the country over the past week due to downpours seasonal floods have already taken the lives of around two hundred sixty people in china over the last month. their lives are at their most vulnerable during takeoff and landing and now there's an increasing threat from the ground namely a beam of light you can really reach over reports on the police hunt for the hooligans with laser pointers which blind pilots at the worst possible moment. they really become clear proof of the downfall of a laser or indeed i can be a major distraction for food bill or christian are now doing and. the consequences could be catastrophic if someone is struggling well flying an aircraft with hundreds of passengers on board blinding pilots by laser beams has become an increasing use isn't much over fifty attacks registered since the beginning of the year. the late

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. >>> dramatic pictures in southwest china. take a look at pictures as torrential rains caused the landslide. the cleanup is expected to take several days. the government says the blocked railroad is causing millions of dollars in economic losses. >>> arrests have been made in the british tabloid phone hacking scandal. as rita niss arn reports for wjz, -- nissan reports for wjz, the country is outraged. and prime minister is doing damage control. >> reporter: britain's prime minister is trying to distance himself from the scandal that has taken down one of the world's biggest tabloids. they have arrested andy schoolson on suspicion he was involved with tabbing into cell phones and intercepting voice mails. after phone hacking allegations forced him to resign from the paper in 2007. >> the decision to harm was nine mine and mine alone. and i take full responsibility for it. >> reporter: police also arrested clive goodman, a former top news of the world reporter. more arrests could be coming, with allegations the paper didn't jus

an american in southwest china stumbled upon three fake apple stores. the whole store. workers there were wearing traditional blue shirts like they do like in san francisco, the stores have posters, even advertising, ipads and iphones, but none of them were actually listed as legitimate sellers for apple products. that's getting a lot of buzz this morning. >> that's worse than buying those designer handbags in china town. >> the workers didn't even know that it was a fake apple store. >> that's amazing. thank you very much. always good to see you. it's 5:16. shuttle "atlantis" back home, safe and sound. it touched down just a few hours ago. it's the final mission, the end of an era as we take a live look there at the space shuttle. "today in the bay's" jay gray live at the kennedy space center where the shuttle program has officially come to an end. a little bit of sadness for folks. >> reporter: no question about it, laura. look, it's an amazing and emotional day here at kennedy space center starting with that picture perfect landing. just over two hours ago, but peopl

china. nothing to severe but it is fairly widespread. southwest monsoon remains active across indio china again particularly in thailand as well as northeast and i india and bangladesh. reaching 33 in beijing. 35 in shanghai. tokyo is much o warmer than yesterday. should rise to 28 degrees. now for americas, hurricane dora still a major hurricane. from now on, gradual weakening is expected. we have tropical for the tip of the baja, could be dangerous surf conditions starting tonight and stro strong winds could impact the area from friday night as well. rain shouldn't be a problem but still quite a lot of moisture coming in from the system. so the northern end of mexico looking at showers, pockets of heavy showers as well. >>> as for north america, we have this long frontal system shifting from plain states up to eastern canada looking across from the plain states aep and up in eastern canada and new england wz well as where the hotter air meets the cooler air. could face severe thunderstorms, damaging winds as well as large hail. otherwise, the hi

more heavy rain to come to you in south china and also a southwest monsoon will be enhancing heavy rain. so laos and vietnam and northwestern indo-china peninsula will be looking at heavy rain. looking pretty dry on into northern china and central china. the temperatures are very light in ulan bator. averaging at 31. tokyo, looking at 33. another hot and very humid day for your saturday high. heading over to north america, well, we have a low pressure system just sort of stationed in the northern plains. well, this is going to be bringing severe storms, thunderstorms, large hail, damaging winds, and even tornadic activity will be seen in montana, dakotas, all the way down into northern colorado for your friday. we do want to watch out for that. and also scattered thunderstorms and showers will be seen, especially in the gulf states in the southeast. well, a bit north is this area where a heat wave is just reaching all the way up to sentra canada now, and this may be bringing all that humidity and heat. both combined it's a very dangerous situation. the heat index readings are going to b

. >>> also new this morning, take a look at this video from southwest china.tslides taking out roads, buildings and anything else in the path. eight people are missing after the mud hit a dormitory building at a chemical plant saturday. >>> firefighters saving the lives of two men sunday night. the first person was a man in the 60s. the second a 30-year-old man pulled from a flood channel. >>> jacqui jeras is with us. good morning. >> good morning, guys. rough start to the monsoon season across the southwest and seeing more pop-up showers and thundershowers throughout the day today including las vegas and parts of arizona but the real action this morning focused in on the upper midwest with showers and thundershowers, not severe at the time but heavy downpours and a lot of lightning including minneapolis-st. paul. we may see severe thunderstorms later on in se places like des moines towards omaha, nebraska, pop-up showers and thundershowers into the southeast. you may or may not get it at your house. the heat continues across the southern states, 106 in housto

the southern sections of china does stay dry but much of indochina peninsula deal with the southwest monsoon, particularly for thailand. we have reports of heavy downpours here. for the philippines, too, lots of showers developing. we have a tropical depression just to the east of versailless. it's showing signs of intensifying as it makes its way across luzon over the next day or so. bringing additional heavy rain of more than 100 millimeters in the next 24 hours. so flooding is going to be a big concern here, as well as strong winds and high waves along the east coast. in terms of temperatures, it stays hot in southern china. 38 degrees in nanchang today. and shanghai reaches 37 degrees as well. it's very, very hot indeed. now for the americas, looking very unsettled down in the southeastern corner here. watch out for those drenching thunderstorms, picking up all that energy from the gulf of mexico. a couple of severe areas to watch out for across the north as well. for the northeastern corner of the u.s. awell as eastern canada. and then back behind the tail end of this frontal sy

system will be bringing lots of rain towards southern china around the guangdong province and also taiwan as well. it's going to enhance the southwestonsoon. and so it will bring lots of torrential rain and allows vietnam and also thailand, also philippines as well. torrential rain will up the risk of flooding and mudslides. now, we had torrential amount of rain in the korean peninsula as well. but floos a band of very heavy rain in central china and all the way up to the north. now this one around beijing will be bringing lots of heavy rain again to the korean peninsula. no more rain is welcome there, but unfortunately into your weekend, the korean peninsula will be seeing another heavy downpour again. tokyo, we're looking at 26 degrees. another -- again, the heat wave is afecting chongqing, 37. shanghai, 37. southeast china, please be careful of heat strokes if you are in those vicinities. heading over to north america, let's first of all talk about tropical storm don. this is steadily moving towards the southeastern coast of texas. we have a tropical storm warning just here in the pink line. it's going to be bringing damaging win

china will continue to deal with additional significant rain as well. around the bay of bengal, we continue to see plenty of moisture developing. scattered showers in place for indochina peninsula and the southwest monsoon beginning to really advance into the northern tip of the indian subcontinent. we're looking at fairly widespread rain here. particularly heavy downpours up in the north eastern corner. temperature-wise it's going to be quite cool in chongqing today. shanghai 32. hotting up to 33 degrees in tokyo. so another hot day. plenty of showers affecting central america. again, we've got this very big high pressure system bringing this mexican monsoon. also the southwest monsoon affecting the u.s. here. over towards the north we've got this very long frontal system stretching across the midwest, looking at widespread thunderstorms, rain, anywhere along here could experience a couple of thunderstorms, severe thunderstorms, that is, across wyoming, south dakota, even down in west virginia as well. the center of the storm is steadily moving into eastern quebec. here it's looking quite severe. eastern quebec, maine as well. down in the frida peninsula, looking fairly unsettled as well. tempe