into the beginning of next week it has the potential then to move on towards taiwan. of course that is goi to be another thing to -- to be concerned about. certainly after having all of this rain, continued rain for the next few days. a small break and then potentially more rain coming off this tropical system. so we shall keep a very close eye on the storm over the next few days. as we head into north america -- things are looking still very dry out toward the southwest. drought continues here, and of course, the fire problem as well. wildfires from new mexico up through the four corners and into wyoming and in fact wyoming is going to have the most severe threat for fire weather today. it doesn't look like there is rain coming in, looks very promising, but afraid it is going to be staying towards the north moving into central canada, rather than moving far down into wyoming or the four corners. severe weather -- thunderstorms, through the plains today from south dak difrom -- south dakota, into the region, unstable, on your wednesday daytime. things are drying out f

>> yes, a very heavy rain fall across much of southern taiwan here. in the past 24 hours, there is upwards about 513 millimeters of rain here. across much of taiwan in the past 72 hours there are report of over 1300 millimeters of rain fall. thus there has been a widespread report of flooding, landslides. one in particular did kill two people. a very dangerous and deadly situation currently occurring here. but not only if the south, also off towards the north in taipei. have you been seeing heavy rain fall as well. and in the next 48 hours look at this, upwards of 120 millimeters could be occurring across the southwest coast of taiwan as the moyer tuesday continues to push in from the west. further off there towards the northeast this rainy season front is also affecting tokyo. rain showers have been felt throughout the day today. but good news on wednesday. this is expected to start to clear up. take your attention down here towards the south. this is tropical storm gu lcol. wind gusts are upwords of 09 miles per hour. bare lay tropical storm at this

. >>> in taiwan landslides and floods triggered by heavy rain have left at least five people dead. thousands have had to flee their homes. torrential rain has been falling over wide area of the island since saturday. total rainfall has disrupted traffic and flooding homes. taiwan's central weather bureau says heavy rain will continue in southern and central parts of the island until the weekend. officials have evacuated nearly 5,000 residents from some areas because of possible mudslide. >>> workers are looking for another way to find the source of leaks at fukushima daiichi. radioactive water has seeped out of a reactor at the nuclear plant. crews failed in their latest attempt to find the holes. official at tokyo electric power company say the workers used an infred examcamera to search for leaks. they hoped temperature differences between water and air would show up as different colors in the pictures. the photos reveal the temperature was 38 degrees celsius in the upper part of the chamber -- and about 35 degrees in the lower part. but the difference was not big enough to allow

and then perhaps heading towards taiwan., it could actually veer further toward the east and head up towards okinawa. now it will continue to intensify becoming a typhoon saturday morning. that will be local time. whichever way it moves, we will be looking at an intense system bringing strong winds and heavy rain. that is a particularly of concern to -- these islands here up, up near -- the south of china. we are talking taiwan. and then japanese southern islands as well. because they have been seeing sustained heavy rain for quite some time along the seasonal front. parts of taiwan have seen it more than -- a meter of rain in just the last come of days. as you can see -- not much of a change today. we are still seeing a lot of heavy rain across taiwan and again okinawa as well. southern china is also seeing a lot of heavy rain. that front has the started to move a little bit. we are still pulling in hey lot of moisture from the bay of bengal across places like guondong, 250 millimeters of rain in some areas. up towards the

. >>> days of torrential rainfall in taiwan have led to images like this. a bridge completely overtaken by these raging waters. people have died. there's been landslides, traffic has been disrupted, as you can imagine. military personnel are on hand evacuating people from low-lying areas. to me, it's amazing that bridge is still standing. >> that's what i was expecting, i thought you were going to tell me that bridge got washed away. >> ferries take people from the eastern part of taiwan to green island. those ferries have been cancelled and now there's like 850 tourists stranded on green island. i don't know if this is off a trail or walkway. it looks like a path people use, just completely swamped with water, with fast-running water too. >> i wouldn't trust this. i mean even if it is shallow water, the strength it's obviously carrying could topple someone over quickly. >> according to the china post, they suffered some severe agricultural losses near taiwan, something like $172 million in new taiwan dollars equals out to $5.7 u.s. dollars. >> this has to

plus the people of taiwan have serious beef with the u.s. more specifically our meat standards and it's driving a rift between the two nations we'll tell you what the dangerous ingredient is what it means for your dinner plate. it's thursday june seventh four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching r.t. . well another victory today for critics of the controversial indefinite detention law a federal judge has ruled that the government cannot use that law to hold people in military prisons indefinitely the really comes after a group of journalists and activists sued the government over the provision they say it's unconstitutional and fear that they could be indefinitely detained under the law because their jobs sometimes require them to interact with terrorists while the government interpreted an injunction put in place by the judge a couple weeks ago to apply only to a handful of plaintiffs in the suit but now the judge says no this is to be applied broadly to americans. to discuss what this all means for your rights one o

plus the people of taiwan have some serious beef with the u.s. more specifically our meet standards and it's driving a rift between the two nations we'll tell you what the dangerous ingredient is and what it means for your dinner plate. it's thursday june seventh seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . well spying on people based on their religion may not be legal after all a group of muslims now suing the n.y.p.d. for singling out and surveilling them simply based on their religion this after reports came out that the n.y.p.d. spied on muslim businesses mosques and students in new jersey and built up secret files of them the complaint filed in federal court in newark asked the judge to deem the spying unconstitutional and stop targeting people of a single religion top government and police officials maintain that the surveillance program is legal so what does this all mean for the muslim community i'm joined now by a political comedian dean obeidallah welcome dean nice to see you so the media is now being sue

to the cooperation between china and taiwan in trade and finance. we will offer financial services to organizations and individual customers. >> the branch opening is seen as a key step to allow direct exchanges without using the u.s. dollar as an intermediate yare. direct training started on june 1st. china is expected to step up efforts. >>> and now here are the latest market figures. >>> syrian leaders are blaming rebel forces for a deadly attack on a pro-government tv station. gunmen stormed in and killed seven people. the country's state-run tv network reported that the attackers hit the head quarter channel believed to house a studio. syria's minister denounced the violence as a an assault on the freedom of the press, fighting between government troops and rebels is taking place daily in almost every part of syria. the escalating unrest has left u.n. truce monitors to suspend their mission in the country. syrian president al assad says he will spare no efforts to ensure victory against anti-government forces. syria's state-run television showe

he lives in taiwan. the organizers said they hope that authorities understand how taiwanese see human rights. >> translator: i want many young people in taiwan to remember this incident. we want the chinese to know we take this matter seriously. >> chinese and taiwanese officials are working to strengthen economic ties. they remain far apart on issues such as democracy and human rights. >> this is because she was removed ahead of a drastic leadership program. we have uncovered some detaileds. >> to have accepted huge play by using public position. a business man gave us more details. he says he got the information from a case in hong kong. the businessman says that through meetings, he got a close look at what he and his family have been doing. he said some family members asked for money. >> translator: to hold a kinner party for those relatives, one one of my acquaintances was asked for a bribe of nearly 1.3 million dollars. his wife and relatives have also gathered wealth. 5 despite this, people suffer

it will likely move through the taiwan strait within the next 24 hours, possibly make landfall in taiwan. and then become a tropical storm and aim for western japan. so western japan will once again will be hit by stormy conditions later this week. areas like southern china, taiwan, and southern japan have been contending with a lot of rain due to a seasonal front. so the ground is already well saturated. any additional rain could worsen the situation. all right. temperaturewise, getting up to 32 in hong kong. and 30 degrees in chongching. another warmer day for you in seoul, the hottest day of the year with a high of 34. today another hot day for you. tokyo getting up to 31 degrees today. all right. heading over to the americas. a series of low pressure systems will continue to produce wet and windy weather along the u.s./canada border. there will be a threa of severe weather from minnesota. the wind will shift to wisconsin. heavy rain has been coming down here. so flood warnings and watches are widely posted across minnesota and wisconsin. down towards the southwestern portion of the u

actually in taiwan upwards of 656 millimeters fell here in just one location. and numerous locations recorded over 500 millimeters. what this is bringing is obvious. the high risk of flash flooding across much of taiwan and southeastern china where the rain is also falling. but also landslides and mud slides on steeper elevations where that ground is really s satura saturated. a very dangerous area coming out. we'll keep you posted on it. farther towards the north, the imani region, you could be seeing upwards of 120 millimeters and over towards the konto region as that frontal area starts to lift off. toward the south, though in the philippines and over towards indochin awidespread rain showers will be continuing to expect here. also gusty winds bringing up the seas. but not only here. look over here towards the tropics just southeast of guam. does look like they are starting to fire up. this is a tropical depression. it's expected to intensify up to a tropical storm within the next 24 hours. and could be bring something foul weather toward the east coast of t

now, a tropical system like this is always a concern, but particularly for taiwan. it has been receiving astronomical amounts of rain over the last several days, extreme heavy rain totaling over a meter and a half has fallen in parts of the island. there's a severe flooding situation right now, but as you can see, the front that's been supplying the heavy rain has not moved very far, so we're continuing to see the heavy rain coming down in taiwan, and down in towards the southern coast of chi china. you could see up to 250 millimeters of additional rainfall on your thursday. now, up towards the north there's also some heavy rain falling. this system is going to be lingering for the next day or so in and around northern china, so ongoing rain with some short-time bursts of heavy rain as well in that and thunderstorms. most of japan seeing clear skies today, but we'll see rain moving into the south, once again, from friday. all right, here are your temperatures, looking quite dry in much of central china and out towards the east is helping the temperatures to rise, 30

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and a very strong typhoon by monday morning as it approaches taiwan and the southern japanese islands. that's the forecast. now although it doesn't look like we are going to see a direct landfall, it certainly is going to be causing a lot of problems. this is going to be a very powerful system bring strong winds th will mean the waves are going to be very choppy, of course. storm surge to deal with. a lot of rain. there has already been a great deal of rain, along the seasonal front stretched out from southern china through taiwan and into japan. so there is already a serious flooding situation in many of these areas. as the guchol moves towards that front. and those areas hit by heavy rain. it really is going to be exacerbating a very dangerous problem. so, we are keeping a close eye on this as we head towards the weekend and beginning of next week. things are going to get fairly wet across japan. a low-pressure system formed over that front. it is going to be bringing heavy rain in through the region as well, and coming into central japan saturday. all right, let's go now to north a

the japanese-controlled islands are also claimed by china and taiwan. speaking before a lower house committee meeting on monday, ishihara said china is insisting the islands are its sovereign territory. he emphasized china has declared it's ready to take bold action to challenge japan's control of the islands. >> translator: someone has to protect the islands. my wish is for the state to protect the islands. but since the central government is not doing its job, we have no other choice but to do so. >> in april, governor ishihara announced the tokyo government was planning to buy three of the four senkaku islands from their japanese owner. on saturday, some parliamentarians and tokyo metropolitan assembly members took part in a tour of nearby waters organized by a civic group. a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson responded to the tour on monday saying that any unilateral action taken by japan involving the islands is illegal and invalid. >>> japanese defense officials are making a sales pitch on behalf of their allies. u.s. military leaders plan to d

of the things we're focused on, tom, i thought your comments on inknown vegas spot on, i went to taiwan about a year and a half ago, met an entrepreneur, she was born in taiwan, she was raised there, educated there, came to the states about 30 years ago, had a great career in the pharmaceutical industry here, went back to taiwan, about 15 years ago to start it. that drug research, design and manufacturing tourist successful. she said that america will always be number one in innovations, but what are you going to do for all those people who don't have phds. that's sort of one of the questions for the day. many of the things that tom talked about are spot on. >> look, i think there are lots of problematic and policy things that can make a difference and i'll give you a specific answer to your question in a second. but i think beyond the problematic policy is attitude. businesses have to feel wanted. they have more choices than they have ever had before. there are 3 billion people in the world, we had a national governor's association a couple of months ago, governor hineman brought in th

now, a tropical system like this is always a concern, but particularly for taiwan it has been receiving just astronomical amounts of rain over the last several days. extreme heavy rain over -- totaling over a meter and a half have fallen in parts of the island. now, there's a severe flooding situation right now. but as you can see, that front has been supplying all of the heavy rain. "tokyo fashion express" not moved very far. we're continuing to see the heavy rain coming down. and down in towards the southern coast of china. you could see up to 250 millimeters of additional rainfall on your thursday. now, up towards the north there's also some heavy rainfall. the system is going to be lingering for the next day or so in and around northern china. so ongoing rain with some short bursts of heavy rain as well in that and thunderstorms. most of japan seeing clear skies today. we'll see rain moving in to the south once again from friday. here are your temperatures. looking quite dry in much of central china. then towards the east. 30 degrees in shanghai. 29 in chongqing. and clear skies and

but unfortunately, it's not really shifting away from the southern japanese islands or taiwan so we'll see ongoing heavy rain in land that's already saturated. okinawa maybe seeing 120 to 150 millimeters of rain in a 24-hour period from this system. in some parts of okinawa, reports of 100 millimeters in the space of three hours. so very short time heavy rain. the potential for strong gusts which will bring those waves up as well. back in towards southern china, the same front could actually produce 250 millimeters of rain in the space of 24 hours. so we're talking very significant totals here. the southwest monsoon has really got going in some parts. it's quite slow moving up the indian peninsula at the moment. it has been bringing plenty of moisture into the eastern bay of bengal. northeastern india, bangladesh, myanmar continuing to see heavy downpours. we'll see thunderstorms targeting northern vietnam. here are your temperatures. you can see a lot of heat spreading into beijing. 29 here. you see oranges toward the east of china. 15 in ulan bator. a little on the chilly side. tokyo

. >>> heavy rainfall continues in taiwan. >> torrential amounts of rain across much of southern taiwan here where you have been seeing heavy rainfall. in the next 24 hours an additional 250 mm could be seen here. already issued flood warnings. towards the east and west of hong kong you see areas of purple where you could be seeing heaviest areas of rainfall. southern thailand plenty of reports of flooding and land slides killing several people at this time. let's look farther towards the south in the tropics. tropical storm moving towards the northwest. a small island just south of the center of circulation. all of the warnings have been lifted here. the storm is expected to continue to intensify as it pushes off here in the east coast of philippines the southern japanese islands you are going to have to watch this very closely by the end of the week. this is expected to intensify to a typhoon. still very long range definitely but we continue to keep you posted. across the philippines a southwest monsoon has been continuing to bring heavy rainfall. land slides are still high at risk. o

about heavy rain, this tropical storm already has brought 412 millimeters to some areas in western taiwan. i know that people in taipei, schools an businesses, are already closed down prior to this approach. but additional of 250 millimeter could be possible in the next 24 hours as the tracks in between t taiwan and southeastern china. you will be targeted with heavy rain that could be as much as 100 to 250 millimeters as well. however, as this warrants this region, it's going to combine as a low pressure system with the rain season that is lingering over water here across southeast coast of japan as well. and that's going to be dumping some quite heavy rain. zone of drenching rain will be passing by the region quite some amount. it's going to be about 400 millimeters in just next 24 hours. some areas, you may see about 250 millimeters in the next few days, so we can't rule out the fact of storm activity as well as rumble of thunder. frequent lightening could be felt in and around the region. 18 millimeters per hour of short time heavy rain is also possible, too, in the land that is well

it could go at the moment because there has been so much rain here across southern japan, and into taiwanr the last week or so. the stalled out seasonal front has just been bringing astronomical amounts of rain and it still does today even as we have another low pressure system forming over the front, that's going to be heading into western japan, shikoku, you could see maybe up to 200 millimeters of rain in some places, that will be spreading up in towards central japan by saturday morning as well, and then down on the other side of the other end of the front i should say in parts of southern china here along the coast you're going to be seeing about 200, 250 millimeters of additional rainfall, so very potent front all together. now up towards the north there's another small low that's been heading through northeastern china and it's really moving very slowly so it will remain very unstable here with a short time, heavy rain into the weekend and south of that system, heat is building, beijing, 30 degrees for you on your friday, by the time we get to sunday, that's actually going to incre

kaishi now lives in taiwan. they hope chinese authorities understand how taiwanese see human rights. >> translator: i want many young people in taiwan to remember this incident. we want the chinese to know that we take this matter seriously. >> reporter: chinese and taiwanese officials are working to strengthen economic ties. they remain far apart on issues such as democracy and human ghts >>> obal leaders are concerned about the world economy, particularly following the equity sell-off over the last few trading days. ai uchida joins us from the business team. what are leaders doing about it? >> exactly those concerns. they were planning to talk about it already in mexico at the g-20 summit later this month. perhaps because of the global stock sell-off on friday and monday, several of them are taking virginia steps. finance chiefs of the group of 7 leading industrialized nations will hold an urgent conference call on tuesday toiscuss matters including the european credit crisis. a spokesperson for canada's finan

in taiwan. 190 millimeters has been reported in taiwan and some areas of southeastern china. in the past 24 hours. but looks like additional rainfall of about 150 could be possible in the next 24. and this is going to be a huge concern with further flooding situation. temperaturewise, take a look at this. a lot of rainy weather for us in this eastern continental asia. 25 in tokyo, reaching up to 33 in beijing. staying in the 30s in the tropics. moving over to the americas now. well, we have a storm system moving through towards the great lakes region and still, we cannot rule out the possibilities of tornadic activity in minnesota and wisconsin. things are very dry and hot towards the lower desert region. take a look at this. temperatures reflecting here. phoenix at 45 degrees. even denver reaching up to 37. that's 10 degrees above average. not going to be helping contain the wildfire in new mexico. and in colorado. all right. taking a look at europe now, things are going to be pretty unstable over towards the north. but out towards the other side of the jet stream, really ho

showers will remain across much of taiwan and southern china. this is due to ample moisture coming in from the bay of bengal. up to the north, northeastern china will continue to see ongoing thunderstorms throughout the day. as for the highs, another hot day for you across beijing. 32 degrees. 31 in seoul. tokyo, yesterday was the hottest day of this year with a high of 30 degrees. it will be cooling down to 24. so about a couple of degrees lower than average. all right. heading over to the americas. the main story is going to be sweltering hot conditions across the eastern seaboard. this is due to the high pressure system and it's continuously bringing hot air from the south. the southwestern corner of the u.s. is also dealing with very hot conditions and this is raising the risk of wildfires, particularly in the desert southwest. meanwhile, we've got ongoing thundershowers from ontario, down towards the texas panhandle. conditions are particularly severe in and around minnesota. and recent levels have reached their peaks in some locations. flo

get very or make landfal late thursday and aim for as well as taiwan afterwards. althoughfrom the lots of country b enhancing the nsoonal vy rain and are exp of posted progress.while, heavy rain is coming ely see rain o accompanied byrms. all right. to 25 degrees i seoul with32. all right.'s go over to stormy weather expected to expand much of and the next 24t west sca af isles and w as we head another system soaring 38 degrees in madrid and 36on your looking moscow and 18 degrees in warsaw. here's your ex and that's all for "newslio. thanks for joining us.

he has performed this stunt in landmarks across taiwan.mbark on a world tour taking into europe, the united states. i think he should have kept his day job. >> a boy it was posing with his father in front of a sleeping lion. on woke up.e lights and woke u there was another memorable visit. do you remember that? >> there you go. 76 degrees on tv hill. >> we have a bad situation along the top side of the beltway. >> it was kind of a rough start this morning with big thunderstorms. things are settling down. here is a live shot from pimlico. 78 degrees at the airport. good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey t cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. >> welcome back to 11 news today. 6:44. police say a pedestrian was struck late last night in north baltimore. the r

, the taiwan etfewt, the new president has already had tremendous ties with the mainland.hat's probably going to increase. the ewt also has taiwan semi in it which is poised to do well with the windows aid and the intel adam chip coming up. that should do well. that's the way i would play it. if you want to go kind of secondary, go to something like a yum. that's been working and everybody seems to like that. >> we have had a lot of debate over the last couple days about yum brand. do you have a quick thought? >> i would say yum and coach and nike to some extent and all of the american brands that were selling heavily into china. seeing cautious comments out of almost all of them. it is hard to understand how i guess a domestic name would do better selling to china if the multinationals are having trouble. it is not that it is horrible but maybe it is not the best area to fish for ideas. >> you know what's interesting is the coal stocks are up dramatically based upon the china easing yet plats report 30 freighters off the coast of china filled with coal because they have n

today if you take taiwan it's at 70%, so it doesn't look like the -- at least the administration made very much headway. maybe people blame chinese subsidies, but it raises the question of whether or not, even if you had a president of the united states a clear need and desire to move into renewable energy sector, why do you think -- i know this is a wind panel, but let's just take as an example the united states lost the battle on solar, and mike may disagree we lost the battle. but the numbers don't look good. >> i would say we didn't lose the battle either. i think that the largest solar projects in the world are currently being built in the united states. there are two 550-megawatt projects currently under construction. make's company is an owner of one of those projects. those projects will help prove the viability of low-cost pv solar. some of the largest solar thermal projects in the world are being built in the united states right now. also as a result of part of the government program, so when you talk about the pv industry in taiwan or china, you're talking about solar modul

taiwan? wasn't that some novel by james clivelle? [laughter] i mean, when's the last time you heard anyone say we really must go to war with china over taiwan. but the dalai lama, americans love this guy. the whole world loves him. and what's not to love? he's a 75-year-old sweetie pie with glasses and the sandals and the robe and the hugging and the peace and the harmony and the reincarnation, nirvana, all of that. we can't get enough of him. but if the american people were told the communist swine in beijing were putting pellets in his yak butter, don't you think this would be a pr problem for them? angel said, beijing's just going to deny it. and he said, that's the beauty of it. they're going to deny it again and again and again. they get to put out statements saying we did not poison the tally llama. bird says, angel, it's a slam dunk. and angel says, please, don't use that expression. anyway, they plant their rumor, and things sort of take off from there. this is the, i'll just yak for a little bit more. of the first book i've

i am the son of immigrants that came from taiwan, a look at asian heritage month as a way to celebrate happy accomplishments of our parents and the bright future that our kids have. this is a story i tell my kids frequently. she came here with no college education. during her first week, she was visiting the gross restore in the maze of all the things you can buy the grocery store. she came across a can that have a picture -- had a picture of a drumstick. she thought, amazing. you can buy chicken in a can. she opened it up and discovered it was crisco. [laughter] and it just shows how far we have come home and how far -- how much i owe to my mom and my dad. it is a great time to remind all of us that our success is dependent on our parents and grandparents. i am from minneapolis, have been here for two days and i was told it is always sunny and 75. i will be back soon. i am a director for merchandising at target. i am part of the team that pulls together what you see on the shelf, is a fun job. i have a sponsor for the asian business council. we have about 1500 team members that are of

i am the son of immigrants that came from taiwan, a look at asian heritage month as a way to celebratets of our parents and the bright future that our kids have. this is a story i tell my kids frequently. she came here with no college education. during her first week, she was visiting the gross restore in the maze of all the things you can buy the grocery store.

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it will intensify and get close to taiwan.s much as 250 millimeters of rain is likely in a span of 24 hours. it will likely become a remnant low and affect western japan later this week. heading over to the americas, a strong low pressure system producing stormy conditions in the western great lakes region. tornados are not out of the question. stormy weather will continue into your tuesday. to the south, dry and red flood warnings posted into your tuesday. temperature wise, heat is building up, up to 36 in chicago and 32 degrees expected in oklahoma city. finally, let's go over to europe. we have a strong low pressure system over in southern france producing stormy conditions. that will expand into central europe within the next 24 hours. in contrast, staying dry and hot in eastern portions of europe, getting up to 30 degrees in kiev and 35 in bucharest. out towards the west, 20 in london and 22 degrees expected in paris. here's your extended forecast. >>> our top story once again. a senior chinese official says there's scand