we have a low pressure system that's now become a tropical depression just in the south china sea here's really kicking up a lot of moisture particularly along the coastal areas here of southern china. so places like hong kong and macaw, we could be seeing some pretty bad flooding here as these areas just get some really intense amounts of rain. 250 millimeters in a 24-hour period. and it will be ongoing for the next several days as well. you can see where it's just going to be the heaviest along the coast here. but actually showers reach up through northern taiwan and in towards the shanghai area as well. as for japan, well, you're going to be seeing some showers coming through on friday. and maybe some intense storms as well friday into saturday. as for friday, it's going to be rainy with 25 degrees, warmer through in seoul and staying dry at 31. 35 in chongqing and down towards the south we've got 34 and scattered thunderstorms for you in bangkok. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. ♪ >>> a constant presence in every aspect of

the east china sea. japan controls the islands but china and taiwan claim them. defense chiefs also talked about a dispute between the philippines and china. both countries claim the spratly islands in the south china sea. >> translator: we agreed that these issues should be resolved under the rule of law. >> onodera said there's concern that events in the south china sea could spill over into the east china sea. >> we are very happy to note that the japanese government is working with our people on resolution of the case. we have agreed to continue our exchanges. >>> filipino leaders are also working with their longtime allies in united states to send the message to china. navy crews from both countries are holding annual drills a short distance away from another group of islands that are the focus of a territorial dispute. nhk world reports. >> reporter: this is a philippines most modern warship. for the first time it will participate in joint drills with the u.s. where chinese maritime surveillance ships are closely guarding. it is the very same ship that figured in a recent standoff with chinese government vessels there. on the first day of the six-day operation, navies from the philippin

the president's speech comes amid tensions with china over the spratly islands in the south china sea. aquino says the people of the philippines are not prone to aggression but will tackle challenges. he reports the southeast saz yan country will spend $1.74 billion in the next five years to modernize the armed forces. china and taiwan and vietnam and philippines claim all or some of the spratlys. china is increasing the military presence in the south china sea where the islands are situated. last month the philippines protested the presence of a chinese warship, two surveillance vessels and fishing boats off a shoal occupied by philippino troops in the sea. >>> iranians are voting in a presidential election. we're looking at some of the main candidates vying to succeed mahmoud ahmadinejad. today we're talking about the conservative hard liners. the guardian council xraened 686 candidates and chose eight based on factors such as devotion to islam. two have dropped out. three are conservative and two are independent and one is m moderate conservative supported by reformists. two of the

their agenda includes disputes over islands in the south china sea. the islands are claimed by china, the philippines and vietnam. asean foreign ministers couldn't agree how to handle their disputes with china when they met in july last year. that meeting was the first in asean's history to end without a joint statement. observers are focusing on whether chinese and asean leaders can agree on rules for settling territorial disputes peacefully. north korean foreign minister pak ui chun will join the talks on tuesday. observers will be focusing on what he says to help resolve the nuclear issue. >>> rescue workers in northern india are racing to save survivors of severe flooding. more than a thousand people have been stranded for days. and they're facing the threat of disease. teams are rushing to airlift them to safety. days of heavy rain swelled rivers damaging roads and buildings in the himalayan state of uttarkhand. authorities say more than 800 people have died. but india's home minister says the final number could be above 1,000. landslides have cut

diplomatic row. >> the issue of china's engagement with the other claimant countries diplomatically as well as china's particular behavior on the seas, but it is in the scarborough or in the south china sea as well as the east china sea is an issue the president and the top officials including the secretary have raised consistently with the chinese as well as the east asian summit where they are accounted for in the multilateral with the chinese they are no doubt that america stands by our allies. as a competing plan and our relationship with japan with whom china has a sovereignty dispute over the east china sea. these are issues that the chinese understand that directly implicate the u.s. interest and it will have an effect on the prospect for the u.s.-china relationship. so i believe, senator, that we have delivered this message consistently and clearly and we have reinforced the confidence of our partners and allies and have given a constructive boost to the efforts to begin the negotiations directly with china on a code of conduct. i think that we have supported other diplomatic recourse to the national law on the part of the claimants and if confirmed, sadr, i certainly w

china of relentless cyber attacks, it snowden accused the u.s. of doing the same thing with major hacking operations with hundreds of targets in china and hong kong. in an interview published by the southmorning post: an interview published by the south china morning post: snowden has been in hiding since monday, but said he had no plans to leave the country. the country. now, that's an obvious signal that snowden intends to fight extradition. that could be weeks or months away. the justice department is still working on possible criminal charges. >> pelley: the secretary of state reacted today to a story that broke on "cbs this morning." john miller reported on allegations that the state department and the officials there have interfered with criminal investigations. the state department has its own investigative agency that looks into allegations of crimes, the allegations of crimes committed by staff and ambassadors. the office of inspector general, known as the o.i.g., is investigated whether any of those official cases were improperly stopped by higher officials. secretary john kerry said this today: >> all employees of this department are held to the highest standards of behavior

we observed that the south china sea is a potential source of energy supplies for china and that there is a contention among the nations in that region as to where the ownership and rights of access are to the south china sea. and this is conceivable that china might seek to reestablish its claim there by military coercion and that could lead them into a confrontation with the united states' desire to maintain free access. the best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. so, we want to avoid that. i believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a -- continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. i believe that our new national security strategy is that unambiguous commitment, and i believe that the u.s. navy is capable of maintaining that unambiguous military strength. as we sit here this morning aboard the uss macon island, in san francisco bay, looking out to the pacific, it i

>> trace, that newspaper the south china post reports it contacted the u.s. consulate in hong kong for a response to ed snowden's claims but it was closed for a chinese holiday. according to a consulate web site it closes for chinese and american holidays. fox urgent now we are expecting to hear at any moment now how the surgery went for the young girl who is finally getting the lungs she so desperately needs. doctors began the transplant surgery on 10-year-old sarah this afternoon. we are told a marathon operation should be over soon. little sarah became the face of the debate over rules for transplants in children. rules that require kids to be at least 12 years old to receive adult organs or be on the list. doctors say rules are outdated medical advances doctors can make adult lungs to work for children like sarah. a judge put her the adult waiting list and not a moment too soon. over the weekend sarah's parents said her condition was getting worse and fast. she went into a coma. the judge's orders may have come too late but all of a sudden this happened.

the servers of nine leading u.s. internet companies, cybersecurity taking center at obama's china summit tomorrow as well as the territorial disputes in the southea among the issues that the two leaders will be discussing. admiral james lyons is the retired # commander of the u.s. pacific fleet, and we are delighted to have you with us and i've got to begin with why do you suppose this is all coming out now? we know about the nsa, mta data gathering. we did not know about operaton prism, but there's some reason tt this material is pushed out here right now. it does not look -- it's truly a strange piece of timng. >> well, i think they see a certain weakness in this administration, and they are taking advantage of it. lou: they" being who? >> well, i think china. certainly, they with their policies in the south china sea, aggressive bullying tactics, their decaration of recognized international water, which comprises 2.6 million square miles, which we canot let stand. here is no compromise on that issue. i can tell you or allies are going ton watching how presint obama handles this delicate issue. lou: how do you expect them to handle it? we're

this is really getting much more moisture due to a newer developing tropical system there in the south china sea. it's going to start to push out towards the northwest in the hong kong area. just down towards the south about four-meter high waves and also heavy rains and the mill e manila area especially along the coastal areas in western lizon could be seeing risk of flooding and landslides. let's look closer towards japan just off the west coast actually tropical storm still out here. really don't expect it to maintain strong intensity at all. up to 72 per hour kilometer winds here. main reason, there's this stationary boundary that's been continuing to dominate much of western japan. this is going to continue to get wrapped up in it. it's still going to provide moisture to cause the risk of flooding. we've already seen heavy rain reports out here, actually 300 millimeters recorded here in the past 24 hours. now, as the storm tracks off towards the east, remember it has that counterclockwise rotation, so you're going to get the strong southwesterly winds there in southern kyushu. still ris

to hong kong he released though lots of things sort of mission to the garden first and then to the south china morning also the language stating year specially decent few of the the last few documents released are devastating because it proves that single wide university one of the top universes you know in shining beijing was being hacked by u.s. debt home kong was being hacked sort of ended with that we've been covering the story in depth pepe about america's basically that its empire of spying around the world particularly in china but when it comes to our hong kong so as we understand edward snowden according to you he's in hong kong he's in touch with he's in touch with the local media he's in touch with officials who allegedly give him a possible escape route it is it is it a part of defiance on the part of hong kong towards washington or more of a case of hong kong not wanting to get involved definitely not rorik each sector i wish i could really for you but i mean we raised a little bit the whole congo when they released. this statement about two hours ago after loading was already m s

their agenda includes disputes over islands in the south china sea. the islands are claimed by china, the philippines and vietnam. foreign minsters couldn't agree how to handle them when they met in july of last year. that meeting was the first in history to end without a joint statement. observers are focussing on whether chinese and asean leaders can agree on rules for settling disputes peacefully. north korean foreign minster will join the talks on tuesday. observers will be focussing on what he said to help resolve the nuclear issue. leaders decided to relax visa requirements, hoping a tracking foreign travelers will play a key in revitalizing the economy. deregulation will take effect on july 1st. and malaysian tourists will no longer need a visa for short-term stays. they may receive three-year multiple length visas. the length will double to 30 days. japanese transport minster met with ambassadors from four southeast asian countries. >> we would like to promote the wonderful attractions of japan as a brand. for example, the beauty of the four se

he talked to the south china morning. he's been there since coming forward. he tells the paper i'm neither a traitor nor hero. i'm an american. what do we know about what he's revealed? >> reporter: he's spoken to the south china morning post. it's the largest english daily here in hong kong. he's making a direct address to the hong kong people. many people are wondering why did he choose to come to hong kong. this is what he said. people who thip think i made a mistake misunderstand my intentions. i'm not here to hide from justice. i'm here to reveal criminality. of course, hong kong and the united states has an extradition treaty and politicians were saying if he thinks he's safe, he's not. obviously he has a plan. this is what he implied in that quote. >> do we expect to learn more from him in this interview? >> reporter: yes. there are several quotes. he speaks about fighting any extradition attempt from the u.s. government and he has appealed to the hong kong people. he said my intention is to ask courts and people of hong kong to dd my fate. i have been

the south sends a quarter of its exports to china. south korean companies needs to expand activities in china to survive the severe economic situation. chinese and south korean leaders also want to reduce their reliance on the u.s. and european markets to achieve stable economic growth. >>> australians have a new prime minister. he's actually one of their old ones. kevin rudd met a dramatic return to the job after ousting julia gi gillard. she's quitting politics and rudd is readying his party for the next election. nhk world reports from sydney. >> reporter: kevin rudd has been through this wince before. he once thought his days on top were over. now he's back in the prime minister's office after winning a leadership contest against his bitter rival within the ruling labor party, julia gillard. three years ago it was gillard who outed rudd as party leader and prime minister. but she struggled with the difficulties of a minority government. indust industry slammed her pollution levy. polls suggested she would lose an election planned f

. >>> vietnam's prime minister has called for a way to solve territorial disputes in the south china sea. he delivered the keynote speech at the opening of the annual asia security conference in singapore. he mentioned cases involving unilateral use of military force, unfounded territorial claims and violations of international law. he said leaders should quickly come up with legally binding rules to settle disputes peacefully. they discussed the friction over the islands. >>> government leaders in japan have acknowledged for years that north korean agents abducted more than a dozen japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s. be a lot higher and could include people listed as missing at sea. they're launching a new investigation. the minister in charge of the abduction issue says police and japanese coast guard will investigate accidents where people meant missing at sea. >> translator: we'll recheck cases listed as accidents at sea but that might have been abductions. >> government officials suspect north korean agents abducted japanese crew members on fishing boats operating on the sea

edward snowden told the south china morning post the u.s.ound the globe for years including hundreds of computer this is china. the paper says a few documents supporting that claim but was not able to verify guy them. the claims come not long after america complained about chinese hacking institutions. snowden remains in hiding and is believed to be staying at a safe house. he says he will fight extradition to the united states. also getting under way right now on capitol hill, the house judiciary committee holding a hearing on fbi oversight. and we're expecting the top secret program prism to be a big topic. robert mueller is in the hot seat today. dan lothian joins us live. i know the hearing is focused on the fbi in general, but surely the nsa leaks will come up. >> reporter: it has to come up because that's been sort of the big concern for a lot of lawmakers here in washington this week. there are concerns that, yes, while they may have understood the programs were in place, that perhaps they may have gone too far. some lawmakers saying

now the south china morning post, he says honk in hock congress, my intent is to ask the people of hong kong to to say my fate. he would rather fight the united states government there because he has faith in hong kong's rule of law. >> neil: now to kentucky republican senator rand paul preparing a legal case. this one could be very big. what do you have? >> we are asking people who have been affected by this spying, if they want to sue the government, you know what, this is unconstitutional. since every's phone records is spied upon i would guess that would include millions of people. we know verizon was included which is also evidence and at&t bascom police it, as well. so what we're saying is that the government has no right to a single warrant to search everyone's records. government does have a right under the fourth amendment if you are accused of a crime and there is probable cause, they can go after you. if your phone records were leaked to other people they can get warrants after them. but look at everybody's phone records go against what we stand for. >> neil: what if they are

all everything that we're getting is reported one of the main news outlets in hong kong that the south china morning post has posted the breaking news story just just about an hour ago saying that snowden is on route to. air a flawed flight or expecting him to land in the russian capital airport in about four four and a half hours of course it's a rather long flight at this point we do know that the chinese government the government authorities at this point have said that they know that snowden has left more than a third country they're not disclosing which country that is where he is going. nothing is known to. his whereabouts and when we asked the administration of the russian president he spokesperson said that they know nothing about where snowden is at the moment we do know however is that again according to the south china morning morning post that snowden may be on route to mosco but it will be a stopover on his flight elsewhere it could be ecuador or it could be iceland at this point it's all up in the air and really this is still open to speculation now of course all of this comes

the south china newspaper reports it interviewed snowden in hong kong and reports details about how theew was conducted are kept secret at snowden's request. snowden told two other newspapers he left his home and girlfriend in jesse heiman before he handed over -- hawaii before he handed over documents. he told the south china newspaper he did not want to leave hong kong adding i would rather stay and fight the united states government in the courts because i have faith in hong kong's rule of law. silver liberties groups call him a hero but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say the u.s. must prosecute anybody behind the leaks. snowden says he feels safe in hong kong. >> feels safe and plans to stay until he's asked to leave. he says he's had many chances the last couple weeks to flee but he's clearly positioning himself as a hero willing to fight saying to the chinese newspaper, last week the american government happily operated in the shadows with no respect for the public. every level of society is demanding accounted ability and oversight. i've acted at great person risk to help t

very well be possible to navigate through bumpy times, but, you know, people say the solution in the south chinas the law of the sea treaty, and, of course, all the countries signed the law of the sea treaty, and china does whatever it wants. it doesn't do any good at all. i remember when reagan sent me over to meet world leaders and talk to them into posing the law, the treaty, and i sought mrs. thatcher, and i sat down, and she explained what the law, that president reagan and i felt were the key element, and she said, well, mr. ambassador, that sounds to me like the international nationalization of two-thirds of the earth's surface. you know what i think of nationalization. [laughter] you can tell president reagan i'm with him. it's not solving the problems that people thought. yes, sandy, you look impatient. >> young lady in the front row. >> yes? >> i read your last book, "known and unknown," and i couldn't help but wonder sitting here in thinking about all the tough bosses you had, when you set out to do this book tour, what did mrs. rumsfeld say? [laughter] >> mrs. rums felted, whose name

they control the territory and china and taiwan claim it. six countries claim islands in the south china sea. operators of an experimental fast breeder reactor were ordered to not restart operations last month after it was found as many as 10,000 check ups have been missed. the operator said it discovered 2300 more missed inspections. officials at the japan atomic energy energy said the new lly controlled rods. . >> translator: we are sorry to have under mined public trust by failing to check more equipment. >> the prototype reactor generates power using plutonium from spent nuclear fuel. the reactor reached criticality in 1994. it is out of operation for most of the time since then due to a series of troubles. a district badly contaminated by the fukushima nuclear accident will soon be powering the community's recovery. it will be home to a solar electricity plant. no deal as the mayor of the village. noel leaders are joining hands with an equipment company in tokyo and they would build a mega solar power plant on 14 hectors of land that belong to the village. it used to be a ranc

the chinese military has called for resolutions to various territory disputes and the south china seaschinese army colonel made the comment during a security summit in singapore. u.s. defence secretary chuck hagel promised to maintain the u.s. presence in south east asia. the colduld discard war mentality and go beyond the outdated zero sum games and refrain from building military alliances set against imaginary enemies and take action against a third party. >> the u.s. and china have agreed to hold regular talks on cyber security. washington has complained that hackers and china have been stealing american government and corporate secrets. china insists it is also a victim of cyber crime and not a perpetrator. later this week, president obama will meet with the chinese premier. to get to know him better during an informal visit in california. the u.s. government is calling on china to account for ever been killed or detained in the 1989 tiananmen square massacre demand comes two days before the 24th anniversary of the military crackdown on pro- democracy protesters and china has accus

looking at the risk of flash flooding out of this as the moisture continues to stream out of the south china sea, pulls across the philippines here. most of the heaviest rainfall along the west coast and then wraps around our tropical depression some time on tuesday will develop to a tropical storm. bangkok at 34, mainly tropics looking into the 30s, but where you are seeing the scorching hot temperatures and it's expected to remain this way throughout the rest of the week, take a look at chongqing, 39 here going through your tuesday. really, it's going to be hovering near that 40-degree mark. let's take a look towards india. you really have been seeing the heat across portions f india, new delhi, temperatures in the 40s but now it's starting to cool off because early setting in of the southwest monsoon. unfortunately that comes at a price and looking at risk of flooding out here and already has been occurring. i want to show you video out of new delhi of these motorists having to continue to drive through these flooded roads here. the floods have caused some extensive damage in northern por

on that through the weekend as it pushes off towards the northwest eventually re-emerging in the south china sea. talking about the rainy season front as well once we have the 72-hour accumulation up. look at that. that band stretching there it's really evident and fairly obvious where that front is. as far as the temperatures, shanghai with a high of 29 and cloudy skies there. beijing getting up to 30 here. some thunderstorms in the forecast. low pressure area actually lingering overhead in northeastern china. and tokyo on saturday 27 here for the high. partly cloudy skies. let's take a look over towards europe where really the low country some showers continuing to push through here even in the british isles we're seeing a front move through as well. that's going to be bringing some heavy showers possibly at times about 80 millimeters within a few hour span. also stronger storms coming out of this upwards about 70-kilometer-per-hour winds. off towards the west high pressure comes in. in much of western europe you're going to be improving the weather conditions going into saturday and sunda

the united states and china. for china they also offer that can turn about the regional security and the south china sea and east china sea in these areas. also come the second level is the personal relationship weather can be viewed in initial respect and understanding and maybe the trust and friendship. the third level is strategy thinking. what the chinese call a new type or new kind, which mean they should be cooperative while conceptual. these are the three levels of just gets in their mind. >> aside from those specifics, how does the economies of the two countries factor the major discussions? >> guest: the most important concern for both leaders because both countries face economic challenges and china particularly slow down on both countries understand the importance of trade and also many other issue areas. both countries are the engine of economy and the should be the spotlight in the entire world. posts are used at china's economy is slowing down. why is that? >> guest: purdah because of the years of problem, partly because the painful structure change from the economy and heavily armed sheep labor is

. >> and in fact what snowden had also revealed to the south china "post" in long hong is that we have been hacking the chinese so that's certainly undercut the president's argument. and president xi did not stay at sunnylands because we were told he wanted to stay at the nearby hotel. >> he was worried about eavesdropping. >> being bugged. which brought to mind overnight as i was covering this latest posting in "the guardian," it brought to mind a piece we did on "nightly news" in 1995 about obama administration era cia spying on the japanese. let's watch. >> february, 1994. the president meets the japanese prime minister in the oval office, a trade war is brewing. three days earlier the prime minister had sent a secret emissary to see mr. clinton and try to resolve the dispute. nbc news has learned that when the special envoy got back leer to his hotel, and called tokyo, the u.s. intercepted his call. the white house had a transcript within hours. and that's not all. the miami summit later that year. the president meets with heads of state from all over the hemisphere. what the forei

snowden fled to hong kong when he leaked top secret intense to the wawps wawps, "guardian", and the south china morning post. >> what snowden has revealed has caused irreversible and significant damage to our country and to our allies. this is an individual who is not acting, in my opinion, with noble intent. >> the u.s. asked hong kong police to arrest him to begin the extradition process that would bring him back to the u.s. to face espionage charges, but in a blow to the u.s. on sunday, the hong kong government released a statement citing a failure by the u.s. to provide proper information under their extradition agreement. leaving snowden a free man, giving hong kong no power to detain him. but the statement came out hours after snowden had already left on his plane, leaving the u.s. no time to react. >> here in hong kong, many are wondering just how much of the information he was able to bring here. has he been able to take out with him. >> ama: the u.s. people court could decide ton two landmark same-sex cases. the california ban, proposition 8. was ruled unconstitutional. if justices str

snowden tells the south china morning post he is not hiding from justice. he says he is using hong kong as a base city to reveal wrongdoing. right now, a senate hearing is underway in washington, dc, and these are live pictures, the head of the n.s.a. is expected to answer questions about the exposed programs. >> a 10-year old person girl whose efforts to get an organ donation drew national attention is getting a lung transplant today according to her family. sarah murnaghan has end stage cystic fibrosis. last week a official judge suspended a rule that prevented her from getting an adult lung. the hospital she is being treated is not releasing information but it could bring change for other children. another young patient at the hospital also went to court to be added to the adult donor list. >> meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >> how about all sunshine? >> no cloud cover or drizzle for the commute or flight arrival delays at sfo but we have warmer weather on way but nothing is as extreme as we have seen and when we get beyond that we have cooler

the united states and china. for china, they are also concerned about the readiness security in the south china sea and particularly the american position in these areas. but also, the second label is the personal relationship where they can build a in a mutual respect and understanding and maybe even cost intervention. the third level is a strategy of thinking that both leaders want to discuss with the chinese call a new type or a new kind of power relationship which means it should be operating rather than -- said these are the three levels of objectives in their mind and the country's mind. >> aside from the specifics, how does the economy in the two countries factor into the nature of the discussion? if there is a factor at all. >> the most important concern for both leaders because both countries face economic challenges and for china particularly and the trade marketing access and also another issue areas and there are the engines of the economy and this should be the spotlight in the entire world. >> so you said the chinese economy is slowing down. why is that? >> guest: it hurts china's export because of th

the u.s. is also involved in extensive hacking operations against both china and hong kong n. an interview with the south china morning post, snowden says the agency ran tens of thousands of hacking operations against hundreds of targets. these are the first public comments from snowden since he checked out of a hong kong hotel on monday. he's telling the paper he plans to fight expedition and will try to stay in hong kong as long as possible. >>> the white house all set to welcome members of the lgbt community this morning in honor of pride month. president obama will be there to meet the guests. this is video from last year's event when the president stressed the importance of repealing the don't ask don't tell policy. you may remember raiders punter chris kluwe was invited to that event because of his support for same-sex marriage and equal rights. kluwe respectfully declined, said he had to be at a mandatory raiders mini camp. >>> news broke overnight bay area's own jason kidd taking on a new job. >> congratulations to him. how a boy was able to throw out the first pitch of last night's a's game from

across eastern asia, we have a tropical depression that will be formed in the evening hours over the south chinathis is acting like a conveyor belt of moisture supplied to hainan and macau, especially. we're seeing about 130 millimeters of rain in the past 24 hours in and around hong kong already. it is likely to be adding up to about 100 millimeters of more rain in the similar areas. rain will be across japan as well, but the topic of today is the heat yet again. yesterday osaka prefecture in region will have seen 38 degrees there yesterday, which is scorching hot, well above the midsummer temperatures. again, 35 in kyoto is expected and tokyo down to 24, but with rain that should be dissipating in the afternoon hours. here's our extended forecast. >>> and that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. we'll be back with more at the top of the hour. [ music ] >> hello everybody. i'm huell howser and here we are at the natural history museum of los angeles county. we are standing here in fnt of their gold exhibit and a fine exhibit it is, too. we a

rest of the week because we're looking at the possibility of a new developing tropical system in the south china sea. we want to continue to keep an eye on it. hong kong up to 33 as well. let's look over to the americas, really the fire weather has been the problem in the desert southwest. one blaze burning into arizona, about 5,000 acres scorched so far. it is dry out here. we're seeing the possibility of 65 kilometer per hour winds and same dry air is triggering up storms in the high plains. you see it off towards montana, heavy rainfall coming down for you due to a pacific low coming onshore. you can see the showers in vancouver and seattle. gulf states, showers in your forecast. if you're in washington, d.c. or new york, it is clearing up here for you. i know earlier you had a soaker, some fair weather is in your forecast. in europe, western europe, showers out here. some flood warnings in effect for you in southern france. this low pressure will continue to linger overhead drawing cooler air. temperatures cooling down. temperatures are not cooling down on the flip side of this. high pressur

meanwhile the south china morning post reports snowden specifically took his job with contractor booz allen hamilton to try to expose nsa programs through media leaks. >>> turning now to domestic politics, we now know the irs used terms like progressive and occupy in addition to tea party to target political groups applying for tax exempt status. that is according to acting irs chief danny werfel who yesterday said he was ending the use of lists to target certain groups. he admitted the agency was using those lists as recently as may almost two weeks after americans learned about the scandal. conservative groups believe they were unfairly targeted as a means to favor democrats in 20912 elections, but now that appears not necessarily to be the case. >>> the much anticipated murder trial of george zimmerman officially under way and the prosecution and defense delivered their opening statements yesterday. >> [ bleep ] punks. these [ bleep ], they always get away. those were the words in that grown man's mouth as he followed in the dark a 17-year-old boy who he didn't know. [ bleep ] punk

. >> today the "south china morning post" reports this -- "edward snowden secured a job with a u.s. government contractor for one reason alone -- to obtain evidence of washington's cyber spying networks. the south china morning post can reveal for the first time snowden has admitted he sought a position at booz allen hamilton so he could collect proof about the u.s. national security agency's secret surveillance programs ahead of planned leaks to the media." my position with booz allen hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the nsa hacked, he told the post on june 12th. "that is why i accepted that position about three months ago." today a reporter asked president obama if he had spoken to russian president vladimir putin. >> we're following all the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to make sure that rule of law is observed. and beyond that i'll refer to the justice department that has been actively involved in the case. >> so joy reid, do you take that as a yes or a no? he left room for a yes there, that he has picked up

across eastern asia, we have a tropical depression that will be formed in the evening hour hs over the south chinathis is acting like a conveyor belt of moisture supplied to hainan and macau, especially. in and around hong kong already. it is likely to be adding up to about 100 millimeters of more rain in the similar areas. rain will be across japan as well, but the topic of today is the heat yet again. yesterday osaka prefecture in kink u ya region will have seen 38 degrees there yesterday, which is scorching hot, well above the midsummer temperatures. again, 35 in kyoto is expected and tokyo down to 24, but with rain that should be dissipating in the afternoon mourps here's our extended forecast. ♪ one more story to share with you before we go. engineers in the czech republic have invented a bicycle that can fly. the bike carrying a test dummy took off inside an exhibition hall in prague. the prototype has four propel r propellers powered by built-in batteries. the bike rose a few meters before changing direction and making a smooth landing. engineers say the bike can carry a person weighing 75

leaker told the south china morning post of the u.s. has been hacking chinese and hong kong computers since since zero nine snowden alleges that the u.s. national security agency's targets included the chinese university of hong kong public officials and students allegations that give weight to claims by officials in beijing that the country has been the victim of u.s. hacking efforts america's turned into the world cop they think that they can basically set the standards for everybody else to follow their own paranoia global paranoia and outrage has been rising ever since one of america's best kept secrets known as prism was revealed the n.s.a.'s clandestine electronic surveillance program records digital communications and allows for real time online surveillance of citizens both foreign and domestic prism gives u.s. intelligence agencies direct access to files stored on the servers of nine major internet companies including google and facebook to identify and target potential terrorist suspects officials in italy britain and germany

with glenn greenwald within the following week it was bombshell after bombshell first telling the south china morning post that the n.s.a. had been hacking the government and civilian infrastructure of hong kong and china since one thousand nine soon after we learned about u.s. and u.k. surveillance of foreign leaders at the g twenty including russia but probably the craziest revelation is that as it turns out u.s. and u.k. governments have access to phone and internet traffic everywhere across the entire world gee that's a comforting thought and just yesterday in a surprising twist snowden left hong kong on a flight to moscow and in response to an arrest warrant issued by the u.s. the hong kong government responded with a press release saying quote there is no legal basis to restrict. snowden from leaving hong kong adding that the h. k. s. a our government is requesting clarification on earlier reports about the hacking of computer systems in hong kong by u.s. government agencies the government will continue to follow up on the matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of hong k

with glenn greenwald within the following week it was bombshell after bombshell first telling the south china morning post that the n.s.a. had been hacking the government and civilian infrastructure of hong kong and china since one thousand nine soon after we learned about u.s. and u.k. surveillance of foreign leaders at the g twenty including russia but probably the craziest revelation is that as it turns out u.s. and u.k. governments have access to phone and internet traffic everywhere across the entire world gee that's a comforting thought and just yesterday in a surprising twist snowden left hong kong on a flight to moscow and in response to an arrest warrant issued by the u.s. the hong kong government responded with a press release saying quote there is no legal basis to restrict. snowden from leaving hong kong adding that the h. k. s. a our government is requesting clarification on earlier reports about the hacking of computer systems in hong kong by u.s. government agencies the government will continue to follow up on the matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of hong k