along the mountains of western taiwan, you will see heavy rainfall, up wards of 200 millimeters. there is that threat of flooding. as far as hong kong, thunderstorms there in your forecast on tuesday. high of 30. tokyo getting to 30 as well with the passing showers continuing to push through. let's towards the west. what i want to talk about is india out here. as far as the flooding, eastern india. the country has been seeing a deficit out here as far as rainfall this month. what you have been seeing is 20% above average here. the only location in india which is above average this summer, that is right in here. this is the past week alone. what it looks like on the ground here where that rain continues to fall. you can see flooded roads. there has been 45 deaths occurred into the low lying areas. the floodwaters are starting to recede. 20,000 people are stranded. 45,000 have been evacuated. medical teams have been deployed to provide emergency relief for bringing in food to people which are still being impacted by the very severe floods. as far as the forecast, unfortunately, the

intensity of winds and the same energy driver, heat from the ocean, but as we go towards china and taiwan and western japan, in fact, dealing with a tropical storm, we've lost flood concerns here as it moves up through the north of the sea of japan eventually going to the china coastline over the course of the next three days. now, in the united states, our main concern is rain in the form of thunderstorms, they have been severe in the midwest for nebraska and kansas, but where we are getting some problems with thunderstorms is in california. we just heard tomas talking about the wilds fires going on in oregon, right along the columbia gorge, that's directly in the line, state line of washington and oregon state. but if we go in to northern california on the east side of the mountains, we have had significant lightning strikes there today and tonight and we very likely could see new fire starts. otherwise the attention is focusing towards the amount of rainfall come do you think in the southeast. flooding, flash flood warnings going out with this amount of rain. >> if it's not one thing, it's another

millimeters of rain and taiwan has seen wet weather, the most i have seen is 164 millimeters of the wet stuff. but when it comes to flooding the worst here is actually been in the westernf our map. here are pictures from chong-ching and saw 305 millimeters of rain in three days and that was enough to give us this damage and helps pull down people's houses and left hundreds of people homeless. over the next couple of days the monsoon is very active in china and taiwan as well. you see the dark green blue here indicating we are expecting heavy rain and actually over the next three days we could expect to see somewhere between 300-350 millimeters of rain as we head through the next three days. so that will give us another problem with flooding and could be anywhere across the south and eastern coast and taiwan where we see the worst of the rain. >> that is a lot of rain and thanks stef indeed. and entrepreneurs say bangladesh is the next big market for e commerce and explains how technology and a changing society are reshaping the business. >> reporter: the goods in the warehouse will be sent out to different parts but not all heading to stores and instead many of the pro

taiwan's economic minister said the pipe lines were carrying propane. so far, the company that controls them has not been identified. >> 51 people are now confirmed dead from a landslide in western india and heavy rains are hampering rescue efforts again today. ten more bodies pulled from the mud and debris there, about 100 people are still trapped and feared today. >> congress is supposed to be the key word being supposed to be away on its august recess this morning, but the house still in session. >> pressure from conservatives forced house speaker john boner to cancel a vote. >> a proposed immigration package didn't get past the procedural votes. we are joined live from washington. why did the speaker stop the house vote on immigration thursday? >> good morning. he had no choice, he didn't have the votes and knew it. the republican caucus is in turmoil in the house at the moment. the house was supposed to leave yesterday, they are still here today, may be here tomorrow. we were told there would be no vote on this emergency funding for the border cries. at 3:00, there was a behind closed doors meeting of the republican caucus. they said they would stay until they got to the po