out in the pacific, the biggest problem has been the engagement that we do the exercise in the pacific, more than just training, their presence in different area, building the partnership capacity up, being places, it's flying hours. and in the pacific, flying anywhere takes longer than anywhere else in the world. so it's a lot of flying hours. and it's just that cut is magnified. when we cut a percentage, it's magnified in the pacific. so the biggest thing, we had to cancel exercises. one example of a challenge would be a lot of the west pack units, places like that have to do the drops back in the united states. well, that red flag alaska got canceled. so their live drops or ready air program events that they need to do to stay ready, they were unable to do. so it's been significant. if we stay this way for a while, stays on this course, it will take a longtime to recover. >> are there novel ways to do engagement to try to make that up? some of the stuff you're losing and make up in other sorts of ways. >> there is and there suspect. we can scale and it shrink the footprint and go fr

the pacific to the east. these pacific trade winds also push the warm surface waters along with them. the warm waters collect in the western pacific near asia, deepening the boundary between the warm surface layer and the cold ocean depths. back east, off the coast of south america the warm surface waters flowing toward the west are replaced by colder waters upwelling from the deep ocean. this cools the air above creating an even greater temperature variation, which in turn makes the trade winds blow even stronger. cane: in other words this temperature contrast between east and west, which was generated by the winds was also helping to generate the winds. a positive feedback between the ocean and the atmosphere. narrator: bjerknes also realized that the feedback could operate in reverse. roughly every four to seven years, the easterly winds slow and the warm water that was piling up in the western pacific sloshes back toward the east. this creates a warm current of water that moves from west to east. as the t

vine as he hop scotches across the pacific. and nimitz's point of view is that we can continue to do this, we'll eventually surround the japanese, strangle them economically which will obviate the necessity of a very bloody invasion. the contrary opinion is taken by mcarthur who says that the way to defeat japan is to let him invade the philippines, to liberate the philippines and then use that as a jumping board for the invasion of the japanese homeland. also, if he can win the president's approval for going back to the philippines, he fulfills his promise: i shall return. now, the president in the summer of 1944 he summons mcarthur to the philippines and nimitz, and he if a sense is going to referee -- in a sense is going to referee between these two gentlemen as to which strategy is going to be adopted, island hopping or going up through the philippines. he hears both their arguments. mcarthur makes a brilliant defense of his position without a note in his hand. nimitz is piled high with books and maps and makes a very convi

in the pacific, that's a long, long way. so that's just kind of a little preview of a very complex story. one of the things that i did in this book of to tell the individual stories of the lot of ordinary people. the sorry for the story is one of the things that enabled me to find the scafling for the book. they were the magazine of the period. they had incredibly good writers. i would like to have acknowledged them. very often they don't have a byline. you don't even know who wrote the articles. if you should happen to get a copy, and you look at some of the footnote you'll see how many of the citations come back to the magazine. you'll meet a wonderful collection of people. i certainly enjoyed my spending time with them. i loved knowing what they did after the war. all of the curses of doing what i do is that your knowledge wall stops where the book stops. if you want to take it beyond, you have to do something else like another book. [laughter] so let me see if you have any questions. >> wait for them. wait for the mic. >

across the pacific from the typhoons falling apart, tracking to the pacific north-west. there's rain around for the next 24 hours for a lot of folks, from the seattle area to the gulf coast portion of the united states. it will be a soggy one here - cooler to the north as well. more ahead. >> thank you rebecca stevenson. when we come back an outdoor art gallery, artists using one community as a canvas, trying to turn a run down neighbourhood into an aspiring work of art. >>> the america's cup begins in san francisco with the reigning champs starting out. as we are told, three members of the usa were thrown out of the competition for cheating. >> in a race to defend the trophy oracle taem usa faces a handicap, the highest penalty. >> there's no two ways about it, it's not been the ideal preparation, which is what has been transpiring. we are here to race. >> this week an international jury of yachting authorities found oracle team usa guilty of cheating, saying it added illegal weights to the 45-foot yacht in a preliminary event. they were boats similar to these. some yac

of rainfall near coastal areas here in the pacific, even extending to the mountains. actually in the pacific and gulf of mexico, this is where we'll be seeing this. in the pacific we have a new low pressure area that could become another storm system. a flood threat here, also continuing to watch the severe flooding in new mexico, out towards colorado. boulder, colorado, actual deaths confirmed at this time due to the severe flooding there with the moon sonsoon al moisture. it's going to taper off a little bit, but not too much of relief. severe thunderstorms rolling off towards new england into the canadian maritimes. behind it, high pressure is working its way in. and temperatures are cooling off. chicago, a high of 18 here on friday. that's a look at your world weather. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. ♪ >>> a product of the country's population control policies, china's rapidly aging population is a growing concern. recently, the phrase wei fu xian

it's all about the families the asian pacific community. and i want to thank my co- chairs mary? and the american community and those are the filipino american communities. and this year joining our committee of the sisters cities i want to thank you because this is what this is about the mayor says the san francisco pride is wonderful to work together with all our asian communities thank you very much. so with that. thank you. again. >> thank you for your leadership in making this a model for other cities to follow. now we were hoping to introduce our mayor but the mayor received a last minute invitation to be with president clinton and his wife but in his place i'd like to have the following supervisors come up and the president of the board of supervisors to present the award and others and we would like to invite the other peripheries and elected officials to join them and the school board member and welcome them on stage. (clapping). thank you very much. >> good evening everyone hello. okay. just making sure you guys are out there. thank you and on behalf of the committee i

across the pacific ocean in a rowboat. she arrived in the u.s. state of alaska after a five-month trip that started in japan. it was sarah's second attempt to cross the pacific. she failed last year when her boat was wrecked off the coast of miyagi prefecture. the japanese coast guard rescued her. she has been trying to travel around the world riding human-powered vehicles including bicycles and kay axe. the 28-year-old adventurer left the coast in chiba prefecture on april 27th. she arrived in the alaskan city of addict on monday. high winds and strong winds caused her rowboat to capsize five times during the five-month trip and she nearly collided with a cargo trip. she suffered from burn without, but described the experience as the most intense and memorable five months of her life. >>> there is a tropical storm off the coast of japan and our meteorologist is standing by. do we in tokyo have something to worry about? very well could be expected from the tropical storm as it pulls off toward the north and the brunt of th

the american fleet is all in the pacific. as pearl harbor demonstrated. as a result what would happen if in perfect hitler controlled the atlantic? we would have no trade routes, no capacity for getting out of our own imports and at that time we didn't have the two ocean navy and that was one of the things that had to be built up so this is a very serious situation. how then did we meet it? we met it largely by utilizing the one thing americans have always done best which was mass production. we invented it. we invented it in the auto industry. this is the first wholesale mechanized war in history and you are talking in a country, the united states, that is basically on wheels. weigh more americans own cars and car drivers than europe. as a result, we have not only the scale of our production capacity, but we have the technical know-how. all we had to do was organize it. all we had to do. that is basically what bill book is about. if in fact we could do that, the goal was literally to bury the axis in weapons. the germans had better weapons, they had supe

. >>> severe weather marked the start of fall for the pacific northwest. in oregon, the city of portland is seeing the wettest september on record forcing summer events to contend with flooded roads and high winds. the same storm system is also breaking rainfall records in washington, causing power outages that have left many people in the dark. >> for more on the severe weather here nbc's meteorologist dylan dwyer. it's so nice to see. you >> it's nice to see you, too. speaking of storms in the pacific northwest it's not unusual to get storms like this. just bizarre to get it this early in the season. so it is a big system for sure. but we also have this cold front that's moving through right now the ohio river valley. but watch as it kind of fizzles out. the rain are isn't going to hold out it's not going to be too much of an issue. just scattered thunderstorms. in the west, the rain is still heavy but the worst is over. now you it's going to go into a couple of rainy days especially in areas like seattle and portland where we could end up with 3 to 4 in

pacific that means something is fissioning very close to the pacific and it's not inside the reactors it must be outside of the reactors in my opinion but short of the international nuclear industry should it come to help well before this shouldn't it yes they should not i'm not this is this is not a local affair this is this is an international affair i couldn't say why it hasn't i mean that i think they're all hoping that nothing will happen no ping it will all go away and keeping their fingers crossed but from the beginning it was quite clear that it was very serious and there was no way in which it was not going to get very bad and now it seems to have suddenly got very bad i think they should start considering if that graph i see is true they should now be evacuating people outside the hundred kilometers up to the hundred kilometer zone this is not just the people in the vicinity who are working in the clear up operation those who live within one hundred kilometers could be it wraps absolutely if those if the pacific ocean is i mean and i say that this may be a faked up photograp

two storms is now pounding the pacific northwest. the first of this weekend's storms has already bought a month's worth of rain and katherine barrett brings us more now from seattle. >> the national weather service calls this the strongest storm within memory for the month of september. we don't usually see storms like this until late november, december and through the winter months this on top of a record breaking rainfall on saturday which has potentially weakened the hold that tree roots have on the soil, raises the hazards of fawlings trees-falling trees breaking branches. the windiestingest of those guse supposed to be between 50 and 60 miles per hour. that would be enough to close the overlake are 520 bridge or lake washington. >> i'm meteorologist dave warren. watching this storm in the pacific northwest. really intensified overnight sunday to monday. but that was bringing wind and rain to the entire coast there with flooding threats and gusty winds, to hurricane force. there is some snow in the higher elevations but the wind

the other thing i wanted to hit on, is not only the rain in the pacific northwest of course, the wind, they will gust to some 50, 70-plus, even windier than we saw. all of those arrows are showing you how gusty it's going to be. tonight into tomorrow, a lot of folks will see power lines down. something to note if you're planning on driving or traveling in the pacific northwest. and then, how about chicago? one of my favorite places in the u.s. you got a great shot there starting you off and from wls, our favorite affiliate, what's going to happen after a beautiful morning? you'll see temperatures here in chicago, 68 today. close to 80 by tuesday. kansas city, you're seeing some warm. minneapolis too. st. louis, right there in the 70s. >> this weather report has been brought to you by edward jones. ron? >> close to -- close to 80 in chicago by tuesday. >> there you go. he's such a good listener. >> you guys can take turns doing the weather. >> i will do headlines? >>> coming up on "good morning america" -- check out this guy's appetite. can pine cones really taste that good? we'll expe

next system off into the pacific. that is needed moisture in this part of the country because we do still have a couple of fires through this area. that will being beneficial rain richelle. >> absolutely they can use it. nicole thank you very much. archaeologists have found things being dated back to the 17th century. found in rio, ivory toothbrush thought to have belonged to brazil's emperor pedro ii. former house majority leader tom delay, in november 2010 the texas are legislator was found guilty of are obtaining campaign funds, was allowed to be free during the appeal. the appeal court said there wasn't enough toafd support the conviction. >>> the united nations is holding closed door meetings in thailand this week. testimony will be given for one woman, veronica pedrosa reports from thailand. >> if anocha is listening, her brother has a message for her. >> i miss you so much, i miss you every day, i've been waiting so long for her. i'm deaf, i can't hear any more. >> if anocha was alive today she would be 58. for

see the track of manuel and skirted the pacific coast of mexico and dropping 300 to 400 millimeters in these areas here and also in the gulf of mexico coast with ingrid and this was a slow-moving storm system so it dropped just that tremendous amount of rainfall and that's why we're seeing that very serious threat of flooding and those images coming out with much of mexico here. now manuel is starting to reorganize that together. expect that to continue to track off with the northwest and becoming a tropical storm over the next 12 hours and then making a second landfall there out of baja, california and isolated areas could see more than that in the coming days. we will continue to keep an eye on this and just messy across much of the tropics here across much of mexico. severe weather also in play here. if you look at idaho toward montana and we have a cold front through this area and this produced some hail and as the really strong low pressure area and the strong southwesterly winds and any time we see that, we see expect expect, expect for your high and even toward new york with

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tropical storm manuel is heading for the pacific shoreline. hurricane ingrid is approaching the gulf rim. >>> a roller coaster at six flags over texas reopened this weekend for the first time since a rider died in summer. the texas giant has redesigned restraint bars and seat belts. in july, a woman fell from the ride to her death. >>> in italy, a complicated salvage operation on the wreck of the costa concordia is expected to begin tomorrow. that luxury cruiseliner crashed into rocks in january, last year, killing 32 people. the ship's captain is also facing manslaughter charges. nbc's michelle kosinski is there in italy for us. good day to you. we are all trying to fathom what is going to happen tomorrow. can you explain what type of operation this is? >> reporter: i know. it's hard to believe that it's still sitting here, right? it'll be two years in january. at the same time, it is hard to believe that this is really starting tomorrow. what they're going to do is roll the ship up from being on its

this weather maker to the north is hammering the pacific north west. just the tail end we'll see overnight. going to slowly slide to the south, we'll pick up some of that tropical moisture but not nearly as much rain, primarily just drizzle overnight on the and tomorrow. let's see just how much rain we'll see, mostly north of the godden gate -- golden gate. could make for a tricky commute in the morning. not a lot of downpours here. most of the shower activity will be -- will taper off in the afternoonful maybe a tenth of an inch up north. temperature-wise we are below average. san jose 74, san francisco topping out near normal, 69- degrees. most of us in the upper 60s to low 70s. now temperatures do rebound, we dry out rapidly, tuesday we're in the upper 70s near 80 on wednesday, but take a look on friday into saturday. that's when everything shifts. offshore floor could mean the return of -- return of fire -- return of fire concerns. >>> thank you have much. and it was one last chance for fans of the orange and black to watch the boys of summer this

record rains across the pacific northwest, and some of the first snow of the season. special delivery, a successful docking for one private spacecraft, a test flight for another. we'll go inside today's doubleheader in space. and binging on bad, terrell brown tells us about fans playing catch-up before one of the most anticipated finales in tv history. >> it's a gr >> glor: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor with a special west coast edition of the news. it last happened 18 years ago. right now it appears the next one is only 24 hours away. a shutdown of the federal government moved a step closer to reality today as a bitter congressional standoff continued. many republicans want the president's new health care law delayed or defunded. the white house was announced this photograph of the president meeting with his senior staff today said no concessions. we have two reports this evening, beginning with nancy cordes at the capitol. nancy? >> reporter: jeff, good evening. normally at this point we would see frantic negotiations taking place between democrats and repub

partly because of over fishing and the fact that the pacific species be given other tuna takes longer to reproduce and there is a proposal to cut the catch of young tuna by 15%. and here we have a scientist working on a method he hopes will help the pacific blue fin and breeding macrel as a species and they have cells from frozen tuna and implant them into mackral hatch-lings and they will hatch tuna but will not be readily for several years. >> translator: in order to seek recovery of the population we should have a ten year closed situation but it's difficult to impose this because there are so many parties concerned like fishermen, processors and traders. >> reporter: not to mention sushi and sushimi eaters and some have ban it from the menu and people in japan hoping not to resort to that to save the pacific blue fin. florence in tokyo. >> reporter: green peace says they found one of the ships in the arctic and it came after green peace activists tried to climb on to an off shore drilling platform on wednesday. the environmental group says warning shots were fired and 29 of the ac

back to the storm in the pacific northwest really brewing across the gulf of alaska. it continues to push onshore and bring in the rain. last night areas just to the east of portland picked up four to six inches of rain. that's footage you see out of seattle last night. heavy rain sweeping along i-5 making it very difficult for travelers to make their way around. flash flooding is a concern today, tomorrow and the next 36 hours. i want folks on the roadways to use caution if they're traveling. right now we have light rain in seattle. morgan, back to you. >> thanks so much. >>> firefighters in australia are finally gaining ground on the dozens of bush fires burning across the country. 20 of them are still not contained, and that's down from about 60. firefighters managed to save an iconic lighthouse in sydney in danger of being ungulfed. >>> a new report says poor communication is partly to blame for the deaths of 19 arizona firefighters back in june. authorities announced yesterday that the crew's radios failed between the men and support staff. it caused a 30-minute

all four engines temporarily stopped when it was over the pacific ocean. defense ministry officials say a sudden slow-down in speed lowers fuel intake and leads to unsteady combustion. they say engineers will modify the software controlling the engines to maintain a steady fuel supply. they hope to resume flights in october after conducting tests on the ground. >>> in italy, cabinet ministers from the center right party led by former prime minister silvio berlusconi have resigned amid deepening rifts between the coalition parties. a spokesperson for deputy prime minister angelino alfano said saturday all the five cabinet ministers from berlusconi's people of freedom party are resigning. parliamentary debate begins soon on whether to remove berlusconi from his legislative seat. he was convicted of tax evasion. his party has asked its coalition partner, the center left democratic party, to expose expulsion of the former prime minister from parliament but the democrats are unwilling to do so. the two parties have also been at odds over an increase in value-ad

we are going to see the huge storm in the pacific northwest. still continue to affect parts like seattle and up into areas in portland, oregon, too. in the center of the country, we still have the cold front moving eastward. we have heavier rain from michigan down into texas. it's not going to be as heavy in texas as it was yesterday. look at chicago, 84 yesterday. only topping out at 71 >>> and we're seeing temperatures mostly in the 50s right now, and some light rain across mendocino county moving off to the north of you. that line will drop a little further south into sonoma county later today. we will see vasty different temperatures. 60s and 70s in the north bay. we should manage 70s and 80s in the south bay. that rain line should drop further south for monday and skies clear for the middle part of the week and warmer for the second half of the week. >> that is your latest forecast. erica? >> dylan, thanks. >>> turning now to the latest chapter for amanda knox, accused of killing her british roommate in italy. tomorrow she faces yet anothe

it formed in the pacific earlier this week, and tracked west northwest through the luzon strait. 100 families were moved from islands as torrential rains caused flooding. electricity cut and village houses damaged. in taiwan waves as big as buildings smashed the coastline. flights and ferries were cancelled, forcing people to leave their homes. southern china coast is preparing for worst, 23,000 fishes boats returned to port. but the storm has hong kong a miernlmajor asian center in its.

not only the rain in the pacific northwest, of course the wind they will gust to 70-plus, even windier than we saw. all of those arrows are showing you how gusty it's going to be. lot of folks will see power lines down. and then, how about chicago? one of my favorite places in the u.s. you got a great shot there starting you off and from wls, our afavorite affiliate, what's going to happen after a beautiful morning? close to 80 by tuesday. kansas city, you're seeing some warm. st. louis, right there in the 70s. that's the big picture. >> this weather report has been brought to you by edward jones. ron? >> close to 80 in chicago by tuesday. >> there you go. he's such a good listener. >> you guys can take turns doing the weather. >>> coming up on "good morning america" -- check out this guy's appetite. wait until you see the human version in all-edible pop news. >>> alec baldwin, has he now mellowed? coming up. keep it here on "good morning america." your financial advisor should focus on your long-term goals, not their short-term agenda. [ woman ] if you have the nerve to believe that c

this storm system will continue to bring rainfall to the pacific northwest for the weekend. but the amounts will not be as heavy west of the cascades. as we follow the rain system, we'll expect that to continue into the midwest. so the rain here is the only map i think show you because my remote control is absolutely not working. i'm here to tell that you that rain spinning around counterclockwise will track its way into montana. we expect it to bring in the risk of severe thunderstorms tomorrow. that means lightening. that means heavy rain at times and gusting winds and hail. and it's going to be moving into montana and the western portion of the dakotas, but the midwest itself, you're going to stay hot. temperatures as we get into parts of oklahoma will be back to the mid and low 90s. temperatures in texas, some triple digits will be expected, and hot weather is going to be mostly dry where it won't stay dry. well, definitely we know the pacific northwest, but again without the remote control, it's just not working. >> you're doing fine. >> meteorologist: florida is gettin

the land, the latitude, and this huge chunk of blue out here - the pacific. >>♪music. >>between 30 and 35 degrees latitude is a region of intense dryness. the reason is that the sun, which shines directly over the tropics warms air and as the warm air rises, it cools, water condenses, and then falls as rain - after it has rained out it begins to descend. this extremely dry air falls right here in what is known as the horse latitudes. during the summer months, as the earth tilts towards the sun here, the high moves northward along with the track of the sun's rays and during the winter it retreats to the south and allows storms from the pacific to track on shore- hence the rains fall here in the winter, not summer! this is called a mediterranean climate. we are really left with a backwards world here, it's moist and it's green in the wintertime and it's parched, hot and dry in the summertime. the challenge is that even though the moisture is available here in the wintertime, it's cooler in the wintertime, and the light levels are lower because the sun is lowe

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the low is still up in the pacific northwest. giving them rain. if you are heading up toward seattle portland you might have to deal with that. that will give us a little bit of a northerly breeze. high pressure the signature then is beginning to build. patchy, coast, fog. everybody says warmer. good five to ten degrees. any kind of a northerly breeze would wipe it out completely. 70s and 80s and 90s. lots of sunshine and warmer weather. again patchy low clouds near the coast. there is not much of a breeze. 70s and 80s and low 90s. everyone is pretty close here. santa rosa, napa, brentwood, concord in there. san francisco went 78-degrees. san jose 87. 86 mountain view. warm to hot over the weekend into monday and starts a little cooling trend on tuesday. >>> european stocks right now pretty mixed this morning as investors are waiting for this morning's u.s. jobs report. japan's nikkei lost nearly 1.5%. analysts say the strong yen is hurting japanese companies that depend on exports. but most finished with gains overnight. china shanghai closed up

one in the pacific and one on the east side in the atlantic. now the problem is, landslides, flooding, intense amounts of rainfall. in fact acapulco has had so many landslides they were trying to get tourists out by rolling them away from local resorts. now we talk about rainfall as brought to us from a tropical storm or hurricane can bring significant amounts of rain. when you talk about the thunderstorms we had in colorado and the amount of time we accumulated close to ten to 15 inches of rain it's interesting that the same amount of rain from almost the same amount of time came from a hurricane and also came from thunderstorms. as we look at ingrid now a tropical depression it's causing problems in mexico and southern parts of texas, that's slowly diminishing. flash flood warnings are up through texas and new mexico, albuquerque reporting four inches of rainfall in addition to what's happening in colorado. we'll continue to see the potential or high probability of rainfall in the central west portion moving towards nebraska. it will be slowl

. >>> the second of two huge storms is pounding the pacific northwest near hurricane force winds and heavy rains are moving into the area. the first of this weekend storms has already brought a month worth of rain and the storm is now moving towards parts of canada. >>> president obama greets israel's prime minister benning mannetanyahu tomorrow. on top of the program, the israel peace process. netanyahu is expected to address the u.n. general assembly on tuesday. >>> monday night at midnight, if the deadline ask missed, the government will shut down. the senate will likely shut down the house bill tomorrow. raylynn johnson has more on what's a blame game. >> a rare weekend session of the house and emotions are running high. >> the republican majority will vote to shut the government down. >> and republicans say democrats are missing the point because they are too tied to obamacare. >> why are we doing this? number one, this is a program that is too expensive to afford. >> as both sides watch the clock and wait, the blame game takes center stage. >> the house last night at 12:30 in t

rain up to the pacific northwest. kind of a quiet pattern for us today. the morning fog. temperatures will rebound. 60s, 70s and 80s. into tuesday. a north wind will kick in wednesday and thursday. that will be warmer -- warmer and back to friday fog and sun, morning clouds. breeze. more of a sea breeze. interior and around the bay. and warm they are and 84 and 82 and on the extended jute look -- outlook and the first of the season from the north on saturday. >>> a world record was set during the 49ers game in seattle. >> and fans were the loudest crowd in the world. and it would keep coming for the 9ers. later in the first lightning would delay it for an hour. later in the 4th. trying to lead a come back and picked off. >>> and vernon davis and joe staley will be at candlestick park to give a lesson a program that use as video game and curriculum to teach kids about responsibility. and it starts at 10 this morning. >>> the raiders start out the season at home on a high note. they took on the jags. people got to watch it at home in the first quarter. and spinning through

. >>> also, across the pond, the big royal christi0u&nz and high winds in the pacific northwest. they're setting records in fact even in a part of the country famous for rain. our meteorologist ginger zee is tracking the latest. there she is. ginger, good morning. >> good morning to you guys. >> this is not only record rain, we're talking all-time wettest september days. in both seattle and olympia with almost three inches yesterday. and this thing isn't over. yesterday, after the rain fell, the first round at least, you had many cars submerged around washington, oregon, too, trees down on power lines. it looked like this, but it sounded like this. record rains pouring through the roof at the seattle airport. as millions in the pacific northwest plow through one of two powerful weekend storms, more than five inches of rain falling in parts of the cascades. some getting more than a month's worth of water in just one day. >> it just came down. it was a -- it was a deluge. >> reporter: and then, the wind. >> the wind is so strong. >> reporter: the high winds tearing at power lines.

the asia-pacific region. in addition to her and attorney, as president of the john f. kennedy foundation, and chair at the institute of politics at harvard university, she has designated most of her life to service. her work has helped to inspire generations of students and others to make their voices heard and to serve and strengthen our country. visiting pleasure of the asia-pacific region earlier this month, including tokyo, where i was able to discuss with chinese officials -- japanese officials the relationship between the united states and japan. this is a cornerstone in our efforts to bolster security in the region and the rising number thehallenges, including north korean regime intent on expanding its nuclear program over the objections of the international community. ms. kennedy is undoubtedly the right person to advance and strengthen relationships with our japanese ally in the face of these challenges and will play a key role in the administrations asia-pacific region. finally, i am pleased to not

ocean close to the reactors which means that hot water is getting into the pacific that means something is fissioning very close to the pacific and if that graph i see is true they should now be evacuating people outside the hundred kilometers up to the hundred kilometer zone. and you can find more live updates on the emergency on our website as well and here's what else online team has few there it had been for your anus was all alone but now astronomers have spotted a lump of rock an ice they've named trojan orbiting the planet over two billion further from the sun than typical asteroids you can go online to check out why it's being given the greek name in particular. plus the latest from whistleblower edward snowden shows america conducted hundreds of cyber operations in one year alone with iran russia and china topping the list of hacking rates you can read the full article right now. dot com. download the official. yourself language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t. any time

in the pacific north-west, the spin in the atmosphere. the area of low pressure bringing the rain across i-5 around the footfills foothills of seattle. >> an investigation into dangerous working conditions will have qatar's response to reports about harsh treatment to mying rant workers as construction booms. >> more water found on the red planet. we talk to the scientists behind the mission. >>> welcome back. we may be a little closer to one day having astronauts set foot on mars. pretty cool, right. nasa's koour ofty rover discovered that water exists at higher levels than thought. it's exciting news for the curiosity team, including dr paul mchaffey, the principal investigator. good morning, he joins me now. thank you for joining us so early. >> good morning, glad to be here. >> curiosity landed on mars in august 2012. a main mission is to find whether the planet can support life. what has curiosity revealed about the amount of water and dust and sand. put it in perspective about how big a deal this is. >> the weather forecast you had

you can see the size of this storm system, it is a big one, moving in off the pacific. as the jet stream comes in like this, the moisture just streams right in here, and we are seeing the threat perhaps of another several inches of rain. in fact, today is going to be even worse than yesterday. another perhaps five to seven inches of rain is possible, especially along the coastline where we could see wind gusts up to 65 to 75 miles per hour. lester? >> dylan, thank you very much. questions still lingering today three months after one of the nation's deadlyist rest wildfires killed 19 men, part of an elite hot shot team. on saturday investigators released a report about the fire. but in many ways there are more questions than answers. we get more on this now from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: this video posted on youtube of the granite mountain hot shot team was taken shortly before the elite unit was killed. 19 men lost their lives. investigators now say during the raging yarnell hill fire radio communications were challenging. through updates, brief, informal and

. >>> severe weather marks the start of fall for the pacific northwest. in oregon, the city of portland is seeing the wettest september on record, forcing some residents to con tend with flooded roads and high winds. this same storm system is also breaking rainfall records in washington, causing power outages and it left many residents in the dark. let's get the latest on this with nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. it seems lake fall's coming in in a very wet way. >> these storms are typical but not this early in the season. usually it takes another month or two. but we are certainly seeing one of the strongest wind storms in september for that region. you can see that's really all that's going on across the country with heavy rain still falling from seattle all the way into northwestern california. and now that rain is starting to push eastward. so the worst is over, but we had several inches of rain and wind gusts already reported up around 75 miles per hour at times this weekend. we are still looking at the threat of strong winds this morning, but we are

. >> ama: debris continues to wash up on the pacific shoreline of the u.s. two and a half years after a devastating earthqu and tsunami hit japan. there have been 1900 reports of debris. the government confirms 35 came from the quake site. more debris expects to reach northern california as winter arrives. federal officials aren't sure what will likely reach the shore in hawai'i recently a plastic bin arrived that had a live bird trapped inside. scientist believe the debris will arrive for months to come. >> next month disney end a policy that allows disabled people going to the front of the line. too many people have been abusing the system. disabled people were being paid to be tour guides so people could be at the beginning of the line. disney is he the parent company of abc. >> tests are show the apple iphones or more breakable. the company which provides protection plans for gadgets did the testing. it's on the iphone 5s and c are less durable than last year's iphone 5. phones are dumped in water, then dropped five feet of the ground. the word reporter

once you start the international dateline in the pacific a similar storm would be called a typhoon. becomes a major hurricane in and will reach 111 miles per hour. while 150 miles per hour what we call category 4 hurricane in the atlantic is a wind speed called a super typhoon. >> more than 100 people have died in mexico after two tropical storms slammed in to the country. worst hit was the areas around the resort story of alcapulco where mud slides left a path of destruction. the mexican president toured the area today. helped rebuild in a safer location. al jazeera reports from la can t*e ra. >> reporter: rescue teams slowly unearth what lies. beneath a disaster zone. mudslide is huge and there seems to be little chance of finding survivors. here they locate the body of a woman, one of many they expect to find in the coming days. survivors said the mudslide hit without warning. >> translator: i lost any nephew, my grandchildren, the whole house is gone. i lost my entire family. although people are safe here, they say it's impossible to see what happened. >> translator: i need to g

this afternoon the a's are also in the pacific northwest playing seattle. last night the athletics beat the mariners as they tune-up for the playoffs next week. we have the highlights in this morning's sports. >>> good morning. the a's have some decisions to make. do you start bartolo colon in game one of the playoffs? colon was on the mound last night. a's opening the final series of the regular season in seattle. the yellow shirts mean trouble. that means king felix is pitching. felix hernandez usually kills the a's. not in this game. brandon moss in the first. gone. three-run blast. his 29th of the year. 3-0, athletics. colon making a case to start game one. mike is just browsing. colon strikes out eight in six innings of work, allows two runs. in the seventh, the pinch-hitting derek norris aloha. two-run hit off oliver perez. a's clinch home field in the first round of the playoffs. >>> giants and padres. >> willie mac award. second inning, san diego up 1-0. not anymore. juan perez going deep off bert smith for his first career home one. way to go, kid.

on and across the pacific, alaska stands out as the key point. its position, halfway between american and asia, is decisive." --general billy mitchell. >> narrator: billy mitchell learned about alaska in 1901 as a young lieutenant in the army signal corps helping to build a telegraph line across alaska. in 1935, alaska's strategic location fit in with mitchell's ambition to make america an air power. >> "he who holds alaska holds the world, because a great, expanding nation, if it becomes dominant in the air, can now achieve world dominion." --general billy mitchell. >> he understood that alaska would be the air crossroads of the world. you couldn't fly from asia to europe without refueling. >> narrator: alaska's strategic value in the aviation age might have been apparent to billy mitchell, but congress and the top brass weren't interested in air power or alaska. >> and he had a hard time bringing the rest of the country along with him and, in fact, was court-martialed for having challenged his army superiors who told him to stop making this arg