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Community overwhelmedly lo by l. added up, 700 homes lost, about 2,300 people evacuated. cooler temperatures are helping and rain in the forecast. what will also help is the winds here dying down. >> joe fryar, thank you very much. coming up, well have the latest on the deadly flooding in utah and how el nino may be playing a role in some wicked weather patterns were seeing out west. and the gloves are off. carly farina and donald trump are already going head to head before the big debate tomorr...

Sometimes it can seep through that barrier, or it can overtop the levee. that was the particular case with this river across northeastern japan. thats animation showing that particular scenario. you can see the levee that was overtopped. it grew from 20 meters to 80 meters inundating buildings and allowing for this particular hotel to fall in to the raging waters below. we set several records. 24, 36 hour and 72-hour rainfall totals. you can see wednesday was the wettest day in history for that ...

Rescue stranded residents of ibaraki prefecture. look at the images of people desperately waving for help just above flooded ground. >> at least 170,000 people have ordered to get to safety north of tokyo. local media report the flooding is so widespread at this stage the officials have yet to grasp the extent of the flooding. our meteorologist derek van dam is here to update us on the situation. >> there is more rain to come in that area. and looking at the aerial visuals you can see the berm t...

Happening here. we understand one person is missing at this point. could very well be more. what information do you have? >> this is a pattern we have seen set up for so many days now. the month of september is the wettest time of year in tokyo. they get 8 inches this month, 210 millimeters of rainfall. a trio of weather patterns lined up. of course we have a tropical feature back to the south that has cruised by the area as well and another tropical storm will come in from the north. so weve ha...

>> fires are burning in eight western states right now, including in california, where drought conditions are fueling many of these fires. even more difficult to contain with those conditions. and take a look at this satellite picture that we have from noaa, you can see smoke from space. often the large fires will create their own weather patterns. the weather that the firefig firefighters really want on see is calm weather and zero winds as they really try to get an upper hand on more than 70 w...

There. you hope it never happens. had it does, its tough. >> when that fire changed directions, it come fast and hot. i think they just got trapped. >> reporter: fires are burning in eight western states right now, including california which has 17 fires. many of which are fueled my the states dangerous drought conditions. take a look at a satellite picture from noah where you can see a lot of the smoke generated from the fires from space. often the large fires can create their own weather patte...

Say without the united states and china and to some extent india are not going to reduce heating ats the levels we need to achieve. >> yes. this is a global problem that requirees a global solution. the u.s. is the largest economy and china is the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. we all have to come together. that is starting to happen. a year ago there was an agreement with president obama and president of china and the two are coming together to work on this problem. >> the climate...

Tornado that develops here. you see this with a fire for a core but because there is so much smoke and debris it has made that invisible over this region. want to show you how this forms. you put the flames down, the temperatures can get up to 2,000 degrees fahrenheit. with that you have rising vertical columns of air like a chimney in your house where the air is rising and hot at the bottom and getting to the top. but in fires you have the weather patterns and the winds pick up in intensity. an...

Feet or over 2,000 meters. its quite high. and were told that conditions there are very, very extreme. its a very mountainous area. the terrain is treacherous, and the other thing that they have to face here are the weather patterns that are very hard to predict. you have this area of the country where tropical weather, but you also have eck what t torrial glaciers, and its something that rescue teams there will have to work around. john? >> okay, kathy, sad, but not unexpected news. there were ...

>> el nino is a warming of waters west of peru. it seems kind of if unny but that kind of warming can cause changes in the atmosphere that can cause worldwide changes in weather patterns. what that means for california especially southern california could maneean rain pand a lotand a lot of it. were seeing in the eastern pacific ocean temperatures are warming up producing this weird weather were seeing this summer. >> can el nino also affect northern california? >> yes. thats really important fo...