Kyushu has suffered the brunt of the damage. A car was believed to be carrying a family when it was swept away by this river. Police are searching for the passengers. Cars lie overturned on local roads. Water reached the second floor of some homes, causing widespread damage. Translator water came up to about 20 cenentimeters on the second floor. Flooding also hit fields and greenhouses. One farmer says his 60 greenhouses were affected and the timing couldnt have been worse. Translator it was just before the harvest. The whole area around here was completely destroyed. The amount of damage may be around 93,000. The destruction also touched areas outside kyushu. In kyoto, a powerful mudslide plowed into three cars near an interchange. Officials say two drivers suffered minor injuries. In gifu, houses were engulfed or hid by landslides. Officials say about 2,300 people in two cities there remain unreachable. In total, more than 4,700 houses were flooded across 22 prefectures. Officials ar
Good evening everyone. Candidates including Kamala Harris Elizabeth Warren and basil or ward touch on issues vying for support. More on tonights event. About one of the delegates said she is feeling a tremendous amount of excitement and energy. California has always been a magnet for candidates looking for donors and campaign funds. 5000 democrats are in frances San Francisco for the state convention. The party is intense on running back the white house this year the primary has been moved up earlier making california more and play than in years past. Reporter saturday evening democrats dined at the center is congresswoman Maxine Waters kicked off the Democratic Convention dinner. Thank you California Democrats for playing a lead role in making this happen. Reporter california voters heard strategies for taking back the white house from 11 of the democratic president ial candidates who spoke on saturday. He obstructed justice and hired an attorney general to clean up the crime scene. W
A last minute unity ahead of a vote that could the countrys political future will they backed Coalition Talks with Anglo American conservatives well have the latest from berlin. And in the u. S. Donald trump faces a Government Shutdown and nationwide protests exactly a year after he came into power well go live to washington. Twitter thank you for joining us turkey has begun military operations to oust kurdish fighters from the northern syrian town of offering and its surrounding villages Officials Say Turkish Forces have launched ground and air offenses on the region the army says it hit shelters and hideouts used by militants from three crew. Including the u. S. Backed kurdish y. P. Jima lessa the move opens a new front in syrias civil war the Syrian Government has warned against any incursion and threatened to shoot down turkish chats. But turkish president reza type one is promising to expand his countrys Border Operations heres what he had to say earlier today. Just up now we will
From berlin. And a new exhibition in Basel Switzerland celebrates the work of georg the boss of that the german artist has turned the world the art world upside down in more ways than one. I my ass waiter thank you for joining us turkey has begun a military operation against Kurdish Militia in Northern Syria turkeys army is calling the offensive Operation Olive Branch the move follows a week of threats from ankara and could inflame the conflict in syria especially as one of the militias that turkey is targeting is backed by the u. S. On saturday turkey announced the beginning of operation all of branch soon after the armys offensive became visible in the mountains of syrias afrin region turkish fighter jets carried out raids as Ground Forces shelled the area Turkish Forces are targeting positions of the y p g a mainly Kurdish Militia backed by washington the group controls the afrin region ankara sees it as the syrian arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party or p k k which it considers the t
Right now. A very good morning and a warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Live from the site of the eu summit. Sara is on her way across flying back from london to the United States. Holding the fort for us in cnbcs headquarters, lets go back to them. Dd, over to you. We have seeing perhaps a little bit of carry over from yesterday. Again, were seeing s p 500 looking to open up. The nasdaq futures showing a 22 point gain there as well. If you take a look at whats happening with europe, were seeing carry through from the european markets, the dax in germany up north of 1. 5 percent. The cac in france, the ftse, is mib and both up by two and a quarter percent as well. As for what happened in asia lets check out those boards as well. Knee cay in japan. Lets take a look at some of the more traditional safe havens and see if that trend continues youchlt are see the dollar come off recent strengths. Of course we saw a huge run off. U. S. Dollar trading about 1. 10. The pound