in japan. back in 2011 talas a tropical storm dumped 71 inches of rainfall in a couple of days time. other storms brought in between 60 to 70 inches in the past. here s the perspective for kochi. a lot of rivers in the city center as well. 340,000 people call the area home and the highest elevations 1100 meters high. here s the storm system kwif tloent a category one hurricane. landfall expected to be east of kochi. look at the rainfall across japan from kochi to tokyo could see upwards of 100 millimeters of rainfall. about four inches could come down. the color contour indicated in white, a half meter of rainfall. we are talking 20 inches could come down. that is as refi for disaster when it comes to landslides and flash flooding. the storm cruises to the sea of japan we think between saturday
sioux city iowa 90. but you see the perspective, when it s warmer in kansas city than miami, you know things are toasty. that was the scene across the united states. as of march 1st we had 60% of the nation under snow. so pretty significant melt off. of course flooding a major concern with all of this in the last several days. i want to draw your attention to australia because tropical cyclone nathan the equivalent to a meek tropical storm. it has meandered over cooktown causing road damage. it has produced tremendous rainfall in excess of a half meter. this causes major displacement to the barrier reef salinity
involved. in the first broad area search, the objects that could be detected would be about a meter in size and larger. and it s also important to remember when you re looking in a sonar image, you re looking at sound waves imaging an object, not light. understood. and so the objects will look different than when you look at a camera. there is a higher frequency sonar that then can be deployed that can see objects about a half meter and larger. and then there is the high definition black and white camera, which would see obviously optical level of resolution. all right. well thank you very much to all three of you. and still to come, more on the search for flight 370. the families with this development. what do they think? we re going to be joined by the husband of someone on that plane. and oscar pistorius in his own words with a tearful defense. to truck guys, the truck is everything. and when you put them in charge of making an unbeatable truck. . good things happen. this
one. if you re familiar with it, katrina, a lot of the viewers in the u.s., the strong storm was actually surpassed. now before it made landfall. i ll show you in second why it could have been worse. here s the state of queensland, australia. it covers the entire territory, geographic area. it s still holding on. it s not a tropical storm here, just a remnant low and it s moving into the northern territory here. still seeing some thunderstorms trying to bundle up around the center. we re not done with rachblt upwards of 500 millimeters, a half meter of water.
here. unfortunately, the death toll, as you can imagine, has risen over the weekend. we ve added a little more rainfall, too. the low that had been nearby that produced all that rain has now moved off to the west. essentially it had parked itself here with just the rain that would not stop. at this point, what we re going to have the scattered showers and thunderstorms through the afternoon. so we re going to add some more rain, but it s not an organized low situation where we re going to dump another half meter of rainfall for the week. that s not going to happen. upwards of 10 to 20 millimeters in thailand. we re going to follow this throughout the rest of the day today. southeastern u.s. has severe weather threats. in the u.s., southwest airlines says small cracks have been found in three of its planes. it s checking dozens of boeing 737s after one made an emergency landing with a hole in the top of its cabin. the hole was 35 centimeters wide