normally experience well, roughly 5 to 8 inches in a normal year. you can imagine what that leads to and that is flooding. here s kilo moving in. we are orographical lift producing precipitation in the mountainous regions. we have a wet forecast on friday. but it looks as if saturday and sunday will finally start to dry out in that region and conditions should start to improve but we have a possibility of 100 more millimeters of rainfall in those areas. there could be landslides because of this. and we have new pictures we can show you as we follow this developing story north of tokyo. 170,000 people ordered to evacuate. i ll turn things over to rosemary who will join you after the break with more after this. we re back in a moment. to ac. it pushes us to go further. special olympics has almost five million athletes