hello, great to have you with us. we would like to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. i'm john vause. >> and i'm rosemary church. the fate of a shaky cease-fire is uncertain after shelling over the weekend endangered the troops. >> smoke rising above donetsk after explosions were heard near the airport and in the town of mariupol, one woman was killed. three wounded in the violence. pro-russia separatists are blaming each other for the cease-fire which took effect late friday. they're monitoring this from the capital and reza, how close is the cease-fire to collapsing outright? >> reporter: john, it's hard to say but obviously when you have a cease-fire you want to see calm. you want to see peace but unfortunately, in parts of this conflict zone that simply hasn't been the case. over the past several minutes ukrainian officials in kiev say the rebels violated the cease-fire again during the overnight hours about five times. the rebels are saying ukrainian volunteers have violated the cease-fire as well and this raises a lot of questions about the durability of this cease-fire and makes you wonder if everyone who agreed to this cease-fire is abiding by it. the roughest stretch during this supposed cease-fire started late saturday night right outside the critical port city of mariupol where for the past ten days or so you've had a tense standoff with pro-russian rebels seemingly stalking the city and ukrainian fighters and volunteers protecting the city. there was shelling at this location, one gas station destroyed. several people injured. yesterday morning a cnn crew was at this very same scene when they observed more weapons being fired. more shelling in what was an awful incident civilians were targeted in a vehicle. several people injured there and a 33-year-old woman was killed. the first fatality of this cease-fire in other parts of the conflict zone more accusationac it's hard to tell who is doing the firing, both sides accusing one another but perhaps the best news out of all this is neither side has declared that the cease-fire is dead. yesterday ukrainian president petro poroshenko spoke on the phone with russian president vladimir putin. the two seemingly said they're committed to this cease-fire. they talked about further discussions to address the bigger issues, but a lot of troubling indications that at least some elements on both sides are violating this agreement. >> and, reza, with that in mind is it a surprise the cease-fire is crumbling after just a couple of days? i think there was a perception out there this in some ways was a chance for both sides to regroup? >> yeah, i think when you look at the dynamics of this conflict perhaps it's not a surprise. it's important to stress that on both sides there are extremists, radical elements who do not abide by the chain of command and, therefore, don't abide by the cease-fire and may have ulterior motive, different aims and one of those could be sabotaging the cease-fire. it's impossible at this point to verify if that's the case, john, but it certainly is a potential cause for elements undermining the agreement. >> okay, reza, thank you. reza sayah live for us in kiev. barack obama says it is time to start going on some offense against isis. >> the u.s. president is confident america and its regional partners will be able to wipe out the terror group. mr. obama says that on wednesday he'll lay out what he calls his game plan, which will include military, diplomatic and economic components. >> what i want people to understand, though, is that over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt their momentum but shrink the territory they control and ultimately we're going to defeat them. >> the arab leak is joining the u.s. and european efforts to confront isis. arab foreign ministers meeting in cairo agree to take all necessary steps against the terror group. it's not clear whether that would include direct military involvement. the league also endorsed last month's u.n. security council resolution. it calls on nations to suppress the flow of foreign fighters and financing to islamist extremist groups in iraq and syria. with the help of u.s. air cover iraqi ground forces are trying to protect the dam from isis militants. joining me live in baghdad is c cnn's jomana. talk to us about the significance of haditha dam. >> reporter: well, as we've seen over the past four weeks since the u.s. military air campaign began here it does provide the iraqi security forces or kurdish forces with that ability to make some progress and advances, it takes out that resistance allowing them to move and that's what we saw yesterday. iraqi officials say under the cover of u.s. air strikes they were able to push back some isis positions that were in an area called bariuana, ten kilometers west of haditha and they've been using this to target the ha dith that dam which has been a major concern for officials there saying they've attacked it using things like mortars and were worried about this -- the dam being damaged in these attacks and they said this could cause flooding that would be catastrophic and this is why this move has happened. over the past several weeks and months, they have been trying to fend off isis in this area. they have managed to keep hold of haditha and the haditha dam but isis positions were close by and control the whole area around haditha and this is where u.s. air strikes come in, rosemary. they do tip the balance on the ground here in favor of the iraqi ground forces and this is what we have seen. now, this is an ongoing operation as we are told by iraqi officials. it is not done yet. they are trying to retake that district of bariuana in order to protect the area around the haditha dam and haditha is in anbar province largely controlled by isis and this is where we saw the first isis advances take place back in january where they took control of fallujah and many other parts of the province. >> and, jomana, on wednesday, u.s. president obama will address the american people and explain his game plan for wiping out isis militants. how is that news playing out in baghdad? >> reporter: a lot of anticipation. as we've seen over the past couple of weeks every time president obama speaks it's carried live on iraqi state tv. officials here have told us they're keeping a really close eye, for example, over the weekend they were watching the nato summit wanting to see what is going to come out of this. they really say they want more support. they want to see more u.s. action and want to see more international action here. iraqis feel that they are really fighting this battle -- >> we all await to see what the game plan is. >> president obama will be addressing the american people but he'll be addressing the rest of the world, as well. >> exactly. we'll be watching to find out what he plans to do. we'll change gears. with we come back a masterful show from serena williams winning her sixth u.s. open and we'll have more on today's men's showdown. what we can expect from two surprising contenders. plus, hundreds of villages are underwater in parts of south asia. we will have the latest on a brutal monsoon season. back in a moment. ♪ ooooohh!!! ♪ what it is, what you want? yeah. ♪ live your life right ♪ make the beat the bump ♪ it's like one for the treble ♪ two for the bass ♪ three for the pretty babies up in the place ♪ the undeniable! ♪ come into the party in a b-boy stance ♪ i rock on the mic ♪ and make the world wanna dance ♪ fly like a dove ♪ that come from up above ♪ i'm rocking on the mic ♪ and you can call me mos love ♪ little homie you can call it what you want ♪ but you can't call it weak ♪ and you can't call it chump ♪ and looking like that ♪ babe you need to call me up ♪ seven eighteen d-a-n-t-e, one what? ♪ oh baby. ooooohh baby! ♪ ooooohh!!! ♪ yeah yeah. yeah yeah. yeah yeah. ♪ serena williams won the u.s. open tennis tournament bringing her haul of grand slam titles to 18. she beat caroline wozniacki of denmark in straight sets. it was williams' third consecutive win at the tournament and her sixth overall. williams now ties for fourth place on the all-time list of grand slam winners. and she spoke to cnn right after the win. >> it doesn't seem right, chrissy, martina. you hear these names growing up. you don't think one day you're going to say, oh, you know, serena, you don't think about yourself like that. you think i'm going to work hard and do the best i can, then you start chasing titles and you start chasing legends and it's just a great feeling. >> and chrissy and martina surprised you on the court. >> i wasn't expecting that at all. >> a nice gift there. >> they gave me a number 18 charm bracelet. >> i didn't expect it. i saw them running on the court but only in the last minute and i was like, oh, of course, i should have expected this. why didn't i think about it? so i was really happy to see the two amazing, amazing women come out and support me like that. >> and on the men's side too relative unknowns have made it through, kei nishikori of japan will take on marin cilic for the title monday, the grand slam final for both. cilic downed fedd ede eerer and nishikori is a first asian man to advance to a grand slam final and there is a frenzy back home. the match from tokyo -- >> reporter: tennis fever is spreading in japan all centered around a 24-year-old sensation, kei nishikori, who is on the front page right now of every single major japanese newspaper. we'll see if i can get through them all without dropping the stack. it is a thick stack. you can only imagine the pride that people feel certainly his parents, as well, this young man who about a decade ago at age 14 moved away from his hometown, a small town in southwestern japan on the seaside and moved to florida to start playing tennis and training for this very moment where he has now become the first japanese and the first asian born man to make it all the way to a grand slam final. this is a country where tennis really isn't on the radar that much. you talk about big popular sports here, baseball, football, those are the ones that get most of the attention, in fact, all the major broadcast networks underestimated that a japanese player could go this far or garner this much public interest so the match, the big match, the final is not going to be broadcast on regular television here in japan. but fans are finding ways. they're going on livestream. there's the wow wow network a pay network. they have seen a record number of subscriptions with the number continuing to jump by the hour. and as we check around tokyo a number of different businesses are holding viewing parties for tennis fans, as well. the reaction in his hometown, so much excitement, so much enthusiasm and that energy is shared by so many people here in this country. it seems as if japan has now caught tennis fever in a big way and they will be following this homegrown star hoping he goes all the way. will ripley, cnn, tokyo. >> okay, imagine the reaction if he wins. just looking at that. they'll be over the moon. >> absolute frenzy. still to come on cnn newsroom, the scottish independence vote looms closer but the new polls say and whether london can convince scots to stay. rising waters and villages underwater. the latest on the relief efforts in south asia. welcome back to cnn. next week voters in scotland will decide in they want to remain in part of the united kingdom or pursue independence and for the first time, one poll shows a narrow majority support the breaking away. it's been a remarkable surge in support for independence. for months the polls indicated the nationalists were headed for defeat but now it's just too close to call and has raised the prospect scotland could end its 307-year union with england. this has been a wake-up call for the british government which is now promising a range of new powers for scotland mostly to do with taxation and expenditure should it decide to stay. for more we go to john curtis. the editor of what scotland thinks and professor, thank you for being with us. never a good idea to put too much stock in one poll but clearly it seems the yes campaign is in a much better position than ever before and what's driving that? >> well, you're quite right certainly. it's in at least as good a position as any point of the campaign. there is still some doubt about exactly how big this surge is. insofar as there has been a movement i think there are kind of two clear things driving. one is the thing that's been driving this referendum from the beginning. and that is that people who think that an independent scotland would be more prosperous, always been more likely to vote yes. those who think an independent scotland is less well off vote no and what you see in new polls underneath that surge towards yes is an increase in the proportion of people that think that independence would be good for their chi and decrease the proportion and that seems to be crucial point number one. the yes campaign seems to have begun to wane at least some of the argument about the economy. the second thing seems to be going on is that they're -- there seems to be a danger as far as their arguments that the leaving the united kingdom would have risks is now beginning to lack credibility. they've particularly focused on the claim that an independent scotland would not be able to share the pound with the rest of the united kingdom. the opinion polls have long been suggesting a widespread sway, the scotland vote doesn't believe that and that proportion has increased and more generally people are now rather more inclined to think that the yes campaign is being honest in what it's saying. >> okay. >> than actually to the no campaign so, again, a danger there for perhaps the no campaign is no longer being believed. >> okay, so this offer which is now coming from london, details coming out in the next couple of days, there will be greater autonomy if they vote no to the independence, is it likely to have much of an impact? is it too little too late. >> the first thing to understand there is nothing new about offers from the unionist side for more autonomy. the three political parties behind the no campaign, conservative, labor and democrats all have published some months ago their proposals for more. the problem is they are different proposals. we have also known for some time in fact they -- the proposal of the no side is in the event of a no vote that everybody should be got together including the smp to work further on those proposals. it's therefore not clear what more new there is going to come at this week that hasn't been said already and certainly it isn't clear what they'll come up is we are three political parties who have come to an agreement as to what the power should be. in any case it's not clear what problem that the no side faces is a reluctance amongst those who want those onto back that side. scotland's society, around a third of the voters are going to vote overwhelmingly number the problem they face it looks as though more think independence will be the better deal and what they've come up not got to be simply demonstrating they would deliver on more devolution but that it would be better than independence which implies substance coming out in this week's statement. so far we're not clear what will emerge. >> the indications maybe a yes vote but it's still too close to call. just describe in general terms if you can just how seismic this would actually be. >> i mean there is no doubt that if scotland votes yes this will have a dramatic impact both within the united kingdom but also to the rest of the world. above all one crucial thing to appreciate is that the united kingdom's nuclear weapons facility is located off the river -- off the west banks of scotland so even in itself scotland voting for independence would raise questions about the future of that facility, but as it happens the smp at least are quite clear that they want those nuclear weapons to be removed because they are a unilateralist party so just point number one, therefore, there are major implications for the defense stance of nato and the rest of the western world because one of the key nuclear powers that will be a question mark about the future that have facility. but more broadly, of course, the damage to the united kingdom's reputation, apparently what we thought was one of the world's most stable democracies appar t apparently a proportion of its population now wanting to leave. that's going to kind of dumbish the image they have in the rest of the world as well as raising questions on the u.n. security council, et cetera. so important modifications for defense and international affairs. well, that alone the internal economics and relationships in scotland and rest of the uk. >> of course, the political future of prime minister david cameron and the opposition, a whole bunch of issues there. it's an interesting choice, a fascinating one. next, professor curtice, thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. torrential rains and heavy flooding have killed more than 250 people across parts of south asia and china. this was the scene in northern india where hundreds of villagers have been submerged. soldiers have deployed across the area to rescue the stranded and locate the missing. the region is dealing with an unusually heavy monsoon season. for more on the situation in this region let's turn back to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who joins us again from the international weather center and, pedram, the landslides are horrendous and the flooding so when you combine the two of those this is just treacherous stuff. >> it is a tough time of year. it's a time of year that millions of people wait and, of course, sometimes they culminate with something like this, the tail end of the monsoon season, the worst case scenario in six decades across this region of northern india and you take a look at this point, the rainfall that impacted this portion of northern india on eastern pakistan, that has tapered off and looks like it will be the case but central portions of india on into western india is where some strong thunderstorms remain even at this hour and you take a look, the sea, people getting up to higher locations as much as they can and take a look at structures such as this one, very well built and then you have it completely wash away from the tremendous force of the water, we know traffic at a standstill in the jammu highway. flights scheduled through the 12th of september have been postponed. the indian prime minister saying he's going to be giving about $3300 for each -- the closest kin who have lost their lives and about $800 going to people who have been severely injured so the government is trying to help with what's happened in this region but the area that was hardest hit now begins to see improvement in the weather while to the south is where we have the very severe warnings in place for flooding over the next couple of days. how much rainfall has led to this? roughly 13 inches or 330 millimeters has come down which triples the hospitalsly average while in lahore population based on the 2010 census is 20 million people and have seen roughly 15 inches of rainfall and those regions finally beginning to quiet down while to the south we do have additional rainfall left in the forecast. now, you take a look. climatologically speaking, this is the time you see the monsoons retreat and by the latter portion of the year completely move away, so this season actually starting off rather quiet in the past couple of months and then as we head in towards the latter portion of september, the green bars indicate how far above the norm which is the red line and notice in recent days we've been well above the norm that has been the problem but overall 11% below average for the monsoon season so incredible to think, rosie and john, this is actually a below average season in total but a busy past couple of weeks that has led to all this. >> better if it was spread out. >> of course. >> too much. >> yeah. >> pedram, thanks. anyway coming up here the president of the palestinian authority had some strong words for hamas after the break, what he said and what it could mean for the top palestinian leaders. plus, a british man with three children turns into a suicide bomber for isis. we will take a look at his dramatic transformation. 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(male announcer) today's the day to ask your doctor about levemir® flextouch. covered by nearly all health insurance and medicare plans. you're watching cnn live around the world. i'm john vause. >> and i'm rosemary church. we want to check the headlines for you. ukraine's shaky cease-fire is under threat from a weekend of sporadic shelling in the eastern cities of donetsk and mariupol. kiev and pro-russia rebels blame each other for breaching the truce which began late friday. officials say one woman was killed. three other people were wounded. the u.s. is carrying out air strikes against isis positions in the anbar province near the haditha dam. the goal is to prevent the extremists from seizing the dam. iraq requested the u.s. air cover. heavy rains have killed more than 250 people across south asia and china. the monsoons have triggered landslides and floods and submerged hundreds of villagers. soldiers and rescue crews are searching for survivors and trying to help people who were stranded by the high water. palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas has had strong words for hamas at an arab league meeting in cairo. his sharp message calls into question the future of the unity government now in place between hamas, the militant group which controls gaza and his fat that party in the west bank. we are joined by ian in jerusalem. is he really serious about walking away. if he does, what happens the next day? >> reporter: well, john, palestinian president mahmoud abbas accused hamas of running a shadow government in gaza saying we cannot accept the current state of affairs and we will not accept the partnership between us and hamas if the state of affairs remains as it is in gaza. these words do call in to question that unity government that was created last april, a new cabinet was formed shortly after but abbas is saying hamas' shadow government running gaza is essentially rendering that unity government helpless. now, obviously hamas denounced these calling them unjust and unjustified and this sort of criticism shouldn't be aired out in the media and public but rather in dialogue. it's interesting to note that a new recent poll states that if the presidential elections were today hamas' political leader haniya would trounce abbas and says almost 80% of palestinians believe hamas won the gaza war so it's no surprise to see why they're so popular and if there is a rift between the two sides, it would just bring us back to square one, trying to form that unity government again, so they have come a long way and it would be a major step back, john. >> yeah, the opinion poll you mentioned, ismail haniya, 61% in a straight up match against abbas who is on 32%. almost 2-1 so given that and also the statements coming from hamas it seems they're not really ready to give up power in gaza. >> reporter: well, like we said, this was seen as a victory, this gaza war for them. they're coming out very much more powerful and when you look at this poll, they're getting a lot of support from the west bank, as well, not just in gaza, so it's unlikely that they would want to concede any sort of power to the palestinian authority. but this is something that they're going to have to do. they're going to have to come to some sort of agreement and continue if they want to see some sort of unity, but hamas, we're seeing from mahmoud abbas of trying to take more power as it is so this is something, though, that the israelis are welcoming. they can initially condemn this unity government agreement. they see hamas as a terrorist organization. they're saying calling for abbas to abandon this deal and to return to dialogue with israel but the palestinians have also accused israel of trying to undermine this unity agreement from day one. so right now it's going to take some good diplomatic maneuvering from both sides to keep this deal intact. >> what i'm trying to get at, how much of this statement coming from abbas is actual genuine threats and how much of it is simply a negotiating ploy to try to get some concessions out of hamas? >> reporter: well, definitely they definitely received a reply from hamas very quickly when he did say this age you're right, this could be definitely a bargaining chip for abbas to come out against them especially with his popularity so low to try to blame any sort of problems on hamas to damage their image. i mean this, is all political back and forth between the two sides. but for them, to move it, especially for gaza, after this war, there's a lot of things that need to take place, especially with reconstruction and this bickering between the two won't get humanitarian aid in, get the reconstruction supplies back in to really get things up and running again and hamas has accused the parties that came together to form this sort of deal saying that they aren't living up to their commitments that they haven't had this aid into gaza so really when you do look at this bickering between the two sides, it's the people in gaza especially there after this war are the ones who are suffering the most. >> yeah, absolutely. ian lee live for us in jerusalem. thanks, ian. well, the first britain known to have blown himself up in a suicide mission came from a town southeast of london. cnn's karl penhaul met relatives and friends to find out what motivated this 41-year-old father of three and truck driver to head to the battle zone. and to join a group recently splintered from isis. >> reporter: he is a son who never came home. abu waheed majid with his first bicycle in the 1970s. fast forward to moments before his suicide mission in syria. he phoned his brother back in england a week before. >> he said that he loved us all very, very much. and he said i know you're looking after the family, you're doing a very, very, very good job and that, you know, if i've done any wrongs in my life, that i hope maybe you can forgive me. >> reporter: majid was born outside london. pakistani parents with what appears to be a normal childhood, childhood friends, a new car and relatives who fought in the british army. here in his hometown, media investigations link him to a muslim hate preacher and a muslim radical convicted of a terror plot. but he was never accused of any crime. >> he wasn't as other speculations say a jihadist, a man who wanted to fight and commit terror on the streets. >> reporter: last summer, majid, who drove a highway maintenance truck for a living went to syria on this aid convoy organized by a british muslim charity. his wife and three children stayed home. friend rashid mahmoud went with him. >> he just raised the issue, you know, he asked me how i felt about it. and he turned around and said let's just do it. >> reporter: photos show majid volunteering in refugee camps. so just why would the man become a suicide bomber in the minnie mouse ears? >> the horror, the stories he would have heard out there, i think that would have gave him the courage and the strength to do his best to help as many people as he can. >> reporter: mahmoud said they met syrian rebels in the camps. >> isis would help but you would, you know, you would hear of people swapping from group to group unsure of who to fight with. >> reporter: but mahmoud says he had no idea majid had been recruited. his suicide mission was commanded by chechens who had recently defected from isis to al nusra, the al qaeda faction. >> he was obviously at peace. he had obviously -- the idea was not troubling him in any way. and i can only put that down to faith, really. an idea of where, you know, he is going. >> reporter: this is the video of majid's attack on aleppo prison where president assad's regime was reportedly torturing hundreds of prisons. >> we feel no shame whatever in what majid did. his intentions were bona fide and they were true to the heart. >> reporter: but the uk government did not share that view. >> as soon as we took one breath, the police knocked the door with the search warrant which is under the provision of the terrorism act. >> reporter: a complex portrait of how a british boy became a suicide bomber and a mother who just can't believe her son is gone. >> i don't know, god knows. i don't know. >> reporter: carl penhall, cnn, london. >> all right. we're going to take a very short break but still to come, comedian joan rivers was laid to rest sunday in new york. find out how those who loved her celebrated her life. that's straight ahead. ♪ the pipers played "give my regards to broadway" in tribute to a woman who lived her life on stage. joan rivers' acerbic tongue made some people cringe, shocked others and made millions laugh. the family, friends and fans bid her good-bye at her funeral on sunday in new york. a lavish sendoff that got people talking. >> it was exactly the show joan wanted. it was hilarious, irreferenvere lot of remembrances of this fabulous woman. it was exactly the show she wanted. i have no doubt that when the bagpipers came out, joan rivers would have been saying, yahoo, look at me. >> and for more on rivers' funeral and other trending entertainment stories i spoke to kim serafin from "in toutouch y weekly" and how it was filled with laughter. >> of course, you wouldn't expect anything different for joan rivers and she had famously i think this has been repeated many times famously written about or said how she wanted to have this showbiz type of funeral. that's what she got. publicists there, paparazzi there, fans up and down fifth avenue and a lot of celebs from howard stern to barbara walters and donald trump to hugh jackman who sang a show tune. so many of these stars who loved joan for years were there and hugh jackman again sang a show tune. audra mcdonald sang "smile." the bagpipe band played show tunes. there was also humor there. howard stern told some jokes and i think it was exactly what she would have wanted and exactly how everyone wants to remember joan, funny but having that heart. >> exactly. exactly. all right, do want to move to the story, the phone hacking scandal involving jennifer lawrence, kate upton, of course, a hundred or so of other celebrities and some response there from reddit. re interesting. >> yeah, of course this, is going to be going on for a long time and hear a lot of different response, apple has responded and hearing little things trickling about how they may have been obtained but reddit where a lot were going to see these photos is actually now banning that section where all these bad photos were off there and it could have been partially because, you know, michaela maroney was underage in one of these photos so it's good that a lot of these sites are taking advantage of what they can do banning some of these places. once they're out there they're out there but hopefully more places will step in and stop them from continuing to circulate. >> yeah, many suggesting some of the men involved here to look into their own souls as some good advice there perhaps. let's go to some good news at least finish on some good news, jennifer lawrence, of course, into the guinness world records. >> yeah, at least some good news for her. although with jennifer she will continue to get good news. she's a huge movie star. after the first two "hunger games" which have grossed $1.5 billion globalally she's now in the guinness book of world records as the highest grossing female action star. so great news for jennifer lawrence and really fantastic. anyone who knows these "hunger games" movies knows it's not a big surprise and will get bigger when the next one comes out in november. so she's going to be an even higher grossing female action star. >> never saw "the hunger games." >> oh, didn't you? 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>> reporter: for some areas talking about the vallejo and napa valley region just south of napa valley itself on into some of the hills there where some of the stream, some of the creeks, the usgs saying they're seeing a to-fold increase in water flow. when you have a quake as large as a 6.0 creates some fissures in the bedrock below and not unusual to see it seep up to the surface. 200,000 gallons of water per day when back before this on the 23rd of august there was about 10,000 gallons of water flowing through the streams, so portions of northern california getting some increase in water and much like what we saw across iceland with a massive quake that led to some fissures that brought up some magma and a small scale eruption so this is bringing up water which is much needed across this region where we know 58% in exceptional drought. nearly the entire state in severe drought or worse and the region that saw some of the rainfall that rosie shared with you right across eastern portions of california that are actually in the severe zone and not as bad as the exceptional zone. this was the reason, very menacing storm, about 75 kilometer per hour or 40-mile-per-hour winds, tropical storm norm fall as part but as it does that it enhances the monsoonal moisture what's brought upwards of 3 to 4 inches in a few spots and could bring more across portions of, say, western and northwestern arizona around kingman, arizona, we can get significant rainfall in the next coming couple of dates. speaking of arizona, want to take you out to phoenix. look at this time lapse. we have to share it with you. pretty impressive sight on saturday as a massive haboob, a dust storm as high as 5,000 to 8,000 feet cruises right into the valley of the sun and i've been out there in phoenix. experienced one of these firsthand and it's a very, very scary situation. >> time lapse -- >> yeah, yeah. >> the colors are great. i wouldn't want to be right in the thick of it. >> you feel every grain on your face. it's not fun. >> well, scientists believe a meteorite hit nicaragua saturday night and residents in the capital reported a loud boom. officials believe it was either an ice or rock meteorite. >> the impact of whatever it may have been left behind a crater even registered on the seismic instruments which measure earthquakes. nobody was hurt but if you had have been standing there it would have been painful. >> yeah, indeed. that does it for our coverage this hour. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm john vause. thank you for watching. 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