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music, fireworks all beginning tomorrow night at 7 p.m. there are search and rescue efforts going on now in japan. take a look at this. look at that mudslide there. 20 people are missing right now after a mudslide south of tokyo swept away dozens of homes. caused pretty expansive power outage. that looks terrible. let s get to celina wang in tokyo for us this morning. is he celina wang. 2 people are presumed dead, 20 missing. that s after the devastating mudslide hit the southwest of tokyo southwest of atani city. there could be more mudslides and more rain to come urging people to see vac kuwait where
a seismologist told me it is because of global warming that is increasing the frequency of rainfall that can cause the devastating landslides. boris, christi. celina, just watching that video it s hard to imagine that the number of missing is not going to keep rising. we know you re going to be keeping an eye on the story. celina wang from tokyo. thank you, so much. residents of a go ahead, boris. residents of a condo building near last week s deadly collapse in florida were left scrambling to find a place to stay after they were ordered to immediately leave their homes. why they were given just a couple of hours to pack everything and go. also, it s a race against mother nature. rescuers in surfside, florida, are continuing the recovery efforts. but hurricane elsa seems to be closing in on the state. r night.
past decade. that marks a significant increase from the ten years before that. according to this government report, it s because of global warming. kim? yeah, not the first time we hear these devastating effects of global warming. celina wang in tokyo, we ll come back to you as developments warrant. thank you so much for that. appreciate it. cnn meteorologist derek van dam joins us with more on the extreme weather conditions that led to the mudslide. you heard celina there. take us through this and more importantly, is there more to come? there is the potential of more mudslides coming forward. look at the latest satellite loop across the region. you can see a flare-up othver t same location, darker shade of purple and orange and yellow. did a bit of digging. this is just incredible. there was reported 780 million