Stronger ties and present a united front against china, russia and north korea. The Faulkner Focus and im john roberts in for harris. The setting for the summit camp david. President s Retreat In The Woods of maryland. Historic grounds have witnessed major strides in american diplomacy. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby with this. This is the culmination of months and months and months of work not just by the United States but by south korea and japan to improve their relationships. They are operating more together. They are communicating more together and looking for ways to deepen their own cooperation because they see much of the same things we see in terms of the threats and challenges. So there is a lot of common interests, common shared goals here that we will pursue. John he referred to the decades of disagreement between japan and south korea. One headline says President Biden looks to cement a fragile truce. Mike pompeo says the true gamble is the impact on china.
Up towards the north impacting a whole lot of people. the big story will be the rain. you get into sunday evening and monday everything you look at in the orange, a huge swath of the desert southwest including san diego, los angeles, over towards las vegas, 3 to 5 inches of rain or eight inches. the amount of rain some of these places see in a year coming in a couple of days. it will be a major flooding concern across this part of the country. from now into sunday morning just sunday morning you begin to see a likely flooding risk. if you spread it into monday morning the area gets much larger and you look at an extreme flash flood threat across portions of southern california stretching up into las vegas. a lot of rain is on the way. john you toss it to me talking about how rare the storm systems are. incredibly rare. something we almost never see as you look at the conditions across portions there of mexico but i would like to leave you with just the alerts that we re
Heavy rain. this is the core of the grain in the green here, but because of the upslope and enhancement of the mountains and terrain, it has been pouring in areas of eastern portions of hawaii. i have seen two stations reporting 26 inches of rain already with the storm in a couple of spots, an additional to that 20 inches. a c a couple of spots over two feet of rain. later today the heavy rain threat will move to maui and eventually tonight towards honolulu. it goes up towards oahu and turns away as it weakens significantly, maybe a category one or tropical storm as it passes to the west of the islands. again, the big story will be the rain. we have a tropical storm warning for the big island. it was actually dropped because the winds are not as strong. we still have a hurricane warning for maui. as far as the rain forecast goes over the next three days, the areas of the red and pink are an additional seven to ten inches of rain. the worst of the rain has yet to
Overnight hours tonight into the early hours of tomorrow, we could see some pretty nasty storms in those areas, and then it just kind of sets up shop as it gets on the east coast. so this is mainly a rain event. we do have some ice and snow, but for the majority of folks, the big story will be the rain and the possible severe weather and flooding. all right. bottom line, roads are slick. so people be careful. right. you know, just take it easy out there. thank you so much, jennifer. okay. now to a developing story out of africa. a u.s. aircraft in south sudan came under heavy gunfire during a mission to evacuate american civilians. four service members are injured. the country has been in turmoil since the president accused the former vice president of attempting a coup last week. and a lot of people have been killed in those clashes since. pentagon correspondent barbara starr joining me now from the pentagon washington, rather, with more on this. what can you tell us about h