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Typhoon Dujuan Rolls Over Taiwan, Barrels Down on China; NASA Claims New Evidence Points To Water on Mars; U.S., Afghan Forces Strike Back at Taliban in Kunduz. Aired 8:00a-9:00a ET

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[08:00:13] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream.

Now Afghan forces and the U.S. strike back against the Taliban in Kunduz after the militant group seizes control of the town.

NASA says there is new evidence that liquid water flows on the surface of Mars, increasing the chance that life exists on the Red Planet.

And a powerful typhoon makes landfall in China after sweeping across Taiwan.

Now we begin with the battle for Kunduz. Now the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says security forces are making some progress in the fight to

retake the city from the Taliban, but says the insurgents are making it difficult by using residents as human shields.

Now the Taliban captured Kunduz on Monday. It is the largest city to be taken by the Taliban since 2001. Now the government says at least four

civilians were killed in the attack. And at least 17 Afghan forces have been killed.

Now Kunduz, located in northern Afghanistan, is a key target for the Taliban. The militant group has been building up its presence there for

months. It is the capital of Kunduz Province, an affluent area known for its trade ties and agriculture and the main route to Tajikistan runs right

through it.

Now, U.S. forces in Afghanistan, they've conducted air strikes that began today. We'll give you the very latest on that a little bit later in

the program.

Now, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is praising the nuclear deal reached with the U.S. and other world powers. Now speaking at the

United Nations on Monday, he called it a victory over war. But yet harsh words for Washington, blaming it for the spread of terrorism across the

Middle East.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HASSAN ROUHANI, PRESIDENT OF IRAN (through translator): We must not forget that the roots of today's wars, destruction and terror can be found

in the occupation, invasion and military intervention of yesterday. If we did not have the U.S. military invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the

U.S.'s United States unwarranted support for the inhumane actions of the Zionist regime against the oppressed nation of Palestine today the

terrorists would not have an excuse for the justification of their crimes.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Hassan Rouhani there.

Now, let's go back and get the very latest on the fight for Kunduz. U.S. forces, they've launched an airstrike earlier today. Let's get more

now with our international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson who joins me now live from London, and Nic, the Afghan counter attack is underway with the

help of U.S. airstrikes. What impact is it having on the Taliban?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, so far the government says that it's been able to retake some buildings, it's been

able to retake the office and building of the police chief there, that it's been able to retake the jail. Of course, the Taliban overrun that --

overran that jail Monday, 600 prisoners were freed, about 110 were estimated to be Taliban prisoners. 17 government forces were killed in the

fighting so far.

It's going to be difficult from here for the, you know, U.S. airstrikes to target the Taliban if they're hiding out inside the buildings

in the town. But the targeting so far was outside of the town of Kunduz. Inside the town, we now hear from the Afghan president saying that the

Taliban are actually using people essentially as human shields. They're hiding behind people so that's going to make the fight for the town much

harder.

The government does have more weapons, it does have more personnel. But that said they had that yesterday when they were forced to retreat and

pull out of the town by the Taliban. So, it's really at this stage it is not clear how quickly the government can retake the town, and a very

important consideration for them is going to be to do it without high civilian casualties, because if the government creates a lot of civilian

casualties, or is perceived to do that, then that will drive the population away from the government and towards the Taliban. So, there's a lot at

stake at how they do this, recapture the town.

LU STOUT: Yeah, a lot at stake. This is a very, very delicate operation. And Nic, the fall of Kunduz, it comes as there is a new leader

of the Taliban: Mullah Akhdar Mohammad Mansoor. Is what happened to the town proof of a more rigorous, more muscular Taliban under new leadership?

ROBERTSON: Well, it's certainly a boon for him. I mean, it's certainly puts the Taliban back on the map when ISIS in the east of the

country coming over the border from Pakistan are beginning to sort of nibble away at areas of Taliban territory. So, it paints the Taliban as

being successful outside of the traditional areas.

This offensive -- you know, people have been able to see this coming for some time. There's been a Taliban buildup to the north of Kunduz for

the past, about six months or so. And violence in Afghanistan is -- it is part of daily life. I was just counting up statistics, last week alone

about 240 something people killed, about 190 wounded in various different incidence across the whole country. So that is the background.

But for Mullah Mansoor, this is a big game for him. He has told the Taliban not to kill civilians. He has told civilians that there would be

some re-executions. He has told them to told them to go to work as normal. He is trying to, if you will, take Kunduz and continue sort of a Taliban

leadership there. I don't think the government will really let that happen, or it won't happen for very long.

But really, this is Taliban as we used to know them back in the 1990's when they could a town and could hold it -- Kristie.

[08:06:02] LU STOUT: The Taliban, they haven't been able to do this since 2001. Nic Robertson reporting on the story for us. Thank you very

much indeed for that.

Now let's go back to the United Nations. Earlier we brought you some strong words for the U.S. from the president of Iran, and there was also

rare civil exchange between the two nations. The U.S. President Barrack Obama shook hands with the Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. It is said

to be the highest level handshake between the two countries in over three decades.

Now, let's take a look at what's ahead at the U.N. today. Robyn Curnow is standing by there for us and we'll also have a chance to talk to Matthew

Chance in Moscow in just a moment. But Robyn, a lot of the agenda today after a rather eventful day one of the U.N. General Assembly.

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN INTERNATIONAL: Indeed, I mean, what was here today just extraordinary, just having all of those world leaders all making their

points, making their statements in the context of 70 years of the United Nations.

And of course, even today like yesterday, the real focus is still on Syria and the repercussions of what's happening there and also, the

possible solutions that have been put there on the table. And of course, Russia and the U.S. making very pointed statements, both Putin and Obama

taking barbed attacks sort of -- rhetorical attacks at each other, over what could or could not be some solution to this conflict.

Now, let's take a listen to what President Putin had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

VLADIMIR PUTIN, PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA (translator): The only way to solve this problem at a fundamental level is to with store this hatred

where it has been destroyed to strengthen the government institution where this still exists or have been reestablished, to provide comprehensive

assistance of military, economic and material nature to countries in a difficult situation.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CURNOW: Okay, so what you're hearing there, President Putin saying President Assad has to stay. Of course we know President Obama has said

President Assad has to go. There was that meeting between these two men. What was said between them? Did it go further than that picture of that

stink eye we saw Obama give Putin over lunch? Was something fundamental discussed and agreed to? And clear, because both sides today, that's what

we're waiting for Kristie.

Both sides today are going to put out some sort of statement, some sort of message of how they perceive this meeting went. They are going to

spin it essentially as to how they believe that meeting went. And of course the implications of that are so important to Syria and the discussions that

are taking place here at the United Nations.

Let's go to Moscow, our Matthew Chance is there, to get a sense of how this has been playing out in Russia. Of course, President Putin only flying

in for one day, not only speaking to an international audience, but also, his message clearly met for his domestic audience as well. How do you think

it went down, Matthew?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL: Well, I think that most people would agree, it went down pretty well. I mean, if one of the aims of

Vladimir Putin was to go to the United Nations General Assembly and underline just how important Russia is as a negotiating partner when it

comes to solving the great diplomatic crisis of the age, then that was an aim that he achieved very easily and very effectively.

He was front and center, as you've just been saying, of the conversation about Syria and how to bring an end to the very tragic and

bloody conflict in that country, and the expectation is he'll be front and center of any political moves in the future to try and make that actually

happen.

And of course his politics and his diplomacy has been backed up on the ground in Syria with a huge diplomat of weaponry to the Syrians from

Russia, including advanced aircraft and tanks and missile systems, that can really add a sort of wait to the kind of diplomacy that Russia is

conducting at the U.N. and of course outside the U.N. as well. Because he's also seized the diplomatic initiative on another front as well, putting

together a contact group involving parties that are opposed to each other in Syria, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, all sitting at the same

table in a contact group scheduled to meet as early as next month according to a senior Russian diplomat to discuss a political process for Syria.

And so, you get the sense that it's hard to avoid this. Russia really has stolen the diplomatic initiative from everybody else, including

Washington, when it comes to resolving the Syrian crisis.

[08:10:46] CURNOW: Indeed. Whether the Americans like it or not, Russia is now on the center again and they're going to have to deal with

them in some way or another. I mean, that's what analyst are saying.

Let's talk then about President Putin. Many people say he's a very tactical politician, not just strategic. And, he's been very shroud here,

not least because the conversation has shifted to Syria and nobody seems to be mentioning Ukraine.

CHANCE: Well, exactly. In fact, what people say about Putin is that he's very tactical and -- but no one's got a clear idea of what his

strategy is. I mean, he's very good at taking advantages of gaps in international diplomacy. He's done this brilliantly when it comes to Syria.

I mean, Western policy, U.S. policy, has essentially been failing in that country. He saw that opportunity and moved extremely quickly into that

void, deploying his forces, putting those aircraft on the ground, going to the U.N. for the first time in a decade, and delivering a powerful speech

to basically rapture his applause afterwards. It was really only President Obama that had such hard words for Vladimir Putin, and his own speech is

clearly a frosty, sort of icy, relationship between these two political leaders.

But in the end, they're both practical. Despite what their personal relations may be, they're both representatives of powerful countries, and

they're going to have no option. And, President Obama of course said this, but to deal with each other when it comes to Syria.

And so, there is a practical reality now that Russia is in the center of any solution to the Syrian crisis, and Washington just has to swallow

that.

CURNOW: Indeed. Matthew Chance, in Moscow, as always, thanks so much. And I'm going to send you right back to Kristie Lu Stout.

Kristie, we are going to be hearing from the Ukrainian leader a little bit later on here at the United Nations, and we'll bring you his

conversation, his speech, when he takes to that podium.

LU STOUT: Yeah, looking forward to hearing what he has to say about the crisis in his own country, that happening later on today. And, more

diplomatic action on the record and behind the scenes at the U.N. G.A. Robyn Curnow, thank you.

Now, NASA is excited about a new discovery on Mars. Details on what the U.S. space station says these pictures prove when we come back.

Also ahead, CNN's Ivan Watson tracks down two Iraqi teenagers he shared a helicopter with when the girls made that narrow escape from ISIS

one year ago.

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[08:1505] LU STOUT: Welcome back. Now, NASA says it has new evidence of flowing water on the surface of Mars and we'll bring a picture up for

you -- you'll look at it.

Now the dark streaks in this image are believed to be liquid and extremely salty water. Now, researchers have known for years that Mars has

frozen water at its poles, but this finding, it's a game changer.

Now, water raises hope that the cold, dry, so called red planet may sustain life.

Now, Tom Kerss is an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. He joins me now live from London.

Tom, good to see you. Now the big question here, can this water sustain life, life on Mars?

TOM KERSS, ASTRONOMER, ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH: It's a really interesting question, and, this finding is going to get astrobiologist

really starting to think about what kind of environments there are on Mars, what sort of potentially habitable environments there might be.

I think the prevailing view is that actually this extremely salty, mineral rich water is not the best place to be looking for life on Mars.

What this finding really helps us to understand is that water is an active, volatile Mars. Mars does have a water cycle, it's not a dead world.

We might think of it perhaps as a dying world but it's not completely dried up and water has been found over a wide number of regions on the surface of

Mars.

I think many astrobiologist suspect that actually, if we're going to want to find life on Mars today, we need to be looking probably for fresh

water, which is suspected to exist even in liquid form at wider latitudes near the poles of Mars.

LU STOUT: Okay, so it's too early to reach any conclusion just yet if this water finding is in fact sustaining life on Mars, but you mention it's

very salty water. So, could it be desalinated? Could this Martian water sustain human visitors to Mars?

KERSS: This is certainly a very -- this is probably the most exciting reason that this finding has been talked about so much.

I think the ability to actually harvest water on Mars will be extremely important for human visitors, and it's not actually just the

molecular water that we can get, but the minerals in the water could be useful as well. These chlorate and perchlorate salts that have been found

keeping the water stable on Mars could also be harvested and could even be used, as NASA scientists have suggested, to build things like solid rocket

boosters, so actually building your trip home while you're on the surface is a possibility that we can now start to think about.

LU STOUT: Yeah. We need to find out more about these streaks of water, this evidence that we found via satellite.

Can NASA send the Mars rovers there to investigate the water?

KERSS: Well, at the present time I think NASA are considering trying to get one of their most active rovers, which is the Curiosity on Mars

science laboratory potentially closer to one of these sites.

There is a problem with investigating these sites, even with a future mission. And that is that there's a problem with potential contamination.

At the moment NASA deliberately -- and other space agencies deliberately propose landing sites on Mars where any bacteria that make

there way over there on the space craft, any microbes, will not find an environment that they can move into. When human beings visit Mars we are

inevitably going to contaminate Mars, but if we want to make a signal of native life on Mars -- if we want to find that signal, then we need to make

sure that we don't contaminate the place.

Sending a space craft which may still have microbes from Earth on it to a place where those microbes could be able to thrive has the potential

to spoil any chance we have at finding native life by essentially sending terrestrial life there first and then rediscovering that, which wouldn't be

very fruitful for us.

LU STOUT: Yeah, well, we don't want to contaminate the scene but more needs to be investigated to find out if there's a fresher source of water,

to find out where the water is coming from on Mars. Will there be more research? Could there be a new mission on Mars?

KERSS: There will be many more missions to Mars undoubtedly. The 2020 mission is very exciting, that's a rover which NASA will be sending to Mars

in the coming years based on the platform that they've already tested out there. That rover will be testing all sorts of things, which could

ultimately really help human exploration of Mars.

For example, that rover will be testing -- taking oxygen out of the atmosphere to make a breathable oxygen for potential human visitors, and

also investigating what the soil is like on Mars and how likely it is we can get the water out of that soil.

But the great thing about this finding is that these hydrated salts, which have been confirmed from space which is quite remarkable when you

think about it, give water much more stability on the surface of Mars. So, what was previously thought to be difficult, if not impossible, to have

water effectively in the soil on Mars, has now become a reality. And that is really exciting.

LU STOUT: Yeah and this is an incredible, incredible discovery. We'll leave it at that. Tom Kerss, astronomer joining me live from London. Thank

you so much for walking us through this finding and what it means for science. Take care.

KERSS: Thank you.

LU STOUT: Now, you're watching News Stream.

Still to come in the program, was it a success? Trevor Noah made his debut as the new Daily Show host and we will get the verdict on his

performance right after the break.

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[08:23:17] LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

Now talk about pressure and big shoes to fill -- now, the wait is over and Trevor Noah has now made his debut hosting The Daily Show. The

satirical show was must see TV under former host, John Stewart, and CNN's senior media correspondent, Brian Stelter, looks at Noah's first go around

in the anchor chair.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Hey there, this might be the toughest gig in television right now.

Trevor Noah, a 31 year old, native of South Africa taking over for one of the best known figures in television, John Stewart. Of course, Stewart

signed off almost two months ago. The Daily Show has been -- well, it's been off the air ever since. And today Trevor Noah taking the show over,

and revealing that it is really going to be a different kind of Daily Show with him at the anchor desk.

It's a brand new anchor desk by the way, a fully renovated studio, but it's still is at its heart, a news satire. Making fun and making light of

all of the ridiculousness the world has to offer.

When I spoke to Trevor Noah before he premiered he said he's as interested in entertainment and of sports as he is in political news. And

he said he'll be making fun of social networking scandals and new media just as much as John Stewart did about cable news like CNN and Fox News.

And here's one of the best moments from Trevor's premiere.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TREVOR NOAH, THE DAILY SHOW HOST: The truth is is that now I'm in the chair and I can only assume that this is as strange for you as it is for

me. John Stewart was more than just a late night host, he was often our voice, our refuge, and in many ways our political dad. And it's weird,

because dad has left, and now, and now it feels like the family has a new stepdad, and he's black.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STELTER: Now it's really hard to evaluate a new show after just one night. Comedy Central, the channel that of course broadcasts The Daily

Show, says it's going to be looking at weeks and months of the ratings before it determines how well Trevor Noah is doing.

And they view this as a generational shift from John Stewart, who is in his 50's, to Trevor Noah, who is 31. They believe Noah's going to appeal

to the young viewers all around the world with his style, with his charm, with his personality.

You'll see more correspondents on Trevor Noah's version of The Daily Show, you'll also see more musical performances. He has Ryan Adams booked

later this week. But, it will still include a lot of politics. He also has New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate, Chris Christie

book for Wednesday night.

Now like I said, weeks and months ahead before it's really fair to evaluate Trevor Noah, but I'm sure lots of viewers already tuning in see

that it's going to be a very different kind of Daily Show now that John Stewart has stepped down.

Back to you.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

[08:26:05] LU STOUT: Brian Stelter there. So, Noah finds himself in one of the biggest stages in American show business. It has been quite a

road for the South African comedian whose story is pretty remarkable.

Now CNN's David McKenzie is with us now from Johannesburg and David, what more have you learned about Trevor Noah and his rise to stardom?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well Kristie, you know, South Africans were as surprised if not more so when Trevor Noah was announced as

the new The Daily Show host, coming out of relative obscurity but not here, of course, in South Africa, where he is a household name and has a

fascinating backstory.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MCKENZIE: Perhaps the relaunch of the year into the hot seat of The Daily Show, South African comedian, Trevor Noah, replacing John Stewart

after 16 seasons.

The 31 year old is almost unknown in America. But not so here in Soweto where his grandmother still lives in the house where she raised Noah

as a child.

NOMALIZA FRANCES NOAH: He wants -- where he is, there must be laughter, not tears.

MCKENZIE: He was always her favorite.

Was he always making jokes?

N. NOAH: Always laughing, always laughing.

MCKENZIE: But she says it was tough for him sleeping on the couch with his cousins, she had to hide him from the authorities.

T. NOAH: I was born a crime.

MCKENZIE: Born to a white father and black mother, illegal during Apartheid, Noah likes to say he was born a crime.

Some people are asking how a young comedian from here in Soweto could appeal to an American market. Well, Trevor Noah succeeded here in South

Africa, a deeply divided nation.

DONOVAN GOLIATH, COMEDIAN: Trevor was, is possibly still, for me, the hardest working comedian, person, I know.

MCKENZIE: Friends and competitors alike say Noah is a role model here. They say he grew from a vanilla comedian to an edgy cross over hit.

GOLIATH: People trust him now, and they're willing to hear what he has to say. That's the hardest thing about being a comic is gaining the

trust. Immediately when you walk on stage people must listen to you.

NOAH: Welcome to The Daily Show.

MCKENZIE: Something Noah will have to do all over again if he wants to conquer the biggest of stages.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MCKENZIE: Well Kristie, sometimes people say comedy doesn't travel, so you know, what makes something funny in Hong Kong or China or here is

South Africa doesn't mean it's funny in the U.S., but, you know, his supporters here say if he could appeal to South Africa with the deeply

troubled history and 11 official languages, well, maybe America will be a little bit easier, in fact -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Well, his comedy certainly translates and he has an amazing personal story. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. David McKenzie

reporting live for us.

Now, still to come right here on News Stream, a special reunion after a desperate and chaotic rescue from ISIS, this is an emotional story you

don't want to miss.

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[08:31:25] LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Now Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says security forces are making progress in their fight to retake the city of Kunduz from the Taliban, but

he says the insurgents are making it difficult by using residents as human shields. Now the Taliban have posted a message denying Afghan forces are

advancing into the city.

A jam-packed schedule for world leaders at the UN today. U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to sit down with his Cuban counterpart

Raul Castro in the next couple of hours. And after that, Mr. Obama holds a counterterrorist summit on ISIS. And, at the General Assembly, we'll hear

from the leaders of Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen and the UK.

Now, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is now in Tehran for the repatriation of Iranian Hajj pilgrims who were killed in last week's

stampede near Mecca. Now of the 769 people who died, more than 200 were Iranian. Mr. Rouhani blamed Saudi Arabia for what he calls incompetence

and mismanagement of the pilgrimage.

Now, more than a year ago, we brought you the heartbreaking image of a teenage girl breaking down into tears as the Iraqi military rescued her and

her family from Mount Sinjar. They were fleeing ISIS. And now, they're living in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Now senior international correspondent Ivan Watson recently caught up with them.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was a rescue from hell. In the mad dash to climb aboard a flight to safety,

families scrambled to stay together. These desperate people spent nine days trapped on a barren mountain under siege from ISIS militants who chased

them from their homes.

(GUNFIRE)

WATSON: Amid the chaos and gunfire, terror frozen on the face of a girl in purple, 14-year-old Aziza Hamed.

More than a year later, we found Aziza and her family in this refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.

(on camera): I'm looking forward to this. We're going to meet some old friends that we encountered in very dramatic circumstances more than a year

ago. And they're right up here.

Dunia, how are you?

WATSON (voice-over): Aziza and her older 18-year-old sister, Dunia, are here along with their elder brother, Thabet, his wife and three

children. Their situation now much better than the unfinished construction site where they lived for the first seven months after ISIS made them flee

their homes.

The girls tell me they go to school here and they say the camp has started to feel like home.

(on camera): Aziza, you've gotten a little taller than Dunia since I saw you last.

WATSON (voice-over): But it does not take long for terrible memories to resurface.

(on camera): What's making you sad right now?

"When I see you," Aziza says, "I remember what happened."

AZIZA HAMED, RESCUED FROM ISIS (through translation): We saw ISIS with our own eyes, how they were capturing people. If we drove down the wrong

road that day, we would have ended up in ISIS hands, but we took a different road and made it to the mountain.

WATSON (on camera): In the year since their narrow escape, their father's health has deteriorated, and he can no longer walk. No one knows

what happened to two elder brothers, who were captured by ISIS last year and haven't been heard from since. And another brother, 23- year-old Karem,

smuggled himself to Europe on the migrant trail taken by so many other people fleeing the Middle East.

(on camera): Hey, Karem.

[08:35:21] KAREM HAMED, RESCUED FROM ISIS: Hello.

WATSON: Hey, how are you? Where are you?

HAMED: Deutscheland.

WATSON: Germany?

HAMED: Yeah.

WATSON (voice-over): I ask Karem if he misses Iraq.

HAMED (through translation): No, that's gone. Iraq is gone for me. I lost it. I want to build a new future for myself. There's no future in

Iraq.

WATSON (voice-over): That hopelessness, shared by so many people we talked to in refugee camps in northern Iraq, where people like Aziza and

Dunia's older brother, Thabet, still struggle to deal with the trauma they endured.

"I just want to start a new life," he says, "And I want my family to stay safe and to stay together."

One of the few times 15-year-old Aziza really smiles is when I ask her what she'd like to do to the men from ISIS who attacked her family.

"I would stomp on their heads and kill them," she says.

This girl may have escaped to live another day, but her innocence has been forever lost.

Ivan Watson, CNN, Dahak, Iraqi Kurdistan.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: I will never forget that girl. I will never forget that report.

And you're watching News Stream. And still to come on the program, we'll have the latest on the deadly Typhoon Dujuan. After Taiwan gets a

battering, mainland China now feels the force of the storm.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now China has take precautions as Typhoon Dujuan brings strong wind and high waves to Fujian Province.

Now authorities have evacuated more than 260,000 people from the densely populated coast. Now the storm killed at least two people in

Taiwan and more than 300 were injured. The Taiwan Power Company says at least 440,000 people are without electricity.

Now Chad Myers is tracking the typhoon. He joins us now with more. And Chad, this has been an intense rainmaker. And it's on the move still.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It still is. In now to the mountains of eastern China. And so those provinces where all the people had to get

out of the way, especially along the coastal regions, could pick up another half a meter of rainfall, because we had that much rain in parts of Taiwan,

and wind gusts here at 246 kilometers per hour. And the rain was coming down in sheets coming in sideways.

We will see the rain move to the east now across parts of eastern China, but other than that I think we're probably in much better shape

here.

There is Taiwan. There is the eye. And you can see how it's not as colorful anymore. The intense color as it moved over Taiwan is when it was

the most intense. Wind speeds probably now down to less than a 100 kilometers per hour. And then later on tonight down to 55 kilometers per

hour moving up there and eventually up toward Shanghai, because as the moisture comes into China we have another cold front coming in here from

the west.

As that cold front comes down, it's going to push the remnant, which is just a low pressure center by then, the remnant low right over Shanghai

and probably produce upwards of maybe 100 millimeters of rainfall in some spots, even maybe in Wenzhou (ph) probably somewhere around 18 centimeters

of rain.

Now let's get to the floor here and I want to show you in a better way what happened in Taiwan, because this is the important part.

The storm went right over a very high mountain range. About 3,000 meters. When you push water up a hill like that -- a meter of rain coming

out -- it eventually will run back down and it will flood. And I do expect that there will be flooding disasters before this is finally over.

Look at the size of the storm. Look how big this thing is. It is an eye about 60 miles around, about 100 kilometers around at some point.

Now to get really intense winds, you could see the eye at about 20 kilometers per hour (sic). But there was a wind gust on one of these

Japanese islands right there, a wind gust of 292 kilometers per hour. I don't think you could imagine what they will do to buildings, to

structures, to infrastructure, to power lines, and certainly to you if you're trying to stand up outside. That's where people get really, really

injured -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Chad Myers there tracking this major, major storm for us reporting that there will be more flooding disasters ahead.

Thank you, Chad, for the warning.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere. World Sport with Christina Macfarlane is next.

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