shanghai with a heat advisory at 47 degrees. to north america, we have a couple of storms to talk about. let me start off with this one moving towards the leeward islands. that's a tropical storm watch. it could make a few landfalls as it maintains intensity as a tropical storm status. this is on the baja peninsula and still do watch out for the heavy rain to move here. severe weather will be moving into the great lakes region today. los angeles up to 35 degrees. well above average. here's the extended forecast. >> that's all for this edition of "newsline." do stay with us. # captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: investigators tried to determine today why the jet that crashed at san francisco's airport saturday was flying too low and too slowly. good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the accident, which killed two chinese teenagers and sent more than 180 people to the hospital from the head of the national transportation safety boar

these include an area in shanghai's p unong district. the officials did not give out details on when and how those zones will be set up. however, they said once the plan is implemented, it will make easier for foreign firms to invest in china. concerns have been mounting about china's economic outlook. this is due to the country's sluggish exports stemming from the advance against major currencies. foreign investments in china have also been sluggish. the chinese authorities aim to boost the economy by societying up these pilot-free trade zones. u.s. stock prices ended higher on wednesday. for more on the japanese markets, let's go to the tokyo stock exchange. >> let's have a look at the broader topics is also lower by 0.26%. investors seem to be cautious ahead of friday's key jobs reports. let's move onto currency starting with euro-yen. that's compared to the 130 level at around the same time on wednesday. market player saw the euro due to the situation in portugal and finance minister both resigned. this is casting doubts over portuga

quite hot in shanghai. heat warnings in place. 36 degrees for the high on friday. that could go down by 5 degrees into your saturday and up to 28 degrees in seoul. right in north america, a pool of moisture is surging in from the south with quite heavy rain and hisk of hail and thunderstorms and isolated tornados. back behind me is dry. on your independence day thursday looking quite dry in the northeast coast. nice conditions to enjoy fireworks tonight. across the west, we may see patches of thundershowers across the west, but mostly dry on the coast. speaking of the heavy rain across the east, the ground is already saturated. however still 100 millimeters or more is possible. flooding and particularly flash flood is going to be a major risk across the southeast coast. temperatures will be high and boston amazingly is 37 degrees for you. more than 10 degrees higher than sammy, but across the west is 32 in sacramento, 10 degrees more than what we saw on thursday. here's the extended forecast. . >>> that's all for this edition of news line. thank you very much for j

shanghai is reaching 39 degrees, quite a dangerous level. even western japan is in the bulk of that. kyoto where the gion festival is held, 35 degrees until friday, but take a look at hangzhou, the 40s to friday. do stay hydrated. let's look at the americas where the cold front is sagging all the way to the south. and due to the tropical moisture from gulf of mexico, this is the collision and thunderstorms are very active across the southeast. another area we're looking at thunderstorms, and this one actually could even spawn tornadoes. we have a tornado watch in southern manitoba as we speak. flash floods are also still posted, risk is actually posted in a wide range in the southwest and down to new mexico due to the moisture surging from the bay of california. it's quite hot. still that heat dome across the pacific northwest, but cooler and dry across the great lakes region. and that includes chicago, toronto, looking at nice temperatures but houston's reaching up to 37 degrees and phoenix, 41, las vegas in the 40s, too. let's move over to

take a look at shanghai. 38 degrees, well above your average, with plenty of sunshine there. now to the americas. we are looking at chantal, a tropical storm system. it looks like it's going maintain its intensity as a tropical storm. and it is already bringing hurricane-force winds. so we do have hurricane watches posted in some of the countries, especially espanolia. looks like it will be tracking towards the countries and into florida peninsula. talking about the east coast, we're seeing lots of rain and severe thunderstorms. we have several reports of tornadoes already falling from this phenomenon. to the temperatures, as we see, death valley reaching 48 degrees, quite hot there, or sizzling willing hot. some people are actually -- they know how to cool off, especially in new york. let me show you a picture coming up from there. some new yorkers are escaping from the blistering heat at this newly opened bar called minus 5. the temperature remains minus 5 degrees celsius. everything here made out of ice, including the bar, glasses ask tables. the admission fee is 20 u.s. d

temperatures are scorching hot at 40 degrees in chongqing, do stay hydrated and shanghai at 39 degrees. moving over to north america, we've got a cold front that's still hugging the coastal line. so here across the area, thunderstorms, new brunswick and new england these areas will find about 100 millimeters of additional rainfall. due to this cold front, severe weather is possible. we have three tornado touchdowns reported in the midsection of this country. so this is still capable of spawning these tornadoes. we're looking at 20s in bismarck and in winnipeg. these are mid-september temperatures and the morning low will be in the single digits. i'll leave you now for the extended forecast. >>> and that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: attorney general eric holder wants texas to get federal court approval before changing election rules, part of an administration strategy to challenge laws it says discriminate by race. good evening, i'm jeffrey brown.

and i said if i were at your age, i would go to shanghai. >> rose: would you really? >> i would. because when you are seeing especially in mobile, the social media, and all of these young enter pea niewrz, entrepreneurs in china trying to start their own business and what we learned during the last couple of years is the infrastructure is there, broadband, mobile, and so on. what we are needing are content. >> rose: right. >> and i he this is such a huge market and opportunity that i am thinking we are right on the spot with our approach which we announced today. >> rose: are you satisfied that on the part of the chinese government and others, a there is rule of law and respect for private property and respect for copyright? >> yes. this is what you are always getting when you are discussing with media executives. >> rose: right. >> i remember when we started the first time in 2000, at that time, i was responsible for governance. this is what i always heard. yes, but looking back, what kind of values we could have created in the early stage in 2000, in perspective of today is inc

it's located in a non descript building in shanghai. mulvenon says the frequency and severity of attacks are reaching new highs, and that the u.s. government and american industries have had enough and are mobilizing. >> chinese cyber hacking has been going on for a long time. what's new is that were finally fed up and want to do something about it. >> reporter: republican congressman mike rogers, the chairman of the house intelligence committee has proposed legislation that would deny issuing visas to chinese citizens involved in cyber theft, and to freeze their assets, too. >> this is all about making sure that those actors that we can identify, and believe me we can identify them. they understand that they understand that there is a cost for their cyber espionage. >> reporter: democratic senator carl levin and three senate co- sponsors want to take the profit out of cyber-crime. they've introduced legislation that block products that used stolen intellectual property from entering the u.s. market. >> you got to hit people in their wa