Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, President Trump visits Japan to meet its newly elected conservative prime minister, one stop on a multi-country trip to Asia with a focus on trade.

Hurricane Melissa is set to make landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm

barreling through the Caribbean. And Vermont's recent floods reveal with devastating clarity

how climate change can magnify the already critical shortage of affordable housing.

We live in a whole new world. Kind of all bets are off. Nobody should be living in the floodplain.

Welcome to the News Hour. The U.S. and China said today they've agreed on a framework for a potential trade deal, once again trying to pull back from a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

The announcement comes before a high-stakes meeting between President Trump and China, Xi Jinping later this week in South Korea.

But tonight, President Trump's tour through Asia takes him to Japan.

Nick Schifrin has more.

Today, President Trump received a royal welcome in Tokyo's Imperial Palace.

The American president, who's floated pursuing a third term, praised the inheritor of the

world's oldest hereditary monarchy.

A great man.

Great man.

President Trump will soon meet the man he's called a great leader for perhaps the

single most important meeting of his new term.

President Trump predicts he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will strike a trade deal

that will focus in part on a rare critical resource whose production Beijing dominates.

China recently tightened restrictions on the export of heavy rare earth elements and powerful

magnets.

Beijing controls nearly all the world's processing of rare earth magnets, essential for everything

from the United States' most advanced fighter jets to the world's leading electric vehicles.

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