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You're listening to BBC Sounds. Strange all day. Really strange all day. Roasting hot in Kumamoto, 26, 27 degrees. The forecast is for something similar

tomorrow for the Wales against Uruguay game and a few hours ago I walked down what would be Comamamoto High Street

of the main shopping arcade and it was business as usual as I'm sure it is back or home

and yet 500 miles further east in Tokyo,

Yokohama the biggest storm in recent memory for Japan is just ravaging the

country.

There have been deaths. We're approaching the end of the evening here.

They've been deaths already approaching 100 people injured,

evacuation upwards to 800,000 people have been evacuated and there's flooding.

They're trying to empty a dam that could cause further flooding.

So it's bizarre that we start on a somber moment because back home we might

not quite appreciate how serious this is but the storm has passed Tokyo and the Oklahoma but the consequences

will roll on and on and yeah not great is it?

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