somehow gets here someplace in the south pacific, single most isolated archipelago on the planet.and his identification of native hawaiian. you get a glimpse that these are very productive people. they're industrious. they were healthy, strong. and they had time for the arts. that was a large population, more than half of what we have in hawaii today. fully sustainable because there was no other choice. so, over time, the native hawaiian population goes to twenty-two thousand. it's the same story. introduced disease, inability to deal with it, people die. 1926, the public school system would outlaw language and the practice of culture in public schools. so, the road to extinction is being well paved. >> anthony: between captain cook's arrival in 1778, and today, disease wiped out most of the population. missionaries came. a booming sugar and pineapple plantation industry. an influx of immigrants from japan, okinawa, china, and the philippines. there was the overthrow of queen liliuokalani and the u.s. takeover of the hawaiian government, world war ii, and, finally, statehood. the

global warming, particularly with an aircraft that longs to an airline that originates from the south pacifice the whole question of global warming and the rise in sea levels is very important. the second thing is it's also good for business in that the aircraft's and fuel efficiency means that you have reduced costs per seat mile, and, you know, with the keenness that is felt in airfare pricing these days, it gives you the opportunity to actually turn a profit on the business that you're doing. adapting clean technology involves spending more money because it's expensive. what does it mean for the profitability of airlines? you have to invest upfront. the airframe and engine manufacturers are investing upfront. the airlines are investing upfront. the airlines are investing upfront. the airlines are investing in the materials that are investing in the materials that are used within the cabin for the cabin furnishing. now, consumers cabin furnishing. now, consumers are cabin furnishing. now, consumers are becoming more environmentally conscious, is that putting more pressure on the airline inv

king believe the japanese were going to the south pacific and nimitz believed it was midway. he was in the position of explaining to his boss why he was right and his boss was wrong, which he did. the battle itself was commanded by admiral frank kutcher and admiral raymond spruance. it is a battle that came down to the professionalism and skill and valor of the ships complements of our task forces off midway, most notably our aviators suffered tremendous losses, both those who flew from midway and those who flew from the carriers. among those were the members of torpedo squadron 8. they launched 15 aircraft. all 15 were shot down. of 30 crew men, only one survived. only six of 41 torpedo planes returned to an american flight deck. dive bombers also suffered heavily. we are fortunate today to have with us three actual veterans of the battle. i talked to them beforehand and there was a natural chronology to the sequence of their recollections about that event. without further ado, we are going to go to that. i'm going to move through that. we also had scheduled this morning cap

south. the pacific island of bogun still has begun voting in a referendum on independence from pop with new guinea. crowds marched through the streets celebrating the start of the law to vote the ballot will decide when the budget bill will be the world's newest nation. sadi obvious that the people are now at the point of celebration and i join them very much they have every right to celebrate because this is a. full cost of all the beginning of good things to come if we collaborate and work. trust that's something that both parties have. to. now the referendum is the culmination of a long peace process which ended a decade long civil war cost thousands of lives little guys reports from papa new guinea. rugby his lucky religion jackie joseph is running a training session with teenagers and at the same time educating them on issues like violence against women she's returned to her homeland to wook after fleeing the country with her parents during the island's devastating civil war i think it's been quite a journey growing up as a child and being able to to be where i am today the conflict ce

in preparation for doomsday should knock you decided to move her chosen followers to the south pacific island of fiji. and 2014 to celia's mother and now it's she wanted to move there too we made a deal we made a promise that i would go with her. to help her settle. and i would stay there for 2 weeks. her mother and the rest of her family were among the 1st of more than 400 grace road followers to move to speech. while she was there celia witnessed some of shocked juicer men. what was. the truth it's it was weird. not my cup of tea a lot of wheeling a lot of shouting she would. verbally abuse a lot of people are going to call their names. awful names like what i think liar. or things like that. which is not normal for a church service obviously and i was. taken aback. when it came time for cecilia to leave church members tried to convince her to stay but she refused she couldn't wait to get home i actually started packing like the day before and when i went. you know pack my computer my laptop it was gone i realized my passport was gone and that when he started to panic. yeah panicking

you control the solomon islands, goddal camel, you lagy, you control the south pacific. and antarctica and you put pressure on the western half of latin america and affect their relations with the united states. david: there is a military aspect to this and there is also a commercial aspect. in nicaragua they find a way of bribing the public officials which isn't very difficult. it's controlled by danny ortega, then they go in and take out what they want, whether it's mahogany trees and overfish areas that are rich in seafood. >> they are very predatory about pursuing both resources. david: wednesday a speak outlined what this administration is not going to take any more that other administrations have with the way china works. >> today we are timely realizing the degree to which the chinese communist party is truly hostile to the united states and our values. we are able to do that because of the leadership of president trump. david: what's your reaction to that. >> the secretary gave an excellent speech and it will be followed up by more. we are going on the offensive.

and china is increasing its presence in the south pacific while next door in indonesia west pulp was independence movement has led to deadly protests we have many similar situations around papa new guinea where we learn known as are being marginalized by corporate giants coming in and people can see oppression in some book while many are expecting an overwhelming void for independence what that will look like in terms of building an economy and breaking away from any isn't entirely clear yet another step beforehand though it will take place here in paintings pollens where the government will need to approve any outcome reaching mineral wealth and you see this may not be a region popping a guinea we want to easily lose a gauge al-jazeera post must be. the u.s. state department has released records related to its dealings with ukraine the nearly $100.00 page document was made public after a lawsuit by an ethics it confirms multiple contacts between secretary of state marc and donald trump personal lawyer rudy giuliani will be this year it also supports testimony at the impeachment inqu

standing of the process because here it comes at a time when china is increasing its presence in the south pacific one next door in indonesia west pup was independence movement has led to deadly protests. we have many similar situations around papa new guinea where lin known as having mountain lies by corporate giants coming in and people can see oppression in some. while many are expecting an overwhelming void for independence what that will look like in terms of building an economy and breaking away from any isn't entirely clear yet another step beforehand it will take place here in paintings powerman where the government will need to approve any outcome reaching mineral wealth and you see this may not be a region poppen a guinea we want to easily lose a gauge al-jazeera post moves be many of sri lanka's minority tamils as they worried about their future the new president got a bar rajapaksa led the military operations that crossed the tamil separatist movement in the last decade tens of thousands of tamils were killed or disappeared during the 26 year old civil war bernard smith family members

bougainville is currently part of papua new guinea and is situated to the east of the mainland, in the south pacificts own independence in 1975. a previous attempt to break away started a bloody separatist war, in which up to 20,000 people were killed. with the help of international mediation, a peace agreement was signed and the war ended in 1997. it led to the formation of an autonomous government in 2005, and the promise of a non—binding referendum on independence, which is of course happening this weekend. annmaree o'keeffe is from the pacific islands programme at the lowy institute. she's been telling me what happens once the votes are counted. well, once the results of the referendum are known, in fact, there are two parts to the question — one is independence. do you want independence or do you want greater autonomy? at this stage, it is expected that the vast majority will vote for independence and that in part is because there will be civic and social pressure on people to vote that way. remember, the conflict lasted 10 years. it was a very nasty conflict. tens of thousands of people were k

standing of the process because it comes at a time when china is increasing its presence in the south pacific while next door in indonesia west pulp was independence movement has led to deadly protests we have many similar situations around me where. being marginalized by corporate giants coming in and people can see oppression in some book while many are expecting an overwhelming void for independence what that will look like in terms of building an economy and breaking away from any isn't entirely clear yet another step beforehand story will take place here in paintings powerman where the government will need to approve any outcome reaching mineral wealth and you see this may not be a region guinea we want to easily lose gauge 0. thousands of students in india's capital are again protesting against the high cost of campus housing students a. university have been demanding a rollback of fees for $2.00 weeks on monday around $100.00 students were detained during a march towards parliament the demonstrators say the fee increase will make education inaccessible to the entrepreneur. this is al j

you control the solomon islands, goddal camel, you lagy, you control the south pacific. antarctica and you put pressure on the western half of latin america and affect their relations with the united states. david: there is a military aspect to this and there is also a commercial aspect. in nicaragua they find a way of bribing the public officials which isn't very difficult. it's controlled by danny ortega, then they go in and take out what they want, whether it's mahogany trees and overfish areas that are rich in seafood. >> they are very predatory about pursuing both resources. david: wednesday a speak outlined what this administration is not going to take any more that other administrations have with the way china works. >> today we are timely realizing the degree to which the chinese communist party is truly hostile to the united states and our values. we are able to do that because of the leadership of president trump. david: what's your reaction to that. >> the secretary gave an excellent speech and it will be followed up by more. we are going on the offensive. but

understanding of the process be clear it comes at a time when china is increasing its presence in the south pacific one next door in indonesia west pathways independence movement has led to deadly protests we have many similar situations around me we learned owners are being marginalized by corporate giants coming in and people can see or pressure them from. while many are expecting an overwhelming void for independence what that will look like in terms of building an economy and breaking away from any isn't entirely clear yet another step beforehand it will take place here in paintings powerman where the government will need to approve any outcome richey mineral wealth and you see this may not be a region papua new guinea we want to easily lose gauge al-jazeera. says calling the united kingdom an illegal colonial occupier that's all after the u.k. ignored a deadline to return the chair got silence the british foreign and commonwealth office insists the u.k. has every right to keep the islands the un gave britain 6 months to give the archipelago back to militias britain kept the islands after mirag

the banning of public gatherings in some more 6 people have died and hundreds in hospital in the south pacific islands doctors blame the crisis partly on the low rate of vaccination the tour again reports. schools in the samoan capital apia normally full of students at this time of year but since the government declared a state of emergency on saturday public gatherings are banned instead parents are being told to urgently vaccinate their children to protect them from a measles epidemic that's sweeping the pacific island nation so far more than 700 cases of measles have been reported out of a population of 200000 the records are now as we look forward. for us we really need to have new source cover it's improved because this may not be the only outbreak there's been a resurgence of measles around the world cases more than doubled between 20172018 the world health organization blames the spread of misinformation on social media about vaccines health officials in samoa say only 66 percent of the population is immunized against measles that figure needs to increase to 95 percent to ensure herd im

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south. people on the pacific island of. voting in a referendum to decide whether to become independent from papua new guinea crowds marched through the streets celebrating the start of the long awaited referendum is the culmination of a long peace process which ended a decade long civil war that led to the deaths of thousands of people they call a gauge report stuff from port moresby. rugby his lucky religion jackie joseph is running a training session with teenagers and at the same time educating them on issues like violence against women she's returned to her homeland to work after fleeing the country with her parents during the island's devastating civil war i think it's been quite a journey growing up as a child in and being able to to be where i am today the conflict centered around pangaea you know a huge copa and gold mine many locals felt their resources were being exploited. unrest and subsequent fighting between the bogan field revolutionary army and p. and g. forces led to a full blown war an estimated 20000 peop

standing of the process because here it comes at a time when china is increasing its presence in the south pacific while next door in indonesia west pulp was independence movement has led to deadly protests we have many similar situations around me were. being marginalized by corporate giants coming in and people can see oppression in some book while many are expecting an overwhelming void for independence what that will look like in terms of building an economy and breaking away from any isn't entirely clear yet another step beforehand story will take place here in paintings powerman where the governments will need to approve any outcome reaching mineral wealth and you see this may not be a region papua new guinea we want to easily lose gauge al-jazeera. great to be able to look at such an underreported story of what catherine with some with us now a journalist in canberra focuses on pacific island issues thanks for your time katherine this is important isn't it the fact that they've built this up through the peace process and now actually get to the point where i believe 2 thirds of those eligib

before they get to the main villain it's like, "lev parnas, arms dealer, eaten by a shark in the south pacificght laughter ] igor fruman, drug trafficker, accidentally electrocuted after putting his [ bleep ] in a socket in kiev [ laughter and applause that's the photo from before that happened. [ laughter and applause well, now -- now they've been arrested, one of them is basically begging to flip on rudy and the president and the house intelligence committee is reportedly already in possession of audio, and video recording and photographs provided to the committee by lev parnas the material submitted to the committee includes audio, video, and photos that include giuliani and trump. that's right, they have aungrei investigators who have to sit down and listen to recordings of rudy giuliani. i mean, these are investigators who probably clerk for judges and high-powered law firms and they'll have to spend their holidays sifting through the ramblings of this lunatic. >> shut up, moron! >> okay. >> shut up shut up! you don't know what you're talking about! >> forget the whistle-blower, we have t

nawaz: the trash is mostly coming from what's called the south pacific garbage patch, an ermous swirli vortex of marine debris, swept up in ocean currents, and collected into a trash mass one and a half times the size of texas. that patch was discovered in 2017, 20 years after scientists discovered the great pacific patc two swirling masses of debris, three times the size of france. on the shores of eastersland, ana maria gutierrez does what she can to organize beach cleans. gutierrez: it's depressing, because you find all bkinds of plastics, frys to shoes, even car parts, everything. it's like a dump but in the ocean. it just arrives. but the worst is that because the waves hit the coast, the bigger plastics get smaller and smaller and it is very difficult to remove them because you have tmove very big rocks along the coast and the trash just gets inserted in them. and it's becomin part of nature. paoa: the world is trashing the, the ocean. and that trash, we are receiving it in r coasts, i. in rapa it's like someone putting a gun in your head and telling you, you must receive that. n

i found some kilometers further south on the pacific coast that's a one kilometer long pool filled withfiltered sea water and heated to $26.00 degrees celsius built is no alternative to the natural beach just next to it the running costs around 300000 here i say yeah and the enormous swimming pool is clearly a hit several other countries also have one. germany's biggest ports is the destination for many large container ships like this one which can carry 20600 containers. even bigger container ships are being built but not everyone sees the need like comeback senator for economics michelle best talk amount. of home as the reality of the reasons are easy to explain the infrastructure of the ports would have to. being rebuilt to accommodate the huge ships the key walls would need to be fortified it would be a huge infrastructural undertaking of 3 and then there's the other question what's the optimal ship size and if load of fuel or read i think many of today's shipowners have realized that the optimum capacity is actually between 14 and 18000 containers because then the ship's consumptio

impact on airlines well obviously it's not good because hong kong for not just the cathay pacific but also for south african airways malaysia's an asia group all the big airlines of the regions for them hong kong is the major destination and they've all had to come to flights due to the drop in passenger numbers in fact the hong kong airport authority reported for october a 13 percent drop in passenger numbers and a more than 6 percent drop in flights coming in and out and that's the steepest falls since those undress the political turmoil in hong kong began the good news is because there's a downside to cutting flights the good news is that all those airlines won't immediately lose the air slots which normally would happen if you don't use them and that will be a problem because a it's very difficult to get an asphalt in hong kong airports because they lack capacity they're building a 3rd runway but that won't go into operation until the 2024 so the hong kong civil aviation departments and suspend the so-called usage or roosted rule until march which is the end of the winter season that gives the a

cross portions of the u.s., a bulk of the shower activity tonight and portions of the south and east end up in the pacific northwest we have some cloud cover approaching. a good portion in california now in the clear you can see the holiday lights up right now, the live camera also looking out toward san francisco bay and the clear for tonight. here is your weekend forecast we are expecting the saturday patchy morning fog, hazy sunshine and temperatures resembling the highs we had today, 60s to run around 70 degrees. pretty much the same deal into sunday. on the weekend temperature start off chile and denies recovery into the afternoon but look what happens, we are expecting a significant change in the weather pattern out this weekend and even monday is dry but look what happens tuesday. increasing rain chance and a very cold system, this will translate to rein in the bay area and significant sierra snow that will impact travel in the mountains. we will talk more about this weather pattern in your full forecast in just a little bit.>>> federal health officials have any warning about romaine lettuce. the f

planning, ambassador to the people's republic of china and assistant secretary of state for south east asia and pacific affairs part he conducted several hours of oral histories of dr. kissinger on behalf of the nixon foundation. he conducted several hours of oral history on behalf of the nixon foundation and the collection of interviews cover a variety of subject matter. strategy andership this highly readable book called kissinger on kissinger: reflections on diplomacy, grand strategy, and leadership. it is available for purchase at our museum store. ambassador lord will be interviewed by dr. frank gannon. he obtained his masters degree at the london school of economics and doctorate at oxford. he worked with churchill to write the definitive biography of his father, winston churchill. a -- in 1974, he left washington to california aboard air force one following the early resignation on president nixon's best-selling memoir. nixon.rviewed president they are all available in digital format. we will see some of these videos in the presentation tonight. hewitt visited in new york city, knowing that --as

south china sea, the northwest pacific in the situation of ukraine one of the things he was doing isthe eu started this by forcing membership of ukraine into the eu and actually talking about nato membership where is the eu's money, if we're given money forearms where is the european union and nato's money and by the way, for a young, standup comedian, who runs on an anti-corruption platform, the president of the united states is trying to sit there and make sure we don't have additional corruption and the united states particularly hasn't brought the biden type of corruption to the ukraine so if adam schiff is going to sit there and argue that joe biden is above the law, hunter biden is above the law, the bidens have to be called. joe biden is a hand grenade and hunter biden is the pin, and when that pin gets pulled the shrapnel is going to blow back all over the democratic establishment. maria: even more than that we're going to speak with congressman jim jordan coming up and speak with michael flynn's attorney, sidney powell, and lee smith who wrote the book, the plot against the

this low pressure system from the pacific northwest will drop south and our temperatures will cool down. winds will pick up late tuesday, wednesday and into early thursday. the timing, tuesday at 11:00 p.m. and the wind offshore starts to pick up. then through wednesday, this is at 6:00 a.m. on wednesday, those strong winds especially in the north bay mountains and here we are wednesday at 9 p.m. watching that very closely for elevions that high fire danger. today we're looking at highs well, above average for this time of year. we did break some records yesterday. could do it all hill later in low 70s for san francisco, berkeley and oakland. extended forecast. cooling it down by tomorrow. the winds will pick up for wednesday. quiet weather for the end of the week and weekend and temperatures near average. >>> thank you. a disease that started killing off trees in the 1990s is making a return. sudden oak death is partly due to the wet erwin ters we have had the last couple of years. the numbers are up dramatically. the disease is a fungal path though jen so it loves water and the heavy

parts of the pacific northwest but it will quickly dive south into the bay area into tomorrow.o we have a little while longer to prepare for the rain. in the rest of the day we'll see mostly sunny skies and gusty winds. and we start to see the rain moving in by early tomorrow noon in the north bay and it does come with cold air so it does start out with snow in the higher elevations in the north bay and into the rest of the bay area, heavy rain developing by tomorrow evening and gusty winds. so this is the first significant storm system since may 18th. so we are getting ready. the last few hours beforehi abo the major travel could have across the ba asree approach thanksgiving, how much rain we'll see and how much snow the sierra will get coming up in a few minutes. >> sounds good. >>> and here is a great thing to keep with you on the go. download our nbc bay area app and take our radar with you wherever you a go. suspect in halloween mass shooting appeared in court this morning. one of two suspects now in custody connected to the case. sharon katsuda was in the court in martin

they move from canada to the pacific and south america that would that is what we are most frightened about because they deposit presents when they go along that is subject to consumption by livestock so that is an issue that causes us great inks to. >> let me recognize mister gonzalez. >> thank you for all your work program in a new father and an 18 -month-old son and obviously the flu with respect to our children is near and dear to my heart. according to the wall street journal article it is estimated over 27000 children ages four and younger were hospitalized and 118 died during the 2017 and 18 flu season. troubling for any parent and all those immunization levels are high they do still exist and providers can do more so according to the cdc fewer than 70 percent of healthcare providers receive the vaccine. >> there another study to identify to have patients vaccinated that the healthcare providers are promoting the vaccine as well. the more you are in an academic hospital to have upwards of 90 percent and with the repair facility those are not vaccinated but clearly want to get t

low pressure continues to spin off the south land and the high pressure is out there in the eastern pacifice's not enough oomph in the systems to overreach the high. they will get some rain up in seattle. but, rain just doesn't reach down here to the bay area. tomorrow morning as the sunday begins, the numbers will be near 50 degrees around the bay. and some patchy fog. sun is up at 6:44 a.m. you won't see it for a couple of hours until the low clouds burn off. so, the fog and the clouds return tonight. temperatures will warm to near 80 degrees inland tomorrow. as far as the computer models can see, there is not rain in sight. a lot of ice skating opportunities. thinking of something fun to do for the weekend, the embarcadero and union square. veteran's day parade a day early at fisherman's wharf is tomorrow. sfo looking pretty good. fog, clouds, a high of 64 in chicago. bundle up. 41 degrees is the high under cloudy skies. 48 for san rafael. 48 concord tonight. tomorrow, the numbers look nice. a little warmer than average with concord all the way up to 77 degrees. 75 in san jose. down on t

high pressure off the pacific northwest is coupled with the low pressure down south and that is giving an easterly flow inland. that easterly flow will keep the temperatures inland, warm, maybe a degree or two warmer tomorrow. and along the shoreline, northerlies will take over. very dry direction, scouring the shoreline of any low clouds, sunny at the beaches at 70 degrees. as we head out tomorrow, sun up tomorrow morning at 6:38 a.m., 22 minutes before 7:00 with the adjustments in the going away of daylight saving time and the return. and they are visible for the next few hours any way, pretty psyched. no big changes and yeah, that is the flip side of that with no rain on the way either. we will begin to ramp up. the potential for rain beginning in november for the bay area and at this moment none in site. 71 in san francisco, 78 in concord. 77 degrees in san jose and oakland 73. down in the south bay the numbers will be in the mid to upper 70s. santa clara nice, 77 degrees. down 101 to morgan hill. over the east bay, plenty of sunshine tomorrow after a chilly start. we will be in th