with more on that, we are joined by meteorologist ed curran from our chicago station wbbm-tv. good morning to you, he'd. >> reporter: good morning, demarco. what a welcome to spring with snow maybe in the middle east east. rain in the south, southeast. we have lots of rain moving toward florida and future cast shows the rain that moves in here gives us a marginal chance for severe storms as we move through the day in central florida. now to the northeast. what is headed that way as we head into sunday, especially sunday night into monday. this low is tracking well off the coast and pretty warm temperatures, so very few people will see any amount of really disruptive snow. most of it light snow. winter storm watch for parts of massachusetts and rhode island. >> i don't know. all snow right now feels a little disruptive. thank you, ed curran. >>> kurdish forces are gaining ground and forcing isis to pull back in north iraq. this week the kurd captured an american who joined the islamic state and said now, quote, he made a bad decision. khweis is one of 200 who tried to join isis

>> meteorologist ed curran, thanks. >>> astronaut scott kelly is retiring. he returned to earth last week after almost a year at the international space station. he holds the american record for most time spent in space. 520 days over four missions. kelly's retirement from nasa takes effect april 1st. >> on facebook kelly made clear he intends to stay involved in space exploration. he wrote the following on facebook. >> congratulations on an extraordinary career. >>> quarterback johnny manziel is looking for a new job! him after two poor seasons. the former heisman trophy winner has had several problems on and off the field. alleged domestic violence incident in texas and he could face criminal charges. his future in the nfl is uncertain. >>> this is a big weekend for men's college basketball. march madness is about to begin. last night, some of the top teams in the country were battling to win a spot in the ncaa tournaments. the completion of the remaining conference tournament this weekend will decide who gets vied invited to the big dance. >> no pressure.

thank you, ed curran. >>> kurdish forces are gaining ground and forcing isis to pull back in north iraq. this week the kurd captured an state and said now, quote, he made a bad decision. khweis is one of 200 who tried to join isis and fight with them over the past year. jeff pegues has more. >> reporter: mohammed khweis is one of the few foreign isis fighters we know of to walk out of isis-held territory alive. >> i didn't agree with their ideology. >> reporter: he is a prisoner of the kurds and being interviewed by the fbi a world away from the washington, d.c. suburb where he grew up in this townhouse. he said his parents immigrated from the palestinian territories. his father a limo driver, he says he has spoken to the state department and the fbi about his son. >> i have nothing to say! >> reporter: he graduate in 2007 norm guy. >> he wasn't an outcast or anything like that. >> reporter: aaron says growing up, mohammed was known as mo or mike. >> there wasn't anything to lead me to believe that this was on the radar that he is just going to join isis. >> reporter: but khweis did joi

rishaad: enda curran, right. we are looking at where the world's best selling beer and the biggest beer market combined to make a heady cocktail. after this break, apple versus the u.s. government. an official says the company can't be allowed to make the rules on privacy for everyone. an interview with attorney general loretta lynch is next. rishaad: you are back with "asia edge." u.s. attorney general loretta lynch has challenged apple's refusal to unlock a dead terrorist's iphone. earlier, lawmakers in washington heard arguments from both sides. the phone encryption issue has pitted the tech industry against the government. >> there are no demons in this debate. the companies are not evil. the government is not evil. you have a lot of people who see the world through different lenses, who care about the same things. the companies care about the public safety. we devote our lives to stop people from stealing our innovation, our secrets, and hacking into our devices. we care about the same things. >> if what hap

thank you, ed curran. >>> kurdish forces are gaining ground and forcing isis to pull back in north iraq. this week the kurd captured an american who joined the islamic state and said now, quote, he made a bad decision. khweis is one of 200 who tried to join isis and fight with them over the past year. jeff p ideology. >> reporter: h being interviewe by the fbi a world away from the washington, d.c. suburb where he grew up in this townhouse. he said his parents immigrated from the palestinian territories. his father a limo driver, he says he has spoken to the state department and the fbi about his son. >> i have nothing to say! >> reporter: he graduate in 2007 where friends describe him as a norm guy. >> he wasn't an outcast or anything like that. >> reporter: aaron says growing up, mohammed was known as mo or mike. >> there wasn't anything to lead me to believe that this was on to join isis. know why and how. >> our daily life was basically prayer, eating, and learning about the religion for about eight hours. >> reporter: khweis told kurdish tv he did not see other amerifo fighters. th

ed curran at chicago station wbbm-tv, thanks. >>> nancy reagan is once again husband, the former first lady's life was celebrated on friday by a thousand guests, including first lady michelle obama, former bush, and three former first ladies at the funeral, the ceremony, and the . here likely wouldn't have been a president ronald reagan without a nancy reagan. >> reporter: close friend and family honoring nancy reagan say the onetime actress and first lady may best be remembered as a devoted wife. >> ronald and nancy reagan were for each other. they were as close to being one person as it is possible for any two people to be. thousand guests, including first lady michelle obama and representatives from nine former white house families, gathered to honor mrs. reagan.patti and ron, paid tribute to their mother and their parents' loving 52-year marriage. >> my parents were two halves ofd tight around a each other was the only sus tennance they needed. y may have gone far but, together, they could and did go anywhere. >> reporter: while president reagan passed away more than a decade ago,

david begnaud, thank you. storms expected today from meteorologist ed curran from wbb >> good morning. we continue to watch the rains moving in through louisiana and into mississippi as well. and we are going to see more of this as we go through today and into tomorrow. the flood threat continues with the runoff and 1 to 2 inches of additional rain for that area. northwest, relentless rain continues there. rains at the lower elevation' snow to the upper elevations. rain here and winter storm watch and high winds and winds to 60 miles an hour and snow in the mountains two to three feet. >> meteorologist ed curran at chicago station wbbm-tv, thanks. >>> nancy reagan is once again alongside her beloved husband, the former first lady's life was celebrated on friday by a thousand guests, including first lady michelle obama, former three former first ladies at the reagan presidential library in southern california. ben tracy has more on the funeral, the ceremony, and the legacy of nancy reagan. . >> there likely wouldn't have been a president ronald reagan without a nancy reagan. >> reporte

for more let's bring in enda curran. and the, good morning. , good morning. the difficulties in determining data. andreas: because of the week long -- enda: because of the week long -- that applies to export numbers. part of the issue is not just the factory shut down for a week , the base of fact is skewed. lunararner halt -- the holiday was at the beginning of february. this year it came at the start of the month. , i think theaid feeling that numbers are still pretty downbeat goes to show you the challenge ahead for the policymakers in china. art of the story is just about week global demand -- weak global demand as exchange rate. yet look at japan, europe, the u.s., they are buying less of chinese gold. this is been a trend for a number of months now. even after the yuan has weakened, that is not a good signal for the demand for chinese goods. when you have a weak number like this number on the goes to show you that it would take really significant exchange rates devaluations for china to broker the export side of things. in the near term, when you author

. >> the show will be held at the curran theater, a top venue for students performing at the p pinnacle of their days in school. >> this is what it's like, to watch their minds wrap around that, that's the real joy of being a teacher. >> a movie known to many, now a musical here unlike anything you've ever seen. ian cole, nbc bay area news. >> okay, i've got to go to high school, i've got to go to this school and be in this production. >> i can see it right now. just maybe a story doing that. we got to get you on stage, a different kind of stage besides the anchor desk. >> let's look at that morning forecast. as that comes up, we have rainfall chances, not only on saturday with heavy rain but also into sunday as well. as we get a look at the morning forecast, we do have rainfall coming on back but it's a scattered chance here. 50 in the north bay and mid 50s expected for the south bay. want to spend time for our futurecast. and it seems for tomorrow morning the best chance of any kind of rainfall would likely be down here towards san jose, morgan hill and gilroy. once we hit saturday, t

. >> john curran is head of rgg, the downtown project's housing-development arm. >> here we've got gluttonich is sort of a gourmet-comfort-food concept. and right next door, it's got vegenation, which is an all vegan, or plant-powered, as they call it, restaurant. >> ♪ fremont street just can't be beat ♪ ♪ when lady luck shines on me >> downtown las vegas area had long been blighted, but they didn't want to disneyfy old vegas, so on the outside, the old vegas vibe remains, while the inside is completely transformed. >> so, john e. carson was a 64-unit extended-stay residence hotel. each of the units was like 10'x10'. it had a sink and a closet in it and a shared toilet. >> the old john e. carson hotel may look the same as it has for decades on the outside, but it is now the home of new stores like the doughnut store. >> this very cool, kitsch, retro kind of design doughnut shop that has the best doughnuts in town. >> if there's something standing and in good shape, like the john e. carson was, we're really not going to tear it apart and reassemble it, so you get this sort of collision of t

francine: enda curran, let's get more on antonio garcia pascual. have bad loans.ed to make sure that the authorities managing -- credit crunch. back to credit boom this month. , a lighterime proportion of bad loans are generated. they should clean out the balance sheet. problem ofte of the those bad borrowers. they have capacity to deal with the issue. they had the money and fire fire -- fire power. [indiscernible] will be a problem for growth going forward. the heavy measures to deal with it. significant -- for now -- francine: will they do it back oh are they on top of it? -- do it? are they on top of it? think they have no choice. right now, the market [indiscernible] there will be further drop in profits reported. francine: is this systemic? how big are they compared to the rest of the world economy? antonio: potentially this is an issue. they have the resources to deal with it. i don't think you're going to see a massive credit crunch. the economy decelerating rapidly and -- rapidly. large.blem has to be all economies with credit booms, including asia. , it i

. >> reporter: supervisors avalos, campos, kim, and curran remain silent.o oversee the city sunshine laws failed to respond to me after saying that they would. we'll stay on it. reporting live, tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. >> tom, at this point do we know is it okay for them to use that app or not? >> reporter: only for those communications which the law allows. for example, ancillary things where you're just setting up meetings or stuff like that or personal stuff, they can use that like anybody else. but when it is city business, it is city business, and that is subject to all the rules and regulations of the sunshine laws, and the thing that's really disturbing is, those four supervisors didn't think enough of this inquiry from myself and others to answer the question. >> tom vy karen san francisco tonight, thank you. >>> a livermore high school went into lockdown today after school administrators received an anonymous threat. the principal at grow understood da high school told students to shelter in place at 8:30 this morning. students and staff members

enda curran joins us from hong kong. how do these figures, these data of the week, playing into all of that? enda: like you say, we are getting a decent read on how china's economy has started 2016. notwithstanding seasonal , it is an disappointing start by all accounts. we are seeing sluggishness in an area where we were hoping for traction. hading into this year, we interest rate cuts, heavy fiscal stimulus, and a sweep of measures by the central banks trying to get lending and credit loans through the economy. retail sales are heading .ackwards some silver lining on residential's real estate sales, they are picking up there. vonnie: we never heard from governor zhou much before. how much influence does he have on you collect bank governors and business leaders in china? enda: he is a very powerful man. we are seeing more of him, and that is a deliberate strategy on their behalf, both to improve communications and sell a message. china is selling a message of stability. over the weekend, he was trying to maybe manage e

. >> john curran is head of rgg, the downtown project's housing-development arm. >> here we've got gluttonich is sort of a gourmet-comfort-food concept. and right next door, it's got vegenation, which is an all vegan, or plant-powered, as they call it, restaurant. >> ♪ fremont street just can't be beat ♪ ♪ when lady luck shines on me >> downtown las vegas area had long been blighted, but they didn't want to disneyfy old vegas, so on the outside, the old vegas vibe remains, while the inside is completely transformed.arson was a 64-unit extended-stay residence hotel. each of the units was like 10'x10'. it had a sink and a closet in it and a shared toilet. >> the old john e. carson hotel may look the same as it has for decades on the outside, but it is now the home of new stores like the doughnut store. >> this very cool, kitsch, retro kind of design doughnut shop that has the best doughnuts in town. >> if there's something standing and in good shape, like the john e. carson was, we're really not going to tear it apart and reassemble it, so you get this sort of collision of the old and new. >

and adrianna curran.rday, ted cruz's words were just -- the gloves are off, if they were still on, i guess we could say. should he be taking this on another day? this feud over donald trump and his wife? >> i think ted cruz has every right to defend his wife pip would like to see more republicans defend women from these sexist attacks that donald trump launches almost on a nearly daily basis. the first big question, megyn kelly asked fox about the sexist things trump has said. he blew up. he continues to play it up every sipgle day. this is not a shtick. this is who donald trump is. republicans can't stand on the sidelines and allow this man to continue the vile attacks. they shauld say, hey, if you have a mother, sister, wife, you have an obligation to say this is not okay. and hold donald trump to a higher standard. >> are you ready for trump to move on? >> oh, absolutely. i think we should move on. where we should move to is the "national enquirer" story that says ted cruz has had affairs with five mis

through what is going to happen in hong kong, we're joined by chief asia economic correspondent, enda curran rating, if we look at it in dollar and the yuan terms, it does not bode well. the market seems to be batting it away. -- fill ushere it in. enda: we are in a pattern here where we are getting no end to the negative drift on china's economy. a circuit getting breaker to suggest china's economy has hit a hard landing. at the same time, we're getting some stability on the markets. in terms of what is happening on the shanghai comes in exchange. -- shanghai composite exchange. sentiment on the currency exchange rate is very fragile. the feeling that he could turn at any point. of course on the underlying economy, there is a sense that it has turned a corner, even after a year-long campaign of heavy stimulus lifting. direct spending by the government. the overall story on china continues to feed into this one outlook -- the reading you mentioned. china has yet to turn a corner. downbeat. anna: the npc me to get this weekend. over going to get clear as how the government is going to? this j

francine: enda curran.tephen, when you look at china, i know you weren't surprised by what chair yellen said, but it was clear she was mentioning china. saying we need to make sure foreign economies stabilize. this is her talking about china. tom talks about the fact that it is now coming to the perception of investors in the u.s. based on the turmoil in january, we saw all the concern about outflows. is at stabilizing? >> i think it is. the .2 would make is that the chinese economy is transitioning tha from one focusing on manufacturing output to one that is service sector. yes, it is stabilizing, but the amount of that or how much stabilization there is is unknown. the first important thing is what is the impact on the u.s. economy. second, what does it mean ?or commodity exporters the point we would make is that if china's transition to a service victor driven economy -- a service sector driven economy, that's good for china, but not for exporters. another thing we would have here , in addition to the ri

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joining us at post nine, bayer's senior vice president ray curran. >> good to see you again. >> strongere from the governor, demagoguery. how would react to that? >> we believe this is bigger than north carolina. this has to do what society as a whole and america stands for. we don't believe in any level of discrimination or impact on equality on our employees. we work hard to make sure our policies and procedures in the united states are equal across the board to all of our organizations we have and all the people who work for us. >> what are you saying to local states? talk us through the conversation happening behind closed doors. >> let's take it outside the closed doors, that's where it needs to be. this has to be about dialogue. this can't be pushing a bill through within 12 hours. we have a strong presence down in north carolina. thousands of employees and their family part of the community. for us, when we look at this question of whether you'll pull up stakes and leave, exact opposite. we want to have a dialogue to say let's make sure you have all the information correct. this

[inaudible conversations] >> press secretary josh curran is finishing up today's white house briefing. reporters asking questions about the economy and the latest job numbers. president obama spoke about that just a while ago. the president offering remarks earlier today. >> everybody all set? i thought it might be useful to take a small break from the spectacle of the political season and now i gather oj, to focus on something that really matters to the american people, and that is how is the economy doing and how is it affecting their lives. this morning we learned that the u.s. economy has created 242000 jobs last month. that's two months in a row as the unemployment rate below 5%, and over the past three months our workforce has grown by 1.5 million people. that is progress. overall, the american business has now created new jobs for 72 straight months. six straight years of job creation. 14.3 million new jobs. and factor businesses have created jobs every single month since i signed that job killing obamacare bill. think about this. if somebody had told the seven years ago that w

for more, we go to end a curry -- enda curran from hong kong. anything new in this for you?nda: we know it the chinese debt story is. it is still a timely reminder of the challenges china is facing. the pace of the debt held up has been a concern. since 2008 it is grown to two point five times the size of the economy. bad loans and the bank balance sheet added 10 year high. they'll act as a drag on growth. the s&p is whining woman because -- is warning, because they do not think it is going along as smoothly as expected. they don't think china can pull this off. it will be a balancing act for china to make sure it hits his growth target of 6.5% and manages to contain its debt while at the same time unleashing fiscal spending. the focus?t i do not understand the s&p questioning the growth numbers. if something goes wrong, they will not give them the flexibility to deal with it. there is not a crisis in china. -- government that the government debt levels are 40% of gdp. china has room to spend if they need to. there are risks. hurt0 year high will economic growth. you do not