fuji. >> reporter: mount fuji momma has plenty of photos >> fuji mama is most likely having a good day today. people in tokyo and surrounding areas are enjoying sunny, clear skies and signs of spring. >> hello to spring here in tokyo. let me first show up a video from a couple of places and to yesterday where temperatures rose to about 21 degrees speeding up the blooming process here. that cherry blooms first appeared last saturday, ten ds earlier than usual. people got out to enjoy the beautiful scenery on this and the flowers are expected to be in full bloom this coming sat. what a beautiful view with the new building. that's the sky tree in the back. moving to the satellite picture. bad news with the winter coming back to northern japan. it's a very different story here yet again with wintry pressure pattern kicking in here with gusts reaching about 122 kilometers per hour. 30 centimeters of snow is falling. the rest of the country is feeling this gusty conditions. we can still eny the flower season all the way up to may. it should start blooming in a few days. already tokyo has bee

we have a, uh, fuji apple from, uh, gold bug farm, placerville. we're gonna just--ooh. just slice that. nice and thin. we have some belgian endive. wanna just make sure to cut 'em in half and cut the core out. we're gonna slice across. do, uh, one more half. it's about an endive and a half per salad. now we have a fennel bulb. we're gonna cut just across, very thin. important to cut the fennel really thin. then we're gonna go to our bowl, put everything in. now we're gonna add some shallot, fine herbs. it's a, uh, herb blend that we use here quite a bit. it's tarragon, chervil, parsley, and chive. this is, uh, chef's blue cheese. it's aged in the sierra nevada, real nice blue cheese. champagne vinaigrette. just drizzle a little in there. then we'll season it with some fresh black pepper, little kosher salt, and just give it-- give it a good mix, make sure the apples aren't all stuck together. then we'll go to our plate. you wanna plate it in stages so that you can kind of build up a little bit of height. yet letting it fall naturally wherever it--wherever it tends to go

as soon as i took it out, fuji comes in and they want to take the space.said no we're not going to do that. it was a financial issue in certain respects but i think it paid for itself over time. >> rose: paul goldberger wrote the real brilliance of the place is the way in which it confirms of the virtues of the urban ensemble. penn station was built mainly to send a message about the spleppeddor or arrival, grand central was to make clear the choreography of connection. does that resonate with you? >> i think absolutely. from buying food at the food market, to buying pens to write with, to bookstores because you can-- even though the train hurries you up for a schedule, it also slows you down. the train is not leaving for 30 minutes. of course one of the great things about grand central that hasn't been remarked on, the new penn station and the the old one didn't have as many traction. there are 40-something tracks on one level, and another 20, so there are 60-some-odd railroad traction. at penn station, you have to stand in the main lobby and look up to s

>> fuji collect two sacred payback to this chicago, primarily female who were treated between 1967 and 71 where they were working and they started off by p. underground network to help women find providers and they themselves learned how to provide abortion care and became providers. i haven't seen anything that formalized. i can't say anecdotally from people i worked with. we would joke and seriously talk about how we all knew, here are the herbs you can use and i remember there is talk about getting in portion best together into a state to state to provide abortions, which would legally be a nightmare. but i think activists on a more individual level are thinking about that. as far as anything formal, nothing i've heard us. >> i haven't had about the subject to whole lot. i have three children and five grandchildren. having any of my three children are poor today sent thing in retrospect i would be impossible to live without being. how do you deal with the morality? you make it sound as if you're going to have a tooth extracted or sent in. i googled this before i came. how many abort

possibility of chemicals but also for eventuallies, the loss of control, heavier defense weapons, receive fuji or human refugee or humanitarian. we have a number of plans and a number of partners to help us figure this out. >> two questions. one is -- at the time of the attention going around the global in middle east and asia and you have vast experience of foreign policy of so many years on the hill dealing with the same issues. my question is, u.s. budget is going down and china is spending in he areas, especially south asia. w much do you think china is dangering u.s. security and the regional issues or the regional nations in south asia and also in asia, especially india's fear of china's expansion? also, secretary kerry just came back from afghanistan and you have been there, sir. you have been in the region and what do you think now -- the people are asking what is their future after nato or the u.s. leaves the region? what will be the future also -- the role of india in the region, sir? >> india is an important country and will continue to be an important power, not just in the region