we have a view from western tokyo on monday, low angle in the sky, you could see this, diamond fuji.autiful. it's when the sun sets up just over the crater of fuji there and it looks kinda like a diamond on top of a ring, absolutely gorgeous sight for people that got to view that. now, if we pull back the picture, that cold air and the low angle of the sun is causing problems in northeastern china. that's keeping things stable up there into beijing and the problem is, we have a widespread haze and still the red alerts issued, school was closed on wednesday. especially kinder gearten and elementary schools across the city. scattered showers into shanghai and over towards taipei as well. let's take a look across to europe, where we have several areas we're watching. first i want to mention the area that's getting decent weather today, albeit cold, that's eastern europe. high pressure sufficieitting he keeping it settled. if you look back towards the west, we have this low moving through the mediterranean, and that's making for some rather unsettled conditions out there. the strongest p

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the flavor is almost like a red honey crisp apple mixed in with the fuji apple. when you by the slavers, look for colors like this all the way around. make sure the skin is free from any shriveling. when you bring them home, throw them in the refrigerator right away. the green dragon apple, if you've never tried one, give them a try. ,, >>> we went undercover here to hear the pitch.>> it is great. it is specifically for storage.>> would be illegal for their employees to push an insurance policy that the company is profiting from? >> no.>> expect more. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, near friday's deadly warehouse fire. let's go back to >>> 30 minutes ago, officials announced that pg&e is shutting down power near the deadly warehouse fire. let's go back to anne makovec for more on where things stand right now. >> reporter: i just heard from the alameda county sheriff's who said this is one of the most horrific things that he has ever had to deal with in his career. chopper 5 above the scene where the recovery effort has resumed . it was put on hold for about nine hours last nigh

taking a look at shares in tokyo fuji films up about a third of one percent.retty much flat for takeda. takeda may take more time before it can decide on a buyer. sources say the short listed companies are embarking on a more thorough review of the company. takata was initially hoping to find a buyer and finalize restructuring by the end of the year. sources say key safety systems are top of the list at the moment. we broke this earlier. the yield in japan's 10-year government bond is at the highest level since the b.o.j. introduced negative rate policy in january. let's bring in the head of asia investment strategy at hsbc here in the studio. happy friday. >> take a look at the yield we saw on the 10-year jgb right now. the boj was doing a relatively good job when it came to keeping that yield at zero percent until what happened with the fed. so what are we going to do now? will the yields continue to go up? >> a challenge from policy divergence is going to add pressure on central bank in europe and japan and now the b.o.j. will come under pressure to buy mor

through in the six-year civil war that has left hundreds of thousands dead and triggered a refuse fuji crisis accrues europe. >> a baltimore moon what was the subject of at very popular serial podcast series will be in jail as he awaits trial. he was sentenced to life in jail 16 years ago for the cleaves his high school girlfriend. the first season of serial, which has been downloaded millions of times, raised a number of questions about the strength of the prosecution's case. over the summer, a judge overturned his conviction and ordered a few knew trial. >> a bay area man is being called a hero after coming to the aid of a teenager near south lake talbert. he was visiting family member nbc the lake talbert area when he spotted a 13-year-old boyed who just fallen through some thin ice. the teenager said he was facing a very dangerous situation when the man rushed to pull him out of that freezing water. >> i would try to get up out of the hole, and ice would keep breaking under my hands, and i wasn't able to get up. >> he saw me and yells to me, help me please, and at hat point be, i g

this is the seventh generation head of the fuji honka brewery. he's been committed to making high quality sake his entire life. but with domestic sake consumption down to less than a third of his peak 50 years ago, that's no longer enough. >> translator: people's lifestyles and eating habits have changed. i think we have to react to that and move on to a different stage. >> reporter: fujii set his sights on new territories in asian countries that have been enjoying rapid economic growth. he wanted to grow his business abroad, but also to keep his brewery's good reputation. that meant making some adjustments. >> translator: people in asia eat rice regularly. so our sake could become popular in the region. we hope to expand our sales by entering markets for asian countries. >> reporter: in order to produce sake that appeals to other parts of asia, fujii first teamed up with a local university. this professor of sheega university agreed to help fujii figure out new strategies. they began by surveying tourists and foreign students about their preferr

to us, it was the land of fuji,, of cherry trees, of exquisite gardens, geisha girls, picturesque peasantsned japan to the western world. they had bought our machines, copied our architecture, our clothes, our popular music, and had even adopted our games, although they marched to the baseball diamond as men marching to war. ♪ [speaking japanese] narrator: and they said they played ball to build their bodies for war. americans knew little of that might of japan. japan we thought was only an imitator. true, they had a navy, makeshift we said, and the japanese carefully fostered the legend their men couldn't fly their imitation planes. and yet, imitation or not, the weapons of war were manned. and the warriors of japan, still breathing the samurai in the era of machines adopted western , methods of warfare, as they had adopted western they had adopted western clothes and architecture and music. and the japanese warriors clung to the conflict of asia, and then to the world. and their emperor invoked the blessings of the divine upon this dream. ♪ ♪ narrator: italy, too, had dreams of empire. s

the japanese people think in terms of sumo, calm, peaceful, serene, like their volcano mount fuji withbut even as they hammered their homefront into shape, the gentlemen of japan were softening up the rest of the world for their tanaka plan. to every country marked for conquest, they sent their agents army officers posing as , laborers, shop keepers, gardeners. along the coast, officers of the imperial japanese navy masquerading as fishermen piloted tiny boats, sending signals. they fished for pearls off the south pacific islands. they fished for tuna off the coast of california. they made some good hauls. other japanese traveled widely as tourists, photographing the sites of honolulu and seattle. something to show the folks back home. still others went to work in barbershops, strange barbers who didn't talk. all this information was collected, studied, filed away, in tokyo. , ready for use when the day came for the army to go into action. wherever japanese spies went, japanese propaganda followed. especially in asia. the message was simple. >> the white man is exploiting you. drive hi

>> kids love their selfies but now you have cameras like this one from polaroid and this one from fuji that give you a printout in addition to the digital photo. there's something that people love about that palpable picture. you just got one, you got to do the oh, look. >> you shake it like a polaroid picture. >> you can't help shaking it. >> my kids have this one. instant gratification. smile. >> it's pretty fast. this is great. they love it. >> they love it. >> it's easy to use. very intuitive. we have got great retro ideas. what about photo inspired gifts. >> we have seen lots of ideas over time. but the thing i haven't thought about, because we post our pictures on facebook, we're telling the world what pictures we love. go on to somebody's and grab a photo. someone sent me these coasters. it was a total surprise to me. love that. all of your services will do that. great idea. >> great idea. also, i have a bin of old photos. what are some ways we can preserve those? >> digittie has gotten cheaper. scan cafe and memories renewed. >> folks, look how cute she is. one more time. great

the japanese people think in terms of sumo, calm, peaceful, serene, like their volcano mount fuji, witht even as they hammered their homefront into shape, the gentlemen of japan were softening up the rest of the world for their tanaka plan. to every country marked for conquest, they sent their agents, army officers posing as laborers, shop keepers, gardeners. along the coast, officers of the imperial japanese navy masquerading as fishermen piloted tiny boats, sending signals. they fished for pearls off the south pacific islands. they fished for tuna off the coast of california. they made some good hauls. other japanese traveled widely as tourists, photographing the sites of honolulu and seattle. something to show the folks back home. still others went to work in barbershops, strange barbers who didn't talk. all this information was collected, studied, filed away, in tokyo, ready for use when the day came for the army to go into action. wherever japanese spies went, japanese propaganda followed, especially in asia. the message was simple. >> the white man is exploiting you. drive him out

>> kids love their selfies but now you have cameras like this one from polaroid and this one from fujie digital photo. there's something that people love about that palpable picture. you just got one, you got to do the oh, look. >> you shake it like a polaroid picture. that's what you do. >> you can't help shaking it. like a polaroid picture. >> my kids have this one. instant gratification. smile. >> it's pretty fast. >> hands up in the air. this is really great. they love it. >> they love it. >> it's easy to use. very intuitive. instant gratification. we have got some great retro ideas. what about photo-inspired gifts? >> everybody loved to unwrap a personalized gift. we have seen lots of ideas over time. but the thing i haven't thought about, because we post all our pictures on facebook, we're telling the world what pictures we love. go on to somebody's insta-feed and grab a photo. and make a picture gift for them like these. someone sent me these coasters. these are my favorite memories from the year. they knew. it was a total surprise to me. love that. all of your services will do

fuji oil in tokyo session, it was up a little bit higher.gains, 7% or 8%, coming off of session highs by 0.7%. and this group, the australian insurance company, not a huge player, but xeric in its biggest deal of 2016 has offered a 14% premium to buy the stocks. that is the biggest gain for the highest, three years. new zealand has a new prime minister today with bill english, elected on opposed as leader of the governing national party. the bloomberg finance minister was endorsed -- we go back to paul allen in sydney. a sudden departure for him. as we move forward, how english -- how different will the bill english renminbi? -- will be? paul: he is the continuity candidate, and he turned out to be the only candidate. john keith, sort of anointed him really. he stepped aside, other challenges dropped out quickly when it became obviously the bill english raise. he held a press conference and says there will be change. that was a reference to the limiting -- looming cabinet reshuffle. this person will no longer be the finance minister. stephen

fuji or something. i don't know. it's lovely there. >>> another familiar face. 'emmen jafrs has details. >> we're getting news now from mar alago, the trump transition, a new office and person to head that office. the trump transition says they are creating what they call the white house national trade council, something we haven't seen before, and dr. peter navarro will head that council, the president-elect's office saying he'll serve as assistant to the president. they say the formation of the national trade council further demonstrates the president-elect's determination to make american manufacturing great again and provide every american an opportunity to work in a decent job at a decent wage. they call navarro a visionary economist. he will be family to viewers of cnbc and folks on wall street. navarro a china hawk, really on trade. also has written an op-said at one point where he said a pact should in the be used as a it foreign policy tool. trade pakts have been cried as carrots and sticks business washington. donald trump has signaled what he wants is

the second thing is this idea and i will let fuji talk about that as well.s we went around in the trainings and these are qualitative examples, but people want to know what is happening and what is going right as it exhaust what they know. so we are going to foster that information in meaningful ways. we have certain things happening in different areas. certainly county office and the department have mechanisms to recognize the work and we have statements of model practice in the rubric, but how do we keep the field abreast of that and in meaningful ways to celebrate the achievement and think about what's possible for them and just backbone support for the organization in making sure we have the hands-on deck to do the level of work we are talking about. i don't know if you want to add? so i think similar to and yet different from both wasc and fik matt and a team. we are learning more from a piloting process so it's not definitive by any means but envisioning that we would be sharing practitioner expertise and again with those principals that dr. cohn was s

the second thing is this idea and i will let fuji talk about that as well. as we went around in the trainings and these are qualitative examples, but people want to know what is happening and what is going right as it exhaust what they know. so we are going to foster that information in meaningful ways. we have certain things happening in different areas. certainly county office and the department have mechanisms to recognize the work and we have statements of model practice in the rubric, but how do we keep the field abreast of that and in meaningful ways to celebrate the achievement and think about what's possible for them and just backbone support for the organization in making sure we have the hands-on deck to do the level of work we are talking about. i don't know if you want to add? so i think similar to and yet different from both wasc and fik matt and a team. we are learning more from a piloting process so it's not definitive by any means but envisioning that we would be sharing practitioner expertise and again with those principals that dr. cohn was