. >>> a contest to choose miss indochina 2010 took place in northern thailand's province on thursday.he competition is part of the indochina fair of 2010 organized by thailand's tourism authority and the province. the crown went to a woman who received a cash prize, a diamond tiara and a sash. miss indochina will participate in various promotional activities over the coming days. >>> hi there, time for another world weather update. well, the weather across eastern asia starting to get a little bit more active. up to the north, we have a snowstorm pushing in from northeastern china and coming in to japan. all along this front here, cold rain as well as thunderstorms. and as that low pushes into hokkaido on sunday, we're looking for blizzard conditions here. a lot of snow and intense wind, as well. now, down across the south we see rain blossoming, it's coming across from the bay of bengal through myanmar. it's going to intensify into the next couple of days. and if you can see this rain band connecting all the way up into southern japan, as well. so we'll have that over the weekend. do

strong high pressure in place here across indochina, china, up into mongolia as well as the korean peninsula. and temperatures on the rebound as well as having lots of nice, sunny spells. where it's going to be a little bit different is japan. and we've got this low pressure system here. it's starting to pull away. but we still see a lot of snow and very strong wind into the weekend. on saturday night, blizzard conditions are expected in parts of northern honshu and hokkaido. sunday should be better. we are going to see some light snow moving across mongolia. it is going to be quite light. can't quite see it here, but it shouldn't be too cold because the southerly winds will keep coming up. and things are not going to be too bad temperaturewise. 7 degrees in seoul, 7 in beijing, minus 6 in ulan bator. down in hong kong, a bit chilly for you, but 17 on the cards for you on saturday, here in tokyo, sunny day, and 12 degrees for the high. all right. let's head now to north america. we've seen lots of wintery weather this week. i want to show you some of the video coming out of the midwest and d

we talked about the french in indochina. we talked about mccarthy. and i was taken along to a lot of civic situations and public situations where the issue of freedom of speech and the first amendment were--were predominant and very much talked about in my home. so i was raised in that environment. and that instilled in you a social conscience where you felt you could make a difference? well, i think my father really felt that one person could make a difference. he was an amazing man. i always spend a moment to talk about him, because he was blind from the age of four, and he went on to graduate summa cum laude from the university of idaho in moscow. he became a pianist and entertainer, had a wonderful career in music, but also was a-- a sort of a bit of a philosopher and loved good poetry and wrote good songs and talked to us-- all of us-- all five of us-- talked to us about life and about commitment and about the feeling that he had that one person can make a difference and does make a difference. so i was weaned on that. it was something that i al

and the extraordinary effort he went to to assure the maximum number of refugee admissions from indochina. you remember the boat people, the great waves of people who came out of vietnam and the rest of southeast asia. it was dick. i was his deputy at the time. he sent me up to the hill. he said neg negroponte you have to get them to admit 140,000 refugees a year, 12,000 a month. we should settle for no less than that. we got it. it was thanks to dick's drive and energy. i think there are people from southeast asia who are livig he was showing me, you know, i didn't have a copy at home but i wanted to hear what he had to say. he said this section on the creation of the national security state after world war ii, that's the part that's most relevant. >> he was sort of an op-ed machine too when he was out of office. and he had incredible curiosity. he went to a lot of places that he had had nothing to do with of before. i recall him taking a trip to afghanistan prior to taking this job at his own expense. and at considerable risk. when i was serving in central america, he came to visit