i mean i love the island and i love islanders. i was very nervous about it for a while until i started getting some good reports and some good feedback. c-span: so if you get in the car and you're at the maine border, how many hours does it take you to drive to stonington and then what, you have to take the mail boat over? >> guest: right. from the maine border, it would be about a four-hour drive to stonington and then a 40-minute boat ride. c-span: and how often can you go over on the boat ride? >> guest: this time of year, there are three boats that go over a day, one in morning, one mid day and one in the afternoon, so it's pretty easy for people to come out on the morning boat and hike around and check the island out. half of the island is acadia national park, so there are a lot of trails to hike, a lot of beautiful things to see, and then get back on the boat and go back to the mainland. c-span: are there places to stay on the island? >> guest: there is one. that's the keeper's house, bed and breakfast. they are booked, you

that is what our island was like. >> sometimes, the island belonged to austria-hungary, sometimes to the ottoman empire. when the ottomans' left, it remained as a turkish enclave -- when the ottomans left. it became an exotic destination for outings. visitors came from all over romania to buy turkish wheat, tobacco, and schnapps -- to buy turkish suites -- sweets, tobacco and schnapps. >> i fell in love here. you can see me playing guitar with my wife. >> that love has survived. along with the turkish culture. >> you just have to say weather you like it sweeter or more bitter -- either -- whether you like it sweeter or more bitter. >> he is talking about the coffee. what also remains is the turkish language. we accompany a man on a trip to his youth. only about 10 former residents of the island still live on the shore nearby. >> i cling to these memories. we are the last ones who remember the island. it remains deep in our souls all this time. >> ever since the shock that came 45 years ago. >> take a look at this cruelty. i have seen it often enough. >> in 1967, the romanian army des

many rongelap islanders live in the marshall capital 650 kilometers away from the island. the japanese team visited them, too. 73-year-old abon was exposed to the radiation when she was a girl. she suffers from health problems and takes eight different drugs every day. 18 years ago, she underwent surgery to remove a cancerous thyroid. >> translator: i'm not convinced that the island is really safe. it's not yet time to return. >> reporter: the islanders met with the japanese visitors. they asked how radiation levels are being monitored after the nuclear accident in fukushima. the team suggested that the islanders take dosimeters with them when they resettle in rongelap. >> translator: i am grateful for this useful information. we should continue to tackle the problems by working together. >> reporter: amid so much uncertainty and fear, the islanders have yet to see a clear end to their struggle to regain their long, lost home nearly six decades after the u.s. nuclear test. yusuke ota, nhk world, rongelap, marshall islands. ♪ >>> people have been using this unconventional i

>> the island always had a high regard for education. basically, when you reach the age of 12, you were sent to be educated. it was a waste of your education if you did not go to college or university or whatever it might have been. then, once you went to college or university, it was a waste of your degree or whatever qualification you had it if you did not put it to good use. >> he is considering inviting foreigners to the island. >> if you look at the population of india and china, there's an awful lot of people being born every day. there is room here. i think people will drift in this direction. the island is not prejudiced. in fact, i think they could not care less as long as people come in. that is what you need. >> his idea is simple -- anyone who does not want to work with sheep can collect seaweed instead. it is widely used in the cosmetics industry. he says the tourist industry could be expanded. the mayor has already brought one new family to the island, but they are scottish. both adults are employed by the local council. th

>> the island always had a high regard for education. basically, when you reach the age of 12, you were sent to be educated. it was a waste of your education if you did not go to college or university or whatever it might have been. then, once you went to college or university, it was a waste of your degree or whatever qualification you had it if you did not put it to good use. >> he is considering inviting foreigners to the island. >> if you look at the population of india and china, there's an awful lot of people being born every day. there is room here. i think people will drift in this direction. the island is not prejudiced. in fact, i think they could not care less as long as people come in. that is what you need. >> his idea is simple -- anyone who does not want to work with sheep can collect seaweed instead. it is widely used in the cosmetics industry. he says the tourist industry could be expanded. the mayor has already brought one new family to the island, but they are scottish. both adults are employed by the local council. th

that is what our island was like. >> sometimes, the island belonged to austria-hungary, sometimes to the ottoman empire. when the ottomans' left, it remained as a turkish enclave -- when the ottomans left. it became an exotic destination for outings. visitors came from all over romania to buy turkish wheat, tobacco, and schnapps -- to buy turkish suites -- sweets, tobacco and schnapps. >> i fell in love here. you can see me playing guitar with my wife. >> that love has survived. along with the turkish culture. >> you just have to say weather you like it sweeter or more bitter -- either -- whether you like it sweeter or more bitter. >> he is talking about the coffee. what also remains is the turkish language. we accompany a man on a trip to his youth. only about 10 former residents of the island still live on the shore nearby. >> i cling to these memories. we are the last ones who remember the island. it remains deep in our souls all this time. >> ever since the shock that came 45 years ago. >> take a look at this cruelty. i have seen it often enough. >> in 1967, the romanian army des

the mill is run by this englishmen who moved to the island. the aim is to promote the island. >> it is really stretching that brand name to its limit. that is what you have to do. maybe it is not possible for it all to be hand-knitted. maybe it should be machine-and it, it can be made by the tens, by the hundreds. >> it is a business with the future and perhaps it will bring more inhabitants. there used to be 600 islanders here. they made a living fishing and farming, but life was harsh. many young islanders dreamt of a better future and left for the united states, australia, for canada. >> the isld always had a high regard for education. basically, when you reach the age of 12, you were sent to be educated. it was a waste of your education if you did not go to college or university or whatever it might have been. then, once you went to college or university, it was a waste of your degree or whatever qualification you had it if you did not put it to good use. >> he is considering inviting foreigners to the island. >> if you look at the populat

many rongelap islands lived 650 kilometers away from their island. the japanese team -- was exported to the red asian when she was a girl. she suffers from house programs and takes eight different drugs every day. 18 years ago, she underwent surgery to remove a cancerous thyroid. >> translator: i'm not convinced that the island is really safe. it's not yet time to return. >> the islanders met with their japanese visitors. they asked how the islands are being monitored after the nuclear accident in fukushima. it was suggested the islanders take those symeters with them. >> i am grateful for this useful information. we should continue to tackle the problems by working together. >> amid so much uncertainty and fear, the islanders have yet to see a clear end to their struggle to regain their long homes nearly six decades after the u.s. nuclear tests. nhk world, rongelap. >>> unsettled weather across japan today, but sunnier skies expected this weekend. meteorologist robert fetta is here with the details. robert. >> yes. across most of japan here, if you

viewers to staten island to gary tuckman braving it in staten island and telling such an important storythis is a place that was hit so hard after sandy. 23 deaths there and power out for weeks on end. people very concerned with this storm, gary. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, poppy within the last hour the snow is basically stopped to the great relief of the people of staten island. because like you said the people suffered here so much. staten island is only 5% of new york city but had more than half the deaths from hurricane sandy, 23 people died here. there are still an estimated 1400 people who are homeless. i was here three months ago because so many homes were damaged. this right here was a home. and you can see it is rubble and it has stayed rubble. this next door was heavy di damaged however they're rebuilt it. the family that rebuilt was hoping to move in but because of the blizzard they had to stop the work. there was so much concern in staten island because of what happened three months ago, just a couple of blocks away from here. a woman had her two children. her ca

in staten island, 23 people died. that is more than 50% of the entire total population who died in new york city during hurricane sandy in october. this borough was devastated. staten island is used to being ignored because it's the smallest borough and it is not being ignored anymore. they're doing a great job of clearing this street so looks like they've had about 8 to 10 inches. the winds haven't been that heavy compared to connecticut, massachusetts and rhode island and a lot of people here who were anxious before this are breathing a sigh of relief. right here you can see there were many houses in this block that were destroyed. this was a house when hurricane sandy came through and no longer is. it is rubble. the house right next door was heavily damaged and people have been busily repairing it hoping to move in this week. it looks like they won't be able because they were afraid of the blizzard and hope to move in monday they were telling us. they've had a lot of tough times lately. they're very grateful at thi

of nando island. ngo workers on nando say it washed away at least 100 houses. they add the supply of electricity and water has been disrupted and some parts of the island have been flooded, including the airport. >>> two major japanese automakers have revised upward their profit estimates for the fiscal year through march. the decline is a prime factor for improving their earnings outlook. mazda motors says it expects to post $480 million in operating profit. that's up 80% in yen terms from its previous estimates. the weaker yen improved export margins. mazda's president is hoping for further depreciation of the yen. he says 100 yen to the dollar would be a desirable level for exporting firms to achieve a stable performance. meanwhile, fudgi heavy industries, making of the subaru cars, expects a higher operating profit of $1.14 billion. that's up 30% from earlier projections. toyota and daitsu revised upward their profit forecasts. >>> japanese businesses are searching for more investment opportunitie

said the island was safe and people could go back. but some who resetled developed thyroid cancer and leukemia. u.s. experts examined the situation. they detected high levels of radioactive cesium in those who have returned to the island. but now that the study was made public. many islanders live in the marshall capital majuro. the japanese team visited them too. this 72-year-old woman was exported due to radiation when she was a girl. she suffers from health problems and takes eight different drugs every day. 18 years ago she underwent surgery to remove a cancerous thyroid. >> translator: i'm not convinced that island is really safe. it's not yet time to return. >> reporter: the islanders met with their japanese visitors. they asked how radiation levels are being monitored after the nuclear accident in fukushima. it was suggested that the islanders take those measurements with them when they resettle. >> translator: i'm grateful for this useful information. we should continue to tackle the problems by working together. >> reporter:

the waiting passengers back to treasure island. so, we want to thank all of you. i know that was an extraordinary night and this was -- called for kind of above and beyond anything you learned. an operator or supervisor school. so, want to thank you for the great, excellent customer service, the great teamwork and cooperation with other agencies * in what was a very difficult situation. and make sure that everybody knows that they stayed with our riders, our passengers all throughout this experience. so, i want to thank you for that and ask john if he wants to say a few words. >> good afternoon, mr. haley. >> you heard it's a remarkable story. i think i'll leave it to those involved. mr. mcmanus was in the control center, [speaker not understood] and coordinating everything. the operator fam was, as i said, at treasure island. inspector flores was at transbay terminal. so, i will dunkelberg mr. mcmanus, if you'd like to go first. >> first of all, on behalf of the board, entire agent circumstances want to thank you all for your extr

staten island. let's begin in boston. logan airport measured one wind gust 76 miles per hour. that's two above hurricane strength. let's go to meteorologist and self-proclaimed weather geek, indra petersons, who has been in the snow for the better part of many hours already. are you frozen to your core yet? >> no, because you have no idea how many layers i have on. it would probably take me five minutes to list the amount of layers. i'm all good. better be safe than sorry. i want to show you how much snow we have. we're still seeing about nine inches. we're under the foot mark still. every time i walk out of the truck and i stand out here, i go, it's not that bad. then a couple seconds later, this huge gust comes by. we're talking 50, 60, 70-mile-per-hour gusts. logan airport is 2 miles away. we're pretty much standing right here, so picture those ice crystals smacking you in the face. i keep trying to han on to nigh anemometer. it measures the wind, and i'm like, okay, not a bisg deal, bu i'm getti

islands, according we take you to a prison island where prisoners have more liberties then prisoners elsewhere, but it is always a big day when a boat arrives from the mainland. >> you cannot buy a ticket. it is home to a penal colony, so anyone wanting to visit needs a special permit. a prison police speed boat doctor twice a day, weather permitting -- a prison police speedboat docks here twice a day. the journey can get pretty turbulent. passengers need their sea legs. some 50 families used to live on gorgona. today, only prisoners live here. the connection to the mainland is too unreliable. in winter, the only passengers on the boat are prison staff. with occasional exceptions. this woman takes the day to visit her island. she does not mind its isolation. she was born and raised here. >> people who come here to work from the mainland probably find it quite a harsh place. i think it is beautiful. i got married in winter. i love the island all year round. >> she is not alone for long. her aunt always knows who is coming and going. now 86, she is the only permanent resident, apart fr

they plan to take up residence on the island. they will be able to move into their new house at the end of the year. directly on the shore, a dream location, and they will not have to fear the river anymore. >> we assume that with the bypass, flooding will not be an issue anymore. that is the goal. i do not think i need to be afraid. >> and we know how to swim. [laughter] emma the city is responding to climate change. more room for the river and an island for the city. >> 1 trillion euros -- that's roughly how much the eu countries lose every year to tax evasion. brussels is not amused, not least because the euro crisis is far from over. now europe is looking for ways to more effectively track down and penalize tax dodgers. in italy, tax collecting is done by the finance police, the guardia de finanza. employees often used dubious methods when chasing down tax defaulters. the tax collectors work on commission. the more people they catch, the better for them. that is putting pressure on ordinary italians, especially small and medi

this is in another coastal area, conception, the island you see was orego island, that was the island where people was there making a barbecue. when tsunami get in there, not even the grass was safe, everything was removed, and the island in front was completely flood. there is the island down there. it was flooding absolutely. this is a fishing market. that was before the navy came in there and after the navy came in there. a lot of fishing was close to 1,000 fishing boat was grounded and it was part of our job to put them in the water again. so heavy lift cranes are absolutely mandatory to have a safe place to move them and to start working. and because as i mentioned to you before, the ships cannot be, get into the port directly, so we make, we pier side two ships floating and all transfer of the cargo was through (inaudible) as you can see we deliver that assistance to different coastal communities. we use the marines to do that so no problem. as you see in the photograph below, you can see that the only way to get it in there was with rubber boats, not any more with the lft's tha

wait until i show you windchills and long island, 27-inch report on northern long island. one little last band over the top of you in central long island. probably pick up another inch or two and that will be exiting and will be all done and the massive cleanup will begin. as far as what we're dealing with, the winds are the worst right now. areas of cape cod, hyannis, gusting along provincetown and coastal maine. winds out of the north at 40 to 50 miles per hour. the winds higher three or four hours ago. the winds beginning slowly die down. up in maine, so cold in the storm, very rare to get this much snow at these temperatures, have you been down in the single dij nit many cases, and wind chills way into the negative numbers, blizzard conditions in maine, not the place to get stranded this morning. places in cape cod, eastern mass, not fun early. boston, the windchill is 1. i will leave you with this picture of the storm. this is typically an image i show you during hurricane season. enhanced satellite. it has a center like a tropical system with a ton of moisture with i

we operate the system on long island for the long island power authority, and we have a big chunk of upstate new york. so the good news for upstate new york, is that we have no problems up there. on long island, there are approximately 13,000 customers without power. massachusetts, approximately 150,000 customers without power. and rhode island has about 170,000 customers without power right now. >> i have to ask you, how long do you think it will take, with all these trucks and teams at your disposal, how long will it take to get the power back on? >> it's a little early to make predictions because we're still at the height of the storm. but what i can tell you is that we have an army of crews here. we brought tons of extra crews in from outside. and we prestaged them around the service area where we suspected that the hardest hit areas might be. and from what we've seen so far, it's been primarily along the coast, both in rhode island and massachusetts. so as soon as the winds die down tomorrow and it's safe to get out there, we will have an army of people hitting this really hard.

southwest of rishiri island off hokkaido. air self defense force commander scrambled four fighter jets. the russian aircraft left japanese air space after about a minute. officials immediately launched a protest with the russian embassy in tokyo. they are calling for an investigation. russian authorities say they will confirm the details. foreign ministry spokespersons say this is the first time in five years russian aircraft have violated japanese air space. february 7th is significant because that's the date in 1855 japanese and russian leaders signed a treaty recognizing the islands as part of japan. people in tokyo held an annual rally on thursday to call on russia to honor that agreement and return the territory. prime minnesout minister abe vop working. he told vladimir putin that he wants to find a solution. a swift solution is needed. >> translator: the japanese government will press ahead with its basic policy of settling the territorial dispute and pushing to sign a peace treaty with russia. we will continue our eff

island, into massachusetts. of this is building north. we will be in this all night long. and that means the snow totals are going to really add up in through here. the back edge of the storm, just starting to show up there across eastern pennsylvania. but it will take a long time before it gets into eastern massachusetts. now, just as soon as we get rid of this storm in the northeast, we will focus quickly on another blizzard across the high plains. this one, though, will also have a severe weather threat down to the south. there will be severe thunderstorms from oklahoma city down to dallas. both on saturday and sunday, they will shift east toward the mississippi valley, as will the blizzard conditions for the high plains. so no rest for the weary here as we go from one big storm right to another. the only difference is geographically where it will happen. brian, back to you. >> jim cantore in boston, part of our team from the weather channel that will be out in it all night long. that is for us our broadcast

i want to take our viewers live to staten island. we heard from gary tuchman saying, look, the snow was stopping, it's getting better there. do you think we've turned the corner in terms of this storm hitting new york? >> reporter: yeah, the conditions, poppy, here are so much different from where you are, from where susan is. the snow has stopped. and take a look behind me. you know, these roads are plowed. there's been about a 12 inches of snow here in staten island. but certainly, a sense of relief that this wasn't worse. and there was so much concern heading into this storm, particularly about storm surges and flooding and as you can imagine, anxieties are high. let me give you a little bit of sense of where we are. you see behind me, this is a house reduced to rubble. and not many people here are living here full-time. and this is certainly a setback. because people come here every day to work on their homes, they are so frustrated that things are not moving along quicker. and three months after the storm, people are still relyi

most of them are here on long island. lester? >> pretty remarkable pictures there tonight, anne, thanks. >>> beyond the roads, today was a travel nightmare in the new york area for anyone who had planned to fly or take the train. nbc's rehema ellis is at laguardia airport with more on that. rehema, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, lester. new york airports are getting back to the business of flying. but air travel is still far from normal tonight. there were more than 1800 cancellations at new york airports alone over the past few days, because of the storm. at one laguardia airport, about 20 stranded passengers spent the night sleeping on cots provided by the airlines. a few others camped out on the floor. the airport was virtually deserted. today, crews worked to dig out from under nearly a foot of snow at laguardia to get some flights operating again. amtrak passengers traveling between new york and boston, however, had no luck at all. as train service on that route was shut down again today. passengers we spoke

the islanders explain to me that when that woman, that old woman was only a teenager, the island had been hit by an enormous cyclone which they called -- and which destroyed all the gardens and much of the force on the island. that left people at risk of starting. so they survived eating certain species of wild fruits that a norman would eat, but that old people alive at the time of the cyclone remembered having eaten at the time of the previous cyclone. from historical records, i calculated that it had hit reynold island around the 1910 when the old woman t divorced wn he was just a teenager. she was the oldest person still alive on the island at the time of my visit. it's another big cyclone should hit the island now, and they can destroy the gardens and much of the forest, the only thing that would save the population of the island from starving to death would be the memories of that one old woman, the sole personal life remembered what fruits that were normally considered inedible and for safety when nothing else was available. her knowledge which is what would keep her fellow is

islands, according we take you to a prison island where prisoners have more liberties then prisoners elsewhere, but it is always a big day when a boat arrives from the mainland. >> you cannot buy a ticket. it is home to a penal colony, so anyone wanting to visit needs a special permit. a prison police speed boat doctor twice a day, weather permitting -- a prison police speedboat docks here twice a day. the journey can get pretty turbulent. passengers need their sea legs. some 50 families used to live on gorgona. today, only prisoners live here. the connection to the mainland is too unreliable. in winter, the only passengers on the boat are prison staff. with occasional exceptions. this woman takes the day to visit her island. she does not mind its isolation. she was born and raised here. >> people who come here to work from the mainland probably find it quite a harsh place. i think it is beautiful. i got married in winter. i love the island all year round. >> she is not alone for long. her aunt always knows who is coming and going. now 86, she is the only permanent resident, apart fr

gary tuchman is live in staten island. how bad is it? hopefully not as bad as they were anticipating. >> reporter: well, there was a lot of anxiety, brooke. there's no question about it. it is certainly not as bad as connecticut as rhode island, massachusetts, new hampshire and maine. there's been a lot of snow and wind. when we started the day there was no snow on the ground whatsoever and they have gotten quite a bit. it is starting to let up. we have had precipitation now for the last 20 hours in staten island. about four hours were rain and that's why we don't have more snow than there could have been. behind me is a tent. the reason the stent here is that's where people who have been left homeless from hurricane candy three months ago have been going for meals each and every day. while this blizzard hit earlier today there are 1400 homeless people still in staten island that were having meals inside of this tent. a lot of people call staten island the forgotten borough. staten island has 475,000 people, 5% of the population. we sh s

they plan to take up residence on the island. they will be able to move into their new house at the end of the year. directly on the shore, a dream location, and they will not have to fear the river anymore. >> we assume that with the bypass, flooding will not be an issue anymore. that is the goal. i do not think i need to be afraid. >> and we know how to swim. [laughter] emma the city is responding to climate change. more room for the river and an island for the city. >> 1 trillion euros -- that's roughly how much the eu countries lose every year to tax evasion. brussels is not amused, not least because the euro crisis is far from over. now europe is looking for ways to more effectively track down and penalize tax dodgers. in italy, tax collecting is done by the finance police, the guardia de finanza. employees often used dubious methods when chasing down tax defaulters. the tax collectors work on commission. the more people they catch, the better for them. that is putting pressure on ordinary italians, especially small and medi