what does it mean in japan to be a yakuza?translated ): to be a yakuza in japan is to live an unalterable way of life. it's not an occupation; it's to follow and explore the lives of the samurai, the code of the samurai. >> reporter: this man is a yakuza boss, a rival of goto's who only agreed to an interview if we masked his identity. how do you recognize a yakuza? how do you know if someone is a yakuza? >> ( translated ): it's the smell. >> logan: it's the smell? >> purple: yes. >> logan: what kind of smell? >> purple: the smell of another beast. >> jake adelstein: when you join the yakuza, they become your family. >> logan: no american knows more about the inner workings of the yakuza than jake adelstein. he spent the last 15 years in tokyo investigating and writing about the mob. >> adelstein: generally speaking, yakuza get rid of bodies by dumping them in the foundations of buildings. they own lots of construction companies. so, you know, you're pouring a new building, you throw the body in, like, the cement, and nobody e

and japan equal partners and said the u.s. you plays an important role in the region. >> united states is a pacific nation, and we will be deepening or engage. in this part of the world. as i said to the prime minister, the united states will strengthen our alliances, build new partnerships and we will be part of multilateral efforts and regional institutions that advance regional security and prosperity. we have to understand that the future of the united states and asia is inpsychiatricablinked. >> the two talked about afghanistan. japan is agreeing to provide civil assistance but will not allow u.s. military aircraft to refuel for afghanistan missions. >>> a sixth man was arrested in a very disturbing child sex abuse case in missouri. a 77-year-old father and his four sons are already in custody. they did not enter a plea yesterday. court documents obtained by local media say the alleged vingts are adults now and came forward in august. a reporter from affiliate kmbz talked to hln's mike galanos about this case. >> a lot of

president obama, he's in japan right now, made this comment about the upcoming trial. >> i am absolutely convinced that khalid shaikh mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice. the american people will insist on it. my administration will insist on it. >> also, five other gitmo detainees are expected to be transferred to be tried by military commissions. here's the question. do you agree with trying the suspects in new york in civilian court? do you think it's the right thing to do? maybe you'd prefer that they

truman used the bomb primarily to defeat japan. that was his principal motivation, and of course to save american lives. and i believe it had the desired impact. i am not dismissing the contribution of the soviet declaration of war, but it is a joint thing. that is precisely what they were up 2. >> my general impression when writing history, if there are five reasons, all five apply. i would add, though, that the largest air raid on japan, by our conventional bombers come as -- by our conventional bombers, was the 14th of august. it would be a way of basically telling the russians to back off because really the alternative to what happened would have been a divided japan like a divided germany, and i think we were most concerned to make sure that the russians made it a little encouragement down into the japanese -- made as little encouragement down into the japanese islands as possible. >> the military demand of the occupation of japan, wanting something similar, and they had declared war six days earlier. >> exactly. >> in terms o

japan is important to study. i recommend the book "embracing deafeat" as an example for what can be achieved. about changes that came up. what is interesting to me, and it would be interesting to follow up, would be if the critique that comes up almost from day one in the bush 43 administration is to some extent during the bush 41 administration. this is what i was talking about when i talked about the problems that would come out of the late-and 90 +. they wanted to seize opportunities by interpreting history and hands-on manner and acting. there is nothing wrong with that. those things are hon. instincts. the problem is when somebody has to read what kind of circumstances they are that they are working in. what can and cannot be done. there are some issues the bush 43 administration got wrong. there were deficiencies, quite a few. walking away from afghanistan was a big mistake. i can understand where that mistake was made. the talon will not leave the country under any circumstances. it is a much more internat

in japan, only 5% of the cars in japan were imports, 95% made in japan because that's the way they twants -- in 2007. after the cash-for-clunkers program, even fewer cars came from imports. why? because japan did what was called a certification requirement that was opened to only a small number of foreign vehicles. for example, they would allow the sale of a toyota land cruiser, but you couldn't buy a ford explorer in japan under the cash-for-clunkers program. yet we've got these folks significant to us that we're not -- saying to us that we're not for free trade? excuse me? how much gall do you have to suggest that a country with $260 billion of a tried deficit with china to have our -- trade deficit with china to have our president go overseas and be suggested that we're not holding up to our responsibilities in trade. the reason that i make this point is because this is about jobs. and i think restarting the economic engine is an unbelievable priority in this country. you know, a good job that pays well makes almost everything else possible. there's no social program in america as impo

relative to japan. >>> space shuttle atlantis atlantis should be on its way to the international space station hopefully this afternoon. live pictures as they're just about ready. nasa plans to launch from the kennedy space center at 2:258 eastern. 100 shuttle clients get to see the launch up close to tweet about it. expected to reach about 120,000 twitter followers. pretty cool. >>> firefighters are on the scene of a massive fire. a house in midwest 12i city, oklahoma. that is east of oklahoma city. lots and lots of smoke. firefighters say part of the roof has collapsed. no word on injuries. we'll bring you information on that as soon as we have it. you can tell the roof is gone there. >>> a legal sbalgts heating up. the issue, photos that appear to show prisoners, americans, rather, abusing prisoners, detainees. should they be released or not? your views, next. >>> defense secretary robert gates blocked the release of any new photos that appear to show americans abusing foreign detainees. the obama administration told the supreme court gates is groouz yousing his new powers provided

how did you learn about this in japan?ard about it, but i didn't go there until around 2002, something like that, with earth island institute, who i work for. and i saw this happening. and i couldn't believe it. it's so unbelievable. and i've been going back ever since. there's a media blackout, i must tell you, in japan on all while and dolphin -- >> larry: you sneak in, go in in disfwizs, right? >> disguises, yeah. >> larry: can you say briefly about what they do to them? >> they capture them. they're captured and sent to different dolphinariums around the world. if they're not selected, they're slaughtered. >> i told everybody i knew about it. we had a screening in new york. and there's a guy named jeffrey wells who blogs about movies. and he saw the movie and loved it. and he got me in touch with the director who was on the jury of the tokyo film festival. and basically said, hey, can you do anything about getting this movie shown there? and so literally, i just, like, september an e-mail to him and connected fisher an

visiting japan, he said the u.s. needs to work more with asia to create jobs back home. he said there are tough things to deal with too. >> this is a place where the risk of a nuclear arms race threatens the security of the wider world and where extremists who defile religion can plan attacks on both our continents. there can be no security or our climate challenge without the rising powers and developing nations of the asian pacific. to meet these kinds of challenges, the united states looks to strengthen old alliances and build new partnerships with the nations of this region. >> president obama later met with the japanese emperor. in singapore, he's expected to talk with russia's president about replacing the nuclear agreement which is expiring next month. >>> increased fighting in afghanistan is hurting morale among u.s. soldiers there. in contrast, two battlefield survey, morale is up in soldiers in iraq because combat there is decreasing. the surveys indicate suicide have jumped across the board. the army is wo

before leaving japan, he said the u.s. needs to work closer with japan. he also said there are other tough things to deal with. >> this is a place where the risk of a nuclear arms race threatens the security of the wider world, and where extremists who defile a great religion plan attacks on both of our continents. there can be no solution to our energy security and our climate challenge without the rising powers and developing nations of the asia pacific. to meet these common challenges, the united states looks to strengthen old alliances and build new partnerships with the nations of this region. >> also while he's in singapore, he'll talk with russia's president about the nuclear agreement which expires next month. >>> increased fighting in afghanistan is hurting morale with u.s. soldiers. in contrast, two battlefield surveys found morale is up among soldiers in iraq because combat there is decreasing. the survey is indicating suicide have jumped across the board. the army is working to get more mental health workers to help soldiers cope with depressi

japan, universal coverage, much lower cost than we do in fact have as much as ours. and again they were number one. switzerland, number two. universal coverage much lower cost than we do. and yet they ranked number two. france, universal coverage, much lower cost. they ranked sixth in the world. you know, it would seem to me we ought to look to evidence, and evidence shows there is a better way and that's what this legislation seeks to find. as seeks to find a better way to expand coverage to an improved quality and contain exploding costs and the key element of this health care reform plan are these, one of reduces both short and long-term deficits. i noticed in one of the newspapers circulated on the hill today, full-page ad asking how can senator conrad, who is a deficit hawk before this bill? because i have read the cbo analysis, the congressional budget office analysis that says clearly and unequivocally this bill who lowers the deficit, it will were said by $130 billion over the first ten years. it lowers it by $650 billion over the second ten years according t

a more democratic japan to be built. bush 41 and clinton, what is interesting to me in what is interesting to follow with the participants and the most recent bush administration as well, if the critique the comes almost from day one in the bush 43 and ministration or the way it is conducted during the clinton administration but also to some extent during bush 41 administration. problems came out from late- 1980s and 1990's. it seems to me that the most recent administration was interested in overcoming all of it by acting quickly, by seizing opportunities while they're there, by interpreting history directly and acting on the. there's nothing wrong with that. those things are good and honorable. the problem is that one has to read with the kind of circumstances are that one is operating in. understanding that crucial policy difference in what can be done and what cannot be done. i think this is where the bush 43 administration got wrong. the question from the organizers are deficiencies with regard to foreign policy in

in the new year, we do have a date with new york fed president, bill dudley, and with the bank of japan governor. and some other commitments that we are looking to nail down specific dates. so welcome and please enjoy the rest of your$4<'s,ulw]g]gooo46 >> here is the latest on the economic stimulus. of the $787 billion economic stimulus finding signed into law in february, over $297 billion has been committed to states by the federal government to spend on stimulus projects. that is up $2 billion from last week. over $136 billion has been paid out for those projects. at c-span.org/stimulus you'll find links to government watchdog groups tracking the spending. >> the senate is in a rare weekend session today to debate health care, with a procedural vote coming up later on, moving the healthcare bill to the floor. in order for formal debate to begin, democrats must get 60 votes. they do, formal debate on the senate health care bill could begin after the thanksgiving break. watch live senate coverage today on c-span2. you can watch what your centers are saying about health care online at

he says she violated a custody agreement by taking them to japan. he was released from jail last month. >>> uh-oh, mike tyson is in trouble for an incident at the airport. rafer, he's accused of hiding someone. >> police are investigating conflicting accounts of what happened in an airport scuffle between tyson and a paparazzi. both men were booked and released on suspicious of misdemeanor battery. he says he hit him once. he fell and was treated for a cut on the forehead a. spokesman for tyson said he was overly aggressive and tyson was protecting his 10-month-old child. he was co-op ra it tiff. now they're checking to see if there's any surveillance video to see who is telling the truth. >> self-defense, mike tyson. >>> up new, there is no record the ft. hood shooting suspect ever complained to a supervisor about his claims of being harassed over his religion. two senior military officials also tell the associated press there's no sign he formally requested to leave the military. now, remember, his family has said that he was seeking legal advice

if your japan, you don't feel this way. -- if you are japan, you do not feel this way. we learn a great deal more about iran posing nuclear-weapons -- iran's nuclear weapons. i stay up late at night less over north korea. >> the big question i have is china. the one country that has potentially decisive moves on north korea is china and they have decided not to exercise it so far. we need to get china to play a more helpful role to reassure them about what -- that ought to be the ultimate foreign policy goal. there are limits to what i believe we can do. if the north koreans don't do it themselves, it is in beijing. >> yes, sir? that's it. >> one question, where do we get the resources to deal with the kinds of things being proposed? [inaudible] we haven't got the forces or the manpower. and we don't have the resources financially. or any of the other things going on. somebody please give me an answer. >> i believe we have the military capabilities. there may be a lot of post of and consequences. we do have the military capacity to be able to knock out virtually everyth

sowell was stationed in south carolina, california, and even japan.s house of horrors in cleveland be just the tip of the iceberg? and tonight's "big issue" how drugs can turn the unthinkable into a grim reality. >>> also, a father at his breaking point. disturbing new details in the mystery in malibu. mitrice richardson was arrested by police and then arrested in the middle of the night. she hasn't been seen since. i was that nearly two months ago so why won't cops let us see the video from the release? was there even a i video? we'll talk to this young woman's father as he desperately searches for his missing child. >>> and a teenaged boy doused in alcohol and set on fire. are being charged as adults. but they look like kids. meanwhile, this poor kid is clinging to life with burns on 60% of his body. now some sicko plays a disgusting prank burning dolls and throwing them into a swimming pool. what's wrong with people? >>> plus, a dramatic courtroom finale in the nassau love triangle. former astronaut lisa nowak learns her punishment. if you could ca

if your japan, you don't feel this way. -- if you are japan, you do not feel this way. we learn a great deal more about iran posing nuclear-weapons -- iran's nuclear weapons. i stay up late at night less over north korea. >> the big question i have is china. the one country that has potentially decisive moves on north korea is china and they have decided not to exercise it so far. we need to get china to play a more helpful role to reassure them about what -- that ought to be the ultimate foreign policy goal. there are limits to what i believe we can do. if the north koreans don't do it themselves, it is in beijing. >> yes, sir? that's it. >> one question, where do we get the resources to deal with the kinds of things being proposed? [inaudible] we haven't got the forces or the manpower. and we don't have the resources financially. or any of the other things going on. somebody please give me an answer. >> i believe we have the military capabilities. there may be a lot of post of and consequences. we do have the military capacity to be able to knock out virtually everyth

beating down on japan to make japan appreciate its exchange rate of 250 yen.if you look at that what you do see is a shrinkage of supply in trade and balance. the u.s. over run. why? expensive. so we bought more from the rest of asia to make up for what we did not buy from japan. the service the u.s. so the appreciation would certainly show that the chinese are sharing their share of the pain. and that is something which i should mention. protectionism is something that not only china should be concerned about, but also the united states. there are many things that we can do one of which is to strengthen our social safety nets. the social safety net of the g-20 countries. i think that in case of globalization is much more frequent than before. the strong social safety net is very important to maintain domestic contentness. so the protection of the world trade system on china and the united states. this second pitfall in the current chinese marco stimulus package is that it is creating a trade-up between full utilization of existing capacity against the generat

n, the eu countries, japan, it is quite complicated one of our major goals is to coordinate this better that is what i alluded to earlier, our new members to coordinate international. -- our new efforts to court international. what is our belief in the capacity here? it is hard to answer this question. we know how important it is. building the afghans government capacity to run their own affairs is one of the three or four priorities, a process by which eventually, the international combat troops, including the u.s., can be replaced by local security and the international civilian advisers will be phased down over time. the international diplomacy will continue for a long time as secretary clinton said and i want to stress that point. >> there will say statement about the indian prime minister who said that he believes that pakistanis do not necessarily share the american view of the region and have their own views. he said he is not sure who is running the government there pethere was a real. the pakistani government had a meeting with the taliban. >> the first two questions i will not

appreciate it. >>> japan has long been the home of baseball fans. last night's world series game six revved up nonfans. what got the japanese so excited about this year's world series. >>> the health care reform bill has been given the sign of approval from the ama. the president says he appreciates the endorsement. >> i am extraordinarily pleased and grateful to learn that the arp and the american medical association are both supporting the health insurance reform bill that will soon come up to a vote in the house of representatives. when it comes to the aarp this is no small endorsement. for more than 50 years they have been a leader in the fight to reduce the costs of health care and expand coverage for our senior citizens. they are a nonpartisan organization and their board made their decision to endorse only after a careful, intensive objective strcrutiny of this bi. >> they hope to pass legislation on saturday. they need 218 votes. >>> florida inmates getting props for saving a prison guard attacked by another inmate. they went to his rescue.

in japan, dogfighting is legal. it was taped there and then sold and traffic in the united states. it is a legal to hold or attend dogfights in virtually every state. the question is, is this the kind of speech that the first amendment protects or not? a difficult issue, and the court really struggled with it. the couple of the hypothetical they offered, and it tells you something how the court works. justice scalea was asking questions about, well, filming bullfights and spain, couldn't that be the kind of something that would be viewed as cruelty to animals, yet it is a time- honored tradition in spain and there could be artistic value, is that the sort of thing people should have to risk prosecution for? but then justice alito asked a hypothetical about what is -- what if a human sacrifice is legal in some countries and we have a human sacrifice program channel? is that something we prohibit? people laughed but the issue is the same. one of the arguments in the case was obscenity should not be extended, obscenity is not the same level of protection as political speech. it has be

prime minister yukio hatoyama said japan would agree to provide civil assistance but would probably no longer allow u.s. military aircraft to refuel. earlier a u.s. air force base in alaska mr. obama told troops he would carefully weigh sending more forces to afghanistan. >> i will never hesitate to use force to protect the american people or our vital interests. but i also -- i also make you this promise. i will not risk your lives unless it is necessary to america's vital interests. >> mr. obama's trip will take him from japan to singapore, china and south korea over eight days. >>> the man accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl and holding her captive for 18 years has apologized. phillip garrido wrote to a california tv station saying he wanted to apologize to every human being for what has taken place. garrido and his wife are accused of holding jaycee dugard in a compound behind their california home. they pleaded not guilty. >>> and new this morning, the top lawyer at the white house has resigned in the first shake-up on the president's senior staff. democratic sources tell cn

he says she violated a custody agreement by taking them to japan.ed from jail last month. >>> one school is in hot water for trying to trade extra credit for some cash. and take a look at all of these nails. this isn't someone's fix-it kit, these used to be in someone's stomach. >>> right now on "showbiz tonight," dave's extortion war. brand-new shocking revelations today about the guy accused of trying to blackmail david letterman. on the "today" show, meredith vieira asks his lawyer, are you kidding me? >> are you concerned that a lot of people out there listening to this are going to say, give me a break? >> tonight, is the excuse for what was done to letterman just absolutely ridiculous? >>> tonight, the carrie prejean/donald trump smackdown. the donald strikes back today at the beauty queen's startling claims about him. but is she just plain out of her mind to take on the donald? >>> tonight, jon gosselin's incredible funny or die video. can jon turn back time and right his wrongs? ♪ i don't know why i did the things i did ♪ ♪ i don't know why

japan, universal coverage, much lower costs than we do. in fact, half as much as ours, and yet they were number one. switzerland, number two. universal coverage, much lower costs than we do, and yet they ranked number two. france, universal coverage. much lower costs, they rank sixth in the world. you know, it would seem to me we ought to look to evidence and evidence shows us there is a better way, and that's what this legislation seeks to find. it seeks to find a better way to expand coverage, to improve quality, and to contain exploding costs. and the key elements of this senate health care reform plan are these: one, it reduces both short and long-term deficits. i noticed in one of the newspapers circulated on the hill today a full-page ad asking how can senator conrad, who is a deficit hawk, be for this bill? well, because i've read the c.b.o. analysis, the congressional budget office analysis that says clearly and unequivocally this bill lowers the deficit, lowers it by by $130 billion over the first ten years. it lowers it by $650 b

he says she violated a custody agreement by taking them to japan. was released from jail last month. >>> heavy rain from what's left of tropical storm ida, now battering the mid-atlantic. this is the video we got from affiliate wavy in the norfolk area. there are coastal flood warnings in some areas. the storm's moved out of georgia but not before flooding several neighborhoods. some were still recovering from massive flooding back in september. >>> one of our i-report erers w lives in virginia beach took this video as the mid-atlantic coast was getting slammed by the heavy downpours, remnants of tropical storm ida. but they're coupled with strong winds from a nor'easter. he saw a lot of flooding and downed trees in that area. once he got to the beach, he realized how strong the winds really were and the storm, as he put it, was one for the record books. >> this is absolutely spectacular here. we're down at the inlet. what a difference a few hours makes. now the surf has come all the way up here. i can't even turn around. it's hurting that bad right

we are negotiating agreements with japan and the eu. we would be open to looking at a study to examine the costs and benefits of a similar arrangement with the united states. i think this is something that can proceed only on the basis of suitable comfort level on both sides. at the present juncture, we are not sure if that exists in the u.s.. >> i would like to ask a further question. my comment is, president obama's current trip to asia, and i 6 -- eye suspect most of the people in this audience know that, it has been an important step forward. when president obama committed the u.s. to participate actively in the negotiation for the trans-pacific partnership, which is now only four small countries, but with three others having indicated their interest in participating, including australia, vietnam, peru, and i happen to know, having just been in korea and japan a few weeks ago, they are ready to come into the effort now that the u.s. has done so, depending on some domestic politics, but very much interested in doing so. that would pr

before he left japan he said the u.s. needs to work more closely with asia because it could create jobs. he also says there are other tough things to deal with. >> this is a place where a nuclear arms race threatens the security of a wider world and where extremists planned attacks on both of our continents. there can be no solution to our climate challenge wouz the rising powers and developing nations of the asia pacific. to meet these common challenges, the united states looks to strengthen old alliances and build new partnerships with the nations of this region. >> while in singapore, he plans to meet with the russian president as well. >>> there is strong reaction to bringing a 9/11 trial to new york city. there was a decision to be tried in civilian court. the suspects include cleed shake moham -- khalid sheikh mohammed. members are sharply divided over the prospect of a civilian trial. >> to bring it back here it is tasteless, insensitive and those scars which have never been healed are going be opened again. i am n

why should we waste our money defending japan? that was the real argument.rgument was if you do not like what we're spending on east asian defense now, wait until japan is a well armed nuclear power and then see what we spend on asian security. it's much better to do it this way. fortunately, dick cheney came down on that side of the argument. we need enough presence in europe and asia to keep these alliances together. but the other point is there are still threats. they're not as big as the soviet union. they're not global and i do not involve the things unique to the soviet union, but they are threats and are too unstable parts of the world that we should plan for. one is northeast asia, korea, and the other is the persian gulf. i think one can quibble, loosely speaking, i friends might say the clinton people went to far. but when we came into office in 2001, we were looking for whether there were more cuts available. some people on my staff in 2001 were saying 10 division army is bigger than we need. i'm glad some decided not to cut the army below 10 divi

his wife could have been deported to japan if she had been convicted of a felony.ilty to a misdemeanor and could get 60 days in jail. now, the prosecutors have recommended that the couple get probation. >>> our top story, other than that, the number of americans who have died from swine flu may be four times higher than we first thought. the "new york times" says that the cdc estimates h1n1 may have killed 4,000 people in the united states just since april. now, the virus itself isn't getting more dangerous, but the cdc is now counting lab-confirmed cases and deaths from complications related to h1n1. >>> heavy rain from what is left of tropical storm ida is now battering the mid-atlantic. virginia's governor declared a state of emergency, and there are coastal flood warnings in some areas. that storm has moved out of georgia but not before leaving some flooding. some of these neighborhoods were still recovering from the massive flooding back in september. >>> bob has more on the storm and the rest of your forecast in your own backyard in just a couple of minutes h

a friend of mine who is a veteran of the iraq war who was just in japan talking with their new parliament a good chunk of which was thrown out because they actually listen to people, and on the way back, from japan, learned that they had done as with their board and had pulled out all contributions of the occupation of afghanistan. we are never going to have a day when they tell us here's the day when you stop an attack on iran. we have stop an attack and iran every day of the year. on the cover of newsweek this week, nuclear explosion, or words after iran gets the bomb. the same fear mongering, the same lies, the same type, the same baseless claims that took us into iraq, be afraid, be afraid. guess what? almost all americans are saying no, we don't want to be afraid this time. we did that. we expose the lies about iraq, and the lies about iran are not getting anywhere. and we have turned this nation against wars between a heavy majority against the war in afghanistan that we are right online and win a majority against escalating it. we did that and we didn't have that before the last el

it won't happen when he visits ya japan this weekend. he says his schedule is full. in the past presidents have avoided the cities so they don't appeal critical of the decisions to drop nukes. many think it saved lives ending the war. >>> another astronaut accused of attacking another woman over an ex-boyfriend may take a plea deal. lisa nowak will be in court in florida. prosecutors say the deal has some conditions but they're not giving the details. nowak pleaded not guilty to attempted kidnapping and other charges. the woman she allegedly attacked is expected to be there today as well. that ought to be interesting. >>> new this morning, basketball legend kareem john allan muhammad has -- kareem abdul-ja has revealed he has cancer. >> he was not only one of the greatest basketball players of all time but also a star in movies like "airplane" and tv shows. it was shocking to hear the 62-year-old saying he has a rare form of blood cancer called chronic myeloid. leukemia. the good news, his doctor says he has a very good chance of living a normal life with the disease

if your japan, you don't feel this way. -- if you are japan, you do not feel this way. we learn a great deal more about iran posing nuclear-weapons -- iran's nuclear weapons. i stay up late at night less over north korea. >> the big question i have is china. the one country that has potentially decisive moves on north korea is china and they have decided not to exercise it so far. we need to get china to play a more helpful role to reassure them about what -- that ought to be the ultimate foreign policy goal. there are limits to what i believe we can do. if the north koreans don't do it themselves, it is in beijing. >> yes, sir? that's it. >> one question, where do we get the resources to deal with the kinds of things being proposed? [inaudible] we haven't got the forces or the manpower. and we don't have the resources financially. or any of the other things going on. somebody please give me an answer. >> i believe we have the military capabilities. there may be a lot of post of and consequences. we do have the military capacity to be able to knock out virtually everyth

you have the power sakkawasaki e industrial power of japan.t's get a response from our guest. guest: i agree with you. japan has been a power and we have seen other major countries -- countries stepping upon. óÑ÷we heard from russia, korea, brazil, a major stepping up in their targets. there is a sense that around the world, everybody gets it. they see the need to reduce emissions. i'm very encouraged by the president's announcement and his actions last week. i think we will have success in copenhagen and it will lead to further action next years to -- next year to finalize the treaty. obviously, he is coming because he's going to the nobel prize event, but the first week will be a week when negotiators are really finalizing the details. it is still at a point when the game is still to be settled. i&÷háhink is very useful. there are a number of cabinet secretaries making presentations throughout the week after the president's opening presentation. this is a sea change from where rework a year-and-a-half ago. the president deserves a lot of cre

. >>> new this morning, president obama is in japan and economic ties between the two countries are expected to be an important topic. so is the future of u.s. military bases. there's a local protests about a plan to relocate a key u.s. marine base. president obama's trip will also take him to singapore, china, and south korea. that darned ida is still a problem this morning. this time with heavy rain on the mid-atlantic, here's what some streets look like up and down the east coast after what remained of hurricane ida and tropical storm ida and depression ida. schools are closed and 70,000 people are without power, five deaths are blamed on the storms. here's what one reporter saw in virginia. >> hey, guys, i'm out here at bush and olney and you can see -- you can see where the water is well over my waist. >> oh, my goodness. why are you standing in that? bob is going to tell us what to expect in that area in just a minute. that was an incredible piece of tape. >>> the republican national committee will no longer offer employees an insurance plan that covers elective abortions. yesterday th

much about the legacy of democracy and an entrepreneurial capitalism -- and entrepreneurialism -- of japan real capitalism -- an entrepreneurial capitalism --and and a entrepreneurial capitalisentrepreneurial capita. it was very expensive. he was footing the bill for the students. many of them one on to fantastic careers. i wrote recommendation letters for them to harvard. they have a sense that they can make a difference in the world. >> you have written how many pieces for the wall street journal? >> i just happen to know. in the past two years, 15. >> who first said to you, "yes"? >> the man is robert pollack and is part -- his partner is howard eckm dickman. i started getting a little e- mail if i had any thing to say on this. -- anything to say on this. we went to the mexican meltdown in 1995, asia in 98 -- in 1998, russia in 1999. i would get a little inquiry. a few years ago, i got an e-mail asking if i had any thoughts of what i think about this. i said that he would not want it because i am kind of a curmudgeon on this. i wish we had a neutral asset, something universally recogniz

whether suspect anthony sowell might be responsible for unsolved killings and rapes as far away as japan. sowell spent time there as a marine. he faces five counts of aggravated murder. hey, i'm not in that person's shoes but i'm like, what did you think the smell was? >> apparently it doesn't smell like anything else. i've never smelled it. >> but that goes for everybody in the neighborhood. >> they just lived with it. >>> our concern today is about what was hurricane ida. here comes -- it's coming ashore. the main concern, though, isn't the storm surge. what is the concern? >> it's the rain, robin. you're right. another eight inches of rain on what has already fallen. i was looking at the doppler radar estimates. radar can actually dedeuce how much rain has fallen. around western parts of alabama, five inches have fallen since yesterday. the center of circulation is still offshore, pensacola by about 80 miles moving up to the north but the heavy rain is already up there. tower cams, we have them all over the gulf of mexico. pop one of them up and you can see that the waves are out ther

you have the power sakkawasaki e industrial power of japan.epping upon. óÑ÷we heard from russia, korea, brazil, a major stepping up in their targets. there is a sense that around the world, everybody gets it. they see the need to reduce emissions. i'm very encouraged by the president's announcement and his actions last week. i think we will have success in copenhagen and it will lead to further action next years to -- next year to finalize the treaty. obviously, he is coming because he's going to the nobel prize event, but the first week will be a week when negotiators are really finalizing the details. it is still at a point when the game is still to be settled. i&÷háhink is very useful. there are a number of cabinet secretaries making presentations throughout the week after the president's openi

facilities responded to the announcement on august 6, 1945 that the bomb had been employed against japan. newspapers close to los alamos, new mexico, hanford washington and oakridge, tennessee's stressed the role played by their neighboring facilities and stress how well the secrecy had been maintained. jenny barker divine provides another documented account of how rural america with engage in civil defense programs throughout the 1950's and into the early 1960's. this was particularly important during the period of fears of nuclear radiation fallout. in addition to serving as the evacuation sites, rural america was concerned or preparing themselves to protect their livestock and crops so west to ensure that america had a proper food supply. as a retired naval officer i have to mention william david friedman's chapter on life and culture aboard a u.s. submarine during the late cold war era, now a historian. he draws from his perspective as a young enlisted man aboard the fast attack boats, the u.s. says william h. bates, to describe the subculture's within the navy in the highly professi

. >>> president obama is in tokyo making his first trip to japan as president.concerns about the economy obviously at the top of his week-long visit to asia. on the first leg of his trip here he called the u.s. and japan equal partners and says the u.s. plays an important role in the region. the president heads to singapore later in the trim to meet about 20 asian leaders at a summit. >>> former alaska governor sarah palin is not sugar coating her feelings about those who ran senator john mccain's campaign. according to the associated press, her new book includes details about the rumored tensions between the two camps. the ap says she appears upset about being charged $50,000 to pay for the cost of vetting her as mccain's running mate. the general counsel for mccain's campaign refutes that claim saying she was never asked to pay the legal bill. she released a statement on her facebook page about the ap reporting on what is contained in that book. she says as is expected, the ap and a number. subsequent media outlets are erroneously reporting the contents of the

but the world series mvp was hideki matsui from japan. his nickname is god zil la.a monster game, knocked in six runs, tying a world series record. george steinbrenner who paid $00 million for this team was too frail to see the win in person, but no doubt george was smiling. >>> michael jordan's son marcus played in his first game and cost his school millions of dollars. he wore his dad's nike air jordansed. the problem is the school has a deal with adidas worth reportedly around $2 million. as a result, adidas says it won't renew its deal next year when it expires. what do you guys say about this? jordan jr. needs to be a team player and wear the adidas and his dad should make sure he does. meanwhile, another facebooker says, marcus should want to be his own player. he shouldn't use his dad's name to be try to be different from the other players. that is from michael. whose side are you on? go to cnn.com/robin, click on the facebook icon. either way, i think nike needs to step up and pick up you the sponsorship in 2010. >>> after all the negative attention, brandon

interesting enough, in august of 1945, was leaving germ noy go to japan and we heard on the radio, 2: in the morning, that the japanese had surrendered and you never saw more happy guys in your life than the guys in the outfit who were heading for japan. but what i want to bring up is this. we had 16 million of us served in world war ii, and out of the 16 million, there's only two million of us left at the present time. and we're losing almost a thousand world war 12 veterans a day. but i want to talk about what's happening in afghanistan. i want to ask both of you. have you read the book "lessons in disaster". have either of you read that book? host: david, not only has this network read it, but also he was featured on our "booknotes" interview in an interview with -- mr. bun di is available at booknotes.org. guest: that's why i got the book, because i saw the interview on c-span. host: go ahead, please. caller: oh, i'm sorry. i was working for the united states electronics command in fort mammoth as a civilian defense department civilian employee. and i was there on an inspection ,

we consume in this country, the next 20 countries combined, that includes japan, china, russia, germany, brazil and 15 other countries. we consume a lot of gasoline. the good news is oil use in this country, gasoline use as well, by 10% in the last two years, but the key to reducing our gasoline consumption is electrifying our transport system and with cars that means moving to plug in hybrids in all of electric cars and it is entirely doable. gm has pointed out that the standards for determining mileage will get 230 miles per gallon of gasoline use. that is because most of the time it will be running on electricity. it will have a range of 16 miles. most daily driving can be done with electricity and recharging the battery at night. prius, toyota will have several hundred plug in hybrids in various commercial fleets and so forth in this country by the end of next month. next year will probably begin marketing on a larger scale. be widely, the chinese term, started marketing hybrids last december. they plan to be in this market next year. warren buffett is one of the stockholders in thi

china does not appear we could debate about that or three yes the japan has very few christians but a tradition to celebrate christmas the material aspect so you do see pretty clear december spending bump. it goes on around the world. the next question is a direct comparison there is a spending but above all these countries but who has the big spending bump? we have not answered that will buy to compare the size averaging across years across the different countries. across the year 2000, this is the average size of the december relative to the month around averaging across since the year 2000 and what you see is busy but it starts over 50% coming down to career or israel and where it is the united states? it is way down the list. with a red circle what about the 1990's? a similar phenomenon. 1980's is a similar story. 70's and 60's and again, the coverage differs there is not the same data but a very similar story the u.s. is pretty far down the list in this particular measure of how big a deal is holiday spending relative to the rest of the year? so there is good news for americans p

if your japan, you don't feel this way. -- if you are japan, you do not feel this way. we learn a great deal more about iran posing nuclear-weapons -- iran's nuclear weapons. i stay up late at night less over north korea. >> the big question i have is china. the one country that has potentially decisive moves on north korea is china and they have decided not to exercise it so far. we need to get china to play a more helpful role to reassure them about what -- that ought to be the ultimate foreign policy goal. there are limits to what i believe we can do. if the north koreans don't do it themselves, it is in beijing. >> yes, sir? that's it. >> one question, where do we get the resources to deal with the kinds of things being proposed? [inaudible] we haven't got the forces or the manpower. and we don't have the resources financially. or any of the other things going on. somebody please give me an answer. >> i believe we have the military capabilities. there may be a lot of post of and consequences. we do have the military capacity to be able to knock out virtually everyth

countries, japan. it's quite complicated. and one of our major goals is to coordinate this better. and that's what i meant when i alluded earlier to our new efforts to coordinate international. so what is our belief in the capacity here? well, it's very hard to answer this question. we know how important it is. building the afghan government's capacity to run their own affairs is one of the three or four of a process by which eventually on a timetable i can't give you the international combat troops, including the u.s., can be replaced by local security. and the international civilian advisors can phase down over time. but international economic assistance will continue for a long, long time. as secretary clinton has said publicly during her trip. and i want to stress that point. >> two things. there was a statement that it's believed pakistanies do not necessarily share u.s. intention for afghanistan and they have their own intentions and they may be pursuing that. if you'll comment on that. and also, he said that he's not sure who is running the pakistan army. and there was also

year, to promote several of the early translations of plan b., 3.0, and i mentioned i would be in japan, we would be launching the japanese, korean, chinese, indie, turkish additions on this particular swing. and she said wouldn't it be great to get that on film? so we mentioned it to our production team who is producing for pbs, they do the journey to planet earth series that is on tv now for several years. they do one or two hours a year. and i thought it would be a good idea. at the our father came up with funding so he could go with me. what they didn't realize is they were going to hear the same plan b talk, 23 times. and after a bit, about a week, he said i had this talk and i think i can do it pretty well. and i had to tell him about those who work for the european space agency who was on tour, sort of drumming up support for the european save against space program. it was being driven around the city and so forth around europe on this tour, and his chauffeur came up with a same response that after a week or so, he said i can get this talk. we just sort of laugh as we kept bringi

investigating whether suspect anthony sowell might be linked to unsolved killings and rapes as far away as japan. sowell spent time there as a marine. he faces five counts of aggravated myrrh. >>> you can buy a satin new york mets jacket that once belonged to convicted swindler bernie madoff. madoff and his wife's personal belongings will be auctioned on saturday. can you buy their silverware as well. if you want their stationery, that will be there. prada purse. not sure which it belonged to. and meanwhile, that baseball jacket is worth up to $700, and it has his name on it. >> i think a lot of people might want to burn that, richard. >> they will buy it so they can burn it and do other things because they're so angry. >> i still hope they pay at lot, though, just because it goes to the victims. >> because they do need to get that compensation. >> yeah. >>> there's word that insurance giant aig may be able to pay back all that money that it borrowed from the taxpayers to stay in business. that's billions of dollars, jen. >> can you believe it? >> i want to hear the details here. >> yeah, it's a

japan is 50% nuclear. why don't we go nuclear because, you know, if they're doing it, we can do it. but they have first of all much smaller countries. much, much lower, you know, energies. and they have a very established disposal and storage system. and they do regional storage. so they don't put all their nuclear, you know, waste in one big place which is what we're trying to do in yucca mountain in this area in nevada. is basically put tons of radioactive waste in this one space and there's a political analog jam on that. -- log jam on that. harry reid senator of nevada is not going to let that happen. they are not even going to green light an opportunity, you know, coming up a storage space for nuclear energy. so there's that. even if that was green lit, then you have to start actually getting all these nuclear plants online, which is going to take another, i don't know what, 10, 15, 20 years. by that point the global warming problem is going to be, you know, at a very -- far more advanced stage. so i don't think it makes sense for political reasons. i don't think it makes sense