kato wanted to be a cartoonist.ew in his spare time, crafting stories with a distinctive style and tempo. he started writing novels seriously at the age of 53. >> translator: there's no doubt that living 60 years gives you many experiences. finally, i'm in a place where i can write anything, including a mystery. >> translator: older writers are finding their muse, and book retailers are pleased. declining readership has hit them hard. >> translator: there are a lot of senior citizens who are writing novels, putting them out into the world and getting results. this trend is inspiring older readers. >> some younger readers are also impressed at the new wave in japanese literature. >> translator: i learn a lot by reading books written by someone who grew up in a different era with a totally different outlook. >> reporter: kato is working on his second novel. the first one established his name. the challenge now is to write a bestseller. his editor is offering advice on ways to keep readers engaged. he urges kato to pou

first of all, why are we talking to kato from china when we need to be focusing on north korea. >> it is a libertarian thing. it is not the sidekick to the green hornet. >> i think they will show it is the psychics of the green hornet. let's go to the tape. all right bruce lee. i think they might be stupid. let's look at the video. what they have got here is 80s era songs coupled with 90s era graphics. the message is we are supposed to be afraid of that. i think they might be so stupid that they think this is even more threatening than the iran space monkey and quite frankly the iran space monkey scares me to death. >> i want to make 16 short points before we move on. couldn't this, jonathon, be the olive branch? say there is a crazy person that wants to be friends or a psycho path. they don't know how to do it. this could be a crazy person's way of saying, hey, we like you. we like your music. we like fire all over your buildings to keep you warm with. >> you sound like a criesy person. a crazy person. >> you have to think crazy to understand crazy. >> you are very good at that. >> t

. >> erica kato will be up with a full check of your forecast coming up shortly.eport coming out the number of americans aged 65 and older would alzheimer's is expected to triple by 2015. according to a new study, 13.8 million will have the disease by then. researchers say the study draws attention to an urgent need for more research, treatment and preventative strategies to reduce this epidemic. alzheimer's, the leading cause of the demand sent out that some 5 million americans and 38 people worldwide. >> christopher darner is the top buck x coppethe warner and sampras as though we're looking at rain for now. >> this is one part of the storm that is headed to the north east. they're being slammed was no right now as we should use these from greenbra bay. what started out as reagan could turn quickly into snow than sticking to the road. about to the 4 in. of snow were expected to fall in chicago, with up to 9 in. possible in the northern suburbs. >> this a very wet system approaching from the south and the two will collide. boston is the target. we could break cen

. >> when i worked at the kato institute in all of the raids they always killed the dog. raids the actual people get killed the response is always like that's awful. they were probably doing something wrong or police wouldn't have been there. you mentioned the people get really angry about that and tend to illicit a visceral response. guess they think the pets are innocent and all. >> you have questions? >> my name is anthony ray beck i go to university of pennsylvania. what role do they play in the militaryzation. >> the no knock raid is i think it's a particular dlif encity. there used to be an old poll saying it commonly attributed to churchill. it is democracy means when there's a knock at the door at 3:00 a.m. it's probably the milkman. it's the idea we don't send government agencies in black to invade your home in the middle of the night. not only dis that no longer tru we don't bother knocking now. >> as a resident of harlem and owner of two dogs i was hoping you could tell me about whether there's anyway to avoid becoming victims of an overzealous swat team. >> ma

dan mitchell is a senior fellow at the kato institute. the wall street journal put it very well, this isn't so much budget cutting as rolling back huge double-digit increases from 2008. that's all this is. >> not just 2008. government spending exploded during the bush years, obama added on top of that. let's remember all the sequester does is shave off a little bit of the built-in growth of government spending. over the next ten years, the budget, even with the sequester, will go from $3.5 trillion to $5.9 trillion. we're still going to get $2.4 trillion more spending. we're just not going to get $2.5 trillion more spending. i view the sequester as a very tiny step in the right direction. >> jared, you look at some of these figure, if you include the emergency money more hurricane sandy, that just means we've had a 30% increase since 2008. now under the so-called sequester, we'll have a 5% increase. it's not like we're ripping the government to shreds. >> look, the way this works is you get negative fiscal impulse when you do less then th

one scientist at the kato institute predicts the president will green light the pipeline. >> i think the white house has probably made its decision on keystone. the political calculus is obvious. if they come out against, it they are going to pay a very big price. >> president obama talked about climate change in his state of the union address last week, but he did not specifically mention the keystone xl pipeline. christi. >> all right. emily, thank you so much. >>> robert kennedy jr. was among those protesting the keystone pipeline. he was even arrested during a demonstration outside the white house this past week. we'll get his perspective on the message that he's trying to send to the president. that's coming up in a couple of minutes. >>> want to get you to vatican city and pope benedict's farewell tour. he spoke in several languages in st. peter's square and he got to spanish and thanked the faithful in the wake of his decision, of course, to resign and asked for prayers for the next pope as well. this was a larger than usual crowd for the weekly prayer by the pope, because it'

we are eight and a cool down and more on the timing of the rain coming this week with erica kato andil. the man the time it behind the manti te'o lauro fred hoax is breaking his silence. he sits down with dr. phil to talk about the hoax at that duped the football star. part 2 of the interview and that the here the boys of the woman that he uses. we will be back in two minutes. >> the time is 9:29 a.m.. >> it is a great start to the day, temperatures not too bad things to cloud cover. 46 out the door in san carlos. we will see the sunshine into the afternoon. temperatures pretty mild, not too warm. upper 50s low 60s. mix of sun and clouds as we head into tuesday. overall pretty stable weather until the middle of this week. thursday friday we have the potential for some rain. umbrellas will be necessary. the weekend is looking pretty good. details of with your 7 day around the bay coming up in just a bit. >> conditions doing pretty well. things are starting to cool out of the traffic department. we are not tracking any hot spots. great conditions for the westbound bay bridge for over a

it is an honor to be here as someone who has gravitated toward folks who work at kato from time to time. appreciate the opportunity to be here. the topic is citizens united in the future, and there is no wrong answer and it fits into my will house where i get to make up as i go along and some like i know what i'm talking about because i have a title. i do not come from the academic world, from a world where i was in private practice, representing a number of politicians, political actors, consultant, so i come at this from that perspective and from the perspective of someone who grew up in politics, who had family members who bore a elected officials. when you grow up in that world, that's the normal to me might seem bizarre to those who did not grow up in that were apparent there will be continued cost to fix citizens united. that will not stop the editorial pages. right now there is a push for an amendment. reports are that the president may support at, not that that is relevant to the amendment process. house democrats have a task force, and i have never had to try to get an amendmen