kato has been on trial for allegedly defaming park geun-hye. authorities lifted a travel ban imposed eight months ago. >> translator: i've become gloomy here in south korea, not being able to leave the country. it's been hard to make my point understood. because of differences in culture and the legal system. >> kato is the seoul bureau chief for a newspaper. the paper said prosecutors notified his lawyer that the ban has been lifted. authorities imposed it in august after kato published a column about the president. the piece questioned park's whereabouts on the day of a deadly ferry accident. 295 people died and nine are still listed as missing. kato cited a south korean newspaper report that said her whereabouts were unknown for some time. he suggested that park and a foreign male secretary may have met on that date. he has said he had no intention of defaming the president. prosecutors said they asked the justice ministry to lift the travel ban. they said kato has promised to attend all remaining court dates. they said they made their decis

> a representative for the japanese newspaper welcomed the news but he said the indictment against kato violates freedom of speech and should be withdrawn. >>> china's premier has called on japanese prime minister shinzo abe to honor past statements concerning world war ii. lee ku chan made the remark when he met with the house speaker. in the meeting lee said that although the two countries want to improve ties they have been unable to do so over the past several years. he apparently referred to a statement abe plans to issue on the 17th anniversary of the end of the war. the chinese premier said the statement issuesed by kono when he was chief cabinet secretary and former minister represent the spirit of a correct interpretation of the history. and expressed heartfelt apologies. and lee said china wants the abe administration to keep these statements in mind as they prepare the new statement. >>> the governor of japan's southern most prefecture of okinawa is a member of the delegation visiting beijing. he also met premier lee saying he wants to deepen ties with the chinese regions. >>

kato participate in the production of a reported 3-year or tweet to call the economic freedom of the world, it finds hong kong and singapore to be the most economic free countries in the world, singapore might not do so well of we included social freedom and hong kong has not had political freedom though it had personal freedom. there was robust free speech and people could live their lives as they chose, just couldn't choose their government under british rule and now under chinese rule they can't really even but in economic freedom that is true. if you combine the freedom house ratings on political freedom with the economic freedom of the world's you are going to get countries like new zealand australia, northern europe the united states being at the top on individuals things. there might be topics where i would say some other countries doing better and i must say in the past dozen years the united states fell from third or fourth to fifteenth in the economic freedom of the world and i specify the past dozen years, not just obama but president bush, also helped to propel that decli

kato suggested that park and a former male secretary may have met on that day. in a letter sent to park on thursday, the seoul foreign correspondents club said that prolonging the travel ban could negatively affect the environment surrounding the south korean media. members of the club said they hoped the president will fully consider the concerns of foreign journalists. >>> u.s. president barack obama has landed in jamaica as part of a visit to the caribbean and central america. and political analysts are watching closely to see if he'll meet with his cuban counterpart, raul castro on the sidelines of a conference in panama. obama arrived in the capital kingston. he'll hold talks there with prime minister portia simpson miller and attend a meeting with members of the caribbean community. obama will then travel to panama to attend the two-day summits of the americas that gets under way on friday. cuban leaders have been invited to the conference for the first time. u.s. assistant secretary of state, roberta jacobson says obama and castro will have some personal

kneel mcclesky on the left is the associate director of the kato institute's center for educational freedom. previously neil served in the army, he taught high school english and he was a freelance reporter covering municipal government and education in new jersey. he holds an undergraduate degree from georgetown, university, a masters from rutgers and received his ph.d. from george mason. he's also the author of "feds in the classroom. how big government corrupts cripples and compromises american education." and neil has two school-age children. emmett to my left is the director of the education program at american principles project and he leads its initiative to defend parental rights. he is the co-author of controlling education from the top, why common core is bad for america and he's co-founder of truthinamericaneducation.com which is a nationwide network of individuals and organizations that shed light on the common core system. emmett also has two school-aged children. neil, i'd love to start with you. i think a lot of people here today know the basics about common core others may n

one of them helped found the kato institute, the think tank in washington, d.c.body's guess, i guess. if you are in one of those camps, you hope they pick you for the next dance. it's wide open i think. >> everyone knows you need dough. you need dough to become the presidential nominee. the fact they might come in early now and actually shake the campaigns of a lot of tees candidates. if you're not on their list it's problematic, is it not? >> absolutely. especially with the type of campaigns being run and like we've seen in the past couple not just presidential elections even in the mid terms, the amount of cash being dropped and the koch brothers have a lot of cash in the bank. i think it's worth pointing out it seemed scott walker was the guy. david koch first said that. they said write a check to scott walker. i think he back pedalled a bit, aligning himself with a hawk on immigration senator sessions. the koch brothers are pro immigration reform because it's very good for their business. >> quickly, how dangerous is it for the koch brothers to put in million

>> before i came to kato, helped design the mechanism for resolving fannie and freddie, sell i come and this from a guy who put a lot of years into how we fix this in the structure and the bottom-line answer is no. the treasury, current regulator had been disobeying the law, ignoring the law, trying to have their cake and eat it too. try to have the benefits of receivership without the downside. fannie and freddie run a conservatorship, that is by construction meant to be temporary, meant to be something where the company's rejuvenate themselves and get back on their feet but you heard the regulators and treasury say that is not an option here so again to me i think treasury wants to have the upside of this to take responsibility for the actions they may and in my opinion since 2008 they have been violating the law on a regular basis. >> the law and recapitalize fannie and freddie in 2008 specifically does it specifically states the government can't steal the profits after they put it in? that is what they're doing but is it legal to steal the profits? >> the law doesn't contemplate the

i'm christ kato. >> bill henley has the first alert forecast. >> good morning, tracy.ere may be umbrellas going up this morning. even though we have clouds going up overhead over the jersey shore, you can see sunshine. we'll be in and out of the clouds. 47 at "nbc 10." philadelphia international, 49 degrees. look at millville, down to 39 degrees. some of the suburbs have dropped into the 30s but we will see warming conditions in spite of some clouds moving through the area. northwesterly winds at 11 miles an hour and 57 degrees at 11:00. by 2:00 in the afternoon we'll be in the low 60s. your hour by hour future weather when i come back in ten minutes. right now let's check in with first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington watching your morning traffic commute. good morning, jesse. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. it's looking like a monday morning rush hour. accident on 95 in the northbound lanes near the common door berry bridge. you can see the crew blocking out the two left-hand lanes. you can see a lot of backup behind that. as we head to the bo

kato and stein mart, double digit comps. they've got a presence in the south.ther was warm somewhere that may have been an issue. their numbers above everybody else's. costco you know gasoline's a bigger thing, negative 2% comp largely gas, take gas out, positive comp. the first negative comp since august 2009. buckle, zumiez 5.5% below expectation. buckle negative. aeropostale trying to change things around. teen retailers struggling. for march retail sales a dis disappointment. we had an easter shift. march should be front-end loaded more with the easter shift. we're not seeing it right now. you mentioned bed, bath body work, you mentioned guidance. stock is down. outlook for 2015 only talking 2% to 3% comparable store gain and that's the problem. overall, earnings were in line. constellation, you mentioned constellation, what impresses me, we're at historic high for constellation. look the beer sales. mexican beer sales are on fire 11%. what? that is way ahead of the industry expectation -- standards. they should be delighted. put up constellation. we're at

jim harper, senior fellow, kato institute, and orrin kerr, fred steven son research professor of law, george washington university law school. i proposed three general areas of discussion. these are -- the panels are not limited to these but to give you an idea of where we're going with this. those areas of discussion are what is the current law, fourth amendment law regarding these issues y doand where do we think it's going? and corollary to that is does the current analysis under the fourth amendment reasonable expectation of privacy does it really fit this subject matter? or is there another way to look at it perhaps? another topic is how do we find out in our cases whether this technology has been used? you've heard that efforts have been made by law enforcement to keep it secret. how do we determine that it has been used? and for instance, in the instance of the stingray device, even after it was discovered that it was being used, law enforcement made an effort to keep the details of how the device worked secret. how do you discover how these devices are used, whether, for insta

i'm chase kato. it's 9:26 and depending on where you are you could be seeing sunshine or rain. that's a live view. a little bit of limited sunshine but the showers not far away. steady rainfall has moved to the shore, but you can see scattered showers just to the northwest of philadelphia. temperatures holding steady. upper 50s and low 60s. we're heading for the 70s this afternoon with some breaks of sunshine, but also some scattered showers. >> the pest control company terminix is reacting to a story of a delaware family sickened by possible poisoning while on vacation. steve and theresa esmond and their two teenage sons were airlifted pack to the area after becoming sick in the u.s. vir jib islands. the two children are still in the hospital at philadelphia's children's hospital. they are looking into whether they used a toxic pesticide in the condo below the family. the company said we're committed to performing all work we undertake in a way that is safe for our employees, customers and the public. the company also said the family is in its thoughts and prayers. >>> later t