she is also a former student of kimura. no matter where a story takes her, she reports all the news in hawaiian. the station is now watched in 220,000 households. >> and i think having hawaiian language tv moved us towards normalizing our language here in our homeland. so i think that's what we're trying to accomplish and working on it every day. >> reporter: people like khalili and kimura are working hard to preverve a unique cultural heritage. thanks to their efforts hawaiian is once again a living language. nhk world, honolulu. >>> there's severe weather, including more snow in the northeastern parts of the united states. our meteorologist robert speta has been following the situation. robert? >> yes, gene, we have been seeing out here is not just one particular storm but yet again another low pressure system following another one in the northeastern u.s. you're used to snowfall. but the problem is, what we have been seeing is the snow accumulating over a period of time. and this most recent one still dropping some snow

kimura says the sick trees couldn't survive the hot, dry summer. >> translator: the trees were weakened by tsunami. and lost their leaves. that reduces their ability to photo synthesize enough energy to sustain themselves.synthesizo sustain themselves. >> reporter: the local government is planning to restore the forest as soon as possible to prepare for another disaster. but young pine trees need at least 20 years to grow enough to offer protection from tsunami. effects of the 2011 disaster are still spreading in the environment, nearly three years later. nhk world. >>> a popular japanese composer of classical music has revealed that he has paid someone else to write his pieces. he has been called a modern-day beethoven because he is hearing impaired. a lawyer representing him explained the existence of a ghost writer who wrote some of the works for more than a decade. he is a 50-year-old native of hiroshima prefecture and is described as a self-taught composer. he has published several popular works of music while fighting to save his hearing. he says that what he did is an act of betr