the experience that it already has out in the kyoto protocol. >>> health care for senior citizens isooming in japan. the world's fastest aging country but it is not only humans who are receiving elder care. >>> health care for senior citizens is booming in japan. the world's fastest-aging country. but it's not only humans who are receiving elder care. our reporter michelle yamamoto has the story. >> reporter: she was the country's oldest polar bear, aged 34, living 10 years longer than average for her species. she passed away last year. the cause of her death was liver disorder. while climate change is becoming a threat to the world, polar bears in zoos, liver disorders are the main factors of their death. gogu has reached the age of 6. that makes him an adolescent. the health care program for this young bear is already under way. for lunch, gogu gets live fish. going after the treats, his body gets an adequate workout. gogu receives another treat, cod liver oil. for supper he is fed with fish, meat and vegetables dressed with the oil. >> translator: the cod liver oil contains vitami

the police say the 19-year-old man is an examee for kyoto university. police had been trying to find out who sent the questions to an on-line question and answer site while exams at four universities were in progress. the university s kyoto , doshisha, waseda and rikkyo filed criminal complaints on monday saying offenders obstructed them from conducting fair exams. the police in cooperation with yahoo found the same cell phone had been used at all four universities and that the phone had been bought by a person's parents at a. police are searching for possible accomplices. >>> in business news the federal reserve says the u.s. economy continues toex pand gradually while some manufacturers and retailers are starting to pass on higher crude oil prices to customers. >>> on wednesday the fed released the so-called beige book report. that's a survey of economic conditions in the 12 districts across the country. the document says overall economic activity continued to expand at a modest to moderate pace in january and early february. it says most districts re

. >> reporter: they packed their bags yesterday morning and left sendai for kyoto to stay with familythey know they're lucky to even have this option. >> my wife, daughter and i are leaving our apartment right now and unfortunately, for the people of sendai, especially where they were hurt really badly, it's snowing right now. and that's going to hurt the people who have no housing and are without shelter. >> reporter: in their hybrid mini van, marty, his wife and their 7-year-old daughter documented the 16-hour-long journey. first stop, a gas station. >> they're not selling any gasoline but they are selling kerosene. and people are coming, lined up to get it for the kerosene stoves to heat their houses, in many cases don't have electricity right now. >> reporter: then more lines in the dreary day, people huddled under umbrellas, waiting for a chance to go into the supermarket. >> there's a great shortage of food. in every place there are long lines in the entire town to get food. and this line seems to go down the hill for quite a ways. >> reporter: the bare shelves of a local conven

accords to go further, as ryan was just mentioning, as kyoto would have required the united states. we want to roll back our co2 emissions 20 percent from 1990 standards. the challenge is how do you do it. we have mayors saying, well, we've done it. what's the methodology where you determine where you were and now where you are and i realize we're not that sophisticated in terms of really aggregating that information, registering that information and really, indeed, knowing how much we have accomplished. we are anecdotally but we recognize even in san francisco that we were having a difficult time determining how far along we were on this path. that's why we have become the first city in the state and we're very proud of the leadership now in the state and i say leadership now in the state, not leadership 5 years ago, but now in the state on these issues, by becoming the first city to register where we are in terms of our emissions and having more objective minds determine exactly where we are so it's not just a politician coming up and saying we've rolled it up 30 percent below 199

>> for example, first of all, the one on 4:32, kyoto, as well as fukushima prefecture. they were issued advance warning, but the actual earthquake took place in the region, the aftershock of the earthquake. it so happened that it was 5.8 magnitude in northern nagano. this was an earthquake that showed 6. those at 5:12 in the northern area, actually, the earthquake took place magnitude 6.1. it was observed in northern nagano and other areas. and the one issue 6:19, in tokyo where teh pre -- the prefectures issued an advance warning. the magnitude was 4.1. as for the advance warning that we issued on 6:19, [unintelligible] to earthquakes took place -- two earthquake took place. the intensity was fukushima 4. a magnitude of 4.2 and other places also were affected. >> is there any prospect of a downgrading the warnings? >> if you can take a look at the wave shapes -- >> that is of the tokyo meteorological agency, talking about the accuracy and assessment of this size of the aftershocks. he confirmed that the second quake was a 6.6 magnitude that occured in north western jap

there was a terrible earthquake in kyoto, it caused one of the greatest revivals in japan to the point that within three years. one third of the japanese population were christians; is terrible things as they are, this could be what we pray for for so long, a revival in japan. >>: you talk about this would not be the right time for the international community to pull back, obviously the concerns over radiation are serious. how can the global christian community help? in the midst of all the challenges, how can the christian community help? . >>: this is a new government, it is not very good in this situation. price specifically for the government and for the church to rise above the challenge; the church needs to help; instead of, you know, being afraid to come we urgently deep in the common help specifically with food and clothing and taking care of their needs and personal governments to do so; if christians can speak to their governments, pleasethis is not accountable back from helping. a >>: and to find out how you can partner, including operation blessing go to our website at cbn.

usf has a japanese studies program that partners with universities in kyoto and tokyo. students and professors recorded messages to their counter parts in japan and vowed to help with the recovery however they can. >>> in the south bay, a contentious daw -- debate over water. specifically adding something to it most bay area cities have had for decades, fluoride. more than a million people don't have it and many don't want it. >> san jose is the largest city in america that does not flora date its drinking water. it does for 125,000 residents, but it leaves out more than a million people served by the private san jose water company. that issue brought out more than a hundred people to the water district arguing whether or not to add fluoride. on one side this dentist says 50 years of evidence supports the benefits of fluoride. >> when i practiced in states that had high levels of fluoride, you can see many fewer kids with a whole mouth full of cavities. >> like other cities that draw their water from the sierra, san francisco has had flora dated water since 1972. accord

japan's kyoto news agency says the final number is expected to top 1,000. most of the victims drowned. nearly 1,000 are reported injured, more than 500 are missing. and four million homes and businesses lost power. the first estimate of the damage: $10 billion. that damage includes a nuclear reactor in northeastern japan. radiation levels are soaring and the area is being evacuated. most flights between the u.s. and japan have been canceled, and there were fears the tsunami would pound the u.s., but by the time the waves reached hawaii and the west coast this morning, they had lost most of their punch. president obama said he's heartbroken by the disaster. u.s. assistance is already on the way to japan. lucy craft is there. >> reporter: the monster quake, thought to be the largest in japan's history triggered a ferocious series of tsunamis. a 23-foot wall of water poured over the northern japanese coastline with little warning only minutes after the quick hit, sweeping away everything and everyone in its path. cars were tossed like toys. boats were battered

this article from the kyoto news today and it said that tepco has announced that they have observed a neutron beam. and one half kilometers away from the plant neutrons are a subatomic are you know neutrons protons electrons that mean. that fission is going on. you know what is the significance of a neutron of you know a significant number of neutrons being measured a mile and a half a mile away from the plant i think there is still opinion. circulating what we're concerned about is that these are plutonium particles that plutonium is normal exactly because active fuel particles are now working their way into the soil and you were seeing perhaps black smoke had is now carrying hot particles of plutonium away from a particular unit three fuel pool because you have to remember that four of these. reactors have had explosions and the third reactor is a plutonium fuel reactor put a essentially all these fuel pools have some a melt of plutonium in the waste and it's really through trying to better it is ok so an engineer at the daiichi plant has come forward to say. he covered a personal c

we got earlier on just following on from what i was talking to we were getting a news line from the kyoto news agency nobody else at the moment saying that radiation levels in the nuclear power plant the fukushima number one plant that the authorities were worried of were reported to be rising we don't know what that means for the public we don't know if there's any danger involved in that whether it's something that can be sorted out of course soon as we do find out more details we'll bring you up to date. what. it's like well the northeast of japan which was hit by the massive tsunami caused by the biggest earthquake in nearly half a century was the worst off as you'd expect i guess the official number of dead as risen in this last hour it's currently two hundred forty two souls now but it is set to rise as well unfortunately perhaps most worrying now is the damage caused to that fukushima nuclear plant the tokyo electric power company reportedly saying the pressure inside that reactor of your screen talking about is quote rising and there is a risk the saying of a radiation leak in the

kyoto treaty beyond 2012. and so, if the united states did it by itself, under the guise of being a world leader and setting an example and the rest of the world didn't do it, uncle sam would soon become uncle sucker, and we would find our manufacturing fleeing the united states to places where they don't have regulation on co2, where energy expenses aren't so high, and we'd lose the jobs accordingly. and in a sense then, those people that have complained for decades about american manufacturing moving overseas would destine the united states to do more of it. and so i don't understand how people that are concerned about losing jobs overseas could be fighting the mcconnell amendment. because if you want to preserve jobs in america, our industry has to be competitive with the rest of the world. so i hope that the mcconnell amendment will be adopted. and i hope there will be some consistency in the reasoning of people who are concerned about the movement of jobs overseas, that it's inhrebgt wall disupon -- intel

in 2003 they started introducing legislation that would do by legislation what the kyoto treaty would have done but it would only affect the united states of america. well, at that time republicans were a majority. i was the chairman of a committee called the environment and public works committee. we had the jurisdiction over this issue. and so i almost unilaterally was able to stop this from taking place, legislation. we had the same legislation that came up again in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009. and it's been before us for votes now in this, in the senate seven different times, and each time we defeated it. i might add, mr. president, defeated it by a larger margin each time that we defeated it. it's kind of interesting becaus i've had so many people say to me, you know, what if you're wrong? what if co2 is damaging to the environment? what are the causes of some of these problems? i have to say the science has been mixed on this. the science has been cooked in many cases. the united nations, who came up with the ipcc, which is the science used to base all these new programs on, has bee

s of a little in hotels a story and a little ambassador really sounds good to kyoto atripla so tell the truth still toto told you gold you never told him to elvis you still dostoevsky left you in a sea of this column if you visit. this is business r.c. hello and welcome to the program the exploration deal learn to ask that song between all majors b.p. and ross snapped has been blocked by an arbitration court in stockholm the case was brought by a.r. the russian shareholders of ten k. b.p. and the existing farmers of the british oil company in russia they are all complained that b.p. has a range mint with lawsuits signed in january this year started at a competitive a disadvantage speaking to business i'll see just a few minutes ago the chief executive of a a r explained that the russian shareholders think dictated by the decision and that b.p. had much want to do to repair hates reputation. for tribunal with very clear. b.p. with breach and which are all that agreement. if they're not pretty would complete the transaction through all of the. actual quote significant deterioration in the

the cost is -- and this goes all the way back to the kyoto treaty and when we have the estimates from the wharton school and m.i.t., it would cost betwee between $300 billion and $400 billion a year. what that translates in my state of oklahoma, $3,000 a year for each family that files a tax return. what do you get for it? as i said, by the admission of the e.p.a. that it's going to be -- it wouldn't -- i said what effect would this have on worldwide immersions of co2? and the answer was, well, it really wouldn't because it only affects the united states of america. now, here's the reality. it could actually increase it. as our jobs go overseas, they go places like china and -- and mexico and places where there are fewer emission controls. so it could have just the opposite effect. but nonetheless, i say this because there are people wandering around who say we should do something about emissions but i want to make sure those people are listening that even if we did this it wouldn't have any effect on the -- their hope is if we restrict enough supply the price will increase and we can

newspaper you just quoted a trillion dollars on star wars and that was totally wrong totally bogus kyoto you made up you got to get the top hedge fund managers on wall street making two billion dollars a year and then paint fifteen percent maximum income tax fine it's their money this is it it's their money it is a are big they did not earn anything what do you think of value according to one of these guys to do other than creating collateralized debt obligations that went from zero when it was legalized by phil graham's lobbying yogas wife wendy on behalf can lay with enron up until nine hundred trillion dollars worth of c.e.o.'s just in they have zero holders that have the trauma that's the worth the only film business a person gets paid is the person writing the check you have personalities it's no because there is they have no you will have a compensation which will have a great longing envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that doesn't give the perpetrator a moment's pleasure stop being envious stop as he has nothing to do is a god salute because you are the fact that there

she says we're on the seventh floor of the kyoto building. it's still shaking. she felt another aftershock a few minutes later and i will scroll up here and just take a look at what she's seeing here. she's seeing the -- line in tokyo has stopped. passengers have gotten out and are walking on elevated tracks. everyone is being led to the 1:now.floorcc after the second quake at tokyo airport. scroll up a little bit more and you can see that is the latest ap story, she's now saying here, just nine minutes ago, she says omg, i'm watching nhk footage now, buildings being washed away in sendi. on the eastern coast of japan. go to a google map. the "a" right here where is on the coast of eastern japan. and north of tokyo. and you can just tell this is -- this is something very, very strong for them and they've been in japan for many, many years. guys. >> george, let you continue to communicate with your friends there, so we new information you're going to get out of there. let's go back to bill ellsworth from the usgs. he's with us on the phone right now. bill, you've

. >> she's spent her summers of her life in kyoto. she's worried about her mom despite assurances she's okay. >> and there is one group in the bay area being hard hit ai. japanese search and rescue team finished training today and want to return to their homeland and help. >> they don't know how they're going to get home or when. rescuing people is technical and involve goings through damaged buildings and buildings that might collapse and filled with rubble. and in the case of a japanese earthquake going into flooded areas. this is an area that they know wex they twont september 11th new york city, hurricane katrina in new orleans and trained fire departments. it turns out this week, they were training a group of firemen from japan. >> when the fire protection district train squads from other places they like tri to make it real. today real took on new meaning. >> i -- right now. >> when mike returns to japan he and his fellow firemen will be doing there, what they did here today and so will these men from menlo park. the difference.

as we check out drive times for you, no delays on the nimitz right now on 880 southbound, 238 to da kyotoyour way through san leandro and oakland. a slow at castlewood but not affecting drive times. 580 to 101 only 30 minutes as you make your way through the south bay. >> it's a tough morning. not much going on. i'm sorry. >> i love it! >> we'll be back with a local update at 7:24. join us for the midday news at join us for the midday news at never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles compared to what a cancer patient goes through is a walk in the park. from the moment i registered, people started immediately supporting me and asking me how they could help. you meet the most wonderful, inspiring people. when you accomplish those 60 miles, it's truly life-changing. (man) register today for the... and receive $25 off your registration fee. because everyone deserves a lifetime.

conan nolan covered the kyoto earthquake in 1995.ith a report on the lessons learned. >> reporter: froir what happened on friday, the major test for the japanese seismic community was in 1995, the kobe earthquake. in covering that, it became clear that officials there needed to do more in terms of seismic safety, retrofitting old buildings and standards for new constructi construction. they also learned a lot about emergency response. frankly, they failed in both those areas torks a large degree, which is why thousands died in the kobe quake. one of the reasons why this is so disheartening this time is they had learned from those mistakes. structural engineering had advanced considerably. the seismic code and enforcement has also been exceeded here. perhaps the best of any nation in the world. but you can't really do much about an 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast and the tsunami that comes on shore. yes, they have a system, they have an alarm system and people are trained to run when there's a coastal quake, but still, you're g

the kyoto news agencies reported that 1800 homes have been destroyed. we had this report on when the earthquake hit. >> in a shop in japan's second yalta -- second-largest city, staff and customers were caught off guard as the earthquake struck. the intensity of the earthquake increases. the power goes out. parts of the ceiling crashed down as patrons seek cover. a camera team is working outside and captures images of the moment the earthquake struck. shock and alwe. >> it is too dangerous, shouts the camera man. we have to get away from the building. >> i cannot stay on my feet. i have never experienced such an earthquake before. >> i had a feeling something like this would happen. it is really frightening. i am almost 70 years old and have never been through anything like this. >> the earthquake caused severe and widespread damage. the north of the country was started -- hardest hit, around the city of sendai, closest to the epicenter. in an instant, millions were left homeless, their houses and destroyed. many roads are torn up and impassible. but th

it goes all the way back to the kyoto treaty.eople realized at that time that we were not -- in the clinton administration, we were not going to ratify that treaty. in fact, president clinton never brought it up for ratification. people realize this is something that would be very, very expensive for america. so after that in 2003 and 2508, 205 and on up, there are about seven different times that members of the senate brought up cap-and-trade legislation. it was not 2003 when the m.i.t. and the wharton school came out with analyses of what it would cost to do a cap-and-trade bill. the amount always ranged between $300 billion and $400 billion a year. now, i quite often say when you're talking about billions and billions of dollars, you have to bring this home so people understand what we're talking about. in this case, in my state of oklahoma, this would equate to something a little bit over $3,000 for every family, every family that files a tax return. now, the reason i bring this up at this time is that they tried to pass this

whereas the kyoto framework constitutes the basic instrument in order to reach the binding reduction that we have, we have to realize the conservatives are not acting. >> the honorable member. >> the prime minister, gives billions for stealth fighters, corporations, but only transfer for families. the families, the finance minister has ruled that any compromise and the conservatives have new attacks add on the air that prove they wanted the budget to fail all alone. by hiding the cost of their still fighting some parliament the conservatives have been sold out in the canadians, and it means we can't trust their budget members. [speaking in french] >> translator: the charges and jail time for breaking election laws as well as the investigations. now he wants an election to avoid scrutiny from the auditor general on his disgraceful $1 billion g20 photo op. tricky liberals can no longer support and out of touch and out of control that deceit committees and attacks our democracy. the prime minister doesn't make the rules. canadian to do. >> the next stage of canada's economic action plan