city of los angeles port is one of the busiest in the -- it is the busiest in the united states and with la long beach harbor one of the busiest in the world. the port is in the midst of a serious re-evaluation of its infrastructure needs based on the effects of global climate change which again we can anticipate and which are going to require major infrastructure improvements. there's a bridge between areas of the port that's only a few feet above sea level. obviously that bridge will not be functional for much longer into the future. so we are in a mode of looking at prevention b

city of los angeles port is one of the busiest in the -- it is the busiest in the united states and with la long beach harbor one of the busiest in the world. the port is in the midst of a serious re-evaluation of its infrastructure needs based on the effects of global climate change which again we can anticipate and which are going to require major infrastructure improvements. there's a bridge between areas of the port that's only a few feet above sea level. obviously that bridge will not be functional for much longer into the future. so we are in a mode of looking at prevention but we are also looking at adaptation. because we have no choice. we have to be doing both at the same time. we also, i think, need to be looking not only at the quantity of supplies of things but also of quality when it comes to our water supply the aqua duct that supplies southern california, the state water project owned aqua duct is also vulnerable to small levels of -- small amounts of sea level rise which could breach the levies in the san francisco sacramento bay delta region. so we are intimately tied to

city of los angeles port is one of the busiest in the -- it is the busiest in the united states and with la long beach harbor one of the busiest in the world. the port is in the midst of a serious re-evaluation of its infrastructure needs based on the effects of global climate change which again we can anticipate and which are going to rir

. >> reporter: this morning the disney cruiseship wonder docked into the port of los angeles in the wake>> it was somber for a while. >> reporter: it comes after the disappearance of 24-year-old rebecca. she worked for the ship's youth program. on tuesday she didn't show up for her onboard shift. >> that morning they did and announcement calling her name asking her to report or to call an extension. >> reporter: she was last seen when the ship was in port. >> they said there was a missing crew member. >> reporter: today disney cruise line released a statement saying we have been doing everything possible to find rebecca including conducting searches the latest as recently as saturday. >> awhile later they announced they were not able to locate her. they were really good about keeping us up-to-date. >> reporter: the ship is nearly 1000 feet long. disney cruise line say it has been searched twice. her parents have traveled from england to meet with investigators about their search for their daughter. >> i don't know. it is frightening to think about it really. >> reporter: in the meantime

. >> reporter: this morning the disney cruzship docked into the port of los angeles in the wake of a mystery. >> it was somber for a while. >> reporter: it comes after the disappearance of 24-year-old rebecca corn. a crew member that worked for the ship's youth program. on tuesday she didn't show up for her onboard shift. >> that morning they did and announcement calling her name asking her to report or to call an extension. >> reporter: she was last seen when the ship was off cabo san lucas. she was seen on the phone but details of that conversation have not been revealed. >> they announced it over the airways and said there was a missing crew member. could you please help work for the person. >> reporter: today the cruiseline released a statement saying we have been doing everything possible to find rebecca. the latest search was on saturday. >> awhile later they announced again that they were not able to locate her. they were really good about keeping us up-to-date. everybody was really worried. >> reporter: the ship is nearly 1000 feet long. disney cruiseline says it has been sea

disneyland and some of the largest entertainment venues where we're 25 minutes drive away from the port of los angeles and long beach. the list goes on and on. let me ask you about the u.s. visit program, because the last time you were before us, i asked you about that. i see that in the present budget, the program has been cut by 19%. of course, i'm very interested about this visa overstay issue, which has a lot of implications like with visa waiver programs and of course when we saw the 9/11 people, a lot of the terrorists overstayed their visa. my question is if we're cutting the moneys to visa -- to the visit program, how are we going to get this exit piece done with respect to the u.s. visit program? >> well, that again probably requires a longer answer than i have time right here, but let me just respectfully suggest that again, we'll provide you with some supplemental information, but a biometric exit program for a country like the united states where you have air, sea and huge land borders, is going to be extraordinarily expensive to accomplish. and our view is that at this point in time, that

los angeles in japan. it was that same crew that pulled a woman in haiti from the rubble of port-au-prince six days after the devastating earthquake there. her story inspired a country. the team will be looking for another miracle this time in japan, where some 10,000 may still be missing. >> to me, it is the right thing to do. as a member of the international search and rescue community. >> reporter: just back from new zealand the los angeles team worked side-by-side with a team from japan. now the japanese team is headed home to a disaster that hits home like nothing they have ever seen before. miguel almaguer, nbc news, japan. >> for more on the relief effort and how you can help, go to our website. nightly.msnbc.com. >>> when "nbc nightly news" continues here from tokyo, a question about what we are learning about the power of the tsunami. good news in the disaster here in japan, it's the thought that this could have been much worse. this is a country that spends time preparing for disasters with constant drills and disaster exercises. it is likely that those drills saved thousands of lives. we get more

los angeles keep looking. but so far they're not finding the survivors they hoped for. on thursday, two ports train line reopened in northeastern japan, relieving some of the bottlenecks that have prevented supplies from reaching hundreds of thousands of evacuees. it's hoped that from now on the relief effort can begin in earnest. lucy craft, cbs news, tokyo. >>> coming up a little bit later on "the early show," the latest on the battle to stop nuclear meltdown in japan. plus, what to do as the radiation fallout heads toward the u.s. >>> also a live report from the pentagon on the possible military action in libya. >>> and the erica hill experiment. she heads to the health food store in search of superfoods. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching, everybody, i'm betty nguyen. have a great weekend. ,,,,,,

search-and-rescue teams like this one from los angeles keep looking but so far they're not finding the survivors they hoped for. on thursday, two ports and a train line reopened in northeastern japan, relieving some of the bottlenecks that have prevented supplies from reaching hundreds of thousands of evacuees. it's hoped that from now on the relief effort can begin in earnest. lucy craft, cbs news, tokyo. >> couric: now to the battle for libya. moments ago, the u.n. security council voted to authorize all necessary measures to protect civilians from moammar qaddafi's forces. that includes imposing a no-fly zone to ground his warplanes. qaddafi loyalists now control all of western libya and he vows to retake cities in the east now held by rebels. there were bloody battles today along the highway approaching benghazi where the rebels are headquartered. david martin is at the pentagon tonight. david, what does the u.n. resolution actually do? >> reporter: well, it clears the way for air strikes against qaddafi even as he is vowing to finish the job of crushing his opponents by tomorrow. about ten u.s. and allied warships are off the co

we understand los angeles county sheriff department says malibu peach closed as a precaution. new port beach also closed. ventura county closing beaches. we understand up in oregon some of the highways very crowded as people evacuate as a precaution because steve mentioned as we heard from the national weather service cent city is often a very, it was hit hard way back after the earthquake in alaska. so again we are watching our coastline here after that earthquake in japan. stay with us, we'll be back.

disney cruise ship last week met with investigators sunday after the vessel returned to its home port in los angeles, of chester, england, was reported missing at sea tuesday after she failed to report for a scheduled shift on the disney wonder. the ship was on a seven- day cruise along the western coast of mexico. officials on board told the family that coriam, who had worked for the cruise line since last summer in its youth services department, made a phone call from the ship shortly before being reported missing. because the disney wonder is registered in the bahamas, police there were handling the investigation. the mexican navy and the u.s. coast guard also were involved. . now we want to go to will tran hopefully he is there live when we can get a report. >> will: (inaudible) >> reporter: we are having difficulty with wells microphone. we will keep an eye >> reporter: careers are in san francisco were manhole covers blowoff that will tran is there. >> will: they don't know what caused this fire, not a transformer but a wire shorted and it caused gas to build up. that caused the manhole cover

disneyland and some of the largest entertainment venues where we're 25 minutes drive away from the port of los angelest goes on and on. let me ask you about the u.s. visit program, becausehe last time you were before us, i asked you about that. i see that in the present budget, the program has been cut by 19%. of course, i'm very interested about this visa overstay issue, which has a lot of implications like with visa waiver programs and of course when we saw the 9/11 people, a lot of the terrorists overstayed their visa. my question is if we're cutti the moneys to visa -- to the visit program,ow are we going to get this exit piece done with respect to the u.s. visit program? >> well, that again probably requires a longer answer than i have time right here, but let me just respectfully suggest that again, we'll provide you with some supplemental information, but a biometric exit program fo a country like the united states where you have air, sea and huge land borders, is going to be extraordinarily expensive to accomplish. and our view is that at this point in time, th is something that we could bette

los angeles and fairfax, virginia, scour the town. and they do have rescue dogs, listening equipment, state of the art. so far, no survivors there. up in a port city north of us, unexpected joy. this man, rescued after five days buried in rubble. reunions in person. and by phone. and not far away, one of those signs of community we've come to expect everywhere in japan. the noodle shop escaped the water, but is offering meals at no charge. the cook says his home was washed away, but he comes to work, he says, because he wants to do something for those that have even less. and we have seen so much generosity here. >>> when we come back, what is the real danger that radiation from japan could travel all the way to the united states? and how does that compare to the radiation we receive already in our daily lives? ♪ i have clients say it's really hard to save for the future and they've come to a point where it's overwhelming. oh gee, i'm scared to tell you i've got this amount of credit card debt or i've got a 15-year-old and we never got around to saving for their college. that's when i go to work. we talk, we start planning. we can fix this. w

disneyland and some of the largest entertainment venues where we're 25 minutes drive away from the port of los angelesd long beach. the list goes on and on. let me ask you about the u.s. visit program, because the last time you were before us, i asked you about that. i see that in the present budget, the program has been cut by 19%. of course, i'm very interested about this visa overstay issue, which has a lot of implications like with visa waiver programs and of course when we saw the 9/11 people, a lot of the terrorists overstayed their visa. my question is if we're cutting the moneys to visa -- to the visit program, how are we going to get this exit piece done with respect to the u.s. visit program? >> well, that again probably requires a longer answer than i have time right here, but let me just respectfully suggest that again, we'll provide you with some supplemental information, but a biometric exit program for a country like the united states where you have air, sea and huge land borders, is going to be extraordinarily expensive to accomplish. and our view is that at this point in time, that is

los angeles in japan. >> you're out of here. >> reporter: it was that same team that pulled a woman six days after in port-au-prince.r another miracle, this time in japan, where some 10,000 may still be missing. >> to me, it's the right thing to do. as a united states mission and as a member of the search and rescue community. >> reporter: just back from new zealand, the los angeles team worked side-by-side there with a team from japan. now they're headed home to a disaster that hit home like nothing they've ever seen before. >>> the japanese red cross joins us now on the telephone. can you tell us what the most urgent needs are right now in sendai? >> well, now concentrating on providing the medical support. we have more than 80 medical teams and some of them already arrived in the ground and starting to help the local hospitals or started to put their clinic decide to evacuate some centers. and the team says there are many evacuation centers which has no support at all. so, we need to go and reach the victims staying in places. >> are there places that you simply can't get but you know there are people waiting for

foods going to and from the consumers and workers of the united states go through the ports of long beach and los angeles. he was always dedicated to ensuring that that was a very high priority. and he had this great focus on reforming and improving the operations of the federal government. mr. speaker, he was an institutionalist. he loved this body. understanding that the deliberative nature of service here and of our work is very important and can't be forgotten. steve leaves his wonderful wife, they were married for 357 years. two children, one -- 57 years. two children, one grandchild. i have to say i miss his advice, counsel, friendship, and camaraderie, and i would like to in the spirit of bipartisanship, yield to my friend from manhattan, mrs. maloney, who joins me, served with him on the government reform committee. mrs. maloney: i thank the gentleman. i rise in tribute to representative steve horn. he was a thoughtful, dedicated, honorable man who built his record on bipartisan adoption -- cooperation and commitment to good government. he was a legislator's legislator. he was deeply committed to

los angeles coming up in about 15 minutes. >>> all right. we have a flash flood watch out. that's today and tomorrow for the oat coast. santacruz mountains down towards selena -- salinas valley. flash flood posted for lake port at clearlake and the national weather service might issue a warning for the causeway. we have the system coming in. the rain's decreased up in mendocino county, lake county and sonoma county. it's still on the go for parts of interstate 80, back to 24, 680, highway 4. let me just give you the latest image right there starting to wind down. but still some scattered areas of moderate to heavy rain. down towards -- let me go down towards morgan hill and gilroy, there's been moderate rain stretching there. it looks like -- even though they've had a few inches of we're starting to see a decrease there, especially the san mateo bridge, and starts to decrease as you get towards sfo and daly city. >>> steve, right now traffic is not doing all that well. we have high wind advisories for several of the bay area bridges, including this one, the san mateo ridge. as you might imagine, driving around the bay area is not great right now. we've had a lot of fender- benders, a lot of accidents and a l

dwrgracia beatriz por el be porte >>> a ustedes >>> y vamos a continuar ahí en california un poco más al sur vamos con cecilia de nuestra afiliada del canal 34 en la ciudad de los Ángelesbservar el movimiento que está teniendo el mar. también hay helicópteros en este momento sobrevolando porque supuestamente la ola se esperaba para las 8: 32 de la mañana han pasado varios minutos porque son las 8: te52 y no vimos ningún cambio, estamos con el camas de bombero para las 8: 32 de la mañana han pasado varios minutos porque son las 8: te52 y no vimos ningún cambio, estamos con el camas de bombero capitcapitán de bomberos, rony? >>> no hay ningún cambio todavía >>> en un tsunami no se puede confiar en qué momento se espera una segunda ola? >>> no sabemos ahorita pero vamos a estar aquí esperando como unas, dos, tres horas vamos a estar aquí preparados en caso que vamos a tener que evacuar a áreas del puerto >>> pero hasta ahora no han habido evacuaciones en los Ángeles pero se cerró el muelle más importante >>> sí, y también la parte de cabrío y otras partes cerca de la costa >>> y ¿cuál es la recomendación para la población en general no sólo quienes viven cerca de la playa