let's bring in david, who just came back from manila. manila.w up in i grew up around these traffic jams. anyone who has been there has been through it, unless your plane gets in at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. >> these are the ships outside of the manila port. >> this is the function on the terminal. this is what you get. this is the manila bay. that is where the port is. this is where the airport is. that is where the business district is. one of the districts within the greater manila area, the capital. what we have is the mayor of ,anila, the former president impose a truck ban. the only exceptions are those. things like perishable goods like food. carrying things like perishable goods like food. , 3:00 p.m., morning all the way up until 9:00 p.m. so you have a gridlock now. i.c.t., international container services, there is a pileup of ships did and the number of , theiners in the port number of days that they have lingered in the port has gone up from an average of six to ten. over 90% capacity right now. it is supposed to be below 60

gridlock in manila.have experienced it on the streets, but what about at sea? a traffic jam, and we bring in our eye in the sky, david inglis. let's talk traffic in manila. >> it is a chronic problem. hasody who has been there complained about it. i have grown up in it. the mayor there, the former president, they recently enacted a truck ban, and what that essentially means is if you have a truck, you are supposed to be off the roads from 5:00 in the morning until 9:00 and then 3:00 until 9:00 p.m.. it used to be 16 hours straight, and he scaled it down already. still, what that has led to is problems. in order for you to get to the you have to pass through the city, so what it has led to, and, in particular, there is a really cool function we have on the bloomberg terminal. it shows you the ships into the port. if you see purple triangles, those are the cargo passenger ships. you can look at the bulk carriers. and these indicate multiple vehicles. now, it is not only that. if you look in the ports, ther

the citye manila area, of manila -- don't confuse the two. it has actually improved quite a lot. it probably will be a drag to drive. thatyone can tell you traffic is probably as bad as it is in new delhi, india. >> we will take a break. on the other side, it is the afternoon business in tokyo. japan opening after it's lunchtime break. china and vietnam square off. electionive-week enters the last lap. and declaring independence from the irs. the also how the markets are trading. >> moody's believes that china will be the biggest economy in the world by the end of this year. china shares, look at that, up by currently 2%. this morning, two hours ago, it was quite a different. it started below the game line. the stock market gained. they are locked in this dispute in the south china sea. china brushing it off. the overall pie chart, you can the miners and the overall impact. up by 1.8% currently. financials to check to industrials to basic materials. that, great gaining ground for the last hour and a half. it opened lower and has taken off 2048. best performance in the last two mo

we want to thank lisa manila for being with us from polo conway and from johannesburg. miss you tons of them go thank you for being with us. thanks to all of you for your comments and reactions. here in the halls and get to stay with us more to come. and. and. i know lou. i do. the storage unit but twenty seconds to the twenty fifth of may. eu citizens from portugal to form and go vote in the european elections decisions by the european parliament in support of the lives of europeans would embark on a journey you look across the continent the atlantic ocean to call them mountains. we'll go face to face with all sorts of europeans to find out but still it really is the european thought. so if you're an old post i kept on saying to them. are you. i do i don't see how the is the singer. just two house committees offer some bad habits or restricting government surveillance the latest on that ahead. a loss to push his good looks less hands on an impostor google promises and its automatic scanning of students e mails for targeted advertisements. coming up the case. any us tha

that is why the manila international airport authority is investigating this incident.o sort out what happened. >>> we're going to call this segment full-on tech time. >> full-on tech time. >> to tell us about this first item of tech that is possibly going to blow your mind. >> i hope. >> we're going to bring in zach. >> hey, zach. >> hello. >> this first item of tech is unbelievable. >> this is sio and the first molecular center you can put in the palm of your happened. >> it can recognize this is my hand, this is a mouth. this is my note pda. >> not only that, but it's going to tell you the chemical makeup of that item. if you're at tnto know exactly calories are in this apple scan the apple and it tells you, the it recognizes the molecular makeup of the apple. >> is it just for food? doesn't the fda tell us those things? >> it's for anything you can scan. pharmaceuticals, check to see the pill you're taking is the right pill. also -- >> plants. >> identifying stuff in nature. that's cool. >> this is a spectrometer. how it works every molecule interacts with light dif

in manila, the key index jumped 1.2% to 6,847, its highest close in nearly a year. investors were encouraged by news that standard & poor's raised the country's credit rating. >>> now things are not looking too great for china, though. its economy will likely lose momentum this year. the organization for economic cooperation and development cut its growth forecast for gross domestic product to 7.4% in the world's second largest economy. now that's much lower than the previous estimate of 8.2% and below the chinese government target of around 7.5%. growth for 2015 is expected to slow down further to 7.3%. the organization says the downgrade reflects the government's efforts in curbing credit risks and controlling excess capacity. for insight, ai uchida spoke with daniel so in hong kong, a strategist at cmb international securities. >> at this time it is a reasonable one because the forecast six months, 8.2%, was way too optimistic. perhaps they have underestimated china's new leader's determination in reform. premier li keqiang is more pro-reform. this new forecast i

and in manila the key index there down 1.75%, to finish at 6,762.hat's a retreat from this year's high that it hit on tuesday. a wide range of stocks ran into heavy selling. shares of consumer goods companies underperformed. >>> well consumers in japan tightened their purse strings at supermarkets in april. this was in reaction to the higher sales tax. the japan chain stores association reported that sales at major superintendents nationwide last month were down 5.4% from a year earlier on a same-store basis. that's the first decline in three months. demand was particularly weak for processed food and beverages with long shelf lives. sales of detergents and cosmetics were also sluggish. but association officials say the pace of decline was within expectations. they say sales are likely to recover from next month, as consumer appetite remains steady. japanese leaders have been hoping exports will pick up a bit of momentum but things are not going quite as they wanted. they found out that the trade balance is in a deficit for the 22nd month in a row.

manila released these military surveillance photographs it says shows chinese land reclamation on one of the islands. beijing said the island is part of chinese territory. china, the philippines and nine other asian countries signed an agreement aimed at protecting conflict in this disputed area. >> japan's prime minister is supporting a proposal to end a ban on its military fighting overseas to defend allies. this recommendation opens up a domestic debate about japans pass sift constitution and is alarming china. we report from beijing. >> japan's pass sift constitution forbids a conventional military. it that a self defense force. but to japan's neighbors, it still looks like the real thing, even though japan's not fired a shot against an enemy in almost 70 years. that could be about to change. >> the japanese constitution was created with the hope of bringing happiness to the people. currently, i do not believe that it says we should abandon our responsibility to protect the lives of japanese people. le prime minister declared support for a release of the constraints on military. h

they are believed to have organized syndicates and have been operating within manila.groups do is open fake facebook accounts, they make friends with different nationalities all across the country, they lure them into open skype accounts and convince them to reveal intimate videos or photos of themselves, and afterwards try to extort money from them, around 200 or $500. cyber crime is a major problem in this country. it is not that they are running out of laws to protect them. the cyber crime bill has just been filed a few months ago, but the major problem really is enforcement for them to go after cyber crimes here, in fact some operated by foreign groups. they need the sophisticated infrastructure, and this is how interpol and several government organizations are involved. >>> relatives of passengers aboard the missing malaysian airlines plane have been told to go home. there was a heavy police presence outside of one of the hotels where relatives were told they had to leave by friday morning. . >>> in china namlys have traditionally preferred to educate boys over gi

she had 4 children 2, 3, 4 manila where she has at - not seen them since she's come to the country she has hired a lawyer to help her children grand jury to san francisco. mom is known for third place word winner and also a minister at st. patrick's cathedral and encourages people to look at the filipinos that hours folks for decades. she helps educatorer and ask people not forget the brick and mortar places and i should mention when you visit make sure to ask about her travels and families she's got 6 photo albums and all here church activities she ended by saying i'm happy she gets to the restaurant at the 4:00 a.m. and often doesn't leave until 11. she's a resident in san francisco and we want to support the heart of san francisco so i want to thank you so much for obeying being the center beyond nourish us and being a refugee and letting people come and hang out at your restaurant we want to support businesses like i in san francisco (clapping) >> thank you for i don't know what to say i feel so good. all my sports are here supervisor avalos thank you. first of all, thank god and e

. >> manila released these military surveillance photographs showing chinese land reclamation on one of the south china seas. >>> south korea has charged four crew members of the capsized ferry with manslaughter. the accident last month killed more than 300 people, most of whom were high school students. 11 other crew members have been charged with negligence. they have been under criminal investigation accused of escaping the sinking vessel leaving passengers to drown. >>> 11 bodies have been pulled from the ferry that sank in a river south of the bangladeshy capital. they were traveling from dekka. at least four managed to swim to safety. >>> two palestinians have been killed and four horror injured during clashes. it comes up as thousands rallied in several cities in the west bank and gaza to mark the 66th anniversary of what they consider the catastrophe of israel's creation. >>> russia has threatened to stop the supply of gas to europe if ukraine does not pay its bills. he said today multiple member states including slovakia said if ukraine does not pay for its gas it will not b

would go to the southernmost island but leahy was chosen as the from the vanilla campaign -- the manila campaign. >> you mention the u.s. was surprised by war with japan but if you go to pearl harbor a museum exhibit and in tuz said japanese exhibits on the west side then the japanese side, but the japanese were competing for resources and the u.s. was a impediment to diplomatic relations breaking down, japanese were making war against regional areas including china where the u.s. chose not to actively intervene. it appeared everything was headed towards more so why was he was surprised? >> not everyone franken roosevelt put an attack two days before on pearl harbor so you want dash so he probably knew that they would attack probably monday december 8. he thought they would strike south indonesia indonesia, philippines, sing apore but pearl harbor was our real sharks that they could project that far that early. that was a surprise but when macarthur heard about it he said they have attacked pearl harbor that is the strongest point. so i correct myself. not everyone was surprised but whe

i'll be proud going to santa clara or a san jose or shanghai or manila. $5 million is what we do this year and the next year, we want to know how that money and insight more investment in our green technology and green jobs n this is the jobs for the future this is what the kids in the bayview hunters point and in the housing and kids in chinatown and in the mission when am i going to get a substantial green job not a job that pollutes or a job that i expel my head down to make money a job to share with our generations of people this is would we're doing and i'm so proud of the family and proud of our private partners in helping us to get to this successful point. thank you and congratulations to everyone (clapping.) so next i'd like to invite the president of the board of supervisors who recently had a hearing and asked you us the puc how to fund go solar you asked and it happened; right? so why don't you come up and say a few words. supervisor david chiu. the sun is shining >> >> we're going to do a couple more hearings i want to thank you all for coming together. first of all, i'm

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and we have the latest from manila. >> reporter: philippine officials are saying they have arrested dozensspects believed to be involved in what they call sex-tortion groups around the country and 58 are believed to have syndacites and operating across the country and they open false facebook accounts and make friends with nationalitys across the country and lure them into opening skype accounts and convince them to reveal intimate videos or photos of themselves and afterwards try to extort money like 200-500 according to philippine officials. cyber crime is a major problem in this country and it's not that they are running out of laws to protect them. there are enough government laws that have been filed, cyber crime bill filed a couple months ago but it's enforcement for philippine officials and police to go after cyber crime groups here and some operated by foreign groups, they need the sophisticated infrastructure and this is how interpol and organizations across the world are involved. >> two inmates have been killed in an explosion at a prison in the u.s. state of florida, no inmates

and then across the tropics, well afternoon thunderstorms really continue to erupt into manila, and evenr towards bangkok and much of thailand. for that matter, here on your tuesday. let's stay on the topic of tropics, though. we're talking about hurricane amanda. this is one powerful storm system. the strongest hurricane in the eastern pacific in the month of may. on record. and this one, take a look at this, winds 230 kilometers per hour. pressure down to 941 hba. the good news, is that this is expected to weaken out as it does track off here towards the north so before it gets anywhere near the mexican coastline, it's going to be a low pressure area just due to the cold sea surface temperatures and high vertical wind shear that will start to immakt that storm later on this week. i do want to talk about the severe weather here. where you need the rainfall in the u.s. is in southern california. take a look at this. you have a dry river bed there in san jose. you've been in drought for some time. this is what i want to point out. no fishing from the docks. so typically you must have some

after work began on the nuclear power plant north of manila, it is dormant and never produced a wattf power. the government denies the country is going through a power crisis, blackouts occur all the time. in the southern regions, power outages last up to 12 hours a day. this puts a strain on the country's economy. the government says it will replace costly oil imports with home-grown renewable energy. making the switch will take a large amount of money and time. snoop voters in >>> voters in switzerland have less than an hour to decide whether to increase the minimum wage. it will set the rate at $25. as we report from zurich, they are expected to reject the proposal. >> reporter: on the shores of lake suric, the restaurant is one of many businesses that opened up in recent years. employees earnt around $3, 700. the owners say they can't afford to pay people more. >> the question we ask ourselves is if the customer would be ready to pay the price. when we have to pay for that, we have to put up the prices for a coffee. >> reporter: many european nations struggle with unemployment an

it was amazing i get to represent the neighborhood where the former manila was there was a dark time in the 80s we were concerned with filipino and asian-americans being pushed out of our city years later that's changed to where we are today authenticity incredible we're here celebrating filipino-americans and other san franciscans. i want to thank you you and end with one word that the mayor said. thank you very much >> thank you supervisor chiu. next i'd like to introduce supervisor jane kim who represented district 6 where we are today and she's been working diligently with the administer and the office of the k3w7b9 affairs to make sure we got her today and make sure we were able to certify to log as one language today >> thank you new mexico and welcome to the south of market it's important we celebrate this to log and filipino i'm here as a community that has celebrated the home of betsy carmichael and this the the first school in the country to have a bilingual to log center. we represent the largest number of filipino-americans in san francisco. we're a little bit closer to c

the system. 153 hospitals spread around this country and even a huge clinic in the philippines in manila. it was going relatively well, but it had some hiccups in it and when we handed off the transition thinking we were going to be giving these books to romney, we gave them instead to obama and it said this electronic scheduling system still has some wrinkles that need to be wired out. >> is it fair to say that neither administration has been able to fix this system? >> the bush administration and the obama administration? >> let me finish the point. they took this whole system we had and for some reason set it aside and went back to the old local laptop computer -- >> so is that secretary shins i shinseki's mistake do you think? >> i don't know why they ever did that. we had spent about $120 million on it and it was really starting to work. >> but when you resign, remind our viewers why you resigned. there was a lot of criticism. there was pressure on you as well. >> well, there's to pressure on me to resign. i have no pressure. the big flap we had on my watch we had somebody that took

daisuke azuma, nhk world, man a manila. >>> japan's first atm for bitcoin is up and running. the number of virtual currency users continues to grow. that's despite the recent bankruptcy of mount gox, a major bitcoin exchange based in tokyo. >> one, two, three. >> the atm was installed at a bar in a downtown area. about 40 people gathered on the inaugural day to give it a try. the machine takes in cash and exchanges it into the virtual currency which is then sent to the users' smartphones at the current rate. >> translator: bitcoin users are on the rise around the world. >> translator: this is so exciting. >> mount gox's bankruptcy caused millions of dollars in losses for customers around the globe. the firm was once the world's largest bitcoin exchange. despite the setback, the number of bitcoin users is estimated to exceed 3 million across the world. new exchanges for the virtual currency continue to be launched, even here in japan. >>> all right. that is going to wrap it up for business hour. here's a check of the markets. >>> heavy rain and strong storms are hitting parts

afternoon thunderstorms developing across the tropics still. 34 for your high in manila. same thing over there towards bangkok, as well. not really anything widespread expected through the coming days. then off towards the north, beijing high of 24 there on your wednesday. some sunny skies in the forecast. let's take a look over towards the americas, though, and you can see right here, this area of cloud cover, that is the main topic throughout the rest of the week out here across the u.s., and southern portions of canada. right now that's continuing to push off there towards the east, dragging in some cool air behind it. so we're looking at basically cold rain from the western great lakes, northern portions of the plains, and then into the mountains, believe it or not, some snowfall could come out of this. now conversely, the southwest is very dry and very warm, so we don't just have critical fire weather risk out here. extreme. what that means, you have the fire bands in place, any fires that do start, they could spread very quickly. we're already seeing numerous wildfi

hong kong, you're going to yet again see another day of wet conditions, and manila, you'll also see a very warm day. highs in the mid 30s, with a chance of rain and thunderstorms. let's take a look at the americas. we told you about a system that was responsible for bringing snow in the rockies. and some strong thunderstorms in the central plains. and also into the midwest. you can see the clouds associated with this front is continuing to persist. we're going to see the system sliding toward the east, and that's going to bring another chance for some rain and thunderstorms. i think in terms of the severity, not quite so much. but there may be some isolated strong storms, particularly for the southern portions of this front. ahead of it, very warm conditions. 30 degrees in atlanta, 31 in d.c., with a chance of rain thunderstorms. denver, after highs in the single digits, you will see highs of around 11 degrees coming up on tuesday. let's wrap things up with a look at europe. we have been talking about a couple of systems that have been persistent. one down towards italy. another cold

afternoon thunderstorms popping up in manila towards bangkok. north of that front, sunny and clear in beijing. over towards seoul a high of 20 on your stus. let's look over towards the americas. the pacific northwest, some showers out here for you. it's going to be rather wet and windy through the coming days. but eventually this low in this area of instability, that's going to work its way off towards the east through the central plains by wednesday. and that is going to be bringing that threat of some severe thunderstorms, even some large hail possibly out of this. and don't be surprised if we have the threat of tornadoes by midweek. a few things contributing to this. in the southwest we're looking at warm and dry conditions across much of texas, over towards oklahoma. actually some wildfires still burning out there in that state. still remaining cold into the northeast, though. frost advisories possible through into michigan through the early morning hours. chicago you're just seeing a high of 10 on your monday with those rain showers. you pr

down toward the south tropical afternoon thunderstorms popping up in manila. 35 there on your friday.hat's a look at your world weather. here's the extended outlook. >>> and that's all for this hour on "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching. a7guc >> you are watching "france vingt-quatre," thank you for watching. russian separatists in the ukraine say that voting will continue this weekend as planned despite calls from russian president vladimir putin to change this. we are standing by in donetsk with more. more trouble for the dismissed by mr. of thailand, she is charged with their religion of duty one day after being suspended from duty. 19 barclays will cut

soft tropical afternoon thunderstorms continuing the pub opposite there for you those of you in to manila the height of thirty five thousand take a look over towards the americas i don't want to talk about a lovely tropical disturbance the week is kind of a relative term because it still bringing rain showers read along the immediate coastline of central portions of mexico just northwest of acapulco is going to be really good lingering there so for those of you father in linen to mexico city. don't expect much rain showers there for you but if you're off the toys the west there is still a threat of flooding so some of the threat of flooding in the not so much that but the damaging winds tornadoes in a large pale another one a severe weather outbreaks going on across much of the central plains this storm system continued to roll off their twenties even rain showers and thunderstorms extracting all the way over towards new york city but its southern portions of another minnesota northern iowa where the high use the rocks of the wall tornadoes a large field of i seventy years in diameter it

now, as you know, he was quoted i think in manila as saying, well, he gets occasional singles. >> right. >> don't you think that standing up to putin requires babe ruth more than a guy hitting singles? isn't this really the big leagues? >> well, i think it's the big leagues. i think president obama is used to the big leagues and i think that his leadership on ukraine has been strong. the europeans now are stepping up to the plate and clearly it's going to take all of us. it's the sanctions from the united states, but it is also the sanctions -- >> i have to ask, if this has been strong -- >> yes. >> -- what would weakness look like? >> i think weakness would look like doing nothing. i think what the president has done has been strong and i think he's showing the leadership and i think the europeans will follow. >> do you think it's had any impact on putin? >> i do think it's had impact on putin and it's had impact on the russian economy, okay? now, whether putin is willing to sacrifice the russian economy, that's the question. but i do think it is absolutely had impact on the economy. >

the chinese embassy in manila. henceforth they made representations to the philippines of the detention of the eleven fiction. the embassy spokesman john law said the filly penises seriously infringed on the stove and lights on maritime rights of china prc the immediate release of a fisherman return of the prophecies and pull the philippines to inshallah name will such acts all taken in the future. the one chinese please has detained a suspect on charges of leaking national secrets to a foreign websites. the seventy year as a woman is now in custody in august last year before a website released a pacified chinese still commands which was reprinted by many other agencies. a special team was organized to investigate the case with many invading nowadays search down to a suspect in april this year and found proof of progress piece linking her to the case the suspect confessed that she had obtained a copy of the document was june and type the contents of the documents and provide is to a director of the foreign websites

manila the twenty oh two to go it returned. for each breach. that evening at the weekend. to quote the beach. during the night talking about a woman who had been in the paddock. in that link good at attacking an attorney with that she be held if you want to make. one cannot achieve that talked with one of them it would be to recap the weekend i went to another. well why would it be that yet. you can get the chicken. fine and she does something about it before he could do that because nobody took any action. we have to worry. who are competent enough to escalate. i've been wanting to be killed. i feel today repeat with the coffers of the atlantic. repeat to you all will come back for you we knew that going to happen the city. i'm sorry from the nigerian women trust fund thanks so much for joining us on the line. we get to meet him in now way eu foreign policy chief catherine ashton has strongly condemned the killing of a french national working for the eu mission in ghana and the main block the diplomatic corps the man was traveling and then opened fire. another frenchman a

on land, which we are seeing is vietnam has said that basically, the prime minister was in manila asvietnam will explore legal options. we do know what those legal actions would be. i think they are saying it is more likely in light of this they will take legal action. maybe filing arbitration in court.international we'll see if it happened shortly. they will be putting a statement shortly most likely. >> a story we continue to monitor out of hanoi. thank you. said he is ready for talks with russia. they will accept the election results and are ready for talks. pro-russia force has taken lead. violence is great in eastern ukraine. forces launched air strikes. david nordin ultimatum to leave. many flights were canceled. in ultimatumrdin in-- and they ignored ultimatum to leave. let's find out what is happening in eastern ukraine. what is going on? what is next? >> well, after the election on sunday, fighting has intensified as you said. heavy fighting at the airport a the center of the city throughout the night. know, that certain denial on the streets of what is going on because you

force the north stars tropics afternoon thunderstorms really dominating the forecast down here though manila time thirty five being tied at thirty four flip side of things take a look at will on the core idea for your id excessive snow fall or any current and continuing in your forecast. wrapping things up here in the arab well thunderstorms continuing the road cross country your off their towards the east and we've been talking about that severe weather back towards the west that right is still there. this can continue to bring some of rob's wedding some rain showers and some gusty winds extending upwards germany going through the coming days be on a gusty winds across much of the uk and some light showers could be out coming in with that also the iberian peninsula. what are the guys guys here on you or thirsty in the journal type twenty eight robot twenty two athletes twenty four s and sunny skies here going in the latter part you we as lihir of whether is it summer forecast. ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay. the air. it seems like this around she notes the interests. in it. its the tests. here

gwen: what the president had to say, this week he was in manila and at the end of his asian trip, in the philippines and he was asked this very question. he seemed a little frustrated. >> yeah. gwen: let's listen to a little bit of that. >> typically, criticism of our foreign policy has been directed at the failure to use military force. and the question i think i would have is why is everybody so eager to use military force? after we've just gone through a decade of war at enormous costs to our troops and to our budget? gwen: that's the problem, isn't it? >> talk a little bit about our european allies. you mentioned german chancellor merkel who was at the white house today. the germans have not been very enthusiastic about sanctions. i think -- what about the broader european community or other important european allies more of her thinking or are they more of a get tough with russia? >> so the president has turned to chancellor merkel because of the relationship that germany has with russia and because the germans are considered so central to bringing the europeans along. and you c

sooning jay carney, the only time the president has commented on these allegations was on april 28th in manila a news conference where i asked him about this scandal. he said he was aware of it and and the big issue the white house is worried about how this is mushroom. it's an election year thing. now, with veterans, you have not just republicans going after it, you have democrats saying we need answers. we've got millions of veterans around the country wondering what's going on. >> so does this feel like the benghazi stuff? the irs stuff? the nsa stuff? it's almost every time something comes up, the administration says boy, you know, we're going to get to the bottom of that. as soon as we get the bottom and we'll let you know, and some guy says hey dude, that was two yeergses before we find out what was going on and in fact what we find out some of this stuff is made up. >> he thinks there's a pattern here that where something pops up, you name the scandal, the issue, the controversy, however you want to phrase it and the cabinet secretary takes the heat. if it is kathleen sebelius on health

amazing. >> the beatles trip to manila didn't go so well.mobs threatening to kill. >> let's hope one direction has a better trip. >> that's the first thing when you heard philippines. >> he was grasping for what they had going on. >> how did you know that? >> i don't know. >> what are you? concerts r us? >> are you more of a harry gurl or zane girl? >> i don't know who those people are. >> i see the posts. >> yeah. actually, yeah. >> how about "the new york times." the fda is putting new regulations on tanning beds, mike. >> no. people around here are going to be very upset. >> just have one brought into your home. they will require manufacturers to post new warning labels. no one under the age of 18 should be allowed to use the beds. companies will have to ensure consumers don't emit too much radiation. do people still go to those? >> they still have those? >> i think the kids are doing the spray tan thing. >> my preference is the bed, but you know. if you got to go quickly, do the spray tan. >> you're old school. >> friday night 8:00, you

. >> you'd get your little manila folder full of pills of whatever you needed. >> hall of famer richard dent who played for the bears, 49ers, colts and eagles said team doctors told him he could play through a broken big toe in 1990 with the help of pain killers. >> eventually at some point you didn't need the shots anymore because all the nerves was pretty much dead and gone. >> both dent and van horne have signed on to the class action lawsuit. bears quarterback jim mcmahon another plaintiff, claims medical staff never told him he had a broken neck and instead just kept giving him more pills. gloria steven silverman said many players developed drug addiction and major health issues. >> once there's no further use for them on the field, they're sent off into society with long-term disabilities and injuries, and we're trying to get those responsible to pay for that. >> the nfl has a ban on the use of pain killers without a prescription, but there is no clear policy and oversight on how team doctors provide the drugs. commissioner roger goodell was asked about the lawsuit tuesday. >> i w

government subsidies much the philippines does not sub-sid ice. 30 years after the work began north of manila, work is dormant. it never produced one watt of power. the government denies the country is going through a power crisis, black outside occur. in the southern regions, power outages can last up to 12 hours a day, putting a strain on the country's economy. >> the government says it will replace costly oil imports with renewable energy. making the switch will take a large amount of money and time. >>> still ahead - how new rules set by the f.c.c. may drastically change the way you use the internet. next - net neutrality and what is means for you. >>> it's all about art in hong kong. more on the event attracting people from around the world. >>> welcome back. the internet superhighway may split into two separate lanes. many say if new rules go into effect you'll see more of this - buffering whilst waiting for the video to favourite websites. it centers around net neutrality, and who controls the internet. kath turner has the story. >> reporter: disorder at an otherwise orderly hearing. t

it provide water to people in manila and other provinces. even though the dry season has not reached its possiblying, water levels is below critical. operators have stopped irrigating over 100,000 hectares of farmland in order to save water. the government says it has begun clouds to make it rain. there's el nino weather event here that may cause more crop losses. unpredictable losses held back the agricultural sector. for years they found ways to cope, even with barely any hep from the government. now they are wondering whether they'll be able to do it on their own again. >>> and fears that the effect of el nino could bring damage to crops. for more, let's get on explanation from richard. tell us about the impact of el nino. >> the worst el nino back in the '90s, the damage to crops and fisheries was 40 billion. it can have a massive impact. to explain, this is a normal state of affairs. you have the trade winds taking cooler waters away to the west. during an el nino that pressure pattern weakens, and the trend reverses so you get warmer w

now, he's only commented publicly on this scandal once when i pressed him at a news conference in manila, listen. >> we asked the president of the united states to get involved. they sent somebody over from the white house. unfortunately, i think it's more crisis mode, spin control, if you will. >> as commander in chief, what do you pledge to fix that? >> i believe if somebody served their nation, they have to get the benefits and services they earned and my budgets have consistently reflected that. >> except going back to the very first year in office, the president made much more dramatic promises, he said in audition to more money in the budget, he would decrease wait times for veterans. that clearly has not happened at some hospitals, in fact, the 2009 speech was in phoenix and that's where the skapd scandal started. >> ed, one quick question, the report the va spent $5 million on furniture and conference rooms and makeovers, any response on that? >> certainly not being denied what it shows is government waste but suggests some incompetence. shinseki kept support. there are a few peo

president hasn't talked about the va scandal since april 28th when i pressed him at a news conference in manilaed jay carney on why the president is not speaking out more. >> if fixing this va is not a priority, why have we not heard from him since april 28th. >> there have been allegations. the veterans affairs administration has responded to those allegations by launching a review and suggesting and recommending and soliciting the independent investigation. >> eric can't,er. >> eric canter subpoena suggesting he ducks responsibility by having cabinet officials take the heat. officials here insist that the president is taking responsibility. he's put a top white house aid over at the va to oversee the review and also say that robert petzel would have stayed on for months while his replacement was confirmed by the senate. instead, he's out right away but republican jeff miller who chairs the veterans affairs committee, he says the fact petzel was retiring, to call it a resignation he says doesn't pass the smell test. martha? >> thank you, ed. >>> so meanwhile, a striking new comparison tonight

in nearly 30 years after work began on the power plant just north of manila, it remains dormant and hasever produced one wat of power. although the government denies the country is going through a power crisis, blackout did occur across the country all the time. in the southern region, poor outages can last up to 12 hours a day. this puts a strain on the country's economy. >> the government says it will replace costly oil i ampots with home-grown renewable injury making that switch will take large amounts of money and time. central philippines. a film made up of more than a thousand internet clips from the syrian conflict is screening out a competition at the cannes film fest vat "silver water" was directed by a film maker in ex a i'll and shot by citizen journalists, one from homs from canns. phil navelle has the story. >> reporter: these images emerged from syria on a daily basis now on the big screen here at the cannes film festival. silver water, it's maker cut together a thousand internet videos from exile in paris. one day, he got to talking to sima in homs. she said what would yo