. >>> voters in japan's niigata prefecture have chosen a new governor. yoneyama ran as an independent who took cautious stance on the restart of a nuclear plant in the prefecture. yoneyama succeeds the outgoing governor who also expressed concern about restarting the nuclear plant. >> translator: i will discuss the issue of restarting the nuclear plant soon. i will clearly state that a restart cannot be accepted under the current situation, because the safety of the plant can't be assured to protect the daily lives of residents. >> whether to restart the nuclear power plant was a major issue in the campaign. yoneyama pledged to uphold the incumbent's stance on the plan and called for a thorough review of what caused the 2011 disaster in fukushima. he was recommended by the japanese communist party, liberal party and social democratic party. he defeated the candidate endorsed by prime minister shinzo abe's ruling coalition. >> translator: i am extremely disappointed the candidate backed by the governing bloc lost. but i respect that the voters in niigata

niigata in the mid-teens.tokyo, bundle up, we are expecting temperatures to be in the mid-teens as we go through the next few days. as we look at the forecast for europe, we have a tale of two different weather situations. back toward the west we have mild and sunny conditions. over to the east, cold air is slipping through the area. that's creating snowy conditions over into western portions of russia and up toward the scandinavian peninsula, we're dealing with snow and windy conditions as well. that will continue as we go forward in time. now we're seeing a high of only 6 degrees in stockholm coming up on monday. snow with highs below freezing in moscow. let me point that out, that's cold. 3 for the high in kiev. down toward the south, we will see rain in athens as a low pressure system continues to linger into the area. iberian peninsula, highs in the low 20s as we go through monday. wrapping things up with a look at north america, a similar situation. dry conditions for situation, dry conditions for the ea