then here into northeastern asia, the big topic is the winter weather.e were talking about those above average temperatures plaguing much of western japan. it is going to cool off, looking at heavy snowfall, all this cold air coming in from northeastern china and russia. the high pressure is dominating, keeping things on the sunny side. we do have some showers down towards the south across southeastern china. temperatures are cooler. hong kong with a high of 20 year on friday. i'll heave you now with your extended outlook. >>> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for staying with us. stacey thunder: on this edition of native report, we view the dreamlike art of rabbett before horses strickland. we interview author erik redix about legendary ojibwe chief, joe white. and from this week's native report archives, a tribute to the late chairman of the agua caliente band of cahuilla indians, richard milanovich. we also learn something new about indian country and hear from our elders on this native report. [music p

out here in northeastern asia we have a bit of a storm pushing south of japan.he key thing is back towards the northwest we have very cold, chilly air there. that is associated with siberian high very strong at this point and as that drifts to the top will usher in chilly air. most of japan actually as we go ahead through the rest of thursday into friday and saturday the white stuff is really going to be coming down along the western seaboard. the sea of japan side but still chilly in other areas including tokyo. seoul just at the freezing point. beijing northerly winds but air quality definitely improved. here is the extended outlook. >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us. steves: the dramatic rock of cashel is one of ireland's most evocative sites. this was the seat of ancient irish kings for seven centuries. st. patrick baptized king aengus here in about 450 a.d. in around 1100, an irish king gave cashel to the church, and it grew to become the ecclesiastical capital of all ireland. 800 year

out here in northeastern asia we have a bit of a storm pushing south of japan.he key thing is back towards the northwest we have very cold, chilly air there. that is associated with siberian high very strong at this point and as that drifts to the top will usher in chilly air. most of japan actually as we go ahead through the rest of thursday into friday and saturday the white stuff is really going to be coming down along the western seaboard. the sea of japan side but still chilly in other areas including tokyo. seoul just at the freezing point. beijing northerly winds but air quality definitely improved. here is the extended outlook. >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us. >> hello, here we are, "in good shape" as always, coming to you from berlin. it's great to have you with us. obliviate! that's the magic spell from harry potter that makes people forget things. wouldn't it be great, if it was that easy to simply forget painful memories? in reality that's not the solution. especially patients

as we wrap things up here in northeastern asia, cooler temperatures back toward the west.sia minus 41 there reported during your morning low across this region and then just down toward the south, high pressure still dominating. that's keeping things on the cold side in fact, but you are going to be looking at some hazy conditions. we have those haze conditions in effect in beijing and shanghai as well. seoul, snow. thursday's high at zero. tokyo, partly cloudy skies. high of 11 on your thursday. here's your extended outlook. ♪ ♪ >>> and that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us. xxx dr. lekutat: hello and welcome to a brand new edition of "in good shape." french lady jeanne louise calment was the oldest documented human who ever lived. she lived to be an amazing 122 years old. she died in august 1997. she was alive when the eiffel tower was being built and was a contemporary of vincent van gogh. she learned fencing when she was 85 and still rode a bicycle at age 100. when you asked what she did to get that old, she s

let's also talk about over here towards northeastern asia, in japan this past week we have seen somencredible amounts of snow. we were seeing about 60 centimeters expected into the d.c. area. how about here in northern hokkaido. monday into thursday, we saw one area about three meters of snowfall. one of the big problems with this, everybody's happy if you're a ski town across this region but you get all that heavy snow on top of these layers, these ice layers that have been building up, it does create that threat of avalanche. already avalanche advisories in place in many of the mountains here from hokkaido extending down. we're still expecting more snow in the forecast but this is the big topic here. it's this big chill that is coming in. this is going to be some of the coldest air of the season if not the last several years. we have this high pressure dominating back toward the north. watch how far south the freezing line goes, at least to the upper levels, 850 millibars here. it pushes over taiwan, higher elevations might see snow. we're expecting snow south of shanghai and even

this is just the catalyst of all the record-breaking lows we have seen out here across much of northeastern asia in the last 48 hours. northern vietnam got near the freezing point, about 2 degrees. hong kong saw frost. first snow reported in recent history there over towards okinawa as well. there is a change in the forecast. we have a new storm developing. big thing with this, though, it's going to come in from the southwest and bring in warmer weather. for example, naha, a record low on sunday. we could see a record high by friday. all right. i'll leave you now with your extended outlook. >>> one more story for you. tourists to japan's highest waterfall have enjoyed an unexpected treat. they were able to see the falls in the western prefecture of wakayama freeze ahead of schedule. the site is one 133 meters high. a shinto shrine was built nearby to honor the flowing water as a deity. they say the temperature around the waterfall dropped to minus 5 degrees celsius in the morning. a priest at the shrine discovered early monday that the basin had frozen over. >> translator: usually it freezes aro

let's talk about northeastern asia here, i know the big topic we were talking about just earlier on, the above average temperatures in much of central and western japan. we've been looking at record-breaking, the plum blossoms are blooming across the tokyo area here because of the temperatures it's going to change up. we have cold air out of siberia, pulling down to the southeast. good news for those of you in northeastern china. you have the ice festival going on. the lines are close together right in here, that is that cooler air filtering in from the north, wednesday, thursday, over towards friday our freezing line dips farther to the south, that should bring much needed snowfall for some of the resorts off towards the north and western areas of japan. all right, i'll leave you now your extended outlook. >>> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us. >> hello and welcome to "global 3000." around the world, there is treasure just waiting to be found it can be precious metals... and also cash crops. in this edition of the progr

as we wrap things up here in northeastern asia, cooler temperatures back toward the west.sia minus 41 there reported during your morning low across this region and then just down toward the south, high pressure still dominating. that's keeping things on the cold side in fact, but you are going to be looking at some hazy conditions. we have those haze conditions in effect in beijing and shanghai as well. seoul, snow. thursday's high at zero. tokyo, partly cloudy skies. high of 11 on your thursday. here's your extended outlook. ♪ ♪ >>> and that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us. xxx steves: the dramatic rock of cashel is one of ireland's most evocative sites. this was the seat of ancient irish kings for seven centuries. st. patrick baptized king aengus here in about 450 a.d. in around 1100, an irish king gave cashel to the church, and it grew to become the ecclesiastical capital of all ireland. 800 years ago, this monastic community was just a chapel and a round tower standing high on this bluff. it looked out then,