military base in okinawa prefecture. they formally applied with the government to begin reclamation of land for the proposed base. the officials submitted the papers outlining the reclamation project. it calls for the construction of two runways and facilities for the marine corps futema air station. >> translator: we officially obtained consent from local fishermen this afternoon. so we immediately submitted our application based on the agreement to the prefecture. >> japanese and u.s. officials agreed to move the air station from the densely populated area to a coastal area. but the plan has been stalled because of opposition. okinawa governor and local mayors want the base moved out of the prefecture completely. >> translator: it's virtually impossible. i've been telling central government officials that they'd better change their plan and decide to move the base outside of okinawa. it would be the best and quickest way to settle the issue. my view remains unchanged. >> they will decide in the next eight months whethe

about 140 kilometers gusts have been reported in okinawa as well. 87 kilometers per hour gusts. thinks will be fine and clear with plenty of sunshine across much of japan. that includes tokyo with really warm temperatures to be waiting for the daytime highs. contour region will see about summer like temperatures on our high today. that excludes northern japan where the winter pressure pattern is left behind where rain and snow showers will be in store with gusts pretty strong picking up the waves as much as five meters high. it's going to be a short break for us. wednesday, tomorrow will be a holiday for japan but we see a couple of systems moving in. that will be a stormy holiday for us. talking about spring with the up and down roller coaster weather. this is another think to talk about. yellow sand is in forecast quite heavily in northern china. that will be traveling to southern korea. across southern china where the draught condition has been persisting. this will be welcoming rain. the level of 100 millimeters could trigger flash floods. thunder showers and gusts are in st

navy sailors have been jailed for raping a woman on the japanese island of okinawa. the men pleaded guilty to robbing and raping the women in a car parked in october. one sale and was sentenced to 10 years and the other nine years. was sentenced to 10 years. an army private has pleaded guilty to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 10 years. bradley manning deliberately passed on government information to wikileaks. but he denies and other charges including one of knowingly aiding the enemy. now this report. >> the uss bradley manning committed the biggest league ever of classified information and charged him with 22 felonies. united states says. serioustall most charges, including aiding the enemy, the onetime intelligence analyst said he was not guilty. however he did plead guilty to 10 less serious charges including giving classified information to an unauthorized person and of improperly storing classified information. in a long statement, he said he was not trying to betray his country but he believed the u.s. was not telling the truth about the wars in

i told local officials they better change their plan and move it outside of okinawa. my view remains unchanged. >> they will decide in the next eight months to whether to approve the application. prime minister shinzo abe promised president barack obama last month he would see to the quick relocation. here are the latest market figures. >>> a group of victims of one of the biggest food poiseenning cases ever in japan have received disapointing news. they have been trying to get compensation, but too many years have passed since the poisoning occurred. >> this woman has suffered from asthma and joint pain for several decades. she is a plaintiff in a case against a japanese company. >> translator: the taints cooking oil ruined all my dreams. >> it is one of the biggest food poisoning cases. a company produced cooking oil in the 1960s. the oil was tainted with toxic substances, including with pcps. symptoms of this vary and take time to pinpoint. thousands of people complained of health problems. from skin disorders to numbness in their limbs. >> a woman here says she to

they were on trial for raping and injuring a woman in okinawa. both pleaded guilty. police arrested christopher browning and skyler dozierwalker last december suspecting she raped and injured a woman in a parking lot. judges gave browning ten years in prison and dozierwalker nine. prosecutors had demanded longer sentences. defense lawyers had asked the judges to be lenient saying they deeply regretted what they did. presiding judge suzuki said they treated her inhumanely and that the sailors acted more viciously than any defendants in any similar case. >>> judges at a war crimes tribunal in bangladesh have sentenced a politician to death. supporters of the politician's party reacted with violence that left more than 40 people dead. vice president of the opposition party, judges found him guilty of atrocities he committed in 1971 during bangladesh's war of independence. supporters of the party fought with police. local media reports 41 people are dead, including 4 police officers. they are calling for a three-day general strike. >>> people in northeastern japan are re

it will be the first drill over the region since the aircraft's deployment in okinawa. defense ministry say three osprey will take part in the three-day low altitude flight training. the ospreys will fly over the so-called orange route. it's one of six flight routes in the main islands. during the drill the aircraft will fly from u.s. marine corps iwakuni air station in yamaguchi prefecture over shikoku island and wakayama prefecture. u.s. military representatives say it will also conduct nighttime drills through 10:00 p.m. they say the aircraft will fly at a minimum altitude of 150 meters during the day and 300 meters at night. >>> defense officials from japan and britain say they plan to develop suits that protect against chemical weapons. this will be japan's first development of defense equipment with a country other than the united states. the country's leaders agreed last year to develop defense equipment at an early date. japan relaxed its long-standing ban on arms exports in 2011. this paved the way for japanese companies to develop equipment with foreign partne

, but also from particularly i would bring home some troops from the pas civic, particularly from okinawa, where it's not just important for us to be able to save those funds but it's also important to the okinawans that there be less pressure on their land. so i would not just shift around some troops in the pas civic, i would also remove some troops as well from okinawa and bring those troops home as well. is there weapons systems where we're spending far too much money, of course there are. anything which is as large as some of the weapons systems that we're building is going to have huge amounts of expenditures. what senator mccain and i have done with the support of our committee is to get passed a reform law about two years ago now, which is called acquisition reform. and what we've done and put in place is a procedure now which hopefully is going to reduce some of these cost overruns which have cost us literally billions of dollars with some of these systems. we're doing that by avoiding these additional technologies being constantly added on as these weapon systems are built which

military base in okinawa.ld christopher browning received a ten-year sentence. 23-year-old sky letter dosier-walker got nine years. the rape case triggered protests in japan when that happened in october. the commander of u.s. forces there put troops on a curfew and apologized to the victims. >>> the white house jumped into the legal fray over proposition 8 in california urging the supreme court to overturn the state's ban on same-sex marriage. in the friend of the court brief, the obama administration said prop 8 violates the constitution's guarantee of equal protection. but the administration does not go so far as to endorse a constitutional nationwide right to marriage. >>> it is the end of an era in the catholic church as the anticipation builds for the beginning of the next one. >> translator: i am no longer the pope. but i'm still in the church. i'm just a pilgrim who is starting the last part of his pilgrimage on this earth. >> he will remain in constant prayer. with those words and cheers if the faithf

another possible target would be the island of okinawa with a huge american force presence there. and that would be a very dangerous situation so if we're not careful, these would be the types of escalations that could occur with u.s. forces right from the get-go and that agreement would become part of how we respond to the north korean threat. >> colonel, thank you very much. raises real questions, if there's an attack on a base, you could see an incredible loss of american life and it would be hard to imagine this country only doing a small response to that. >>> well now, the fourth story "out front." please turn off all electronic devices. we've all been there. see your ipad is on. fehrtively typing away under your coat and clearly not happy at you ar maybe you're the worrywart but now the situation may be about to change. david mattingly is "out front" with a special report. >> reporter: pods, pads, tablets, smartphone. they keep us plugged in, online and on the air everywhere except in the air when taking off and landing. >> it's certainly appearing that using an electronic d

he has been promoted to two stars, assigned to command the entire third division in okinawa, japan. >i owe something. it owe something to the country. it owe something to the corps and i owe something to marines and sailors i served with. >> he didn't want to address the politics of the war, whether america was gistfied invading iraq. he said he was given a mission, he had a job to do and got it done. >> bret: thank you, rick. look forward to the next three pieces. still ahead could you have to prove you are a citizen in order to vote? first, does the republican party need an extreme makeover? >> the head of the republican party is pushing $10 million outreach to minority groups, including gays. reince priebus wants to make the g.o.p. more incollusive. the translation, he wants to win elections after looking at new surveys about the last one. chief political correspondent carl cameron has the plan. >> our message was weak. our ground game was inefficient. we weren't inclusive. >> the g.o.p. conducted 52,000 interviews and another 32,000 surveys with voters and activists, nicknameed th

should not forget that there is an air force base on guam where jets take off and okinawa where nuclear submarines are launched are within the striking range of the precision strike means. >> specific threats even preemptive nuclear attack has become a pyongyang theme. this video of the white house in electronic crosshairs appeared on a north korean website a few days ago, the dome on the capitol building is destroyed in a simulated explosion while talking of a north korean atomic bomb targeting what he calls the capitol of war. there are so many threats streaming out of north korea these days, it's hard to know which ones if any to take seriously. certainly pyongyang is not believed to have the capability to effectively strike the united states. observers are left puzzling on what on earth this secretive increasingly belligerent country is playing at. part of it may be sheer confidence. north korea's december rocket launch and nuclear test in february appear to have been technological successes that imboldened pyongyang. and furious at the u.s. tightened sanctions. but threats also for

and certainly he could attack okinawa. he could reach guam, even hawaii. and, of course, he could target our south korean and japanese allies. and that's the real danger. he has 800,000 troops poised only 40 miles from seoul. the capital of south korea. and the big worry is there could be a mistake. a miscalculation by the north, and that would force the newly elected south korean leader, its first woman president, to retaliate. experts say she has very little flexibility, and that would instantly bring the united states into this conflict. so that's why you saw the u.s. try to scare, or deter north korea, i should say, by sending those b-2 stealth bombers in their first nonstop round trip practice run this week from the united states. it's a signal to north korea, and also very strong signal to our allies in the region to south korea and japan that you don't have to try to seek nuclear weapons on your own, as some in those countries want to, that we have your back. thomas? >> andrea, thanks so much again. this is a fluid situation. we're going to keep our

we have okinawa, a sustainable base there in okinawa for years.doing this? >> i think we boxed ourselves in, basically. this is why history is so important because if you know how you went down a certain path, then you can figure out how to get back home. and the united states, our allies pay -- rather we pay double, triple, quadruple what our allies pay for defense, i mean, as a percentage of gdpn japan they call this the yoshida doctrine, let america pay. . and the result of this is that our students have $100,000 worth of dote get qualified for basic jobs when they come out of college. ireland and iceland and finland, germany, france, student goes to school for free. and i think it's great we did a really important job. we did this at a time when everyone else was busted and broke and bombed out. and that was really important and that is really the truman doctrine. but now 60 years later, you know, it's time and we can empower our allies by telling them, this is your responsibility. and we do not need to be pay four time what is other people r

to guam, and because of that and the whole operation of these troops from okinawa to guam has still not been decided, the armed services committees of the house and senate explicitly prohibited this type of premature investments in civilian infrastructure. at a time when the department of defense is facing the impact of sequestration, on top of the $487 million in cuts directed by the president, it's appalling. it's appalling and disgraceful. that the authorizing language would be directly circumvented by the authorizers. now, i want to read to my colleagues' benefit the language that after hours and hours of hearings, of amendments, of markup, of three weeks on the floor of the senate, the product stated -- quote -- "restriction on development of public infrastructure. if the secretary of defense determines that any grant, cooperative agreement, transfer of funds and other federal agency or supplemental funds available in fiscal year 2012 or 2013 under federal programs administered by agencies other than the department of defense will result in the development, including repair, re

to use missiles against targets in the united states like alaska, hawaii, or bases like in guam or okinawa is probably remote as of this moment but make no mistake, the north koreans are getting closer to making those threats a reality and their ability to hit closer targets in japan or south korea can't be dismissed. i think the most immediate concern is with all this belligerent talk there is a risk of north korea taking some provocative action, sink a south korean ship as they did a little over a year ago or do something that could get us quickly into a larger confrontation. this is a very dangerous regime. it is not rational in our terms and even though their more extravagant threats are not realistic you have to take this kind of thing seriously. bill: pick up on the point you make, they have acted on those threats especially when it comes to the south korean neighbor at the 38th parallel, japan off to the east. they talked about guam, they talked about hawaii, certain western american cities. we show you on the map as soon as it pulls up here. whether you apply truth to this or not,

base in okinawa. christopher browning, a ten-year sentence, and skyler dosier walker got nine years. it sparked outrage in japan. violent crimes by u.s. service members stations in japan have been a divisive issue. deadly shooting and car crash that erupted in a fireball on the vegas strip. and las vegas police saying they have their man. ama am ammar harris arrested yesterday. last week, he targeted kenneth cherry, known as kenny clutch, while both men were driving, and they hit a taxi and a crash and explosion killed the driver and passenger. >> back to the developing story, a man swallowed up by a sinkhole that opened up right underneath his bedroom. the man is presumed dead. rob munoz live at the scene. what is the latest? >> reporter: >> reporter: good morning. we're waiting for an engineering firm to come out, wait to establish how deep this is, how wide it is, but not only that see if we can get to the 36-year-old man trapped underneath the rubble, presumed dead at this time. an intense game of

least expensive items, baseball cap from the uss okinawa, that crew uses to recover the apollo 15 crew're lucky that could be yours for as low as $500, heather. heather: i say that dollar bill she signed should go for a lot more. bill: get your bids in. heather: yeah. bill: it could would be cool to own a moon rock. heather: it would be. bill: is that a possibility, david lee? >> reporter: interestingly they do not have any moon rocks, talk about nasa astronauts not being able to semel biel yaw had the law to change that, one of the things exempted was moon rocks. the moon rocks they're not permitted to sell. bill: cool report. interesting. thank you, david lie. >>> in a moment there are new developments in the deadly botched gun running sting "fast & furious". were the warning signs at the beginning ignored or than. heather: a wild car chase in texas and a shooting of a prison chief in colorado. what police are saying right now. [ female announcer ] with every twist and turn... i need a clean that keeps up. new olay fresh effes' vava vivid's vibrating bristles twist and turn for a va

he'll soon be commanding the third marine division from okinawa japan. >> i think i owe something, ie something to the corps and sailors and the marines. >> ten years ago, then lieutenant clarity led the battalion and a thousand young marines into iraq. >> we're doing fine and kicking ass and taking names. >> at his office in the pentagon i asked the general about criticisms of the war. >> i think we left iraq better than we found it. i'm proud of that. the iraqis are in control of their own destiny which was not true at the time. they have been able to take what we've given them and they can determine where they want to go in the future. >> and that certainly wasn't true with saddam hussein. >> do you have any regrets? >> the only regrets i have we weren't able to bring everybody home. >> a few days after we left the general and his men back in 2003 they located and rescued seven american p.o.w.'s including shoshana johnson and says that was one of his proudest moments. >> megyn: rick, looking forward to the series. thanks. the fbi wrapped up a news coffin in a possible break in wha

china has certainly helped them on and we have a stake in this because we have troops in south korea, okinawaich are within range of north korea's mobile missiles. >> okay. so would you say that north korea either has moved to or maintained its position of number one concern in this arena? we often talk about iran. >> iran has technologies, but really because north korea has sold them. so if we can deal with north korea and solve the north korean problem, that starves the iranians of all of this technology for their missiles, which are essentially north korean missiles rebranded, repainted. and it's also true with their uranium enrichment technology which comes, some of it, from north korea. >> you're saying that iran really can't be successful at developing nuclear missiles and it's programs without north korea. does that then at all give credence to iran's claims that they developed nuclear power for energy? >> well, the iranians aren't doing that because we've been catching them in all sorts of experiments that are only useful for a weapons program. north korea and iran have had this joint

government officials that they'd better change their plan and decide to move the base outside of okinawa. it would be the best and quickest way to settle the issue. my view remains unchanged. >> it will be decided in the next eight months whether to approve the application after more inspections and hearings are held. >>> prime minister abe promised u.s. president obama last month that he would see to the quick relocation of the air station. >>> here's our three day world weather forecast. vlg that concludes this edition of "newsline." thank you for join us.

they were on trial for injuring and raping a japanese woman on the island of okinawa. both pled guilty. police arrested christopher browning and petty officer third class sky ler dozierwalker last october. they suspected the men had raped a woman in a parking lot. the sailors went on trial in the city of naha. they gave browning 7 years and dozierwalker 9 years. their attorneys said they deeply regretted what they did. the prosecution said the sailors had treated the woman inhumanely. he said it was impossible to imagine her pain and said they acted more viciously than defendants in any similar case. >>> japan's crowded tablet market will be getting more crowded soon. microsoft has announced that it will start sending its original new tablet, surface, in japan beginning march 19. microsoft has been marketing mainly software and surface is drawing attention as a tablet developed by microsoft itself. the product was rolled out in the united states last october. surface's o.s. is noted with the latest windows version for tablets. it has a 10-inch panel screen and uses a d