ella higginson was very famous in the pacific northwest because this was a very, the pacific northwest was a very under popular region at the time and in addition to being underpopulated, indent and a population there many more men than there were women. they were almost no office, no publishing centers. ella higginson was really out in the field by herself. the pacific northwest was extremely proud of her because she was a great ella higginson. she brought international attention to the pacific northwest. in the late 19th and early '20s centuries, the only way the rest of the world knew about the pacific northwest region and its cultures was through the poetry and affliction of ella higginson. people outside new of the pacific northwest at the time was that it was beautiful, that it was considered to be extremely remote. even in 2013, it is the seattle seahawks allowed to travel for this and any nfl team. so the remoteness was considered be a place that was it difficult to get to answer difficult to live in because it was beautiful but very wild. so ella higginson and writing fiction

people outside pacific northwest new of the pacific northwest at the time, that it was beautiful and considered to be extremely remote. even in 2013 it is the seattle seahawks who have to travel farthest of any nfl team. the remoteness was considered to be a place that was so difficult to get to and so difficult to live in because it was beautiful but very wild. so ella higginson in writing fiction and poetry about this place that became so popular introduce the people of the pacific northwest, the towns and in particular the women of the pacific northwest to the larger world. is important to keep in mind pacific northwest was so underpopulated compared to the rest of the country at the end of the nineteenth century and there were many more white men than white women sell for instance in new england after the civil war when so many young men are either dead due to the war or of gone west many women do not have the opportunity to marry. there are many more white women in new england at the time than men. pacific northwest woman can mario whoever she wants there are so many men so that

let's get straight to the markets here in the asia- pacific. in australia where the asx 200 is in the green, fractionally higher as gold futures jump on speculation that the fed will load the stimulus reduction. the australian dollar is weakening at 89.9 u.s. cents. adults.s become today there will be no market action in japan. windows have been given reprieve at least lightly. world regulators have agreed to buff the debt restriction on banks to help boost lending to smaller businesses. joins me now.aw >> there are three areas that come into action in 2018. they will be gathering at the gsc in 2008. ease off of fierce lobbying from the banks. bank of america, merrill lynch. they have been campaigning. enough to hit lending and saying we're going to have top capital on our debts again. the smalling to business. to ease it off, you can avoid double counting of derivatives. you can dilute the rule off speculations. aey are going to ease its off little bit more. the banks do feel a little bit more of less pressure. you can have at least three perc

that continuing in the asia-pacific as well. servile atmosphere. >> we are following it very closely. a serious situation with these emerging market equities and assets selling off. taking investors by surprise. we are seeing developed markets now following the declines that rish talked about on wall street and in the european session friday. check out the kospi and the nikkei. significant declines for japanese equities. 2.5% today. we are watching this very closely. this is the broad-based move to the downside. no industry group appears to be spared. check out the initial trading action in singapore, malaysia and taiwan. it is early going but we will be closely watching those southeast asian markets. jakarta, for example. we will be watching thailand later when that session gets underway. no trading in australia today. in new zealand, the top 50 index is down by 0.75%. the selloff is apparent. we will be following it throughout the course of this morning and we will be looking at not only equities but currencies and commodities

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the trans-pacific part.

it's this day tluj worries many americans it is shown spreading throughout the pacific. professor alyama is a scientist at the meteorological institute of a japan who has spent his career studyy the spread from influentialing tests. now, he is studying fukushima. >> what people in the united states are wanting to know is soil. >> okay. >> what would you say >> translator: may, april and may about one year after of the accident, 2012. >> the professor calculates that the radiation will slow, sink, and then harmlessly decay over decades as pacific currents turn most of it towards southeast asia and the indian ocean. >> so i can say the people in the western coast are safe. >> because tep co captures most of the contaminated groundwater in a port outside the plant, alyama says few areas outside of fukushima are affected. >> the seafood in the see water is two % of the deck go aheaddation. so, i eat the seafood every day. >> that scary graphic, it's actually an altered nooah map. american officials say there is no contaminated fish in the american food supply. it's reassurin

particularly in the asia pacific region. kendall said he is comfortable with the military balance in the region now, but he said he may not be able to say the same thing in five or ten years' time. >>> local residents and people in charge of a nuclear facility north of fukushima daiichi held their first evacuation drill since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. they based the exercise on a nuclear disaster hitting the plant. the scenario assumed that radioactive substances were elised from the plant after a major earthquake knocked out all of the power. the facility is about 100 kilometers north of fukushima daiichi. participants included about 800 people from the miyagi prefectural government. seven municipals and emergency responders. officials with the nuclear regulation secretary were also linked through video. they shared information about which residents needed to be evacuated or ordered to stay indoors. the town held the drill where all residents within 30 kilometers of the plant were ordered to remain indoors and seal o

the rain out in the pacific, no threat of rain possibly through the end of the month. forecast highs for tomorrow. cooler than today. santa rosa 69. hayward in the 60s and san jose 70 degrees. a look ahead the five-day forcast. these are all minor tweaks to the forecast. cooler on sunday. more sunshine on monday. coming up the fresh forecast model, maybe a few changes to look at. for now hold things steady with the mild and dry wetter pattern. >>> a piece of art turned into bart's lost and found has a new home hundreds of miles away. a chalk portrait of matteau sheperd the boy murdered in 98. this piece of art was found in the bart system. the worker recognized the person in the sketch. it is now in denver. >>> coming up. the 49ers wrapped up the final home practice earlier today. we'll hear from coach harbaugh and his final assistment of his team. . >>> mark is live in seattle where the niners are expected to be there anytime now. they are literally in the air right now and expected to get to their hotel around 8:00. we'll break down as soon as we finish our on the ro

i will see you at 11 each earn, 8 pacific. ameri "america tonight" is next. you can get the latest on aljazeera.com. >>> on "america tonight," reaching our shores? we return to fukushima to track the fallout of japan's nuclear disaster three years later. >> a lot of experts have warned that, for example, if there was another earthquake, another major earthquake, it could trigger another radioactive disaster. >>> also tonight, fallujah, failing. why this iraqi city could be the critical flashpoint and why it is once again critical to iraq's future. younger, maybe more fabulous but definitely broke. >>itch five messages. you have loans which are past due. [evening. thanks for being with us. i am joie chen. it has been three years since the alarms of the crisis that the fukushima nuclear plant t continues to raise fears in the united states. occasional reports of oddities and a lingering question: does the ongoing disaster pose any serious health risks to americans? in the third part of our exclusive series, "return to fukushima," america correspondent michael o

century so this is what we want to shift troops from the middle east now to the pacific are getting ready for the twenty first century a century when the united states is going to dominate the pacific even more than it has before but the u.s. has a big adversary there and that's china and whereas a few years ago the united states was the leading trading partner for all the members of the ten nations of us now china is the leading trade partner with all of them so it's china's economic growth and china's military revitalization it gets the united states quite alarmed now so the united states is trying to fortify the area right now our troop balance is fifty percent in the you're going to land think of fifty percent in the pacific our naval forces and our air force. we want to rebalance to sixty percent in the pacific to forty percent and the atlantic reading blowback from chalmers johnson when i was in college actually awaken me to a lot of the effects of us periods in the u.s. military is a really was astounding in that chapter on okinawa he calls it a us military dictatorship and h

the country, over 30 small islands in the pacific ocean, is home to 100,000 people. this is the highest place in this island. around three meters above sea level. at such low elevation, kuribata is on the front line of global warming. the ocean's advance never stops. at high tide, the water now covers the land all around the houses here. >> i feel sad about the people, but i already know the answer. >> reporter: saltwater has contaminated this well, and residents have lost their drinking water. farmland is under threat. this field is now useless for planting crops. it's estimated that kuribati has lost about 10% of its agricultural land over the past decade. he lives in a village by the ocean. residents here have endured repeated flooding, and they've had enough. one by one, his neighbors are leaving. >> as you can see, the remaining of the building here. one family lived here. but they have moved out, as you can see. this is the floor of their house. small storeroom they have, but nothing they can do. they have to move out to some other places. >> reporter: this is

this creats creates what many ce great pacific garbage patch. close to 90% of that garbage is plastic. it definitely makes for an ugly day at the beach but that's not mark manuel's only motivation. >> the hawaiian among sale and sea turtles. these guys will go along and eat plastic bags and pieces of plastic thinking it's food. it will get lodged in the intestinal tract, far worse, things leaching out of the plastic to kill them. >> jeff works at hawaii's sea life park. >> if we don't do something and treat our environment with better respect maybe this guy is going to be gone. >> reporter: this plastic problem isn't always evident. at first glance this beautiful hawaiian beach may appear untouched until you dig in and take a closer look. sift the sand and you find endless tiny pieces of plastic from who knows where having a deaf stating effect on wildlife. >> we found out something very staggering last year with a researcher from a local university. he developed a technique where he can ultrasound living birds without harming them and he found

you can see a system in the pacific, all the energy is well offshore, no threat of rain.e would welcome the rainfall but that's not in the forecast. this weekend mostly sunny skies, cooler out there the, we started to cool off today and that trend continues saturday and sunday. holding on to to try weather pattern. no shift for next week. all we can do is show you a few high clouds and that's about it. the forecast remains unchanged with minor tweaks over the weekend. as far as current numbers. santa rosa 66. oakland 70 and san jose haze out there but a temperature of 67. forecast for tomorrow in the 40s, on track to reach the upper 60s by 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. tomorrow cooler than today in most of the bay area. overnight lows, santa rosa, napa, fairfield subfreezing. san jose 41. here's the overall weather set up. the high pressure all week long we've been talking about this guy, strong high pressure in place, into the weekend, a weak weather system for saturday and sunday. the mostly sunny skies remain in play, no rain threat. tracking the wetter in seattle. you can

eastern, 3:00 pacific.ll have the speech itself at 9:00 and your top stories are coming up in just a moment. >> al jazeera's investigative unit has tonights >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz in new york. here are tonight's top stories. president obama will give his fifth state of the union speech tonight. the economy is expected to be the top priorities. his approval ratings are the lowest ever going into the address. >>> the city of pittsburgh, nearly two dozen have died from heroin laced with a morphine drug. it's prompted a warning from officials. >>> collecting personal data from smartphone apps. that's what spice are doing, according to former nsa contractor edward snowden. taking information from popular apps like angry birds. >>> the ceo of a bitcoin operation were arrested today, part of a federal probe against the underground black market website called silk road. >>> in the u.s. more extreme arctic weather from the midwest to the south up and down the east coast more than 100 mil

within the pacific command. and we're doing that through a variety of ways. we're doing that through rotational presence. we're doing that from building partner capacity. we're doing that from building relationships throughout the region through several different exercises that we do on a regular basis, and we're going to continue to do that. what happened, though, in the years of the wars of iraq and afghanistan, many of those soldiers that were assigned to pacom were off in iraq and afghanistan. last year we stopped that so they are now back in the pacific region conducting these proper operations. that's our rebalance, as we call it. i mentioned quickly before about our concept of regional alignment of forces. what we'll do is those units that are assigned to our forces command which are most of the commands in the continental united states, they will then be aligned to centcom. they will be aligned with africom and be aligned with other areas in order for them to be used in order to support those combatant -

eastern pacific. the construction and acquisition of an aircraft carrier is a statement of a desire to be able to project power. vogel that china is planning in asia today should be of great concern to all those. and not to mention the fact that they have continued to repress and a press and to practice human rights violations on a regular basis in tibet and the tensions between china and india on the china india border continue to be ratcheted up. the more penetrations of china across the border between china and india a real. so we have to understand that this is not a matter of they are proud as we are proud. this is not a matter of the will to keep their job. this is a matter of rising threat would challenge to peace and security in asia. because of the profound belief on the chinese leaders that china must and will regain the dominant role that they have for couple of thousand years in asia . unless you understand that you're going to have trouble dealing with the. you're going to have -- well, y

. >>> western weather, the pacific coast and rockies hit with wind and snow, while california is looking at record high temperatures and new fire dangers. >>> exactly four years after the worst disaster of the western hemisphere, haiti says they have a way forward. and the great gray whale migration. carter evans on these extraordinary scenes in the pacific ocean. >> it's made for a fantastic show. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening everyone i'm jeff glor with the western edition of the broadcast. the deal was reached in november. we didn't learn the all important details until today. the clock starts on the nuclear deal with iran, a week from tomorrow. january 20th. it's a deal lasting six months. the president was quick to comment today and for more on all of it we want to get to our chief white house correspondent major garrett in washington. >> the best hope in a decade from iran developing a nuclear weapon. on january 20th iran will stop enrichment of uranium above the purity required for civilian power. decreasing civilian stock piles,

partnership a pact under negotiation between the twelve countries on the pacific rim including the u.s. three of the witnesses at the hearing represented business interests and spoke favorably about the tepee and other free trade deals. ultimately free trade is best for every economy economic growth and job creation at home depend on our ability to sell american goods and services to the ninety five percent of the world's customers living outside of the u.s. only one witness raise concerns about negotiations like. what has the net effect been of twenty years of these trade deals what has happened to our jobs our communities in north philadelphia that i grew up in cleveland and i can picture right now devastation throughout those communities nowhere near the replacement jobs for that more than seven hundred thousand jobs lost from nafta alone but one interest group that's been supportive of the tepee is hollywood and industry which has launched a full scale assault on online piracy so why is hollywood pushing for this trade deal artie's among the lindo has a story. hollywood is the land

pacific's lead cut to one. pacific up three on the fast break. harris goes coast to coast for the lay-in. 13.3 rebounds later, tony gill gets the follow. pacific goes on to win. representing stockton, california's, finest, by the way. >>> that will do it for now, diane. much more coming up tonight. >>> all right. thank you very much, henry. thanks for choosing nbc bay area news at 6:00. we'll see you back here tonight at 11:00. good night. >>> tonight, class action. starting this month, transgender students can pick the bathroom of their choice at school. >> this is not people who are looking to get a thrill by going into the opposite gender bathroom. >> we'll have an update on the controversial new law and one group's effort to overturn it. is your child's private data at risk. experts warn some websites and educational software used in schools could put students' perm information in jeopardy. we'll hear from a champion of children's rights who is calling for nationwide safeguards to protect kids. the state's landmark effort to overhaul standard

alterations in quotes by radical mosque about coldplay much in the pacific basin. and i'm off to read the act of having two nd to class making was the last seven years. i'm also plans to use its thirty teams in the. it was in form and get a mac and i'm at it he said he'd call. abbe is placing more importance on the security aspects of diplomacy failed phone administrations. ok i confess this is necessary if the state of az and in the twenty first century. in the post gazette contents the law. the security chaos to cozy for the new vistas but those did still use of trouble. and they hope to squarely face. to be entered into an arsonist is from the moving costs and the funniest. and but also coughed up a can of awesome is that if power is changing quickly. the funniest. so on this is our main course on and this could be the main course on the wild. abbi is visiting from middle eastern and african nations as the first step and i think is the nation's peace here that's how the administration is perceived as being long term by lora leigh. but trust that he's upfront thi

that is available to the pacific commander to shape the environment within the pacific command and weare doing it through a it through a variety of ways through rotational presence. we are doing it by building partner capacity. we are doing that from building relationships throughout the region. several different exercises so we will continue to do that. what happened though is in the years of the wars of iraq and afghanistan many of those soldiers that were assigned were off in iraq and afghanistan. last year we stopped that so they are now back in the pacific region conduct dinghies proper operations so that is on balance as we call it. i mentioned quick before about the concept of regional alignment of forces. what we will do is those units assigned to our forces command which is mostly unit in the continental united states they will be aligned with such calm. it will be aligned with africom. they will be aligned with other areas in order for them to be used in order to support those combatant commanders. for example today we have about 2500 soldiers in africa based on the regional

one online report circulating this week says, radiation levels in the pacific were off the charts. and your days of eating pacific ocean fish are over. >> very small amounts of radiation in fish can be detected. we can even tell whether the low levels are likely to have come from fukushima or not. >> reporter: this professor of preventative medicine studied the effects of radiation from hiroshima and nagasaki and says the data collected so far on fukushima doesn't show a health risk to those eating pacific fish. >> in a word, the answer is there's no danger from fukushima with the fish that we eat. >> reporter: kagawa tells us while all fish can't be tested for radiation, the fda conducts spot checks on all fish brought into the united states. >> juan also reminds us about the mercury scare in swordfish a few years back. that went away. health experts say eating fish once or twice a week is good for you. >>> checking your weather every day is excellent medicine for you. paul deanno is out there tonight with the latest. >> reporter: i'm told vitamin d is good for you. you get it fro

the pacific and everything in them in a clockwise circle creating what many call the great pacific garbagehere trash all shapes and size is his particularly defense throughout the water column. close to 90% of that garbage is plastic. it definitely makes for annually day at the beach. but that's not mark manual's only motivation. >> the main reason why the project actually started was to try to minimize the potential impacts of entanglement for our endangers hawaiian mon seal and sea turtles. >> they eat plastic bags and play i go thinking it's food it gets lodged in their intestines or far worst with be chemicals leaving out of the plastic that would kill them. >> reporter: jeff works with animals, affected by plastic at hawaii's sea life park. >> if we don't do something, and we can't treat our environment better with more respect, it's going have a significant impact and maybe this guy is going to be gone. >> reporter: this plastic problem isn't always evident, at first glance, this beautiful hawaiian beach may appear untouched. until you dig in, and take a closer look, sift the sand an

is a sea of red with the pacific northwest showing some blue up there for sea hawk love. the dead spin website says it makes sense since the niners have been winning fans since the 1960 while the seahawks have not had much to celebrate about. >>> rob roth tells us, it was a quick thinking neighbor who helped get some of those people to safety. >> the fire broke out just before 6:00 this morning burning fast and furiously. firefighters say it started inside the fmw machine shop and just kept growing. the business had no sprinkler system. >> it's a metal fabrication business. you're looking a machinery, metal parts, coating operations. >> reporter: the fire spread to three other businesses. one maybe said he saw the smoke as he got off work and started warning neighbors. >> i started banging on the doors and one man just looked outside. he finally got the message. >> somebody called fire fire from the street. >> reporter: this man says he lost everything but his wife and four children are safe. >> my family, they're sad. but i mean we're fine. we're alive. that's the most i

partnership pact under negotiation between the twelve countries on the pacific brands including the us. three witnesses at the hearing representing business interests and spoke favorably about the ttp and other free trade deals ultimately free trade is best for every economy economic growth and job creation at home dependability to sell american goods and services to the ninety five percent of the world's customers living outside of the us. only one witness raise concerns about negotiations like ppp. but the net effect the end of twenty years of these trade deals. what has happened to our jobs our communities the north philadelphia that i grew up in the cleveland that i can picture right now devastation throughout the community is nowhere near to replace him in jobs for that more than seven hundred thousand jobs lost from nafta alone. one interest group that's been so quiet as of the ttp is hollywood and industry which has launched a full scale assault on online piracy. so why only one pushing for the street they'll argue among the one that has a story. hollywood is the land of glit

japan has been a hotbed of protest against the trans- pacific partnership, which would establish a freee stretching from the united states to chile to japan, and encompass nearly 40 percent of the global economy. now, new documents released by wikileaks show the white house may be ready to backtrack on a series of critical regulations in order to secure a deal on the trade pact. these include legally binding requirements for pollution limits, logging standards, and a ban on the harvesting of shark fins. the draft version of the "environmental chapter" also reveals that the united states and 11 other pacific rim nations that are party to the tpp would rely on trade sanctions instead of fines if a country violates its obligations. the sierra club responded to the latest news saying that if the draft report were to be finalized, quote "president obama's environmental trade record would be worse than george w. bush's." all of this comes as hearings begin today in congress on legislation to establish fast track authority that would allow obama to sign the tpp before congress votes on it. for

is a sea of red with the pacific northwest showing some blue up there for sea hawk love. the dead spin website says it makes sense since the niners have been winning fans since the 1960 while the seahawks have not had much to celebrate about. >>> rob roth tells us, it was a quick thinking neighbor who helped get some of those people to safety. >> the fire broke out just before 6:00 this morning burning fast and furiously. firefighters say it started inside the fmw machine shop and just kept growing. the business had no sprinkler system. >> it's a metal fabrication business. you're looking a machinery, metal parts, coating operations. >> reporter: the fire spread to three other businesses. one maybe said he saw the smoke as he got off work and started warning neighbors. >> i started banging on the doors and one man just looked outside. he finally got the message. >> somebody called fire fire from the street. >> reporter: this man says he lost everything but his wife and four children are safe. >> my family, they're sad. but i mean we're fine. we're alive. that's the most i

at 12:30 pacific today, the broncos arrived to the airport, the seahawks at 4:00 today. the denver coach, john fox, missed four games this season after heart surgery but according to peyton manning he wases wases -- he was never that far a way. >> a week later we were at a team meeting and we had the big screen -- it had face time chat with coach fox and he didn't really know how to use it well. he was very up close right into that camera. i think it was his first face time chat he had ever done. >> we got face time. radio commentator, it tim ryan, before he left for the freezing cold back east. >> dan moreno tuesday it for years. if it is snowing, i'm throwing, baby. 25 degrees, look, it is not khold to an nfl player. if the wind is howling and a windchill, i think there will be a factor. i don't see a bunch of points, 45, 46 points total in this game. seattle is that good on defense and i think denver is better in run defense than people give them credit for. they will give wilson a chance as l. -- as well. i don't see a bunch of points in this game. >>> i am looking f

the high pressure is moving all of the moisture, the energy out to the pacific. forth of california. a warm and dry week ahead as we look from the cliff house over ocean beach. we get chilly temperatures at night continuing, sunny and warmer. the drought continues, no rain yet at least. there is at least though for the first time in awhile a hint of things changing. not a week from today. but, maybe a week from monday. the atmosphere opens it up. maybe it will be the beginning of what we will see. tomorrow, winds out of the north. 15, 67 degrees at the airport. losangeles, 79 degrees, chicago has snow. for the rest, new york, 43, partly cloudy skies. overnight tonight, chilly up in santa rose a31 degrees, 32 at fairfield and 35 at livermore. we are above average this time of the year. 15 degrees warmer in oakland. concord, it will be about 12 degrees above average in santa fe, 9 degrees above average. tomorrow, near 70 degrees. in much of the bay area. the extended forecast. not going to change much. readings continue in the upper 60s, low 70s, thursday, friday,

native here in the pacific coast, it's a staple used in everything from tamales to stews.m. >> like a rock mollusk pretty much. >> mmm, it's delicious. wow. ♪ >> so this is like palau, very pacific pago rojo, red snapper. >> mm-hmm. >> steamed shrimp. >> very cool. >> and some nice green tomatoes. >> you find them everywhere. >> with all of that you have to accompany with ceviche. >> yeah, i'm learning that. >> it's the best way. >> homemade. >> i'm learning that. >> it's the best way to handle this. >> cane sugar. >> like homemade. >> what are your favorite places in colombia? >> colombia is like five countries in one. when you come to colombia, you definitely have to go to some pacifico experience, either cali or go straight to the pacific coast. you have to have a caribbean experience. a mountain experience like medellin or bogota, and the other would be to go to amazon, like the jungle. >> i'm planning a vacation. should i come to colombia? come to cali? >> most definitely. you will find great music, great partying, great food, beautiful views, beautiful nature around.

you are president of asia pacific and the middle east for scotia bank.i was fascinated to learn that you are the largest canadian bank operating in the asia- pacific. >> we have been here for 50 years. we are in 12 different countries. it is a big part of scotia banks growth globally. >> it is interesting to see a the asia-pacific so central to your strategy. i think china is at the center f all of this. talk about anything we might expect in the year ahead in terms of acquisitions. >> we have three branches and we have our new ships in china. doing it is the fastest growing retail market in the world. it is a market everyone has to focus on. we are focused on organic growth. we are looking at organizations that fit within our shortage and make sense. interest in one bank. >> i'm sure that you would like to expand in china. i'm sure you've gotten a lot of the bank lately about here in hong kong. what can you tell us? that is the kind of lender that you would be interested in to tap into in the china market in a more meaningful way. >> i cannot comment on

we also see weakness across the asia-pacific currently.ot the chinese economy growing at a fair clip, we are seeing declines across the board. australia is down by one third of 1%. here in hong kong, the hang seng -- i think we are off the lows. we are pretty much where we were. 4/10 of 1% to the downside. asia is close to relaunching plans for a discount airline in japan. this is after it's ownership with a n/a -- it's all -- its partnership with ana unraveled. asia group chief executive is tony fernandez. he says the operation will avoid tokyo's new airport for cost reasons. air asia is also preparing a new indian service in march. let's find out about those indian services and its plans for the economy. let's get over to our correspondent in mumbai. what have we got here? know, air asia has always maintained that its plant as far as india concerned -- india is concerned are imminent. let me give you an idea. india's largest conglomerate announced in september that it was tying up with air asia malaysia to launch an operation, a local ca

the beatles influenced the sound of the generation and the 60s and thursday night, 9:00 eastern and pacific right here on cnn. >>> a u.s. president pushing the first lady out of the white house. absurd, of course. this is reality in france. the reason the press came around this woman in india, she is particularly intense. the former first lady's friend in her first public appearance since she and her friend parted ways on saturday. this break up is the culmination of weeks of scandal with her reported love triangle. she is in the middle and his partner is valerie trierweiler. not a french last name. allegations of another woman. that woman is julie gayet.

its cyberactivity is through those big optical telephone cables that run across the atlantic and pacific or through regional networks. but what do you do with a compute their separated from all networks, that an intelligence agency or some other agency, a government or a company might separate out to keep all the data secret? and that's a problem that the nsa has had for years. and they had it in particular with the iranian computers that were running the nuclear enrichment program. and so this technology puts

what has happened to that asia- pacific?it is still connected to what we are doing in the middle east and with the wars, but what we have always said is iraq and , resources and time and attention of policymakers so we can focus, as the president said last night, on the opportunities in the world, and chief among those opportunities is the asia-pacific region, where we are negotiating a partnership, and we are also making sure that our posture matches the 21st century, so part of turning the page in war is also refocusing american priorities. >> ok, let me ask you about the iran comments. this is the first time that he has said he would veto any bill that came from congress proposing new sanctions on iran. today, you have a republican senator, marco rubio, pushing back against that, saying there stood -- should still be sanctions on them. >> well, we made very clear to the senate and to the congress we will do that if the deal is violated by the iranians or if we do not reach a final agreement, but we have made it clear we w

it is filtering through to the asia-pacific. the nikkei 225 down two point five percent. stocks are lower by 2% in hong kong. check out emerging markets. jakarta, down by nearly 3% today as investors assess the economic health of these countries and whether some of the concerns we have seen in recent days are limited to individual countries or a broad-based problem affecting emerging markets. we have seen currencies selloff precipitously in this space, and we have seen a flight to safety as investors pile into precious metals like gold and silver. it is a very active day in the equity markets and in other asset classes across asia. for theowest level overall benchmark in over four months. talking about falls for some of these equity markets, the biggest falls we have seen in seven months. david has the details on this flight to safety or quality. >> moving to the sidelines. yeah, it is basically the same group of stocks. you have japan, because of the stronger yen. down 1.5%. looking at the currencies, the peso, the rupiah, and the bot. these are the same three which took

one of them is a pacific agreement and one of them is a european one.n the pacific one, what he wants to protect is intellectual property, our entertainment industry and our patents and all that get swiped every day to the billions of dollars particularly in asia, and agricultural exports so he knows it's going to help. on the other hand, he knows that unions hate this. they have hate it had ever since nafta which a democratic president was the one who passed. >> right. >> so they are really sore about this, so he proposes it, and then he's got harry reid saying don't do it. this is a test of the president. is he the president or is harry reid going to be the one who -- who decides? i think it's a sign of the diminishment of his authority that read spokes so openly and defiantly and said don't bring this. it's going to be a test of a president who says that republicans are the ones who think only of the next election and not the next generation. whether or not he'll push it, i have no idea. >> meantime, the president talked to cnn today about the divide

of its allies we will continue to focus on the asia pacific. for we support our allies. shou a future greater security and prosperity. and extend a hand to those devastated by disaster. as we do in the philippines. lee has happened. mitsui that people understood that the policy that is. i worry about instead of through military action. i don't think you can win this interesting news i it's it's the most important part that i'm eating it's the most of the economy maybe not so much insecurity that out the culprits the ldestoronto today bought three pit stops in four states to talk about his economic team is on fire recently. recall that any table. afghanistan's government has decided to release over seventy prisoners. it says it has insufficient proof of their suspected involvement in terror attacks. but the us says the detainees are dangerous and have blood on their aunts. the afghan presidential office said that a government panel that order the release of seventy two of the tv detainees at a detention facility at the us bought from airfield ne

the pacific mall would be b just off 880 and 237 at mccarthy. our ryan takeo tes us about the huge plans that involve hundreds of small s. as it stands today, the mccy ranch marketplace shopping decision in the next couple weeks. the developers >>> a $100 million mall would soon be in the zit bay. >> the maul will be built. our ryan takeo tells us about the huge plan that involves hundredsover small shops. >> reporter: as it stands today, the shopping center is pretty empty. 50% of the stores are vacant. the mall is a city planner's dream. >> everybody will be able to see this beautiful building. >> the $2,100,000,000 project includes underground parking and a hotel. the mall will try to play to the air the yager's asian demographic. >> this is one place you would come to. you don't have to make the drive out to san francisco to get that environment. >> around the bay area, there are plenty of these asian scene strip malls like here. but pacific mall says it is going to be one of we a kind in the united statess. >> it will be the u.s.'s only ind

stocks are higher across the asia-pacific. unleashing the animal spirit, the rising competence means company that companies are set to spend heavily again. >> let's check in with the markets and see how your money is behaving itself. david? >> good morning to you. it is another quiet day across the region so far. volumes are quite light compared to what we are used to seeing this type of the day. markets about the only as you can see from the map. sharp movement, up 1% a. it might erase some of the games that we saw against the u.s. dollar. u.s. markets are shot overnight for martin luther king day so we don't have the usual gauge of

is losing ground and dominance in the pacific and weapon systems. what is developing mark quickly in the united states at this point? >> well, china is only one weapons developer in the world. i said over time that indo asian pacific is the most militarized region in the world where there are because of growth of economies, because of the requirements the militarization or dying by pins. they are not the family dealt with 30 years ago. when you talk about u.s. relative dominance, maybe the right way to look at this would be after world war ii, throughout most of the world, we built a u.s. military that was an equal in technology. and over time, we can shoot we did our own defense capabilities at its sole purpose is and we have that those technologies to partners and allies. they are relative dominance in mystic ologies and weapon systems will have diminished over time. that's not something to be afraid of, just pragmatic. as we look forward to a world that will continue to have defense challenges and we continue to buy, build and procure systems, we