it's a pacific rim book prize in which books come from asia and all over the pacific rim. in the last 11 years it's been a prize we read so many books that have come from voices of new writers. i'm always amazed and they are writing different storers i wrote when i started. all the people have come through now. if you look at the list of indian and japanese authors and chinese authors it's now we are very much diverse. i think for a long time we weren't. i thank you for that question. if i keep going i will never get another question. [laughter]. >> thank you for samurai's garden. i read it had it first came out and it's wonderful to be rereminded. >> thank you. and thank you for coming. you know jump off, i was samurai's garden, i said it was an energizer bunny. danville shoes samurai's garden the end of last year. they had the danville theatre which is a nice theatre and they were doing roamioand juliette and there was me in the middle of a balcony. it was a nice audience when i walked in my brain was exat that timic, look at the people here. it's almost as good as last

so you think about that commercial gemini's in the geopolitics of the pacific rim and it has as much to do with our diplomatic goals our political goals as it does to do with so-called trade policy and what are its implications i understand and maybe you can correct me on this but it instills in international courts that resides over u.s. law shared laws yeah that's one of the most controversial aspects of the tepee you're referring to the investor to state dispute settlement regime this is a legacy of nafta the mother of all train fights the north american free trade agreement in chapter eleven which is the investment chapter in this found instance investor to state that's really an important thing for your viewers the investor corporation investment only showing in government federal and sub federal governments for and this is you know not a government to government solution he's in these tribunals they're like world trade court and. trade bureaucrats who make decisions out of the public view based on what the. corporations think of their their commercial interests that are be

there it is the pacific rim countries of chellie and the pacific rim all the way to canada and all theway out through japan and china and korea and the conversation was completely different. was about global trade and freeing trade. and i actually always thought that in that sense the country had more in common with their asian counterparts than their latin american counterparts. it is how they perceive themselves as a state of development and significance there. i think it is because if you look at the places like chile now quite developed in many ways, colombia getting there in terms of the development, a country like brazil was interesting because on the one hand, it is leading the global, one of the leaders in the global economy, but with huge income distribution, difficulties that keep it really more on developing countryside. if you look at some of the poorest countries in the central america like a guatemala for instance, you are talking about places you can't reach the farmers in the high land by the highway, and so their problems are to try to build infrastructure so that they

he will consider the impact of japan's participation before making a final judgment. 11 pacific rim countries are now working to conclude the free trade deal by the end of this year. >>> japan's trade balance has shown its largest monthly deficit ever. that's based on comparable data that was compiled since 1979. the weak yen has caused an increase in the cost of fuel imports. the ministry official said the trade deficit for january came to about $17.4 billion. the balance has now been in the red for seven months in a row. japan's exports rose by 6.4% from a year earlier in yen terms. that's the first rise we've seen in eight months. imports also with a gain for a third consecutive month this time up by 7.3% from a year earlier. demand for crude oil and liquified natural gas used in generators. >>> we spoke with an economist at rbs securities japan to get his outlook for japan's trade balance. >> imports increased at faster pace because of commodities rises and weaker yen. demand for smartphone contributed to the increase of imports. looking ahead while the continuous weakness of japanese imp

goodwill and that's where the mercy taking off as it does out of san diego and goes around the asian pacific rim. that is why the comfort takes off and heads down to south america, to show goodwill, not to be the american country that comes down there and shows people how it's done, to be the united states' ambassador of medical care that wants to partner with these nations, learn about them, learn about their illnesses, learn about their afflictions and learn from the people in the area how we can better support and partner with them. build bridges before they have to. if we have had twice the number of aircraft carers in 9-11, if we had twice the number of marine battalions in 9-11, would that have stopped it? it would not have. but maybe, maybe through humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, global engagement, the ability for us it reach across borders and change minds, maybe the intelligence might have been forthcoming. maybe there was one individual who might have seen something happening and recognizing we can't let bad things happen. that is why we do this. one, we globally engage becau

the pacific rim has the same problems that we do. australia does not have high fructose corn syrup.matter if it's high truck toes corn syrupfructose corn syrup or sugar. glucose is the molecule, and glucose is not very interesting. you don't see anybody chugging koro syrup. we have data, we have correlating data and one week from today we'll are caus have causative data. >> john: i could talk to you about this all night and we didn't even get to artificial sweeteners. thank you for your time on this show. and thank you for area work on the subject. >> thank you. >> john: you won't believe this footage coming up next. break the ice with breath-freshening cooling crystals. ice breakers. >> john: immigration reform. a popular idea in washington after the politicians saw the affect of latino votes on election days. john mccain emphasized the need for better board security. you think that would appeal to his particular red-meat base, but it wasn't good enough. >> you said build the dang fence. where's the fence? >> in case you missed it, i showed you. >> that's not a fence. >> that's not

the climb, structures, opportunity is right here on the pacific rim. now, governor perry points out that texas does not have personal or corporate state tax while california pays 8% in those taxes. however, the chief economist at lola minda talks about how texas outtaxes california. texas has a higher sales tax. in our next hour of "mornings on 2," what economists are saying is suffering because of texas tax structure and its spending record. i'm pam cook, back to dave and tori. >>> it's the end of the road for drake's bay oyster farm in marin county. the government is evicting them from their long-time home from the seashore. yesterday, a judge denied the request to overturn the eviction and refused to allow the company to operate while the lawsuit is heard. ken salazar ordered the oyster farm to be evicted saying the land should be returned to wilderness status and the owner must leave by march 15th. >>> about that power outage at the super bowl, public records now show superdome officials were concerned about this -- about this before the game. test

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they're following a lead of investors along the pacific rim.apan and australia posted gains. they finished with losses overconcerns of economic policy tightening. >> checking in on our numbers, our futures indicate a good strong opening across the board for the dow, the nasdaq and s and p 500. they dropped a bit yesterday. we'll see if it can cross the 14,000 mark. they tried to raise fares three times this year and none of them stuck. but the 4th may change that. they raised $10 the price of tickets traveled on domestic flights and now they're following that lead and southwest has -- also on a limited scale but southwest participation maybe the key to keeping the higher fares. >> a popular food company recalling thousands of pounds of meat. the disturbing items found inseed some sausages >>> welcome back. time now is 5:23. a virginia meat processor is recalling 38,000 pounds of sausage. the smithfield packing company says small pieces of plastic, probably from gloves may have been processed with meat. the containers of meat is mild pork sausag

plausibly make the claim that we had taken a strategic view of what was happening and decided that the pacific rimmore important than the middle east. but that's not what happened. we're simply keeping the truman at home because we don't have the money to deploy the ship. melissa: you say it sends a signal to our enemies and allies as well. >> absolutely. there's a number of countries out there and, of course, our biggest enemy is iran in the area. and without going into too much detail, let's just review for the record or that iran's been a state sponsor or terror for 30 years, they continue sponsoring hamas, hezbollah and the assad regime in syria. they are a destabilizing regime. we need to be able to check them. and the fact of the matter is there's a number of countries in the area who don't know for sure how deep our commitment is. we told them we are commit today freedom and democracy, we told them we're committed to keeping iran contained, but then when we take an action like this, it causes them to question our commitment and opens them to ally with iran. melissa: chris, thanks so much fo

the ideas, the infrastructure, the climate, the opportunity is right here in the pacific rim.ak to different people here in california, they point out this is not a great place to do business. in fact, real quick, stuart, let me read you, the l.a. times had an editorial talking about rick perry. they don't like rick perry here. but the l.a. times said to governor brown, the state has a long way to go to get its job development act together and the time to start is now. that would be the best way to wipe the smirk off rick perry's face. stuart: it's a good story. texas versus california. california versus texas. you will be at lovely palo alto all day with this story. i envy you. adam: we will be talking with different representatives from arizona and from virginia who have successfully and quietly lured businesses out of california. stuart: thank you very much indeed. we will see you later. >>> california bet big on green energy. here's the problem, the state's shift to wind and solar makes it very hard to keep the lights on. mike reagan will join us on that subject, 10:35 thi

the ideas, the infrastructure, the climate, the opportunity is right here on the pacific rim. >> it mayhere, but there's no escaping the fact that a lot of businesses feel that this is a state that's very difficult to do business in. for instance, let's take a look at one of the tax structures they have to deal with in california. the state capital gains rate combined with the federal capital gains rate compared to some other countries. for instance, denmark, that combines tax rate with 42%, california, it's 33%. france, 32.5%. and new york, 31.4%. talk about the business climate in california, 9,000 jobs a year depending on which research firm you go to, 9,000 lost because firms close or move out. here's how governor brown responded to that. >> california attracts foreign investment since the gold rush. sometimes it slips back, sometimes it takes a wrong turn, but over the years and decades, it's been upward and on ward. when i was governor the first time, the income of california was 150 billion. now it's close to 2 trillion. this is where the new industries are, the creativity, the m

be here today to tell you about an exercise we conducted this past summer in hawaii as part of rim of pacific exercise which involved 22 participating nations and this offered us a venue to be able to conduct a humanitarian and disaster relief exercise with all the different partners that we had together and collaborating with this exercise, this offered a perfect opportunity for us to introduce the military capabilities and interaction in exchange with our civil military partners as well. the exercise was located on oh oahu we had used that island as a fictitious island of chianti where we wanted to do a humanitarian response but it also provided us an avenue for the state-wide partners, the civil hawaiian partners, to be able to exercise their exercise as well. this exercise also allowed us the opportunity to intro daus a lot of technology to help with the interoperatability of the civil military exercise. one of the main goals that we had for this was to allow our military a crisis response adaptive force package and opportunity to allow their training and certification in providing the mo

the ideas, the structures, the climate, the opportunity is right here on the pacific rim. . >>> am soptarted the hiring process for its new distribution centers in patterson and tracy. they've posted their first three job openings which focus on industrial maintenance and technical engineering. the new one million square foot center in patterson is expected to open this summer. another one million square footer is in tracy could open by fall. both centers are expected to bring hundreds of jobs to the area, all openings are posted on amazon.com. >>> it's costing you more now to fill up the gas tanks. gas prices are up another cent. the average in california is $4.06 a gallon. we're not paying the highest. people in hawaii are shelling out $4.23 for gallon of regular unleaded. here is a quick look at what we're paying in the bay area. the san francisco $3.99, oakland $3.92, san jose $3.95. >>> sonoma county is expanding its network of charging stations for electric vehicles. county officials hope change stations will encourage more people to buy electric cars. they want sonoma county to

the stability and economic prosperity that has taken place in the pacific rim could never have been achievedld this be -- i'm going out on a limb here -- would this be because the russians know that we're facing these major military cuts here in the u.s.? >> i don't know what their motivation is. i can't get at it. i think it has more to do with what we're doing and how we're moving our forces around in the western pacific to maintain the kind of presence that we want to have there. >> gretchen: okay. general jack keane, you would know about military and otherwise. thanks so much for your thoughts this morning. >> take care, gretchen. always good seeing you. >> gretchen: thank you. do you spend time trying to figure out what your dreams mean? i just did this this morning. i was like, did i dream that last night or the night before? supposedly i'm supposed to stop and you are, too. coming up next y it will only give you more nightmares. then take a look at this. the cameras were rolling at the exact moment an ied explodes. it should have killed that air force sergeant, but his service dog sav

. >> just this last summer, we conducted the rim of the pacific exercise 2012. we did it in the state of hawaii and the surrounding operating area. it brought forth 22 nations, roughly 25,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines. but one of the things that we did embedded in this rim pac exercise was a five-day humanitarian assistance disaster relief. we used it as an accreditation not only for some of our adaptive force packages, but more importantly to the state of hawaii to allow them to get an accreditation that they needed for 13 of their hospitals where we set up on ford island, those familiar with the oahu island geography, we utilized ford island and we had a scenario where there was an earthquake with a resultant tsunami and mass casualties along with the destruction that goes with it to the road infrastructure and communication. and, so, we were able to parlay, if you will, this opportunity to leverage off our international partners. we had seven nations that out of the 22 that actually participated in the hadr, and there were probably also 19 of the 22

pacific time. police are on the lookout for this back suv described as a new model range rover sport with large black rims, dark tinted windows and they are unsure of what state this plate originated from. but as soon as we get more details we'll send it back to you in in new york. jenna: pete griffin, thank you very much. much more to this story of course of course out of las vegas as we hear more details about what happened here. strange event. we'll keep an eye on it. jon: unbelievable. now this fox news weather alert. the central plains and the midwest getting hit hard by a deadly storm that could bring dangerous weather to nearly half of the country. it is already causing a travel nightmare on roads and at the airports as well. so where is it headed? meteorologist janice dean is live in the fox news extreme weather center. she is keeping an eye on it for us. jd? >> jon, can you believe we already received a foot of snow in parts of kansas. we could get upwards to two feet of snow when all said and done. the storm is just getting its act together. remember this time yesterday we were talking about the