i have 80,000 people and it rotterdam, population of 700,000. more than 10% are seriously affected by traffic. if i drive a car, i have to realize that i caused this problem with serious consequences. also, the climate effects. in the netherlands, people who come to work by bike are more regarded them by car. the people who use the car have to find excuses why they still use the car. they just come and say, i just want to go by car. and the fact is, more and more people -- for instance, in amsterdam, by having this past and so on, 9000 people per day choose not to have their car because there was no more accessibility by car but choose the alternatives. 15% of them stay with the alternatives. they had a car. when they experienced it, it was not so bad commuting by bike or public transport, then there were convinced also. -- then it they were convinced also. if you tell people who drive by cars, and i think american politicians are so afraid they might lose voters, but if you keep telling them the detriment of the effects of using their car every

in rotterdam, they have the same situation. there, they put bicycle boxes on the street.the people who do not have space to park their by -- park their bike in the house, they can put their plight on the lockable shelters on the streets. in the netherlands, they provide for this problem. >> the amount of space that a bicycle and needs versus the amount of space that a car needs. at the very least, we would require parking. if you think about bicycles being the mode of travel, you should require bicycle parking be more convenient. next question. >> going off the bicycle parking to all the mobile parking, i am with the san francisco bicycle coalition. we were talking last night in oakland about various cities and the congestion issues and congestion pricing versus perhaps parking pricing. i was wondering if he could tell us the politics of pricing automobile parking versus congestion parking. in at san francisco, one of the biggest challenges is car is going past you at 40 m.p.h. and getting cars to go slower and not be in the city as we were looking at on market street. a

. >> at the rotterdam container port, screening is routine. there are no written guarantees that the vessels have not been contaminated. >> the e.u. has asked japan to carry a increased radiation checks on anything it sends to europe. we will also be doing our own checks on anything that arrives. >> food crops from japan have been subject to additional checks since last weekend, but there is confusion over the limits acceptable in the eu, which are higher than those after the chernobyl disaster. some say it is not strict enough. >> were ian incredible situation, where we could be importing food products from them that could be banned in japan itself. >> europe is words, but much less than 1% of food sold in germany comes from japan. >> so how vulnerable are other economies? despite the situation in japan sending a shock wave, " japan is expected to cope well in the coming months. german gdp is said to have grown 0.9% in the first quarter, twice as fast as the previous quarter. it was helped by the construction sector and growing demand for mac

. >> at the rotterdam container port, screening is routine. there are no written guarantees that the vessels have not been contaminated. >> the e.u. has asked japan to carry a increased radiation checks on anything it sends to europe. we will also be doing our own checks on anything that arrives. >> food crops from japan have been subject to additional checks since last weekend, but there is confusion over the limits acceptable in the eu, which are higher than those after the chernobyl disaster. some say it is not strict enough. >> we are in an incredible situation, where we could be importing food products from them that could be banned in japan itself. >> europe is words, but much less than 1% of food sold in germany comes from japan. >> so how vulnerable are other economies? despite the situation in japan sending a shock wave, " japan is expected to cope well in the coming months. german gdp is said to have grown 0.9% in the first quarter, twice as fast as the previous quarter. it was helped by the construction sector and growing demand for

some of the ss rotterdam will become ground water.>> james: yosemite national park is shut down because of last week's storm. the block their parlance, highway 41, when 20, when 40 closed there were about 200 visitors their rear graduated. the weekend storm to drop more than three and a half feet of snow in just 24 hours. officials are not sure when the roads will be reopened. a section of highway one that was closed last week is expected to remain closed throughout april. they will stabilize what's left of the crumbling roadway. this was the scene a little further cell along highway 1 near malibu. chirac by a garbage truck. you can see what the result was. the geysers, 60 ft. in the air at times. traffic was backed up for miles. for rwanda's time they're trying to shut out the water because of all water on the road way in made it very hard. we thought we'd grab that venture with you. >> justine: a live look here at the bay bridge toll plaza on this tuesday morning, looks likely little bit about back up but traffic seems to be doing o