sari kajahara has been looking into this and joins us from the tokoshima studio. many fishermen died during -- trying to flee the giant waves on march 11th. what's been learned from that experience? >> one key issue is the evacuation. march 11th it was believed that boats should be sent out to sea when a tsunami warning sounds. offshore, where the ocean is deep, tsunami waves are not so high whereas they approach port, the sea becomes shallower and the waves become higher and more intense. as a result, the japan coast guard has a device sending boats far offshore where they can't be capsized on to the land. last year's disaster showed this plan only works if the boats are given enough warning. here is a report on what happened and what's being done to prepare for the next big quake. leaving port in a hurry. boats head out to sea on march 11th. many never made it to safety. fuel leaking from the wrecked boats caught fire. whole neighborhoods went up in flames. how can this devastation be prevented? officials in tokushima prefecture are among those looking for answe

sari to tack on another tough topic. commissioner mendoza: 10 i asked, just to make sure, that your having conversations with the city, not with the mta, to ensure that they have a sense of -- with mta, to ensure they have a sense of the impact on muni? >> we are doing that. because of all the resources i mentioned, there is already a network of people across the city and community organizations that are working on that type of effort. nick is basically the district representative to those conversations and those teams in. he will continue to be our spokesperson and liaison, including with representatives to the mta. commissioner mendoza: i know he is on paternity leave. i wanted to make sure there is not that gap while he is a way. commissioner wynns: i have a couple of questions about these appendices. i am looking at the service's four middle schools. i see some on page 21, some schools, are we seriously running a bus for six kids to go to lick and four kids to go home? these are the kids that we could send them in a

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in order for us to be able to help a young person from birth to 5 be ready to begin school, sari, in order for young person at the age of 25 be able to transition into adulthood, we need to make sure that they graduate from high school. we need to make sure that that high school student has a successful transition into school. that is how we are mapping ourselves against the stage groups. again, use development framework. we also acknowledge that a lot of our young people and families may not be ready to fully utilize all of our services, which is why we created something called foundational support. which is that second class bar their of family support programs, health and wellness, health and nutrition balanced protection services. these are the types of programs that we believe need to be available for out -- for all of our children as a foundation, so that they can then be ready to engage in our early care and education services. and these types of services. once again, i have already talked about this as well, but part of our departments of division is that all san francisco ch

sari, just to clarify, the public can comment on both nominations. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. luke o'brien, coalition for responsible growth. i will start by saying first of all the i think either candidate will do a good job. as you know, i have been here many times, and i have found commissioner mar to be quite fair, reasonable, and confident and intelligent with the matter at hand. i will walk out of here comfortable with the level of candidate we have going for this position, and i think either one will do a good job. however, the decision has to be made as to who will carry the flag, so somebody has to take it, but i am comfortable that we have got two candidates. i know warren pretty well because he lives nearby, and i see walking down the street, and we bump into each other, and we are able to say hello and be cordial. i know that whatever happens today, that will continue to be the case. commissioner murphy got some kudos for the work that he has done during his tenure on the commission, and perhaps, particularly during his tenure as presid

sari, just to clarify, the public can comment on both nominations. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. luke o'brien, coalition for responsible growth. i will start by saying first of all the i think either candidate will do a good job. as you know, i have been here many times, and i have found commissioner mar to be quite fair, reasonable,

and sarah marusek a beirut place researcher from sari cuse university says the syrian people are falling victim to saudi arabia and qatar as brutal tactics to push their political agenda these are two states that are very autocratic and they have strong relationships with the west they get a lot of funding militarily from the worst so perhaps it suits them to south. korea not only in syria but you know it's spilling into iraq it's spilling into jordan and of course it's spilling out here into lebanon. and so they've made it very clear over the past several months that the. regime to tackle that they're willing to do anything that they can to make it happen whether it's bullying in the diplomatic arena or whether it's funding the militant groups in syria and unfortunately the biggest losers of the earth are the syrian people still to come on the program this or not to the academics question the right to life for us is kind of the fault of the u.k. for advocating the use of what they call love to birth abortions. and threats and culture for its floor you have iran's nuclear program as isra

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french president nichololas sary at one point called the gunman a monster and pledgeded that all resources would be used to bring him to justice. meanwhile the manhunt is building momentum with at least 200 experts and police involved now. one possibility is that the gunman is a former soldier himself with perhaps racist or anti-semitic beliefs. one discovery is that an eyewitness today said that the gunman had a portable camera that he strapped to his chest. that means that there could well be video of the attack along, of course, with key clues to the gunman's identity. police are combing the internet for video. i'm jim maceda, nbc news. now back to you. >>> when news 4 at 4:00 continues, a tsa patdown of a toddler quickly becomes a viral video. ♪ ♪ now there's no turning back >> well, she knocked it out of the park. the gaithersburg woman with the voice. it was the best battle round of the night. >>> plus cane from hot 99.5 joins us with all the hot talk, including the new craze of including the new craze of hiring never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. (woman

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french president nichololas sary said the shooting was an obvious antisemitic attack. the new york police department said special attention is now being paid to synagogues. >> do we have a significant jewish population in this city, and we have to take that into account. we know that we're at the top of the terrorist target list, so we are concerned about the so-called copy cat syndrome. >> mary snow is following this story from outside central synagogue here in new york city. mary, what sort of extra security is there? >> reporter: well, erin, you've seen a visible police presence outside of this synagogue and several others that we pass in the city today. the police commissioner is saying basically he's stepped up uniformed police outside more than 50 locations throughout the city. you heard him say there isn't any specific threat or intelligence they have of a specific threat but they felt it was prudent to step up these safeguards. >> i know you talk to a lot of jewish institutions across the city and a lot of them were told to increase security. how concerned are

. >> on that sober note -- [applause] >> sari. >> i hope we get back to talk about some of the solutions lot of people are aware that the all world bank system is not only the largest funder of public health programs in the developed world but it is also the largest funder of educational programs in the developed world more so than unicef. could you talk a bit about what you think works since we are very biased toward action and solutions here in terms of accessing young people's potential in both formal educational systems but also through vocational programs? i know you have done a lot with apprenticeships said and i think there is a lot of interest in this room working with those models. >> this is very important certainly in the case of latin america. the protests in chile are very different than the ones in the middle east. this is much more about the growth of the upper class. the average age in latin america is 27. you have all of these young people coming into the labor market with a growing middle- class and there is definitely a change in aspirations which is driving this anxie

i am sari. i love all our products. -- i am sorry. >> the ever get complaints about who is the time person of the year? >> we always get complaints. we get more than complaints. we get people boycotting, calling. people who are really upset about this. that is probably good. it means they are still paying attention. did i mention time magazine was named the hottest magazine of the year by adweek last year? >> i will let you plugged one more thing. -- plub one more thing. -- plug one more thing. on the swimsuit issue for sports illustrated, deal have cancellations or do you have increases? >> there are the mothers cancelling and the fathers signing up. [laughter] >> jeff, i want to thank you very much. i want to give you a gift. on behalf of the district of columbia, the original map. jeffrey bewkes, thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> on "newsmakers," the virginia attorney general disc