so in southern china what they do, they have this very clever way of growing rice. they let loose ducks on their rice paddies, and the ducks only eat the weeds. and then when they harvest the rice, they put the ducks back among the rest of the farm animals, including the pigs. now, the pigs can now get the duck flu viruses, and the people that live very close to the pigs, the people can get the viruses from the pigs, so you can end up with a new flu that can spread from there around the world. and this is kind of interesting for 1918. it's not clear whether -- where the 1918 flu started, but there is at least one researcher in hong kong who is, has this idea that it's the 1918 flu started earlier in southern china. he says he has historical records to indicate the that people in southern china were getting sick with something that looks like this flu, and the chinese laborers were sent to europe to dig the trenches. so he says it started every other major pandemic in this century. c-span: you say hong kong had a big scare, 1997. >> guest: they did. c-span: what was

chinese oral four guard from southern china the well known song butterflies lingering over flowers is actually based on the storytelling in balancing into that. composers joker shown is safe in the storytelling and ballad singing artist. people who remember her partner carter tries to remove the flowers ones for us sinners storyteller. it was iraqis as usual. total cost for the day that table. it's unfortunately it's useful to shuffle to the batting which he is in control. the movie selection. okay you get someone to share what i think we can get. she got to admit i cut you off. ahmad rashid to search the publisher the problem than usual to keep at it. how could he the knee. hers. i'm vain. i d rob. i don't i. any. it is now well positioned to be in houston. sure you get to slp but if we can answer that one for his encounter with him you can tell. what a heads up a wedgie and told us to double up on the phone with a can on top. it should be heeded. the sentiment that going into pockets that took its lead the team the day you can see and spends her time training apprentices the knot th

. >> feeding time in southern china. this is no ordinary farm. this is the cutting edge of science. hills, thisin the is the largest center anywhere in the world for cloning pigs. animals,shed holds 90 and they are all pregnant with cloned embryos, some of them genetically modified. the aim is to use them to test new medicine. this company produces an astonishing 500 clones a year. anesthetics --r a sow lies under anesthetics. a batch of cloned embryos is about to be implanted. the technology of cloning has been around for years. it has been used on all kinds of different animals. what is new in china is that it is being employed on an almost industrial scale. while in the west cloning remains controversial, here it is becoming almost normal. the lab were cloned embryos are prepared for implementation. there is no new signs about the procedure, but they are making waves in speeding it up, deploying large teams of young technicians to keep repeating the same intricate tasks. >> we are doing cloning in a very large scale, 50 people working together. is like a factory. >> yes. that is

outliers, i play with the idea that perhaps something about the culture of rice cultivation in southern china has contributed to asian success, chinese success in mathematics. is that a provable assumption? have no, you can't rerun history, see how chinese would do it if they hadn't had a rice cultivation, but is it not useful to play with that idea? of course not. first submit it to seven layers of academic rigor, they're saying the world would be a very boring place. i think it's fun to play with ideas, so in the case of david boice and dyslexia, he's saying this is the story of my life. my dyslexia i believe caused me to shift direction and what he said was, i could not read as a child. and in order to deal with this very, very serious problem, i consciously set out to do two things. one, i realized i would have to remember everything because i could no longer -- i couldn't read it. two, i would get through school by paying extraordinary attention to the teacher. in other words, the only way i was going olearn was by listening to what a teacher said very closely and memorizing. now can we

he runs a micro credit firm in southern china. a former investment banker, he funds small-time clients, from fruit growers and street hawkers to mom and pop shops. >> we are a very important supplement to the traditional banking system. small and medium size companies and under privileged consumers have no way to access a bank credit but they can come to us. >> reporter: china's financial sector has long been controlled by the government. they funnel funds to industries and projects targeted by government economic policy. the enterprises get funding for big projects like this one. that means some companies can cash in whenever they want, while others usually private companies are largely cut off fostering an alternative shadow financial sector. jong charges borrowers 24% a year on loans that need to be paid back in three to nine months. >> that's really scapegoating people like us. we are doing an achievement business. >> reporter: but not everybody in shadow banking is. the $6 trillion industry encompasses everything from micro l

according to an analyst, she says its presence across southern china's river delta makes it a better target than any of these smaller banks. in is theing hang is looking tobc expand at home. f not coming to the rescue. estimateshone missing , making half of expectations. robert downeyt of junior tended to sprinkle some hollywood stardust, but it has little impact. of bitcoin is now back up above $1000. zynga saidost when they would start accepting them for games like "farmville" two. >> honda sales rising nearly two shy of, but it is expectations. december sales climbing 11%. nissan doing well. again the company missed estimates. a quick check on those carmakers. we are seeing the kleins in honda -- declined in honda. >> the rush for reform has left some in the slow lane. a special report coming up. >> after the break, the cio tells us why there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful in the year >> foreign investors will be keeping a close eye. investors need to see how, especially starting with the banking system. the first question they ask you is how is china going to fix the goingm

so parts of southern china, including hong kong. you're definitely going to be seeing the haze here in your forecast on monday into tuesday. makes for a decent sunset. but anybody with respiratory issues, they're in china over towards korea and western japan. we do want to limit your outdoor activities if possible. and if you are outside, just don't do anything too strenuous and limit yourself at the very least. meanwhile we have that heavy rain showers continuing to occur across the philippines. we had a tropical depression last week. over the weekend this was upgraded to a tropical storm. since then has been downgraded. but still, it's bringing some showers on top of what's already occurred here over 40 deaths have been reported. numerous flooding and landslides. so the threat is really still there. we still want to watch this throughout the rest of the week. manila, 29 a little bit farther towards the north. partly cloudy skies in your forecast. quickly want to touch in on what's going on in europe. we are still looking at severe

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this style of lion dance in region eight in southern china. the way most chinese history stands history. it's become part of malaysia's national culture and loved by people of all races. it's also a big drawing card for businesses that this time of year. in this hot and humid climate people wrong and all balls for their shopping and entertainment. at other times of the major celebrations such as the muslim festival of the christmas and above all chinese new year the mall's try to outdo one another in terms of their lavish decorations and entertainment. top of that list a line dance performances. over the decades been making the mayans movements and even facial expressions has taken on increasing importance as displays of balance and acrobatic skill. the aid of babylon in the middle you have to see if you're compatible with your partner your buddies can work together they intended to stop you from inside there's no way you can do well. at this time of year the performances the popular troops come thick and fast does. and our house as i think he

it come to don't that the wealthier families will further emphasized education the article in southern china morning post and a life that you poke it meant to protect older. the article points out that the poll you look in the demand for more houses. break out like too much. the reason why the chinese central government it came to birth control all the footage of the population structure without more young people become too big to be drinking problem and thus the labor shortage in the near future the article that the central government encouraging people to give birth to more children to address the issue the first back to infant baptism the ball he will come at the end of the year fourteen of fifteen. years ago that a lot of changes that could happen to real in that time. with the cost of living quickly increasing married couples of left wing of a child let alone two the article that if housing prices jump higher than your children will be at an in demand for housing decline in reverse the direction of prices. many market does believe that doctors and twenty housing prices are very complica

a few high end private club in southern china were closed down temporarily. after the chinese garden force the puppy. the most famous was shut down which in no way which is look at the westlake a plum job ended tuesday on profit. and mainly directed by the minute the founder of ali baba. the area that covers about two thousand square meters down a repeat of the membership fee of the club with about two hundred document about the new breed of youth culture percent each year. to most people behind private clubs are closed the place of mystery and back and deal the rumors until the all indignation super wealthy and well connected are able to spend time at the club the clubs are barely secret location. if it means to be hidden but no way that people might feel that bought them from the outside easily don't go with all the talk into the gifted group of the rich and powerful the tent. welcome back to china price lunch. in today's money matters were talking bout the prequel to the rich and powerful. mostly private clubs are looking part where tapping into building a

go buy some southern china. people from the junk you probably can be happy to keep up to me already well known for his doctor. only high quality me the price hike all the talk he could reach five you tell a three pound. he taught me to show for more than a few with colors which is more than most other one. there's some chinese movies that could keep eating papa could help. the corn the chinese medical records. you could for that reason strokes bulgaria at the park only does it did as well. the pop need to be on a diet of healthy pace of the bma. but unfortunate for chinese medicine believers. many popular now that would continue corman the local bp actually making up the pace to try to update the meat should be quarantined inspected before being hurt but difficult to label their products. we heart attack anyway. the cheap right the pocket utopia end of the people who did. and chinese people to want to talk to them being tricked into eating it. or for things like taking the kiddos for the dietary habits you have

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the raid took place in a village in southern china's gong dong province.th of the households were suspected of having ties to the production or trafficking of drugs. the operation involves some 3,000 police and pair ral military sources who swooped in using helicopters, speed boats, trucks and vans. >>> governor of minnesota has already said no school on monday. it is just going to be too cold. this is the first time since the mid-'90s that the weather has closed every school in the state of minnesota. but that is days away. right now, more than 2,000 flights have been canceled all over the country today. they've got deep snow, ice, heavy backlog of flights that couldn't get out yesterday. they're throwing the travel plans for a lot of folks into chaos as you can imagine. richard quest tell us what kind of mess the winter storm is covering and causing the airline industry. i imagine, this is impacting what, airports all over the world? >> yeah, and this is flight board. you probably can't see it closely. but this is flight board. this shows you all the can

china's housing prices rapid increase one never cooled down. what does that change the country dependent on him and revenue finally from southern metropolis daily china's restrictions on consumption that would drop until the pie an ingredient. restricted parking and consumption led to drop until the pie and glued to the babylonian chart with the spring couple coming down the hill the pie in the ingredients are normally much better the mayor this year. many store owners and the higher the tree and had to move appears to be very hard after an official of the creature still behind him many store owners have to tell the concrete into large discount. data showed the retail price of abalone now that the hundred nine us dollars to three hundred twenty one dollars per kilogram. the decreased by fifty us dollars last year the price previously to be more than one thousand six hundred us dollars for children. in addition the retail practice shark and the ball to drop by fifty percent. market analysts predicted the total bill for hiding the gradient and queued up to thirteen will increase by seventy percent in two thousand while. don't go with because of t

in china, police in the southern ovince of kwan dong busted a massive drug ring. they confiscated nearly three tons of crystal meth. amazingly officials say more than a third of the country's entire supply of the drug comes rom one village. >> 3,000 heavily armed police officers swept into this village at dawn. their mission was to eliminate what they called the region's number one drug village. and this is what the village has become known for, methamphetamine, highly addictive stimulant commonly called crystal meth. it is easy and cheap to create with the right tools. police say more than one-third of china's total crystal meth supply comes from this one village. known as ice in china, this drug is incredibly lucrative source of income for villages, officials say. >> 20 crepts of households in the village were directly involved or had a stake in drug production. drug production was run by families, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends and had been industrialized in the village. worse still they were under the protection of local officials, village and townsh

china alone. of these, 49 cases are in the eastern province. others have been found in the southern provinces like guangdong. so far 22 patients have died. the hospital in zhejiang is crowded with people who fear they are infected by bird flu virus. health officials have been shutting down markets that sell live poultry for fear the virus may be passed on to people through contact with live birds. but about 30 minutes drive from downtown shanghai we found an illegal vendor. he was selling chickens and pigeons. clients would choose which ones they like and he will kill them. the price is about 20% cheaper than the normal market price. >> translator: our market was shut down by the government. we had to kill 2,000 birds by ourselves. but we did not get any compensation. we have no choice but to sell our birds in the street. >> reporter: a few days ahead of the lunar new year, the demand for chicken meat picks up, and loads of them are being transported all across china. during the new year celebration more than 3 billion people move around the continent, too. the world health organiza

china. that's the surest could possible over southern parts of the country and stay there precipitation is likely over northern japan believe the condition likely open in north western flank of the country that is how strong the saturday when surfacing of temperature this and check out the pain decreased by nine to make a poor light conditions actually forgot that i think can decrease in key affairs think of as the nice thing to much one of the matter is priced at six am. i the ruling. i eye the eye. it was. the us. dvds. i don't think this is a standout nice time and having my . as. you can see

what was freezing in northern china thousands of people to fall to southern guangdong and white jar of provinces to enjoy a warmer winter and find out how people they are celebrating the chinese lunar new year we can speak to our port the city and seeing him long to study. and luckily for henin at the beach in the uk on the album which he played shows by the city. what's with the what have you but for this and that will speak to you and get a feel for those particular areas with you lot but sweet tooth us a new thing i've become so we nodded back to. while markets in long coats to be a guy can be opened unto every the fourteenth of visitors to enjoy celebrating the beauty and such. give us some idea of harvesting their own but perhaps you can tell if some of your favorite flowers. yes i do when you can sense the festival has missed the air around me as she's thousand people on spending grounds me and you know that people on the yen fell out and relaxed. and yet but no one is going back and see friends its hands in the best nurse looks to be settled. i wasn't was that tried to many peop

china town. she was with the staff in the community development center unsuccessful advocating for the southern subway and on montgomery street as an affordable housing. sf tomorrow and the sf board of supervisors she approved the transit accessibility. i'm proposing we add the designation to battery street while serving open the china town association she she continuing added to the streets importance and to the senior homes. finally the last resolution is to add the designation to merchant street. bud moose and willing i can't think memos such a skraet the projection for the bank of america card. in addition to believe the iconic building moose helped to build the housing in chinatown they promoted chinese-american cultural through it's art and education and community engagement work for nearly 5 decades it draws 45 thousand visitors. i know there are a number of individual that are here to support those resolutions. i want to thank those who couldn't come today but it includes the former director of the center albert and the director of the uncertainty center and the china improvement promise and t

observers see chen's remarks as a sign that china was to put more pressure on japan i know him. defence officials in southern japan are moving forward with a plan to relocate a u s marine base in okinawa. they're asking companies to submit bids to do work despite the reelection of the mayor opposed to the project japanese and us leaders have agreed to move if it in my ear station from the city of juneau one to a coastal district of the city of novel last month the book an alabama girl cousin kai and i approve the central government request to start pushing infill into the ocean to build runways for the new dates. officials with the okinawa defense peerless say they're accepting bids for three projects. these include designing and banquets and to a survey of marine life such as coral and do cool sea mammals the officials plan to sign contracts by the end of march with the companies it said that successful bids. they see the later seek bids for coastal drilling service the two giuliani the image to humankind. while continuing to seek the return of land in these twenty usd ten at her station and it will also st

china sea. this low pressure system was already affecting southern south korea with very wet weather go to the north and that's precipitation turns to snow same thing happens and the incoming into moving into tokyo metropolitan nation that good news is that we haven't seen rain for twelve days i must say this is going to be the first rainfall for this year hasn't been raining since december twenty seven period to commence upon two nations that that's going to be tapering off that rubio dryness that we have been feeling for quite some time inside and raining here in the afternoon hours into thursday. the men of heady patches of rain could to on race risk of flying but to really clear and your eye across some of these areas as he can seek an incendiary in cold air will leave me be dropping the temperature is as we protested to the latter half of this week a collegiate that hong kong twenty oh one to sixteen degrees killing an minus five the suffering the highest reminds hit and sold minus three forecast for thursday the extreme cold is still dominating much of the eastern half of this continent a spot

or bird flu cases of the new age seven and nine strain first recorded in china last march had been found in the eastern and southern parts of the country. nhk world you tell county has more the friday will be the start of the dude and yuki maintain its dominance with by night poultry from ten local market and the people found that gavin thinks. what did the ride was killed first taste much better. the cia will be different because of their. to look into delhomme go should open a market in colonel joe was shut down c seventeen told you what to tell you the agriculture department has banned eating my apple tree at home working puzzle pieces in time out reports and at one hundred and three patients were being diagnosed with bird flu and generally unknown. of these forty nine cases saying the eastern province of the cia. others have been found in the southern province is like one going self of twenty two cases have died the australian coach john is crowded with people who hear the infected by bird flu. five pts the health of pieces the shutting down markets that sell live poultry is the virus may be hostile to people t

been reported in china the bruins and telephone number of infections the country two four th just yet. among the new case is announced on wednesday free will report it in the southern province of guangdong three in the eastern province of gia jump but the other came from the east china still so province so far this he had to jump robins has reported a thirty two cases of human infection. the highlight is in the country neighboring fujian province has reported seven local and dome and don'ts of promises that each of three cases. meanwhile sean high municipality has confounded two but three factions this yet with hong kong reporting one case. as millions of chinese provide retiring to their hometowns for the spring festival the challenge of containing the latest aged seven and the length of the epidemic have come sharply into focus polo reports how the authorities are deeply concerned and the serene at the ganache whit about twenty new cases reported in the first two weeks of twenty fourteen the chinese have a long tradition of eating fresh ingredients especially adam pointed and fees and family really need. that's occurring during the peak season for both the sales

looking dry my hazy conditions once again over the east the cars of china and a significant flooding is happening all over the southern parts of philippines. we have a strong low which was where the tropical depression that two hundred eighteen millimeters of rain has been upset in the north eastern tip of mindanao. he looks like this is the most they care for the next several days. additional bank where certainly heightened of potential clients to swallow salons night even for the day by day. now many how will remain at trial weather will remain dry. on tuesday with high of thirty degrees prime precinct line and sell cook and seven the case that tomorrow the high could be only for a decrease of preparing a wellness check up for tomorrow. that crusty and mary pass the law the closet causing a ball riding the priest because you know that the east line still but kramnik called the precipitation over the eastern us and deep south you're seeing heavy thundery showers will be heading towards the east west again if we're finding is happening over the north eastern us to do this again and whatnot over the weekend. we'll acce

southern philippines. >> a u.s. operated chinese funded ship is on assign tick expedition to the south china sea. it's been touted as an attempt to ease tensions in disputing waters. two large mineral resources, rob mcbride reports from hong kong. >> with 30 geologists on board, this is a major international undertaking. out into the south china sea, over the next couple of months this vessel will be drilling in some of the deepest parts of that sea. trying to get a better understanding of these shifting plate tech tonics on the seabed. it at though represents the shifting geopolitics in this part of the world. and american vessel this mission is being funded largely by china, which is also providing much of the scientific leadership onboard the ship. china is contributing 70% of the cost, and is being led by a team of two assignments and we have a large number onboard. larger than the usual. and so together with their international colleagues it's going to be a very exciting expedition. to understand the history of the sea. >> an exercise in international collaboration, this mission nonetheless,

people are starting to hear tab because the china trust, don't know the bank or the piece of paper up front. look at union pacific. on top of norfolk southerngood things yesterday. the union pacific numbers are terrific now. not a real china play, although there is shipping that comes from the west to goes to china. every number is good and that stock has done remarkably well. netflix we know, a wonderful conference call. wonderful. very thought. it. people want to understand it they should tleed. and tesla. tesla when netflix goes up, these cult stocks, i call them cult stocks. >> right. sue jump in. you have a question for jim. he can hear you. >> wanted to go back to something i've been watching. you mentioned it yesterday, jim, when we talked. that's the thrift industry in china. and this race to keep this one thrift from defaulting next week. the talk down here is that maybe china's thrifts, in their shadow banking system kind of might be on the verge of their own subprime crisis. do you think that's too extreme? because it seems to be weighing on the market today? >> no, i don't, sue. i think that's really the proximate cause of this.

china sea in november. the zone includes the senkaku islands. defense officials in southern japan are moving forward with a plan to relocate a u.s. marine base in okinawa. they're asking companies to submit bids to do work, despite the re-election of a mayor opposed to the project. japanese and u.s. leaders have agreed to move the futenma air station from the city of ginowan to a coastal district of nago. last month the governor nakaima approved a government request to start pushing infill into the ocean to build runways for the new base. officials with the okinawa defense bureau say they're accepting bids for three projects. these include designing embankments, and a survey of miern, coral and dugong sea mammals. the officials plan to sign contracts by the end of march with the companies that submit successful bids. they say they'll later seek bids for a coastal drilling survey. >> translator: while continuing to seek the return of land used for the u.s. futenma air station, we will also steadily promote the relocation plan. >> but the newly re-elected mayor of nago is stro

china and taiwan claim them i eye. russian authorities are tightening security in the southern city of sochi bear restricting access to the black sea resort one month before the winter olympics gets underway. police have set up extra checkpoints around the olympic venue they stay there barring any vehicles that don't have local registration from entering the city authorities have installed metal detectors and bag each check gates at the airport and train stations. police and military vessels are also patrolling the black sea to ensure safety at waterfront arenas two bombings last month killed thirty four people and volvo grand about seven hundred km northeast of sochi the government has to keep about one hundred thousand police and soldiers on high alert until the olympics and in march. the united states has been hit by its coldest weather in about twenty years the big chill has caused at least four deaths. the severe cold as gripped much of the us midwest since last week temperatures are ten to twenty degrees below the seasonal average. monday afternoon in chicago so the merc saw the mercury dropped to minus twenty f

china. the chief brushed off security concerns that have risen following a series of terrorist attacks in southern russia. he said that region is far away from sochi, and security there has been tightened. russian authorities said they have identified two suicide bombers responsible for attacks last month in the southern city volgograd. the blasts occurred on consecutive days. they killed 34 people and injured more than 80. the alleged bombers were among the dead. >>> some important economic figures from europe are out, and ron madison is here with the details on that. >> investors had a lot of data to digest today, gene. cpi data out of japan which is a huge focus. and all eyes really on the jobs situation in europe. so first to the eurozone we go where the labor market continued to flounder in december. the jobless rate was stuck at 12%. very close to a record high. the eu's statistics office euro statistic has released the jobless numbers for the 17-nation single currency bloc. from january latvia is included now among the members. spain's unemployment showed a slight improvement, following 0.3

strike and it was on an undisclosed location in the southern region and they are yet to confirm the man's identity. and political activists in chinaave gone on trial for disrupting public order. now this is part of a government crack down on a group that calls for more accountability from official and comes a day after another activist was sentenced to four years in prison. police in the philippines have cleared a tent city near manila and 50 families were forcibly removed. the settlers say the government has removed them from without notice. the philippine army launched mayor offensive against rebels in the south and happening in the region and targeting the freedom fighters known as the biff. now who are they? the group broke away from the islamic front in 2008. the government has been battling the milf since the 1970s and it wants to create an aton mouse state in the southern philippines. more than 120,000 people are estimated to have died in the confli conflict. the biff offshoot rejects any dialog and jimmy has more front manila. >> fighting broke out in the philippine military and islamic freedom fighters. hundreds of reside

is about, the humble peanuts producing a huge profit and china and india cannot get enough of the popular protein and we report in the southern. >> this is no exceptional harvest and yes it got 60-year-old peanut farmer excited and not worth much until the arrival of chinese buyers and this one ton of peanuts is a pot of gold that will make him rich. >> translator: this is my treasure and if i can sell this for my extended family i will be covered for the full year to come. >> reporter: half of the land is used to farm peanuts and since 2013 chinese are offering twice the local market value for it. >> chinese businessmen are here buying peanuts off the farmers and build a process in the factories like this one. >> here the plan is to make peanut oil exported to asia and they have imports of the product and it's for demand and domestic market and the appetite for the nut has changed their collective bargaining power who rely on millers to buy the crop. >> translator: what they are offering is indecent and buying the peanuts at the lowest price and keeping us in poverty and the chee chinese will have a better option. >> reporte

china, that's staying cold but very dry out there. going through the next several days. should see a gradual warming trend, though. now farther towards the south, low pressure area there in southern portions of the philippines. this was a tropical depression over the weekend. it since has weakened out here but it still is bringing some torrential amounts of rain. one report about 185 millimeters here in the past 24 hours. that's just one location. numerous locations have seen some flooding here along eastern and northern portions of mindanao. also looking at landslides. there has been at least 13 reports of deaths out here due to this storm. not a named storm system, but it really is continuing to bring the foul weather. in the next 72 hours you can see additional 200 to 300 millimeters in some locations. very well could see some more rain. should be tapering off thankfully later on in the week. as far as your temperatures, though, 30s, shanghai at 7. seoul just in the freezing mark with zero. and 7 in tokyo for the high. we'll be getting down near the freezing mark through the overnight hours, though. take a look over towards the americas and see what's going on here. we have on

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southern part of the nation. in exchange for a decommissioning of rebel forces. the fighting has lasted more than 40 years. >>> there's been a clash between authorities and residents of a region in western china with a large muslim population. authorities say at least 12 people in the province were killed after a series of bombings and an exchange of gunfire. the area is home to most of china's 10 million ethnic uighurs, most of whom practice islam and have repeatedly been at odds with the nonmuslim population there. the death count has risen following a fire in a retirement home in canada. authorities now say 32 senior citizens are presumed dead following a the blaze in the province of quebec. the search for more bodies is continuing in frigid conditions. many of the residents were more than 85 years old and used walkers and wheelchairs. >>> in this country another shooting incident. three were killed and four injured after a gunman opened fire at a mall in columbia, maryland, 30 miles north of the nation's capital. the gunman reportedly shot himself dead after killing two others. >>> the family of an ohio inmate whose execution lasted longer than expected has filed a lawsuit saying dennis m

china was $253 billion in 2012. $253 billion. here in the u.s., >>> chaos in the south. a rare and deadly winter storm paralyzes the southernuses overnight. >> boys will be sleeping in the media center. >> drivers abandoning cars as ice shuts down major roads. minutes long commutes still on going at this very hour. >> now i'm stuck. >> state troopers racing to the rescue. heavy snow adding to the disaster along the east coast. we have every angle covered. >> >>> going it alone. president obama calling for a year of action in his state of the union address threatening to bypass congress if necessary. >> america does not standstill and neither will i. >> but did his proposals go far enough for the american people. and who is the army ranger who brought the entire chamber to their feet in a rousing standing ovation. we have the story behind a hero. your "new day" starts right now. >> good morning. welcome to "new day." it's wednesday, january 29th. 6:00 in the east. i'm chris cuomo live from capitol hill where president obama delivered his fifth state of the union address last night. but the big story this morning is the actua

southern europe was stabilizing. asia was very mixed. they said chinaing, but they singled out vietnam, thailand and south africa, they said they were all below historic rates here. seemed a little puzzled by that. south america's doing great. double digit sales growth. north america had lower volumes but they mentioned personal care was stronger. what's it all mean? i would call it a fairly mixed picture, i would have liked to see more optimistic comments on europe and asia. we're in the middle of earnings season and through with banks and generally we did very well, the markets held up very well on the bank earnings and today we'll really turn to the tech group, so tonight will be ibm, texas instruments, amd, xilinx will be reporting after midnight. china gdp growth did you see it over the weekend, 7.7%, heavens knows how they hit the targets, 7.7%, december retail sales up 13.6% only a slight deceleration from november so overall the economic numbers for china were not that bad. by the way they injected a lot of money the people's bank of china into

china for 2,000 years. in america they are not farmed or eaten normally. we look at the fish as an invasive species. when asian karp were introduced too america they were imported to southern states to clean up commercial ponds. they began to breed and they infested the mississippi river basin. now their numbers swell and the waters are teaming with them. they stomp out flora and fauna and other species. they are enjergetic and you see pictures where they jump in the air at high speed. hundreds can jump out of the air at one time. it's a spectacle. they are large. they can grow to, you know, over 100 pounds, 7 feet in length. so the engineers did a study, which they just released. and they outlined eight recommendations, ranging from doing nothing to the host drastic recommendations, which is building physical barriers to keep water from moving from the mississippi river to the great lakes. this would be among the biggest structural work that we have done on water whiches in america in years. if not decades. that would take, you know, 25 years, the study said, and cost 18.4 billion to do. we really have no way of guaranteeing that this project can deliver perfect results,

down at the bargaining table china which buys most of june was oil to go with sudan's president omar al bashir in a surprise visit this month. reaching out to its war torn southern neighbor sudanese president omar al bashir met with his counterparts of the keirin cuba and called for an immediate ceasefire. the two countries remain bound together by their shared a winning streak south sudan has most of the region screwed that meets against plans to export its the two presidents said they were considering setting up a joint force to protect the vital oil fields. a similar call for peace came from china the biggest investor in south sudan's oil industry. three when the topic on its position regarding the current situation insulted on is very clear that if we call on the immediate and to post updates coming over or nordic established very soon the chinese foreign minister was speaking during the visiting ethiopia or talks aimed at securing a peace deal picked up on monday after being repeatedly delayed. finding a quick solution to the conflict between government and rebel representatives will be hard the key sticking point is the release of eleven rebel allies to re

italian banks, spanish banks, the loans in southern europe, how there's a new notion that mario draghi's going to do a form of qe for the problematic loans, chinaple about the issue here, and the issue really is insolvency. consider this, for 2013, and ongoing sense we've had, you know, huge double digit gdp in china, it's now, you know, close to half of what it was in its hey day. that means something. out of all of the loans made, the actual government through the proper channels is trying to curtail credit a bit. what you end up withes a shadow banking system that ends up participating more in throwing in money into the hopper. so when we look at what happened with the chinese credit trust, basically you had a coal miner, energy company, that wanted loans. it's like the junk bond market here. but their insolvency is at root of this and it's also at the solution. for 2013, most economists agree, about one-third of all of the credit, one-third of all of the cred knit china, came from the shadow banking side. when you hear the word "shadow" it's not a good thing. shadow brings offbalance sheet and accounting gimmicks. but in the end, insolvency

southern europe and such. many, many, many audis. in the united states, it is a luxury brand. >> audi is number two in the premium segment. we are number one in chinamber one in europe, and we are aiming for the next success in united states. >> what are you in the united states, three? >> three. >> bmw, their position as leader has gotten not as ahead recently, has it not? and mercedes is closing the gam gap, as well? >> we still have that towards bmw. >> where does lexus come in, by the way? >> on a global scale, not -- >> when you think about why someone would buy a luxury car, i think of, obviously, there has to be the feeling of, wow, i feel good driving this. but also, it has to be quality and reliability. it has to be -- and audi, over the years, i've seen what you've been able to do. and it's a really phenomenal car. it is a loaner. and that is -- is it the most important thing is quality? >> it is a major part of on our strategy. we are aiming for being number one. so we are investing heavily into new products, into technology innovation. and what we would like to have is that the customer stays good and this is really quality. the archite

china, south america, central america. shannon: larry our interest theory handle deportation-type questions. caller: that's the point i'm talking about where they are coming through from the southern border and they learn spanish and deporting them is a joke. same guy that spoke to the lawyer allowing illegals because there's 20 million-40 million illegal aliens from all over the world and the country is bankrupt and we're going to have a financial collapse. host: so what would you like our ghost snards caller: they are not serious. host: those -- guest: the first caller's point, i think there is this notion that the undocumented and certainly legal immigrants provide vital services so one thing we might hope for is an increase on the number of visas r employment-based imgravents. i simply don't think there are the resources available to round up and deport 12 million-20 million or however many illegal immigrants there are in the country but from a humanitarian point of view that simply doesn't make sense. host: so since we're seeing lower cases that means more are winning their cases? guest: yes. a lot of it has to do with resources. even as an immigration attorney i sometimes ne