he was hired by a japanese manufacturer in southern vietnam in june. he helped to design robots that are used to make parts. >> translator: my experiences at robocon were a great help for me at work. i'll continue to do my best to contribute to the company. >> reporter: the company is pinning high hopes on employees like min. >> translator: we're hiring them as industry ready to work in the front line. they certainly haven't disappointed us. >> reporter: lakong university students are devoted to making robots. they are acquiring valuable manufacturing skills through their experiences at robocon. nhk world, vietnam. >>> authorities in japan have been facing difficulties in finding places to put radioactive waste. they've agreed on new criteria for long-term storage sites. the ministers approved a plan that gives experts authority to narrow down candidate sites. the experts will take into consideration population density and accessibility of proposed sites. they also judge geological conditions, such as proximity to volcanoes and active earthquake faults

balk: this is southern vietnam. so, we see the white areas are administrative boundaries. the red areas indicate the nighttime lights -- the urban areas. and this blue data set is the elevation zone that we've constructed from the srtm data -- shuttle radar topography mission elevation data set. so, we have ho chi minh city here. that's the big red area. and we'll now add the elevation buffer. the areas that remain bright red are above 10 meters, and all other areas right here where the blue has overtaken it is below 10 meters and it's evident that the entire city is not below 10 meters, but much of it is. this notion of combining these different types of data at these fine resolution is an innovation and it's an important one for effecting policy because without data of this type you can't come up with estimates that are accurate. narrator: as part of the worldwide effort, projections for ocean-level rise have been made for the new york metropolitan area, home to approximately 20 million people. balk: as i was doing this research since we're in new york, many people said,

vietnam. specifically southern portions of the philippines into davao there, mindanao, you've seen about 70 millimetersthe past 24 hours. also across parts of vietnam, over 100 millimeters has also been reported. there is the risk of some localized flooding taking place out here. continuing on the track toward the west, not a named system by any means but we have a tropical low out here. you can see it spinning here in the northern portions of the indian ocean. could be one of the first storms of the season. in this area of the world to develop. will be a cyclone. if it does. still a lot of time to watch this. but if you are in oman over through pakistan, western india, this is something to keep a very close eye on because by next week this could be a big flood maker, something to watch out for through the coming days. let's go over toward europe now. and first i want to talk about the british isles. x gonzalo. that's long gone. but what you have is a high pressure situated across portions of the iberian peninsula, western europe. low off to the north. and right smack in the middle is much of ireland a

morning with a desperate search at sea after a jet carrying 239 people vanished off the southern coast of vietnamernight, very quickly, there's no debris, they can't find anything from the aircraft. and that's unusual. >> even more unusual, searchers also start looking in the opposite direction. hundreds of miles to the west. >> i sat in the studio covering this, and we would look at each other and say, did he just simply say we're looking to the west? >> yes. that's because newly discovered military radar reveals the plane may have turned back to the west. at the same time, new leads are coming in. >> late today, chinese authorities released satellite photos of what they call a suspected crash site. >> an international fleet of aircraft and boats are now searching in two different areas. >> they had to look in the east because that's where debris was allegedly being reported. they had to look in the west because that's where their radar data had told them the plane had gone. >> but searchers still find nothing. days turn into weeks. and the search area expands even farther. >> why was there so m

southern oregon since 1979. an army helicopter pilot during vietnam, he returned home, put himself through law school and opened women and has one son. he was nancely elected by democrats and republicans to the speaker pro tem and served as the co-chair for ways and meanss and led the repeal have largest tax increase in history. governor john kitzhaber grow up in eugene, served parts parts of douglas county before becoming governor help helped launch the oregon business plan. in 2011 oregonians elected him governor. oregon has expanded health insurance coverage to 59% of oregonians. -- 95% of the oregonons. representative richardson, you have two minutes for your opening statements. >> thank you. this election is not bat republican versus a democrat. it's about the past versus the future. governor kitzhaber wants a fourth term but has he earned it? oregon's unemployment rates have been higher than the national average for the last 18 consecutive years. we have one in five oregonians on foot -- food stamps and the economic arrow has been going down for the past 20 years, and it's still decreasing. next let consi

southern california to take up surfing. >> that was it? >> that was it. >> in 1965, reality set in. he got drafted off his surfboard, joined the navy as a medic, and was sent to vietnam nang. the experience changed his life and motivated him to go back to school and pursue a career in medical research. he became a rising star at the national institutes of health and just as quickly grew frustrated with the politics and bureaucracy of government science. when the n.i.h. declined to fund some of his unorthodox new ideas, he left and found private investors who would. >> i think we have a real problem with how science is funded and done in this country. almost every breakthrough i've been associated with is from having independent money. and once they worked, we can get tons of government money to follow up on it. but we could never get the money to do the initial experiment. >> in 1998, a company that made cutting-edge technology to analyze dna hired him to take on the federal government in a race to identify all the genetic material in the human body. the federally funded human genome project had already been working on it for years. why did you decide to challenge th

. >> southern, you know -- so, you know, i think in any of these situations, but it's not even limited to vietnamr afghanistan or iraq, but if you pick any country, there's a lot of texture and a lot of understandings, historical, groups, differences. and i think there's a danger for any of us, historians, policymakers, members of the public in kind of characterizing any particular group or place as all one type or another. so i don't want to say afghanistan all tribal or not. it's obviously complicated in a lot of different ways. in a sense, that's the point. it's very complicated. there's a lot of history, there's lines that have been drawn in different ways by imperial powers -- namely the british in a lot of these cases -- there are different groups that have different religions, different ethnicities and, in fact, in different parts, say just in afghanistan, in different provinces in the country you may have completely different causes of why people are choosing to be insurgents. in some places more economic, in some places less economic. and the, and the factors ten turns out it's -- then t

vietnam's human rights record. >> look at this wild high-speed chase out of southern california.r-old steven bartlett, was wanted for a series of bank robberies in orange county in santa barbara. during the pursuit which was about 90 minutes, went over four counties bartlett hit another car head-on and drove the wrong way before pulling a u-turn. the incident ended when he lost control and went barreling down an embankment. >> i do not miss that sight, all too familiar covering the news in los angeles sadly. >> nobody seriously hurt from the situation. it is fair to say getaway vehicles not at the top of the list, flatbed trucks. >> or tow trucks or any big hauler. >> luckily he picked one because he was more easily captured. >>> let's turn to weather, going into the weekend but not without thundershowers. >> traveling yesterday, chicago, dallas, these major hubs yesterday had a severe line of storms making its way through and this morning we're still watching that exact same system. look at the lightning we have continuing to really develop here, so what are we looking today? to