and so, little tokyo is going down.s new energy that's come back, yes, japanese investment, but also japanese-american investment as well, as well as asian-american investment. for example, little tokyo village at japanese village plaza was developed by a korean-american, but he very much a member of the japanese-american community. so yes, it's a good thing. it's a much more vibrant, vital, economically healthy place. robert: leslie ito, president and ceo of the japanese american cultural & community center, the jaccc. leslie ito: i consider myself a fourth generation angelino. and you know, our community and our lives pre and post-war have been here in little tokyo. robert: how much disruption during the war for your family? leslie: my grandpa, my great-grandfather on my maternal side, had a nursery, and he gave that up. and you know, i think there was a lot of sacrifice, personal sacrifice and that had been left. and you know, as a yonsei, i reflect back on all the cultural things that we lost. robert: so, what does

♪ welcome to tokyo. you are not invited. this is the other tokyo. 12 hour flight, and i'm baked. go out. ♪ the kabukicho district near my hotel has the advantage of being where the subterranean life, the repressed ids of the japanese male and some females, too, comes out to play. joining me is japanese film producer and production manager masa kakubo. always a good sign when protective chains separate entertainers from the soon to be entertained, right? prepare yourself for the greatest show in the history of entertainment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ no, no, it can't be over. not yet. no! but yet, yet it is. with a series of chased high fives with the hard working performers. okay, i gotta tell you, uh, i've seen jimi hendrix -- >> masa: uh, have you? >> anthony: i've seen janis joplin. i've seen david bowie. >> masa: uh huh. >> anthony: diamond dogs, i've seen colleen dewhurts and jason robards in moon for the misbegotten directed by jose quintero on broadway. >> masa: oh. >> anthony: considered one of the greatest productions ever in the his -- this was the greatest show i've ever seen

why not just land in tokyo and send the other person back? how is this the better idea, you ask? we all have the same questions. the airline partially answering that question in a statement as part of the airline's security procedure. the pilot in command decided to return to the originating airport where the passenger was disemba disembarked. the fbi still hasn't decided whether or not to press charges against these two brothers, but facing stiff questions will be the airline. ana still has to answer how it allowed a passenger on board with a duplicate boarding card, and why it didn't conduct an accurate head count while the passengers on board before the flight was well under way. the airline could face some significant fines. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> matt, thank you. >>> the miss america pageant is looking to shape its future with help from its past. it will list former winners to help select new leaders for the organization. in e-mails published last week, officials ridiculed the appearance, intellect and even sex lives of former winners. several top leaders res

eventually gets to tokyo. 230 passengers on that plane, one was wrong, but he was on the way to tokyo has made its rounds on social media. this was from the company itself. they tried to explain the turnaround plan. the pilot was presented with information about a discrepancy in the passenger manifest four hours into the flight. based on available information during the flight, he made the correct decision to return to lax. betty: still not enough for all those twitter followers. here to discuss the state of aviation as the year winds down, president, he thinks aviation will grow up to 9% in 2018. i hope you have never found yourself in that kind of situation on a cross pacific flight and had to turn around. usually a higher market ahead. what do you expect in 2018? the 2017 industry has grown in terms of 4 billion passengers globally. the cargo industry picked up. it is an encouraging year for the industry. , they can have a level of challenges for increasing growth and competition. conflicts.ional the industry looks great for 2018. biggesthere are the and who will face the biggest c

we have a script in tokyo.to ask, company no one has ever heard of, most people, end up landing such a big contract? money is the one word answer, they got money. this is a company that built their business as a junket. they were lending money to gamblers from china, going to macau, helping them take money out of the country. they have access to high rollers, that is that they built their business. if you look at the people running their business, there is not much business talent there. they do have established directors on their team. but they have access to money. you see how hollywood movies are produced these days. there are a lot of different production credits for a big film. they are swing for the fences, bringing in heavyweight talent, and looking to produce hits. big hit movies that will be hits in america and hopefully globally, including in the chinese market. obviously a step in the right direction for the chinese film industry. what do you feel this means for the industry as a whole? >> one thing

gareth allan has more from tokyo for us.t is the attraction to some of these alternative assets in japan? him while heoke to was in tokyo. ofis the global head alternative investments. the portfolio is $130 billion. assees japanese real estate an attractive investment, not only because they have mor quite good cap rates, but there is leverage in japan. very low interest rates here, which can help to maximize the returns. a maximum of 50% in the appropriate level. this includes infrastructure such as solar and wind generation. in osakareal estate and tokyo, where the population is growing. but also the infrastructure and shipping assets. yvonne: why is j.p. morgan recommending clients to buy these real assets? gareth: yeah, i think it is the global divergence is emerging in central-bank policy. you have the stock starting to sell down its balance sheet, moving to do similar things while the bank of japan is buying assets. exposure to the differentiation in the market as the long-term rally in fixed income in the states is lik

so we are going to hit tokyo. talk to me about when you were on the deck of the hornet and you are thinking about getting the bombers off the deck. did you know they would be able to take off from the deck of the carrier? admit, theave to army air corps, when you first heard about it, we were a little bit dubious. [laughter] jonathan: it was impossible. no way are we getting these bombers off his carrier. at evans field, began tot hank miller display his instructions. we accepted the fact that it's possible. up inan: the wind picked the carrier turns to the wind and it is time to go. did you have any idea where you were going to land those things? >> i think the major opinion was we were going to be taken to an , takeoff and land on a preselected island and fight the war. jonathan: did you have any idea where that island was? >> no. jonathan: that's it. [laughter] was it unspoken with the pilots that day and the crew that you might not be coming back? >> that crossed everybody's mind. we had 100% support and so fo

this is ginza sushi ko in tokyo. in one form or the other, is how the day started. scaling and gutting the fish. prepping the kitchen. >> masa: cleaning bathroom, making sake for customers. >> anthony: right. >> masa: dishwasher. everything. >> anthony: for how long? >> masa: first two years. >> anthony: only in the third year, the rice. >> masa: [ speaking japanese ] >> anthony: and if you get that right, eventually, maybe, just maybe, the master will begin to teach you the next phase, how to stand next to him as a wakita, slicing the fish, eventually, eventually, creating pieces of nigiri for guests at the bar. of the dozen young men who work here, not all will make it to become a sushi shokunin. >> masa: oh, it's been a long time. >> anthony: to achieve that status of truly becoming a master chef. how many years? seven years to learn, right? >> masa: yeah. >> anthony: that's a lot of time. >> masa: a lot of time. >> anthony: a lot of work. a lot of pain. what was it like apprenticing here? hard? >> masa: his fathe

the other also had a real ticket to tokyo but on a different flight with a different airline. >> you have to know precisely how it happened here. once we get those answers, you can reverse engineer the process and make sure you do not let that occur again. suzanne: overnight, 16 hours delayed, the plane finally unloaded 208 very frustrated passengers in tokyo. >> honestly tired and pretty angry. >> pretty upset. >> definitely disappointed. suzanne: these honeymooners from washington, d.c. >> make up a day. there is no proposition. suzanne: there was also one very prominent tweeter, supermodel chrissy teigen. made thetag go viral -- made the the airways say the return to los angeles was part of the standard procedure. they said they apologize for any convenience and offered most passengers a voucher up to $265. in the newsroom, suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. >> back up. the car is on fire. back up. adrianna:, on camera, police officers risking their lives to save another. walking into a supermarket for a soda, but she leaves with a newborn baby. details on this dramatic delivery.here is

why not just land in tokyo and send the other person back? how is this the better idea you ask? we all have the same questions." the airline partially answering that question in a statement today. "as part of the airline's security procedure, the pilot in command do the originating airport where the passenger was disembarked." ultimately, it would cost passengers an extra eight hours in the air and a total delay of over 15 hours. >> mostly tired and pretty angry. >> pretty angry. all right, let's get to matt gutman. matt, you mentioned the two brothers at the center of this mixup. what's their status, and are they to blame? >> reporter: well, they're certainly to blame, but the fbi, tom, hasn't yet decided whether or not to press charges. but also facing stiff questions will be the airline. namely, how did it allow a passenger with a duplicate boarding card to get onboard? and why wasn't an accurate head count made until after the flight was well under way? ana could face some serious fines, tom. >> all important questions still unanswered. all right, matt, thank you so much. >>

why not just let the passenger off once they landed in tokyo?tokyo based airline, and i think they erred on the side of being too cautious. if they bring someone to japan and don't have a visa it could cause big problems for the airlines. there was no security risk from what i'm told even though the police did meet the aircraft. i think it was the pilot saying wow we messed up here and in the over abundance of caution let's go back to lax. >> so of course investigators are checking this out. what happens now? i don't see anyone broke any laws? >> no, there were no laws broken. this is like, you know, i personally think he should have went to tokyo. the guy was supposed to be on a partner airline, they could have waived to eac other in the sky. but, yeah, i mean what happens now is ana probably $200,000 cost to them to huge around a huge jet. so, you know, i guess they were being overly cautious. but i don't think there was any actual security risk here. >> i hate long flights to begin with. i would be very upset. but sounds like the passengers h

here in tokyo, i am haslinda amin with the first word news. china is tapping up scrutiny of overseas deals and even punishment for companies engaged in unfair competition and illegal finance in. overseas projects that are in line with the nation's development plan will be approved. north korea has denounced new u.n. sanctions as an act of war and said the countries involved would play -- would pay dearly. the un security council approved measures aimed at reducing the import of oil and refined by north korea. the sanctions also tightened restrictions on shipping, imposing a 24 month deadline on ex-pat workers returning home. japan's core inflation rose more than expected in november at .9% compared to a forecast .8%. the boj's october meeting shows that most members think progress is being made toward a 2% target. household spending also easily eat estimates. -- beach estimates. the unemployment rate also fell slightly. the latest star wars movie again led the north american box office at the weekend, topping $100 million for the second week i

what you're watching in tokyo?ar rebound on friday, we saw the flynn drama and the tax vote. taking a look at the dollar-yen, it is trading at around 77, we more.be eyeing 113 once north korea remains on the radar as a sales conducts joint military drills with the u.s. this week. we could see japanese stocks snapped a three day rise. now, at rates are higher little bit of optimism coming through. but we could see an extension of last week's decline. japanese autos, they will be in focus. nissankei report that ,ill cut its production target it cites a faulty production process. honda and toyota, u.s. sales data came out. fiat says it is in talks with a partnership to develop hydrogen engines with hyundai. you theseo showing companies. the health ministry is to cut drug prices by 1.2 billion dollars as part of the 2018 budget. -- astellasa's plans to raise dividends. david: lots of bad news from you this morning. [laughter] we are sort of looking for good news to latch onto. i'm looking at the data, it is very quiet.

why not just landed tokyo and send the other person back?irline has apologized saying they failed to deliver the customer service that they strive for. 2700l news powered by analysts and journalists. i am paul amlin -- paul allen, this is bloomberg. tailwindnot much of a coming out of wall street. volumes are low at this time of year but the tokyo session is getting underway. end can say we're ready to 2017 on a high note. these are leading equity markets higher along with shares in china. with stocks, bonds and currencies rallying, even though we are seeing light volume. country gardens has climbed to a record, one of the best performances. shares in manila have jumped to a fresh high. the malaysian ringgit is climbing. the currency is the second-best performer in asia. the bit current moves we are seeing -- bit currency moves we are seeing. this is clocking the biggest jump since july thanks to bond inflows and tourism spending. and of stocks also at a fresh high today. this dish the rupee holds at its strongest level in one week. we have

noumea to was from tokyo. he took a military flight that was made available for him to tokyo.okyo to paris, he decided to pay $350,000 for a private jet/ . he says it allowed him to return to paris to hours earlier -- two hours earlier. the head of the french anticorruption board has called it a terrible use of public funds. those from the far right have been criticized for frivolity. >> this is talking about 2017 new animal species. >> this will warm your heart, especially in the narrow when we are always talking about global warming. 150 new animal species have been discovered this year. among the new animals, a crocodile lizard. they discovered that species in a region of vietnam. in thailand, researchers have come across a snail eating turtle. in the paris region, they discovered 10 new varieties that had been misinterpreted. >> an incredible medical story about a frozen embryo that has made a new record. has given birth to her first child. fromsed a frozen embryo america's national embryo donation center. she wasn't shocked to discover that embryo had been conceived in 19

nancy: what inconvenience when the tokyo flight had to turn around. the viral ramts were funny but it's not funny anymore. a man was able to board when he had no business flying. >> back up, your car is on fire. back up! jonathan: police officers hailed as heroes after a fiery crash. going above and beyond before firefighters got to the scene. that is ahead. nancy: can you tell what city this is? water. literally freezing falling the founta jonathan: some must-see video. take a look at the screen. this looks like a normal traffic stop. right? police in sueson, arizona, says the man is pretending to be a police officer. he had a lot of things going. the flashing red lights, blue lights and his own dash cam. a victim put in handcuffs. but he got suspicious. and he cammed 911. police say he shouldn't hesitate to do the same thing before you feel over if you feel something is unsafe. >> someone from 911, 911 operator the tell you if it's a legitimate police officer and you need to stop. jonathan: they found dash cam video showing the impersonator interact

i think he's either leaving tokyo or getting there to tokyo. he is on his way to us in hours.nk a lot of good kids in d.c., in virginia, in maryland who are going to wake up and have a pretty good christmas. >> you would like to think that. i have been threatening mine for about a week now that if you won't get any presents. now there's the elf to watch too, elf on the shelf. >> a big thing. >> santa is up very late tonight putting toys together. >> he's up right now. >> santa's elves will be putting toys together. >> there we go. santa's elves. we won't be as cold as the north pole. so that's good. >> that's a plus. >> we are missing a white christmas by this much. >> no way. >> i know. >> how far do we have to go? >> pennsylvania. >> not far. >> not far. literally right over the mason-dixon line and then all way up to maine. that's who's going to have some snow. we could have a few light showers out of that overnight tonight. but i don't think it will accumulate to anything. i know it won't accumulate to anything or amount to much. there's no problems on the roads tomorrow m

rishaad: the japan korea economy, we joined from tokyo.ell us about this and how do these numbers set up? >> the narrative is still in place. the global economy continues to fuel growth. it is the second highest on the year. and that is double digits for most of the year. , and globaltoday demand continues to fuel production in japan. as well as capital investments. the trend is still intact. it's been a running theme this year helped on by the yen and where it is. thate face of it, it sees -- seems that these november figures dip into that narrative. >> that is true. we are continuing to see strong demand globally. that is fueling into capital investment here. it fuel't quite seen higher wages that are needed to really pick up spending and fuel inflation. side ofar, the exports the equation is certainly doing the job. rishaad: coming something here henry, we have had corporate scandals. on closer inspection, do these numbers have any impact on industrial production, at least? >> the impact of the corporate scandals has been negligible. li

the pilot on a flight from los angeles to tokyo turns around for a passenger who wasn't supposed to be on board. how did this all happen? >>> and still ahead, a plan to >>> a mid air security scares raising security questions, we first told you about it last night, four hours into a tokyo-bound flight crew realized a passenger boarded on the wrong plane so was returned to lax to be reticketed to a new flight. how did this mix up occur is the question. >> tonight the fbi is investigating how a pair of brother got an flight 175 from los angeles to tokyo the mistake only detected 2,000 miles into the flight when a head count revealed an extra passenger. you see the path leaving lax at noon and hooking right back arriving just after 7:30. the flight was sequestered in secure part of the airport discovered pair of brothers with nearly identical names used the same boarding pass one had a legitimate ticket for flight 175 but another with a real ticket to tokyo but with a partner airline. >> thank you for taking me on this awesome vacation. >> welcome to vacation. >> one of the passengers a v

in tokyo, we are seeing a positive the tech selloff.rs are gaining ground, shrugging off the drop we saw in u.s. tech stocks. tdk is leading gains. the nikkei reporting the company is on track to generate stronger sales thanks to rechargeable battery sales for smartphones. the biggest take away is looking like -- a massive rally in the debt market. let's get more on the story out ,f singapore, vishnu varathan mizuho bank head of economic strategy. us understand your initial reaction to the numbers. >> [laughter] i do agree that the numbers are improving. it is something we also saw coming. in our quarterly, we also highlighted that aussie gdp would be slightly under 3%, 2.8% to be exact. that was a lucky call. some of the improvements resigned exports, some of that is attributable to the price ratio that has diminished in gdp, and the lingering worries that the rba has that household spending might be hampered by lagging wage gains. that will remain in the picture. seerba said that they improvement coming through and they are consoled b

peter elstrom joining us from tokyo.king to of france's financial market regulator about the challenges and opportunities on the way. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ rishaad: theresa may is preparing for a crucial meeting in brussels that she hopes will into the deadlock. she has a deadline to make a better offer on the terms of the divorce. let's discuss this with the head chairman of the french financial markets of 30 in tokyo today. thank you for joining us today. you with fiscal brexit debate currently from a regulators point of view in particular? say we are just waiting and expect that these political deadlocks you mentioned will be solved in a couple of days in order to begin the real discussion on the financial sector issues. we have a bit more than one year in order to find something. rishaad: it is a very complicated divorce proceeding. one would be passporting, the other thing would be euro clearing, something the europeans were gung ho about bringing on to the mainland, but people are having second thoughts about euro

they were both going to tokyo but actually originally booked on two separate flights.similar names, at some point they were able to both get on the flight. perhaps the two similar names f through someone off. that is unclear. but only one booked to be on that flight. then hours later, someone within the flight crew realized there is one too many people on this flight. and that's when they started to realize something went wrong. of course, you know, as a part of their policy, abundance of caution, they decided to come back to lax. because the manifest didn't appear as it should have been. had one extra person. that is why they came back to lax. of course a huge embarrassment for the airline and of course it cost them a lot of money as well. >> what does chrissy tee began have to do with this? >> one thing you don't want to have famous person with live twitter. she was tweeting this whole thing. quite entertaining. made the big joke, l.a. to l.a. complete, only took eight hours 20 minutes. >> so she was on there with her husband john legend. >> yeah. >> they look like t

joint from tokyo and new york. you can turn to your bloomberg for more on this, tliv will give you more analysis from our expert editors. let's get to the first word news . we will hear why the white house is -- >> republicans passed the tax bill and president trump aims to sign it into law february 3. it is the most expensive change to the tax code in more than three decades. it hands the president his first major legislative victory, providing a permanent tax cut for work -- corporations and short-term relief for individuals. no democrats voted for it. the uber conqueror has raised billions of dollars in a funding round. reserves are increased to $12 billion and will be using it to fuel expansion. investors include softbank and abu dhabi's -- capital. aramco is looking for natural gas assets from russia to the u.s. as it looks to meet soaring demand after its row with qatar. the energy minister told bloomberg aramco has failed to find enough domestic gas reserves, despite years of exploration. they are looki

it also can probably support it but by huge amount minus four isn't that telling you come down to tokyo plus twelve obviously the breezes means that this can be the western side of the high ground in haunch against the snow and then at sea level it's rain that will feel fairly chilly in tokyo is not standing behind it the sun is. plus low figures in pyongyang saul and the same is true in beijing actually nine years pretty good in beijing can see in the time the kind of minus ten of that of us to come thursday the snow becomes a bit more obvious in northern home she was still in the sunny twelve degrees here in tokyo now if you follow the tail down we have recently been seeing rain in southern china but for the last two or three days it's gone i thought is quite warm in tokyo given the breeze coming in from the south with increasing humidity and still twelve in shanghai but the principal thing is settled weather the moment but watch the clouds gathering once more in united up towards sichuan still thirteen inch on doing the heavy rain should be and is further science focusing on the phil

. >>> air security breach, an unauthorized passenger getting on a flight from los angeles to tokyo. the plane turning around after four hours when the crew realized he didn't have a ticket. chrissy teigen and john legend also on board live tweeting the midair nightmare. how could this security breach happen? >>> shots fired, panic at a mall on one of the biggest shopping days of the year. stores packed on this holiday week.

come back tokyo was good but peaceful. >> to come back.-- >> said this was war. addiction and you come back short many times. yep. sometimes a story ab -- >> it is for me. i decided in 1966 because by then i had been in vietnam in '63, '64 '65 and i said to myself you've been on one military option you've been on them all. and i didn't think at that time thatmen forces were going to make any difference in the outcome of the war. actually i thought the war was lost in '64 it was lost by the vietnamese once in 1964. so for me i kept going back, and poem did ask me like what are you going back -- i felt a journalistic obligation to go back because i knew something about this place by then. and i wases determined to try to master the -- medium i used to say to myself, i ought to be smart enough to be able to get some of this across to the states so i september going back to keep trying to do better, explain better to show better. on a basic level, did you enjoy the experience? >> yep. i think -- this you know -- looking back, i was appreciate

angeles bound for tokyo was forced to make a u-turn mid-flight on tuesday after the crew discovered an unauthorized passenger on board. turns out that passenger had a boarding pass but for a different flight. supermodel and social media star was there to document the whole bizarre experience. it's now raising new questions about airline security. nbc's gadi schwartz has that story. >> reporter: for 226 passengers and crew on all nippon airlines' flight 175 the u-turn was abr t abrupt. on board, supermodel chrissy teigen diving right into the mid-air mystery. >> hey, guys, chrissy teigen here reporting live. >> reporter: teigen breaking the news that a rogue passenger had made it on their plane with a ticket for another airline, writing to her 9 million twitter followers, "they keep saying the person had a united ticket. we're on ana." adding "so basically the boarding pass scanner is just a beedoop machine that makes beedoop noises that register to nowhere." law enforcement sources now say that two brothers booked two different flights to japan, one on ana, the other on united, but

passengers have finally arrived in tokyo after their flight made a u-turn back to l.a.x. >> the crew realized a passenger had boarded the wrong plane and there are questions now about the pilot's response. matt gutman has the latest. >> reporter: the fbi is investigating how a parenir of brothers with a single boarding pass got on the flight. the mistake only detected 2,000 miles into the flight when a head count revealed the extra passenger. you can see the flight's boomerang path leaving l.a.x. at back to l.a.x. arriving just after 7:30. the all nippon airways flight sequestered in a secure part of the airport discovered that a pair of bros. with nearly identical names allegedly used the same boarding pass. one of them did have the legitimate ticket for flight 175 while the other had a real ticket to tokyo also but with a partner airline, united. >> thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation, babe. >> welcome to los angeles. >> reporter: one of the passengers on board, a very bemused super model, chrissy teigen. she was tracveling with her husband john legend, tweetin

toshiba, shares are currently up by about 2.396 in tokyo trade today. and interesting story. with every twist and turn on that one. and now — what's trending in the business news this morning: wired looks at silicon valley's next disruption tactic — the connected city. google's parent company, alphabet, has been working on something called sidewalk labs — which has been transforming 16 american conurbations into tech—enabled smart cities. and why do they want to do this asks wired — to get more data, of course. we can't show you some of these stories. the new york times says saudi arabia has announced that it will allow commercial movie theatres to open for the first time in over 35 years. we will looking at that yesterday as well. bloomberg has a report from japan. the high court in hiroshima has overturned a ruling that would have allowed a nuclear reactor in south of the country to operate. look at the financial markets. it has been quite a day. it is interesting to see the reaction. the nikkei is up by 0.5%. just ignore those numbers because we have an issue with our data

pablo joins us from tokyo area -- from tokyo.s like it will go through come up the key governance reforms? when are they going to kick in because that has to do with credibility. that's the rocking horse within uber. pablo: that's right. the governance is something that made this deal a bit of a cliffhanger. the deal is supposed to grow in january and as part of that agreement, uber's board will be expended to 17 sees and something should have a claim to two of those. it would invoke two-tier voting structures that has given a lot of voting power to the early backers and by extension, reduce the cofounder and former ceo travis kalanick's power. he will also get something out of the deal. and the 10% stake company, but as part of the agreement, early investment benchmark will drop its own losses. that will put to an end all this internal infighting that has set the company back in 2017. manus: how important is a stake in uber for softbank? pavel: over the past year, they emerged as one of the biggest investors in right hailing the

this suit was filed in tokyo district court in september.rings the number cases to 34 come up for a combined $1.5 billion. 30%, selling assets in a debt restructuring program and cutting borrowing by $6 billion in comes after to the collapse of merger talks and a failure of the planned tower sale. it has been hurt by a price war that has hit profits. coming up, apple, not so merry christmas with analysts cutting their forecast. ♪ david: it is 7:30 wednesday morning in hong kong. it is warm as we approach the new year. the function on the terminal for the five-year mean, 17 degrees celsius. we are 30 minutes from the open of major markets. betty: it feels like 17 fahrenheit. closed deep in the red, at least when it comes to the nasdaq, tech shares taking a hit, but still a beautiful skyline, empire state building still celebrating christmas. i am betty liu in new york. david: you are watching "daybreak asia." the china beige book says recent data offers a warning for 2018 now that president xi jinping is less motivated to prop up growth. ther

to tokyo.turned around four hours in the flight because a man was on board who shouldn't have been a star tweeted out the whole thing as it unfolded in air. marci: the plane parked at the lax airport after making a u-turn four hours into an 11-hour flight. because an unnoressed person made it on board. dun author -- because an unauthorized person made it on board. they notified the pilot and part of the security procedure the pilot in demand decided to return to the originating airport where the passenger was disembarked. the flight aware mark shows the path of the flight as it left lax at 11:36 tuesday heading to tokyo and made the sharp turn to touch back down in los angeles eight hours later. >> thank you for taking me on this awesome vacation. >> you're welcome. marci: they were among the passengers on board and tweeting why do we all mistake? why not land in tokyo and send the other person back? all of the passengers were deplaned and bused to terminal. the passenger boobedded his brother'

could now be moving to trump's russian ties before his presidential campaign now entrepreneurs in tokyo have been cashing in on the huge success of nintendo's super mario video game for seventy dollars an hour you can hire a go cart and drive around the city as your favorite video game character but now the city is cracking down saying these rides can be dangerous tokyo police have introduced a ruling which requires the mariel cards to be fitted with seat belts still firms like to operate a maverick odds say they'll comply with the law now if you don't have enough cash to invest in state of the art technology that comes straight from the assembly line use your own ingenuity that's what a man in mexico did when he decided to retrofit his old folks beetle with electric engines. with fourteen batteries under the hood hector ruiz drives into mexico city's rush hour traffic and electric beetle with zero c o two emissions a rarity in the mega metropolis with five million cars jockeying for position smog blankets the city people choke on exhaust fumes. yes there's ways that i will this here is

paul: bloomberg's japan editor, brian fowler in tokyo. you for helping us analyze those encouraging gdp figures. let's get the first word news with courtney collins. >> washington has managed to dodge a government shutdown, although only for a couple weeks. the senate followed the house in voting on a bill to allow federal -- to fund federal agencies through december 22. vote,yan had to quell a they wanted to avoid giving concessions to democrats. the bill goes to the white house for the president's signature. a democratic senator once seen as a potential democratic president is quitting congress over alleged sexual abuse. more than half of al franken's democratic colleagues asked him to step down to make clear that mistreatment of women is unacceptable. he is the latest high-profile man brought down by a shift in culture that increasingly treats sexual misconduct with zero-tolerance. i, of all people, am aware there is some irony in the fact that i am leaving, while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits i

the party that won the most votes doesn't support independence tokyo.in tokyo where we can see the crowds gathering to meet the emperor akihito, who are gathered to wish him happy birthday. december 23 is currently a national holiday, but that may change to a normal working day after his planned abdication in 2019. emperor akihito is the 125th in his line according to japan's traditional order of is succession, and he ascended to the chrysanthemum throne when his father, emperor hirihito died. emperor akihito's sun will ascend the throne in 2019 and his birthday, february 23, will become the new national holiday. we can see many people there, waiting for emperor akihito to appear at the imperial palace, and they are gathered there to wish him 84th birthday. we may catch a site of the emperor later on. the fourth election in as many years in the spanish region of catalonia has once again confirmed its divisions. the party that won the most votes doesn't support independence for catalonia — but put together the separatist parties are able to form a slim m

the railway project that is open to tokyo in 2027, and osaka-tokyo in 2025.res are pushing lower. we are looking at the aussie dollar. 75.12 is your level. you look at forward, roughly in line with the spot price 75 roughly speaking. here is your city economics index for australia. they do not detract one another. it is disappointing what we are seeing across australia, perhaps a prelude to weakness in the australian currency. the other thing i want to mention, a lot coming through on the week. we are talking about inflation in china in a few moments. to give you a sense of what to watch here. you have the export price index, one rating into the end of this year. we also have a slight adjustment lower. it is not declining by any means in terms of ppi. that is something to watch as we hope china continues to export more inflation to the world. not quite just yet. we don't have the update just yet for the export price index, g #btv 3032. keep that in your pocket as you look at the data ahead. yvonne: thank you so much, david ingles, taking a quick look at the m

in tokyo. the pressiting conference just getting underway over in tokyo.had an update from them about that. they are retaining its monetary stimulus leaving settings unchanged. the central bank said he will continue to talk interest-rate and by financial assets to achieve its 2% inflation goal. let's get analysis as we listen to what governor kuroda will tell us. our managing editor. yet to get the takeaway? >> we had the statement this morning, the kept policy unchanged. there was a slight tweak in some of their language about the economy. ever so slightly more optimistic about business investment and ever so slightly more positive on consumer spending. they emphasized again that theirion remains off target. inflation expectations remain in a weakening trend and they are a long way from 2%. in theas a dissent board, a vote in favor of more aggressive -- a more aggressive timeline of into -- achieving the 2% inflation target and a slight tweak in the stimulus policy to make it a little more aggressive. this is from the new board member and it underscores t

last night they are in the air again, hoping to make it to its destination in tokyo. here is what happened. the same flight took off from l.a.x. and was half way there and had to turn around and fly back to l.a.x. officials say the u-turn was due to a mix up and was straightened out. >>> news of the diverging traffic as american model and tv personality christie teigen live tweeted about the delays. she and her husband are headed to tokyo for new year's eve. >> a good problem to have. >> yeah. 6:04. >>> the next story, a close call for a family as a car crashes into their home. it happened last night after two cars slammed into each other. one kept going and smashed into the home. the family that lives in the house has two small children. no one was home at the time of the crash. no one in the car was seriously hurt. >>> happening this morning, scientists are working to figure out why a young whale washed up on the beach. we want to warn you, some of you may find this video disturbing. our nbc bay area sky ranger found researchers performing an autopsy on the whale ye

the return to the tokyo-bound flight was due to i mix up and was straightened up. model chrissy tiegen sent this tweet, four hours into an eleven-hour flight and we're turning around because we have a passenger who isn't supposed to be on the plane he had a ticket for an entirely different airline. >>> the president was back on twitter today taking aim at his favorite targets in 2017, the ongoing russian investigation and fbi. we are in west palm beach where the president is spending the holidays. >> president trump today on his trump international golf course through the trees in his signature hat the president promised to be back at work today. he is also back on twitter swonding to the infamous dossier tweeting that it is bogus. saying the fbi cannot verify claims of dossier and russia-trump collusion. fbi tainted. it is unclear what role if anything the dossier has played in the broader russian investigation. >> it's a shame what's happened with the fbi. >> here in mara lago taking aim at deputy director mccabe accusing him of bias during the campaign. -- the p

for tokyo.they don't know how or who told them, they find out there is an unauthorized person on board. the pilot decides to turn to lax. first class was chrissy tiegen. why did we all get punished for this one person's mistake? why not just land in tokyo and send the other person back? how is this the better idea, you ask? we all had the same question. >> thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation. >> welcome to los angeles. >> what happened? well, according to an lax security alert, there was an administrative mix-up resolved. the scanner, when you check in is supposed to be programmed to screen passengers for every flight and tells the gate agent with a red light and buzzer, not a beep, not to board the passenger. that didn't happen, don't know why. that unauthorized passenger had a united taken. a & a and united are part of star alliance. they are the same flight, same plane, code share. there was a united flight departing to tokyo at the same time. it's possible the passenger

our tokyo bureau chief joins us now. good to see you.trong retail sales number, they really knocked it out of the park. what happened next? andertainly they did so obviously this comes after a drop in retail sales in the third order. obviously this number will help , the finaluarter quarter of 2017. private consumption in japan has been recovering, so this obviously plays into that picture. five years and suddenly we have these kind of numbers up. how do you think this will impact boj and their thinking? a country well away from the inflation target, aren't we? >> absolutely. keep in mind this is just one month of data. a much longer at trend. even a private consumption has been recovering, consumer inflation has remained pretty weak. nowhere near the inflation target of 2% which the bank has said it would be targeting. at this point, whether the recovery will lead to actually inflation is yet to be seen. that will probably be the story going into 2018. manus: thank you very much for that latest update on the data. let's bring in our gue

from los angeles to tokyo.nly detected 2,000 miles into the flight when a head count revealed the extra passenger. you can see the flight's boomerang path leaving l.a.x. at about noon and hooking right back to l.a.x. arriving just after 7:30. the all nippon airways flight sequestered in a secure part of the airport discovered that a pair of brothers with nearly identical names allegedly used the same boarding pass. one of them did have the legitimate ticket for flight 175 while the other had a real ticket to tokyo also but with a partner airline, united. >> thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation, babe. >> welcome to los angeles. >> reporter: one of the passengers on board, a very bemused super model, chrissy teigen. she was traveling with her husband john legend, tweeting why did we all get punished for this one person's mistake. why not just land in tokyo and send the other person back? how is this the better idea, you ask? we all have the same questions. the airline partially answering that

why don't we land in tokyo and send the one person back.ened. it's unclear whether the passenger will face any criminal action in addition to the shame of adding 15 hours of travel for all those people. >> he won't get free tickets to a john legend concert any time soon. paula. >> we want to move to the bitter cold gripping the country. more snow expected to pound the east coast. alex perez back from a very frigid buffalo, new york. good morning, alex. >> reporter: the bitter cold is relentless. i can't move around too much. we're standing right along lake erie. those are supposed to be crashing nothing but ice there. some people waking up to temperatures feeling like 30 below 0. the lake effect snow in erie, pennsylvania they got more than 54 inches since christmas. warnings from cleveland to upstate new york and the millions trying to get away -- or get home the roads have been treacherous. in missouri at least five killed in car accidents. more artic cold, more lake effect snow headed to pound those hard hit areas in the next few days. p

has jumpedin tokyo the most in three years after it received usda -- u.s.r one of the products. 's leading the drop amongst japanese construction firms caught up in that my glove real investigation -- maglev rail investigation. the worst drop on the nikkei 225. rishaad: right, what else is going on out there. let us look at the markets and see what is going on in first word news with a fresh report focusing on beijing and its economic plans and what it should be doing in the future. here are the details from singapore. >> this company has released its quarterly report in china for seeing moderating growth over the next two years as a --leveraging palaces cake in policies kick in. slower investment and easing factory inflation will test the government's determination to maintain tighter regulation. this factory -- factories in the united kingdom at the highest level in the most three decades. the confederation of british 17,stry index remained at marching its best results since august, 1988. the brexit negotiations are facing a new hurdle, written cannot exp