yao's essay was about a robot anime, where childhood friends fall out due to different backgrounds.w a parallel with china/japan relations and wrote about her concerns for the future. >> translator: if we start focusing on the small things, i think bilateral relations will improve. i prefer lasting peace, just like the ending of my favorite japanese anime. >> reporter: part of yao's prize was a one-week trip to japan. this was her first visit, and one highlight was going to akihabara, the tokyo district that's become a hub for anime culture. she was amazed by the shops displaying the anime figurines. and she even got to meet an aspiring idol. >> translator: it's amazing. there are so many shops. more than i ever imagined. the japanese anime and manga scene is really hardcore. >> reporter: yao's visit also included a home stay with a family of a retired japanese diplomat who was stationed in china for many years. she was treated to a meal of japanese specialty dishes, including beefi sukiyaki and okonomiaki pancakes. >> translator: we'd like her to see how we live so she can share wi

he and his wife yao wening, are big fans of japan.y decided to discover more of the country after being charmed by the politeness of the japanese people they met in kyoto. >> translator: it is easy to get a visa now. so we've been visiting often. >> reporter: this spring 19 of their neighbors will be joining them on a tripe to fukuoka to see the cherry blossoms. their interest has been piqued by the stories they've heard from wu and yao. today the group drew up a list of the electronics and cosmetics items they want to buy while they are in japan. >> translator: i'm going to take my parents to japan. they have never been abroad. so i want to be there to accompany them. >> translator: i've heard from them that japan is a beautiful country. i want to see it for myself. >> reporter: experts expect this japan fever will continue for the foreseeable future. >> translator: as incomes rise, the number of chinese travelers heading abroad is expected to grow 10% per year for the next three to five years. japan will continue to grow in populari

tow yao talk about the passengers being upside down in the seat belts. that is normal in a plane crash, you know, or an emergency landing. the answer is not to have your seat belt fastened or not fastened. it's to be ready. so in this situation you've got your hand ready to unfasten your seat belt. you know where the emergency exits are. that's the answer. it's not trying to work -- look, the story of the family with the baby that moved seats because he didn't like the noise -- >> talk about that. this family with the toddler said they heard a noise, felt uncomfortable, quickly switched seats. is that what people should be doing, trusting their gut? >> trusting -- but he couldn't have known. he couldn't have known there was an accident where the plane was going to break up. if you're not wearing your seat belt, you risk becoming a projectile. that can be projected out of the aircraft. asya that. >> on the runway in california. >> right. the ntsb has pretty much said if they had their seat belts they'd have still been on the plane, they wouldn't have been

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yao ming, owns the shanghai market.hat league is in the process of growing and developing and the nba assists and helps with programs in china. i do not conceivably see a way in which we cooperate nba franchises in asia. europe is something david stern talked about for years and would consider that potentially, we could see a division in europe. we are not fighting there yet. if were to do it, we would do well multiple franchises. >> it is a pleasure to have you here. >> thank you very much. ♪ john: i'm john heilemann. mark: and i'm mark halperin, and we think that obama is following what teddy roosevelt was talking about with a bigger stick. ♪ john: and the governor of oregon resigned from his position because of his fiancee, but that is 3000 miles away from washington.

yao ming, owns the shanghai market.hat league is in the process of growing and developing and the nba assists and helps with programs in china. i do not conceivably see a way in which we could operate nba franchises in china. europe is something david stern talked about for years and would consider that potentially, we could see a division in europe. we are not fighting there yet. if were to do it, we would do well multiple franchises. >> it is a pleasure to have you here. >> thank you very much. ♪ >> the following is a paid advertisement from starvista entertainment and time life. >> ♪ listen to the music ♪ >> ♪ even the nights are better ♪ ♪ now that we are h

yao ming, owns the shanghai market.hat league is in the process of growing and developing and the nba assists and helps with programs in china. i do not conceivably see a way in which we could operate nba franchises in asia. europe is something david stern talked about for years and would consider that potentially, we could see a division in europe. we are not fighting there yet. if were to do it, we would do well multiple franchises. >> it is a pleasure to have you here. >> thank you very much. ♪ >> from new york and stanford university in california welcome to a special edition of the "bloomberg west." i'm pimm fox. cory johnson will be joining us in a moment at stanford university, but first a check of your bloomberg top headlines. a record for the s&p 500. it closed at 2096, exceeding its december high. the economic news in europe was positive. the european union economy grew three-tenths of a percent in the fourth quarter. germany's economy was the main driver, expanding seven-tenths of a percent. argentina's presi

and because you tend to get numb bow yao may not even realize you have frostbite. here are the stages of frostbite. these are the things you should look out for. first, your cold skin has a prickly feeling. then the numbness sets in. after that skin turns red, white, or grayish in color. then it turns hard. you may also experience clumsiness due to stiffness in your muscles. sometimes blisters will appear on your skin when it's warmed up again. >> so people with severe frostbite will actually lose finger lose your ear lobes, your nose so it's very severe. >> and don't let gloves or blankets give you a false sense of security. frostbite can also happen when your skin is all covered up. >>> experts say gas prices will likely surge in southern ca after an explosion and fire tore through part of an oil refinery. this happened yesterday here at an exxon facility in torrance south of l.a. the blast destroyed a four-story structure. four contractors wer injured. it could take up to months to pinpoint the exact cause of this explosion. the company says other parts of the p

yao coming up, mario with his view on the markets and his three favorite stocks right now.nd the nasdaq near 5,000. are things different now versus 19 9? venture capitalist weighs in. do you still believe in miracles? 35 years after the u.s. hockey team's upset over russia one of the stars of that game jack o'callahan is here live. in finance now. can't wait for that one. see you in about 15. >> sounds good. thanks a lot. in case you missed it this morning news for our younger viewers and their parents. google is launching an app called youtube kids. the app free, comes next week. some of the features larger buttons, larger icons, timer where parents can set a limit of the amount of time their kids spend with videos and a development we can all get behind the comments are disabled on the app. that is critical. >> definitely. >> reminiscent of what amazon has done with free time. interesting. >> and they've had some issues with that in the past. rick santelli and the santelli exchange, hey rick. >> wonder why restricting comments. anybody who's read the adult comments knows

he worked closely with yao ming in tackling shark fin soup in china. campaign saying there are no benefits to shark fin soup. you shouldn't be eating it and that worked rather than telling people it's a really bad thing to do and you're affecting the world in a nasty way by consuming the soup. it's sending the message home that it doesn't always make sense for you either. >> he's quite the diplomat. we'll continue to watch. max foster is monitoring the arrival of prince william. he should arrive for his four-day trip in japan and then after that he is on to china with asia very much in the spotlight. many thanks. >>> fox news host bill o'reilly is defending himself again against accusations that he embellished or straight-out lied about some reporting in the '70s and '80s. he was a correspondent for cbs news. >> he told a story about his photographer being injured while the crew was in argentina. multiple cbs staffers interviewed by cnbc say that man was -- by cnn say that man was never hurt. >> all hell breaks loose. the people storm the casa rosata.

>> charlie: there yao see, you have a baher mohameden in you after all. what does he remind you of?hatever pops in your head. >> a saw toothed mad man! >> charlie: there's a poet in you after all! close your eyes and describe what you see. >> i close my eyes. >> charlie: yes? a sweaty toothed mad man. excellent, make him do something. >> he's going to choke me. what's he saying. he's mumbling truth like a blanket that always leaves you feet cold. >> a blanket, tell me about the blanket! >> it will never be enough! kick at it, beat it, will never cover enough! from the home we answer crying and leave dying it will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream. (applause) >> you won't forget. thisforget this.you remember that in what did it mean to you? >> everything. i mean, i just turned 18 a couple of days before and i really wanted to be an actor. i don't know why. and i didn't really know what it was, you know. i read about it. my mother gave me a book on laurence olivier and i liked watching one flu over the cuckoo's nest and dog day afternoon. i thought they were really i

. >> on the one hand, yao right. and some of the bioteches, yes, but that's in the top ten, that's probably one-third to one-half of the portfolio with the rest being really cheap on an absolute basis, you know, intel or a kwaul come. >> that's right. but as, you know, the question is if you look at a broad point of view, yes, there are pockets of value, but on average across the markets, indicators are -- again looking at sales, book value, or earnings, and so forth, you end up with a profoundly similar conclusion that investors on average, not necessarily in every single company, are paying a lot relative to a dollar's worth of earnings. >> mark, thank you for coming on, appreciate it. talk soon. >> caller: all right. >> mark hulbert. "usa today" business section puts forth a number of stocks with compelling situations. sandisk, do you like it? >> i do. >> you do? >> i do. >> do you own it? >> i do not. >> gilead. expensive? >> it is. >> now we have a debate. >> ten times earnings. >> repurchase plans, incredible p

yao ming of the houston rockets owns the shanghai franchise called the shanghai sharks. that league is in the process of growing and developing, you know the nba assists in various ways in helping with grass roots basketball and school programs in china. i don't conceivably see a way in which we could operate nba franchises in china. europe, on the other hand something that david stern talked about for years something that we considered and that is potentially we could see a division in europe. we're not quite there yet. and if we were to do it we would do it with multiple franchises. >> rose: finally changing the game which you mentioned earlier on. what are the possibility ways you can change the game? >> i think we made a fair number of changes over the last decade. i know are you a huge basketball fan and you notice the game is more offensive-minded now in that there was a period especially for those long long-- knick stands fans where the game bain and pat reilly he took advantage of the rules, it was a more physical game more pounding under the basket and there was

and what yao doing in pakistan.an pilot was a significant turning point in the fight against isis? >> reporter: in many ways yes, because we saw in the days following the murder of the pilot how jordan reacted, first with the execution of the two men and women who were on death row and the 56 that they conducted over the last couple days. reports of them moving troops closer to iraq there was a real rallying and outpouring of anger. what what're seeing now is the show of force and defiance. i'm not sure beyond the government awakening whether there's a national awakening against what isis represents. i think it's still too soon to tell. jordan is in a precares position. beyond the fight against isis, what countries like jordan and the uae are going to have to address at some point is what beyond isis and what about the war that continues in syria, which is a real rallying call for the people who run this so-called islamic state. >> i want to hear what you're reporting on in pakistan. there's the fight against milita

yao ming started a campaign in china to say stop it. we don't need this stuff.low-up on it. go to today.com. coming up next >>> nbc 10 news starts now. >> 8:56. this is shaping up to be the best day of the week maybe. >> temperatures are climbing. we will see more and more sunshine. seeing blue sky through the clouds. a view past the comcast center moved up three degrees in philadelphia in the last hour. 33 degrees. redding warming up. it is 20 degrees there. it is warmer at the shores. 37 degrees right now. into the 40s this afternoon. >> thank you. authorities are trying to piece together what happened overnight in trenton after a police officer was hit by a car. investigators say the driver hit the officer in the leg and kept going. the suspect's car was found a short distance and a little while later in hamilton township. he hit several parked cars. police say they found the suspect with the gun shot wound. the officer and suspect were not seriously hurt and both are being questioned by authorities. >>> the county couple whose pet ferrets attacked a baby. th

yao ming started a campaign in china to say stop it. we don't need this stuff.up on it. go to today.com. coming up it's 8:26. a new sketch this morning of the man involved in a deadly shooting at shoreline amphitheatre. mountain view police released sketches with and without hair. of someone they have been searching for since last august. that's when oakland music promoter was killed backstage during the wiz khalifa and young jeezy rap concert. >>> two state senators pushing for new laws requiring parents to vaexinate their children. the move comes in the midst of this year's severe measles out break. a new legislation would limit religious or personal exemptions allowing thousands of kids to go unvaccinated. another local news update in about a half hour. we're take a look at the forecast and commute. >> from nbc news this is "today's" take with tamron hall willie geist and natalie morales in rockefeller plaza. >> february 4th 2015. the mercury is arising. yesterday was 21 and we are up to 30. >> 55 on friday. >> another snowstorm perhaps monday or tuesday? >>

management being what it is, give him the ball on second downs, use yao last time out. you throw a past. if you get to fourth down you have a choice to make. it never got there. >> how is he feeling, marshawn lynch knowing what could have been. >> i'm not sure he would tell us but i imagine. >> or he'd be fined for what he said. josh, thank you very much. the man who made the game-saving interception for the patriots joins us now. malcolm butler, good morning to you. have you slept at all? >> um, no, i haven't. good morning. >> good morning. congratulations. we all have dreams as kids, malcolm, that we're going to hit the winning home run in the world series or we're going to throw the touchdown pass or catch it in the super bowl to become the champion. could you have ever dreamt on the morning after super bowl xlix you would not only be a super bowl champion, but you would be called the super bowl hero? >> yeah, i just got talking to a former player from the new england patriots, like four or five hours ago, and he just told me do you realize what you have done? i told