>> reporter: a new game is being played at this old people's home in yokohama city, south of tokyo. the residents move their bodies on cue from a robot. the exercise helps the brain and fights aging. people from the nursing industry interested in the robot came along to watch. >> translator: coming here today and seeing people talking and dancing with them made me realize that robots have become something very commonplace to old people, too. >> reporter: many of the nursing care robots are japanese inventions. they're catching the eye of facilities overseas. in some countries, they are recognized as medical equipment. ironically, care-giving robots have been slow to catch on in japan. people still expect the functions of caring to be given

photo imaging show opened in yokohama on thursday. this allows users to upload photos to the internet through a smartphone. nikkon showed off a camera with an android operating system. a new single lens reflex camera from sony features advance image processing technology. it can produce professional images, for example, by blurring distant objects to make the subject stand out. industry officials say new cameras need to have a variety of functions to attract consumers. they say cameras can develop alongside smartphones rather than compete with them. >>> south korea's ambassador to the united nations has hinted at the need for action if the north conducts a third nuclear test. he says the threat is real. ambassador kim sook says the

that's right, sharks near oahu's yokohama beach, two sharks were spotted swimming very, very dangerously close to the shore. i hope that guy's feet are not in the water. >> wow, that is super shallow. >> if steve stockman was serious he would have mentioned secession. secession is the line -- >> that's so old. >> i'm just saying. >> don't open any can of worms when i need to go to a break. >>> polls are showing more americans support tougher gun control laws. is there any common ground in washington, d.c.? we'll talk with republican congressman greg walden next. >>> and miss america mallory hagan will be here with us live talking about gun control. we're back in a moment. mine was earned in djibouti, africa, 2004.

russian character by way of yokohama, for an african american character, for all these different characters? i know you worked with specific actors. did they help at all? what was the process there? . >> absolutely. in terms of the african american characters, i wrote this piece initially for the act core company and i thought it would be a great challenge to actually write a play for the core company and the core company has two african american characters and i had tailored two of the characters for steven anthony jones and gregry wallace. it's interesting that gregory wallace, an african american man, was supposed to play mr. oge, an excentric neisei who likes literature. i thought it would be an interesting thing to do. but after a while we did a reading and we realized as good

yokohama, slap your mama. so i get worried when they start talking about presidential candidates. i did a similar book to this in 2008 call deciding the next decider come a long, i think -- we shouldn't be afraid of the word epic. interrupted by other poems. this is the same sort of book, except it has a little pro-senate. the call them applause for pros. one of the syntactical list to gingrich, the wearer has cheated in life too seriously zero wise, desperately tries to make light of it back costs. [laughter] newts think it sounds like

. >> reporter: a new game is being played at this old people's home in yokohama city, south of tokyo. the residents move their bodies on cue from a robot. the exercise helps the brain and fights aging. people from the nursing industry interested in the robot came along to watch. >> translator: coming here today and seeing people talking and dancing with them made me realize that robots have become something very commonplace to old people, too. >> reporter: many of the nursing care robots are japanese inventions. they're catching the eye of facilities overseas. in some countries, they are recognized as medical equipment. ironically, care-giving robots have been slow to catch on in japan. people still expect the functions of caring to be given only by humans, but the situation may be changing. i'm visiting an exhibition for nursing care robots in yokosuka. similar events have been happening across japan. they're attracting people who work in social welfare. these people may have noticed the increasing media report of how a robot can help elderly dementia sufferers and nursing home staff

. >> reporter: a new game is being played at this old people's home in yokohama city, south of tokyo. the residents move their bodies on cue from a robot. the exercise helps the brain and fights aging. people from the nursing industry interested in the robot came along to watch. >> translator: coming here today and seeing people talking and dancing with them made me realize that robots have become something very commonplace to old people, too. >> reporter: many of the nursing care robots are japanese inventions. they're catching the eye of facilities overseas. in some countries, they are recognized as medical equipment. ironically, care-giving robots have been slow to catch on in japan. people still expect the functions of caring to be given only by humans, but the situation may be changing. i'm visiting an exhibition for nursing care robots in yokosuka. similar events have been happening across japan. they're attracting people who work in social welfare. these people may have noticed the increasing media report of how a robot can help elderly dementia sufferers and nursing home staff

eight measures at the tokyo international conference on african development or tcad to be held in yokohama in june. they going to assist tightening of border controls. they may also provide security experts to increase public safety. they're also considering increasing humanitarian aid where conflicts are taking place. they are trying to reduce anxiety by japanese firms operating in africa as well as highlighting japan's contribution to african development. >>> experts with japan's nuclear regulation authorities say they'll issue a warning about a nuclear plant in central japan. they say a fault running under the facility could be active. they say they'll present their findings in a draft report later in the day. the experts are examining fissures beneath three plants. it includes the only plant in the country that's running, the one at oui town along the strait of japan. it's also along the plant in central japan. they analyze nearby layers of rock. the analysts suggested the land may have moved sometime in the last 120,000 to 130,000 years. that would meet one of the conditions for being

american, three, rather, but there are african american characters, there's a russian jew by way of yokohama and i don't necessarily have those backgrounds. so in the workshop process, what it allows me to do to work with actors, particularly some of the african american characters, i can work with them to make sure the characters i am developing have a authentic, you know, authenticity to them and that they are from the inside out as opposed to sort of working from the outside in. so, for me, those kinds of things are critical so i spent a great deal of time making sure that the characters that were wrought that you will ultimately see on stage are truthful, are grounded in real life. so over this period of 3 1/2 to 4 years it was time well spent and it continues to be developed even as we speak. i'm going to go home and do some more rewriting after this. so it's still being worked on. >> so let's talk a little bit about the inspiration for the play. i mean, i've seen from reading different things about you that your productions or your plays have been inspired by very diverse things. for e

potential to see snow on the pacific edge of the country which is unusual, 50% chance we'll see in yokohama. if it does. >> it's the first snow of the season. let's look at temperatures. 5 degrees in tokyo. low is around the freezing point. minus one for the high. as for your low down to minus 11. beijing sitting around the freezing point. starting point your high minus 18 in ulan batur. let's go the americas. small snowstorm moving through texas. it's going to turn over to rain as it heads towards the gulf of mexico but not before dumping about 25 centimeters of snow in some places. elsewhere mostly high and dry. temperatures are seasonal. snow event as well. that will go into the intermountain west and snowfall popping into montana as well as wyoming, idaho and towards the east you can see a low spreading some light but widespread snow across eastern canada. that's rapidly pushing towards the atlantic but will push it through new england first. you'll have some snow showers here. as i say fairly seasonal temperatures. however if we head over to europe we will see a different story. out we

born in yokohama in 1937 say's childhood was far from easy. it would be touched by war dislocation, and family turmoil. allen's saving grace was cartooning -- a passion not shared by his father. alle it was disgraceful to want to be a cartoonist in those days. for a middle class household to have the first son want to be an artist was a disaster. especially to my father, who was a very successful businessman, and never got over it. narrator: when the war came, allen's mother - attempting to protect her children - fled with them to a farming community not far from hiroshima. alle we were very near when the bomb dropped. there was this tremendous jolt. and we ran out of the house, it was a very mountainous area of course we couldn't see anything. but we were close enough that one of my cousins used to commute to go to work and she came back that afternoon one of the victims. she survived but it was an awful thing. narror: his parents divorced not long after the war. allen was sent to live with his grandmother in tokyo so that he could attend a g

a swimmer standing on yokohama beach captured this video of an eight- >>> here you go. on vacation you catch this. an 8-foot shark off honolulu. safety officials urged people to get out of the water. another shark about 6 feet long was spotted at a different beach in the same area. now warning scenes are posted on both beaches. probably a good idea. >> yeah. i would not be getting in that water. >> isn't that amazing how close they come? they come right up -- you hear about a lot of shark attacks just in 7 feet of water. think you're going out for a nice swim -- yeah. >> come back in! >>> very cold around the bay area again this morning. some chilly temperatures showing up outside even colder than it was yesterday at this time. we're not seeing the wind. the air not quite as dry but you can see that offshore wind continuing here in the bay area and that means we are seeing that cold air coming right from the continent and that means your temperatures really plummetting outside. mostly clear skies right now, and you're looking at 30 degrees and freezing in concord. 29 in

yokohama, slap your mama. so i get worried when they start talking about presidential candidates.i did a similar book to this in 2008 call deciding the next decider come a long, i think -- we shouldn't be afraid of the word epic. interrupted by other poems. this is the same sort of book, except it has a little pro-senate. the call them applause for pros. one of the syntactical list to gingrich, the wearer has cheated in life too seriously zero wise, desperately tries to make light of it back costs. [laughter] newts think it sounds like dengue fever. so last time we had some good candidates, not only for rhyming, but in general. john edwards, i wrote a poem called yes i know he's a mill worker's son, but there's hollywood in that hair. or sarah palin of course, for whom i wrote her version of that harpist racing classic, on a clear day i seek lot of all stock. and this time in 2008 when they started talking about candidates, it seems impossible to believe now, but then governor of illinois was mentioned, rob okoye vetch. wow, i feared. it turns out it's not a bad name to rhyme. i r

residents of yokohama has also seen about 13 centimeters of snow. streets and sidewalks have become slippery in some areas and strong winds are making things worse. nearly 400 people have been hurt in car accidents or because they slipped. the weather has led to the cancellation of more than 650 flights across japan. it's also disrupted some train service. meteorological officials say it's not over yet. they've issued warnings for snow, strong winds, stormy seas and icy roads. >>> people in beijing are having hard time getting around, too, because of smog. there are worst levels of air pollution on record over the past several days. the air is a soupy mess. it comes from car exhaust and other emissions. it can penetrate into the lungs and cause asthma or bronchitis. the smog prompted people to drive with headlights on throughout the day. beijing municipal authorities set the air pollution alert to the highest level. children are told to stay in schools and factories are told to scale back operations. >> translator: we avoid going outside. we never o