South koreas Prime Minister says the deadly mers outbreak is coming to an end and has urged people to go back to their normal lives. And entertainment firms from around the world are looking to take their roller coasters and Service Experiences to china. Prime minister shinzo abe has stressed the need to change the nations security policy. He says the proposed legislation would demonstrate the strength of the japan u. S. Alliance as china increases its maritime presence. The set of bills would expand the role of the selfdefense forces and allow the country to exercise its rights of collective self defense. Abe says leaders in beijing have been carrying out largescale reclamation work in the south china sea. He says theyre not abiding by the 2008 agreement with japan to jointly develop gas fields in parts of the east china sea. He also says Chinese Government vessels have repeatedly entered japans territorial waters around the senkaku islands. Japan controls the islands. China and taiwa
Chelsey. You said it before, they will theyll be wetting out there at the linc. Specially in direct sunlight, not much winds, it will be a hot one for sure. Lets look at the temperatures across the region. Already warm start to the day. In the 70s here in philadelphia. 71 degrees, until the low 60s, in wildwood, and Atlantic City , 61 degrees there. Sixtyseven in trenton, right around 63 in allentown, 64 mount pocono. Sixtythree reading, 62 degrees in lancaster, so for the home opener, down at the linc, im forecasting kick off temperature right around 87 degrees. And as i mentioned, if you were in that direct sunlight, for the entire game, youre likely sweating out there. Make sure to bring the shades and latter up the sunscreen we will be climbing into the 90s, to 90 degrees throughout the game by the ends of the game likely around 90 degrees in philadelphia, unseasonably hot , going to be another warm afternoon down the shore, you can look for High Temperature right around 80 degrees
So thank you all for sticking around for our panel and im sure it comes as no surprise that we would be discussing north korea today given the increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the north korean policy review. That President Trump has just completed. sover north korea watchers, when he 17 has been an interesting year. The President Trump decided to review policy for north korea shortly after his inauguration and he came back with a policy that emphasizes maximum pressure and engagement but there has been signals on what exactly the United States let me looking for from north korea before entering into negotiations. South korea also has a new president. He has expressed an interest in talking to the North Koreans but again, under what conditions still remains somewhat an openended question and of course in north korea weve seen a number of Ballistic Missile tests already in 2017 including some new systems. And all of this is leading up to the summit that trump and moon j in
Started deproiing an advanced antimissile system in south korea. North korea has declared its latest missile test a success. It says its army units were trained to strike American Military bases in japan by firing multiple missiles. The front page of the newspaper shows kim jong un all smiles as he supervises what is reportedly the test. He talked about pushing ahead with nuclear and missile developments. Four Ballistic Missiles fell into the sea of japan, three of them apparently in its exclusive economic zone. The launch came days after south korea and the u. S. Began joint drills. Pyongyang state media says it was in retaliation to what it calls warmongers conducting war exercises. U. S. And south korean Officials Say one or more of the missiles may have been an extendedrange scud. Japanese officials are working to recover them. Prime minister abe spoke with u. S. President trump over the phone. They condemned the launch and agreed pyongyangs threat has reached a new level. Translat
His first travel order signed in january was also halted by a federal judge. Switching gears, policymakers at the u. S. Federal reserve have decided to raise the key Interest Rates, ai uchida joins us with details from our business desk. The fed officials seem confident about the u. S. Economy, the steady growth its seeing . Absolutely. What do you have for us . Certainly seems that way, catherine. This is only the third time in a decade that they are hiking the benchmark rate, and its the latest move will be the first since donald trump stepped into the white house in january. Analysts have been trying to assess how the u. S. Central bank is going to respond to the president s economic policy. Fed chair janet yellen spoke at the end of a twoday policy meeting. She said the key rate target will be 0. 75 to 1 . We have performed well over the last several years. Yellen noted that inflation has increased in recent quarters, approaching the feds 2 longerrun objective. Todays decision also