Now, the United Nations top expert offers his perspective. The family of a man who committed suicide after the Fukushima Nuclear accident is taking action. The 102yearold refused an order to evacuate his home near the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011. Now his relatives are prepared to sue the company that runs the crippled facility. The village of iitate has been empty for over three years. It is 30 kilometers from the Nuclear Plant and one month after the accident, the japanese government ordered residents to leave. The day after the evacuation order, fumio okubo killed himself at home. He was the oldest resident of the village and said he couldnt leave the place where he had spent a century. Okubos daughterinlaw, mieko, is one of three relatives who are planning to file lawsuit against tepco in the tokyo district court. She says he should have had the chance to pass away peacefully in his hometown, surrounded by his loved ones. She says the purpose of the lawsuit is for her, and her r
Government to work in terms of real good law enforcement, in term of National Security and public safety. Reporter a recent poll indicates most americans agree the immigration system needs fixing. They disagree on how the president is doing it. They said they want to see us working together. They said they want to see more serious ideas pass through congress. What they didnt say they wanted to see was the president sidestepping the very representatives they just elected. We expect that democrats and republicans in Congress Wont agree with everything, wont disagree with everything, but we should roll up our sleeves, get to work, fix the system because thats what people expect. Reporter again the president will be addressing the nation in less than an hour from now in the east room of the white house. Republicans say if he does go ahead with this plan, it will ruin any chance of passing comprehensive Immigration Reform in congress. Reporting live from the white house andrea mccarren, wus
Governor bows to prevent the relocation of a u. S. Military base within the prefecture. We look into why voters lined up behind the base opponent. Japans latest gdp figures could spell trouble for Prime Minister shinzo abes program to revive the economy. The figures released by Cabinet Office officials this morning shows the economy is shrinking. The july to september decline is japans second straight quarterly fall. The preliminary data shows japans gdp fell 0. 4 in the three months to september, from the previous quarter. That translates into an annual downturn of 1. 6 and follows a 7. 3 plunge on an annualized basis in april to june. The figures were a shock for investors and politicians. And ron madison joins us now from our business desk. Ron, break down the number for us. Gene, a lot was really riding on this months data. The Prime Minister had stated that he would be using these gdp numbers to either postpone or go ahead and press ahead with another consumption tax hike. This ti
A also identifies a great deal of information about the causes of errors which allows the specific and effective policy solutions. That policy solutions. They are challenges to improving accuracy and a vast and complex system whose main system is to educate children, not administer the meal programs. The School Meal Programs operate in nearly 100000 schools nationwide and theres wide variation. Their staffing and resources and technological capacities vary widely. Theres also variation in what children get meals in the lunchroom or classroom and have fiscal checks who is in which category. Small rural schools have different operational and administrative capacities in larger districts assert hundreds of thousands of students. Meal tracking systems can range from paper to stateoftheart software. Schools are not really set up to do the the eligibility determinations at the Public Benefit programs do. The step program for medicaid have teams of professional eligibility workers who spend a
Pay attention to the marginalization narrative. I mean i think muslims are your best partners in this. I think muslims understand we can do without each other. Its a common enemy. They are not going to think twice. Im there with my family. I will be killed along with everyone else so we are in this together. Help us make those connections. Mr. Gartensteinross. I agree with what jm berger said that we are in a radical change. The question for us is are we up for this . I think we have grown content with a system in which a lot of things dont work where we tried to address problems and it gets lost somewhere in the bureaucracy and theres due process and everyone is waiting for someone else to do something and what we are getting in outputs is so suboptimal that of the u. S. Government or corporation with loose their jobs. The questions are can we move fast enough . Are there too many bureaucratic obstacles and if so what can we do to stop those obstacles and are we transparent enough bot