Analysts say the essf directors are putting pressure on them ahead of the referendum this sunday. North korea an officials have disappointed people across japan. Theyve spent the last year investigating their countrys abductions of japanese nationals, but now theyve put off releasing their findings. Nhk world has more. Translator its very regrettable that north korea is putting off the results of its investigation. Ive told the foreign minister fumio yukishida and abduction minister to further press pyongyang to swiftly act with the return of japanese abductees. Reporter north korean officials pledged their fullscale cooperation during negotiations with japan in may of last year. In pyongyang set up a special committee to oversee the probe. Japan temporary lifted sanctions against the country. Japanese officials expected the north to report preliminary results within a couple of months, but that never happened. At the end of october, a Senior Foreign Ministry official visited pyongyang
Analysts say the essf directors are putting pressure on them ahead of the referendum this sunday. North korea an officials have disappointed people across japan. Theyve spent the last year investigating their countrys abductions of japanese nationals, but now theyve put off releasing their findings. Nhk world has more. Translator its very regrettable that north korea is putting off the results of its investigation. Ive told the foreign minister fumio yukishida and abduction minister to further press pyongyang to swiftly act with the return of japanese abductees. Reporter north korean officials pledged their fullscale cooperation during negotiations with japan in may of last year. About one month later, officials in pyongyang set up a special committee to oversee the probe. Japan temporary lifted sanctions against the country. Japanese officials expected the north to report preliminary results within a couple of months, but that never happened. At the end of october, a Senior Foreign Mi
Five. This month ive scheduled i think about seven scheduled already this month. More than usual . Way more than usual. Reporter but even with a lot of rain, experts say our drought wont go away right away. Will this be the drought buster we need . Reporter thats the question we asked Santa Clara University professor and Civil Engineer ed mahrer, who says our warm weather is bad news even if we get very wet. More likely than not to be a warmer year than weve experienced in the past. What that means is theres less snowpack. Snowpack is our Los Angelesst natural reservoir we rely on for our water supply. Reporter even with a very rainy forecast experts say we should still conserve water. Because the drought is likely to stay around for a while. The National Weather service says the el nino is not likely to be short but could last into the spring. Reporting live in san jose, scott budman. We remember 1997, a lot of floods and mudslides around here. What will happen this time around . Jeff
Making plum brandy. Those people that stay i understand how stressful and they are scared and have everything they own. The problem is, is that when they decide, its a decision they make to stay, it endangers us because its our duty to protect lives and property. So it creates anxiety for us. Reporter these firefighters they are prepared to put it on the line. Keep in mind they have been out here more than two weeks. And, you know, they are pretty exhausted. They are working 12 hours at a time in some cases 24 hours at a time. Then 24 hours off. They are still at it. This fire continues to grow. Its going over some of the major roads and approaching some of the areas that in this area we were told this was a safe zone. The fire doesnt care. Its still moving in. And, you know, for those folks who are still in there, in these homes, they are putting these firefighters at risk to some degree but so far, none of the homes have caught fire. Thank you, joe vazquez reporting live from lake co
Investigate. There were calls after it happened but, again, there was nothing, we didnt know anything about it. So no action was taken. Reporter some thought an earthquake happened and wasnt just at the shore, more than 80 miles away david ahorn felt the house shake two times in mount laurel. Pretty distinct. Reporter what was it . U. S. Geological survey National Earthquake Information Center said there was no seismic activity but they detect a possible sonic boom 9 miles off the coast of North Wildwood n other word it was probably a high speed jet. We see military planes flying up and down the coast all the time, year round, all sorts of different planes. So im assuming that is what were talking about here. Just the house felt like it was going like this. Reporter Barbara Ferguson who almost fell over, in her house said she doesnt want a repeat performance anytime soon. When i thought something seriously exploded, but, obviously it was nothing. Reporter one of the reasons boom carrie