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Hs ago is back in business. hundreds began lining up for the lent cafe. the gunman took 17 people hostage in the cafe spashing a 16 hour stand off with police. dilled one hostage and yet another were killed in the gun balt battle that ended it all. and threats to the u.s. embassy in japan. what is not clear is if that arrest is tied to reported death threats. we get more now from cnn in tokyo. police in japan have arrested a 52-year-old man who has admitted to making calls from a pay phone threatening to blow up the u.s. embassy here in tokyo a ....
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hong kong. the new york police department says it is taking additional precautions after the new threat tied to the 9/11 anniversary this weekend. it includes more staffing, more bomb-sniffing dogs and checkpoints across the city. the critical final report on the death of this iraqi civilian in british military custody was released on thursday. the inquiry found baja mussa was brutally beaten and possibly kicked to death to british troops while he was restrained. he was being held as a suspected insurgent in iraq. interpol has been asked to issue an urgent notice for the arrest of moammar gadhafi. he s wanted for alleged crimes against humanity. much of normal life has been shut down in the southwestern united states. a million people are in the dark in the states of california and arizona and across the border in mexico. authorities are scrambling to restore electric service and have not yet found the cause of the power outages. traffic signals, airports and trai ....
Disaster. more than 15,000 still missing. live to martin savidge at cnn tokyo. marty? zain, as you just point out there, the death toll that continues to rise is one of those anguishing clouts that hangs over this country as they deal with so much. the one glimmer of good news you reported there, the leak of highly radioactive contaminated water going into the ocean near reactor two has been stopped. as officials point out they re not sure the problem has been solved, certainly not the problem of fukushima daiichi has been solved. they are dealing with major issues. the question here now is stop the flow of water going into the ocean at that particular point, but if you don t know where it s coming from, then water just tends to run somewhere else. and that has tepco officials seem to be pointing out, they are concerned about that. stop the leak here, maybe you open it up some place else. maybe it is leaking some place else they have not seen, perhaps under the water or some other po ....
All this damage. also, the french president, nicolas sarkozy is in japan right now. how is france trying to help out? reporter: france has a large nuclear program of its own, as a result, has a great deal of expertise. that s primarily what they re providing, their top nuclear expert has come along with the french president and is advising the president of japan how to deal with contamination, how to deal with radioactive water and all the problems they have a fistful at the fukushima plant. it is the knowledge of the french government and its long experience dealing with nuclear pow ear great help. there s also american help on the way. the japanese have opened up and said this problem is greater than we can handle on our own, quite an admission for them. a lot of people are questioning why it took japan three weeks to ask for more help. martin savage, live at cnn tokyo. thanks so much. ....