Pessimism with a since of resignation. Japan was struggling with inflation. Japan was not able to make its presence felt in the international arena. Population is shrinking, thus it can no longer expect growth, japan is already in its twilight years, such was the lament we often heard looming large before us to give it all up. The stock price, at the time, was less than half of what it is today over 8,000 yen or so. I stood up to take on the challenge. I promised to restore japan to what she use to be. How is japan today . During the past four years through our economic policies, nominal gdp has grown by 9. 5 , adding 47 trillion yen, an alltime high. Employment, which decreased by 290,000 jobs in the previous administration, despite the decline in population, rose by 1. 8 5 million in four years. Whats more, 82 of them, women, Unemployment Rate is at 2. 8 , almost full employment level. Number of regular workers increased by 790,000 just in the two years. And, actually, it has gone do
For a Television Network called fuse tv. They will pay 200 million to buy the channel owned by Madison Square garden. Investors and economists will be waiting for todays payroll reports to see if the winter impact is finally ebbing. Mike mckee has more. We will call it groundhog day for the economy. Will the shadow of the long winter finally go away . We werergue about averaging 200,000 jobs a month. Then we dropped off after october. There was something going on. It probably had a lot to do with the weather. We are still quite cold in midmarch when they took the survey. Better than it was in february. We have had better data. We saw the Auto Industry report of best sales since may o 2007. We will see an increase of 200,000. There was another area, hours worked, where we were studied for a long time. About whena week for he seven months. Then, down the drain. That should come back as well. Another sign that things are getting a bit better. This will be the first jobs data that we get a
Affected. T baker gave about the zozzi had 215 im not convinced that if we had this place under the facts of that case we would have probably an explosion in the subway new york city. And the reaction that we had 9 11 that you referred to and iay be overstepped understand what you are saying, that is the way congress tends the nfortunately reaction would have been to the opinion,re we where we wouldnt be here today talking about modifying them in a softer way. We be talking about modifying them in a stronger way. Mr. Baker, you at Homeland Security, you were at Homeland Security until 2000 or yes being on the show much access you had to redo any cases that may involve the use of 215. But can you shed any light on this from the standpoint of any, number one, abuses older reasons why Even Stronger reasons why e15 should be maintain . I heard mr. Geithner said he did know of any abuses and i agree with that. I did not see the abuses and i will say, we felt so strongly about the importance
I will tell you where the unions stand and when we will learn the results of that vote. Good morning. And thank you for joining us back over head in san jose this morning a life look from news chopper 2. You can see a very big fire response there. A victorian home caught fire shortly after 5 00 or so this morning. You cant see it right now but we are getting word from fire investigators that is the fire is not under control. So apparently still going on inside. Again we are live overhead news chopper 2. Brian flores is almost there to the scene and he will have an update for us shortly. Thank you for waking up with us. Friday, november 1st im pam cook. And good morning, im dave clark. Lets go to your weather and traffic. Steve is right over there. I am. Thank you. Nice tweet from richard that said gorgeous morning at ocean beach. It is. It is clear but there is fog trying. But there is still a component of an easterly breeze so its really mild in San Francisco. And other coastal locati
Was able to call on. It had advanced almost not at all since exxon valdez and im actually delighted to hear from fran who knows more about this than i do about the intensive Research Effort that are going on. The National Research council released tomorrow and the agenda of four Additional Research that theyre apparently going to publish, which will lay out for all of us do things we need to learn and the things that need to be developed. I was amazed how little work was going on at the time ive macondo. It is little knowncoming to the department of interior is still response testing facility in new jersey in our stead. When i visited in 2011, i asked the people who work there but the extent of its use was by come knees in the industry and the answer was they frequently felt like the maytag repairman for those of you old enough to remember those commercials because in fact, they were not using the facility to test is still response technologies. I think that is changing, but i think th