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[00:11.49]Paging, Dr. Friday.
[00:12.91]We have a case of awesome.
[00:14.24]I'm Carl Azuz.
[00:15.19]Thanks for spending 10 minutes of your Friday with us.
[00:17.61]First up, a meeting between two leaders
[00:19.66]who have more in common than a national border.
[00:22.15]Canada and the U.S. historically have been allies.
[00:24.94]They've cooperated on issues like trade and security.
[00:28.06]Canadian prime ministers have been regular visitors to the White House in the past.
[00:32.03]But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's trip to Washington
[00:35.23] is the first formal visit by a Canadian premier in 19 years.
[00:39.62]And he received a very warm welcome from U.S. President Barack Obama.
[00:45.10]The American leader discussed their common ground in terms of social,
[00:47.77] economic, and foreign policies.
[00:49.54]Prime Minister Trudeau has some critics in Canada,
[00:52.04] like some of his cabinet members, he has limited political experience.
[00:55.76]His country's budget deficit is much greater than his liberal party had predicted.
[01:01.78]But since his election last October, he's developed a strong alliance with his American counterpart.
[01:05.74] Justin Trudeau is a relatively new face in Canadian politics, but one with a very popular last name.
[01:13.20]SUBTITLE: Who is Justin Trudeau?
[01:15.53]LABOTT: With a stunning victory in Canada's recent general election.
[01:22.27]Trudeau ended a decade of conservative rule in Canada.
[01:25.79]He was born in 1971 while his father Pierre Trudeau was prime minister.
[01:31.29]His popularity was so great it was dubbed "Trudeau-mania".
[01:35.86]He was compared even to John F.Kennedy.
[01:38.48]When Justin delivered a powerful eulogy at his father's funeral,
[01:41.88] it sparked talk of a political dynasty.
[01:45.32]The former school teacher took his time getting into politics,
[01:49.31]trying his hand at acting, charity boxing, even coaching bungee jumpers.
[01:54.56]But after his father's death,
[01:57.31]he became more politically active, winning a seat in parliament in 2008.
[02:01.47]Skeptics said he was too young and inexperienced to become prime minister.
[02:06.01]But by all accounts, he ran a very impressive campaign, sweeping the liberals to victory.
[02:11.68]For years, the conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper,
[02:15.36] kept the economy running relatively smoothly.
[02:18.35]Keep taxes low and he ran a very robust foreign policy aimed at taking on terrorists.
[02:24.35]By contrast, Trudeau is promising to pull out of counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East,
[02:30.48]restore ties with Iran, and he also wants to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada.
[02:36.08]Back home, the father of three intends to raise taxes on the wealthy
[02:41.01]and double spending on public infrastructure
[02:43.44] and push a very aggressive climate change agenda.
[02:47.04]Trudeau has shown he has the star power of his father.
[02:50.53]Now, he has to prove he has the political chops
[02:53.29] and ride this new wave of Trudeau-mania into opportunities for Canada.
[02:58.13](END VIDEOTAPE)
[02:58.70]AZUZ: It was exactly five years ago today
[03:01.78]that a catastrophic 9.0 magnitude earthquake shook Eastern Japan.
[03:07.13]It was the fourth largest earthquake ever recorded in the Asian country.
[03:10.94]And it generated a tsunami, a wall of Asian water
[03:14.92]with 30-foot waves that swept some coastal developments out to sea.
[03:19.13]The tsunami also damaged some reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
[03:25.23]That led to meltdowns, contamination, and the complete evacuations of some Japanese towns.
[03:30.19]The threat from nuclear radiation remains.
[03:34.30]Next week, we'll show you how marine life was affected,
[03:35.76]how seafood still has to be tested before it can be eaten.
[03:39.37]Today, we're taking you inside one of the cities where recovery is nowhere in sight.
[03:44.08]Whenever Suichiro Saito (ph) wants to check on his home,
[03:49.53] he has to wear this to guard against radiation.
[03:52.97]Saito only comes a few times a year
[03:56.56] to the house his family has owned since before World War II.
[03:59.71]Each visit, more difficult than the last.
[04:02.74]Each room, devastated.
[04:05.49]Poison does little to keep the rats away.
[04:09.47]"It's painful," he says.
[04:11.97]"My wife doesn't want to come here.
[04:13.58]The house is getting more dilapidated."
[04:15.48](on camera): This room hasn't been touched since the earthquake.
[04:19.22]You can see the calendar, March, 2011. There's laundry hanging.
[04:23.61]It was done right before the earthquake hit.
[04:25.78](voice-over): The shaking lasted six minutes.
[04:30.31](SCREAMING)
[04:30.80]RIPLEY: Tsunami waves soon after --
[04:41.80](SHOUTING)
[04:42.54]RIPLEY: --
[04:43.41]icy cold, consuming coastal towns.
[04:46.92]Five years ago, on March 11th, 2011, almost 20,000 people died.
[04:55.86]Many, spared by nature, would soon face a manmade disaster.
[05:02.62]Saito's house is three kilometers,
[05:07.61] less than two miles from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.
[05:10.26]His town Futaba sits empty.
[05:13.18]More than 6,000 people once lived and worked here.
[05:17.36]Today, they're allowed in for just five hours at a time.
[05:22.31]Nearly 100,000 Fukushima residents are still evacuated.
[05:27.46]Nearly 19,000 still living in what was supposed to be temporary housing.
[05:33.20]Some choose to stay.
[05:35.38]Others have nowhere else to go.
[05:37.80]Setsuko Matsumoto used to live within walking distance of her children.
[05:43.42]Now, they barely see each other.
[05:45.98]"I had a happy life," she says.
[05:48.72]"The disaster made a lot of families fall apart, including mine."
[05:53.10]Saito also lived with his parents and children and grandchildren.
[05:57.50]Now, they're in several cities.
[06:00.47](on camera): What did you grow here?
[06:01.65](voice-over): The soil on his farm, contaminated.
[06:03.63]"I'm sad," he says.
[06:05.85]"I'm empty."
[06:07.54]A feeling shared by so many here, five years later.
