kawasaki heavy industries is bracing for the worst. and its crisis management team has been examining its disaster readiness plans. >> translator: for the first time a four meter tsunami has been predicted. there's going to be damage. it's inevitable. >> reporter: the damage from the 1995 earthquake caused kawasaki heavy industries over $110 million. and it took nearly three months before work resumed at all of the company's plants. >> translator: we've experienced an actual earthquake. we know our old disaster plan isn't good enough. >> reporter: given the growing threat from a future quake or tsunami, kawasaki industries and other companies have been drawing up business continuity plans. contingency planning is essential so they can resume business promptly in the event of a disaster. for some companies, disaster planning is crucial. since it could determine whether or not they continue to exist. this is a medical products company based in kobe. it keeps tens of thousands of cell samples and specimens for testing in refrigerators and

first, guy kawasaki. today he is a best selling author. >> i am joined by the curator of this museum. where does this new seeium begin and end? >> two a computer idea over 1 a hundred years old -- a hundred years old all the way up to the iphone. some of this information was used in implements the social security act of 1935. u.s. president fdr passed this act to help americans get out of the depths of the depression, and in the course of that, created the biggest accounting problem of all time. how were you going to administer terms of millions of social security checks to americans. you couldn't use paper and ledger books anymore, the problem was just to los angeles. so ibm kept full employment and -- just too large. so ibm said we have machines that will tackle this problem. >> with their punch cards? >> yes, it's all done with punch cards. >> that's amazing. >> they're doing data entry in this picture. >> tom watson of ibm, a pretty unfully ential guy. >> he was, and keeping full employment during the

and the always-insightful guy kawasaki with great advice. he resolves to say these words more often in 2013, "i don't know. what do you think?" if you're anything like they, you're probably not that good at organizing your receipts and expensing them. chances are your staff may not be that great at it either so check out our app of the week. expenseify helping you track and your smartphone or tablet. upload photos of your receipts, file expense reports and log your mileage using the free app. to learn more about today's show, just click on our website. it's open forum.com/your business. you'll find all of today's segments plus web exclusive content with for information to help your business grow and you can follow us on twitter. it's @msnbc your biz. and don't forget to become a fan of the show on facebook. we love getting your feedback. >>> next week, see how the owner of a successful entered into a partnership gone bad. >> the deal was one-third, one-third. and in my brainist like -- but together they were two-thirds. >> a cautionary taleb

we got kawasaki, harleys, you name it, you can come shop and compare. this morning we're getting a great overview of the show. this is a show that stops at 13 cities and will be here the next few days. if you like custom choppers, we're going to talk about that. if you like just motor cycle wear, we're going to talk about that. we're going to get a great overview of the show. they have an amazing stunts show that goes on here. i can tell you now, the riders are here warming up as we speak. we'll see what kind of things they can perform for us this morning. also they have something called the pit stop challenge. how fast can you really change a motorcycle tire? we'll find out. you could win a prize to the daytona 500 if you come in with the fastest times. we'll talk about trends. there's been an increase of motorcycle buying. who is buying them? you'll find out. i feel like i want to push one over. would that be funny? >> real funny. >> reporter: i have an urge, but i'm restraining. >> thank you. let's good morning to today's fan of the day. we say hello

kawasaki has a nitrous bottle on it. this thing is a market. >> mark watches as ron shoots down the path. it's only later he learns what happens next. ron moves up to fourth gear and hits the nitrous boost button. he's blasting at 175 miles per hour when his front wheel begins to wobble. ron struggles to regain control, but it's a losing battle. he makes a split second decision to abandon the bike, but as this terrifying video shows, his right legislate is caught under the seats pulling him at almost 200 miles an hour in the dusty surface. >> it dragged him like a horse would drag a cowboy. >> the friction of his body against the grounds burns through his protective suit. in another moment, it will tear his skin to shreds. somehow ron flips his body over and amazingly pulls free. as the bike speeds away, ron tumbles along the ground. it doesn't seem possible that he's not only survived the accident, he can stand up and has barely a scratch on him. >> i thanks the lord that i'm still here with minor injuries, not too bad.

there's a you-tube individual crow who posted a recent visit to kawasaki japan. it's going viral because of his description of the world's shortest escalator. the guinness book of world records confirms it is indeed the shortest escalator. the video has more than 1.3 million views since posted on wednesday. >> i'm trying to wrap my head around there. the escalator is going down five steps. this a design thing, lazy thing? >> you think somebody complained about that and had to put it in? i i don't want to walk down four steps, five steps. you could jump that and get there faster. 6:41 is our time right now. here's a live look outside. >> tom kierein here with the forecast. good morning, tom. >> good morning, the first faint light beginning to show up on the eastern horizon. weather and traffic on the 1s now at 6:41. it's around 30 degrees around the metro area. but out in the rural areas south and east of washington, it's only near 20. north and west, in the low 30s. silver spring montgomery county by 8:00 a.m., sill around 30 degrees. we'll have sunshine and sunn