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Slightly lower. everily estimates suggest the damage to the countrys infrastructure could top $100 billion. for more on the effect this colossal earthquake and tsunami have we cross over to andrew stephens joining us from hong kong. andrew. >> that could be a conservative number. ive seen estimates from the early research notes putting the numbers as high as $170 billion. certainly until we know the full damage of the devastated northern part of japan it is difficult to pinpoint the accuracy. le...

Its technology is going to be okay and ride this out safely? >> you cant plan for quake this is big. in japan itself in 1854 there were two earthquakes. >> the magnitude 8.3, 8.4 that were separated by two years, and it wouldnt surprise nebraska in the scientific community if we had another magnitude 8 plus earthquake in the relatively near future, and those buildings are not going to with stand that. theres just no way. >> lets talk about predictions. the accuracy of doing so. where do we stand...

To japan to work with them to find out what needs to be improved and what worked well. without that, there would have been much more damage and lives lost. >> shannon: what can we do to predict quakes in the future? do we have the science to do that effectively? >> depends how you define earthquake prediction. in terms of predicting the exact time of an earthquake, say a kay day before, that may never happen but were making advances in science about predicting where large earthquakes occur. one ...

When something like this happens. so everybody was told, you could hear on all the tvs, making announcements on the street over loud speakers to get away to evacuate if youre anywhere near water. if youre anywhere near that sort of area, to get away from it. and it is, we either, there were several minutes before the water actually hit. they can predict it with very, very high degree of accuracy. and so there is a good hope, at least i hope that many of the people watching tv and heard about thi...

That exist and theyre attracting increasing scrutiny. proponents say that genetic tests can help parents steer their children to the sports that theyre predisposed to excel at. critics are saying the tests put profit before science and keep kids from following their dreams. dr. jeffrey vance is chairman of the department of genetics at the university of miami and joins me live from miami. i just want to say one thing here and that is we are ex-picketing an announcing from president obama in the ...

Difficulty is by recognizing that the truth is in shades of gray. by rating something half true, we give readers and viewers a good view of the relative accuracy of something. >> why dont more newspapers do this. "washington post" a couple months ago designated a reporter to have a fact checking column. but most arent in the business. >> it takes a lot of resources and real commitment. not only the saint petersburg times been willing to do that but eight state partners have been willing. it take...

Some accusations you did that to box abbas in a corner and sort of hurt the negotiating process. any accuracy to that? what was the logic behind the release of the documents and whats happened since then? >> we saw the documents some time before we released them. we studied them very, very carefully, we verified them, made sure they were factually correct. we carried out all of the journalism on those documents. and we were absolutely confident with the verification of those documents. we had as...

>> we are independently of one another. we share a resource, we share a picture, and we obviously reach out to the experience when theyre covering stories. we have benefit from that experience. but ultimately, the bottom line is theyre reaching out to an arabic speaking population, which is based across the middle east and north african region. and we are reaching out to an english-speaking audience, which is global. that truly means that our editorial agenda will be distinct from our sister cha...

Pharmaceutical companies they put an end to it. from a public health standpoint, it was the right thing to do. even though i know it seems people dont get their day in court, its just that its a different kind of court system with reimbursement if you get harmed. >> you mentioned autism. that was part of this. and now theres a better way to actually assess autism risk. >> heres what we know. vaccines dont cause autism. for those of us with autism in our families and im one of those families, you...

And all 14 are on the run. one of my favorite headlines that i saw dems on the run. thats really what i feel like they are doing. >> bill: 14 state senators. all of them are out of the state. and you dont know where they are and they dont say when they going to come back. >> yeah. they are all at undisclosed locations. the only people that have been able to talk to them are all the media outlets trying to get a story from them. >> okay. when you hear the left-wing media, which i thought we did a...