driving. i understand the prosecution s argument, that the presence of thc is not like the presence of pcp, however, i ve always said i think this evidence should come in because it goes to a state of mind at the time this happened. that being said, i do see the prosecution s position on this particular point. and the level of thc we re talking about was very, very low. that s true. in fact, in a regular smoker of canibus, you would expect a background level of 1.5 nano grams per milliliter. on the other hand, if you do not have a regular smoker, it may indicate somebody smoked earlier in the day, perhaps six to eight hours earlier, and then that level would come down due to metabolism of the thc, you would end up with 1.5. what do you think the outcome of this toxicology is going to have? there are those who say, look, we re talking about thc marijuana, that normally does not make people violent unless
to earle i start. and i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started. the. the fallout from tropical storm beryl. it is a tropical depression. guess what, building steam again and it s expected to be a tropical storm before we know it again. the storm is dumping as much as ten inches of rain in northern florida and southern georgia. it s also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people right across that region. now beryl has its eyes on the carolinas. cnn s rob marciano has been tracking the storm from the weather center. cnn s george howell is live in georgia. i m assuming that things are only just starting to get bad out there, george? reporter: ashlee , we are expecting to be to be a real soaker. this is going to be the center of the storm. it will move towards the savannah area. just a few days ago the story here was the wind event. a strong wind event that knocked down trees, knocked down power lines. today we are expecting that sustained rain over this area could p
radiation fallout could travel across the sea, but do they need to grab a geiger counter and start testing? our dan harris did exactly that. take a look. reporter: across america the radiation fears are palpable. there s a run on iodide pills, geiger counters and emergency kits on amazon.com and everywhere from hawaii i don t trust what they re saying. reporter: to seattle to missouri but how worried should we be? radiation is all around us and even inside of us all the time. it s perfectly natural and safe. to illustrate the point, we got ahold of this geiger counter. as you can see, even right here in new york city in the middle of central park there is always a background level of radiation. check this out. we re at a food stand and we ll put the geiger counter on bananas which contain potassium which you need to live but also radioactive and you can see the geiger counter goes up a little bit. for the most dramatic reading, here s what happens when we go up to this monume