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Assuming? >> well, the term super spreader has a much different meeting now than it does before, because amg vaccinated people, again, its relegated down to a mild infection. i think that is something we will have to recognize. they are going to have to live with covid. its not a virus we are going to eliminate, this will be seasonal like four other coronaviruses that are seasonal and constitute collectively 20% of the cases of the common cold. we will have to see what the new data shows, but ri...

People here is not necessarily pleasure. no one likes to hear these words going back and forth and the risk of a miscalculation ratcheting up. >> all right, kyung lah, thank you so much. north korea has threatened to strike the tiny island, the u.s. territory of guam. but president trump has assured the governor that the public there, the people who live there are safe. for more on that, lets go to martin savidge who is there in guam. martin, were hearing from the president, were hearing from ...

Altitude get a higher dose than people who live in low-lying areas. and if youre traveling on an airplane set to be going from new york to tokyo, youll get 20 times the average background level during that flight. for example, on a beach in brazil, the natural background radiation there is way above permitted levels in terms of what the public can be exposed to. and thats whats coming out of the soil thats on the beach. >> youre asking why he does this? [ speaking in foreign language ] >> he has...

People who live in low-lying areas. and if youre traveling on an airplane set to be going from new york to tokyo, youll get 20 times the average background level during that flight. for example, on a beach in brazil, the natural background radiation there is way above permitted levels in terms of what the public can be exposed to. and thats whats coming out of the soil thats on the beach. >> youre asking why he does this? [ speaking in foreign language ] >> he has body pains. >> and this helps? ...

Going to cost if we go that far and continue our obsession with nuclear power. >> ifr waste streams lose their radioactivity to background level in about 800 years. light water reactor in nearly 10,000. >> i share with my colleagues some of the public opinion on this. "the "washington post"" "the oregonian" give up nuclear breeder dream. the "san francisco chronicle" saying no. >> the ifr program was shut down. the project went down the black hole of government politics.

When you test positive for thc, its unlike other drugs in that it doesnt necessarily mean youre intoxicated at that point if time. if you have alcohol in your system, youre intoxicated and shouldnt be driving. i still 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 prosecutions position on this particular point. >> and dr. kobilinsky, the level of thc is very, very low. >> thats true. in fact, in a regular smoker of c...

Driving. i understand the prosecutions argument, that the presence of thc is not like the presence of pcp, however, ive 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 prosecutions position on this particular point. >> and the level of thc were talking about was very, very low. >> thats true. in fact, in a regular smoker of canibus, you would expect a background level of 1.5 nano grams per milliliter. on...

to earle i start. and im zoraida sambolin. >> lets get started. the. the fallout from tropical storm beryl. it is a tropical depression. guess what, building steam again and its 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. its also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people right across that region. now beryl has its eyes on the carolinas. cnns rob marciano has been trackin...

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. theres a run on iodide pills, geiger counters and emergency kits on amazon.com and everywhere from hawaii -- >> i dont trust what theyre 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. its per...