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Ponds so they wouldnt have problems. japan is not the united states. they are different country. the u.s. is much larger. so presumably if we had a natural disaster it would not affect the entire country like it affected japan, but there are some similarities, too. some of our plants are on the ocean next to the water. we often build plants in cluster like japan has. what we are learning sort of for the first time is when you build a lot of reactors close together and then several of them start ...

This is the after. just muck and mud, much destruction. this is the fukushima power plant. this is really stunning because keep your eyes in this area. this is the before. see all that smoke? one of the issues weve been talking about through the show here with the nuclear power plants, numbers one, two and three. this was the most startling image for me. you see the cluster of homes, beautiful green countryside. this is the town of natori. when i slide this, total devastation here. and you can s...

>> would you want one, jack, built in your backyard? >> this is one in our backyard, indian point is about 12 miles up the hudson river from the northern part of manhattan. its been there for years and years and years, and, you know, fortunately so far wows incident but theres one very close by and just to the west of us in pennsylvania theres a whole cluster of them in the eastern part of that state, and i understand it the prevailing winds tend to blow from west to east. we havent had any prob...

Oakland and berkeley. while the usgs says it cannot predict earthquakes its certain this line is ready for major rupture. the cascadia subzuks zone offshore located under water and not land making tsunamis a major threat. joining us is "newsweeks" simon westchester and author of "a crack in the edge of the world." thank you for joining us. i think this is very scary. you make an interesting argument about the ring of fire and what has happened just in the past year. what makes you so concerned a...

I was thinking, when tracking hurricanes and typhoons, as they make landfall, the worst is over, just a few hours later. we have clear skies after that and were done. talk about an earthquake here, aftershocks continue for hours and days and sometimes weeks at a time, and the last thing someone that has just gone through an incredible and traumatic experience like an earthquake is to feel the earth shaking beneath you because you dont foe how intense the next one will be. take a look at cluster ...

Themselves against any radiation. >> as we heard earlier the evacuation area around the fukushima nuclear plant has been extended. officials are concerned with any possible ex-please sure ploe-u. >> this time around, what i want to do is focus in on the forecast as well. start off with the incredible am of aftershocks that we have had since the 8.9 great earthquake here. we are now getting close to 300. i think in the next few hours -- were averaging about five to six earthquakes here, which are...

Unit one, authorities flooded that reactor with sea water and, in fact, writing off any future use of the already 40-year-old reactor. apparently deciding it was better to lose the reactor than risk nuclear disaster if they tried to save it. alex. >> understandably so. okay. thank you, ann. if it can happen in japan, what about our coastlines here at home? that is the question tackled in the new edition of "news week magazine." it says the tsunami that struck japan was the latest in a series o...

Situation in thats hampering the search and rescue. >> what about an aftershocks were hearing about, adam. we hear theyre hampering efforts and concerns about the radiation leak there, have you been feeling aftershocks, you and the crew? >> well, we were in the car when the last one hit so we didnt see it on the freeway, but our locals working with it, the cell phones were going off seconds before and can detect the first wave. and we had a story that the u.s. is implementing. they had a warning...

>> im sure red cross, im convinced on the ground and help from the united nations and united states. and i think the red cross is also a good place to start. >> dave: thank you for the relevant information and youve had a long morning and thanks for standing by. >> my pleasure. >> dave: all morning long. lets get over to rick reichmuth who has a look what could be happening now. and 120, 130 aftershocks. the latest ive soon is 154 aftershocks and you see the official quake and the cluster of red...

To release something like this? >> the old thinking on that was just that. that if it was a long build-up of time between events that you had a danger for a large event. but recently, the pendulum has swung, but recently, the suggestion is that earthquakes actually weaken the earths crust and make it more susceptible to events like this. >> which was my next question, there has been concern that clusters of earthquakes will trigger other quakes. how real is that risk as we sit here today? >> it ...