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he says it will make a huge difference for americans who are suffering and will cut tacks, but hes warning lawmakers who oppose it theyll answer to him and the voters. >> the question then is will congress do something? if congress does something, i cant run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then its not a matter of me running against them. i think the american people will run them out of town. >> lets go to brianna keilar. the president acknowledged that america...

Boxes as deep as 16,000 feet below the surface and gotten back good data. so -- but this was an extraordinary search, and it was a very fortuitous find of these two black boxes. jon: but it does suggest that there was a violent, violent collision. i mean, to strip the black boxes free of the structure of the airplane. >> absolutely. and another thing is that the data portion, the round football-like structure, that was separated from the black box itself. so there was really tremendous force whe...

Has come under attack in the past by militants. the reactors where they make plutonium for weapons and where they separate that and the facility where they make nuclear weapons i asked the expert about an eye-opening concern. >> bin laden was found not far from the nuclear facilities. whats the main security concern? >> one that bin laden was active in the heart of pakistan. a lot of worry that he was trying to recruit insiders and the sites to get them help to steal the nuclear explosive and he...

Names. toe sheesh ba, sony, texas instruments, these are companies that make computer chips, that make chips for our cell phones, make televisions, computer tablets and video games. we could see shortages in these items because of the temporary shutdowns in japan because of safety reasons. the apples ipad 2 may face delays in production, components like batteries, flash memory units, those are made in japan, too, for ipad 2. this could affect consumers in the coming months. >> fewer products bei...

Companies like honda are saying they wont even take orders for new cars until at least may. as you can see from the market response, which was just shown, it appears that wall street is looking past this as are many other investors, including those in japan who feel that while there will be a short-term sharp impact on the japanese economy, over the longer haul, if you look at prior crises, although theres no modern analogue for this, the recovery and rebuilding efforts, very often leads to an i...

Some with japan. we heard the big three japanese auto maker, honda, nissan, toyota, much the same. but you are hearing from the technology giants getting computer chips and the like from this semi-conductor stronghold, that is japan could be effected in the weeks and months to come. this is going to have a long lasting reverberations, huh? >> yeah. it definitely affects the global supply chain. obviously, we live in such an integrate world economy, where countrys are dependent on parts from coun...

To be worried about our economic impact tonight in light of what they are facing. what is the short term, long term impact on us? >> very serious. we have a global economic recovery just been trying to find its sea legs. japan is the third largest economy in the world. just starting to show improvement. that improvement is now undermined and in question. we are seeing supply disruptions. auto makers in japan are shutting down lechuza caracas did screens, computer chip, -- lcd screens, computer c...

To be worried about our economic impact tonight in light of what they are facing. what is the short term, long term impact on us? >> very serious. we have a global economic recovery just been trying to find its sea legs. japan is the third largest economy in the world. just starting to show improvement. that improvement is now undermined and in question. we are seeing supply disruptions. auto makers in japan are shutting down lechuza caracas did screens, computer chip, -- lcd screens, computer c...

Its roughly 128 million people fitting in a country roughly the size of montana. thats the population in such a dense area. in terms of the impact on then country of what theyre experiencing, where will we see it most, aside from people watching the markets volatility today, where will it affect americans most quickly? >> theyll see it in the availability of products that the japanese make and make so well. the camrys wont be available, the japanese are very important in the production of comput...

Always driven the discovery of new products and new ideas. you do it better than anybody. but what you also know is that its not always profitable in the short term, at least, for you to invest in basic research. its very expensive, and the payoffs are not always clear and theyre not always localized, and that is why government has traditionally helped to invest in this kind of science, planted the seeds that grew from the computer chips to the internet. and thats why were making investments tod...