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>> reporter: and diane, tomorrow, president obama heads to ft. campbell, kentucky, where he will personally thank some of the navy s.e.a.l.s and other participants in that mission to kill bin laden. dian diane? >> all right, jake. what a meeting that will be. and in a moment right here on "world news," we may have a revelation about who will be in that room. a four-footed warrior. s.e.a.l. team six apparently included a dog trained to help take down osama bin laden. more on that in a moment. b...

With the ipad 2, you think it is tough to get one now, it could get tougher because certain components are made only in japan, like the battery and the flash memory. and then, of course, the automakers. we talked about them before. nissan, honda, toyota, those production facilities are affected. toyota is saying its supplies in the u.s. are generally good, but the fact is many car parts, they come from japan. and in fact there is a report that toyota is delaying the launch of its prius minivan i...

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...

Action. did that stabilize the situation? >> reporter: yeah, it definitely has stabilized the currency situation for now although some worry its only temporary. the problem was the value of the yen was just building and building and building. a lot of this had to do with markets getting ahead the idea the japanese government was going to raise a bunch of yen to repatriate in order to rebuild the country. but it was rising at such a quick rate that governments around the world wanted to intervene...

Sector, car manufacturing is a huge part of their economy. they manufacture parts as well. now companies around the world are relying on them. and theyre worried that the shortages may have a huge impact on global production. nissan saw their shares down. theyve been falling this week. also bmw, ford, and general motors. >> okay. well, you know, clearly there are some -- all the unlikely customers, clearly nuclear power companies and those associated with them, their supplies obviously continue ...

Places they can source those parts? >> sometimes, yes. at this point its hard to know for sure. theyre still trying to figure that out. if they can, certainly they will. remember, these days your special components for a vehicle like the prius, most are made in japan for assembly in japan. you cant go wraen where in the world and get. >> when we talk about other consumer goods, apparently flash driv drives, the plants that manufacture flash drives are out of service. i was even reading about in ...

Like power houses like apple, or san disk, they order their parts from japan. 40% of all flash memory is coming from japan. so this is likely to have a domino effect around the world. >> that means there are likely to be shipping delays as well? >> thats correct. theres going to be some shipping delays, weve got some major launches around this time of year as well, the ipad ii just debuted in the u.s. on friday. as well as around the world on the 25th of march. weve got two weeks today, the nint...

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