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Buying their own radiation-detection equipment. gregg jarrett with more. gregg: you are only a click away from accessing realtime amateur radiation monitors. this is a live geiger counter at the website alttokyo.com. it updates a graph with data every 60 seconds. there is also a youstream channel of a geiger counter that attracted 14,000 viewers earlier today. with concerns that a potential plume could head our way, the geiger counters are selling like hotcakes radiation-monitoring devices. at o...

Tonight there are fears as well as some evidence that wind and water may be starting to spread the radiation leaking from the fukushima nuclear plant. take a look at this graph of radiation measurements right here. taken since friday at the plants perimeter. a little bump on saturday. more bumps on sunday and monday, you see the explosion at reactor number 2 there on tuesday, the radiation levels spike. two big releases then one more early today. water is a problem today. measurements say higher...

>> thats right. between the two days, something like -- well, if you look at the entire tokyo stock index, something like $720 billion in value has been wiped off the value of japanese companies. it sort of puts it in context just how big this selloff has been over the past few days. as you say, 6.2% yesterday, and another even bigger fall today. 10.5% down. this is the nikkei 225, which looks at 225 of the biggest companies in japan. at one stage today, the nikkei was down 14.4%. even as it sta...

One hand we are hearing from the french nuclear watchdog agency that the situation is becoming more grave now. it is clear that we are at level six now. you showed that graph earlier referring to the international nuclear of disasters. one rated a 79 incident in three mile island as 5 and c h-rbs ernobyl at a 7. they say the radiation has dropped off. new information coming in from the international atomic agency. that the explosion at the number 2 reactor may have damaged the main contain vesse...

Many provinces on the eastern seaboard. >> youre certainly talking about a lot of people. winona who is there from manila. ivan, lets talk about the philippines. how soon can we expect the tsunami to hit there? >> what ive done is made this graph so we can see. weve been calling them out as we get the information. but here are the major areas that are going to be affected. essentially what time is it? so ten minutes. you have ten minutes in taiwan before the initial wave arrives. philippines the...

And as we showed last week with the graph from the center for american progress as unions get busted, well, so does the middle class. democrats left the state and got republicans to pull their right-to-work bill off the table. what republicans have refused tç take off the table is legislation aimed at gutting the states public school system. governor daniels, like his pal scott walker, wants the public to fund private education. are you for that? so those 37 independent indiana democrats have r...

Ranked 19th in science, 24th in math. our infrastructure ranks 23rd in the world. were 41st in the world on infant mortality. 49th on life expectancy. where are we first in the world? well on external debt. we have more debt than other nations. theres lots of positive places were number one. nations. of course there are lots of positive places we are number one. we are the worlds largest economy. we have the worlds largest military, highly entrepreneurial climate. but the rhetoric of american po...

Were number one. were still the worlds largest economy. we have the largest military. the most dynamic technology companies. highly entrepreneurial climate. but the rhetoric of american politicians does not seem to match the new reality. so how did we get to where we are? we begin the special with hans rosling. he has an amazing way to make statistics come alive. in this case bubbles on the graph. the bubbles represent a country. the vertical axis is life expect jancy. the horse zont alaxis is i...

But we couldnt stop there, so we kept going and going. and before we knew it, we had a 2011 jeep grand cherokee. welcome back to "the ed show" and thank you for watching tonight. the graph i showed you a moment ago, there is some other things that play into all of this, this war on the middle-class is not just being fought in the state

Of the union and it will have a direct effect on the presidential election. >> direct effect on the presidential election. if you are in the middle-class tonight, look at that graph. that is where it has been and that is where it is going. it is going to go lower and the republicans are not happy until it is down here. they are all about union busting. that is what it is about. and this is where the right-wing republican governors want the numbers. they dont care about the blue line. this is not...