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Behind the front line. youre trying to cut through this -- this mess and say, this is what is happening, and its the same risk you take that gets that journalistic information that puts people in mortal power. it is the same risk. if it works for you, it comes off. if it doesnt work for you, you get the blame. thats the way the job is. >> is it hard being back? i know obviously you want to come home after a situation like this. thats completely normal and understandable. its got to be strange to...

Hydrogen explosions, effectively the kidneys of the power plant have been removed. so theyre just accumulating movie. thats more of a technical issue. but we have this whole issue about it is incomprehensible that they could allow workers to go into the power plant without those devices during normal operations, much less post accident conditions. and then we get a radiation reading and were all trying to make sense of it and understand whats going on, the blogs are going on all over the world e...

Week about potential criticality going on and things like that. then we come back a day later and say the readings are wrong. its inconceivable. >> tom, youve been looking at these pumps that are being rushed to japan. how is this all going to work, these pumps? they can also be used to contain it with cement, as kind of a longer term strategy. how is it going to work? >> i guess were going to find out, like everything else. these pumps are huge. they have to be brought in on this, the largest t...

Accident conditions. and then we get a radiation reading and were all trying to make sense of it and understand whats going on, the blogs are going on all over the world earlier in the week about potential criticality. then we come back a day later and say the readings are wrong. its inconceivable. >> tom, youve been looking at these pumps that are being rushed to japan. how is this all going to work, these pumps? they can also be used to contain it in cement. how is it going to work? >> i guess...

Abducted? would that story have not been told otherwise? i dont know the answer to that, to be honest. >> i think in a place, you know, in this conflict, there was no one else on the ground. if we were up at the front line, no one knew what was happening. you know, you cannot get accurate information. we would ask the rebels, has brega fallen? they would say, yeah, we have brega, but they lie. >> this is one of those stories, this is one of those conflicts where if you were 20 miles behind the f...

To go straight to wind and solar and bypass all fossil fuels and proposed a plan to do that? >> were seeing the primacy of oil is ending. t. boone pickens has 500,000 shares of bp. hes going throughout and promoting -- >> isnt that capitalism? >> hes promoting his own business interest. nothing to do with patriotism. >> isnt he putting his money where mouth is, josh? >> -- moving beyond the oil barons of the past. and that was what you were talking about yesterday. where youre talking about is n...

The superbug. we have elizabeth cohen here to talk about it. what is the superbug? >> a superbug is any bug that is resistant to antibiotics. someone gets sick and the antibiotic and it doesnt work. then another one. it doesnt work. this bug which is called crkp. they tried a bunch against it and only one works and it doesnt work very well and it causes kidney damage. >> you have a loved one in the hospital. what should they be looking for? how likely is it that they pick up the superbug? >> whe...

Why wasnt i consulted. i dont think any of the members of congress want to stand up and have to take a vote. because if they do, they can be blamed for it if it doesnt work. it circles back to the domestic agenda. if president obama is strengthened politically by what happens, by his actions in libya, i think it gives him a better hand to work with in terms of dealing with the budget crisis, the jobs crisis, with the congress. on the other hand, if he is seen as weakened, then republicans are go...

Support the japanese economy as such. >> do you still have friends over there? >> oh, of course. and ive been reaching out and been thinking back to maybe when we sent our kids to japanese schools and how much we learned from that. and the way kids were just taught to pull together. one of the things we learned was that there are no substitute teachers. that the kids look after their own class when the teacher is away. and it -- it doesnt work terribly well. they dont learn a lot, but they reall...

The construction industry, a central pillar of the japanese economy, is going to benefit from this. and employment will benefit. and so its obviously a huge tragedy. but it does have some investments which it will support the japanese economy as such. >> do you still have friends over there? >> oh, of course. and ive been reaching out and been thinking back to maybe when we sent our kids to japanese schools and how much we learneded from that. and the way kids were just taught to pull together. ...