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Six of the fastest growing economies in the world. we are literally going to be in position to work ourselves out of a job in a lot of parts of africa in the next few years. latin america which used to be the most unequal section of the world has people with money who are really getting interested in trying to build a more broadly shared quality of life. so im going to start a trip to central and south america where were essentially trying to do two things. were trying to help countries become a...

Growth and building a middle class in the entire continent, and we can document the extraordinary progress made there and it is a model thats working. and has been supplemented with private sector investment that is further advancing the more productive agricultural sector across the african continent. with respect to power africa that was just launched a couple years ago, we set initially a goal of 10,000 mega watts of electricity being generated in sub-saharan africa. we lined up interests tha...

A 70 or 80% increase on the wholesale price of electricity. >> at the same time, administration so-called maths rule which was enacted two years ago is set to take effect in april 2015. it requires coal burning power plants to make steep productions in the mercury, acid gases and toxic metals they emit in the air. here is what the u.s. energy information administration or e.i.a. projected two months ago about the number of coal powered plants that will shut down as a result. and here is what tha...

To need 20,000 megawatts of electricity and were determined to get the nuclear fuel at the hands of our scientists and were going to follow on this path. >> so there would be no destruction of centrifuges, of existing centrifuges? >> translator: not under any circumstances. >> it seems to me, even going further, fareed, than what his foreign minister zarif told our jim sciutto. there could be potentially a fundamental disagreement between iran and the u.s. >> reporter: thats exactly what i worry...

ins priebus and dominique dawes and ryan beatty. "starting point" begins right now. our starting poirnt this morning, americas new golden girl is gabby douglas making history last night. 16 years old, first african-american to women the all-around gold medal. amanda davies, it was so z exciting to watch her. just perfection, out did herself each and every time. how was the feeling while everyone was watching her? >> reporter: it was incredible. it was probably written in the stars, did...

Gas you could do it that way. >> perhaps, but i dont think we have enough of those resourc re if we did we have to deal with the externalitiesexternalities> warming is a problem. >> if it is a problem. you have the coal ash, you have mining deaths from coal mining. the thing that makes nuclear so compelling is incredible power density. you cannot approach anything n other energy course approaches nuclear when it comes to power density. here in new york indian point. >> a nuclear plant just north...

>> perhaps, but i dont think we have enough of those resourc re if we did we have to deal with the externalitiesexternalities> warming is a problem. >> if it is a problem. you have the coal ash, you have mining deaths from coal mining. the thing that makes nuclear so compelling is incredible power density. you cannot approach anything n other energy course approaches nuclear when it comes to power density. here in new york indian point. >> a nuclear plant just north of here. >> two reactors prod...

Mega watts of capacity not dispatchable 2 is hundred mega watts its 800 square miles to replace indian point which covers 200 acres. thats why nuclear is so compelling. >> it is not compelling to most americans. the media is so scared of the radiation. lets put the risk of radiation in perspective. nuclear radiation is measured in miley severts. it is the worst day in tokyo since the accident. 10 miliseverts is the average cat scan. we are exposed to this radiation all of the time. my father whe...

Meg mega watts of electricity. thats not a lot. that $515 million project will be placed back on the rate payers. youre going to see an electric bill increase every month to pay for this project. the utility earns solar energy credits that they can resell to other utilities so they can burn fossil fuel. >> is that one of the reasons they could do this? >> forrest gump said stupid is as stupid does. this is stupid does. >> we look at the guy on the pole, are they safe? >> were not against solar p...

122,000 new mega watts of nuclear power. i think this will accelerate the trend along with natural gas which emits only half the pollution off coal fired plant. its not protesters, its investors that are now going to render their victoria on this technology. >> all right. ed markey, thanks for your time tonight. from my perspective the republicans and the obama administration need to step back a little bit here. we have to at least look at what went wrong in japan before we build new nuclear pla...