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>> she says her husband is working at the site in the face of danger of expokes youre to radiation but wants him to do his best. hes replied by e-mail indicating a serious situation. he told her to take care of herself because he wont be home for a while. >> reporter: take care of yourself, i wont be home for a while. do your best. all very understated. very, very serious situation. weve been seeing a little bit of what they might be going through on japanese television but nothing as individual...

Despite reassurances from many health experts out there, americans are still heading to stores buying up these potassium iodide pills in the u.s. in fact manufacturers like flemming pharmaceuticals say they are bombarded with requests for the drug which prevents the thyroid from absorbing the radiation. in fact, they have ramped up the production of these things. this even as the nuclear regulatory commission says it does not expect harmful radiation levels from japan to reach all the way to ame...

>> and were also hearing a lot about this word. have you heard people talk about millisieverts, the unit of measure used to gauge radiation exposure. the average person is exposed to 3 millisieverts a year due to sources in the environment which isnt too dangerous but our chief medical correspondent actu dr. sgaupta actually spoke with anderson cooper. >> people in these areas are trying to measure radiation doses trying -- >> youve got one of these things. >> yeah. >> its a pocket dosimeter, an...

Called into ajdabiya. theyre not aware of them being there. theyre not aware their forces have picked them up. they say that if their forces do pick them up, then they will be treated well and they will be brought back to tripoli. so the government is aware that these journalists are missing and the soldiers inside the city, their commanders at the very least, are aware of it and will be looking out for them and say that they will treat them well. thats what theyre telling us right now, brooke. ...

Going on in japan? you know, we watch the fear gauge called the vix. it jumped 25%. this thing shows how investors feel, and ill tell you what, they are on pins and needles and economists say the impact on the u.s. economy will be small, but the fact is its going to have an impact because we import a lot of cars and electronics from japan. japan actually accounts for about 5% of all u.s. exports, so the trading that youre seeing is based on fear and speculation. thats nothing new because we saw ...

The oxygen comes apart from the hydrog hydrogen. when that happened, we blew up in three different spots. the spent fuel rods, back to that question, theres good news/bad news. the spent fuel rods dont have nearly the potential radiation. the bad news is theyre not protected by any type of capsule. theyre out there. they were under water in a pool, and theyre not as radioactive. theyre done being used as power, but they sit there in these plants until theyre r really cool, at least a year and th...

From what i understand you havent been exposed to radiation from the fukushima daiichi plant, but what are you hearing about the threat around other parts of the country and also it appears culturally gentlem japanese not really out panicking. >> reporter: no. i think there have been many calls for people not to panic. its not only for japanese but for everybody. theres been many, many pressers during the day from japanese officials about whats been happening within the plant and sometimes some ...

Informed the hill is that once that pool -- that fuel is uncovered by the water -- see, the water serves to both keep it cool and as a form radiation shielding. >> right. >> so if the spent fuel sun covered, then the radiation nearby becomes life-threatening. >> robert, the obvious followup -- we were just talking about this yesterday, is this was a concern yesterday as well with the spent fuel rods and they had talked about sending in the helicopters and dousing these storage pools with cold wa...

Normalbrook ground radiation, yours is at zero and likely to go up and that would be normal. if it got up into the one range, 1,000 times that, then it would be of concern. >> look at that moment. you know, we keep getting videos, i-reports of these terrifying moments during the earthquake and also i should say the many, many aftershocks. well share another one of these videos ahead. also, the cia contractor who killed two men in pakistan is suddenly now a free man, but does it have anything t...

Going on over time, it can cause basically all your organs to collapse. >> oh, goodness. well, that is potentially what some of these workers are facing, but theres so much more i want to talk to you about, including the iaea several days after the tsunami and quake, theyre headed there. im curious as to the significance of that. several other issues as well. robert alvarez, well be talking to you next hour. were all very curious whats happening at this particular plant. my thanks to you for now...