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Exposed to. >> the owners of the power plant continued to say the radiation being released does not pose health risks to humans. >> looking at this, i do not think that this has any immediate effect on human health. >> there were no evacuation as you prepare for a situation like this and we havent heard that that was necessary. he says that the tokyo electric power company never told us about any risky or dangerous situation. >> there is no safe level of radiation. any amount that you get extra ...

It is touch and go in japan this morning as workers head back in to battle a nuclear melt down. do they stand a fighting chance? a live report from japan. >> there has been desperate moves so far to date to try to affect the overheat at that plant. we understand that the japanese military helicopter with a huge bucket of water was sent up to pour water over the reactors but it had to abort its mission because of the high levels of radiation. >> when the radiation levels reportedly dropped the ev...

Applegate, a senior adviser at the usgs. how much of a priority do we place as americans on disaster preparedness as compared with those living in other countries? >> well, as you mentioned the japanese have led the way in terms of very large scale public preparedness. we are making efforts here in the u.s. we have now had the great california shake out for the last couple of years. its an annual exercise involving 8 million people in drop, cover and hold and preparedness activities. in april th...

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That. eight people have been rescued and are in good condition as you heard lucas tomlinson report after the transporter plane went down in the pacific off japan. the search continues for the three remaining people who are missing. that by the way is a c2a greyhound aircraft. a routine flight. well continue to monitor this situation from our perch at the white house and well keep you up to date should we get anymore information from there. >> were thinking and praying and have them in our though...

Battery. six operational tubes that are capable of shooting down an incoming missile. there is also u.s. naval assets in the area in the region off guam. off japan, off the korean peninsula that have both defensive and offensive capabilities. they can shoot down a missile or they can shoot them off themselves. in guam, theres also the constant bomber presence. right now its a b-1 bomber thats there. they frequently have runs. practice runs out of guam that fly all throughout the region testing o...

Shores near the epicenter around 3:00 p.m. their time. >> japan sits on the ring of fire, a dangerous series of tectonic plates circling the pacific ocean from south america through the united states over to japan where three plates all converge. and that afternoon, off japans northeast coast a terrifying rumble from deep inside earth. >> japan was rocked by a massive earthquake. buildings shook. people ran outside to open spaces. >> an 8.9 magnitude quake the government confirming at least 17 d...

The island. getting reports out of japan that a petrochemical explosion has occurred. roads clogged, streets jammed. tough to navigate. airports are closed. you can imagine right now. >> you can see the look on these peeple peoples faces. they tonight know which way to run. who knows how many people may be getting out of these buildings. unfortunately, this is the beginning of this story. luxury car available. the radically new 42 mile per gallon ct hybrid from lexus. welcome to the darker side ...

Worried about was their nuclear power plants and he said that so far those were not affected and that there was no radiation leaks. and that is certainly a little bit of good news in all of this. >> attention, this is an emergency management message. >> 4,000 miles away in the pacific the state of hawaii went into high alert. >> evacuated. everything out of it. filing cabinets, computers, everything and we boarded up all of the windows. and im concerned. >> for more on this lets go to gregg jarr...

Control. hello, im shepherd smith reporting from tokyo, japan for fox news reporting. over the past ten days, a nation of 127 million people faces what their prime minister says is the most severe crisis since world war ii. japan, of course, is no strange to disaster. both manmade and natural. in 1923, 142,000 people died in the tokyo earthquake. but today, the nuclear meltdown is having global repercussions, threatening lives, the economy and the environment. yet in the midst of it all, the hum...