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The empty shelves and receiving reports from friends in tokoyo who sent sms messages and contact me on facebook and keep saying that, you know, its kind of a panic. it is a panic situation here. >> harris: tell me this, theres so much more infrastructure and support in a city like tokoyo than the outlying areas. what are you guys hearing about the nuclear threat thats going on? >> well, as a matter of fact, ive been talking to my colleagues here on the radio station, fmcocolo. and here in osaka ...

Has clearly shaken a lot of people, although the official line coming out of the government is that it is under control, but the breach was in an outer wall in the roof, that there isnt serious radiation leakage, but there had been leakage and clearly there is serious concern about whats going to happen at this plant, alex. >> yeah. im looking at information released by the prime ministers office there, and they say that in order to evacuate residents are given a designated site or shelter. muni...

Going to move rapidly through the floor of the senate, the bill passed by a margin of 18-1. it was adopted, i should say by a margin of 18-1. of the 19 senate democrats, only one voting against and that was senator dale shultz who was long rumored to be a dissending vote among the republicans. you have the protesters now back at the capitol, honking their horns. they are outside the senate chambers saying hell no we wont go. pushing back against the police. all of this happening with the abruptn...

Portuguese and the spanish. either the ecb is going to print lots of money to try to stave off the day of reckoning, or the greeks and germans are going to have to leave the euro. is what that means to us is one way or the other theyll solve the mess, it may be solved with defaults. and at some point the world is going to come to america and say, hey, wait, you guys have the same problems. we know you can print dollars, but we dont want these dollars any more. or we want higher interest rate. th...

Were doing maintenance this morning somebody hit the wrong button or something went wrong and the bridge went up and, of course, there were people working on it. so a fairly dramatic situation for those rescue crews. thats a helicopter shot from wsvn, our miami affiliate down in florida and we will, of course, keim you posted on this as it develops. again, the fire and rescue crews trying to figure out a way to get the work earp off the draw bridge in a safe fashion and whether that involves eit...

Occurred. >> and, again, explain to our viewers what we are looking at. that is tape of the small box on the right of the other work eer going down the ladder and then thats a live picture on the left. as you see the camera pull out on the left theres a man at the very top of that bridge. sandra, a question some people may have and that is if, in fact, youre talking about more than 75 feet to get to the very top of that draw bridge and the ladder engine only goes up to 75 feet, then what? >> wel...

Amendme amendment. it has been utilized on a half dozen occasions or more to overrule supreme court decisions. thats not a problem. but the suggestion is they got it wrong. there wasnt any indication of a constitutional amendment and certainly president obama has the right to try to ask the supreme court to reverse itself. we did this on roe versus wade. >> it seems to me public officials, both the president and john roberts should avoid a situation where they are undermining each other as an in...

70 feet is the total height. and obviously it is a life-threatening situation if he were to fall onto the concrete, he could get severely hurt if not killed. so obviously were taking all precautions to make sure he gets down safely and doesnt matter how long it takes. >> in fact, we, again, this is a live picture here that final rescue worker, you can see him sort of drumming the iron in front of him, holding on and waiting for the ladder and then a moment ago we were showing you tape from a res...

Of blocks, you can see a huge high-rise building and thats obviously how we utilize the trucks and what we have them for. here is something thats not a high rise but something the ladder truck is needed for and utilized. >> and the communication between the rescue crews there and the maintenance man who is still stuck on the top, again, is it simply the fire and rescue craws are simply trying to assure him to be patient, relax, were eventually going to get you? any readout on the sort of communi...

On it would be too dangerous. you see the fire and rescue there, the shot from the helicopter trying to figure out a way to get some of the work men off this draw bridge in a way thats, of course, safe, and then be able to lower the draw bridge. we know there were some crews working on the draw bridge when it got opened and stuck. a developing situation there and, in fact, you can see the man with the green sleeves and the yellow vest and helmet at the top, thats the man they are trying to reach...