is it realist forç people to te stock of what they can do and what they need to stock up on in case of disaster? yeah. it is a good opportunity to, you know, see what is happening there and remember that disasters don t always give us warning. start out with the basic steps of does your family plan, and do you have a plan? talk about how to communicate if a disaster happens, you re at work, or you re away from each other. and then look at the things you re going to need if you have to evacuate quickly, or if you stay at your home with the power going out and the water goes out. you can go to ready.gov and don t think you got to go buy everything. start with a scavenger hunt. a lot of this stuff, get it together so you know where it is at, if the lights go out, power goes out or you need to evacuate quickly in an emergency. when we hear about the situation that is happening in japan and what is people have done here they started to stock up on potassium iodide tablets. is this nec
the capabilities to detect minute amounts of radiation are tremendous. and so i assume we will detect some, but it s not to be worried about. and president obama was right that we don t face a risk at this point in time from that from those reactors. all right. david albright with good information. david, thank you so much. we should point out, however, that the general consensus is that the u.s. will not see any ill effects from the crisis in japan and that buying and taking some of these potassium iodide pills are fruitless. we want to bring in dr. nancy snyderman, nbc s chief medical editor, joins us now. it s amazing. i went online myself to check, called around to a couple stores here in washington, see if we could get our hands on any of these potassium iodide tablets. nowhere in d.c. we could find could you get them. online if you check any of these major websites, they are sold out. is this a little bit of sort of out-of-control fear that s going