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There are concerns about criminal patronage networks. one thing i saw and david petraeus said today, the afghan army is starting to fight and show descent signs of leadership. if youre looking for signs of hopefulness, if youre looking for some goodell amounts of hopefulness the afghan army is starting to fight and performing better. jenna: we always appreciate your insights in all these issues. thank you for joining us again. michael hanlon. jon: fox news alert less than an hour from now the pr...

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Miles is taking potassium iodine pills before they leave. >> what its actually designed to do is act as a blocking agent. >> reporter: colonel steve kramer is a military doctor who depends on officers to map the plume and figure out how fast the wind is blowing. >> theyve been doing calculations to determine whos likely to be exposed, the level and intensity of the exposure. >> reporter: an aircraft carrier and ships were downwind of the radioactive cloud. theyve been moved north and further to ...

Leaving, the train stations, the airports are crowded, now long lines. would you stay in tokyo if you were here? >> i think i would. i think theres no real likelihood of a significant radiation exposure to tokyo. its 150 miles away, roughly. and the amount of disbursal of the radioactive cloud youre going to get in that distance is going to make the doses very low indeed. that being said, as i alluded to, we really need to monitor the doses in a more scientific way than were doing right now. its...

Themselves and again the issues relate to which way the wind will blow. >> and professor, theres certainly a lot of people in tokyo, a huge population here. many of whom are leaving, thinking of leaving the train stations, the airports are crowded, long lines. would you stay in tokyo if you were here? >> i think i would. i think theres no real likelihood of a significant radiation exposure to tokyo. it is 150 miles away roughly and the am of dispersal of the radioactive cloud you are going to ge...

The navys moved three ships away from the radioactive cloud. and while u.s. troops are not on the ground trying to cool the reactor, navy helicopters continue search and rescue missions around there. we were told we are ready to deal with anything we come into contact with. and that could be radiation. indeed, two helicopter troops have been exposed to elevated levels, low levels, of radiation. and so far the treatment is soap and water and potassium iodide pills. also told me the marines have s...

Radioactive cloud. while u.s. troops are not on the ground trying to cool the leaking reactor, navy helicopters continue search and rescue missions around there. marine second lieutenant croft told me, we are ready and prepared to deal with anything we may come into contact with,that could be radiation. two u.s. helicopter crews have already been exposed to elevated, albeit, low levels of radiation. actually we just got word from the pentagon, its now giving helicopter pilots potassium iodide pi...

Already 17 crew members came back with low levels after flying through a radioactive cloud. so what is being done to protect our men and women? sons and daughters? cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence has a closer look. >> reporter: we learned the u.s. military has given the japanese two water trucks in order to help cool down that malfunctioning reactor at the fukushima power plant. the japanese workers were trained on how to use those trucks at a u.s. military base near tokyo and then tho...

Wind. it would be a dangerous, lethal radioactive cloud that would float up into the atmosphere. if the winds continue to blow from the west, great. no harm done except at the site itself. if the winds blew steadily from the north and then worse case you get precipitation -- rain or snow -- that pulls it out of the sky and drops it to the ground you have a situation where the health consequences would be worse than chernobyl. >> wow. worse than chernobyl. at fukushima, how long would the radiati...

And there is an explosion, which is happened at a couple of those reactor site and then that radioactive cloud is then disbursed into the air. the temperature inside of this can go to nearly 2,000 degrees fahrenheit, enough to melt the fuel rods. the big question today is, again, whether or not the enclosures will hold and whether they will be able to continue getting cool water in there to eventually get these fuel rods cooled down sufficiently and then getting rid of the risk. >> all right. as...