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It is an opposition fighter jet going down in flames. also seeing and hearing explosions in the city. government and opposition tanks squaring off against each other there. also, secretary of state hillary clinton is in paris. her critical meetings about libya. united nations member nations trying to map out how to enforce the resolution calling for a cease-fire and a no-fly zone. also, there are some renewed nuclear worries in japan this morning as workers scramble to contain further expo...

Of radiation. the food supply situation that you mentioned is troubling indeed. it has some of the radioactive materials that have leaked out. have reached trace samples of milk and spinach in fukushima. we talked to japanese government officials at a news conference a few hours ago. i pressed one of the officials on some of the other aspects of the food supply and what they have done regarding that. >> how can you be confident that other items in the food supply dont have abnormally high levels...

Cores or may yet occur. so thats what the status change means. fundamentally it means they have a lot more information. like this -- look at this. these were the radiation levels that occurred in here. and you see the big spikes back here. now the good news is you dont see so much as we get closer to today. there have been dropoffs in these spikes. but heres the tricky part about them. and i think its important to bear in mind. sometimes those spikes occur because this is not at all uniform. you...

High. and one official said regarding the milk especially. if you drank the affected milk consistently for one year, this official said, it would be about as much radiation as you would get in one c.a.t. scan. so they are down playing this, also saying theyre investigating this to see how widespread it is. theyre testing new samples of milk, spinach, and other foods. and theyre mulling over, not allowing those particular products to be transported out of that area for, you know, distribution els...

Sampler. i would be sampling the air im breathing in. jon: does it give off a warning some kind of a i alarm if too much radiation is taken in. >> these take samples. jon: they monitor, they dont warn? >> you use a secondary device. jon: these things have basically gone flying off the shelves since this japan thing? >> yes. we have no von. were working on inventory night and day right now. jon: and you made special shipments obviously to the west coast and parts of japan that need them? >> yes, ...

Trajectory and came up with this model showing a plume of radiation making its way towards the united statements it would go by alaska first and by tomorrow morning it would arrive in southern california. that freaked out a lot of people, me included. but youve got to keep in mind that map does not indicate the radiation levels. experts across the board say the plume would pose absolutely no risk to southern california, to the unitetted states at all. the feds are deploying more radiation monito...

These homes are safe, but in many cases families have been moved youve had homes where their child died. i had the misfortune of visiting these homes where a kid did die, talking to a mother who had since moved in. now, a month before i saw her, the military came into that house, took drywall samples, took samples of her carpet and didnt tell her why. she said the tests were just routine. i came to her front door, and she has two kids of her own crawling around right in front of me, and i had to...

Dont know whether it has or it hasnt happened. thats bad news. this reactor where we had an explosion today, that reactor core was exposed for several hours to the air, without being protected by water. so the combination of those two things, a possible containment breach and the exposure of the fuel elements. if thats true, thats bad news. but we should be able to take samples soon, air and ground, and determine whether thats true or not. >> theres also very real concerns about how honest the g...

Are they monitoring the air around so they can see what kind of nuclear material is in those vented gases and in those explosive gases? and what is that telling us? >> yeah, there are helicopters that are taking air samples. there are people on the ground taking samples. and what theyre finding, unfortunately, is theyre finding trace elements of cesium and iodine. the only way you get them in an air sample is if the fuel has been compromised. if the water level in one or more of those reactors h...

Attempt to manage the cooling there and now, unit 3, which is in the same vicinity, is facing the same problems. the japanese officials suspect there has been a partial melt down. and, more importantly, they decided to flood that one with sea water and boric acid, writing off another billion dollar plant that never will operate again. but that is what you do when you have no other options left and you are desperately trying to cool the plan and as you say, they have taken samples around the plan...