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States has a rigorous safety regulations in place. >> reporter: so does the u.s. nuclear industry. >> we will glean every lesson we can and we will make sure that the reactors in this country, which are already safe, can even be more safe. >> reporter: japans nuclear industry made that same guarantee. >> their plants are modeled exactly on ours. >> reporter: the nuclear industry, unfortunately, has a history of, as youve just seen in the japanese officials, you saw at three mile island or cherno...

Getting ripped to shreds. it killed 14 people. followed by just days later another luxury bus crash killing the driver and another person on board. the federal research is telling that seat belts could reduce the risk of death in a bus rollover crash by someç 77%. christopher beam is a staff writer for slate magazine and joins us this morning to talk about this. you really had an interesting article on all of this, and the one simple fact jumps out to all of us who read it, but no state curren...

The league makes $9 billion. the owners take a billion off the top of that before they start sharing money with the players. they want to now take another billion dollars out of that revenue pool before they start sharing with the players. part of the issue is this spate of stadium building that happened over the last 15 years in the nfl. a lot of those were debt financed. even with the incredible revenues and popularity of the sport, the owners are saying they really need more money to service ...

President suleiman. according to u.s. officials weve spoken to, the president honestly believes that this movement will go away. that tell i did pate and that he can ride -- that it will dissipate and that he can ride this out. the protesters are on a different page. they dont want this. they dont trust the system. they want mubarak gone, and they want to make sure that this transition phase takes place without mubarak in the same regime with a position to wield the levers of power. >> richard, ...

>> or do they have the courage to touch the 88% of this budget that will bankrupt us? >> the answers are no and no. and that is a great point. >> wait, wait, pate. wait, wait. these freshmen, there are no proposals out there to tackle the growth of medicare, medicaid, social security and pentagon spending. >> the leaders want to nibble, the freshmen want to chomp. youre right, theres no serious proposal embraced by any leadership that has juice behind it to go even further and take on as you poi...

Went to the island, that triggered the latest spate of anxieties in the region, as our ship approached the island and as we went on shore, it looked like we could see a flare-up again of the crisis, maybe in a potentially deadly manner, heres a little bit of what we saw and heard. >> reporter: a sign of how tense things are in south korea, it is about 12:15 local time and were on yeonpyeong island, and in the past hour there are concerns an worries and signs of firing and flashes, coming from th...

Point, senate campaign point excuse me but now he is reaching out to floridas spanish speaking voters by doing this. [ speaking in spanish ] >> republicans also used to stand, our younger voters might even remember this, for intellectual elitism. the republican party leaders wrote their own books and stuff. they looked down on those who would challenge the prevailing canons of literature and history. when we learned about the delaware republican tea party senate candidate christine odonnells tim...

[ speaking in spanish ] >> republicans also used to stand, our younger voters might even remember this, for intellectual elitism. the republican party leaders wrote their own books and stuff. they looked down on those who would challenge the prevailing canons of literature and history. when we learned about the delaware republican tea party senate candidate christine odonnells time at princeton and oxford it seemed a throwback to the republican party that valued academic excellence but with the ...

As well. we know that, you know, our -- our ancestors and not very far partition pate in public life was questioned because we were supposedly, you know, the subjects of a foreign power, the pope, and so, you know, theres been a lot of this in right wing politics for a long time. there have been a lot of battles and many catholics have felt franklin unwelcome in the christian right. the other thing though that beck is trying to do here is to unite the tea party with the christian right which has...

Transition i dont think is worth arguing about. no doubt that the president and i both disagreed with the way in which the war has begun, how it was conducted, et cetera, but the truth of the matter is that by the end of the last administration the transition was in place, there was a political movement that was afoot. we kept on secretary gates, our present -- we kept on general pate just, we kept on a continuity to finish the job. >> vice president joe biden speaking on the "today" show this m...