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Troops. this just in, the pentagon is sending over a nine-member team of experts on nuclear and biological hazard. stan, lets distinguish between the radiation exposure to the utility workers and the radiation danger t to outside world. first the japanese and everywhere else. is it still the case that readings far from the plant are low or at least not alarmingly high? >> ali, its a really good question. a lot of this gets overlooked amid the fear. you hear radiation and it just fires the imagin...

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We are looking at a significant spread here. an explosion, radioactive activity seeping into the atmosphere and now this exclusion zone is being widened. thats an indication that this continues to change minute by minute. >> fascinating. thank you very much, indeed. well be back with you, stan, in the hours to come. i think the easiest way to keep this story fresh for you is to keep taking you back to the weather center. the wind will help decide how far any radiation spreads and how far it will...

Robert is a nuclear engineer based in chicago. he explains what went wrong. the reactors often are very easy to shut youp.. the biggest issue is removing what is called the kahii. it doesnt go immediately to zero power. it goes to 10%. that tapers off over the next day or two. and what is really critical is to maintain some amount of core cooling during that two-day period. and the problem weve seen here is with the loss of off-site power and the loss of their back up diesel generators. they hav...

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To approach began stan and pakistan. ambassador holbrook is the person who came up with that conceptual idea that you link them in the sense that they are part of one overriding challenge in issues. so in that sense hes really key. and he was -- he is key -- has been in terms of visiting the region, reaching out to people. you mentioned mr. akani. he knows everybody in that region, knows them very well. has often hiked up into mountainous areas trying to assess the situation and advice the presi...

The iran-iraq border when we were hiking at a popular tourist site frequented by local families in iraqi cur daw stan -- kurdistan. if we were near the iran-iraq border, the border was unmarked and inextinguishable. though my friends and i never intended or chose to go to iran, the tragedy of our imprisonment has forever marked our destinies. i never in my worst nightmare imagined i would be a prisoner. i nef saw it coming, and i never knew my family would have to suffer like this. i also want t...

Issue, which is pakistan which is an extension of the cold war between the pakistanis and the indians. so we are two levels away from the the real source of the issue. >> so, what do you think would happen if the president of the united states came out and said we are pulling out of afghanistan, we are going to launch into -- a series of diplomatic and economic leverage with stack stan to try to sort out mess that that is? what would happen to our national security? i dont care what about what h...

And others there. was a bump when she endorsed a candidate. i think as we get into runoffs and like in the case of georgia i dont think endorsements mean as much. it is onening if you are in a field of four or five and you dont -- people dont note candidates that well and you get a big endorsement, i think it matters more than in a runoff and everybody knows who you are. >> greta: if the person doing the endorsing has an eye on running for president we know there are rumors about gingrich, rumor...