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Jennifer delgado is in the weather center with details. obviously theyre going to test when it happens to see how big of a threat it is but a lot of people are scared. >> a lot are people are worried. first of all we want to talk about whats happening with japan. winds are coming out of the northwest, thats an offshore flow, great news, helping to mix the radiation, the particles and the lower levels. friday into saturday its going to be offshore. now as i take you over, i want to go to the othe...

They are still hoping that they can make some progress with the sea water trops. japanese officials flying chops over top of the radioactive plant at the daiichi plant, hoping that they can stop this unfolding nuclear disaster as radioactive plume makes its way now across the pacific toward the united states but how big of a threat will it pose once it gets here? we have some answers on this "american morning." good morning to you. glad youre with us on this thursday. march 17th, its st. patrick...

Reporting the radioactive particles likely be dispersed and the actual radiation a fraction of what a chest x-ray would be by the time it reaches u.s. shores. >> absolutely. the wind environment is quite favorable. were dealing with the winds coming out of the northwest and this is an improvement what we saw two days ago. here is the proof for you. as we go through thursday, as well as friday, we are going to be dealing with an offshore flow. now, i want to take you over to this graphic right he...

Strong winds through parts of japan. notice how its going to be moving as we go through the next several days, we could potentially see possibility some of that making its way up towards the aleutian islands as well as northeastern parts of russia. for the possibility of it making it from japan over to the western coastline of the u.s., right now not that great because we havent had an explosion at the plant. weve been dealing with leaks so that means were dealing with the particle action and th...

Happening now, americans evacuating, the state department coordinating charter flights to get american citizens out of japan. also, an agency at the united nations saying winds could bring the radiation to the united states by tomorrow. were tracking how dangerous it really is, on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, its thursday, march 17th. welcome to "american morning." im christine romans. >> im kiran chetry. happy st. patricks day. in japan a he...

Shay ryan is live in the foxl center with an update. >> reporter: the surface winds shifted quite a bit. what we saw yesterday and last night is that the winds were coming from the east to northeast. as we look at the forecast in the coming days we are going to see more of a westerly component to the winds helping to bring any of that material off the coastline and into the pacific ocean, at least for right now, though, sep sendai is still reporting northerly winds bringing it right along the co...

York. can you explain how the winds are changing and how they can avoid the radiation from that. >> exactly. like you said, shep, the surface winds are variable and we saw them coming from the the east to northeast at times yesterday and again last night, again, creating a flow going on land and now, were starting to see them shifting to more of an off-shore flow which is helping to bring that debris out into the pacific ocean. now, the surface winds vary based on high and low pressure systems b...

Little shelter. people who are lucky to find shelter will not be able to find heat and electricity. here comes the low from the south initially bringing rain. the wind will come in from the northwest and change that from snow and a few days colder than average temperatures. here is the satellite temperature. the clouds are rolling in across japan. it is not a very strong system but will bring precipitation and the colder temperatures that will last a few days. there is your forecast for snow. a ...

Theyre about to become below average and the high for wednesday, thursday, will be in the low single digits. so one of the other things we think will be changing is the wind direction so the upper level winds for the next 48 hours still expected to be from west to east, offshore, thats good news, surface winds will switch. theyll become onshore probably by tomorrow. overnight tonight with the storm system approaching once it goes past cold northwest winds so that will bring the colder temperatur...

Red is the fukushima power plant. it is blowing out of the north and making the vapors blow off-shore. we are going to see shift there the northwest. they will still be blowing the vapors away from sendai. we know tokyo off to the south will actually begin to blow the vapors towards tokyo. were looking at that possibility throughout tuesday when the winds do shift from the northeast. now these are surface winds, the winds aloft will be generally blowing west to east. any vapors that do make it t...