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Fire. aim. yesterday think progress asked oregon congressman peter defazio, a real american, about the effect of these cuts. defazios district had one harbor devastated by the tsunami and at least four people swept out to sea. defazio told think progress if the cuts go through, people will die. and it wont be just on the coasts. >> if you cut on a detection of tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, severe weather events, weather buoys, satellite observation and weather patterns thoerks sor, tf things,...

In that area, and, now they are deploying extra help. molly henneberg is on this, live in d.c. from the bureau there, good morning to you and what is expected in terms of the path of the radioactive plume from japan? it sounds scary. >> reporter: hi, martha, it depends how much radiation is released for how long and then the wind and weather patterns between japan and the u.s. but, a branch of the united nations, is predicted, according to the "new york times," that the plume may travel, while n...

Southeast. this entire pattern will change. and weather patterns change all the time. this is not a big breaking news event that were going to have the weather patterns change. from fujiama right here, that is the center. we cannot get a wind any more than north or south, from the south, from the north, and from the east is all good. but anything here that would blow from northeast, southeast, that would all be bad, that would all bring heavy radiation to millions of people. this is a very highl...

Out in all directions, but the main stuff were worried about for safety of peoples health will be carried by the wind. and that wind is shifting offshore. i have a couple things to show you here that happened just over the past couple of hours. weve run a model here at cnn. its not a radiation model. but if you took a balloon and let it go, you see where would this balloon fly over the next few days. all those models, no matter what level you released that balloon, 100 feet, 200 feet, 500 feet, ...

Its overwhelming, in many respects. but the prime ministers joining -- forming a joint task force, going try to bring these things together, streamline the information and get it out there. still, the questions still remain. we dont skr krihave critical a about whats going on, how much damage. until we get that the fears going to remain. >> its got to be hard to get on with your daily life. stan grant in tokyo now. uncertainty. what we do know is what we can measure. we dont know how dangerous...

Offshore. i have a couple things to show you here that happened just over the past couple of hours. weve run a model here at cnn. its not a radiation model. but if you took a balloon and let it go, you see where would this balloon fly over the next few days. all those models, no matter what level you released that balloon, 100 feet, 200 feet, 500 feet, it would all blow offshore, away from the land and away from the people. thats not going to be the case by saturday. this all will change again w...

The weather patterns change. from fujiama right here, that is the center. we cannot get a wind anymore than north or south, from the south, from the north, and from the east is all good. but anything here that would blow northeast, southeast, that would all bring heavy radiation to millions of people. this is a very highly populated, densely populated country. >> all right. sanjay, for a lot of people in the immediate evacuation zone and in the areas not in the evacuation zone, there was a 30 ki...

The weather patterns change. from fujiama right here, that is the center. we cannot get a wind anymore than north or south, from the south, from the north, and from the east is all good. but anything here that would blow northeast, southeast, that would all bring heavy radiation to millions of people. this is a very highly populated, densely populated country. >> all right. sanjay, for a lot of people in the immediate evacuation zone and in the areas not in the evacuation zone, there was a 30 ki...

I know some radiation spreads out in all directions, but the main stuff were worried about for safety of peoples health will be carried by the wind. and that wind is shifting offshore. i have a couple things to show you here that happened just over the past couple of hours. weve run a model here at cnn. its not a radiation model. but if you took a balloon and let it go, you see where would this balloon fly over the next few days. all those models, no matter what level you release that noon, 100 ...

Heavy the contamination is, what the weather patterns are and whether or not a large heavily contaminated plume or plumes would drift over other population centers in japan. >> in this case, the trigger point for this particular crisis, you know, the earthquake and than the tsunami and people say here in the united states, bringing this home, people say we dont have tsunamis here in the u.s., but is there a universe of other trigger points, lets call them, that could lead to something at all sim...