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Northeastern coast. american military officials confirm that more u.s. service members were exposed to radiation today and treated with iodine. but because of the wind direction, several navy ships moved closer to the coast after initial pullback of radiation concerns two major aftershocks rattled japan today, causing buildings to sway in tokyo. food, water and heat shortages continue. correspondent adam housley has the latest. >> they is survived the fifth largest earthquake in history and tsun...

There. and that could cause an even difficult situation, make it that much more difficult. >> shepard: back to the breaking news of the moment, adam, yesterday, when reactor number 4, in the northeast corner of these containment pools, when that caught fire yesterday, radiation levels were seen to be 10 times higher than normal. then they went down after a few hours. now that fire is up and burning again. what we are led to believe, what we are led to believe to be the exact same spot. what does...

Gate are fukushima were dropping. no cause was given. perhaps its just that shift in wind direction. we dont know. in the midst of all this, the obama administration giving a measured vote of confidence saying that they will be a key part of the u.s. energy structure. in the u.s., there are 104 nuclear power plants in the united states. three under construction. 27 new reactors planned. at least they were planned before the disaster in japan. so it may have changed things. as you mentioned, the ...

Created by the blths or the wind direction has shifted. the last we heard was still everything was headed out to sea. that is still the good news. but when youre sitting in the middle of the city, its a bit squirrelly and hard to tell where its coming from. >> were hearing the japanese authorities have had success in putting in a new power line. can you tell us about that in. >> well, they think, theyre not quite there yet. what they think has happened is theyve been able to restore a power line...

Situation. there are a number of factors in play. certainly weather and wind direction and the amount of dilution will be a very important factor. there are others as well such as how much the fuel overheats and what fission products get released into the containment and which are released into the environment. they all have different toxicities and different half lives. so there are quite a number of factors in play. we know what they are. that doesnt mean that we can necessarily predict with c...

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Right now. where you see the blues, those are winds from 30, maybe to 40 miles an hour. but by tomorrow evening and into the day on monday, that high pressure thats been keeping these winds in this direction is going to move off towards the east. a front will move through and its going to do a couple of things. one, is its going to bit a bit of an offshore flow around louisiana. thats by tuesday or wednesday. more immediately in towards monday, its going to start to move these winds a little mor...

Iceland is the greener land. thats why it is here because of the volcanoes that are formed through the eons and people are used to the volcanoes. theyre used to dealing with it and i must tell you lots of tourists are coming here taking pictures and they dont seem to be excessively worried. they do know its causing lots of commotion throughout other parts of the world. >> yeah. >> reporter: but here things so far are relatively calm. >> weve got our fingers crossed and the wind direction stays a...