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Shouted and waved messages. they are angry the u.s. approved the resolution last week about that, approving the military strikes underway right now. this is something completely different for a moment, shall we? want a vacation in the good old usa? if you're coming into the country it may cost you not just for a hotel. until now visitors from canada or mexico and some other countries could get into the country free of charge. maybe that's not so anymore, though, folks. a new federal budget proposes 5.50, it will cost you, to cross over the border to come into the united states for a vacation...

Line joining us from boston. bill: 5.50 sounds familiar, doesn't it? the amount it costs to drive into manhattan through the tunnel! martha: now it's $8. bill: that's the bridge! every time that arm goes up, it's 5.50. in a moment here we're going to get back to japan. there are developments today, radiation fears, you can imagine running rampant across that country. also in parts of the u.s. what is the real danger? as smoke starts to billow from one of those crippled reactors. we'll talk to an expert about that in a moment. martha: did you miss part of "america's newsroom". no, that wouldn...

Free, but maybe not if you're visiting from canada, mexico or the carribean. a new proposal in the federal budget would charge our nearby neighbors a fee. there's already some grumbling about this plan. molly line is in boston with this story. >> it's a relatively small fee and many countries already pay it, it's about 5.50, it would go towards increasing national security at our airports and ports and would add up to millions upon millions of dollars but as you mentioned, there is grumbling especially from the neighbors to the north, especially the prime minister, steven harper who said we wa...

Directly. if unrest there and in other countries in ha region lead to $5.50 gallon oil that you are hads our economy. are we prepared to do anything about that? >> it doesn't seem like we thought ahead to that contingency as well. for what it is worth in terms of the potential also of libyan oil the saudis, ruled by a monarch and so on, have begun to take contingency plans to increase their production. i was in the gulf region, i think there's great concern the united states doesn't seem to have its act together here. the fall of libya into chaos would be bad for oil prices. the loss of saudi ...

$5.50 gallon oil that you are hads our economy. are we prepared to do anything about that? >> it doesn't seem like we thought ahead to that contingency as well. for what it is worth in terms of the potential also of libyan oil the saudis, ruled by a monarch and so on, have begun to take contingency plans to increase their production. i was in the gulf region, i think there's great concern the united states doesn't seem to have its act together here. the fall of libya into chaos would be bad for oil prices. the loss of saudi arabia, kuwait, qatar, united arab emirates would be catastrophic from...