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Weapons stkaoeurpb at lawrence liver more national lab. it's a great to have you tom and especially on a day when we're looking at these different weapons. can you give us the definition between a dirty bomb and an atomic weapon? >> thank you jenna, good to be with you. the difference is basically a dirty bomb is a serious inconvenience, it's packing a bunch of reactor rods or radioactive product around high explosives. it will make a mess and may kill a few hundred people. it's a major nuisance, it's a psychological problem. but it is not a nuclear weapon. a nuclear weapon is putting together...

On the mississippi gulf coast. more than 100,000 houses destroyed or severely damaged. 65,000 of them on the coast. it was as if an atomic weapon had gone off in the mississippi sound and wiped away the gulf coast. so much progress has been made by the strong resilient tough people. we are not all the way back to normal. we are not true. but so much has been done and what has been done makes it plane that the coast is coming back bigger and better than ever. >> but the recovery didn't come cheap. governor barbour went on to say that h his state spent about $25 billion in aid and there is still...

He was the oldest. >> last time he was with me, we went home. she doesn't want to hear this story again. she told me whenever i see someone who is talking about my son, i feel bad. i cannot sleep. i get sick. this happened. nothing i can do. we pray for him. that's what she says. >> reporter: federal officials have told cnn that they can't rule out the possibility that some of the young men involved in this case could be trained to carry out terrorist attacks on u.s. soil. brian todd, cnn, minneapolis. >> just when you thought the lockerbie bomber's release couldn't be more infuriating, a new ...

Street. they have meaning on main street, shepard. and one of the things you pointed out on the bullet points about how would the government wind down firms? bankruptcy courts already do that republicans wonder should that really be the government's role? that's one of the sticking points right now. >> shepard: major garrett live out on the yard and on the subject of money, our question of the day, has the financial crisis caused you to switch from a big national bank to a smaller community bank? we would like to know. log on to foxnews.com/shep. the results later in this newscast. a week afte...

Nothing you can do until you wait out the volcanic ash and the best guess anyone is maybe things start getting better tomorrow or maybe much better on monday. but maybe not. they're dealing with a volcanic eruption that they haven't seen in years or decades here. >> i got to tell you, i put out a question on my twitter account and had people respond. it has lit up. man in ay people have friends a family and colleagues and it's incredible where people are stuck. thanks for all this. appreciate the coverage. >> reporter: sure. with the very latest on the volcano eruption in iceland and the air...