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Assuming? >> well, the term super spreader has a much different meeting now than it does before, because amg vaccinated people, again, it's relegated down to a mild infection. i think that is something we will have to recognize. they are going to have to live with covid. it's not a virus we are going to eliminate, this will be seasonal like four other coronaviruses that are seasonal and constitute collectively 20% of the cases of the common cold. we will have to see what the new data shows, but right now it looks like vaccination is pretty durable in reducing transmission risk. >> julie: but w...

People here is not necessarily pleasure. no one likes to hear these words going back and forth and the risk of a miscalculation ratcheting up. >> all right, kyung lah, thank you so much. north korea has threatened to strike the tiny island, the u.s. territory of guam. but president trump has assured the governor that the public there, the people who live there are safe. for more on that, let's go to martin savidge who is there in guam. martin, we're hearing from the president, we're hearing from the governor saying that the people are safe. what are the people saying? are they as certain as ...

Altitude get a higher dose than people who live in low-lying areas. and if you're traveling on an airplane set to be going from new york to tokyo, you'll get 20 times the average background level during that flight. for example, on a beach in brazil, the natural background radiation there is way above permitted levels in terms of what the public can be exposed to. and that's what's coming out of the soil that's on the beach. >> you're asking why he does this? [ speaking in foreign language ] >> he has body pains. >> and this helps? >> it helps. >> and what's really striking is that there's no ...

People who live in low-lying areas. and if you're traveling on an airplane set to be going from new york to tokyo, you'll get 20 times the average background level during that flight. for example, on a beach in brazil, the natural background radiation there is way above permitted levels in terms of what the public can be exposed to. and that's what's coming out of the soil that's on the beach. >> you're asking why he does this? [ speaking in foreign language ] >> he has body pains. >> and this helps? >> it helps. >> and what's really striking is that there's no correlation between levels of ba...

Going to cost if we go that far and continue our obsession with nuclear power. >> ifr waste streams lose their radioactivity to background level in about 800 years. light water reactor in nearly 10,000. >> i share with my colleagues some of the public opinion on this. "the "washington post"" "the oregonian" give up nuclear breeder dream. the "san francisco chronicle" saying no. >> the ifr program was shut down. the project went down the black hole of government politics.