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Background radiation to the highest levels reported. this may be entirely consistent. it may be a way people look at the statistics. >> will we see more states affected across the country as time goes by? it looks like the three reactors remain in doubt. >> we'll see more states having trace amounts detected of radiation. again, i'll remind you the detectives are sensitive. people receiving certain medical tests, for example, trigger radiation detectives at airports though the levels they receive are entirely safe for them and are levels that they do not advise they stay away from their childr...

Live in denver it's a very nice plas. >> but you're saying realistically, we're exposed in other ways every. >> exposed in many other ways. a north carolina environmental official put it very well, if we can hear that sound right now. >> let's play it. >> one of the things that you eat can have radioactive materials, granted, it's low levels, trace amounts, but all of those things contribute to natural background radiation which is a lot higher than what weave seeing from the fallout from the japanese plant. >> what you're saying. >> so we have trace amounts. we have to detect them. the enviro...

Respect to people who have anxiety about this because, you know, thiisn't something that we're usedo dealing with or used to talking about. i think the numbers matter here, the context, as you're saying, matters here. take a look at the map. we know the various areas of the west coast that have had higher than normal radiation levels even as far east as colorado, for example. you see there. but the point is this -- that radiation does exist around us. i mean, we're exposed to a certain amount of background radiation from all sorts of things. in your job in the television studio, you're exposed...

Could take that radiation from above and drop it down on the u.s. it could happen. now, saying this has been going on for many days, if it would be coming it would already be here in many spots. it's an epa radar net noernt in you want. go right to l.a. that's where ted was. i'm going to grab a red dot. >> see if people should be concerned. >> somewhere of concern would be somewhere up in here. this is the japanese quake, here's march 12th, 13th and up to march 25th. here's what background radiation looks like, when the sun comes out, whatever. up and down, up and down. a little bit of a spike...

Somebody put it to me like this. you'd have to eat that spich app that is contaminated every stingle day for a year to get the same amount of radiation in one cat scan. it's higher than normal. will it cause an impact on human health not the way things stand right now. people keeping say it until they are blue in the face. >> it doesn't matter. a lot of my colleagues have friends on the west coast. they detected radiation levels, very small, off the coast of seattle that it's coming from japan and people are really worried. it doesn't matter how many times you tell them there's nothing to worr...