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Which one do you want, madam speaker? super, super, super, super, super, super sorry. >> mayor ford, please. >> i'm sure he was very sincere. ford also apologized for comments that a local newspaper report says he suggested he was a pedophile, that reporter has moved to sue ford for defamation. nasa astronauts will make three emergency space walks to fix a broken cooling line at the international space station, the first set for saturday with another on monday and the third may come on christmas day. the cooling system failure forced the crew to turn off all nonessential equipment on board i...

Area, there are four million buildings with no electricity at this time and if a nuclear plant can't cool down the reactor core, that's a bad situation. the good news is so far, according to government officials and the associated press, no leak of radiation at this point has been detected. >> got to be worried about this, though. when you see this video and see the massive amount of fire and devastation and you know that there are nuclear plants that exist in and around japan, you got to be nervous about what -- about what the next step is going to be. now they're saying they cannot cool it. ...

Down. so can you imagine being in the middle of an earthquake with 30 aftershocks and with all lights out. >> and the thing about the power plants, we've got a news alert that a nuclear power plant is in trouble right now. there's been an escape of emergency declared. there's a cooling system failure. there's no electricity to cool the core. no radiation leaks at this point. but nonetheless, japan is a nation that gets a lot of its electricity from atomic power and if they can't cool down the core, that's going to be a problem. >> and brian just mentioned a few moments ago, the president has p...

Nuclear power plant has had a cooling system failure. no radiation leakage at this point. but japan is a country that does get 30%. about 30% of their electricity from atomic power. there are 55 nuclear plants in the country and as we just heard from him, they've shut them down just to be safe. >> we did know from tom byer who is in tokyo said there's gas fires in and around the suburbs of that -- >> at the gas refinery right there. >> of that city. meanwhile -- >> we're learning that orange county, california, many of you have been asking what's going to happen to california, well, closing it...

United states, we're talking about california specifically, washington state, oregon, possibly alaska. 11:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m. eastern time. it seems to be shifting later. i don't know what that means. >> joining us right now, we have mark hibbs, a senior associate at the nuclear program at the endowment for international peace, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> mark, we have some troubling information. apparently, there are three or four plants in the area that has been impacted the most there in northern japan. there's been a state of emergency where apparently cooling system failure, n...