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north carolina first gets hit on saturday, and then somewhere in new england after that, even in areas that don't get a direct hit though, there's the flooding damage, wind damage and power outages, a major pain. you're looking at live pictures from folly beach in south carolina. residents keeping an eye on irene. it could pass by though. they haven't been told to leave though. they are urged to take precautions. evacuations are under way though in the north carolina outer banks. the governor declaring a state of emergency ahead of the hurricane. many areas are accessible only by fer...

Who focus on this sort of thing around the world. it is an arbitrary number. what they can say now, they're starting to get some data back. because they're testing people in the area. it's not the most sophisticated testing. they're using geiger counters around them, trying to get an idea of how much radiation exposure they've had. best way to know if someone is exposed is if they start to develop any symptoms. but these counters at least seem to indicate the maximum amount of radiation poisoning people are getting is what they may get from a chest x-ray or from simply getting, you know, the e...

Some, should they pay it or should they not, what should people do. >> so, generally, you're dealing with people, there's no honor there. even if you pay up, there's no guarantee they'll give you data back. you just don't any what you're paying for. hey, you encouraged this. >> it's difficult if you can't move forward and you've got all of these people needing care. >> how difficult is it to trace the origin and ultimately apprehend those people behind this? >> i mean, the speed with which this spreads to pretty much every computer on the globe and hundreds of thousands of people, thousands of...

Where the radar scan then failed as far as limitation was concerned. the airplane flew out of its radar range. >> military radar sounds fancy and sounds comprehensive but it's actually not. you got no data back. could be any craft moving through that space. >> correct. all it does is get a skin paint, a primary target. it says something is out there. we don't know what it is and it's not identified like the civilian radar interrogating the transponder. this is the track it's moving on and we'll have to do something to identify it. >> greg, when you see the sequence of shutdowns in this plane o...

The fukushima daiichi plant which had the biggest problems. but how arbitrary is that? >> it seems very arbitrary. i talked to lots of experts both back in the states and people who focus on this sort of thing aren't world. it is an arbitrary number. what they can say now, they're starting to get some data back. because they're testing people in the area. it's not the most sophisticated testing. they're using counters around them, trying to get an idea of how much radiation exposure they've had. best way to know if someone is exposed is if they start to develop any symptoms. but these counters...