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Now who rescued that f-15 crew that had to bail out over the desert. the pilots told the story for the first time to our martha raddatz on board their ship. >> they told exactly what happened as soon as they got into the area. >> we saw his flare on the ground. ground and we got eyes on his position. >> as soon as we set up for our project to land, he started bolting to it the airplane. so i think he said that, you know, he was in our dust cloud by the time he landed. >> he also said the successful rescue was probably the coolest thing he's done since joining the marines. to the grim news to...

Seawater? >> iodine 131 is the other. it has a half life of about eight days. the problem is both these types of radiation are heavier than air, so you can see in terms of what we look at, proximity, intensity and duration, the proximity is important, because that dust cloud, that explosion, released radiation over a very wide area, but because the dust was heavy, it settled within an area of about 60 miles or closer. the problem for iodine is that it concentrates in milk in particular, about 12 hours after a cow consumes radiation from the grass, it actually produces milk. that can concentrat...

Outside of this radioactive contamination area will be used again for farmland for a number of years. but outside there will be tests to determine the safety and there were probably areas not affected, again, because that dust cloud did not land everywhere uniformly. there's possible that there's farmland still useful. >> so some viable. dr. firsh oeismt in, thank you for coming in. what is the sad. ♪ i was diagnosed with copd. i could not take a deep breath i noticed i was having trouble. climbing the stairs, working in the garden, painting. my doctor suggested spiriva right then. announc...

Getting the supplies that they real want. all of this, obviously, compounded by anxieties about radiation. now, there is a dust cloud, a plume that people have been talking about. it's unclear where exactly it's going to travel. it's literally dependant on wind patterns. some say it will head sords the arctic circle. nonetheless, screenings have begun in u.s. airports, screening the airplanes and cargo and screening the mail and screening the passengers as well. it's likely we'll get screened when we eventually get back to the states, but so far no harmful levels of radiation have been found. ...

Here it is for our viewers. it may not be news to some of on our viewers, but for those who just joined it, it will be. what does that suggest to you? >> we've seen the explosion that took out the outer -- the upper structure. so now we just have a melting frame where it looks like the other three which are still intact on the site. and whenever there is an explosion on that floor today, there is a cloud, a very small particle of smoke which happens for some time. we remember the terrible pictures of 9/11 in new york for example where the buildings collapsed. there was a very large dust cloud....