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and sent us the latest. well, apec has started here and it's really a huge moment for the city of san francisco. it's the biggest summit to be held here since the united nations charter was signed here in 1916. and this is really a huge economic summit. you're talking about more than 50% of all of the world's trade belongs to the 21 nations who'll be attending here this week. and we're talking about 40% of the world's population, by the way. so it's a big economic conference. but by far the biggest ticket item here is the meeting betweenjoe biden, president biden, and his counterpart...

Inside this power plant you see behind me, indian point, that the head of the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission took just today, in fact, just wrapped up a few hours ago. as the nrc continues to take a very close look at all u.s. nuclear power plants in the wake of the fukushima disaster. >> this is the steel pool for unit three, it houses all of the fuel that's been used at unit three. it went online in 1976. we're looking through about 25 feet of water at the top of the fuel assembly which is the bottom of the pool. this pool is built on bedrock, so they blast it down to the bedrock level, ...

Going, it's not a democratically-elected leadership and they're going to keep building. other countries, perhaps south korea, which is right across the water from japan, other countries may want to take a pause here. so i think it will play out politically in different places. >> these japanese reactors currently in trouble, they were likely built with the notion of ground motion. but this was an 8.9 quake and it seems like anything, in would be difficult for anything to withstand that kind of velocity, that kind of power. >> i think that's right, fredricka. and when you look at the design spe...