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Jon: i'm sure you're not going to poopoo anybody that wants to give you business but do you think geiger counters are for americans now? >> it's really a personal decision, jon. if it makes some people feel more comfortable, that's their choice. you just reported that the u.s. government is indicating danger coming over here from japan is mild at best, i guess, but certainly, our customers in japan, you should see the comments they're putting on their orders with us. they say right now, i need them desperately. i have a grandfather near the fukushima plant, things like that. so it's clearly a ...

Nuclear plant as a result of that there was limited exposure to the crew and the aircraft and possibly the ship. so this is designed to clean it. scrub it down. use brushes, foam. clear the surfaces and check it with machines such as geiger counters while keeping the crew in protective suits. it's extreme efforts but designed to keep the crew safe and keep the shift operational. >> and this just in. toyota plants here in the united states might be impacted from the japan disaster. let's get details from mary snow. what are you learning? >> toyota telling plants in north america to be prepared ...

Together to support japan in its hour of need. >> reporter: tepco has sent home all workers who are struggling to saturate damaged units with seawater. the company is even reportedly considering whether to ask japan and the u.s.'s militaries to spray the units with water from helicopters. hundreds continue to evacuate the surrounding areas. and one man even said, he fears this nuclear crisis more than the tsunami. meanwhile, search and rescue efforts continue, although they're less and less successful. >> it's amazing what has happened to this area. overwhelming. you wonder how the locals, you...

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...

Come up with these numbers that are arbitrary to us because they're not rooted in any particular science. and sort of this idea, that you know, they're walking around with these geiger counters, we've seen these images, they're test the air obviously but you've seen these images where they're waving them over people, that's really meaningless. i mean, that doesn't tell you anything about an individual's potential exposure. so a lot of it just doesn't seem to make sense, and i don't know if that's by design or just they're not sure what they're doing right now. >> tom foreman, you've been kind ...