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From the pacific ocean. is there any chance of either of these surviving an earthquake, should one happen, like that in japan on friday? >> well, i think, first of all, we have to realize that to millions of americans seeing horrific images and look at reactors right there in the ocean on a fault line, everybody is thinking we have to be mad. why should we be having reactors there? and i think they're right. what's happening in japan could certainly have happened here. and i think we also need to realize that it done take natural disasters to have terrible accidents. three mile island was basi...

Company to replace its aging water meters with automatic meter reading devices. all city workers have to do is drive by and electronically collect the data, but it hasn't gone as smoothly as it looks. as early as 2007, problems arose when city auditors found they were unable to verify electronic reads for 13% of the meters that were tested. then in 2009, another audit found a high number of accounts that don't get actual meter readings because of meter read errors, equipment failures or human errors. >> a significant amount of frustration on everybody's part. >> reporter: peter amman is the ch...

And we're going to deal from time to time with human errors. as the media reports and we've learned, human error was -- is what happened. i think the president has just stepped back and said let me get away from this for a while and let me let my advisors do what they want. i have an election coming on. today will be a positive comment with the well stopped as long as it continues to quit flowing oil. >> neil: i wish you and your company well and maybe get your guys back on the job of. cracking down on banks and pumping up the unions. did the senate just pass a bill doing exactly that?

Times because the debate is going to start all over again, fredricka. >> there are a lot of referee problems in this world cup. a lot of games have been particularly memorable because of calls or lack thereof. >> yes. and the united states were on the receiving end of a couple of bad calls. both against slovenia and also against algeria. a couple of legal goals were disallowed because there was a wrong interpretation by the refereeing trio of those particular plays. so what we need in football is one of two things. either people are going to accept that there are going to be human errors and e...

We need to know if it's because of cutting corners and if so what's the safe ri record of the rest of the industry? >> congressman? >> we need to know is the rst of the industry safe or is it not safe? we need to know from them -- >> congressman, you mentioned -- >> sure. >> the human errors and you're right. that is one way to look at this document. >>s no necessarily human errors. human negligence. mr. waxman's report -- >> correct. human negligence. whatever you want to call it. you raise this issue but isn't the question of whether our regulations allow and permit and foster this kind of h...