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Look into options. they'll do whatever they can. very vague, nonspecific, but even if i'm trying to think, like, what could they possibly do, if people have lost insurance policies because they've been discontinued by insurance companies, there is no executive order, there's no law you can pass to tell the insurance companies, oh, go resurrect these policies and bring them back and give them to -- what in -- what possible executive order, what possibly could president obama do now to -- >> yeah, look, there's a tension between if you like your policy you can keep it, and the affordable care ac...

Of it. a mistake? was it in any way deliberate? we don't know. >> when you were asked what if this happens? what if that happens? everybody wants know thousand will play out and there are headlines will there be a meltdown, could it happen here, is it hard to avoid the kind of speculation that could scare viewers? >> reporter: to some extent it is. what is a little bit -- interesting about this is that besides the uncertainty is that, you know, there's no scientific testing on specifically this type of problem. in order to do a scientific test you have to knowingly expose people to radiation a...

We feel comfortable where we are in terms of security and stability of these plants. is there anything out there in the u.s., along fault lines or wlfr they may be, that should set our hair on fire because it isn't set up to withstand something major? >> i don't think you can ever say -- never say never but i think we certainly don't have the kinds of earthquake risks that japan faces. we don't have those kind of faults. there are two reactors in california but again, you need to look at safety records, the aging of these reactors. it can be when they are 40, 60 now the industry wants to make ...

>> do you agree with me that the struggles of ordinary japanese people in that region have been overshadowed by the -- drumbeat of nuclear drama? >> absolutely. that's the nature of journal its. >> many it became harder to tell that story. what you are going the see emerging if they do have the power under control, that story coming back to the fore in the coming days. >> what it is like to cover the nuclear crisis in japan while worrying about your own exposure to radiation. wrench? wrench. basic. preferred. at meineke i have options on oil changes. and now i get free roadside assistance with...

This is just the wanton spreading of fear when in fact most of these nuclear reactors in japan are behaving as designed. >> plus, the president received that dreaded 3:00 a.m. phone call this weekend when the quake struck. how did he respond? he went golfing. >> let's leave aside obama's golfing as we talked about earlier. the idea that they thrive on disaster, it's true it is a way to make your name, but we want looting and things to be terrible? >> absolutely not. this is the most difficult story to cover. they are covering this 125 miles away. >> because it's too dangerous to get close. >> ...