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Damaged nuclear plant. it is coming from a storage tank at the fukushima nuclear plant which you might recall was heavily damaged in the march 2011 tsunami. david piper is streaming live from bangkok, thailand with more. david? >> reporter: hi, jon. there have been radioactive leaks at the fukushima plant before but this seems to be much worse. japanese officials are describing it as a level one incident. this is lowest level on rank of scale of radioactive incidents but this is the first time japan declared such an event since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. calling systems at three of the f...

Back with our panel talking about the crisis in egypt. we were talking about this conundrum in egypt, seeming to be a binary choice between the military, which was very organized, obviously ran the military even under mubarak and muslim brotherhood, organized for an election. was there a third possibility unexercised in egypt? >> it was there for a fleeting ephemeral moment when we look back at the 18 days that unseated mubarak in 2011, there was a reformist islamist, tactical alliance. it wasn't very deep and it shattered deeply after mubarak fell. in march 2011, that possibility had really b...

March 2011. history tells us revolutions don't take place in one anlgt worldwide travel alert on a it -- act, no matter if we want it day when u.s. embassies overseas are shut down. too. heightened security at airports u.s. has fallen into the trap of here and abroad. being too reactive and not it the big question, how serious is this latest terror threat to the the longview and nudge them into homeland? nightmare on the boardwalk. democracy over the long-term. a car plows through crowds, this military coup in july vendor, the young and the old in doesn't supplant democracy. a seemingly in...

Egyptian strong man hosni mubarak. arab spring would present the president with a defining policy crisis. in march 2011 he addressed the people in washington. the president was now explaining why he was intervening in a civil war in libya. it was to stop a blood bath in a ported city that most americans had never heard of, a place called benghazi. >> if we waited one more day, benghazi would have suffered a massacre that would have reverberated across the region. i refuse to let that happen. >> but saving benghazi from khadafy was not the end of that story. in a jail cell in southern californi...

Followed by a popular revolt against mubarak. the arab spring would present the president with a defining foreign policy crisis. in march 2011, he addressed the american people from national defense university in washington. the president who wanted to pivot away from the middle east was now explaining why he was intervening in a civil war in labia. to stop a bloodbath, in a port city that most americans had never heard of. a place called benghazi. >> if we waited one more day, benghazi would suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscious of the worl...