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Where he met with the ambassador and signed a condolence book, where people have been streaming in to express solidarity and support for the people in japan, as they try deal with this crisis. we are going to see the president, another unscheduled event in the rose garden. the president expected to make a statement on the situation in japan. he won't be taking questions. that's our anticipation, at any rate. i think we can expect him to talk about the efforts that the united states has been making in response to this crisis to help the japanese beet, logistically and humanitarian basis, across...

Earthquake, the soourn, atsunam possible meltdown crisis. >> mike i haviqueira live at th white house. waiting for the president to speak soon. unpredicted weather and wind conditions in japan threatening to spread radioactive contamination. forecasts show a radioactive plume should reach southern california by tomorrow. now, experts say radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels, and at worse, would have minor health consequences here in the u.s. samantha mohr joins me live from atlanta. we have tracked a lot of storms, tracking winds for a different reason. people have big questi...

Effort? did you ever think something like that would work from the beginning? >> it looked like a real long shot, when i say it. these pools are very large, very deep, compares to the capacity of the chinooks and the ability to hit the fuel storage pool is, is limited. and i think anybody that saw the videos saw it might have worked for a forest fire but not to hit a target like that small. >> you have said this is a real crisis of confidence regarding what we are hearing from japanese officials, as well as the owners of some, say, as well as the owners of the plant itself. do you believe a pa...

Commission testifying that what has been told to the rest of us by the japanese was untrue i.e., there was no water in the fuel storage pool and we had been told up until then there was water. so that's pretty astonishing. on the other hand, it's difficult to actually know what's going on in an emergency like this. we probably need to be patient. >> you had said that you believe that the u.s. has probably used satellites to take photos of the reactors. >> yes, i'm sure that that's been the case. >> obviously that would be to try to get some information perhaps that is not being provided by jap...

Danger to u.s. citizens. we can expect the president to talk, i think, about the possibility of that -- of a similar crisis happening here with one of the more than 100 nuclear plants operating in the country, many of them, a couple of dozen, of the same make and model as the daiichi fukushima, the plant suffering the crisis right now. we've heard throughout the day there have been evacuations or the state department and the pentagon both entities planning a voluntary evacuation of dependents and family members from japan. remember, there are some 35,000 american troops, men and women in unifo...