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reconsiders laying on the table. >> that's the house tonight passing h.r. 2560, better known as cut, cap and balance. now it's a republican and tea party sponsored measure calling for massive spending cuts, a spending cap, and congress passing a balanced budget amendment. only then would the debt limit be allowed to go up, ending the current crisis. the measure was passed with just five democratic votes. senate democrats say they'll defeat it. if somehow they fail, president obama says he'll veto it. in other words, it's doa which is why a lot of democrats are calling it a stunt and ...

sometimes weeks by the japanese government or the plant operator tepco. you'll recall on the 11th of march, tsunami waves crippled these cooling plants at the fukushima daiichi complex that set up meltdowns and ex poerkss in reactors and a meltdown in a fourth. green peace scientists said they'd collected enough data to judge this disaster a level seven. that's the worst kind possible. other experts agreed. but it took until april 12 for the japanese government to call the partial meltdown of three nuclear reactors a level seven disaster. as for people living nearby, the japanese gov...

evacuations. hard to believe, 113 additional households in four districts in the city of date. that's far beyond the mandatory exclusion zone set up for 20 kilometers around the crippled reactors. these are newly designated hot spots. separately, according to a citizens group and a french ngo, trace amounts of radio isotopes have now been found elsewhere in children as far as 24 miles beyond that mandatory evacuation zone. additionally, this french ngo says it's been long warning that the allowable levels of radiation exposure set up by the government is simply too lax. this is somet...

Odd? >> well, i think in retrospect, obviously you have to say that u.s. officials got it right. and michael addressed this earlier. i think it's better to evacuate people out to a zone rather than doing it a little bit at a time in phases. now, at the end of the day, as long as they do leave i think their radiation exposure will be moderate. but the psychological toll, the uncertainty that that creates, they're wondering -- these people are going to wonder why they weren't moved earlier. have they been exposed to something now? i think it would have been cleaner and more efficient and a stron...

Eleanor holmes norton who says this is a frustrating matter for d.c. japan's nuclear crisis have gone from bad to worse officially. government officials are raising the threat level at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant from a 5 where it was, to a category 7. now that indicates a major incident, the highest level on the international scale for nuclear accidents. on par with the chernobyl disasser. >> what does the shift really mean? michael friedlander a operator at three plants. we're told the amount of radiation emitted from this plant is not as much as chernobyl, but it reaches this leve...