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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 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 stronger p...

Cooling for the reactors and spent fuel pools. in the last 24 hours two more powerful aftershocks have shaken japan. a 6.6 tremor knocked out power across tokyo, forced workers at the damaged plant to evacuate. at least one person was killed in a landslide. hours later a 6.4 quake struck, killing at least six people. around the same time came word that a fire had broken out at the plant's number 4 reactor. tepco says that fire has been put out. also today for the first time tepco's president visited fukushima prefecture. he was hospitalized, you may remember, in late march, allegedly for fatig...

Were the capabilities, what did they know, what kind of instrumentation did they have and things like that? and so it's easy in hindsight to go back and be critical. but i do think that it underscores one of the elements that we have been talking about on this show for almost three weeks now, and that is given the level of radiation that we found around the countryside it's absolutely essential that it be monitored much more closely than it has been. >> jim, what do you make of this? there have been a number now of strong earthquakes in the past few days including one that just happened a coup...

Prevent a nuclear meltdown. tepco, the plant's owner, now says it has no idea when it will be able to restore normal cooling for the reactors and spent fuel pools. in the last 24 hours two more powerful aftershocks have shaken japan. a 6.6 tremor knocked out power across tokyo, forced workers at the damaged plant to evacuate. at least one person was killed in a landslide. hours later a 6.4 quake struck, killing at least six people. around the same time came word that a fire had broken out at the plant's number 4 reactor. tepco says that fire has been put out. also today for the first time tepc...

Week of this thing when we were over there, saying look, for american citizens they would want all american citizens to evacuate 50 miles from the plant. now we're hearing they're kind of doing piecemeal evacuations or asking for piecemeal evacuations of other towns in a wider air. do you agree that the way they're going about those evacuations, that it's sort of 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 p...