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Evidence is and why don't you think about some of these decisions for yourself. >> let me just ask philosophically almost. the idea of mitigating risk, you know, i wear my seat belt every day. if i don't wear my seat belt, it's not likely i'm going to get in a wreck and be injured, but it could happen. so i wear my seat belt. this idea of mitigating risk, especially for a woman who is pregnant, do you worry at all that this could send the wrong message, that it's okay to do things that might carry even a little bit of risk? >> so i think one thing we have to recognize is that we're always taki...

You talk about not wanting to change your life upsidedown. i'm not giving up my cell phone. i have three of them. >> you can't. >> you're not either. even on the manufacturing insert that comes with it, it says you should hold your phone an inch away from your ear. who does that? >> everybody's going to hear my conversation. >> right. no one does it. everyone puts it against their head. even the cell phone instructions say you shouldn't do that. the further you move it away, it drops off radiation level exponentially. i hold it then i'll use my ear piece. i also, you know, check my e-mails at ...

necessarily pointed to something specific. what they found was, last year, they got some intelligence that al qaeda was targeting these oil and natural gas installations in the united states. what they're saying is, some of the information that they just got shows that al qaeda still has a continuing interest right now in going after some of those targets. >> where is this intel coming from? >> it's coming from that treasure trove of information that those s.e.a.l. teams hauled out of osama bin laden's compound. we don't know if it specifically came from osama bin laden's journal, bu...

We had to make an emergency landing but that is a rare event. pilots are trained to do what they can to avoid them. when they can't, they manage the situation. we need to do a better program of mitigating risk at the habitat on the ground. find ways of detecting them through the air. >> were there modifications done to the airplane engines to make them safer or screen out the birds? is that a possibility? >> a jet engine needs unimpeded flow of air to the intake, front part of the engine. that is important that there is no surface around the opening of the engine to ice up and block the flow o...

We had to make an emergency landing but that is a rare event. pilots are trained to do what they can to avoid them. when they can't, they manage the situation. we need to do a better program of mitigating risk at the habitat on the ground. find ways of detecting them through the air. >> were there modifications done to the airplane engines to make them safer or screen out the birds? is that a possibility? >> a jet engine needs unimpeded flow of air to the intake, front part of the engine. that is important that there is no surface around the opening of the engine to ice up and block the flow o...