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Radioactive gases was released. that followed another explosion at another plant on saturday. this of course is a real concern for the people that we're with here and talking to but a concern for americans too. 17 u.s. marines who were in choppers running relief missions from the uss ronald reagan aircraft carrier, didn't pass right over the reactor but near enough through a radioactive cloud they were in fact contaminated to some degree. they had to be washed down. they are not ill but it is caused the 7th fleet to push the ronald reagan further out to sea. it was 100 miles off the coast. as ...

Then leaving only two weeks to negotiate. jon: i wish i had that kind of a work schedule, i'm sure you do too. >> reporter: you and me both. jon: unbelievable. thanks. jenna: fox news alert a 15th person has died after that horrific bus crash in new york over the weekend. the driver involved claiming a truck forced him off the road. witnesses are telling a very different story. how investigators are figuring out what really caused this terrible and deadly accident. also dire reports from the quake zone in japan, an engineer investigating the scope of the disaster tells us what he season the gr...

With this report. trace, how would the power plant where you're standing right there, one of the few in california, how would it fare if we compare, have a comparable disaster to the one we saw in japan? >> reporter: jenna, the authorities believe it would farewell but there are a number of parts to that answer. we're talking about a nuclear power plant the biggest in southern california. powers 1.4 million homes here. just like the nuclear power plant in swrap pan, built right on the ocean, in very earthquake-prone california. we had a 4.7-magnitude earthquake here last year the authorities b...

Through the disaster. an update from her coming up.

Civilization has never had a single death due to radiation leak. okay. it's still the safest the cleanest and the cheapest form of power generation. jenna: we talk a lot about oil prices, that's been a big story considering what is happening in the mideast, but it's also a story that we look at when anything impacts energy sector. do you see any reaction in the oil markets overall? >> sure, japan imports almost a hundred percent of their oil. they don't produce much oil on the mainland. when a country that is dependent on oil has a disaster like that consumption goes down, so the prices are lo...