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Does 50 miles make sense to you and how does radiation spread over farther distances? >> the radioactivity is attached to dust particles and it's just the movement of the dust particles that tells you how the radioactivity moves. again, as you were alluding to earlier in your show, it's the wind. the two big factors that are going to control what happens is how much radioactivity is released and which way the wind is blowing. it really is good news that we're continuing to have offshore winds, because really the radiation is going to get disbursed when it goes over the ocean. and very little w...

An aerial tour of the massive oil slick. good weather today should allow crews to lay more of that protective boom to guard against the slick. weather permitting it will have a positive impact. correspondent mike taibbi live in biloxi, mississippi with the latest on this. these booms seem to be miles long. when the weather was bad they did almost nothing to stop the oil from moving past. >> reporter: that's absolutely right, peter. so far 40 miles laid out along the most vulnerable parts of the gulf where the oil is expected at the soonest point, two or three days away. the weather has been co...

About 3 miles per hour. this storm is crawling along the coast, and that means that all of this onshore flow, all of the winds, the rain, everything moving from east to west is going to continue in that direction, so all of the flooding is going to continue, the storm surge is going to continue throughout the rest of this evening and the overnight hours as the storm continues to meander to the south. so for people already experiencing flooding, unfortunately, it is going to continue. that's what we were talking about. the storm is going to be around for a long, long time. these bands are setti...