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plymouth, massachusetts. i appreciate you calling in. can you just first talk me through what folks there on the ground in huntington beach, what the situation is what they need to do? >> i think the first thing is that you have to assess whether or not this is an animal that is in need of human intervention or not. and so, you know, from what i've seen, there's a pod swimming somewhat freely and then this one particular animal that's a little bit away and stranded. here normally if we have a situation like that, we would try and actually move the single animal and move it out toward...

Small levels of contamination by radiation. they had to be soaped down with soap and water, clothes destroyed, and they were found to be clean. but as a precaution, helicopter crews now flying in that area are being told keep your sleeves rolled down, keep the windows closed on the helicopter. and some of them are even being given potassium iodine pills to fight off some of the effects of radiation. further down, you've got u.s. bases. no real danger there yet. but there have been some small, small amounts of radiation detected even there. and so as a precaution, the tens of thousands of ameri...

The "uss ronald reagan" which had been close to shore has now been further, has moved further north away from that down wind plume of radiation. in addition as we look at the second map, you can see that several ships that were supposed to go to the pacific side have been rerouted to the sea of japan on the western side of japan to try to get away from that radiation. in addition, the helicopter crews that have been running regular missions into that affected zone have been told to keep their sleeves down and been told to keep the windows closed in their helicopters and some of them have been ...

There is a lot of rescue work to be done, a lot of rebuilding. simply just trying to get the water out of this area. what we're being told by the live pictures is they are actually on the pacific side of the island of japan, and the camera crew has actually been zooming in and out looking at the tops of these buildings, trying to find anybody who may have made -- made it up to the roof of their home or their building and needs to be rescued, because right now the sun has come up, and there is light. we know that these rescue operations will get under way in full swing. over the past 12 hours o...

Pacific ocean currents and surface temperatures, right? >> reporter: right, there is an interaction between the atmosphere and the water. in a la nina you have cooler than normal waters off the south american continent off the pacific side. that means storm systems are taking up into the pacific northwest. because of that storm track it's the northern tier of the united states that gets the snow and ice and typically the plains and certainly the southeast is generally dry and mild. but i think because of the strength, the strongest in recorded history, those typical signals were not what we sa...