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Phil black picks up the british angle on this developing story. >> reporter: the british prime minister says moussa koussa's defection tells a compelling story of the desperation that exists at the heart of gadhafi's rotten regime. that's how the british government has sought to portrayed this development, proof that his regime is crumbling from within, and its seniors members are unprecious and some are considering just which side they should be on. >> moussa koussa is one of the most senior members of the gadhafi regime. he's been my channel to the regime in recent weeks and i have spoken to...

Bones, it called for only having one stretcher on hand and relies on a fax minute as a backup. we know all of this, because "wall street journal" columnist peter landers got a look at these disaster response documents. he's on the line with me from tokyo. peter, i read your art. just first have to ask about this fax machine. their go-to mode of communication is a fax? they do have to write the plan in accordance with the law. that's why they told you these rely on the fax machine. there is one satellite phone called for in the plan, but that's it. >> what about the medical teams, oxygen tanks ...

The milk you drink. still, 1,000 times lower than what is dangerous. it's a testament to how good our testing is, not so much is the rad yags, the testing is so amazing. >> chad, thank you. coming up in about 20 minutes' time i'm going to speak with peter landers, who is in tokyo, looking at the official disaster plan at that fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. safe to says you could be pretty surprised to what you hear when you come to the emergency preparedness plan. one issue, the method of choice, if disaster strikes, go to the fax machine. we'll get the whole story in 20 minutes. now thi...

Stick to their guns when it comes to calling for spending cuts. they initially said they wanted $61 billion in cuts. some of these activists want the more. yesterday we heard from vpts joe biden, and he said they had come to a tentative agreement on rough will i $33 billion worth of cuts. you can imagine that didn't go over very well with this group, and we certainly heard some anger from them today. >> do they want the government to shut down? >> reporter: we also heard this super some conservative republicans like michele bachmann of minnesota, that they would rather there be a government sh...

Accident that remember outside help. it doesn't anticipate calling in the military, none of those scenarios emerged, maybe because they didn't think it would be necessary. >> i guess it's one thing not to have to think about it, but another thing to think about it and prepare. is tepco acknowledging the plan? would they say it was inadequate? >> they say it proved useful in some instances. they injected water into the plant on an emergency basis. that was a key step to at least bring it under some kind of control. they do say it helped in certain cases. >> peter landers, "wall street journal" ...