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Thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> first, i have to ask you as i do regularly, did i get anything wrong in that description? >> no, it sounded pretty good to me. >> that's bad news whenever i ask you that. that's a drag. in terms of the rain and snow issue, people in need of shelter is the immediate concern there. in terms of radiation risk, if rain and snow is a means of delivering more concentrated doses essentially of diffuse radiation in the atmosphere, is there an increased health hazard from bad weather essentially in japan? >> well, it depends where the rainfalls, where ...

Take for new pumps to arrive there. developments are still happening, sort of fast and furious in japan. the crisis is not over. joining us to understand this better, ed lyman from the union of concerned scientists. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> first, i have to ask you as i do regularly, did i get anything wrong in that description? >> no, it sounded pretty good to me. >> that's bad news whenever i ask you that. that's a drag. in terms of the rain and snow issue, people in need of shelter is the immediate concern there. in terms of radiation risk, if rain and snow is a me...

Levels, that burn them out on their exposure limits. >> we hear that the radiation cloud moving from japan to the west coast of the united states, while they are getting tests on the west coast, minuscule levels of radiation and we hear that the united states is not equipped for such a disaster. where do you stand on that? >>guest: i'm not an expert on that. i can't tell you whether we are or are not equipped. we always through the cold war years maintain a level of readiness to handle something like this but i presume that has continued but i am not eastbound -- equipped to tell you where we ...

Sure that doesn't happen either. maybe they'll suspend temporarily and come back, regroup and come back. or maybe they're rotating teams or maybe something else is going on here. but if that is the case, then it means thing have -- things have gotten very serious from a health standpoint. and number two, where does this story go? who knows what's going to happen next if that's the case? >> what is it at this point that we don't know? i mean, what are the key things you need to know that you would like to know that we don't know? >> well, i would like to know more about the workers and i want t...

Into reactors one and three. no one to manage potential fires at reactor four. no one around to keep an eye on reactors five and six to make sure that doesn't happen either. maybe they'll suspend temporarily and come back and come back. or maybe they're rotating teams or maybe something else is going on here. but if that is the case, then it means things have gotten serious from a health standpoint. and number two, where does this story go? who knows what's going to happen next if that's the case? >> what is it at this point that we don't know? i mean, what are the key things you need to know ...