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But it is in the middle of a land mass. you can't have a dead zone in a country as small as this island of japan without losing a good chunk of the nation. >> well, that's right. this is about 180 miles from tokyo. tokyo is not directly infected -- affected, but psychologically it is. you see people choosing not to go to tokyo. you see people leaving tokyo. you see in south korea schools being shut because they're fearful of radiation clouds. a lot of this is actually unwarranted because the radiation is confined primarily to the area right around the fukushima site. but that doesn't help quel...

A burst and now it's over and say, okay, eight days will pass. >> we're doing a disservice to japan in a way, talking about california and oregon when i am worried about the people that are around this reactor, people that are 10, 20 miles away, that are wondering where their milk is coming from and we should look at our imports from japan. that's where we should be doing our screening, not our rain water or milk. megyn: what would cause you to get concerned about our rain water or milk? >> if something happened here. megyn: let's say one of the reactors blows and it gets worse than it is now....

It. >> neil: and they're filling up tap water, you know, 120 some odd miles away, again, negligible amounts? >> negligible, but, you know, it struck me as odd that's all. >> something to be taken very seriously, something to be measured in japan. the chances of it affecting anybody here, given all the science that was done with chernobyl, following the accident with radiation clouds and european worries, and study after study being done, not showing an increased cancer rate in europe, i don't think anyone in the west coast here has to worry at all. >> neil: you know, i'm hardly an alarmist, i'...

On tuesday, some rain moving in and there might be some snow mixed in with that during the morning hours. so, contessa, still anything but ideal for the rescue workers there. >> and bob bazell mentioned to us, nick, that the radiation clouds are now being blown, instead of out to sea, down toward tokyo. are we expecting the wind to remain in the pattern it currently is? >> well, for a while, anyway. we're going to see for the next couple of days, the winds basically blowing from the west and northwest. that's offshore. and that's good news, because it would take any radiation that might leak o...

We may be in a situation in japan that may have that consequence. if it did have that consequence, the result would be, of course, very devastating for the reactor itself, but the consequences for the people living in the vicinity would be very minor. >> so when we think about -- and again, i'm going to go back to chern only even though it's not a perfect analogy. i know when chernobyl groek down there were effects of that with radiation clouds in sweden. do you have any concern with what's happening right now with these nuclear power plants in japan that anything could come via cloud or in an...