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Chernobyl. can you give me some comparative as to where we are right now if nothing worse happens, the radiation levels stay where they are and go down? how is this as a comparative to other things that have happened? >> clearly it's not a chernobyl. that spewed radiation over ten to 12 days and the radiation effect was over 1200 miles. as a matter of fact the cleanup is still going on today at chernobyl. we haven't had that kind of explosion. the explosions that they have, have been hydrogen explosions and did not involve the fuel itself. that doesn't mean we don't have problems. the fuel fir...

That same sentiment. >> and i'm echoing it based on the assessment of our public health director here in l.a. county, dr. fielding, who was emphatic, emphatic, that there is no radiation effect at this time. >> now i know you did just come from this emergency preparedness meeting so that tells me that l.a. is doing something precautionary here. what is your city doing as you move forward? >> this press conference was some 25 or 30 representatives. it was held at our emergency operations center that we opened last year. early on i decided that we needed to have a state of the art emergency oper...

Is eiodine supposed to do for the people in the the surrounding area. >> i think the iodine will protect the lymph gland if there's a serious leak from radiation. it won't help entirely, but they are he' taking precautions now and also expanded the raid just of evacuation from six to 12 miles and they are warning people to stay in their homes and also, if they have to go out, cover their faces in wet panel, for instance, so they can limit any radiation effect. >> and even earlier, you pointed out, i'm surprised it took this long, we first heard the dat toll the missing seemed very, very low, 5...