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>> if they were to get a longer term deal, that's what the president has been pushing for, to take this funding through the end of the year, finally we wouldn't have this lurching government week to week as you suggest. i think at the end of the day, what's interesting as well, the political implications. think about how this week started, the president officially filed the paperwork on monday to run for election. thought he was riding high. the week is ending maybe where he oversees potentially a government shutting down. could be politically radioactive for we're not sure which party. the po...

The ocean. >> the company running this power plant is basically trying to make more room to store water which has a high level of radio activity. at the same time there is water because of this disaster which is much more dangerous in the number two reactor's turbine building. it's so radioactive it's shut down efforts to get the cooling systems at the reactor running again. now the company is dumping more than 11,000-tons of radioactive wastewater to make room for this other more dangerous water. if they get this into storage they should be able to resume efforts to get the cooling systems ba...

Has in the food supply. these are really tyiny amounts. >> how much of an increase over what we are used to though? >> it's trivial. we live in a radioactive world. we eat radioactive elements every day. bana bananas are a big source of radioactive potassium. there is more radio activity in a banana than a liter or two quarts of the milk that was detected with the iodine levels. just to give you an idea, every day we drink a little radium and eat potassium and uranium in our food and breathing in radon right now. it's low level stuff and we don't have that much concern. this amount of radiatio...

Place. so these sensors, they can, you know, determine the source of the radiation and it's, you know, much smaller than anything that's going to impact human health. there was a little bit of radio activity found in milk in walk state this week and it was about 5,000 times lower than the limit for the fda to take action. >> okay. that sounds find right now, okay, but this shows no sign of stopping any time soon, this radio activity being released into the air. >> right. >> i mean, how confident are we that this is going to be just fine and no one is going to have any adverse ill side effects ...

Non-contaminated fish down the road? >> that's right and certainly any fish that would be very close to the reactor plants could ingest some quantities of radioactive elements and that's true. that would have to be monitored closely. the water is just dilution as it spreads out over the thousands and thousands of miles. with the churning as you say and normal process of dispersion within the water would reduce the levels further and further away from the coast line >> how concerns are you that there is an increase in radioactive material detected in u.s. milk? >> i'm not concerned at all. thes...