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There are concerns about criminal patronage networks. one thing i saw and david petraeus said today, the afghan army is starting to fight and show descent signs of leadership. if you're looking for signs of hopefulness, if you're looking for some goodell amounts of hopefulness the afghan army is starting to fight and performing better. jenna: we always appreciate your insights in all these issues. thank you for joining us again. michael hanlon. jon: fox news alert less than an hour from now the president is set to hold a high level briefing with top military brass and leaders in congress. we b...

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Miles is taking potassium iodine pills before they leave. >> what it's actually designed to do is act as a blocking agent. >> reporter: colonel steve kramer is a military doctor who depends on officers to map the plume and figure out how fast the wind is blowing. >> they've been doing calculations to determine who's likely to be exposed, the level and intensity of the exposure. >> reporter: an aircraft carrier and ships were downwind of the radioactive cloud. they've been moved north and further to sea. and although there was only the smallest bit of radiation detected at u.s. bases in japan, ...

Leaving, the train stations, the airports are crowded, now long lines. would you stay in tokyo if you were here? >> i think i would. i think there's no real likelihood of a significant radiation exposure to tokyo. it's 150 miles away, roughly. and the amount of disbursal of the radioactive cloud you're going to get in that distance is going to make the doses very low indeed. that being said, as i alluded to, we really need to monitor the doses in a more scientific way than we're doing right now. it's been done in a very ad hoc manner. something systematic needs to be done with the doses on the...

Themselves and again the issues relate to which way the wind will blow. >> and professor, there's certainly a lot of people in tokyo, a huge population here. many of whom are leaving, thinking of leaving the train stations, the airports are crowded, long lines. would you stay in tokyo if you were here? >> i think i would. i think there's no real likelihood of a significant radiation exposure to tokyo. it is 150 miles away roughly and the am of dispersal of the radioactive cloud you are going to get in that distance is really going to make the doses very low indeed. that being said, as i eluded...