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Martha: why isn't it a dual system? i know absolutely nothing about how this operates but there's another way to raise the window in your car, right? >> yeah, probably if we build new reactors they there are dual systems, they will be much safer. this is evolveing technology, like cars and airplanes, you get better as you go along. most of the reactors are 30 years and they depend on the electric. martha: when you're in this zone, tsunamis have happened in japan and you have this thing on the water line, why wouldn't they have said at that point, gee, if something really rocks this reactor are...

Stuff. he served as governor for two terms, he's been traveling in ohio and new hampshire, obviously for good reason. it's coming up at 3:00. martha: getting the ball rolling. we'll see what happens. in the meantime, going back to japan, and this huge story, as john was -- as jon was talking about, smoke is billowing up from at least two, according to reports that we got from david piper earlier, of japan's nuclear reactors, once again, that forced responders away from the fukushima facility, it is coming, we believe, from this pool of spent fuel rods that sits around the main reactor area in ...

Trying everything they can possibly do, and it's appropriate. they need to try every possible measure. but the fact that the radiation levels are prohibitive for carrying out the measures is disturbing. i wonder how long it can be sustained. >> the u.s. government today gave a more dire technical assessment of what's going on in japan than we've been hearing from the japanese government. the u.s. then changed advice to u.s. citizens,ç advising americans to evacuate further from the reactor area than japan had been advising. do you know why that shift happened? >> well, the nrc apparently pub...

Irradiated environment. radiation levels are fluctuating wildly on site. the second danger is to the wider community living around the reactor area. here it's marginally better. right now the levels of radiation being released, though unacceptably high are unlikely to pose a risk to the health of the people outside the evacuation zone. >> go through what we heard about the various reactors. there's up to six of them. tell me which one worries you most. let's do triage. what worries you most? >> first i should point out there's deep uncertainty at the moment about all of this. for various reaso...

>> well, i think that they are trying everything they can possibly do, and it's appropriate. they need to try every possible measure. but the fact that the radiation levels are prohibitive for carrying out the measures is disturbing. i wonder how long it can be sustained. >> the u.s. government today gave a more dire technical assessment of what's going on in japan than we've been hearing from the japanese government. the u.s. then changed advice to u.s. citizens,{ advising americans to evacuate further from the reactor area than japan had been advising. do you know why that shift happened? >>...