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Jennifer delgado is in the weather center with details. obviously they're going to test when it happens to see how big of a threat it is but a lot of people are scared. >> a lot are people are worried. first of all we want to talk about what's happening with japan. winds are coming out of the northwest, that's an offshore flow, great news, helping to mix the radiation, the particles and the lower levels. friday into saturday it's going to be offshore. now as i take you over, i want to go to the other graphic and show you how we're projecting this air to move. as we go through the next several ...

They are still hoping that they can make some progress with the sea water trops. japanese officials flying chops over top of the radioactive plant at the daiichi plant, hoping that they can stop this unfolding nuclear disaster as radioactive plume makes its way now across the pacific toward the united states but how big of a threat will it pose once it gets here? we have some answers on this "american morning." good morning to you. glad you're with us on this thursday. march 17th, it's st. patrick's day. i'm kiran chetry. >> i'm christine romans. time to get you caught up what is going on in j...

Reporting the radioactive particles likely be dispersed and the actual radiation a fraction of what a chest x-ray would be by the time it reaches u.s. shores. >> absolutely. the wind environment is quite favorable. we're dealing with the winds coming out of the northwest and this is an improvement what we saw two days ago. here is the proof for you. as we go through thursday, as well as friday, we are going to be dealing with an offshore flow. now, i want to take you over to this graphic right here. this is the fukushima daiichi plant. here is the area. watch. we have a wind coming from the no...

Strong winds through parts of japan. notice how it's going to be moving as we go through the next several days, we could potentially see possibility some of that making its way up towards the aleutian islands as well as northeastern parts of russia. for the possibility of it making it from japan over to the western coastline of the u.s., right now not that great because we haven't had an explosion at the plant. we've been dealing with leaks so that means we're dealing with the particle action and the surface winds, with the winds being gusty that is helping to mix it out and with wind patterns...

Happening now, americans evacuating, the state department coordinating charter flights to get american citizens out of japan. also, an agency at the united nations saying winds could bring the radiation to the united states by tomorrow. we're tracking how dangerous it really is, on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, it's thursday, march 17th. welcome to "american morning." i'm christine romans. >> i'm kiran chetry. happy st. patrick's day. in japan a helicopter is dropping tons of water trying to cool the nuclear power plant, dropping water into ...