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U.s. navy is testing the water at a couple of naval bases within about 200 miles of the reactor, the base is at sugi and yosuska, ten times a day they're checking i'm told and so far they've not found anything out of the ordinary, those of you with personnel, loved ones, assigned to the navy bases will certainly appreciate that, i know. jenna: tim is a good businessman! it's a personal choice! like a good answer, like it's a personal choice if you get to buy a pair of shoes, right? same thing, right, sort of? maybe not. on this same sort of i guess business side of the story, one of the thin...

This was not a critically dangerous situation, was it? >> no, absolutely not. as you well know. no, there's a large number, probably 125, 150 of the airports in our country that take commercial flights are either not powered, or they, you know, the towers shut down at a certain time. pilots know the procedures, it's perfectly safe. jon: but, i guess, what -- part of the reason this controller may have fallen asleep is that there just isn't a lot of traffic at midnight, 12:30 in the morning at ronald reagan. >> traffic backs off dramatic dramatically after 9:00, but it's still very disturbing. ...

Contributing to the unemployment rate. they say there's no question unauthorized workers will work for cheap and are taking jobs away from americans, but others point to the tremendous loss of jobs in the construction industry and the tourism industry due to the recession, creating high unemployment there, and they say the majority of the construction jobs will likely not return, which means the state of nevada will likely recover slower than the rest of the country. and jon, after nevada, the states with the highest number of illegal immigrant workers are california, texas, new jersey, and ar...

Operation. what's also interesting, this is interagency, multiple agencies from both of the border, the u.s. and canada, all here, staffing this, trying to share intelligence, so that they can have a better handle on stuff that hits the water long before it even hits the water. jon: interesting stuff. steve brown, thanks. jenna: a coalition forces in libya, pounding qaddafi defenses with air strikes, but is it too late for diplomacy, have we moved past that point? we'll have a former ambassador to the u.n., bill richardson, a man with a great deal of experience in dealing with dictator. we'll ...

Is with us, do you have any inventories left now? >> i have dozens of units in my office now. the problem is they're already sold and ready to ship out in the next day or two. jon: percentagewise, what kind of boom in business have you seen since this japan problem began? >> in a normal year, we might sell 1000 geiger counters, and just in the first five days, after the news broke of the disaster in japan, we sold as many as 500. jon: and most of them going to people on the west coast? >> i would say about 30 percent are going straight over to japan and another 40 percent to the west coast of ...