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But this is now showing signs of additional activity. we had a second eruption in just a week, this last one. pretty powerful stuff going upwards of 5.4 kilometers up into the 10,000 foot level here. satellite and radar from the area showing the thunderstorm activity across the region. the island just to the south and east, this is 10,000 feet up, the wind flow, we understand now ash has been falling on the island here. some significant ash fall there is being reported. and the information minister from the disaster agency there basically warning folks to remain indoors as some of that ash con...

>> each one of these blades, they weigh about 9 tons. the diameter is about 300 feet, that's about the length of a football field. >> reporter: and they are everywhere. >> in the u.s. we have about 15,000 wind turbines. >> reporter: ge got into the wind business in 2002. it now makes 40% of all wind turbines in the u.s. it's constantly refining its technology to safely harness the wind. >> when you look at a wind turbine, that wind flow creates two forces. one is a torque. torque turns the gearbox, which turns the generator which puts the kilowatt hours onto the grid. and it also creates a thr...

here. we're standing, a lot of this was beach. we got here this morning. quickly it's already risen several feet. i was talking to the mayor. he said one of the big worries in this area is when you go past here, there's homes that's built on a cliff. at this point their worries not so much the wind, this is not going to be the kind of storm here where the wind is going to do catastrophic damage, but what they are worried about is, it's moving so slowly, and it's going to hit right before high tide which comes about 3:30 in the morning here, that they are worried that there may be so ...

The numbers, were in the hundreds. this is not quite reached that level. does that give us some hope this perhaps, especially depending on the wind flow, in which direction it is heading, does that give people some hope that perhaps people will not be infected as much as feared? >> i think so. what we have to remember is right now we are in information gathering mode. it is difficult to make any sort of proclamations or assumptions about anything. what we've learned is that what is going to happen is unpredictable. what we need on now from a policy standpoint is the united states helping japan...

The numbers, were in the hundreds. this is not quite reached that level. does that give us some hope this perhaps, especially depending on the wind flow, in which direction it is heading, does that give people some hope that perhaps people will not be infected as much as feared? >> i think so. what we have to remember is right now we are in information gathering mode. it is difficult to make any sort of proclamations or assumptions about anything. what we've learned is that what is going to happen is unpredictable. what we need on now from a policy standpoint is the united states helping japan...