>> any of my seconds that you want or that you want to donate to me on a friday, i do thnot care. >> you pick the night next week. we need have you on the "the ed show." a big segment on your book. i want to talk about it. people rave about it. take it away. have a great weekend. >> i would love to. thanks so you at home for staying with us. we got a big show. this is the bernice sea. she's a canadian fishing boat. she is seen her docked in canada. this is the ghost ship. did you hear about this? the ghost ship. it's also a fishing vessel. a much bigger one. it's about three times the size of the bernie sea. the ghost ship is a japanese ship. it's old and a little beat up and a little bit more than a year ago this ship was essentially headed toward the scrap heap.

it was at this port in japan that's marked there on the map. it was just tied up there at port with nobody using it because it was going to be sent to scrap. it was going to be cut down and turned into scrap metal. it was halfway on its way to being junk. in march of last year japan had its giant earthquake which triggered a giant tsunam. the ghost ship slipped its moorings and along with five million other tons of debris, the ghost ship ended up out in the pacific ocean on its own with no crew, no controls, no lights the it's just been drifting around in the pacific ocean on its own for a year. the problem with the ship floating around out thereto but there's a chance it could run aground somewhere. as it floated through busy shipping lanes with no lights or

communication that somebody might hit it. it's kind of like space junk but it's in the ocean. it's rusting, steel junk. this is what it becomes really fun to be in the united states coast guard. an unmanned run away ship just floating around. you can see where this is going. target practice time. this is where the bernice sea comes back. as the coast guard was preparing to sink the ghost ship, it asserted salvage rights to the ship. this canadian fishing boat claimed first dips. nay said if nobody owns that ship, if nobody wants it, we'll take it. it approaches the ghost ship which was been floating around in the pacific on its own within no crew for a year. they look to see if they can

hook up their tiny little boat, a boat the third the size of the ship, see if they can hook it up to this giant dead ship to tow it away. the bernice sea is a little engine that camp p can'. everything gets clear of the scene. boom. the coast guard cutter starts hitting the ghost ship with cannon fire. they start shooting 25mm rounds at the ship which it was sort of like this. that is what they were shooting at the ghost ship first to try to sink it. according to the associated

press, a few hours later when the ghost ship still had not sunk, they started using ammo twice that size. it took about four hours of shooting stuff at this abandoned ship, but finally, it sunk. 180 miles off the alaska coast in water more than a mile deep. the ghost ship is no more. it's kind of amazing to think about that ship banging around the pacific ocean for more than a year with no crew, no communication, no lights and without having already caused some sort of problem. it's also amazing to realize it's been more than a year since the japanese tsunami. they are been reporting about how it isn't over now. these nuclear reactors were hit by the earthquake and the tsunami and knocked their cooling system offline.

the super hot fuel was no longer being kept cool by the massive amounts of water to keep the fuel cool and safe. you need water to keep the fuel from overheating but also to act as a shield. in the first early days of the meltdown, you'll remember the explosions, right. the helicopter water drop. the terrifying officials about how damaged these reactors were. the disaster happened in march. it was not until december that japanese officials said it had been brought under control. in december they said they were in safe shutdown. turns out they are still not safe. a week ago they sent workers into this reactor, reactor two.

they had an endoscope and a thermometer and a water gauge. you want to fuel to be covered with water so that the fuel can be kept cool and also to shield its radiation. when these workers went into that reactor, they were expecting the level of water in there to be at about 33 feet. what they found was that it was at two feet. that's very, very bad. that is both a symptom that something is very wrong, but either, i guess it's hot enough to be evaporating that water or the water is leaking. it's a symptom of something going wrong and a cause of yet more going wrong there. with that small amount of water there, with that little water in there, there's nothing shielding the radiation that's coming out of that fuel.

245 is enough to kill a person in a matter of minutes. it's also a high enough level of radiation that most electronic equipment cannot function in that environment. think about this, how do you fix this problem? how do you repair what's wrong in reactor two? it's not going to fix itself. human beings cannot get near enough to this problem and live long enough to fix the problem. we can't send robot remote krog things in there to fix the problem. we humans can build a nuclear reactor, but when a nuclear reactor goes bad like this, we humans cannot fix the problem, at least we don't know how to yet. the current plan to try to stop what is still a year later an ongoing and worsening disaers, the plan is to try to invent something new that doesn't exist yet that might be able to work in this environment. an executive said with levels of

radiation extremely high, we would need to develop equipment that can tolerate high radiation. the thing that does not exist that can allow us to even try to fix this problem. the thing that we can imagine might be useful to fix this problem, we're going to have to invent. we're going to try to invent something while the problem gets worse and worse. it's beyond human capability. the really bad news is this is the good news. reactor number two is in the best shape. they can't figure out how to determine what's going on in reactors one and three because the radiation levels are even higher. thank god for problems that can be fixed with 25mm cannon fire. if there's one problem that we have no problem fixing, it's a problem whose solution is large bore ammunition. a nuclear disaster, nuclear waste, this is a problem we have figured out how to create as

humans, but it's not a problem we have figured out how to solve. since the earthquake and the tsunami has started, japan has shut down its entire nuclear power industry. they have 50. only one is operating. in this little part of japan here that's marked on the map, the governor of that part is saying i don't care what the government says federally, she does not want any of the cluster of nuclear power plants in her jurisdiction to be restarted there. he reasoning issing that it's the home of lake that supplies the fresh drinking water for more than a tenth of japan. in 2004, a texas billionaire applied for a license to dump nuclear waste in west texas. the texas water development

board maps of where he wants the dump to be showed that his waste dump sat on top of the ogallala aquifer. it covers that whole huge giant part of the country. it spans eight different states and shallow. it provides a third of all aft water that is used to irrigate land in the united states of america. want to put a nuclear waste dump on that. that texas bill nar who wanted the dump had given more than a million dollars to texas governor rick perry. rick perry appointed five of the six people on the texas water development board. once that billionaire's dump license came up for review the texas water board took a look at the maps and dded to take another look at their maps and said the aquifer moved. it's not where we thought it was at all. how convenient for the

billionaire campaign donor. there are reports about how that texas billionaire, the nuclear waste dump guy is the single largest anti-barack obama funder in this election cycle. this is the year of zillionaire. the person that has given more than money than anybody else is the nuclear waste dump guy from texas. this election season alone he's donated more than $18 million to an an anti-obama and promitt romney. now that he's going national wharks do you think he wants for the whole country? joining us is miraha blake.

thank you for much for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. >> did i get anything wrong in terms of what you understand about mr. simmons and his history in texas? >> you pretty much hit the nail on the head. >> can you summarize what you learned about the way he's used campaign donations to influence politics in the state of texas. what his aims have been. >> he's given huge sums of money and poured more than $2 million into lobbying. the result has been that he's managed to push this waste dump through. he's cleared all kinds of hurdles. in almost every instance the body that was making the decision had received many of the representatives received money directly from him or appointed by people that received huge sums of money from him. >> mr. simmons has indicated, he

doesn't go do a lot of interviews but when he's talked about his politics he's indicated dislike for barack obama. he's called him the most dangerous man in america. >> that is correct. >> is it clear to you from your reporting what he would want from a republican administration in terms of policy? is there any way to extrapolate for what he's expected from his campaign donations in texas to what he wants at the federal level? >> it's clear. his top priority is pushing through this dump. the dump is about to open. it will be accepting its first waste in two weeks. now he is turning his attention to expanding the quantity of waste that he can bring into this dump. there's a lot of decisions that will be made. they span the gamett.

some involve lobbying for contracts. there's a very large waste disposal contract on the table at the department of energy right now. essentially there are many things in the pipeline that could mean billions of dollars to this man. >> during the campaign season, i mentioned this is the year of zillionaire and we learned a lot. what sort of money, what sort of level of money is harold simmons spending compared to those guys that are more well-known than he is? >> he has out spent everybody. he's sunk about $18 million into republican super pacs or conservative sumer macs. he says he intended to sink another $18 million before the end of this election cycle. this is man that has given tons

of money to conservative politicians over the years. what he is saying he will give this year will out strip wa he has given in the rest of his career combined. >> in terms of how he will spend it, as we shift into the general election campaign, most of the money has been through karl rove's dark money super mapac. >> it's hard to anticipate how he will function. it may be once there's a clear front-runner, he'll give more money. he's given large sums to the leading republican candidates. this is a man that spreads his money around. he's giving to everybody. he appears to be hedging his bets. >> only on republicans? >> only on republicans, yes. he's given very little to

democrats over the years. >> there's a stray donation here and there to an anti-environment democrat when he can find one. thank you very much for your reporting. thanks for talking to us about it. >> thank you for having me. the chairman of the republican party has displiszed the republican party's relationship with women as a car on caterpillars which led us to great the greatest graphic we created in the show. the very, very angry caterpillar. stick around. starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ [ male announcer ] strip away the styling. strip away the rearview monitors, tv screens, bluetooth... and even the cup holders.

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democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every media talked about republicaned had a war on cat ter pillars. the fact of matter is it's a fiction. >> the idea that the republican party is waging war on women is as ridiculous as the idea that they are waging war on caterpillars. see, it's an analogy in which women are caterpillars. when the overall project is to convince women that the republican party has a lot of respect for women, the caterpillar day was not a good day. instead of taking on the women part of the idea of a war on women, instead of going after word number three in war on

women, now they are going after word number one. republican national spokesman said the use of word war, that quote borders on unpatriotic. war on coal to war on mexico to yes, war on women. it is a little rich they have now decided anybody using the word war in a political context is a traitor. if the republican party chairman is really bad at talking about this, and he is, and if the republican party chief paid talker, their spokesman is really bad at talking about this, and he is, i'm going to go out on a caterpillar leafy limb and suggest a new spokesperson on this issue who is good at talking about it. it turns out she is really good

about talking about the republican war on women. really good. like sit down, pay attention. this is good. >> i think for women around this country, what they were sensing was that after decades of believing that the issue of contraception and women's access to contraception, that we had resolved that decades ago. now all of a sudden this is not only discussion in congress but you've got presidential wannabes that are talking about whether contraception is good, bad, indifferent, wrong. i think what you're sensing is a fear, a concern that women feel threatened that a long settled issue might not be so settled. when i came back home and made the comments that i made to a

reporter about how i regretted the vote on the blunt amendment, it was indirect reflection to where we were, where we are as a nation in women feeling that the party that i've chosen to affiliate myself with, the republican party, is ignoring their concern, is causing them to feel like the rights that they believe were settled a long time ago are now being threatened, possibly eroded. >> let me ask you this from a strategic and tactical side of thinking, aren't the republicans maybe stepping into a trap? i guess the question i'm trying to ask is what are they think g

thinking? i a >> i asked the same question to my colleagues. it makes no sense to go down this road. it makes no sense to attack women. the you don't view this as an attack on women then you need to go loam and talk to your wives and daughters. ask them if they feel this is an attack. this is how women are perceiving the situation. >> if you don't view this as an attack on women then you need to go home and talk to your wives and your daughters. republican u.s. senator gets what the rest of the republican party appears not to get, which is that republicans are not being accused randomly and for no reason of going after women's right, they are earning that reputation by going after women's rights. yeah, women notice that. while he was telling his caterpillar story that it's a fiction and democrats and the

media are making that up, while he was doing that his fellow wisconsin republican, scott walker was signing a bill into law blocking insurance coverage for abortion in wisconsin. also, he signing a bill removing contraception from the sex ed curriculum in wisconsin and overruling the objections of the wisconsin medical association. he was signing another bill to interfere with how wisconsin doctors are allowed to counsel their patients about abortion and for good measure, at the same time he was signing a bill into law that eliminates the state's version of the lily ledbetter act. it eliminates equal pay for equal work. he did all that last night. how can you the wisconsin governor signing those laws and his buddy from back in wisconsin saying we're not doing anything to women. democrats keep accusing us of

that. who me? us? what? here is mitt romney doing exactly if same thing. >> there was the perception that republicans are opposed to contraceptions. i think it was the most unfortunate twist by our democrat friends. i think this will pass as an issue as people understand our real position. i have made it clear, i do not oppose contraception. >> yeah, right. and you're not waging war on caterpillars either. i understand. he says he supports a constitutional amendment to define life as beginning at contraception which would not only ban all abortion and make it illegal, i would likely ban the bill and other forms of contraception. i want to be known as supporting contraception. you can either be known for supporting contraception or you can want to ban contraception. those two things cannot overlap.

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bomber. they are sergeant first class shawn hannon. first jeff rick and. we spoke to the family and joins us live. >> the three central ohio soldiers died yesterday along with ten other people in a suicide attack in northern afghanistan. tonight their loved ones are still absorbing the reality of their loss. >> we are a nation at war. we forget that because we go on with our day-to-day lives. these just become fading, brief headlines. we're a nation at war, and men are dying on a regular basis on there. people need to remember that. >> we're are a nation at war and people need to remember that. his brother was one of those three ohio soldiers killed this week. we've been at war for almost 11

years now. for eight and a half of those years or military was simultaneously fighting another war in iraq as well. it's been expensive and deadly. for the people fighting those wars, it's been all consuming. for the rest of us, for the 99% of americans who have not been fighting in those wars, we are still trying to figure out as civilians how to acknowledge and appreciate and say thank you to the people that have been doing the fighting and making the sacrifice and whose lives have been so different than our lives. the iraq war ended in december. here is what it looked like at home, an address from the president and a state dinner to recognize a symbolic portion of the troops that served in iraq. no national moment of recognition that regular americans could participate in to mark the ending of that war. that's not the end of the story. regular americans around cities

have wanted to do something that people could participate in and regular americans have started organizing on their own in cities large and small to have parades. parades to say welcome home and say thank you. this was the first one in st. louis, ohio. it was an enormous success. 100,000 people showed up on a cold day in. there was this ride to freedom. tucson, arizona was next. it too was judged a big success. later this month if you're in melbourne, florida, you can be part of welcoming home. tomorrow, tomorrow is going to be the first end of the iraq war parade in a very large american city. houston. houston is the fourth largest city in america. tomorrow houston is hosting a

parade honoring iraq war veterans and their family. it will end at minute maid stadium. there will be a ceremony on the field before they play that night. the welcome home events in st. louis and tucson were great. those were individual citizens in local unofficial groups of civilians that worked hard to organize them. tomorrow's parade in houston will be the first parade organized by the city itself which means the person in charge is an elected official. joining us is the mayor of houston texas. thank you very much for being here. it's nice to have you here. >> glad to be on. now i'm a little intimidated. this is the first parade being hosted by a city. i find that hard to believe. we're ready for it. we're excited about it. >> where did the idea come from that houston should do this and

houston should do it in the way that you have decided to do it? >> it came just as it has in all the other cities from our citizens. it bubbled up through receipt v veterans groups. he brought the idea to me. we turned it over the our special vents coordinator and it just took off. citizens have embred it. we didn't plan to do it in conjunction with the houston an tr astros. they were going to be playing. they stepped up and wanted to treat the returning veterans to baseball game and it has grown from there. >> what kientnd of collaboratio have you entered into? who has come together to make this happen in houston? >> all the local levels of government. this is not a corporate parade.

it's nothing something that we are seeking sponsorships for. we're going to have a parade and invite all of houston to come downtown, line the parade route and say thank you and welcome home. these are our friends and neighbors. these are our brothers and our sisters who have come back from iraq, and we want to show our support. >> one of the issues that has been sort of the only controversy surrounding this idea is that the pentagon made an argument that there should not be a new york city parade. what they have described as a national event in new york city while we are still waging the war in afghanistan. they have not objected to any other city doing what you're about to do in houston and doing what other cities have done. they said there nould shot be a national event. did that factor at all in your decision? >> we thought about that. we do not forget that people are fighting and dying in

afghanistan. these troupes have been deployed over and over again. nay are home. we hope they are home for good. we want the opportunity to say thank you now while it's fresh. one of the things we all have to think about is the transition that these military personnel go through as they go back into civilian life. all too many of them get off track. we want to embrace them. we want to show our support. in addition to the rousing show of support they will get from houstonians, and we know how to support our troops here. there's an opportunity to capture them, connect them to the broader support network of social service agencies and veterans groups that we have down here. it's a duel purpose. >> that's been a key part of so many of these veevents that happened around the country. it's a thank you and let me give

you a hand. >> absolutely. >> houston, you are large city. you have a city that's got a lot of resources. you have a veteran affairs coordinator on staff. do you have advice for other mayors or towns that may be considering doing this? >> it has to be about the vets. it has to come through and with your local veterans groups. we do an annual veterans day parade in november. this is especially to thank our iraqi war vets. we wouldn't have done anything without the full support and cooperation of the dozens of veterans associations that are in the houston area. we're rated as a top ten city by the department of defense for our veteran services, and the city of houston was just honored as the best employer in the

state of texas for active duty military personnel. we work closely with our uniform services and with our veteran groups to make sure this is appropriately done. >> houston mayor, good luck with the parade tomorrow. everything looks like it's going to be awesome. congratulations. thanks a lot. >> thank you. now, i will say, the pentagon line that it makes sense to do this in houston and tucson and fayetteville, it makes sense to do it there, i got to say it doesn't make sense to me. the pentagon official we had to talk about that reasons with has now announced he's retiring. if it was just his idea, maybe the fact that he's going means the pentagon could reconsider this. the head of the city council here in new york and some of the other members of the new york

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deepening mistrust between our two countries. and into our murky frenemy relationship with pakistan which is suffused with suspicion and competing interests, walks this guy. this guy is the founder of an islamic militant group called lashgar tieba. it's the group that is accused of orchestrating the horrific terrorist attacks in mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008, including six americans. on monday the state department put a $10 million bounty on him. a $10 million reward for anybody who has information leading to his arrest and conviction. there it is right there on the state department's web site, "rewards for justice." $10 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction. the united states wants hafiz sayed apprehended stat. this week he responded to the u.s. government's bounty on his

head. by holding a press conference? >> translator: to be honest, i'm surprised that america doesn't know where i am. these threats, putting money on my head to help my arrest, are for people hiding in mountains and caves and no one knows about them. but with the grace of god i am here, in front of you. and tomorrow i will be in lahor and will release a schedule for the day after tomorrow so america can contact me whenever it wants to. i'd like to ask the u.s. state department why they offer this bounty to other people. why don't they give it to me? i can tell them my whereabouts on a daily basis and be available on my phone and addressing large public rallies daily. >> okay. it's not just that this guy held a freaking press conference two days after the u.s. state department put a $10 million bounty on his head. it is also the place where he held that press conference.

he held that press conference in a place called raul pindi. it's what they call a garrison city. it's where the pakistani military has its headquarters. so osama bin laden's house was just outside the gates of pakistan's west point. and the guy wanted for the mumbai bombing with a new $10 million bounty on his head, he's holding press conferences outside the rough equivalent of pakistan's pentagon. the state department spokesperson, victoria new land, was asked this week about the bounty and whether our dear friends in the pakistani government and military really are on board with us on this on one. >> has there been communication with the pakistani government, the pakistani authorities seeking for his arrest? >> the government of pakistan has regularly, in our conversations with them, pledged its cooperation in the investigations. we fully expect that it will follow through on those

commitments. >> they've pledged their cooperation in the investigations. we fully expect that they will follow through on those commitments. but in the meantime we're going to keep putting multimillion bounties on the most wanted people on earth and those people will hide in plain sight right under the noses of our dear pakistani allies. you know that concept of friends with benefits? what's the opposite of that? [ male announcer ] this is lawn ranger -- eden prairie, minnesota. in here, the landscaping business grows with snow. to keep big winter jobs on track, at&t provided a mobile solution that lets everyone from field workers to accounting, initiate, bill, and track work in real time. you can't live under a dome in minnesota, that's why there's guys like me. [ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪

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