lies unrepaired, but what happened to the people who once lived here? forced to flee the radiation, forced to abandon all they own. >> three years after the disaster, there are some very serious questions about the aftermath that need to be answered. first, has the threat of radiation been overstated? by the media and anti-nuclear campaigners? second, is the fear of radiation actually turning out to be much more lethal than the radiation itself? clinic, a boy is having his high roi gland examined. his mother is scared. children were diagnosed many years after the disaster. children may be fine now, but if there is any risk, i want to find out as soon as possible. >> experts say fukushima cannot be compared to chernobyl. the cases discovered so far are not connected to the nuclear disaster. >> the radiation released from fukushima was much less than chernobyl. children here got a much smaller dose. but once you start using sensitive equipment to check for thyroid cancer, you will find were cases. that's why we are seeing an increase, not because of the d

lies unrepaired, but what happened to the people who once lived here? forced to flee the radiation, forced to abandon all they own. >> three years after the disaster, there are some very serious questions about the aftermath that need to be answered. first, has the threat of radiation been overstated? by the media and anti-nuclear campaigners? second, is the fear of radiation actually turning out to be much more lethal than the radiation itself? clinic, a boy is having his high roi gland examined. his mother is scared. children were diagnosed many years after the disaster. children may be fine now, but if there is any risk, i want to find out as soon as possible. >> experts say fukushima cannot be compared to chernobyl. the cases discovered so far are not connected to the nuclear disaster. >> the radiation released from fukushima was much less than chernobyl. children here got a much smaller dose. but once you start using sensitive equipment to check for thyroid cancer, you will find were cases. that's why we are seeing an increase, not because of the d

the destruction by the earthquake lies unrepaired. but what has happened to the people who once lived here? forced to flee the radiation, forced to abandon all they own. three years after the disaster, there are now very serious questions about its aftermath that need to be answered. firstly, has the threat of radiation to people's health here actually been greatly overstated by, for example, the media and anti-nuclear campaigners. secondly, is the fear of radiation turning out to be much more lethal than the radiation itself. in a private clinic 60 kilometers from the plant, a little boy is having his thyroid gland examined. his mother is scared. since the disaster, 33 fukushima children have been found with thyroid cancer. she worries he could be next. >> translator: at chernobyl children were diagnosed many years after the disaster. children here may be fine now. but if there's any risk i want to find out as soon as possible. >> reporter: the child cancer experts say fukushima cannot be compared with chernobyl. the 33 cases discove

time ] >> we go to investigate reports of problems in san francisco's public housing have gone unrepaired. people say they have been trapped for hours or unable to get home. even though they are just a few floors away. ktvu's ken wayne is live with the legal action being taken on behalf of the tenants. >> reporter: we are outside the towers. each one of them is 13 stories tall and getting up and down without a worker elevator is next to impossible for many tenants. >> reporter: today the elevators working. but these pictures show that is not always the case. the elderly and disabled tenants often see these orange signs indicating the elevators are out of service. it is no surprise. >> you push your number ain't no telling where you will go. >> reporter: he was once trapped in an elevator and had to squeeze out. >> i pried them open and came down the stairs. >> 7 stories down. >> i have informed our property manager all the way up to the mayor and in between and in all that time i have yet to get a response. >> reporter: now residents are taking legal action. >> san francisco housing autho

wouldn't want to risk the liability, and i quote them now: associated with selling a recalled but unrepaired vehicle. still, it appears multiple dealers will willing to do that very thing. here's the other headline, that is if you run a car fax on the most recently-recalled vehicles, those suvs, i talked about. , it comes up no recalls are reported on those vehicles because there is a lag time between the time they announce a recall and the time that they report the vins, the vehicle identification numbers, to the database. that means when you run the recall, when you run the carfax on the recall vehicle, it comes up no recall. gm says it's looking into trying to speed that process up, but not to single out gm, all automakers do this as well. best advice is to go to the nhtsa web site which will tell you the make, model and year of a vehicle that's recalled. don't trust the carfax in this particular case. adam, back to you. adam: jeff flock, thank you very much. cheryl: for more on the legal ramifications for people selling recalled vehicles, we're joined by judge andrew napolitano. what do