there are 87 tons of it on site at fukushima daiichi. japan will use french technology to decontaminate the radioactive water. >> these big international meeting often attract protesters. are we seeing any protests in deauville so far? >> the main ones are focusing on the safety of nuclear power. the accidents at fukushima daiichi has given a boost to anti-nuclear campaigns around the world. in europe the feeling is different regarding this type of energy. germany and italy have decided to stop promoting nuclear power but as we heard from president sarkozy, france is standing by this force of energy. as for the united states, president barack obama has expressed his intention to promote nuclear power but his administration acknowledges their concerns about nuclear safety. it is looking at reviewing safety measures and making an international standard that would be followed by all country with nuclear power including developing countries. >> something has happened here. we need to learn from that experience. president obama asked the nucl

the amount is about 130 times higher than before the accident at fukushima daiichi. the prime minister's nuclear adviser said on monday a detailed investigation is necessary to determine how the radioactive substance was scattered. that should include an analysis of past data. once inhaled, the radioactive strontium accumulates in bones like calcium and could cause cancer. until now the government has not checked strontium levels regularly or in wide areas because it's not easy to distinguish from other radioactive materials and takes time to measure. >>> the operator of the hamaoka nuclear power plant says it will set up a task force to find ways to address possible power shortages this summer. the chubu electric power company decided monday to comply with prime minister naoto kan's request to suspend operation of all the reactors in the plant. >> translator: we're taking the request from the prime minister very seriously. we need to prioritize safety. the very basis of nuclear power. >> translator: i am very relieved that they accepted the request. the government w

a team of workers am enter the number one reactor building at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant on thursday for the first time since march 11. the first step in a plan to safely cool down the reactor. the workers will set up a purifier. this is being done ahead of work to restore the cooling functions in the reactor. earlier, tepco disclosed plans to restore the cooling system by circulating water in the reactors' containment vessel. however, the company faces many challenges before the work to set up the system can begin. they include whether the purifier will be able to filter the air to a level that will allow workers to remain inside for extended periods. even if workers manage to enter, radiation levels may remain high near where a water circulating system is to be installed. the workers may need to clean the pipes with water and contain radiation with lead sheets. they may also have to change some damaged pipes and valves. also to circulate water inside the containment vessel, the water must reach the height of the fuel rods. but if pressure within the vessel is eased too

the operator of the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant will announce on tuesday a revised plan to cool down the reactors one month after the original one. tokyo electric power company says it needs to pour water into the reactors. it had confirmed earlier that the fuel rods have melted, and may have burned holes in the number one reactor pressure vessel. radioactive water is likely flowing from the containment vessel into the basement. tepco says it suspects a similar situation is happening in the number two and three reactors. the firm says it's considering pumping water out of the containment vessels and circulating it back into the reactors after cooling it with heat exchangers. it's also thinking of taking water from the basements of the reactor buildings and putting it back into the reactors after removing the radioactive substances. tepco is expected to keep to its original schedule of stabilizing the reactors within six to nine months. the japanese government will announce a plan on tuesday to help evacuees from around the troubled fukushima daiichi plant. it will have the

. >>> the operator of the fukushima daiichi talk in clear power plant says the disaster knocked out the disaster's cooling system creating holes in the pressure vessel and damaging the containment vessel opinion on tuesday, tokyo electric power company released the results of its analysis of the temperature and water level of the reactor. the temperature of the containment vessel began to rise immediately after the earthquake. it shot up 15 hours after the quake when a meltdown is believed to have occurred. at 9:00 a.m. on march 12th around 18 hours after the quake, the vessel's temperature had reached 300 degrees celsius. that's more than double the temperature it was designed to withstand. >> translator: when the temperature of a containment vessel hits 300 degrees, the rubber and metal parts used to seal joints will be damaged. highly contaminated water may have leaked threw these damaged sections. >> this is the first time that tepco has given details of how highly radioactive water may have been leaked at the number one reactor. >>> tepco says the density of radioactive cesium abov

. >>> th> operopororf the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant will install two heat exchangers at the number two reactor building on tuesday to let me show y lower the temperature of the spent fuel pool. wednesday tokyo electric power company workers entered the building to check radiation levels. but the high humidity prevented them from staying longer than 14 minutes. the humidity is thought to stem from the high temperature of the spent fuel pool and steam from the suppression pool which may have been damaged by the explosions after the march 11th earthquake and tsunami. tepco plans to reduce the humidity by installing the heat exchangers in the building next to the reactor. the exchangers will take in the hot water from the pool and circulate it back after it's cooled. the utility says it hopes to start using them this month did to reduce the temperature of the pool from around 80 degrees celsius to about 40 degrees sell yus within a month. tepco hopes to install the exchangers at the number one and three reactors next month and at the number four reactor in july. the operator of

it was the first such hearing in france since the accident that japan's fukushima daiichi plant. the hearing was held in paris on thursday with about 200 people attending, including representatives of citizen groups and foreign experts. a representative of a french electric power company said the utility plans to strengthen measures against emergencies such as the loss of all power at a nuclear plant. the official said the company will send a special team within 48 hours to restore reactor cooling functions. participants called for the review of guidelines involving the establishment of evacuation zones for res residents living near power plant, safety of workers responding to emergencies and financial compensation in the event of an accident. france has 58 nuclear power plants, the second largest number following the united states. the french government says it will maintain its policy of promoting nuclear power. the disaster management review is apparently intended to lessen public anxiety surrounding the safety of nuclear power. >>> now for the latest in business news with ai

minister kan's administration gives them sufficient information if something happens at fukushima daiichi. the japanese government didn't notify neighboring countries before radioactive water from the plant was released into the ocean in april. south korea criticized it, saying that violated international law. but japan said it followed protocol by informing the international atmospheric energy agency of the release in advance. china also expressed concern about the impact the contaminated water would have on the environment. so both countries are urging japan to provide up-to-date information without delay. >> let's put aside this fukushima nuclear accident issue for a minute. could this meeting be a good opportunity for japan and china to improve their strained relations? >> i think so. the tension between japan and china has been rising since a chinese trawler collided with japanese patrol boats last september. but both countries are deepening economic ties, so they do not want relations getting worse. >> now i want to ask you about the fukushima nuclear accident once again. as you men

. >>> an official from japan's nuclear safety agency said a fuel melt down at fukushima daiichi number one reactor will have an impact on how the crisis is controlled. nishiyama says filling the reactor's containment vessel with water may not be worth it. nishiyama says the melted rods at the bottom of number one reactor is being cooled by a slow amount of water. he doubts it is necessary to flood the containment vessel entirely, something the tokyo electric power company has been trying to do. >> translator: it may not be necessary to flood the containment vessel entirely, even though there is not much water inside the reactor, the fuel rods are cooling down. >> tepco officials said thursday most of the fuel rods in reactor number one are believed to have melted and sunk to the bottom of its pressure vessel. they said the melted fuel has apparently cooled even though much of the water they've injected is leaking through holes at the bottom of the vessel. the utility devised a plan last month to fill up the containment vessel with water and set up a system to circulate water through a

company began internal check-ups march 22nd, 11 days after the nuclear accident at the fukushima daiichi power plant. it takes a week to get results. internal check-ups have been given priority to workers who have been exposed to 100 milisieverts externally. 40% of the 3,700 workers at the daiichi plant received check-ups for internal radiation exposure. internal exposure cannot be detected unless tests are conducted using special equipment. tepco usees four devices to measure internal radiation exposures. it plans to introduce five more devices in july. >>> the power company has a duty to ensure workers are not exposed to more than the emergency limit. it looks as though it has been exceeded in some of the workers. the workers say they are ill-equipped to protect themselves from internal radiation exposure. >> these come off easily and i breathe in radioactivity. worker safety isn't a top priority. >> experts say their exposure levels need to be monitored closely. >> translator: other workers must be working in similar high-risk conditions, so they must be all scanned for internal expos

fukushima daiichi is a long way away from being stabilized. the nuclear and industrial safety agency apologized to the fukushima governor for not having a solid system in place to deal with the loss of power at the plant. discussions are now under way about why japan could not prevent the worst nuclear accident in its history from happening. earlier we spoke with junko about the background of the crisis. >> junko, what is the focus of the discussions? >> one main focus is how nuclear power is regulated in japan. here is how things work right now. the regulatory body is the nuclear and industrial safety agency. it's under the ministry of economy, trade and industry. the government energy policy means this minimstry is responsible for nuclear power generation. keep in mind that the same goal is what private utility companies have, including tepco, which reports from nisa. they receive advice from experts at the nuclear safety commission. many experts say having nisa attached to the government ministry sxand not making it it independent means tlz

the operator of the damaged fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant reported high levels of radioactive water that accumulated in the basement of the number one reactor. tokyo electric power company or tepco says a water sample contained 2 million becquerels of radioactive cesium per cubic centimeter. >> translator: we speculate that water affected by the reactor damage is leaking from the pressure vessel and from the containment vessel. >> tepco created a map that shows the distribution of the contaminated water in the plant buildings. it will use this to prevent a recurrence of accident in march. at that time, flthree workers we exposed to radiation by stepping in tainted water. company plans to set up a cooling system to circulate decontaminated water back into reactors. the system is expected to be installed in july. tepco says it will also install equipment to purify contaminated sea water near the water intakes at the number two and three reactors. the purifier uses a mineral to absorb radioactive cesium. the company says preliminary operations will begin as early as thursday. the

people forced to evacuate from the 20 kilometer no go zone around the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant are being allowed to make brief home visits for the first time. >>> 93 people from 54 households were bussed to a gymnasium tuesday morning. there they put on protective clothing and received walkie-talkies before being taken to their homes. they are allowed to spend about two hours gathering personal belongings from their homes. they will then return to the gym to undergo screenings for radiation exposure. the home visits were arranged at the request of the evacuees. the government enforced a 20 kilometer radius no go zone on april 22, but many people had fled the area before that under an evacuation advisory in place since the nuclear accident. in total, residents of nine municipalities are expected to make brief home visits by the end of may. but those who live within three kilometers of the nuclear plant will have no such chance due to higher radiation levels. >>> elevated radiation levels are again hampering the who, to bring the troubled fukushima daiichi nuclear power pla

they were hit by a shortage due to fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant's accident. there was the collapse of the supply chain as a result of parts. however, japanese corporations are doing their best efforts to recover, and yes, there are some corporations that have announced that a schedule is now proceeding very good. >> specifically what kind of measures do you think are needed to spur consumption here in japan? >> i'd like to point out three major measures that should be conducted by the japanese government. the first one is effective, say, population increasing measures to introduce people to make more babies. the second one is the form of the pension system, i think. other people have a lot of financial assets. however they're now anxious about their future, especially the public pension system. so the government must make make reform of the public pension system. the third mission, the perfect end of the nuclear power plant crisis is if it could be accomplished then for tourists to come here again and the japanese population increasing policy would be conduct

coming up plant workers in japan are back back at the fukushima daiichi plant only two months after the nuclear meltdown so what's first on their to do was to try to stop a total worldwide disaster. for . five. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry there's a big issue. every single republican representatives yesterday voted to pass a radical piece of legislation that redefines rape and further subordinates women as with one in seven people in food stamps in america republicans are focusing on the important issue like how to screw over victimized women and no taxpayer funding for abortion act passed it was pretty much a party line vote dropping women who've been victims of a variety of forms of nonviolent rape but rapes children incest victims or victims of bait rape for medicaid coverage for abortions the bill also raises taxes on small businesses and women by a limb an aging tax deductions for health insurance

after the nuclear accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, schools in the prefecture have been restricting outdoor activities. radiation levels in soil at all the schools except one remain in the official limit for children playing outdoors. in two cities, top soil has been removed from school yards as a precaution, but the schools have not been able to get the soil transported away because the government has no disposal guidelines. the government will report its latest findings to the prefecture's education board and nuclear safety commission on wednesday. >>> almost 60% of the nuclear reactors in japan are currently shut down. some were closed after the march 11th disaster. others were suspended for routine inspections. the unusually high figure will have a significant impact on the nation's power supply this summer. japan has 54 commercial reactors across the nation. 14 of them have been suspended since march 11th. another 18 are undergoing regular inspections, bringing the number of reactors not operating to 32 as of wednesday. one electric power company is expected to

will emphasize the country's readiness to disclose information about the events at the fukushima daiichi plant. the prime minister will explain japan's new energy policy which increases its focus on renewable energy and energy saving. kan plans to meet french president nicolas sarkozy and u.s. president barack obama on the sidelines of the summit. the prime minister will also meet leaders of the eu to discuss the launch of negotiations on an economic partnership agreement. >>> thjapanese foreign minister says japan will cooperate with tunisia in human resource training and building infrastructure to support its transition to democracy. matsumoto met his tunisian counterpart in tokyo on monday. in january, protesters overthrew the 23-year-old authoritarian government of ben ali. tunisia is preparing to elect a national assembly that will draw up a new constitution. his country wants to share japan's principles of democracy and freedom. as well as establish a multiparty system. he also says tunisia is formulating a five-year plan to build a democratic nation and ask for japan's support. ma

it isn't working yet at least. >>> they say that the damage at the fukushima daiichi plant is worse than expected. that means the cooling reactors are changing. tepco leaders say they still expect to have the situation resolved by january, that means keeping to the timetable they announced a month ago. these crippled nuclear reactors are just part of a catastrophe that's well into its third month. the perimeters keep shifting and radiation fears to even more towns being emptied of their residences as thousands await the government's instructions. tepco's stock rads but it has plum itted 82% in the last three mon months. fro london and hong kong, welcome back. >>> sony was forced to take the whole system off line. more than 77 million customers were breaches which involves customer's information and e-mails. what has howard stringer been saying? >> you know, it's a pretty simple maej. this hack attack is going to hurt our bottom line and saying to sony's customers, please don't leave us. at the same time he's pushing back against the critics who say sony took too long to telecom supers ab

source close to tepco says the company will allocate $5 billion to stabilize the troubled fukushima daiichi reactors. it also needs to earmark funds for future decommissioning of the reactors and restarting suspended they were thermal power plants. the extraordinary loss brings the overall deficit to $14.7 billion, which is the largest in the company's 60-year-old history. tepco will have to go through another difficult year in fiscal 2011 as compensation for evacuees and affected businesses will increase. to raise cash, the firm plans to sell assets such as its resorts and sports facilities, as well as stock holdings of affiliate companies. it will also implement salary reductions for its workers and a 100% pay cut for eight top executives. chairman tsunehisa katsumata and president masataka shimizu say they will resign. however, some say they should continue working to address the situation until all the reactors are stabilized. the company announces its financial losses on friday. >>> looking at tepco's credit rating, moody's says it could make a drastic downgrade. that would depend on t

workers have entered the reactor building at the damaged fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time since the day after the march 11 earthquake. the workers for tokyo electric power company say they were installing machines intended to reduce radiation levels inside the building. time for some business news. it is all about portugal. >> it's all about portugal and also all about interest rates, as well. two big subjects. europeans from the e union have announced the terms of the bailout for portugal. measures to rein in the dead will see sales tax and loss from -- to bring in the death will see sales tax. the finance minister confirm that the portuguese economy will now contract by two percent this year and then another 2% in 2012 before starting to grow in 2013. from lisbon, the attention turns to helsinki. buying a few minutes ago, the european central bank holds its meeting. ecb pressed ahead with a rising interest rates because of growing concern about inflation in the eurozone. there may be strong signals another rise could be on the cars as early as june. the bank o

destroyed. 16 conventional power plants and 12 nuclear power plants were damaged including fukushima daiichi. >> important rail lines and 45% of the fishing ports were devastated and there was discovery damage to water systems. much of that was repaired within a month of the quake. >> researchers also are looking at damage to the psyche of the japanese people who are calling the march earthquake 3/11. >> going us right now on the science of earthquake is geophysicist justin reubenstein. liquefaction it was a major factor in 1989. >> liquefaction is a situation where you looking at soft soils. what happens is it's subjected to strong shaking it loses some of the cohesive strength and begins to act more like a liquid as opposed to a solid. what that means for construction purposes, in extreme cases this structures can fall over. the marina district in particular, most of the damage was related to liquefaction in the '89 earthquake. >> are there other problems in the bay area? >> pretty much anywhere along the bay front, is built on landfill. when you got reclaimed land you are building on soft

k will pledge at the g-8 summit to make nuclear power safe as the fight to control the fukushima daiichi plant continues. a group of eight summit opens on thursday led by french president nicolas sarkozy. prime minister kan plans to express deep gratitude for support extended by many countries in the aftermath of the march 11 earthquake and tsunami. kan will say he's determined to realize the highest possible safety for nuclear power joining hands with the international energy agency. he'll announce a -- from 9 to 20% by the next decade. >>> the leaders of japan and france have agreed to hold foreign ministerial level talks on energy levels following the accident at the fukushima nuclear plant. japanese prime minister naoto kan in france to attend the group of eight summit met with french president nicolas sarkozy on wednesday. sarkozy expressed respect for how japanese people behaved in the wake of the march 11th earthquake and tsunami and said full french support would continue. the french president then proposed strategic dialogue to strengthen bilateral ties. the talks revealed a dif

the ongoing problems at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant prompted many foreigners living in japan to return to their homeland. businesses that depend on foreign clientele are scrambling to entice them back to japan. >> translator: this is a japanese language school in tokyo. currently, almost 400 students from 50 countries and regions are enrolled. but these days, only half of them are attending class. there are many empty seats in the back of the classroom. >> translator: we've started to see a lot of students wanting to come back to japan, but their parents say no. >> if nothing is done about this situation, these students will never return. so the school took videos of the surrounding neighborhood and posted them online. they hoped to show the students who returned to their home countries that life in japan is back to normal. >> translator: many japanese language schools are struggling financially, so we really want them to come back soon. it would be great if they could return for the second semester starting in july. >> regulators raised their crisis rating -- >> foreig

a plant worker died this morning after collapsing at the fukashima daiichi plant. a spokesman says it's not known yet what led to the death. but the spokesman added no radioactivity was detected in the man's body. the fukashima daiichi plant has been leaking radioactive contaminated water since the march 11th earthquake and tsunami hit japan. >>> we are learning more about the items confiscated from osama bin laden's pakistani compound. two u.s. officials now say pornography was among the items seized whet navy seals raided the hideout. it's not clear who the pornography belongs to but bin laden lived at that compound with his son and two other male couriers. other items seized from the compound include a handwritten journal, five computers, 10 hard drives and 110 thumb drives. >>> president obama special middle east envoy has one more week on the job. george mitchell resigned his position yesterday. his last day is may 20th. the same day israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will visit the white house. his position allowed him to focus on middle east peace tal

>>reporter: tokyo electric power's prolonged struggle to stabilize fukushima daiichi nuclear plant continues to taint agricultural products. and the loss of reactors has cut the supply of available electricity for eastern japan, including tokyo... although individuals and companies have begun to conserve in preparation for a predicted 10 percent shortfall in power this summer, there is no certainty about whether supply will cover demand. >>yamamoto: what's holding down spending now is the nuclear accident and fears about radiation. somepeople are nervous about going outdoors. also, in order to fund disaster reconstruction, the government is likely to raise taxes, which is also depressing consumption. >>reporter: minister yosano, a fiscal hawk, says a hike in the sales - or consumption tax, now at five percent - is inevitable, if japan's fast-aging society is to stay on track to achieve a fiscal surplus by 2020... >>yosano: level of consumption tax has to be raised. everyone knows. but how to do it is very, very difficult. how to do it without losing political support is more difficult but we

: it has been two months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit japan and the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant is still leaking radiation. but the plant's operator said today the crisis should be over by next january. the u.n. atomic agency is sending a team next week to help. the earthquake and tsunami killed about 25,000 people and a huge section of japan's fishing community was washed away. lucy craft visited one city where reminders of the disaster are everywhere you look. >> reporter: the tsunami transformed japan's fishing mecca into the world's biggest ship graveyard. thousands of boats from ocean vessels to light skiffs washed ashore where they remain stranded. marooned and useless, the vessels tower dangerously where stores and homes once stood. >> ( translated ): one of my employees watched a ship move right down our street and there it has stayed after the water's receded. >> reporter: the beached ships are just another obstacle for this decimated town where the fishing industry supports eight out of ten workers. the town mayor is frustrated. >> ( translated ): ships a

eleven percent on concerns over compensation parents after the recent disaster in tepco own fukushima daiichi plant and here in my own russia the markets opened in the lead with both the r.t.s. and the my six down around point three of a percent is our let's have a look at the individual share moves now in the my six poly metal is up more than three percent this our precious metal miners are on the rise as both prices reserves reserve their losses reversed i'm sorry bill losses meanwhile shares of rosneft n t k t n k b p are in the red amid the controversial news surrounding the further development of the arctic exploration deal. russia's equity markets have seen significant falls in the past few weeks but. capital does believe that a rebound is on the cards once the shift back to less risky assets diminishes eventually there will be bars cracker in particular sweet you know looking at a cardboard post and hundred ten dollars per barrel where the most is right where it was the same level of promotion or the world was eighty dollars so you know there's some kind of level that we need to talk a

percent on concerns over compensation payouts after the recent disaster in tech or own fukushima daiichi plant. and here in russia markets finished monday's trading session lower than my six loss nearly point six of a percent of the r.t.s. ended up over of percent in the red. russia's equity markets have seen significant falls in the past few weeks but peter westerner aids and capital does believe that a rebound is on the cards once the shift back to less risky assets from it shoots. eventually there will be a bounce back in particular looking at a car and oil prices hundred ten dollars per barrel whether my sense is right now where it was that same level a couple of months ago there were eight of us so you know there's some kind of level that we need to talk about when i consider all price but i think rather than looking at the world course right now people are looking at global factors i do expect us to see volatility over the next coming weeks and i think the trend will be on the gulf side maybe for another week and then of course reaching the summer months for anything to happen we'v

percent on concerns of the compensation payouts after the recent disaster and it's because she made daiichi plant in beauty products and hong kong stock closed down under pressure with property developers and some banks are among the main losers. european stock markets moving lower in early trading on for a week close to wall street and as worries over european sovereign debt remain in focus however vodafone shares rose one point four percent in london after reporting annual revenues above market expectations. and here in russia buys the r.t.s. m m i six continue to trade in the red this hour on the back of all the worldwide market trends now it's like a look at the individual share moves on the mindsets precious metal miners out on the rise as gold prices are first from the losses earlier ali may still is up more than four percent this hour meanwhile shares of rosneft and t. and k b b are in the red on the news their share swap agreement has collapsed. russia's top steel producers similar stuff has posted a five hundred thirty one million dollars profit in the first polls and above and lis

than eleven percent on concerns over compensation payouts after the recent disaster and fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. european stock markets after last negative this hour as concerns of the european financial crisis continue there as well however for out of town shares rose run point four cents in london are reporting annual revenue above market expectations and here in russia does the r.t.s. and in my sense continue to train the red this out on the back of other worldwide market trends. i would. have a look at the individual families on the i said it's precious metal miners are on the rise as gold price for a verse from losses claim it lives up more than four percent the sound meanwhile shares of rosneft and b.p. are in the red on the news of a share stop agreement has collapsed. banks is not still produces seven has posted a one hundred thirty one million dollars profit in the first quarter above analysts expectations back in paris with a net loss of seven hundred eighty five million dollars in the same period last year the result was supported by high prices and restructuring of the

then with the melt out of daiichi and now. and the hits keep coming scientists in the arctic monitoring assessment program a map are forecasting a higher than expected five foot rise in sea levels a century thanks to rapidly melting ice and going on the rest of the arctic a map warns about twenty fifth of the arctic ocean could be completely ice free meaning that low lying areas around the world are in danger of becoming the new ocean floor includes florida even new york city so if you're looking for is a ocean front property provide a house in china sea but the question is what's the real reason behind rising sea levels is it a global warming b. water being pushed up thanks to bigger fish that mutates a result of the nuclear disaster in japan or c. that model was dumped in the ocean and the evil and then ending up as corpses melting glaciers are there. at the world internal temp. of the passenger also i've heard that explanation i thought it was not her term that i think it's nice i just mean i just hope the ocean has some mo

then with the meltdown of daiichi and now. and the hits keep coming scientists of the arctic monitoring assessment program a map are forecasting a higher than expected five foot rise in sea levels a century thanks to rapidly melting ice and greenland the rest of the arctic a map warns about twenty fifth of the arctic ocean could be completely ice free meaning that low lying areas around the world are in danger of becoming the new ocean floor includes florida even new york city so if you're looking for an ocean front property and a house in town a seat at the question is what's the real reason behind rising sea levels is it a global warming be water being pushed up thanks to bigger fish that mutates result of the nuclear disaster in japan or c. bin laden was dumped in the ocean and the evil emanating of his corpse is melting the glaciers are there. i like the world the internal time. the passing girl is alive for that explanation i might say not a term that actually because it is nice i didn't mean i just hope the ocean has a m

workers today returned to the damaged reactor at japan's fukushima daiichi plant since the first timehe explosion in march. absorb excess radiation so a new cooling system can be installed. >>> president obama visits ground zero today. he will visit with 9/11 victims' families, but he has no plans to speak publicly about osama bin laden's death. >>> also general motors releases its second earnings report today since it went public in november. profits for shareholders are expected to dramatically increase because of gm's boost in the market. taxpayers still own one-third of gm. >>> finally this half hour, the newest trend in dairy cows. >> oh, yeah. a hot trend. >> that's right. didn't know there was such a thing but apparently there is. >> a trend in cows. they're all of the rage apparently in an increase number of farms country. kcau has a very moo-ving story. >> reporter: from a distance this may seem like an ordinary cow but once you walk up aside it you realize it is a little bit smaller and it makes you want to ask, hey, cow, why you so small? the answer, these are a special bre

. >> in japan workers have entered the reactor building at damaged fukushima daiichi power plant forst time since right after the march earthquake. tokyo electric power company says they started installing enter liags machines. the utility must lower the radiation levels inside the reactor before they can proceed with installing cooling systems. >>> important health news for parents who have babies. drugmakers are discontinuing infant formulations of acetaminophen. they are sold over-the-counter as tylenol, nyquil and those of other brands. they will phase them out to avoid confusion for parents and to prevent dangerous overdoses. the government was to discuss safety labels for those meds. >> they suggest diabetes are spreading faster among dogs than humans. they studied two million dogs and found that diabetes had increased by 46%. cdc says during the same period the disease increased by 28% in people. biggest contributing factor is obesity. report was prepared by the banfield chain of 700 hospitals. >> just ahead at 6:00, flames devour a building south of market forcing dozens of p

also, can you bring us up to date, too, on reports of an explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear planter: a couple concerning moments when we heard there was some sort of explosion that happened on the south side of reactor 4. a robot was there and someone was hurt. bottom line no change in the level of radiation, and in have been no injuries reported. exactly what exploded, though, some type of tank, but as this point, tepco can't tell us exactly what was in the tank or how much was damaged. or how big. >> thank you for that update. joining us live from tokyo. >>> charles, i should add, tepco is just being downgraded on its own ratings. junk status. no surprise there. >> i suppose not. >>> switching gears and look at the weather, because mother nature's been putting on quite a show, it seems, off the coast of new south wales in southeastern australia and joining us from the international weather center. good morning. >> good morning to tu, charles. you hardly see anything more spectacular than something we are about to show you. this near aboca beach along the southeast coast of austr

from the earthquake in tsunami that hit it on march 11, and now the owner of the crippled fukushima daiichi plant has revealed how much money it's lochlt it's not a pretty picture, but we'll bring it next on "world business today." for those of us who have lactose intolerance, let's raise a glass to cookies just out of the oven. to the morning bowl of cereal. and to lactaid® milk. easy to digest and with all the calcium and vitamin d of regular milk. [ female announcer ] lactaid®. the original lactose-free milk. >>> welcome back. this is "world business today" on cnn. >>> tepco, otherwise known as the tokyo electric power company has had its worst hit. it's another massive blow for utility that now faces a multibillion-dollar bailout. it's come as little price to the shareholders. now, i want to show you the amount that's actually been knocked off the company's shared price since that particular date. take a look at this. it's a staggering 83.22%. that's equivalent to 25.5 yen or 31.5 cents every single day since march 11th. >> it certainly is an extraordinarily large number. 83%. let's sho

. >>> coming up next, we'll be investigating scenes of destruction at japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear crippled by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on march 11th. just ahead, the latest in the commercial fallout for the company that runs the plant and other firms hit by the disaster. e with crunchy oats and pure honey. nature valley -- 100% natural. 100% delicious. >>> live from cnn london and hong kong, you're watching "world business today," welcome back. >>> tepco is to provide a road map today for bringing its quake-hit reactors under control. that would likely include booking billions of dollars in net losses and the decommissioning of its crisis hit reactors. tepco's share price certainly taking a hit on that news. ramie inocencio joining us. ramy, investors didn't like what they heard. >> the thought of billions of dollars in losses as well as the loss of the future reactors would make investors nervous about tepco. that's what we're seeing in reaction to tepco shares today. let me bring up this chart right here. today tepco shares tumbled the most since april 5th, closing

they are similar to the reactors damaged at the fukashima daiichi plant. the japanese government is afraid those three reactors could be damaged if another major earthquake or tsunami hits. the government wants the electric company to build a seawall to help protect the reactors. >>> 27 people aboard a plane in indonesia are believed dead after it crashed into the sea this morning. the plane was trying to land when it hit the water instead and exploded and at least 15 bodies were found immediately. bad weather and limited visibility are being blamed nor the rash. >>> an american airlines jet was forced to make a landing yesterday. it took off from miami but landed in vegas because the pilot smelled smoke in the cockpit. the plane at 165 passengers onboard. >>> for the first time the father of a u.s. army service man who says his son was captured by the taliban is making a public plea for his son's release. >> no family in the united states understands the detainee issue like ours. our son's safe return will only heighten public awareness of this. that said

some have said we have something better and daiichi says they have upgraded. in looking at the two nuclear power plants in california, and particularly the spent fuel part of it which is what senator murray is really referring to, in a sense, the fact that the spent fuel pools are to some extent fallible. they arere-stacked and in have large numbers of rods and then. they are kept there for as long as 24 years. the ranking member and i and the head of the energy commission said this is good for 100 years. i don't know how anybody knows that this stuff is good for 100 years. i also sought dry casks and the transference of the rods into casks. i was told that they were specially built for transfer to some former repository. i have come to my own conclusion that the way we best protect americans is having some regional facilities where the storage of nuclear waste can be done over the hundreds of years, supervised by government, otherwise, though knows what mother nature will bring down? i never remembered funnel clouds in the pacific or level of her kids we have

the delegates will discuss nuclear safety in light, of course, of the disaster of japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. >> some 12,000 police and security personnel are in the town of deauville to keep the peace and protect the summit participants. it's a resort town on france's normandy coast. it's usually crowded with tourists at this time of the year. as our senior international correspondent dan rivers tells us right now it's virtually shut down. the locals are not happy about it. >> reporter: with the rolling normandy countryside on one side and the sparkling atlantic on the other, deauville is normally the genteel haunt of many. this week, this resort is in total lockdown, overwhelmed by police who are covering every inch of this tiny town. by boat, horseback, motorcycles, on foot, there are four police officers here for every resident. so far, protesters have been kept well away, a 45-minute drive away in le havre. they're all here like they are at every g8. there seems no chance of them getting anywhere near deauville. it's normally a bustling coastal resort of 5,000 people, but

." >>> in japan, workers have entered the reactor building of union at the damaged fukushima daiichi plant for the first time since right after the march earthquake. tokyo electric power company says they are installing ventilation machines in hopes they will be a southbound radiation from the air. they had to lower the radiation levels inside the reactor before it can proceed to install cooling systems. >> sony says another 25 million pray station customers may have been hacked. it brings the potential victims to 102 million users. they are calling to protect customers from increasing number of data breaches. mary bono mack chairs the subcommittee. >> 77 million accounts stolen and including 10 million credit card numbers, the data breaches has the potential to be the great robbery and cyber attack. >>> sony turned turned down to testify at a hearing yesterday. instead they sent a letter calling themselves a victim of a sophisticated cyber attack. >>> san francisco leaders will announce new details today on the makeover project for the downtown hetrion building. a new target store a

meanwhile authorities in japan now say there may have been more reactor meltdowns at the fukushima daiichiafter the earthquake and tsunami on march 11th. let's go to kyung lah. >> this is something many international agencies have suspected for some time. what we're hearing now from tepco is that it's not just reactor one, that there are two additional reactors where in laying out what tepco is defining as the worst case scenario also had full meltdowns. tepco says a major part of the fuel rods in this worst-case scenario in reactor number two may have melted and fallen to the bottom of the pressure vessel about 101 hours after the earthquake and tsunami. in reactor three it happened 60 hours post-disaster. this melted fuel, if this scenario is correct, is sitting at the bottom of the pressure vessel in each reactor building. the fuel is being kept cool at the got o the pressure vessels. tepco also simultaneously released a slightly more optimistic scenario in which the rods did not melt but broke. a partial meltdown it if you will. if you follow the worst case plan across the board, they

>>catherine: and the hukashimi daiichi .hey still had fear with one of the reactors with more badly damaged than anybody realized. (music) >> jacqueline: it was a pretty nice day today with a little bit of a wind. as we go towards tomorrow similar conditions without the fog. that when it cleared out the fog with clear skies and mostly sunny skies. that wind cleared up the fog. similar conditions with perhaps just a few degrees cooler. with neighborhood by neighborhood, 68 in napa, 78 inland, and som73 in antioch bayto breakers and how about forecast of the rainfall looks saturday night and early sunday pretty likely. wet start. cloudy, cool, showers. and only 49 degrees it will stay cool to of the race. through hay kill again we are expecting a wet " condition for hay street hill finiash line bracelet storms possibl and with isolated storms possible--and look at 10:00 a.m. perhaps some dry conditions at the end of the race. your extended forecast for tomorrow is looking similar for what we have today. thunderstorm chances wi

worse than expected damage in the number one reactor at fun sheema daiichi means that officials havexpect to achieve a complete cold shutdown by january. meantime, officials are preparing to dump radioactive water from the plant into a giant storage barge. you see it arriving here at the port. officials say they'll dump contaminated water into the mega barge to make room for clean water to cool the reactors. >>> japan's earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear disaster on march 11th crippled the country's tourism industry. before the quake, japan's tourist agency predicted that more than nine million people would visit the country this year compared to the 8.6 million that vacationed there in 2010. but now those numbers are only a memory. according to cnngo.com, tourism is still on its knees. travel for march was down more than 50% with more than 326,000 fewer visitors that month compared to the same time last year and 47% fewer visitors just from south korea where the majority of japan's tourists come from. check out cnngo.com to read more. >>> we take you to moscow where a lot of p

. >>> they had a square at the fukushima daiichi plant this morning. a loud explosion was heard from outside the reactor building on the south side. the plant operator says the explosion was likely from the gas tank and didn't cause any additional radiation leaks. the cause is, however, being investigated. plant workers also found an oil spill in the sea near two other reactors. the spill was contained by an oil fence. >>> turning now to the tech world this morning, a lot going on in social medimmediatmedia. >> thank you very much, laura. we are going to start with the twit they are morning. that looks as though twitter can be getting into the photo sharing business big time. reports suggests twitter is planning to launch photo upload and sharing service possibly this week. it is a bit of a risk because it could upset third party developers such as twit-pick. social networking site linkden is expanding in asia. it is hoping to tap into that huge pool of professionals. it is still on a high after doubling stock prices after the initial public offering e

to run the fukushima daiichi are stepping down.f the president and the vice president at announced that they are resigning. this as the company is for reporting a lived net loss of 1.2 trillion yen it! >> a quick break as the morning continues. fog around the bay. higher elevations, the mt. tam. (music) and welcome back. a quick look outside. >> welcome back. all and all, a great friday the full forecast coming up. >> all right. some hollywood nnews star box starbucks is celebrating her new album " born this way ". may 23rd that day starbucks will have a limited number of that downloads pour that newt single. " the edge of glory ". that new single, and streaming exclusive audio/video of an a cappella rendition of born this way on the starbucks network. >> per maybe that will be a new size? the dog, size for a starbucks law-the gaga paul what they all of the u.s. attorney general is taking a look at deceptive business practices. that was changed to be an entrepreneur all the initiatives after it was being challenged for not being an