fukushima dai-ni daiichi droop droop -- blue holes in that. the wind in the early days blew out to see so the half circle of the concentric stone quickly shifted him began to blow to the northwest. those people were sitting -- were sitting ducks. the radiation levels were very belatedly moved. i know you took some heat for that 50-mile evacuation zone. it was a wise move. it was a good call and i don't think there were that many americans around the plant but then we come right back around to the issue if it's good for the japanese why is that good for the americans and why shouldn't be there ability to plan for if not 50 miles, 25 miles? get an evacuation plan in place so if need be you can move. moving people is terribly typical. we have a reference in there to the evacuation of a hospital late in the accident and they left behind a whole bunch of people who many were elderly and bedridden and they died. i'm not sure the u.s. planning is any better that you wouldn't leave some nursing home people are prisoners or schoolkids or old-age homes

. >>> engineers demissioning the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant are facing challenges. they need to figure out how to remove fuel debris from the damaged reactors. engineers in the united states may be able to offer some insight. 35 years ago, a reactor at three mile island melted down in an accident. nhk obtained special permission from the u.s. government to access 1,000 videotapes that recorded engineers removing fuel debris from the plant. this edition of "nuclear watch" takes a look at what the footage tells us. >> reporter: three years after the accident, the decontamination had reduced radiation levels enough to allow engineers to work inside the plant. >> today is july 21. the tmi-2 inspection team is now on top of the tmi-2 reactor vessel, and about to attempt to make the first inspection into the tmi-2 reactor vessel proper. >> reporter: they insert a camera into the reactor for the first time since the accident. >> we're now approaching three feet. we are approaching four feet. we are approaching five feet. we're now five -- >> got something. >> we are now fi

daiichi already has subsidiaries in vietnam and australia but the u.s. is the world's biggest insurance market and industry executives do expect it will keep growing. >>> let's get a check of the markets now. investors in asia gaining risk appetite on upbeat economic numbers that came out of china over the weekend. the data showed that factory activity in the country expanded at the fastest pace in five months in may. most markets finished higher. tokyo's nikkei was the top performer in the region. shanghai and hong kong were closed for public holidays. the nikkei average seeing a nice jump. it was up more than 2%. finished at 14,935 the highest close in just about two months. a wide range of shares were in demand. export related issues, and financial stocks, led the advance today. daiichi life, though, was down nearly 5% on investor concern about that plan to acquire an american firm. and in sydney the s&p asx 200 index closed higher by a little bit less than half a percent, 5,518. many companies doing a lot of business with china are cheered on by the

fukushima daiichi will all of that.the wind for the most part of the early days actually blew out to see, and so a half circle of the concentric zones work but it quickly as is it shifted and began to blow to the northwest, those people were sitting, like we're sitting ducks. the radiation levels were very high and very belatedly were moved. i know you took some heat for that 50-mile evacuation zone. it was a wise move. it was a good call, and i don't think there were that many americans around the plant, but then we come right back around to the issue, well, if it's good for the japanese, why isn't it good for the americans? why shouldn't there be the ability to plan for, if not 50 miles, 25 miles? get the evacuation plan in place so that if need be you can move -- moving people is terribly difficult. we had a reference in there to the evacuation of the hospital late in the accident, and they left behind a whole bunch of people, many of whom were elderly and bedridden and they died. i'm not sure the u.s. planning is an

twenty three of these mark ones and we have eight more the more to do which was fukushima daiichi unit six but these reactors from the very beginning we've known don't have containment of these reactors here in the united states with a significant fire break in a dam that floods the reactor site we could see as work bad or worse next and as we see mature noble the sarcophagus is cracking there's no way to store the safely there is no way to really do this safely thank you so much paul gunter reactor oversight director for shit thank you so much thanks for watching you guys be sure to follow me on twitter at abby martin time again tomorrow to break the set of burden. we welcome their nate and mark to two of the coast be our team at work. it's going to give you a different perspective give you one stock never i'll give you the information you make the decision. breaking with. the revolution of the mind it's a revolution of ideas and consciousness. extremely new approach which would be described as angry i think in a strong. and single. scarff force. look in the finish line of the boston

the people in charge of fukushima daiichi are struggling to control the plant. how will they stop the leaks and commission the facilitys? get the latest on the aftermath of the nuclear accident with in depth reports and special features. "nuclear watch," only on "newsline." >>> the world cup finals are heating up. a chance for millions of japanese soccer fans to rekindle their love for hugely popular comic. the long running manga series captain subasa has inspired players not only on the national team, but around the world. nhk world has more. >> reporter: the comic tells a story of a boy, who grows up to become a professional player. many japanese soccer players have improved their skills by imitating the amazing performances of the comic's captain. professional players try to re-create the acrobatic plays drawn in the manga. the midfielder and his teammate try out the shoot. and a goal at the countershoot. >> reporter: the comic and animated cartoon have been translated and circulated in many countries, in europe, the middle east, asia, and south america. unde

. >>> crews at fukushima daiichi have a new problem on their hands. the amount of cooling water in one reactor is lower than they expected. >>> and a japanese businessman is eyeing markets abroad to sell his sweet potatoes. >>> prosecutors have made opening statements in the trial of several crew members from a south korean ferry that sank in april. the sailors are accused of failing to save passengers in one of the country's worst disasters at sea. the "sewol" sank off the country's southern coast leaving more than 300 people dead or missing. 15 crew members have indicted. the captain and three others face charges of homicide through willful negligence. experts in south korea say it's the first case where those who failed to ensure the safety of passengers have faced such a serious charge. prosecutors argued at a court in the southern see of guangzhou that the defendants could have ordered the passengers to evacuate but they failed to take any action that might have saved people's lives. authorities are also searching for the former chairman of the c

fukushima daiichi when the catastrophe began three years ago ninety percent of the workforce abandoned their posts or in some of the worst moments of this crisis including management who had no little excuse to do so the lower level workers at some excuse to do so they defied orders and left the nuclear power plant crisis because they knew what bad the consequences could be presumably the situation was very dire and explicit orders to remain anthropocene the daiichi number one clear power plant and they retreated to the other one time kilometers south which meant they weren't available to do the necessary work to china sea japan amazing kevin camps thanks for being with us thank you. thanks a lot. in the best of the rest of the news california teachers just got a harsh lesson in the true power of america's billionaire class last week the los angeles superior court ruled in the case of versus california the teacher tenure rights which protected her so mean fired for doing things like expressing controversial views were unconstitutional according to the court tenure is unconstitutional b

in this plan whether up while the winds go over the wall around the answer the wall at fukushima daiichi they're trying to freeze the ground under the destroyed nuclear power complex to divert groundwater flow around the edges so that the groundwater will not mix with the highly radioactive water in the sub basements of the buildings and then flow into the ocean so that's what they're trying to do is divert the ground water flowing so that it does not get contaminated in the first place but any weakness in that plan could worsen what's going on there and that's the concern that there will be water leaks that the ground freezing may not work at all and they could actually screw up the hydrology and just make the situation worse and how many years of you have to keep the ground frozen if they're right it does work. i think the initial plan is just for several years worth of funding to freeze the ground but what worse was to have a life of plutonium. two hundred forty thousand years of hazard twenty four thousand year half life so yeah exactly the decommissioning project itself is going to

followed the world watched in horror as a massive wall of water crippled the fukushima fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant in the days ahead the crisis only heightened in a series of explosions confirmed the worst fears of full blown meltdown of three of the plants nuclear reactors unfortunately both the japanese government and the tokyo electric power company tepco have gone to great lengths ever since to downplay the disaster and continuously cover up the true severity of the crisis even today there is no end in sight to the fallout in the cleanup process is far from over furthermore conflicting reports on radiation levels make it incredibly difficult to know what's really going on just this month the radiation and public health project report that the level of thyroid cancer and children an element directly associated with exposure to radiation. as forty times above normal for children on the site three years after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami we're left with more questions and answers tommy sort through some of them i'm joined by paul gunter rock oversight director at beyo

we are talking about daiichi life.t wind of this deal about a week back and we got confirmation this morning based on the joint statement from the company and the company that they will be acquiring, protective life over in the u.s. billione talking $5.7 cash deal, so about $70 per share for protective life. that's a fairly heavy premium, 34%. protective will be able to maintain ceo and the management that current headquarters. we are looking at a breakup of just in case of falls through, 100 $14 million. how it will live be funded -- how it will be funded, daiichi will be selling shares in the rest is cash and supplementary sources. they are selling 250 billion shares. yes, there may be a dilution effect. they're providing more growth and access to the u.s. market here for protective life. it will be the biggest ever foreign takeover by a japanese insurer. the problem that i each is trying to get over right now is really a stagnant market in japan. and weulation is aging have negligible birthrate there. if this does h

. >>> some residents near the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant have begun to return home as workers de contaminate the area. but they found radiation levels in somepla places are still muc too high. it's unlikely they'll be able to return to their homes for several years. environment ministry officials carried out deacon tam nation work in the zones. they chose residential areas, farmland, roads and public facilities as sampling spots. workers removed surface oil and washed roads and buildings. and the test results showed that average radiation levels decreased by 50 to 70%. but the levels are still more than ten times higher than the government's decontamination standard. they say it's difficult to remove substances that have penetrated minute surfaces. >> translator: i want the government to decontaminate the area so we can get our lives back. we have no other choice by to go forward. >> translator: the radiation levels are too high. i don't feel like going back even if the trial de contamination succeeded. >> officials will now consider whether to carry out full-scale decontaminatio

decided to provide about $80 million to help evacuees return to their hometowns near the fukushima daiichi power plant. officials at the reconstruction agency have announced a fund will be given to fukushima prefecture and its 16 municipalities. it will be used for designing public rental housing for returning residents, building infrastructure for farming and industrial activities, and other rebuilding projects. >> translator: we expect the fund to help speed up rebuilding efforts in evacuation areas. >> the central government has earmarked about $1.6 billion to help municipalities prepare for the return of residents after evacuation orders are lifted. in april, the government lifted an evacuation order on a district near the plant for the first time after the nuclear accident in march 2011. it had decome tntaminated the a to bring down radiation levels. decontamination has produced a large amount of contaminated debris. environmental ministerishi hara upset residents on monday speaking president plan. he said money would be the deciding factor on what happens to the waste. ishihara clari

officials at daiichi life insurance have confirmed they're buying an american insurer. it's the biggest purchase ever of a foreign firm by a japanese insurance company. executives at dai-ichi life say they'll buy protective life for about $5.7 billion. the u.s. insurer is based in alabama and is listed on the new york stock exchange. the officials say the two firms agreed dai-ichi life acquire all shares of protective life by january. to fund part of the purchase dai-ichi life will issue up to about $2.4 billion worth of new shares. protective life had premium income of about $2.9 billion last year. the two firms will have a combined premium income of about $45 billion. >>> let's check on the markets now. many investors in asia took profits following gains in the previous trading sessions. as you can see, most markets in the region finished in the negative. many investors are waiting for a major event later in the week. their focus is on the european central bank's policy meeting scheduled for thursday, and the u.s. jobs data on friday. now the shanghai composite gave u

. >>> workers at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant have run into another problem. they're trying to plug radioactive leaks. but a deep layer of groundwater could be making it easier for toxic materials to reach the ocean. the layer runs about 25 meters below the surface. earlier this month workers tested the water in a well near the number one reactor building. tests showed it contained 4,700 becquerels of tritum per liter. officials at tokyo electric power company discovered the water pressure at this depth was lower than a layer above it. they say this makes it easier for con tamed water to spread in the deep layer. they suspect radioactive water could be spilling into the ocean. tepco officials say the cause of the problem could be the ongoing construction of a seaside barrier. the work involves drilling into the deep layer, and this could be to blame for the lower pressure. now, officials say they will speed up construction work on the barrier due to be completed in the fall. >>> militants have reportedly taken more than 60 women and girls in northeastern niger

. >>> tens of thousands of people once lived in what's now a no-go zone near the fukushima daiichi nuclearlant. but the continues high radiation levels mean they still don't know when or if they'll be able to go home. and they'll be paying close attention to a new government estimate that suggests decontamination work could significantly lower the levels in the next few years. the cabinet office has estimated the effectiveness of decontamination measures in the area shown in red. radiation exposure levels in the zone exceed 50 millisieverts per year. currently no one is allowed to live there. and full-scale cleanup operations have yet to begin. the estimate is based on the hoip thet cal model of a person who spends eight hours a day outdoors and lives in a house with a wooden frame. its goal is to calculate to what degree decontamination could help cut that person's presumed exposure by 2021. in places with an annual radiation reading of 100 millisieverts today, exposure levels would be reduced to between 9 and 20 millisieverts. areas with 50 millisieverts now would see a decline to betwee

commodity financial services firm might be talking to daiichi life, a large company, causing the stock to spike. the fact that protective life wouldn't confirm whether there is happening or not did nothing to dissuade the buyers who piled into the stock. why? because the stock is cheaper than the commodity basket the if stocks. how about broadcom? a stock that's been morbid, and i'm being kind by saying that, because they the spending hasn't paid out. finally consider the remarkable action in allergan 80 points ago the ceo came on this show and told you not to worry about the patents on one of allergan's important drugs. he made it clear that the company was dramatically undervalued at that moment, even mo the analysts were saying it would a challenged growth path. despite the stock is now up 89%. from that interview last august. commodity? soy? wheat? chaff? i know that the intellectuals will say they're all one off and that i don't understand that stocks are an asset class to be trade traded where's my throwback stock jersey to before 1984, when the futures creators came up with the

what's really affected it wasn't fukushima daiichi orfully of of that. it's been the boom in shale oil. >> and made that investment cheaper? >> well cheaper for moment although interestingly enough during the winter with the polar vortex we saw prices start to spike again. that is an up and down thing. it will take all of the above strategy and you shouldn't rule out nuclear because it takes so much yur uranium to knock in nuclear. >> environment taking too hard a position if you look at the numbers though most americans aren't paying that much attention to climate change. it's the 19th most important out of 20 taken on by the epa. how do you change that? because if that's the case, you're going to have republican candidates who are going to want to play to the base and not pay much attention to this. >> i can understand where they're coming from. but the problem you have pleem don't relate -- people don't relate to climate change. they do relate to weather because that has a direct effect on their life. starting to make the connection, something is goin

commodities are systemic risk and they talked about deepwater horizon and they talked about fukushima daiichisystem necessarily to be exposed to this kind of systemic risk. let other people do it and i think they've had a chilling effect. >> you get the financial people out of the actual market. >> i thought it was interesting. you made a point that the actual users of the commodities, big users tend to be clueless. how can that be? >> i'm sympathetic to them and i want to get your view of this, too, coffee, we might call it the best performing thing and the scariest, most expensive thing and coffee is the most expensive major commodity this year and you were talking dunkin today and i'm sure we'll talk smuker this week. smuker rose prices 9% for coffee. howard schultz has made a point that it's single digit cost to starbucks, but he also has is a great hedger. >> he probably locked in prices two years ago in the arabica market before the drought ins bra il. >> your people throw their hands up and say i'm captive to these traders. >> they have all of the resources, too. why does coca-cola hav

and checking in this morning, right now daiichi life is down.teppingdent obama is up his fight against greenhouse gases with new regulations to be released later today. he is expected to propose cutting greenhouse gas emissions from u.s. power plants i up to 30% in the next years, and it will be measured against 2000 five levels. the proposals will be released by the u.s. environmental protection agency and will be flexible to allow individual states room to decide how the reductions are met. australia, however, is winding back efforts to fight climate change despite having its two-year stretch in record. you hot over there? it looks like the politicians are not. >> they may be soon. it is going to be 22 degrees in sydney, and this is their winter, so that does not sound quite right, does it? we had 19 consecutive days of temperature above 22, including one day of of 27 degrees, previously, and that was more like summer. this anecdotal evidence was backed up, just released from the climate town so, which is thes that this hottest two-year period

studies of the pools at fukushima, today we are not aware of any damage to the pools at fukushima daiichi in terms of structural integrity. the study that we based our decision on head some thatficant conservatism's we could provide for the record and they showed that we were taking almost worst-case analyses to look at the integrity. i would also add the current initiatives being taken with respect to the flex program, mitigating programs to add additional pumps, hoses, sources of water, and a spent poll level imitation requirements that we have levied those are steps from energy the standpoint that have not been discussed today. >> thank you. with regard to this process -- >> you can see the last 15 minutes of this hearing at c-span.org. we are going live to capital hearing for hearing on the foreign intelligence surveillance act, pfizer, looking at recent legislation that would change the ability of the national security agency to collect phone records and other data. there is the chairman of the committee, dianne feinstein. >> this is a serious discussion, a serious subject. witnesses

earlier in response to question, to date we're not aware of any damage to the pools at fukushima daiichi as far as structural integrity. the spent fuel study that we based our decision on had some significant conservatisms. we can certainly provide those for the record, but significant conservatisms that showed we were taking almost worst case anal seize to look at the integrities, and i would also add that the current initiatives taken by the nuclear industry with regard to the flex program, mitigating strategies to add additional pumps, hoses, sources of water as well as the spent fuel level requirements that we have levied, that those are the steps from a mitigation standpoint and have not been discussed today. >> well, thank you, and with regard to this whole process, the professional staff took insights and data, did they not, madam chairman, before they made a recommendation? >> they did. >> and mr. ostendorff, they recommended the process you've adopted for pool storaging and a majority of the commission, 4-1, voted to adopt that process. do you think that the staff considered the

daiichi coming in, what that says is the japanese, who have little growth in their country, look we'rer 1989 where a japanese company was buying a semiconductor of ours, 18 of 19 were the largest in japan. keep track of this sleepy group. isn't so sleepy anymore. >> some of the best gains across the week have been among those insurers. >> not expensive yet. >> tonight a name people know on "mad money." >> we have sketchers, don't normally do tv. the sponsor of california chrome. now i don't expect to see california chrome in skecher shoes. but it's very, very young. at belmont, a very big visible p thing. including a man i now regard as our own mark cuban is one ofmatt in the fall. they have done remarkable things. cannot way to sit down with him. pvh, manny chirico. that stock is weak, but i do think these two apparel plays -- i'm wearing a joseph, which is one of their names. >> see you tonight, jim. >> thank you, guys. >> ism services after the break. ♪ ♪ no matter what kind of business you own, at&t business experts can help keep it running... seamlessly. so you can get back to wha

the 2011 meltdown at japan's lucaccini daiichi plant was a stark reminder of the hazard of large-scale nuclear disaster. that episode prompted the nrc to establish a near-term task force that outlined 12 safety recommendations to reduce vulnerabilities for american nuclear plants. in 2012 the nrc ordered nuclear plants to set up the first-ever commission which included updates to main cooling during ex-general events upgrades to reactor containment venting and better monitoring of spent fuel pools during accidents. ability of our temporary nuclear waste storage to withstand natural disasters or other emergencies is of particular importance and role eyed and paired although we don't have any nuclear power plants within our borders we are within a 50-mile exposure pathway of connecticut's millstone powerstation and massachusetts program power station raided both facilities sit on atlantic coast and face heightened risk from extreme weather events coastal flooding and sea level rise. given rhode island's exposure i joined with several colleagues and asking the accountability office to inv