response to fukushima? >> host: the efforts to develop a model with a lot of focus on this source. >> guest: right and we are getting perilously close to ed lyman's level of expertise on this but i found the interagency debates from what will we know about them the nrc release a lot of information but we don't know what was going on in the white house in these debates. it's my understanding from foia information we have gotten is that there was a great level of debate and the nrc modeling only went up to 50 miles. the defense department was in iraq and i forgot which agency could go up quite a bit further and there was a lot of scrambling to come up with the best combination. this was like you know 85 different factors that all had to be figured in with multiple reactors. so i found that whole debate fascinating in that nobody had ever really said what's going to happen if we have three reactors that meltdown, a couple of spent fuel pools at risk, the possibility -- i mean all these reactors have been shake

in the wake of the fukushima meltdown. in august 2011, the former nrc chairman testified before our committee that the nrc should be able to act on those recommendations and that they could be implemented within five years. as of today, the nrc has failed complete implementation of a single one of the post fukushima safety measures. summary operators are not in compliance with the safety requirements that were in place before fukushima. the nrc has only completed its own action on four of the 12 task force recommendations. your team that you praise all the time told you that you have to do this. this is unacceptable. it puts the safety of the american people at risk. thank you. we have these for you. i also have serious concerns about the safety of nuclear fuels. nrc studies show that the consequences of a fire at a nuclear fuel pool can be as serious as a severe accident at an operating reactor. not only does nrc allow that fuel to be stool -- stored indefinitely, it is considering requests for decommissioning reactor ope

but, again, we just had fukushima. we know that many of the nuclear power plants in our country are billed on or near earthquake faults. we have the commission's actual conclusion. i understand the industry does not want to spend the money. i understand that the industry does not want to have to of sort those kinds of costs. again, i am just dealing here with your own agency's conclusion about the danger that exists. >> senator, the seismic evaluation project will also look at their spent fuel pools again. >> and what is the time line for that? >> it is in progress. i don't know. >> for the top priority group of plants, there are seismic probabilistic risk assessments that will be completed by 2017. >> well, you know, the whole concept of probabilistic risk assessment is one that is very long. obviously it goes back to the late 70's, early 80's with assessments made even then with regard to the probability of an accident and the need to build and proper projections. so prsa is the longstanding standard, and it just see

response to fukushima?>> host: yes, the efforts to develop models for what the impact could be and a lot of focus on the so-called source. >> guest: right. we are getting perilously close to edwin lyman's level of expertise on this, but i found it, i found interagency debates, from what little we know about them, the nrc release a lot of information but we don't know what was going on in the white house and these debates. and it's my understanding from some for your information that we've gotten is that there was a great level of debate -- foia -- and the nsc model and the only one -- alderwood out to 50 miles. defense department, i forget which agency, could go up quite a bit further and it was a lot of scrambling to come up with the best combination. this was like, you know, 55, 85 different factors that you all had to figure in with multiple reactors. i found that whole debate fascinating in that nobody had ever really said, what's going to happen if we have three reactors in meltdown, a couple of the sp

fukushima revolves tha an mac. than that. so whethe window for the most pf the early days throughout to see. so the half circle worked, but as quickly as it shifted and began to blow to the northwest, those people were sitting that they were sitting ducks into the radiation levels were very high and very belatedly work these people moved. i know you took some heat for that evaluation. it was a wise move and a good call and i don't think there were that many americans around the plant. but then we come back to the issue if it's good for the japanese why isn't it good for the americans and why shouldn't there be the ability to plan for if not 50 miles, 25 miles? get the planning in place so that if need be, you can move -- moving people is typically difficult. we have a reference to the hospital late in the accident and that they left behind a whole bunch of people. many of them were elderly and they died. and that's -- i am not sure that the u.s. planning is any different, but you wouldn't leave some nursing home people owere

in the moment that 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 oversigh

identical design excuse me to the fukushima reactors here in the u.s. are we going to be awaiting potentially kind of the same disaster that because she might experience i mean walk away to shut these down we have about forty five seconds left well you know i think the basic concern is that we have. 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 yo

but again, we just had fukushima.we know that many of the nuclear power plants in our country are built on or near earthquake faults. and we have the commission's actual conclusion here. i understand the industry does not want to spend the money. i understand that the industry doesn't want to have to absorb this kind of a cost. but, again, i'm just dealing here with your own agency's conclusion about the danger that exists. >> senator, the seismic re-evaluation project will also look at the spent fuel pools again. >> and when is that? >> what is the time line for that? >> it's in progress. >> what's the time line? >> i don't know when they end. >> for the top priority group of plants, their seismic risk assessments will be completed by 2017. >> you know, the whole concept of probablistic risk assessment is one that is very long, and obviously goes back to the late 1970's and early 1980's with assessments made even then with regard to the probability of an accident and the need to build in proper protections. p.r.a. is

. >> post-fukushima. >> let me ask you this question. why did san onofre should down? why did crystal river shut down? why did vermont yankee shut down and why can oyster creek is going to close at the end of 2019? if they are all so hunky-dory. >> well, i think you would find for each of the plants there's a different reason. some were for financial reasons. others were for -- >> why don't you talk about the ones that had safety problems because you've said you had no concerns so which of those had safety concerns? >> i don't think any one of those plants were shut down because they weren't being operated safely. they were shut down because they had equipment issues that became -- >> that's safety, isn't it? >> no, it was never a safety issue. >> it wasn't a safety issue at san onofre? >> san onofre's steam generators were flawed. >> was leaking. >> the plant was shut down after the leak. >> my point. >> okay. >> so when what i'm saying when a commissioner says in the opening statement i have no concerns, let's be clear. there are conce

he thinks the situation at fukushima is a lot more challenging than three mile island. the fuel at fukushima daiichi has melted through the reactor cores, and has dropped to the bottom of containment vessels. >> it's a magnitude worse. i mean, i can't conceive of how much difficulty you've got. >> reporter: the operator at fukushima daiichi wants to start removing fuel debris in 2020. but engineers at the plant are still looking for a way to do that. engineers have to fill the reactor containment vessels with water. but the vessels have many leaks. on top of that, engineers at fukushima have to deal with three reactors, not just one, like at three mile island. >> the slow nuclear cleanup is a reason only a small fraction of rice farmers have resumed planting in the area, even after restrictions were lifted in the spring. following the accident, the central government restricted rice farming in 12 municipalities near the plant to prevent radioactive contamination. radiation levels declined and they lifted officials bans and self-imposed suggestion pensions this spring. f

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 clarified his comments the next day. he said the key issue is compensation for land and aid to rebuild lives and local ec

we can do no less in the case of fukushima experience.the rnc has taken actions based on lessons learned. i believe the changes we have made thus far are appropriate and balance. i believe the steps that are licensees have taken thus far has made us more resilient than before. for example two weeks ago i visited california's plant which has obtained vast new equipment and is building a new bust facility for housing. many plants are doing the same thing. they're still much work to be completed though i'm confident what we have done so far has been both necessary for public protection and balance according to the threat so i think you and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you so much and last but certainly not least the honorable william ostendorff. welcome. >> thank you chairman box and then senator inhofe for the chance to be here today. regarding fukushima great strides have been made in the activities to determine -- without unnecessary delay safety significant items in tier 1. one such activity is directed to licensees to reev

should companies in america profit by using disparaging and ignorant terms also officials at the fukushima nuclear power plant are trying to build an ice wall to help plug leaks the radioactive waste is that ever working and is are really the best way to contain leaks of radioactive material and former failed vice president dick cheney who was in charge of the white house counterterrorism task force and what nine eleven appen on his watch is hitting pathetic new lows attacking president obama alongside his daughter liz because cheney's failed iraq policy is working out just the way obama said it would back in two thousand and three he said taking advice from a man who led us into an unjust war that there's a lot of the hundreds of thousands of people that were indoors for war crimes shouldn't cheney be sitting in there a bit more on that and ideally to. you know this america needs to stop listening to the war hawks former vice president dick cheney one of the architects of america's unjust war in iraq. illegal war we should add published an op ed today in the wall street journal accusing p

for the nice green report despite silence from the corporate media fukushima is still a disaster situation that crippled nuclear power plant japan is still extremely volatile and officials at the plant appear to be guessing about how to get radiation under control according to an article by harvey wasserman over truthdig tepco the company that owns the plant has finally want to prove to build a giant underground ice wall to contain the radiation but no one's ever constructed anything like that it could take as long as two years to complete and there's widespread skepticism about whether it'll even make a difference in the meantime young people living around fukushima are being diagnosed with thyroid cancer at forty times the normal rate and health experts say this is just the beginning of two thousand and eleven disaster woke up the people of japan and so far they have demanded that every commercial nuclear reactor remain shut down however here in the united states we're now ignoring the disaster in japan we're building two new nuclear plants it's time to wake up demand the truth about fuk

in the wake of the fukushima meltdown. in august 2011, the former nrc chairman testified before our committee that the nrc should be able to act on those recommendations and that they could be implemented within five years. , the nrc has failed complete implementation of a single one of the post fukushima safety measures. summary operators are not in compliance with the safety requirements that were in place before fukushima. the nrc has only completed its own action on four of the 12 task force recommendations. your team that you praise all the time told you that you have to do this. this is unacceptable. it puts the safety of the american people at risk. thank you. we have these for you. i also have serious concerns about the safety of nuclear fuels. nrc studies show that the consequences of a fire at a nuclear fuel pool can be as serious as a severe accident at an operating reactor. not only does nrc allow that fuel to be stool -- stored indefinitely, it is considering requests for decommissioning reactor operators for

speaking a little closer to home, fukushima is an amazing story since the plant actually survived theincredible earthquake, and it would have survived the tsunami except that they kept their backup batteries in the basement. that was the only flaw in this. and what happened was they had to battle three different problems at the same time. they had hydrogen gas exploding in the atmosphere, they had reactors exploding, and then they also had these cooling tanks with the old, used fuel. that was also exploding. so it came from three different directions. at one point one of the most frightening things in the book is learning how the head of the utility called the prime minister and said there's nothing we can do, we're evacuating the plant, we're giving up. but the on-site manager insisted on going forward, and he came up with the system of the fukushima 50 where 400 men were cycled in and out of the plant, many of whom were the equivalent of day laborers that you hire in the parking lot of costco or work who went in, and they would even reset their do similarrer thes, because if they go

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

his ambition has its roots in the fukushima nuclear plant disaster of 2011. no radioacttivity was detected in his produce, but consumers were worried, and sales plummeted by two-thirds. the business recovered, but teranuma learned the best insurance could be to have different markets and production sites. >> translator: i have a growing desire to look for new possibilities. go out into the world and explore the unknown. >> reporter: scanning the horizon, teranuma set his sights on east africa. tanzania seemed like a promising place to start. it's a world leading producer of sweet potato. the man in charge of production at teranuma's company is momoro terakato. last september he arrived on a fact finding mission arranged by an aide organization, jaika. >> translator: these are quite good fields. >> reporter: terakata's first discovery, the local potatoes are grown without pesticides or fertilizers. his next step was to see if he could process them. this involves steaming and drying. in tanzania, potatoes are normally boiled. >> translator: what's the sugar con

and i can't leave her behind. >> zack and georgia were 200 miles from fukushima.he danger was subsiding. so they stayed, even helped with the cleanup. and then about a month later, funny how these things go, zack and georgia got another shock, another one of those life-changing developments. zack told his parents about it during one of their regular sunday phone calls. >> and he said, have you checked your e-mail yet? and i said no. and he said why don't you guys look at your e-mail together. and so i said oh, zack, what now? >> after all the worry and dread they'd experienced over their son's time in japan, zack branham's parents weren't quite prepared for the next bit of news. >> so we opened the e-mail, and there's an ultrasound picture. >> a baby was on the way. >> we were literally speechless. one of the few times in my life i've been speechless. >> and we nicknamed it baby bean because it looked like a little bean. >> it just, it felt right. in a way. we were obviously, obviously in love. and the timing wasn't amazing, but it had happened. so let's just go w

or worse this is all moving into the columbia river right now even worse are colocated with the fukushima style reactor and one more worse than the whole complex sits below a dam on the columbia river that's got a sixty five foot crack in it ok so the situation at hand furred isn't ideal but the department of energy has a plan that will cost more than one hundred thirteen billion dollars and won't be completed until twenty nine humans will likely be extinct by then or have developed principles to radiation. the half life of plutonium is twenty five thousand. in years and then ten to twelve twenty half lives you know we're talking about you know millennium when they say that hanford is going to be cleaned by twenty nine what they really mean is that hanford will be cleaned by twenty one million ninety one to twenty one minute million and i think. even the workers out there that are speaking out don't have bush she was a nuclear engineer for the subcontractor in charge at hanford you are she warned that safety procedures to respond to a nuclear leak at the site were flawed and she was promp

. >>> 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

my position on nuclear even after fukushima and particularly after talk about fukushima, anda chaptern the book where i say it seems a little odd to say it, but after fukushima, the prospects for nuclear have never been better. in my view, when it comes to the issue of climate change and nuclear, it's very simple. if you're anti-nuclear, you're pro-darkness. [laughter] there's -- [applause] if you're anti-carbon dioxide and anti-nuclear, you are in favor of blackouts. i'm adamantly opposed to blackouts. i'm for cold beer and air-conditioning for everybody. [laughter] but nuclear is problematic right now, particularly in the u.s., mainly because of cost. look at georgia. they're building two new reactors there, they're going to cost about $6900 per installed kilowatt. you can build now, utilities or electric generators can build natural gas-fired capacities for about 1200 per kilowatt. coal-fired maybe $3000 per kilowatt. so the problem for the u.s. and around the world continues to be for nuclear high cost. safety, yes, regulatory issues, yes, but we have other stumbling blocks on 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

. >>> 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

>> as far as we know, the nuclear fallout from fukushima has not had a significant impact on the restnd we should worry more about the destruction of resources and the pollution, stopping plastic going into the ocean and cutting carbon pollution, i think are our biggest priorities now. >> stopping plastic. dumping garbage? >> basically dumping garbage. >> and there are no laws against that? no protocols? >> there are lots of laws and regulations depending on the state or the country but 80% of the plastic that gets its way into the ocean is from the land. >> really striking numbers. thank you so much, enric sala. >> pleasure. >>> jimmy fallon did it again, a rapper alter ego b. willie and takes on the sir mix-a-lot classic "baby got back." ♪ okay, movie night.everyone wins. how do i win? because we're streaming the movie that you love. well, how do i win? because we ordered that weird thing that you love from the pizza place. how do you win, dad? because i used the citi thankyou card and got two times the points on alllllll of this. well, and spending time with you guys of course. tha

are you going to go over and get a briefing on fukushima? >> i'm actually going to visit fukushima again. >> let me say this. that makes a lot of sense and everybody makes a decision but i just want to speak as someone who cares a lot about the safety at the san onofre plant. you haven't even seen documents. i gave them to mr. ostendorff but there's so much to be done. not one of the 12 recommendations has gone to -- the operator of san onofre is asking for exemptions from all kinds of emergency planning when the fire was a half a mile away and i just wish -- i need your leadership here. i need your leadership here. maybe your leadership is more important at the united arab emirates but from my point of view and i'm being honest here you have got a backlog. the chairman could answer a lot of questions because she's got to get back at my -- back to me and i just hope you'll consider this. in any event i want to thank you. these hearings are very difficult because you have made decisions as the chairman said and you are done. no, you are not d

host: very concerned about fukushima.guest: there's clearly a lot of concern about folks watching this program. i've not seen reports of what impact that's had on this area from the researchers and the experts who have traveled to this area. none of them have described that as one of their concerns. it doesn't mean that it's not affecting things, and certainly we've also even seen debris from the tsunami in japan wash up on american shores. it certainly has ripple effects, and in many ways, it's a reminder of how the ocean is interconnected and something that happens very far away can actually have effects much closer to home. host: how much travel have you done through that area? did you do any when you were writing your book? guest: unfortunately, i did not have a chance to go to this particular part of the world. i did spent a significant time in the pacific, both off the coast of papua new guinea, indonesia, china, japan, to, in fact, i went to the area that was hardest hit by the tsunami in the course of researching

. >>> let's now get the latest business stories from yuko fukushima. >> japan's steady aging and shrinking population is putting pressure on insurance executives to find new markets. many had been looking at the u.s. it's the world's biggest insurance market, and still growing. 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 marke

. >>> 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

should companies in america profit by using disparaging and ignorant terms also officials at the fukushima nuclear power plant are trying to build an ice wall to help plug leaks the radioactive waste is that ever working and is are really the best way to contain leaks of radioactive material and former failed vice president dick cheney who was in charge of the white house counterterrorism task force and what nine eleven appen on his watch is hitting pathetic new lows attacking president obama alongside his daughter liz because cheney's failed iraq policy is working out just the way obama said it would back in two thousand and three.

. >> develop the robot to walk in fukushima which is inhospitable to human life. >> and atlas can walklance and clear things up. and what happens when the advantage is burning hot. at virginia tech. mechanic engineers are leading a time from researchers from ucla. tweet a four fight robot from the u.s. navy and protected by a resin shield. it is part of the ship board. it is balance and navigate quarters and using clues like smoke to lot fire. the future is in the lab. but researchers say this technology will be available for those in the fold and home. >> within the next decade or two, you will so them for real, helping with real disasters and you will see them in our home and work places. >> and in cam bridge, massachusetts. >> i am julie bandaras. this is a fox report. and time for the top of the news. defense secretary chuck hagel ordering the uss george w. bush to move in the gulf. this as president obama considers options in iraq. they could launch air strikes to stop the group of sunni extremist. in baghdad volunteers are arming up and preparing to defend the cant kament. they a

what affected it was not fukushima dye eeshy, but has been the boom in shale oil. >> that is cheeper. >> cheaper for the moment. interestingly enough during the winter with the polar vortex we saw natural gas presses spiking. it's been an up and down thing, which is a reason you want to say look, there's no magic bullet here. you shouldn't rule out nuclear, because it takes a small i am not of iranian to produce power. it's the least expensive form of power which have. >> critical of the g.o.p. is saying that they are not focussing on the environment. if you look at the numbers, most americans are not paying attention, it's the 19th important issue among 20 that we look at. it's only 14% of republicans that look at it as a significant issue. how do you change that because if that is the case. sure, you are going to have republican candidates that want to play to the base. >> i can understand where they are coming from. the problem is people don't relate to change , it's too big and fast. they relate to weather. that has a direct impact. what you see now more and more is people saying

the goal -- >> develop a robot that can walk into a dangerous place like fukushima, which is inhospitableo human life, and do something useful there. >> already with minimal guidance, atlas can walk, balance and pick things up, tasks critical in debris-clearing situations is. but what happens when the challenge is burning hot? at virginia tech, mechanical engineers are leading a team including researchers from ucla and the university of pennsylvania to create a firefighting robot for the u.s. navy, one that will be protected with a resin shield to avoid heat and water damage. it can balance on unstable surfaces like a ship at sea. this robot will be tested later on this year on the u.s. navy's fire test ship. it's the "uss shadwick" moored in alabama. the goal is for the robots to stand in for human beings. >> fascinating report, thank you, molly. >>> critics blasting the obama administration for what many are calling a humanitarian crisis. thousands of illegal immigrants flooding across our southern border, many of them kids. so the big question is, what's causing this to happen? >>> plu

the the goal, it is to put them in really dangerous situations like fukushima and keep people out ofrms way. >> within the neck decade or you two will see them for real helping them out in disaster and seeing them in our home, work places doing useful work. >> the the the university of pennsylvania is also, having a team to create a fire fighting robot, ideally for the u.s. navy. >> computer welder who started in the first robo cop in the early 80's. you are right it remind me of the fox football presue as well. >>> woman turns her own husband into police but what she does afterwards that has some people shaking their heads. >>> jennifer joyce good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, chris. upper darby police department is investigating a possible incident of the income out game, we will talk to the victim hear from him coming up next. [ mom ] hi, we're the pearsons, and we love chex cereal. so we made our own commercial to tell you why. first, chex makes lots of gluten free flavors. which is a huge thing for us. and there's seven to choose from. like cinnamon, honey nut, and

physical commodities are systemic risk and they talked about deepwater horizon and they talked about fukushimabanking system 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-

bad things happen all the time, tsunamis, fukushimas, bad weather. it's evidence of the fact we really aren't doing very well. if you flip it around and look forward, after this quarter we have to grow at 3.7% every quarter, second, third and fourth, just to get to 2% for the year. so we've got another bad year almost baked in the cake. we haven't seen 3.7% three straight quarters in this recovery. >> austan, i've seen estimates where people think in 2016 we'll see 5% growth. would you revise that downward? >> i know there are people saying that and what they basically have in their minds is that the old joke onion headline. furious nation wants new bubble to invest in. i do not see that happening that we'll come rebounding back with that kind of strength. what i've been hoping for is that we get this bubble stuff out of the way and get the economy back on some sustainable fundamentals and grow 3.5%. that would be fantastic. but i think you've seen the fed and others revise down a little bit of what the growth is. >> i think austan has that right. it

juniper products and the company and the country both got hit by the tsunami, right, the subsequent fukushima nuclear disaster dried up orders so it was natural to think there would be a pause in orders after the catastrophe. soon the stocks dropped to the 30s. this time we heard orders were from europe and the united states. i stuck with juniper because the company had a ton of cash. oops. pretty clear europe had a lot of problems and i ascribed it to the mess and the fact that the u.s. government had been a big juniper customer. we know the government's belt tightening. not until the stock dropped to the 20s, now you're in half, that i realized juniper blame the customer act was a pretty darn lame alibi. turned out major competitor cisco was taking market share the whole time, kicking their butt with a better mauss trap. the juniper customers were sitting on their hands. they were just -- they were buying elsewhere which i didn't realize until we dug deeply into cisco's quarters, not juniper's. the information was indeed there to be had but only from a competitor, not from juniper itself. t

first, for shema. -- fukushima.: you hear from nuclear companies such as exelon, they say bees -- depending on how stringent these relations are is going to go along ways towards seeing how many of their plans might need to be shut down . nuclear power has been stagnant, it is projected to decline slightly in the year ahead. of the only baseload sources of power that is carbon free. i suspect you will hear a lot about of that from the it ministration, about how important nuclear power is to the climate change agenda. a former top aide to president obama recently joined us -- join an advocacy group to promote nuclear power. i think that is an important part of the bid. what if this happens? major disasterne to really damper of public support for this kind of energy. host: the color also brought up the issue of apathy. guest: most americans do not care about climate change, in terms of other issues, when they asked what do you want covers to focus on? climate change is usually dead last, or second to last. that is a c

is already fukushima ng -- in for disaster response in such areas.ine -- for oil and gas industries. another example is they could live on wind farms and look at cracks or damage on the wind turbines. and repair them without any human intervention. this would reduce the down time. >> are there any ethical issues when it comes to robotics? eelon musks talked about worry about -- elon musk talked about are ing about a term in -- these getting too life like? >> i think there are a lot of science fiction novels that talk about the dangers of this. i think now robotics and aero robot six moving off into space for many different an indications and there is lots of opportunities there. we need some kennettics framework that will allow us to define what we want them to do and what they should not do. similar to genetic engineering community such as things we don't want to clone humans, we have to think -- they are benefiting humanity, improving the quality of life to the nefit and not endangeringing people. >> wonderful speaking to you. thank you very much i