chemist-type, can i borrow a geiger counter. yeah, right over there. you et the geiger counter. you know what a geiger counter is? a radioactive-- radiation detector. and you put the carbon under the geiger counter, okay? you put the new one in there. the new one. from the little twig. huh? you put that under there. click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. maybe 20 counts per minute. make believe. 20 counts per minute. now, you take that away. now you take the old one. put it underneath there. click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. 10 counts per minute. ooh. how old is the ax handle? check your neighbor. how many of you say, "oh, i think it's something like more than 5,000 years old." show of hands. yay. 'cause it's a half-life. what if you put it under there and it went click, click, click, click. five counts per minute. and the new stuff is 20. ooh. then how old is the ax handle, gang? 11,000. 11,000 or something. 11,460. twice that? yay. maybe twice as old as the half-life. you got it? all right.

the tuna and seafood in general are ways you know if i got my geiger counter but i haven't gone out of the fish shop and besides that there are the fish. so we're on the east coast not the west coast what's going on well first of all you need special monitors to check the internal contamination of bluefin tuna you would need to you can you can register cesium with a geiger counter possibly if it's on the surface you could detect it but this is deep imbedded in the muscle of the tuna and that's exactly where it would go in humans and apparently what happened this new study that's out proceedings of the national academy of sciences backed by researchers from stanford university from woods hole oceanographic institute shows that the muscle tissue of the tuna is contaminated with radioactive cesium one thirty seven radioactive cesium one thirty four unmistakeably undeniably from fukushima daiichi the massive releases of radioactivity into the ocean which was unprecedented in scale and in nature that happened in march and april of two thousand and eleven and actually these readings on the t

he is going to measure radioactivity with a geiger counter.evels of radioactivity around david ncale's home have risen, increasing his risk of cancer. >> the problem is that people live here permanently and so are exposed over a long period. but besides being exposed to radiation, there are others dangers. >> risks come from breathing in pollutants or ingesting them after they have polluted the ground. this is a major health threat -- one that mariette liefferink has been warning of for years. she is calling for someone to take responsibility. >> for 120 years of gold mining, we do feel that the mines should put something back into the communities. as you can see, they're busy. to remediate the land, and to put something back into communities. >> but that's easier said than done. many of the area's mining firms have moved away. mine owners want nothing to do with their predecessors' pollution. >> it is something that happened due to the previous mining activities. at this point in time, this companies that mine at the time are nowhere to be fo

. >>> for post fukushima consumers worried about radiation, a personal geiger counter could soon be as close as your cell phone. major japanese phone carrier softbank is releasing a smartphone this summer with a built in radiation counter. softbank made the announcement on tuesday at a launch event for new products. the firm says a simple touch of the screen lets users measure the radiation around them in about two minutes. users will be able to save the readings along with location data and also refer to past history. the release of the new phone comes amid growing health awareness, particularly among mothers with small children. >> translator: for example, a mother can measure radiation between her home and the child's school and save the data on the phone's map. >> he says he wants to reduce monthly charges for the hand set. industry observers say softbank's latest move will further intensify competition among carriers to boost smartphone sales. >>> here are the latest market figures. >>> scientists in japan have spent more than a year tracking an invisible threat. they've been keep

a cell phone with a built-in geiger counter. the smartphone is expected to go on sale in july.e, debris from the disaster has been washing up on our shores. john blackstone reports from alaska. >> reporter: at the mouth of prince william sound there are bottles and barrels, spray cans, fishing gear and worries about toxic chemicals. the japanese writing on this fuel canister says danger. can you clean this up? >> we can clean this up, given the resources but it's going to be four, five, six-year process. >> reporter: chris is president of gulf of alaska keeper, a group that tries to keep wilderness beaches free of trash. this is used as insulation in japan? >> in buildings. you can see it's been -- it adheres to a wall somewhere here. i mean, there's just boat load after boat load up and down this shoreline. >> reporter: by 2013 it's estimated as much as 1.5 million tons of wreckage from the tsunami could reach the west coast, from alaska all the way to california. montague island is a barrier on the alaska coast, catching much of the debris that washes across this light materi

. >> i captured a lot of them with geiger counter. none are hot.o radiation whatsoever. >> reporter: government and university scientists say it's highly unlikely that radiation will be present in tsunami debris. one reason -- most of it was already at sea before the fukushima reactor leak. still other toxins may be present in waters that provide 90% of the nation's wild salmon. >> now, this is not something you want to dump in your herring spawning area. >> reporter: the tribe has been fishing these waters for centuries. >> there's a king in the net -- a little bit on that. >> reporter: 400 of the 650 residents are klinket. they're pleading for federal help. >> if it begins to disintegrate there, the birds will eat it. whatever happens in the air or ground or sea will end up in our bodies. >> everyone likes to go and have a nice salmon steak. well, this is where it's coming from. that's why they should invest to keep our waterways open so we can catch this fish. >> reporter: and keep these fish safe to eat. >> casey is live from alaska tonight. ho

you are looking at the world's the very first mobile bomb with a geiger counter technology.ax from its company. people want to find free agent in their lives on their grass in in their food. in japan that continues to the lot of anxiety related to the amount of radiation that the round the people. this man is looking to build solar farms that are looking to replace each entity. something they cannot see smell or taste. this is the radiation that they are looking to be able to measure. >>darya: the 15 your lawn has dropped to below us and the first time ever. the average and the 30 allot fell just below 4%. the rates on the 30 year alone and has not been this low until -- for decades. distressed properties or in default are bank of account for 26% in the first quarter. >>mark: we will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0q lysol knows the soft places we love could be home to bacteria. so use lysol disinfectant spray on soft surfaces everyday when you're cleaning up to kill 99.9% of bacteria. lysol.

one thing they are saying is there were some initial concerns about radiation and they've done geigerhis stuff and none of it has shown any abnormal levels of radiation. that's being downplayed as a concern, but they don't know what's out there. in some ways they're waiting to see what it's going to be and then try to react to it as best they can. >> casey wian live for news yukitat, alaska. >>> it's 47 minutes paf 5695:00 on the east coast. >> the first private space capsule in history on its way to the international space station this morning. a rocket built by the commercial space flight company known as spacex, blasting off at 3:44 a.m. eastern this morning. launching the unmanned dragon capsule to resupply the space station. >>> new this morning, tragedy in india, right now, at least 14 people there killed in a train accident. 35 people injured, officials believe the driver of a paeng train, missed a red light and crashed into cargo train, three coaches of that passenger train were involved in the wreck. >>> california prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a 24-year-old f

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where we go through this and we talk about how people like larry summers and geiger -- timothy gr and the role that they play in this. they were forced because of threatened legal action by the federal government, people don't put down deposits on homes. that can work on 10 work as long as possible. as soon as they go down, and they start going underwater, and they walk away, then you have the whole thing spiraling out of control. >> you brought up the question of the private sector experience. i am not a big believer in bringing businessmen into this businessmen tell everyone what to do in their business, and they actually do it. they can fire people who don't do the job. if you get to be governor or senator or president, that is just not when the world works. it is a completely different skill set. scott walker, the governor of wisconsin, who is saving wisconsin and turning them from a deep blue state to a red state, changing it so that the units are not allowed to loop all the teachers, they got rid of tenure is so that that teachers can go way. they are not giving the teachers uni

where we go through this and we talk about how people like larry summers and geiger -- timothy gr and the role that they play in this. they were forced because of threatened legal action by the federal government, people don't put down deposits on homes. that can work on 10 work as long as possible. as soon as they go down, and they start going underwater, and they walk away, then you have the whole thing spiraling out of control. >> you brought up the question of the private sector experience. i am not a big believer in bringing businessmen into this businessmen tell everyone what to do in their business, and they actually do it. they can fire people who don't do the job. if you get to be governor or senator or president, that is just not when the world works. it is a completely different skill set. scott walker, the governor of wisconsin, who is saving wisconsin and turning them from a deep blue state to a red state, changing it so that the units are not allowed to loop all the teachers, they got rid of tenure is so that that teachers can go way. they are not giving the teachers uni

bob geiger is a bankable guy. >> in a few year's time, you're probably going to be able to launch a movien facebook or some sort of mass market product. >> that's true. i remember when the first dot com revelation came, everyone thought that the dead tree crowd would eventually drop and the newspapers and magazines did well from 1999 to 2002. and then they hit the wall. >> knight-ridder sold for $2 a share. eventually, it happens. it may happen slowly and then suddenly. >> and broadcast. some people could argue that prod cast is something you should get rid of. espn, obviously not broadcast. >> that's a different model. and then broadcast, they still manage to get paid for a smaller and smaller audience. it's one that is still somewhat large and cohesive. but, one day, when will it change? >> well, what we're hearing, the next generation. i'm watching tv with my 20-year-old. i say listen, let's buy this particular program. we were talking about the killing. let's buy it on itunes. she says dad, no one knows how to fast forward a commercialcia better than i do, let's watch it on dvr. those

where we go through this and we talk about how people like larry summers and geiger -- timothy gr and the role that they play in this. they were forced because of threatened legal action by the federal government, people don't put down deposits on homes. that can work on 10 work as long as possible. as soon as they go down, and they start going underwater, and they walk away, then you have the whole thing spiraling out of control. >> you brought up the question of the private sector experience. i am not a big believer in bringing businessmen into this businessmen tell everyone what to do in their business, and they actually do it. they can fire people who don't do the job. if you get to be governor or senator or president, that is just not when the world works. it is a completely different skill set. scott walker, the governor of wisconsin, who is saving wisconsin and turning them from a deep blue state to a red state, changing it so that the units are not allowed to loop all the teachers, they got rid of tenure is so that that teachers can go way. they are not giving the teachers uni