. >> oakridge national laboratory is a major research institution and oakridge national lab has been around since right after the second world war. and is a major and perhaps in some senses the premier research institute in the entire united states. and some people would contend the world. it was started as part of the manhattan project in 1942. the manhattan project was the u.s. government's attempt to build anatomic weapon to drop on germany to end the second world war. and resulted in the atomic weapons that were ultimately dropped on japan in august of 1945 which did in the second world war i and out of that grew oakridge national laboratory. this was set up originally in 1943 as clinton laboratories. dn have the name oakridge at the time. and the purpose of clinton laboratories was to learn how to produce plutonium which was a radioactive element that could split and release vast amounts of energy just like some uranium can. but they didn't know much about plutonium. it was an artificial element. it had to be created by man. they knew nothing about the characteristics of plutoni

. >> oakridge national laboratory is a major research institution and oakridge national lab has been around since right after the second world war. and is a major and perhaps in some senses the premier research institute in the entire united states. and some people would contend the world. it was started as part of the manhattan project in 1942. the manhattan project was the u.s. government's attempt to build anatomic weapon to drop on germany to end the second world war. and resulted in the atomic weapons that were ultimately dropped on japan in august of 1945 which did in the second world war i and out of that grew oakridge nat

george gets tapped for that and gets sent to oakridge, tennessee, where he becomes a health physicists. he has the run of the place. and he's using instruments that were designed earlier, the person who designed them measuring the radiation. so george is probably ingesting an enormous amount of information about how uranium is enriched. and plutonium and basically has the run of the place. now, i heard he has his own jeep. >> more involved in -- [ inaudible question ]. >> right, but living in the barracks among his colleagues, he must have learned a great deal and he's passing this information on to russia. we don't know how he did that or who his contact was. i'm hoping that mark cramer, my co-author, is digging into the russian archives and is finding out more about how this information. was transmitted. but just the fact that 75,000 people are living in oakridge, this it must get the attention of the russians. something is going here. what's going on? so unfortunately we don't know the kinds of information he he passed on. so he spends 11 months at oak ridge and then he sent to dayt

several people spotted the bear in and around oakridge park. police say look, leave the bear alone! don't feed it. don't go near it and definitely do not corner it. here's a good reason why. you see this? this is the footprint the bear left behind. a fist pump with that bad boy might cost you your arm. let's be real. >>> always watching always tracking, wusa9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> you also don't want to get close enough to call it a hairy brother. >> or then run. don't feed if. you have to tell people not to feed bears? >> apparently. >> ready for the 3-degree guarantee. here we go. we went high of 89. it was 91. >> look at that. >> back on the horse, only 13-5 for the month of june, not great. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam 77, winds south, southeasterly at 5. here's radar. in town we're okay, some big thunderstorms still pushing off the bay south of baltimore. these are the showers we're watching overnight west of hagerstown toward cumberland and romney. i think these stay north of the immediate metro area, but

george gets tapped for that and gets sent to oakridge tennessee. he has the run of the place. and he's using instruments that were designed earlier, the person who designed them measuring the radiation. so george is probably ingesting an e enormous amount of information about how uranium is enriched. and plutonium and basically has the run o of the place. right but living in the barracks among his colleagues, he must have learned a great deal and he's passing this information on to russia. we don't know how he did that or who his contact was. i'm hoping that mark cramer, my co-author, is digging into the russian archives and is finding out more about how this information. was transmitted. but just the fact that 75,000 people are living in oakridge, this it must get the attention of the russians. something is going here. what's going on? so unfortunately we don't know the kinds of information he he passed on. so he spends 11 months at oak ridge and then he sent to dayton, ohio. and dayton ohio is the place that's probably the most secret part of secret manhattan project where p

. >> reporter: in another case investigators say colby broke into a car at the oakridge mall. inside he found mail with a home address and another set of car keys. he ultimately stole a car from that home as well. >> they're a little different to find due to the fact they're transients. >> reporter: three men have now been arrested and police expect more to follow. some members tell us they plan to keep their car keys with them while they work out. >> i'm going to be definitely more carbs. -- cautious. >> reporter: police say the men are also linked to one home burglary in san jose. some good news six out of the seven cars that were stolen have already been recovered. michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. >>> we're following some breaking news right now in san francisco. you see our nbc chopper overhead. this is at fifth and market a wild police chase right through the financial district ending south of market in so manyma. police followed the suspect through the financial district for several blocks. a lot of cars were struck during this pursuit. right now no word of any injur

unique program but i know there is health programs in effect for employees at savannah river paducah, oakridge and so forth which is similar to this, because those workers were exposed to certain elements, many of them were not even aware of and they came down with a lot of different cancers and so those programs are similar to this program, would you say in. >> yes, sir. and in fact, we administer the energy employees illness compensation program together with the department of laib and the department of energy. it is a program that bears a lot of similarities to our program at the world war trade-)$fw center. >> and so if you worked at the world trade center and you are covered and havep one of the illnesses that you all have set out, is there a presumption that since you were there and exposed that you would be covered under this program? >> not a presumption. a physician, not in the -- in the administration of the program, but in our centers of excellence, would examine you, take your history, and make the connection between the exposure history that you give that physician, and that healt

i hope, madame chair in the future we could get some of our climate scientists from oakridge. i know senator alexander is a member of our committee who they have incredible science on what will be impacting us. as a nation they have the modeling i think we should look at what these new normal conditions mean to us as a nation because i think we can see what the economic impact is going to be from an agriculture perspective. and i think it's going to be great. so i think we need to do a better job planning for the future. we need to do all that we can now at the federal level to be flexible in our response to get the right kind of investments to help ensure that our states can deal with these and that our communities will be better protected in the future. so once again i thank you for your leadership in having this hearing. i look forward to hearing from the witnesses including tom lorenger and i look forward to hearing from all of the witnesses today on this important topic. >> thank you senator cantwell. with this we will begin hearing from our witnesses this morning. again,

. >> oakridge national laboratory is a major research institution and oakridge national lab has been around since right after the second world war. and is a major and perhaps in some senses the premier research institute in the entire united states. and some people would contend the world. it was started as part of the manhattan project in 1942. the manhattan project was the u.s. government's attempt to build anatomic weapon to drop on germany to end the second world war. and resulted in the atomic weapons that were ultimately dropped on japan in august of 1945 which did in the second world war i and out of that grew oakridge national laboratory. this was set up originally in 1943 as clinton laboratories. dn have the name oakridge at the time. and the purpose of clinton laboratories was to learn how to produce plutonium which was a radioactive element that could split and release vast amounts of energy just like some uranium can. but they didn't know much about plutonium. it was an artificial element. it had to be created by man. they knew nothing about the characteristics of plutoni