reiko why did you pick her?> guest: we thought a film earlier and we talked to richard dreyfus than we thought to a couple other people. garrison keillor and it occurred to me over it. upon humphry siphoned over the 60s he's kind of a painting on the wall. he's always sort of nonexistent. of course he's right in the middle of things and all the attention is taken away from him and is partly his fault because he gave thanks to wake him was she about kennedy, johnson, humphrey. i was afraid if i had a famous person may rate it would become about that person again and humphrey would get shadowed. so i decided to use someone that i liked and was the necessarily famous. although she sounds at the number of people, so people mistake her. she's got a wonderful voice. reiko her name is mary easter. still in minneapolis? >> guest: she grew up in richmond during jim crow. so she has a sensitivity to the history. c-span: ticino hubert humphrey? >> guest: i don't think she did, no. c-span: 1948 elected assignment senate and

. >> reporter: reiko hachisuka is one of the commission members. she used to run a flower shop about five kilometers from the stricken fukushima plant. she was supposed to evacuate along with everyone else. she says she joined because she wanted to see how they are handling the cleanup of chernobyl and hopefully learn something to help with the restoration of her hometown. the group went to visit the town near chernobyl where the plant workers used to live. the former residents have not been allowed to return to their town, now a ghost town, since they were told by the government that they would have to evacuate for only three days. the distance from their home to the plant is almost the same as the distance from here to chernobyl. >> translator: it breaks my heart seeing the situation here. nuclear accidents must not be allowed to happen again. >> reporter: hachisuka and other members visited the facility within the restricted zone where the radioactive materials are being buried. they watched truckloads of waste being brought in one after another

reiko whatever books have you written?t: this is her first book, but i would book called out of control, which is about the reagan administration activities in central america, no covert operations down there and i read a book about the threat which is about the soviet military. c-span: were you from originally? >> guest: i'm from ireland. c-span: what was life like growing up. when did you leave? >> guest: life is interesting. it was like actually we didn't have a car or a telephone or a phrase, so i grew up by lawyers. i grew up in the 19th century way. there is no different the way we were living for a hundred years before. communicated by telegram. especially people under the age of 110 but it's a perfectly viable way to live. i left derek has when i was 17 and went to work in london. c-span: hominy books and documentaries and frontlines have you done since 1991? >> guest: it's been let's see, one, two, three books. many many 60 minutes. c-span: your daughters for like 10 have been when you're here before. >> guest: ye