it is all in the fuel pool. ems have been shut down to be maintained, including diesel s, perhaps even completely dismantled, and in the event there is a loss of offsite power from the high wind from this hurricane, we will see the water in the fuel pools begin to heat up. >> a representative of the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission said these plans have to be able to withstand all sorts of natural phenomenon -- earthquakes, severe flooding, tropical storms, lightning storms, tornadoes. we like to say they're very robust structures back into with a lot of punishment, but the the same time the procedures in place to guide them through this. arnie gundersen, what is your concern? >> this is not like the big bad wolf that can huff and puff. they will not blow this plant down, especially a hurricane that is only 85 opera hour wind. it is not a question of the winds from this hurricane blowing the plant down. it is a question of the loss of offsite power. that is exactly what happened after fukushima dai-ichi. the ea

it is critical to all the water when it's in the nuclear reactor but in america when we move the fuel into the spent fuel pool we have no way of cooling it off of easels and we need power to run the large plant so that's kind of a lot of focus shiva. yes it's very similar to what happened. to unit four yes it's very similar so begs the question could last year's fukushima disaster in japan be repeated that if flooding does for whatever reason of next couple of hours knock out generators there. well the generators have even if the generators are off or on rather. the generators don't run the pumps on the fuel pool here in america in order to reduce the size of the generators they made a decision years ago that we didn't have the power of the fuel pool cooling system off of the emergency the emergency bus that small been revisited since fukushima then i guess no well the n.r.c. is revisiting it but you know there are bureaucracy and it's been eighteen months and there's been no conclusions what is the worst case scenario here than. well you know i think that the difference is that they

baskets where the spent fuel is stored. the spent fool, 96% of the material is recyclable. >> about 17% of france's electricity comes from reused nuclear fuel. before she can get to the storage facility where the non-recyclable parts of the fuel are, she passes through a radiation contamination check. >> it says that we had 0.1 microsieverts. >> having only absorbed 1/500th the amount of radiation of a transatlantic flight, jordan makes it to the storage hole. >> under my both feet here, i have the equivalent quantity of what is left after one year of a production of a nuclear power plant. >> i wish we didn't have to have nuclear, in an ideal world i'd love to replace it with full renewables. but i worry if we shut all of this down what would happen on the price side. >> but shutting down is exactly what the new french administration has talked about doing. the socialist president francois hollande has promised to reduce france's share of nuclear from 75% to 50% by 2025. so far, only one of frances's reactors is set to be de

the fossil fuel industry. secondly, they'll have the fossil fuel industry against them in the election. >> cenk: it seems that we can't change the climate change problem until we solve the money in politics president obama because money has flooded politics to a degree where they've effectively shut down our politicians' efforts of fixing this. >> yes campaign finance reform, it has been lost as a topic. however, the real problem is that fossil fuels are still the cheapest energy because we subsidize them. the taxpayers subsidize them, and we do not make fossil fuels pay for their cost to society. air pollution and water pollution from fossil fuels, if you get asthma or any other illness from the air and water pollution you have to pay for that yourself. not the fossil fuel companies. these climate effects $20 billion effect of this storm, who is going to pay for that? the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel industry. we need to add collective fee from the fossil fuel company and distribute that money to the public s

is critical to all the water when it's in the nuclear reactor but in america will be the fuel into the spent fuel pool we have no way of doing it or. we need. offsite power to run the large pumps the real problem is that the box that the fuel is in can get very very humid because as this water begins to get hot steam goes up and the equipment in safety related equipment is really not designed for high unity so it's important that the fuel cooling be reestablished and it's important that it be maintained in the long haul i don't believe we'll have a. disaster but i think it really should show the american nuclear regulatory commission that it can happen year. we did have a flood inland in one of the pennsylvania plants and we having the same conversation two days from now. you can get all the very latest updates on superstorm sandy. and the severe weather has disrupted the u.s. presidential race both barack obama and his republican challenger mitt romney suspending election campaigns we've got special coverage of the election taking on what other channels are ignoring you can watch the

and fuel production down the greenhouse effect dr alan provides expertise to lead institutions such as mit and hawkes with university has received numerous e-mails and you were in two thousand and seven peace prize as a member of the intergovernmental panel. hello michelle welcome to the show it was a pleasure thank you very much for being with us well since you're here in russia i want to i want to start with that russian problem and one of them is the fact that russia's ecological sustainability record is front of the best in the world so do you think it may change in the near future and are there any other technologies you invented already used in russia well firstly russia being the primary energy producer has had a very large amount of very cheap energy in the past and of course that's meant that power production. doesn't exactly have the highest efficiency many of the stations are very old and so you can imagine that power production in this country is going to have to change radically in the immediate future just for

into the spent fuel pool we have no way of cooling it or easels and we need offsite power to run the large pumps the real problem is that the box at the fuel is in can get very very humid because as this water begins to get hot there's steam goes up in the equipment in that box safety related equipment is really not designed for high unity so it's important that the fuel will be reestablished and it's important that it be maintained in the long haul i don't believe we'll have a. disaster but i think it really should show the american nuclear regulatory commission that it can happen here we did have a flood inland in one of the pennsylvania plants and be having the same conversation two days from now. set to return to that contains on wednesday against a backdrop of recovery from sunday so it's had seemingly appeared that differences aside during the storm but some say the temporary downplay of presidential rivalry is just a smokescreen this a confident reports this was the surprise that it heard carol i think. hurricane sandy crashing on shore i've never seen anything like this i'm a

c o two as the working fluid in a turbine system and it's a very simple system actually you burn the fuel say natural gas with pure oxygen. you you you you circulate a lot of carbon dioxide in the system and then you put this mixture of carbon dioxide from the combustion and the recycle carbon dioxide and the steam you produce from the natural gas combustion this goes through a turbine you have a heat exchanger which cools the whole thing down and heats up the recycle stream again so you have just the circulation of c o two but it's not a close circuit you are completely close it and the only carbon that comes out of the circuit is carbon that was in the fuel to start with so a natural product of the circuit is pure carbon dioxide pressure but listen but you can use the core a bit except now instead of admitting it you use it inside because you continue burning gas oh yes so you get more and more current exactly so you know much of it but you get too much of it no carbon goes in one end and the same amount of carbon comes out the other in continuously and it gets converted from the carbon

pumps the real problem is that the box at the fuel is in can get very very humid because as this water begins to get hot steam goes up and the equipment in that box safety related equipment is really not designed for high unity so it's important that the fuel pool cooling be reestablished and it's important that it be maintained in the long haul i don't believe we'll have a. disaster but i think it really should show the american nuclear regulatory commission that it can happen here we could have a flood inland in one of the pennsylvania plants and be having the same conversation two days from now. because it's also hit the race to the white house with both his republican challenger mitt romney suspending their election campaigns the storm could hit his chances as it might make voting in the traditionally democrat state of new york difficult u.s. politician and the political activist tom hayden says sandy could fuel the electoral crisis it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is being wiped out in these cities and states the voting of t

the fuel gets consumed, the rims get detached and they end up in the hands of exxon or bp. rucial is biodiesel fuel to economic sustainability here? we're running, if you believe some people, we're running out of it, we don't have enough of it, we can't extract petroleum, so it behooves us to look for alternatives. if it costs too much to make and you're not making money and the investors aren't making money, does it not become problematic? >> well, this year we've made on a year to date basis and, in fact, in the last quarter despite our earnings down downturn, we actually grew our volume of sales. in fact, there's good demand for biodiesel. again, we've got a commodity issue that we're working through as an industry that's a temporal activity. it's great working for our industry because our product helps with food security, with energy security, it really helps clean up the air and helps with carbon. liz: well, it's down about 45% over the past year including today, but the pe is still cheap. it's a fix for the price to earnings ratio. dan, it's good to see you. >> thank y

the company holds thousands of gallons of fuel for racing cars. it ignited. t fire balls erupted in to the air. for people living nearbies they were told the dangerous fumes were minimal because the fuel was clean burning. time for a check of the traffic and weather. rain is going to be a big story today. >>> we are dealing with fog, north and west of baltimore and unfortunately several accidents. >> we had major storms across texas and the south during the weekend. flooding we showed you yesterday on good morning maryland. is this the storm? >> working across the area, getting rain in mainly portions of the north and west, that's where you are seeing the fog. that will trek further to the east as we go throughout the day and shift as we go in to tomorrow. let me show you what is going on, satellite and radar, picking up on clouds, we are seeing the rain from the clouds this morning, if you are traveling towards the west and south, you are going to run in to heavier rain this morning and at the surfaces see what is going on. this is the one charlie was talking

firefighters try to contain the chemical fuel blaze but it's an uphill battle. the flames spread through the facility and find storage tanks of chemicals that erupt, causing a gigantic fireball. as day turns to night, huge bright clouds of fire rip through the dark sky. officials warn residents to keep windows and doors shut as toxic clouds of smoke billow into the air. the fire is so intense, shipping traffic on the nearby river is suspended for safety. it takes 200 firefighters two full days to bring the massive fire under control. fortunately, none of the 50 employees of the chemical facility or any firefighters are injured. >> 209, you might want to back your units up. >> a train carrying propylene, a highly flammable petrochemical used in manufacturing blows up in texarkana, arkansas, early in the morning october 15th 2005. a police car's dashboard camera captures the massive explosion. with no time to turn around, the officer throws his car into reverse and races backwards to escape the growing river of fire coming right at him. >> it was quite massive. jus

can do in a forest that tend to make it easier it fight a fire like most importantly burning off the fuel during the wet season so there's less for the fire to feed on. to what extent in cal fire and all your other things do you encourage people to do things in their forest when you don't have a fire that make it easier and more effective in fighting the fire? >> it's an excellent question, sir. we spend a large time in cal fire on public education and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or vegetation management program in cal fire, we have a robust program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and vegetation management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u.s. forest service. so two-fold program, vegetation management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a public education stand point. what we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be self-sustaining and self-supporting. they need to be prepared.

the u.s. got 83% of its energy from fossil fuels. in 2035, despite great increases in efficiency, the u.s. our energy from fossil fuels. that leads to a few conclusions. we need more renewable energy. today renewable energy gives us 10% of our electricity. by 2035. that will rise to 16%. we should try to move towards it faster. but even if we were to succeed, we could still need to use fossil fuels for the majority of our energy needs. governments around the world, including the united states have provied enormous health to the fossil fuel industry. ma in many ways from building out the infrastructure it needs even fracing was developed by the department of energy. it's sufficient to say that the government should provide some support to the technologies of the future as well. that support should mainly go towards research that would lead to technological breakthroughs, but we should also help these industries wind and solar to achieve scale just as we helped the computer industries in the 1950s and 1960s. but having done all of that, it's clear we will still need fossil fuels for our energ

into the spent fuel pool we have no way of cooling it the real problem is that the box that the fuel is in can get very very humid because as this water begins to get hot those steam goes up and the equipment in that box safety related equipment is really not designed for high unity i don't believe we'll have a fukushima disaster but i think it really should show the american nuclear regulatory commission that it can happen here. we could have a flood inland in one of the pennsylvania plants and be having the same conversation two days from now. and to stay without say for more updates on the also massive so based on sunday and the race for the white house will want the main strands missing on home as well next monday on the eve of the overall cost and nothing live round of debates that's when they have set processes are pounded it. governor romney and i are we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's come back to something the president i agree on and there do you agree that the voters have

the real lever of the business is growing fuel volume. healthy rate for over 20 years. the more stripes stores you put up the better this master limited partnership should do? >> absolutely. there is gross profit from new stripes stores. we'll build 26 this year. we have guidance for 28 to 35 next year along with sales growth relating to the wholesale distribution to third party customers we produced year in, year out. all that pretty much flows through to distributable cash flow and will hopefully allow us to grow that dividend in the years to come. >> in your presentations which are numerous and very self-explanatory for those who want to know more about susser, either parent or sub. you link yourself to texas. why can't this be a regional to national store? >> our business has wonderful scaleability, jim. we think we will continue to expand our footprint. but our core markets which are texas, oklahoma, new mexico and a little bit of louisiana, have fabulous dem graphics and are very, very large. if you picked up our existing footprint a

the fuel tank of the second alsoor-trailer was ruptured. police said they had to shut so they coulday fuel tanks of both trailer's before they away, but traffic was a nightmare. every lane was stopped. to local businesses who had a lot more customers. we had people popping in not getthey could anywhere. stopping in, getting damages, things like that. was nice. >> of montgomery county schools open today. say things could have been a lot worse if school buses on the road. there were no injuries to either of the tractor-trailer drivers. investigation as what caused the accident still continues. charges have been filed. >> thank you. let's get back to prince george's county where we continue to learn more about the killed a police officer, the second death to hit matter ofment in a months. john gonzales has been at the conference all morning. john, what did you find out? >> tragedy striking again in the two months. the police chief is speaking at hour and tells us it is in theery early investigation, but they believe suv involved in blame.al col

that's where the tractor-trailer accident is. there's a fuel spill associated with it. they've shut down all lanes at 355. the problem is you've got all of these folks that are between this exit and the o just before it, old georgetown road. and they can't go anywhere. we have guard rails all in between, along the median here, and so they are just trapped here. they've been sitting for about an hour or so at this point with absolutely nowhere to go. we're seeing a lot of folks actually exiting their vehicles. a lot of people are texting. other people are on the phone. some of these tractor-trailer drives here, we saw one who appears to be looking over his schedule forred too's deliveries, at least trying to get some good use of his time while he's just sitting here on the highway. in terms of an estimate of when things will reopen, we don't have a good estimate for you. we can tell you emergency crews are here on the scene, trying to clean up the fuel spill. we have not yet scene a tow truck or any movement with respect to these tractor-trailers involved with the acciden

the plane has in its tanks if the fuel tanks a full there's no way you can fill up all eight available water tanks the plane simply can't carry that much it tells him how much water. based on the amount of fuel already. with a host of other nations reportedly interested in. hundreds. of aircraft equipment had to make modifications so that their products meet russian european standards and could also operate alongside ford made. but in addition. they've also been working on a host of new features the very latest planes better than ever. in addition to improving the avionics we are also working to add new capabilities as well as expands the plane's functionality. we have now installed indicators on the windshield we've developed special thermal imaging equipment the has been seamlessly integrated with the other existing systems on the aircraft all these will help make the use of our plane more effective. even though eight of the nine ve to hundreds out there was itin russia given its capabilities in times of need the plane has been called into action b

the fuel efficiency flower thing. send future guy home, his work here is done. machine. win some awards, send in brady. that's how you do it. easy. >> bottom of the eighth inning, gregor blanco is first in against shelby miller, who had a 1, 2, 3 seventh. cardinals in the ninth will have molina, freese and descalso. trailing by at least four. ball 1. strike 1. the closer for the giants, with a beard that's just a little less impressive than brian wilson's, sergio romo gets loose. >> tim: that's a stipulation for closers in san francisco, the beards. >> joe: wilson's is becoming legendary. there is no telling what is in there. there's a belt-high pitch for a strike. blanco didn't agree, and it's 2-2. you can see why he thought it was high. so the rookie gets a break there. now time called prior to the pitch. >> tim: if brian wilson was pitching, a ball in his beard would be a ground-rule double. they would never find it. >> saw him on the way out of the park last night. he was on a scooter. i said hey, man, how are you doing in outstanding. got his fingernails pa

something like a fraction of a transatlantic air flight so it's actually not as much as you think the fuel on the space shuttle was liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and the exhaust was water so these are not the kinds of things that are really going to affect our carbon emissions and our environment as a whole even when we get to the point that there are literally tens of thousands of launches per year it's a drop in the bucket compared to all the other forms of emissions and pollution oh sure that's an issue that will will take shape in time we'll see how that one puns out the tourism isn't the only idea that you've got on the on the books as it were you also mentioned earlier mining asteroids and this seems like a lot more sort of hard nosed commercial idea just trying to paint a little picture for us a lot of people can't really envision envisage this perhaps from pictures from animations that have seen perhaps that there are asteroid belts that i don't think there are any asteroids that close to earth because that's the kind of thing that people get scared about the of from destroying

. >> there is a new jobs report to the firedd fuel , adding to last week's report. learning that jobless the low level to in four years. people found for item on the last week. anything below 375,000 job market growth. following a developing story from reagan national this morning. travelers getting a look at the plaguing united recently. we're live from the picket lines formed there. >> we can give you a live look right now.happening you can see several doubt -- pilots are out here right walking in a circle holding up signs. american airlines planes are not the pilots. these are all members of the american pilots association. basedf them are locally in work for americaairlines. got some video a short time these pilotsof past the american ticket counter this showing passengers they need forus about their contract. american airlines is bankrupt. say they will cut jobs, and of flights have been canceled in the fast -- becauseeral weeks are calling out sick, about they are angry contract that cuts their pay and benefits. by their unionng have no say they american. in tr

and that's because two tractor- trailers are involved and they have to drain the fuel out of both of them. so it's going to take a while. let's take a live look outside. first of all, on our mdot camera inner loop of the beltway you can just see the flashing lights here, i think they were trying to see if they can get a closeup shot of it. all you can do is see the flashing lights which is just telling you that they're there on the scene and no one is getting by on the inner loop before route 355. let's see if we can take a look at the delay from our chart camera and this is the spur as i said, even as you come down on 270 trying to get to the inner loop of the beltway, this is what you're dealing with. no one is moving. and you're at home right now watching that means you need to choose your alternate routes. not a good idea. if you head east on the beltway from bethesda into silver spring. the outer loop is not affected by this. the cameras by georgia avenue and as you can see the lanes are open. in issues to report on -- no issues to report on the outer loop. all the lanes are open

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there is no guaranty and transcanada has been asked to prove it, there is no guaranty the fuel will stay in the united states so it might not wind up in your car or mind. what kind of energy independence is that if it goes to china? melissa: oil and energy is fungible. any barrel of gasoline produced in the u.s., gallon of gasoline, whether here, there, freesup a barrel to be sold here. oil, it goes where it goes and price is sort of settled that way. even if it is n used here it still lowers the price for us here in the u.s.? >> well it is a global economy. so you can't just separate u.s. oil. melissa: right. >> but when you get down to the fight we have, is in texas statutes. we're saying transcanada has the right to build their pipeline but they just don't qualify as a common carrier and they can't take land from those of us landowners who don't want a pipeline on our place. if my neighbor wants it that's fine. we don't want it on our place and you can't take our land for that. melissa: i certainly har you on that front. it is a very sticky issue. i understand transcanada offered you

. >>> the operator of japan's crippled nuclear plant says the latest probe shows fuel at the bottom of one of the reactors is being kept cool saying the water level in the containment vessel of reactor one is 2.8 meters, enough to stop the fuel from overheating. the pausch company used an en endoscope to peer inside the vessel at the fukushima daiichi plant. footage from the probe shows the surface of corroded scaffolding and water underneath. tokyo electric says it detected radiation of over 11 sieverts per hour in the container, high enough to kill in 40 minutes of exposu exposure. it adds melted fuel rods in the bottom of the reactor are stable thanks to the water level. the utility says the discovery means it's scheduled for decommissioning the reactor is still on-course. >>> one of the lasting legacies of japan's earthquake and tsunami is the crisis at fukushima daiichi. the accident forced thousands to flee the towns and cities around the nuclear plant. some foreign residents in the northeast ended up leaving japan but many have returned to the places they once called home. nhk w

linked with the fossil fuel industry as a pillar of its political and economic strength and this is a fight for the future it's you know that industry it is simply incompatible with a sustainable civilization and so if you. it's insists it's incompatible with the republican party as it now stands so the. you know the move away from. you know acceptance of the science and you know debates over how to address it into our current you know situation where you have you know republican candidates who you know probably argue that it's a conspiracy by scientists you know in and some kind of marxist liberal conspiracy it's you know it's unfortunate and it's deeply troubling but it's. it makes perfect sense well i don't even think a lot of people are saying that you know yeah there are of course a lot of people saying that it's not manmade by i've encountered a lot of people who say that it isn't happen at all i guess that is you know when you have a massive disinformation campaign being funded by big oil that's what happens brad what do you say to people who say it's the solar flares that are

companies will sell less trade will decrease as a result the budget will receive less money from taxes the fuel tax corporate tax the value added tax so it is very possible that there will be an even greater budget deficit even though government spending was cut now with the. anomic crisis and golf in europe france has also been shaken dramatically you've mentioned that stat is an enormous budget deficit is to be in this situation how dangerous is this situation actually and when and why it all went wrong and who's responsibility or whose fault is all this the problems that could emerge the problem is that the french people were robbed of all their major powers in the area of economic fiscal and budgetary policy taxation diplomacy and military policy all these powers were transferred to someone else. and may ask who are these people those are there is the european commission in brussels the european central bank in frankfurt it handles the euro so this institution also pushes policies that lead to recession and finally nato and the i.m.f. which is based in washington d.c. they also impose finan

the golden state, fuel prices have jumped more than $0.55 reaching historic highs. averagege price for a gallon of regular unleaded is at $4.67 compared to the national average of $3.82. he's going to rental car lots. what is the reason pres are so high? let's ask robert price, senior fellow at the manhattan institute. always a pleasure. what is going on? >> well, and no word, it is balkanization. the problem is that california as a bookkeeper in the fuel that is unique to california. and there was a refinery outage and because of that limited pool of gasoline that is only to be used in california prices are soaring, and the problem is not unique necessarily california, but it is being hit very hard because of this boutique blend of gasoline. gerri: let's break this down starting with the refineries. the refinery power outage, the richmond refinery that caught on fire and is down. i read recently that over the last two decades for refineries in california have shut down rather than invest in expensive upgrades to comply with regulations. when you start with a finite