>> that's right. >> the opening of the trench is very near the sea? >> yes, from here this is the turbine building of the number 2 reactor, number 1 reactor, and so the underneath this is extended horizontally. the altitude is minus 15 meters or 20 meters, so it is very deep. so there is the vertical shaft called the pit. >> known as a lid on this hole? >> probably. the building or hut covering it was swept away. >> and it's filled with quite a lot of water? >> that's right. so there is -- the water level of the trench in the number 2 reactor is about 1 meter below the top. probably this contaminated water comes from the number 2 reactor and it's contaminated. we have to avoid that it will be released in the sea. >> the highly radioactive water, first we have to recover it and that will be used for this purpose? >> you can see this white tank there. there are three white tanks. >> this is a fire engine, yes, and this tank appears to be very big. >> well, yeah, it can contain the order amounting to 2,000 tons, and these tanks have not been damaged by th

we know that that will only get worse as the sea level rises further. we know that the inundation of the sea water into the storm water collection system will only become more frequent and potentially become a problem. this is something that we need to address. this will become more of a problem, of course, but these are the sea level rise curves from the literature. this is 7-23 inches. this is the peak level which is adopted by the state. this is a 100 year tide level which would make that the frequency of flooding even more frequent. this will be seeing much more in this area and you will see more flow into the systems and this is a problem. this is a problem we are addressing with the prevention program. we are doing an analysis at 29 points along the bay which are vulnerable to or have seen inundation into the water system because of high tides washington. we have talked about installing these in the past. this would allow water to go out and stop water from going in. this is the most sensitive to backflow. we are looking at how to dress back flow i

. ♪ from there, they have a view over the whole city and the sea. eful affair compared to the activity of the bottom. preparations for the nordic ski championships are in full swing. ♪ >> this facility is not only for world championships. we're happy to be able to open and use the facilities for the championships. >> the new holmenkollen is a symbol of pride that norway takes in its skiing activities. it is a symbol that burns all through the night. >> he is not just a painter but also a performer. he says he does not work but has a good time. he specializes in portraits that he renders live and in a matter of minutes. the portraits he paints are upside-down. his show is a mixture of artistry and athleticism. >> there is no time to lose when franck bouroullec creates a new portrait before the eyes of his audience. he has been termed the speed painter for obvious reasons. >> the speed means i do not dwell long on details that would block me. they distract me from up painting -- from the painting. >> this is his depiction of the statue of liberty. his

it is blowing to the southeast towards the sea. and the agency forecasted that southeast ward winds will continue until friday afternoon local time and it says the winds will blow to the south after this. let me fwif you japan's meteorological agency, says winds around the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant are blowing to the southeast, toward the sea. the agency forecasted a southeast winds will continue in to friday afternoon local time. it says the winds will blow to the south after this. you are looking at the map of fukushima prefecture where the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant is situated. a quick wrapup of what has been happening since saturday night. 28,000 people have evacuated their homes to other areas to avoid possible radiation from the fukushima daiichi i nuclear power plant. as of wednesday, 31,000 fukushima prefecture had accepted 28,152 evacuees in addition to those who had taken shelter in those move municipalities by saturday night. many temporary shelters in the prefecture were too crowded to accept the

levels in the sea are now causing grave concern? >> this is the strongest indication that highly radioactive water that has been discovered within the buildings and outside the buildings he is somehow leaking into the sea. a level of radioactive iodine was detected and considerably higher than any we have been told about so far. almost twice as high. we were told that the measurements taken during the course of yesterday, it was a steadily increasing. it must be said that the nuclear safety agency had stressed that it is a very localized reading taken off the shore of the fukushima plant. they say it will have dissipated and deteriorated considerably by the time that it reaches populated areas. readings taken further down the coast have detected much lower but still elevated levels of iodine. 1,600 kilometers away, they found levels that were higher than they want from emissions coming from a nuclear power plant. definite worry is growing about the radiation in the sea water. >> the japanese prime minister has been speaking with pres

over the thousands of years they to solve this seascape each time they put out to sea to hunt. but they use their canoes with a couple of paddles instead of comfortable motor boats with powerful engines in the past yes it was very very difficult to hunt as an individual you need a group in order to. nor to actually capture for example you look at the sea lines over here in order for you to hunt one of those in the several people. on a summer day and seven hundred forty one scores of elliot's the natives of the land set out on a hunting expedition in canaries they spotted odd looking ships on the horizon. those big sailboats milonga to an expedition led by russian explorers daring and sure. that was how kodiak island made its appearance on russian maps the first colonists were. guided by those maps when he landed on the island more than forty years later seventy four the city of kodiak was the capital of russian america for fifteen years. could streets serve as a reminder of that time. many of them still bear the names of russian travelers and merchants. there is still the street

one repsk aut the radioactive iodine measured in the sea, about 3,355 times above aea the plant on rd was found in tuesday so there may be a possibility that water had come ac water that had come into contact with the core, th rct core, may have seeped into the ocean, but edano says currently they do not know the source of the highly radioactive water leakint thea we will continue to keep you up to date on the situation there at the fukushima daiichi nuclear powepl >>> three weeks have passed since the great east japan earthquake, but workers are still battling to get the fukushima nuclear power plant under control. the biggest problem is the disposal of radioactive water, which is hindering cooling efforts. >> translato t tco chairman says that it will take a long time until the situation is ultimatelbrghton d. he says that personally, he thinks it would not be possible for the evacuated residents to return home in a few weeks. >> radioactive iodine and cesium ha bn unin in the basement of the turbine buildings of reactors number one to four, an nns tse the buildings. work to pump th

there's a bridge between areas of the port that's only a few feet above sea level. obviously that bridge will not be functional for much longer into the future. so we are in a mode of looking at prevention but we are also looking at adaptation. because we have no choice. we have to be doing both at the same time. we also, i think, need to be looking not only at the quantity of supplies of things but also of quality when it comes to our water supply the aqua duct that supplies southern california, the state water project owned aqua duct is also vulnerable to small levels of -- small amounts of sea level rise which could breach the levies in the san francisco sacramento bay delta region. so we are intimately tied to and connected to that overall city. our plan is simply to work with everybody we can find, every partner we can find, to try to find ways to address these issues, to help with funding and to make sure that we are aware of the science to be doing some proactive planning on our own system, and of course to be supporting legislation that will lead to the kinds

the la area. those plants are located approximately 20 feet above mean sea level. the projections for sea level rise in the last itcc report ranged from about 9 to somewhere upward of 25. latest studies are indicating that the upper numbers are perhaps too conservative. so you can see the implications for the viability of those plants if we don't look at substantial modification. and again the science is increasingly telling us that when sea level rises, it doesn't just rise tiny little amounts year by year over a long period of time. it's very likely that it will be much more dramatic changes, as seen at the polar ice caps. we have a number of natural gas burning stations also on the coast. these stations provide upwards of 40 percent of the total electricity supply of the city and they are also at about 20 feet above mean sea level. these power plants can be replaced in terms of the amount of energy that they generate, but they are essential to the operation of the grid because of their location. they keep supplies flowing through the power lines in the city. so,

the tide goes out. so what we're talking about are trends in mean sea level. i prefer to use the term climate change to global warming when we're talking about this phenomenon we're dealing with because overall while the earth's atmosphere will be getting warmer, some places will be getting hotter, others will be getting cooler and the climate will become much more erratic. some years the bay area may go through extended droughts. other years we may get unusually heavy rainfall. and it's during these storms that we'll face the most serious problems because when rainfall runs off the hill sides into the bay and that water piles up on top of a high tide and that high tide is on top of sea level rise, and the winds push all that water across the bay, so that it acts as a dam to the additional water that's running off from the hills, that's when we'll see extensive damage and we will see it far more often. now, in addition to sea level rise, the climate change is expected to result to more precipitation in the sierra nevada falling as rain, less as snow and an earl

that shows the actual sea level record. in the pay delta, it's not just sea level rises but the fact that we have fresh water floods. this is the level that ice street water gauge in sacramento. darn this thing. okay. those are tides. mostly a summer period, but these are floods so you can see, you know the water levels get up to nine meters there. there's a book called, conquering the inner sea which is a history of levies in sacramento valley and trying to contain the water. the fact is, this sort of thing could potentially get more frequent and potentially higher. i don't want to sound like the national inquirer here and when you count, you take one of these climate models and look at exceedings and this is open coast and now we took an hourly record and counted the number of times in our simulation where we included tides and elnonos, in a moderate this is 30 centimeters over the hundred year period. not three feet about. little more than one foot. these are exceeding above a level that happens less than once a year and

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with the sea the decent.but such a situation is unfolding in one of the world's most technologically advanced countries has heightened the sense of alarm internationally but some experts say one should look into how the japanese have been dealing with nuclear physics to get clues as to their continuing difficulties in dealing with a disaster so the technology is decades old. the society the government the regulators believe that the technology can be operated safely but there's a built in psychological complacency if you're operating something that's so inherently dangerous when you go to work every day you keep thinking about how dangerous that technology is that would be over time rather damaging psychologically so in other words they convince themselves that leaves mastered this technology and unfortunately with nuclear power there's no second chance the japanese nuclear drama is certainly not the first case of man's over reliance on cook knowledge you can be a dangerous friend and one mishandled can strik

here is the report. >> when the sea has taken all you know, how do you comprehend it? ery landmark obliterated. even finding where his home stood isn't easy for this 12-year-old. >> this is the first time he has been back. but house number three on his street, there is just a void there. >> my desk was up there. my bed was over here. and this is where my book shelf was. >> this is all his sister found, her school bag. she used it for trips to the beach with her father. >> because we live near the sea, i could play there. i would go with dad. it was fun. when the tsunami came, it was scary, but i like living by the sea. >> her father is missing. he was a rescue worker directing people to safety while his wife and children fled. 500 bodies have been found here so far, but not his. when the tsunami struck at 2:45 that friday, most of the adults were here in the middle of town. this is a place of 26,000 people. it is hard to believe it now, but you have to imagine shops and offices, supermarkets and restaurants, all busy. the children were in schools, and those are built on

all the rivers flower into the sea. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> next up is -- next up is marcela ortiz. >> ok. this is the first time i'm reading in front of people. ok. all right. this is a poem to my mom. you're nothing but a group of coffee klatching women. 19 years and the only image that i can think of what i hearl my mother's voice is rosie the riveter with her hand balled up in a fist and her hand underneath her face. coffee klatching women? a bunch of old grandmothers who sit in sewing sirgles and talk about the best blueberry circles. we banned my mother from the kitchenen -- because of an incident where she had burnt water the the only person who cooked was my father. please keep your peace, mom. yes, my mother say woman but coffee klatching? the term was worse than nails on the chalk board. oh, yes, a coffee klatching woman who has raised three children and never taking shying from anyone. you sure do act like a coffee klatching women with your boots and jeans on, arriving to run a crew of obnoxious men's, becaus

in southeastern turkey stones we're told the focus is on the. sea and the country separation from the stuff of spirit and it was used by its to police of a separatist leader. so. since a ban was lifted the voting of sixty five. governs president has sacked his entire cabinet. committed to the votes of a fierce crackdown on anti-government protesters last friday noticed snipers why don't the crowds from five people support mr blaney. on a sunday night in behind the front suppression. but not without a tour they dismissed itself a short break to stay with us. thanks for staying with us here on r t i match reza with your business bulletin a japanese yen is extending losses after its biggest slide in six months against the dollar on friday this follows the g seven agreement to step into the money markets to try and control japan's a volatile currency it's the first time in a decade that the world's seven richest nations have jointly intervene in the currency markets yet is currently trading at nearly eighty one provider bank of japan injected an extra t

it's a product of the science in the sea. and. truly in all of godly controls that food supply the seeds of life and those companies now are going beyond the paddling it was a look right over i mean to say we can patent all plants and we can patent all crops with a single work laming traits within those varieties and in those crops they are common to all of them. so we control everything we control the filesystem. did they make the seeds know that until today nature made the scene it's did they create anything living they couldn't. or as much in the seventy's there is no proprietary secret plan of whatsoever not really today eighty two percent of the sea salt are proprietary they're part of a patent. that's an enormous chair. janet ek engineered crops do not produce enough food but they tell the lie that the markets more straight does not feed people at least want people hungry because a globalized street then becomes a trade controlled by five agribusiness corporations who can get the prices they want and they want to specula

the ocean. there's where we start to get into our problem with rising sea level. this is a little bit bigger representation of the slide will showed that was showing the bay side of the city. this is sort of our transport storage structure around the entire city. we call it a moat. it's the way we collect rain water for later treatment. as i said, in light to moderate storms we can do a pretty good job of collecting all of the rain water and sanitary sewage and running it through the treatment plant. in fact, there are probably, in terms of calendar days, there might be 14 to 15 calendar days a year where we would actually have a combined sewer discharge. those would be in the heaviest storms. around this moat structure in the city there are 36 outfalls. these would be the overflow points when the system fills to capacity and we can't treat any more. the west side of the city doesn't present an immediate problem for us yet because of its elevation. it's a bit higher than we think will be impacted in the next, say, 30 to 50 years by rising sea level. it's the bay si

holes in stabilizing the fukushima nuclear plant is radiation levels in the sea reach new highs the u.n. pushes for to plan to expand the evacuation say. and then some travel to siberia still southwest space travelers get their welcome home from orbit joining us military obviously job. a very warm welcome to you this is r.c. live from moscow now the u.s. is reportedly sending cia teams into libya to gather intelligence and set up links with rebels it comes down to grow about the exact makeup of the me with colonel gadhafi and his criticism of plans to arm them with nato officials in cells and missing they fear that al qaeda fighters are among the rebels. the latest from tripoli. well there have been airstrikes in the east and south eastern suburbs of tripoli at a military base there while the front line seems to have been pushed it was still further back it is now an hour far from the town of ajdabiya which is just seventy kilometers rates of the rebel stronghold of benghazi and have been a number of coalition air strikes in and around our dobie i would switch certainly doesn't change t

that might help in areas where the sea might be encroaching on the water treatment plants and things like that. on the amount of sea level rise, i have followed this for decades and can tell you that the 55 inches is updated. i guarantee that it will be 78 inches or more by the end of the century. have your staff pushed the envelope on those assumptions because 55 is not a good assumption anymore. with all due respect, you will find opposition from environmental groups on that. almost across the board, we will be resisting that because not only do you create the -- that has to be gotten rid of, but you also are using so much energy to take the salt out that you are going to create a lot more greenhouse gas emissions by burning the energy to do that. this will like -- this will be like trying to bail out a boat with too small a devices said the plugging the holes. the environmental groups are going to try to steer us away from that. i was surprised to hear staff is not up to speed on composting toilets. they have become very sophisticated. there are systems to use in multiple room bui

in japan radiation rises in the sea near fukushima despite efforts to bring the plant under control following the earthquake ten thousand are now listed as dead with the many more homeless. we're highlighting the week's top stories here and welcome to the program well the libyan rebels are advancing west towards the capital tripoli after regaining control of two strategic eastern oil towns from the forces meanwhile in nato ambassadors are due to meet later on sunday to discuss the transfer of control of the mission in libya from the coalition. live now to tripoli to us me to watch music for the latest on the paula you successful we kind of the rebel forces or tell us about their latest gains which are. well it certainly has been a successful weekend for rebel fighters here for almost a week they were in a stalemate position and able to dislodge themselves from the rebel stronghold of benghazi and now in the last few days almost with seemingly lightning speed they've retaken the town of ajdabiya which is one hundred sixty kilometers west of benghazi this is a strategically oil important town i

the list has expanded to 12, including sea bass, orange roughy and shark. >> costco says sales of the species is on old until they can find more sustainable sources. the decision came after pressure from green piece who flew this over. the company made a statement to cbs 5. if it's not right, we're not going to carry it. if we're going stay in business, we need to take care of our oceans today. ken peterson with the aquarium applauds costco's decision and says it's part of a higher trend. last year, target started selling only wild caught salmon. >> when you get temperatures like target, whole foods market, wal-mart, all these organizations saying we're going to switch the way we get seafood. what they are saying, we want you to produce this fish in a different way. > costco customers agree. >> it's a great move. it's long and coming. >> as costco says, good business is taking care of the future and the present. >> we talked to that costco spokesman and a asked if there were worries, he said no, once you're in the door, you will buy a fish that is similar. >> all right, whole new menu

most importantly is that no. 5 on the list here, which is that if repair of the sea wall comes back at $120 million, and it could -- it could come back much less than that -- the city and port have to come up with 1/3 of that theory to come up with $40 million to contribute to a project like that also has its own very long planning window -- the city and port have to come up with 1/3 of that. i will conclude with that. it is going to continue to be a useful tool. i am available for questions. commissioner brandon: thank you. any questions or comments? is there any public comment on this item? >> i have one question. you referred a moment ago to a congressional leader of the funding. a euphemism, but that is okay. do we expect to be affected by the lack thereof in any other way? have there been other congressional directed monies that we have received that we now may have did battle a little bit more for? bit more for? >> we had about -- we had $8

tonight, the japanese utility took the unusual step of pumping sea water into the reactor to prevent a melt down. >> if you are pumping sea water into a reactor, you have decided that the consequences of not doing so are very serious. the evidence in this case is that they are worried about is significant melting of the core. >> reporter: more signs of concern. people living within the plant's evacuation zone are scanned for radiation. and the international atomic energy agency says japan is preparing to give iodine to evacuees from this plant and a nearby plant damaged in the quake. japan's nuclear safety agencies rates this as a 4 an a scale of 1 to 7. at pennsylvania's three mile island, there was a partial core meltdown but not a significant release of radiation. japan now waits to see if it its fate is the same. anne thompson, nbc news london. >> we appreciate you being with us. the problem as we understand it, this particular reactor is around inability to cool did. they are putting sea water on it to coop the temperature. if they can't bring the temperature down, what is the wo