trace: long weekend. thank you, rick, from the weather center. tax time. april 15th, traditionally the deadline for filing federal and state tax returns. but because of a little nope holiday celebrated in washington, dc, called emancipation day, the i.r.s. extended what deadline to monday. that means a very busy weekend for some. what is the average amount of a refund some and as the economy sputters toward recovery what are people who get refunds planning to do with them? and now gerri is live from new york with her two cents. gerri, what is the average federal income tax refund this year? it is $2,895 and already the feds have sent out $234 billion in refunds already, so get on it. it is monday, monday, monday. in terms of the tax season, already, refunds out the door,
there s some countries that believe you should just kill these animals and don t care for them. generally they don t want to put the time and money and effort towards it. populations are made from individuals. if you start looking at individuals as not important, then the population becomes unimportance. it doesn t mean everybody has to wash a bird. it means that everybody in their liar support it, because it s just like when someone gets lhut on the street, you take him into the hospital or whatever. it s a human life, and it deserves care and respect and we re saying the same thing. 44 past the hour. a clip from saving pelican 895. an hbo documentary about the grueling efforts to save one bird rescued from the bp oil spill. and here with us now, director of the film, irene taylor brodsky. welcome.
bird. 895 was the 895th bird captured off the coast of louisiana. before then, 894. after him 896. that s his name because that s where he came in the order of things. he was the first bird we filmed being captured, and he was captured by a biologist also featured in the film named mike carlos, central to the whole wildlife venture down in louisiana. the film follows him and this bird through this entire rehabilitation. and the twists and turns and challenges of making that happen, how much of an effort and what does it tell us about the totality of the disaster in the gulf? well, as filmmaker i think i had to really remind myself that i would stick with this bird whether he lived or died, because if he lived, that was one kind of message, and if he died, that was another kind of message, and both messages were critically important.
reporting slightly elevated radiation levels in water. now, the japan disaster just for some context here is now expected to be the costliest in history with damages of $300 billion. that s followed by a quake in japan back in is 895 and hurricane katrina 1995. paul carol roll is program directer of plowshares fund and has worked on nuclear west issue nuclear waste issues. paul, let s start with the levels of radiation we re detecting here at home. the long-term effect, as we continue to see radiation levels not just today, but in the weeks and months to come, what does the build-up do? is there such a thing as radioactive build-up? is. well, you ask a very good question. the nature of radiation is not very well understood when it comes to long-term exposure at low levels. and that s why when we talk about risk, what we can say is