about the tax authority here,ç which was ultimately cited by the chief justice as the means by which the individual mandate could be upheld. so the view within the white house and the legal circles is that this is really vindication for him after his performance had been criticized. that is very much an inside baseball when it comes to the nature of the argument. but the question surrounds chief justice robert as a legal but political figured. how concerned he is about the polarization of american government and how on con strollers decisions, it is bad for the court ultimately to have narrowly decided opinions. you have to believe and i know tom was saying to pete williams, perhaps this is exactly what he believed. the sense of practicality, the political reaction something he had to be thinking about as well. time magazine had justice ken
and melting down. the plant stayed unplugged for about an hour and a half while workers inspected the backup diesel pumps and then the regular pumps came back on. this thing with nuclear power plants staying on the grid matters a lot. in japan this year they first had an earthquake that caused a tsunami, but it was when the tsunami knocked out electricity at fukushima nuclear power plant that the world knew fukushima was really in trouble. without electricity fukushima could not keep its spent nuclear excuse me could not keep its reactors or its spent nuclear fuel cool. the japanese government now says that three of the reactors may have suffered not just meltdowns, but melt-throughs. melt through the internal super strong containment vessel. that is a real nuclear nightmare. wucht things we are learning as this scary situation drag on in nebraska is that fort calhoun, ç which was built in 1973, fort calhoun was built partly on the basis of a mistake. somebody miscalculated the pu
affected by this oil slick? well, right now, we re told that there s not really an affect in the prices. one of the reasons is there s the national restaurant association says that 75% of louisiana s catch is in beds west of mississippi, outside the range of the oil slick at this point and darden restaurants,aá which owns red lobster, tells us a lot of the deep water fish they have is closer to florida and outside the range. so right now, it s good news, but might be too early to tell. keeping our eye on it. thanks a lot. taking a look at key events, in an hour, bp officials will brief house members and staff on the oil spill. that will be held behind closed doors. 15 minutes later, a judge will sentence the former producer who