the white house also says he s going to renew his push in the minimum wage. a truck carrying radioactive cobalt 60 has been stolen in mexico. the international atomic agency says that cobalt 60 could be used to make a dirty bomb. they say there are sensor devices and at sea ports to prevent this and other material from entering this country. nigella lawson dropsds what you can call a bombshell in court today. in testifying, she admitted that she used cocaine twice. once, she said, with her late husband john diamond when he learned his cancer was terminal. and one other time years later
they tell the dispatcher they have to send police, what you realize is that everybody was doing what they needed to, to try to get out of this, wolf, alive. deborah feyerick, thanks very much. now to an international manhunt for thieves who stole radioactive material that could be used to make a dangerous terror weapon, a so-called dirty bomb brian todd has been looking into this story. they got cobalt-60 by stealing a truck near mexico city. mexican authorities have been searching for the truck and the perp traitors for nearly three days. security officials are getting increasingly worried about just who might eventually get their hands on the material. a truck stolen from this gas station in mexico has border authorities on the lookout, and prompted the u.n. s nuclear watch dog agency to send out an international alert. that s because the material inside is cobalt-60, a radioactive substance used to treat cancer.
bill: a truck carrying extremely dangerous radioactive material has been stolen in mexico. casey stegall is watching this. what do we know? reporter: we are talk about something called cobalt 60. it s stored in these cannisters. these are not the specific cannisters that are taken. this is common material. it s radioactive material used for cancer treatment. so it was being transported from a hospital in tijuana in far northwest mexico taint was being taken to a radioactive waste storage center when the district was on, everything was stolen in a small town near mexico city. 1,700 miles away deep in
streets of mexico. casy ste dht gal has been watching this since early today. in dallas what happened? reporter: they have been in touch with counterparts down in mexico and also tell us that u.s. border patrol has special equipment to detect radioactive material in case it was brought across the border. cobalt 60 is missing. it is used in medical settings to treat things like cancer. look at the photoreleased by the national commission of security and safe guards. it is on the inside of the white piece of medical equipment and stored in a wooden crate and stole reenforcement. and stolen as it was getting gas. and happen in a small town en
about a 45 minute drive or so. so armed men taking this from a gas station. and crucially what the commission has told us is that they think the men that took the vehicle were not aware that it was carrying nuclear material. so obviously a highly significant development that basically these armed men they think were basically just going after the vehicle itself and had no idea that the highly dangerous and toxic cargo that it was carrying and on that subject, it was carrying cobalt 60, which is used for cancer procedures. and has been described as extremely dangerous. it is taken in by blood and tissues, has a half life of around five years. but they did emphasize that the container that it was carrying in has that high mechanical resistan resistance. so they re certainly hopeful that this will not be released into the public. and just so viewers are sure of what it is, it kchcan t be u to make a bomb but can cause