that container was found opened and cobalt 60 was found inside. but it is not clear if all of the cobalt 60 has been recovered. we believe they are still working on that information, still working the area, anderson, where radiation has been detected, we are told, and special teams have been sent in to examine the area. do you know why there was cobalt 60 in this truck? i assume the truck was just randomly stolen, not necessarily targeted or do we know that? reporter: we don t know if it was targeted or not. u.s. officials had told us it was not clear if the assailants even knew that cobalt 60 was inside it. that information is still not quite clear at this hour. the reason that it was intercepted where it was was because it was being transported from a hospital to this mexican nuclear agency for some kind of disposal. and the driver of the truck and his assistant stopped to take a rest. this was early monday morning when this was stolen. so they ve been looking for this truck for
the northeast and a toasty 80 in miami today. another major headline this morning, the recovery of the stolen truck carrying dangerous radioactive material near mexico city. mexican troops are standing guard around the recovered truck around the clock until experts can safely dispose of the hazardous cobalt 60. if properly sealed it poses no risk but the shipment had been removed from its container. this is material that could be used, if used properly in a dangerous dirty bomb. they need to know how to handle the material without giving themselves incapacitating doses of radiation. a government physicist says whomever removed that material is at a high risk of dying, saying the normal survival rate is one to two days if there s exposure. the search for silicon valley executive and his family is entering the fourth day and there s no sign of their missing plane. software executive dale smith was flying the private plane
working on that information, still working the area, anderson, where radiation, you know, has been detected we re told and special teams have been sent in to examine the area. do you know why there was cobalt 60 in the truck and i understand the truck was randomly targeted or do we know that? we do not know. u.s. officials say it s not clear if they knew cobalt 60 was inside. the reason it was intercepted where it was, was because it was being transported from a hospital to this mexican nuclear agency for some kind of disposal, and the driver of the truck and his assistant, stopped to take a rest, and this was early monday morning when this was stolen. so they have been looking for this truck for nearly three days, anderson, and that was a real concern. appreciate it. so it s not clear if the people who seemed to have stolen the truck knew what they had in
breaking news out of mexico. authorities located a stolen truck with radioactive material. what is not known timt is if all of the material has been recovered. if terrorists could get their hands on it, they could use it to make a dirty bomb. what do we know about this? here s what we have got at this hour. coming from the director of mexico s national committee and the truck that was stolen on monday has been found north of the mexico city. the container which contained the cobalt 60 was not on the truck when it was found, but it was found about a half mile away. a key piece of information, the container according to this gentlemen did have cobalt 60
found late yesterday afternoon in the town of zampango, a one-hour drive north of mexico city, only 40 kilometers from where it was originally stolen at they found this container of cobal t-60. the container had been open. the seals had been broken, presumably by these thieves. and they did find the isotope in the container. at this stage we re still trying to finally confirm that none of it is missing. it seems like most of it was, indeed, there. you know, radiation was detected in the area and today we re look at a number of questions stemming from this discovery. i guess the first is the fallout from this discovery of cobalt-60. members of the public are not actually at risk unless they came within about 20 meters of the discovery of this isotope.