police are investigating. police are recovering a truck with radioactive medical gear that gun men stole from a gas station two days ago. the suspects opened the container and that exposure might kill a human being in a matter of days. casy is back in dallas with that today. snieshgs hey, bill. the experts say it could kill a person relatively fast and authorities in mexico said that the general public is not in danger. the danger is to the two thieves that opened the container containing the radioactive material. unclear how they got it open. it was a remote area near mexico city where the truck was initially stolen and a a perimeter is set up and crews are working to contain the radioactive substance called cobalt 60. a process that could take days
however, the container was found about a half mile away. and a key point here, the container, according to mexican officials, did have cobalt 60 inside it. they recovered at least some of it. what they don t know is whether they recovered all of it. i think they re working on that to see if they have recovered all of the cobalt 60 inside that container. we re told by this gentleman of the national committee for nuclear security that radiation has been detected in the area. i m not sure how high the intensity is but they are sending special teams in to examine the area. of course, test it out and maybe we ll get more information about the people who stole this as well. cobalt 60, this was used for cancer treatment in other medical procedures. very radioactive. potentially very dangerous. how serious potentially is this? this was potentially very serious. and remember, this truck was stolen early monday morning overnight into monday morning near mexico city. they have been looking fo
fast and furious star paul walker may have survived the initial impact of saturday s deadly crash. the actor and a friend died on the scene. the reports says walker died from his injuries and the ensuing fire. it confirmed he was not the driver of the car. more detailed report is due out in the coming weeks. it s also going to have the toxicology report on the car s driver. an official tribute video was posted to the fast and furious youtube page wednesday. so sad. universal pictures has halted production of fast and furious 7 indefinitely, they say. mexico police say they have recovered a stolen truck carrying radioactive material. cobalt 60 is a material with radioactive uses but they are worried it could be used to make a dirty bomb. authorities say they likely have recovered most of the radioactive material. the suspects were still on the run and officials are on the lookout for suspects with sign
it is not accounted for and not good methods to dispose of it properly. reporter: cobalt 60 is used to treat cancer and used in hospital- like settings. it was on the way from a hospital in mexico to a nuclear facility. thank you, casy in dallas. it locks like we averted a tragedy when the truck with radioactive material was found. what if the truck had fallen in the wrong hands. congressman, thank you for being with us. thanks for having me. it was a nerve wracking two days where we didn t know where the truck was. how much radioactive material is floating on our highways or mexico s highways. i can t give you a precise amount but there are hundreds of hospitals that have this material. after 9/11 with the federal
department itself has these sensors deployed with border agents which they can use to wand any type of truck that comes through a border crossing to try to detect whether any of this material is coming through. now, as rafael has mentioned, it is a very big concern obviously for many years now, the homeland security department has worried someone could try to pass something like this across the border to try to detonate some kind of bomb. as rafael has also mentioned, it s a very difficult thing to do. this thing is encased in lead. it is very difficult to extract. there are these little chunks of cobalt 6 on a now if one were to handle it, to even hold it for a few minutes, it is a very dangerous thing and could cause permanent damage, but it is not something that is easily done. at this point, i think they re trying to help the mexican government figure out whether this was just taken by somebody who was targeting some of the scrap material that was on the