government. where do they get that third of funding from? where he will, i think the point here is that planned parenthood does abortions. and i think that mitt romney and governor perry and myself do not believe that government should in any way be funding abortions. because so many people don t believe that that s the right thing to do and their taxpayer dollars should not be spent on doing abortions. but you disagreed with rick perry on the issue. what i disagreed is that they are not allowing the side of planned parenthood to give the services to women, the contraceptive services, the mammograms, the kind of health care that these women are not getting anywhere else. so given that health care sorry for interrupting, is mitt romney wrong for wanting to defund planned parenthood? i think he s talking about the abortions that planned parenthood does, not the health care services. we don t i mean, myself, mitt romney, no one believes that we should defund the he
here. the u.n. meteorology determine is telling us that the first radiation cloud will reach the west coast on saturday. you heard them saying, don t worry. there is no reason to be concerned. we think that it s a matter of physics and science that tells us that there cannot be harm to americans here at home. do you agree with that? completely. the minimal amounts of radiation will have no impact on human health, safety or the environment. absolutely no impact. we have extraordinarily good radiation measurement devices, but it s not an issue for the united states. megyn: do you believe that true even if we see things go bad to worse in japan? i do believe that to be true even if things go bad to worse. there is too much distance, too
saying there is really no risk to americans living here as far as radiation coming overseas. they say it s a matter of science and physics in terms of the distance the radiation would have to travel. we ll hear the president possibly speak to that and this ongoing crisis with respect to the nuclear plant. does he make remarks here? i m being told that he comments at the end of this signature that we re watching. in the meantime there are questions about president obama s discussions with the leaders in japan and our discussions with them and whether they are giving us the straight skinny on what is happening. we framed that for you at the top of the hour. the head of the nrc came out and said last night pretty clearly that he was very concerned about the information saying there was no water left in one spent fuel pool in reactor number 4 at the
is going to talk about. he just made an unannounced stop to the japanese embassy in washington. at the damaged nuclear plants, military hells, fire trucks and high-powered water canyons blasted the site with water but have not produced changes. we are hearing about elevated radiation levels miles away from the plant farther than we anticipated. our own shepard smith is live in tokyo as he has been week. we are being told that radiation has been discovered, higher levels of radiation 19 miles away from the plant. the japanese people have only been told to evacuate if they live within 12 miles of the plant, our u.s. playing it a little more cautious. what is the word there? reporter: that is the word. there is a great deal of confusion. the united states experts have been saying for 36 hours or so that the containment area should
reactor 3, may have boiled dry. that means more radiation has spewed into the air. there are reports of tracks in the containment shells on reactors 2 and 3. we do not know the temperatures. we don t know the water levels. the last hope, as you mentioned, are the fukushima 50. they physically have to go into the reactors, megyn, and drop water on them. you can t do it for a mile away. you have to crawl on your hands and knees, in the dark, put water on there. you called it a suicide war mission. the radiation levels have been detected almost 20 miles outside that plant. 12 miles is the evacuation center. the mayor of a town 12 miles outside of fukushima says he s not getting any information from the japanese government.