at the bottom of the hill. my brother s is right over there down the road. the fire was burning all through here. i was trying to get back up here. i was up here for harvest the day before. i flew back to l.a. and fly back up. as i was trying to get on the plane i called my dad on the phone. they have been fighting these fires for 24 hours. i basically went on to facebook and said hey, can anybody help? i had six friends from high school. a few of them i haven t seen since high school who showed one shovels who started of helping put the fire out. steve: your father s house is okay. i keep checking on them. we will do live shots here and run down here. right now smoldering embers. so far so good. ainsley: they were taking shovels and dumping sand on top of the flames to put them out? yeah. because the power is out throughout the valley. no cell service here. power is out. you have to use sand and dirt. there is no water. ainsley: give them our best, adam. sorry your family is deali
recognize sodium cyanide, calcium carbide, volatile, organic compounds, possibly compressed natural gas. all of these chemicals were brought into this area. they were stored there and then they were distributed throughout china to the mining industry, to the industrial industry, all of these different all of these different industries had some of their most dangerous chemicals sitting in one place within a very close proximity to people s homes. and now, the firefighters that are on the scene trying to deal with it, they can t use water because contact with water can create an explosive reaction, so they re dumping sand and foam. but there have been some explosions. there is talk in state media that some cars near the site may have exploded. there were several large smoke plumes that were seen rising. there was a report that this sodium cyanide, a cloud of it had been detected, and a wind shift was pushing a lot of this plume the plume had been pushed out over the sea for most of
alisyn: why not just coat the whole thing in sand? it has been eight days. guest: they need to stabilize the rods, first, with enough water so the circulation process can continue and they can be cooled. alisyn: this morning we understand an external power line has been connected to supply electricity. how does that help? guest: that is positive because if the cooling equipment inside the reactor is operational that will allow the water to be pumped into both the spent fuel pools and the reactors. a point about dumping sand right away, you need to get water on that fuel to provide shielding, that is very important for the worker on the site and that is a credit critical aspect. alisyn: we hear about the heroric emergency workers risking their own lives to
as the sand is covering the oil it does degrade a little bit. as we saw in the video . i believe you are right. they are going to have to continue to bring in sand. i think you mentioned earlier that there is a lot of pol tessions that come in to louisiana are brought to this particular beach. they escort journalist to a certain point . so i think it worked to their advantage to have pristeen beaches when they are out there. judson parker, great work and this is what journalist do. they bring information to the public when the public doesn t have a voice. thank you for sharing with us and keep us updated if you will. i will. thank you. coming up on the show. al qaeda is stepping up recruiting efforts with the magazine on the internet. latest effort to encourage home grown terrorism. and a new test can tell you
hard to believe it is day 75 of the gulf oil crisis and bp has its hans full frying to clean it up. is bp trying to cover up the beaches with fresh sand in what you are seeing here is where the sand is what they dumped on the beaches it has eroded down and if you look, four layers down you can see that it is covering up oil. that s outrageous. one of the men who recorded that video joins us on the phone yustin judson, thank you for sharing that video with the world and joining us this morning. network thank you. we are trying to find the silver lining.