coastline. survivors, believe it or not, are being found by some recovery teams, rescue teams, but it is a race against time because the temperatures there are cold, the rubble is strong and heavy, and it s been several days since the incident. it s an international effort, by the way. the unite heavily involved on many different fronts. and finally, back down in tokyo, now, where there has been seen two other quakes, one on the financial markets. the stock market here down 10% in one day, that s the kind of jitters we re seeing here right now, that after another fall yesterday and an actual earthquake, actually a couple of them. right here we feldt a 5.0 on the richter scale quake, and that shook this hotel building and el where in the larger, greater tokyo area, 6.0. a lot of jitters, interesting time. back to you folks. jenna: greg talcott, invaluable
accommodate its growing population new housing was built in areas which provided drainage for the city after monsoons urbanization has transformed the landscape of bangkok rendering the city more vulnerable to flooding. we realize that the flooding is actually occurring in some area where there was a you know factory that newser ground water pumping up. and then we start to do the morning during the day in area and we found that thirty years ago they didn t rate is about ten centimeters per year which is quite a lot so then we are starting to enforce not to use underground water not to use underground water and process it in. is getting better from ten centimeters to say when there are five and up to now. is completely we have about three centimeter
reporter: no. actually, contessa, the amounts of radiation that people are picking up now who have been traveling around in japan, at least they were working at the nuclear facility, are minuscule. there is a lot of radiation at the site, but there s not a lot of radiation in the environment. there s very sensitive instruments to measure it, but it does not mean that the level is a health threat. now, the big concern right now is that here in tokyo, because this is now downwind, the winds have shifted. usually, they have been pushing the radiation out to sea. now the winds are aiming at tokyo. and 30 million people live in the greater tokyo area. and so if there were to be a massive release now, it s a big deal. so there s a lot of fear about that issue around here. and so, bob, given what the japanese government has said so far, i mean, they re telling people within a 19-mile radius to stay inside. our government is telling americans 50 miles away, no, get out.
has been emitting radiation directly into the atmosphere all day. there is an 18 mile no fly zone around fukushima because of the radiation leaks. those within a 12 mile radius have been evacuated from the area, and those within 12 to 20 miles of fukushima have been ordered to stay indoors. the u.s. navy says they detected very low levels of airborne radiation at two greater tokyo area bases today. about 190 miles from fukushima. also today, several sailors were given potassium iodine tablets after returning from humanitarian flights because of low level contamination. white house press secretary jay carney described u.s. efforts in japan during his daily briefing. we have offered our japanese friends disaster response experts search and rescue teams, technical advisers with nuclear
there is an 18 mile no fly zone around fukushima because of the radiation leaks. those within a 12 mile radius have been evacuated from the area, and those within 12 to 20 miles of fukushima have been ordered to stay indoors. the u.s. navy says they detected very low levels of airborne radiation at two greater tokyo area bases today. about 190 miles from fukushima. also today, several sailors were given potassium iodine tablets after returning from humanitarian flights because of low level contamination. white house press secretary jay carney described u.s. efforts in japan during his daily briefing. we have offered our japanese friends disaster response experts search and rescue teams, technical advisers with nuclear expertise and logistical support from the united states military.