1708 to have their toes cut off. Explore our nations past on American History tv every weekend on cspan 3. March 28th, 1979, the events just out of harrisburg, pennsylvania. We look back at the three mile island accident, which was the partial meltdown of a reactor, reactor number two at the facility in dopennsylvania. The incident rated a 5 on the 7point International Nuclear event scale. Heres how ed bradley of cbs news covered it. Reporter this is not a community that scares easily. Major floods and hurricane agnus have come here, and the town survived. Almost a week last month, the people of middletown, pennsylvania, lived in fear of an enemy they couldnt see, hear, or feel. That from cbs news. Of course, the fear was radiation following the partial meltdown at tmi, the Nuclear Generating station. Considered the most Serious Nuclear power accident in the history of the u. S. For the next 90 minutes, well look back at the events that occurred. Eric epstein is joining us live. He is
Outside of harrisburg, transylvania, we look at the three mile island accident that was a partial meltdown of a reactor, a reactor number two at the facility in pennsylvania. It occurred 40 years ago and it was rated a 5 on a 7 Point International scale. As the story unfolded, this is how ed bradley of cbs news covered this. Pleasetay indoors r windows closed. Ed please stay indoors with your window closed. But this is not a community that scares easily. Major floods have come here in the town has survived. But for almost one week last month, the people of middletown, pennsylvania, lived in fear of an enemy they could not see or hear. From cbs news and that fear was radiation following the partial meltdown at the Nuclear Generating station considered to be the most precarious accident. We will look back at the events. Eric epstein is joining us and he is the chair of the three mile island alert, which is what . Three mile island alert is a safe Energy Organization that was founded in 1
taiwan there is what growing speculation that she will visit taipei as soonest tomorrow. of course that s not sitting well with beijing because it views the independent nations as its territory. chinese foreign minister terry spokesperson is making it abundantly clear there will be serious consequences if that visit goes ahead saying we would like to once again warned the united states that we are fully prepared and solemnly waiting to bear the people s liberation army will never sit by idly and if nancy pelosi insists on visiting taiwan as for what measures exactly, we will take and see if she dares making the visit. you know i think about, this doesn t have to happen in my view. this be the first time in 25 years you d have a house speaker visit, the biggest visit of united states official going back to 1987. it s an porton it happens because a verbal commitment was made and we must show strength. and you think about all of the foreign policy debacles we ve had starting
it s backed off a bit, but if you look at the tech heavy nasdaq, it is off 4% and plunging. john: debbie dingle standing by with her thoughts on how this could affect her party s midterm chances. but first, to jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn this hour and rather ironic the president has a celebration of the economy this afternoon. how are they reacting to the cpi report? either the white house expected numbers a whole lot better than this or someone in the scheduling office had an unfortunate oversight and getting an earful. it is ironic they are hosting a bunch of democratic lawmakers here today to mark the signing, last month s signing of the inflation reduction act just as those new numbers come out showing inflation, core inflation shot up last month 6.3% in august, up from 5.9% in july. and that is a key metric that the fed watches very closely and these numbers are more than the 6.1% that economists predicted, the next set of rate hikes will likely be quite a
oklahoma where a gunman killed four people at a medical office, the president expected to twist the arm of congress, even though he has been awol during the current senate negotiations and is headed to the beach in delaware tonight. the white house getting grilled on how the president plans to press ahead. if the president thinks that congress must act immediately to end this epidemic of gun violence, is he going to bring any of the key players to capitol hill to the beach with him tonight? oh, okay. so i don t have a big part of biden s whole thing that he knows how to get things done. he does. he s beaten the gun lobby before. meanwhile fireworks on kirill as house democrats clash with republicans on new gun legislation being pushed by the left. there s something gun crazed about our country we need to deal with. you are not going to bully your way into stripping americans of fundamental rights. if the supreme court objects we will expand it and we will no