hofstra in michigan, burn in pennsylvania. chaise in connecticut and thompson or somebody else in wisconsin that s 12. that brings you to 59. then, if we can find strong candidates in any of the following five states, we could do it: maryland against cardin, minnesota, west virginia against manchin. new jersey against menendez and washington state against cantwell. there s a reason to believe in each of those states we could do well. we almost won washington last time. christie won in new jersey. we came within a breath of winning west virginia last time. minnesota, you know how close that was in the franken race. i think that obama is so dragging down the democratic party to defeat, 15 to 20 points if the election were held now. that we really have a shot at 60. sean: even california
i do want to bring in dr. harold hastings, the chair of the physics department here at hofstra and susy defrancis with the american red cross. a pleasure to have you both. dr. hastings, do you agree with the assessment out of the european union officials day characterizing the situation as out of control? let me just begin by saying that what we heard before was the major disaster. the disaster was the tsunami, and tragically probably everyone missing is not going to be alive. it will be more than 10,000 deaths. compared to that, the nuclear event is bad, but it s nowhere near as bad. it looks like they re now getting it under control. if we can get the rad ag sorry, if we can get the reactor cooled down, then it would be a simple matter to shut things down. i think people are having it under control. i would leave the area if i