to the world. that and there you see a live picture coming from the east room. the president will announce, he will walk there up to the podium and make his statement. it was supposed to be made an hour or so ago, but they re fine-tuning it. they re making sure that all the phone calls are made not only to key members of congress, but to key world leaders, informing them in advance what precisely has happened. our jeanne meserve, homeland security correspondent, by the way, has just received a formal statement from susan collins, the ranking member of the senate homeland security committee. susan collins saying this. let me read it to our viewers. the director of the national counterterrorism center informed me tonight that osama bin laden was killed in a u.s. operation. this welcome news is a credit to our intelligence efforts and brings to justice the architect of the attacks on our country that killed nearly 3,000 people on september 11th, 2001. on the other part of the screen, yo
of what happened then, paying a price for that radiation fallout that occurred in chernobyl. matthew chance is in direct contact with officials at the international atomic energy agency in vienna. there are conflicting reports right now about whether one of japan s nuclear reactors is actually experiencing a meltdown right now. it is a very alarming situation, i must say. experts tell cnn a full-fledged meltdown allowing fuel rods to be exposed could result in temperatures rising to 5,000 degrees fahrenheit with radiation so intense, it would be impossible to deal with. our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is monitoring the breaking news for us. reporter: the japanese have been pouring seawater on to this reactor in an effort to keep it cool. in addition, they re pumping in boron in hopes of stopping the nuclear reaction and stemming the production of radioactive material. but the question has been, is
long, long distances and the water that just thrusted onto the land, destroying everything in its wake. it s really heartbreaking to see this. among other things, the news agency is reporting that some radio activity may be leaking. there are concerns that this reactor may be losing its ability to adequately cool its core. our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is monitoring the situation for us. jeanne, japan s prime minister said earlier in the day there was no evidence of radioactive leaks. since then, there have been other reports suggesting there are concerns how dangerous potentially is the situation? well, there is new information. japan s news agency reports radiation levels eight times normal are being monitored at a
illuminate and to try to figure out how to deal with what he calls this radicalization, whether or not that will really will be fulfilled, that goal. yeah. talking about continuing the conversation about the witnesses that are testifying. i want to bring in homeland security correspondent, jeanne meserve. one of the other key witnesses, if you ll call them, jeanne, is the l.a. county sheriff. one of the only law enforcement officials that s represented in today s hearing. from your view and from what you re hearing, what, if anything, could possibly change, if anything, after today for law enforcement? well, the sheriff, sheriff baca, is going to be talking about cooperation in los angeles. how they have reached out, made a very concerted effort there, to develop a good, positive relationship of the muslim community, which they feel has really yielded some good results. built some trust. made it more likely that if there are signs of radicalization, that the community will come
american muslims heats up. this hour the council on american islamic relations will challenge what they call misinformation on the topic. and as we said in just about 24 hours, the house will open those hearings that we ve been talking about on radical islam in america. the congressman leading the hearing said the muslim community is not helping police root out radicals like it should. many muslims deny that and the accusation is a big part of the controversy. here s what the sheriff of los angeles said about it. i think that we re getting a tremendous amount of cooperation internationally and nationally, and i believe that we re more mature and better as a nation because of the homeland security department also being a big supportive part of the outreach program. the fbi as well is doing a lot of things in los angeles with our various local law enforcement officials. the sheriff will be one of the witnesses at the hearing. let s bring in our jeanne meserve, she s our homeland se