felt pin and tell them how serious it is. the local fire chief cannot risk crews to get in to get people safe when it gets going here. you are on your own. air national guard pulled out aircraft for search and rescue. six blackhawks and 4 c130. decision to evacuate is different county county by county county. parts of the low-lying areas including north shore where residents are in the storm surge zone. evacuation must take place before 5:00 p.m. today . we got an update from nassau county telling us that press are coming up at 3:30 with the latest. there was a hurricane that ripped through there in 1938 that people talk about today. oh, yeah. that split long island in
massive nuclear storage facility on the southern edge of the lab property just two to three miles away from the fire. the crews are clearing vegetation in that area now, and yesterday they set back fires creating a ten-mile long buffer between the fire and the nuclear weapons lab . low grade radioactive waste is being stored in 55-gallon steel drums in a vast vault underground. lab officials say, no problem, those are fireproof. as a precaution and to address fears the federal government yesterday flew special radioactive detecting planes through the smoke and the ratings thankfully were all normal. the fire chief here says only about a 10% chance of that fire jumping the lines into los alamos. moo mexico s governor was here at a meeting yesterday with residents trying to reassure them. there are 800 firefighters battling this blaze, 20 aircraft, including a c130 which can drop 3,000-gallons of water or fire retardant in five
the united states air force is using c130 to deliver 500 tons was freshh bottled water up to sendai, close to the plantt where there are difficulties getting uncontaminated supplies of water and helping out the public there. the air force based out of the air base west of tokyo, home to 306,000 servicemen who are caught up in this as much as the japanese citizens. japp japan is our ally and our home. when something happen to japan and we are able to help we are glad to. we raised our hands to say yes, we can help you out. the utilit company said the
anchorage, there s a slight delay. so i m not sure the condition of the five remaining people there. shepard: all right. anything else we should know that s been brought to your attention? alaska governor will do a press conference in 20 minutes to give out more details about the crash scene. and we still have an alaska air national guard crew in the air and on the ground providing additional assistance. shepard: well, kalay brooks from the alaska national guard, thanks for being here and bringing us that news. this is new to us, first on fox, four survivors confirmed about by the alaska national guard, four survivors taken by c130 to the to hospitals. we don t know which one but there s a trauma center in anchorage. if in fact the wounds are severe, which is possible from a plane crash that we know killed
we took the crew down to rest. the crew day was going to be exhausted at 6:00 in the morning and we were prepared to bring in another crew to replace them. we extended their duty base and in addition, cooperated with the coast guard resources to move that direction for assistance. at first light, the apock, air national guard members in the helicopter lifted into the clouds and managed to get within access points and get rescue personnel on the ground and start assisting the survivors of the crash. coast guard in conjunction with the weather prohibited more than one aircraft operating at a time. they worked and pulled four survivors from the wreckage. transported them back to dillingham and have loaded them onto c130 s coast guard assets