2, at the facility in dolphin county, pooh. It occurred 40 years ago. The incident rated a 5 on the 7 Point International Nuclear Event scale. Heres how ed bradley of cbs news covered it. This time no evacuation. Please stay inside. Middletown at this time is evacuation. Please stay indoors with your windows closed. This is not a community that scares easily. Major floods and hurricane agnes have come here and the town has survived. But for almost a week last month, the people of middletown, pennsylvania, lived in fear of an enemy they couldnt see, hear, or feel. Cbs news, of course that 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. Hes the chair of the three mile island alert which is what . Three mile island aslert a safe energy organization. We were founded in 19
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
Jeaneatte reyes ice shouts down the vine street subway for for hours. The eagles get the match for the playoffs, the falcons and their locally born quarterback, but it is another accu weather alert day, the cold will eventually ease up eventually. However, weve got other winter tree concerns, lets go to chris sowers. Chris we got to get to the bad before the good i think im actually getting kind of used to think i feel pretty good out here, and temperatures are still in the teens. Look at the morning lows this morning, i took the worst numbers put them on this graphic, minus ten in lakehurst, minus six in millville this morning, the poconos down minus six, Atlantic City minus three, and doylestown minus three and self of my followers on twitter and facebook sense me in tweets and little notes on facebook, telling me how cold it was in their neighborhood, several locations minus four, five, six, it was brutally cold morning, especially considering where were situated in the midatlantic.
Pottstown 1 and philadelphia tied the record of 4. This morning a lot of my twitter followers were telling me how cold it was i said i need visual confirmation. So they started sending me in pictures. Get a load of this. Glassboro new jersey. Here is mullica hill. And i could have showed you about 20 ofese. Everybody started sending these in. It was really, really cold first thing this morning. Temperatures are back above zero now but the wind chills are below zero. It feels like 19 below in the poconos with a wind chill warning in effect until 10 00 a. M. 7 in philadelphia and 5 in millville. Forecast for today, well see mostly sunny skies out here. Its not going to be quite as harsh as yesterday. The winds should ease up a bit after lunch. 19 degrees is the forecasted high. This will be the last of the bonechilling frigid cold air. When i come back in just a few minutes, well talk about the milder temperatures heading this way and the accuweather 7day forecast and a little mix arrivi
Obrien all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Obrien the crisis in houston deepens by the day, as Tropical Storm harvey lurks just offshore. More than 3,500 people have been rescued, but officials have confirmed four deaths. Much as 30 more than 1700 square miles and is home to heat advisory is now under water. And more and more is washing into the city itself. P. J. Tobia begins our coverage. Reporter images of a region pushed to the brink. Torrents poured through parts of downtown houston, as a pair of aging dams overflowed. Rescue crews had worked through the night, with flood victims crowding onto dump trucks heading for higher ground. Some waited until morning, only to see the water climb higher. It quit rain