By WHAV Staff |
March 1, 2021
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Team Haverhill’s annual “Possible Dreams” community visioning event is going online this year.
Called “Possible Dreams 2021: Moving Forward Together,” the event is described as “an opportunity to meet new people, discover more that Haverhill has to offer and shape the future of our community by sharing and incubating new ideas. This is the first time the event is taking place online and begins Monday, March 8, at 7 p.m.
any new problems at the fukushima plant and the work they re doing there? obviously, it provides them a setback. reporter: it did briefly today. they had to evacuate. the power was cut for a while at the plant, but it was quickly retord. the plant is still leaking radiation and the government expanded the exclusion zone. it had been 12 miles. now they re recommending people 20 miles from the plant leave, not because there s been a spike in radiation for a month. they re concerned about the lone-term radiation and the health effects of the people 25 miles from the plant. charles hadlock in tokyo. thank you. coming up, dangerous storms ripped through the heartland and take aim at the east. and 150 years after the first shots were fired, is america still embroiled in the civil war? controversial comments straight ahead. whoa.
i wouldn t have thought it would be too long before they knew the answer to that question. rick: the japanese government is warning its own people if you are within 12 miles of this plant leave. the united states is saying 50 miles. why the discrepancy and who is right. i m not sure there is an answer to the question who is right. clearly there is problems on the ground in moving people around in japan at the moment. it may well be that their exclusion zone is smaller than we would have in the states partly because of the issue of moving people around at the moment. certainly the issue of communicating what s going on is a difficult one. only one hadn t you want to be honest and give full information, on the other hand you want to avoid panic and give the sense that the authorities are in control of the situation. certainly the authorities in japan have the practical problem of how to deliver the message that we in the states only have
with water from broken pipe, even though they were wearing protective suits and presumably waterproof suits they were still soaked to their underwear according to officials. officials said they were able to rinse off and they re okay. it shows you the types of problems they re facing and how dangerous the situation remains. it really is serious is the concern continues to grow, set da setbacks happening day in and day out. any plan on expanding the evacuation zone? reporter: right now the evacuation zone is a 12-mile radius around the plant, and that involves tens of thousands of people who have been removed from the area. what japanese officials now are urging that people within an 18-mile radius of the plant leave as well. some are hess tan to do so but sooner or later they ll have to because a lot of food and water supplies are being cut off to that region because obviously