and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little fun-timidating, one of the most fun guys around but you really understand this world. for people who are watching this, before you change your channel because you don t know what south by southwest is or you don t care, why do we care that we re here? we used to think of the internet as a separate space, as a different place. as a culture, distinct from the rest of the world. it s too big for that now. the internet is not some other thing. it s in all of us. and so this festival, which began as geek culture, that s now mass culture. so to understand the future that we re charting, these tools we re making affect all of us. how we learn, how we spend money, how we find our mates, how we do our politics. so with the big picture of the whole world now, not something you can isolate as separate from the rest of us. that s a good point you make. if we can do our politics the way people make deals about technology and com
what you may not have heard yet is it s also probably the world s biggest interactive digitalfest cal. foursquare got its kickoff a few years ago. twitter really exploded here at south by southwest. cnn has a presence here every year. i m here with two guys when i really, really like. i tweeted that i ve got a man crush on mario armstrong. i think i said it was a tech man crush. and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little intimidating, one of the most fun guys around but you really understand this world. for people who are watching this, before you change your channel because you don t know what south by southwest is or you don t care, why do we care that we re here? we used to think of the internet as a separate space, as a different place. as a culture, distinct from the rest of the world. it s too big for that now. the internet is not some other thing. it s in all of us. and so this festival, which began as geek culture, that s now mass culture. so to unders
reactor number 3, one of the most seriously damaged, is being showered almost non-stop with sea water to keep it from overheating. you ve seen that in recent days. more importantly, emergency power was restored early this morning to reactor number 6. the goal is to get power running to all of the six reactors at the site by tomorrow. electricity essential to pump water that cools the radioactive fuel rods and shields workers and the world for that matter from lethal radiation. john, when we come right back, our martin savidge is live from tokyo with the latest on the crisis in japan. officials say more than 10,000 people still missing since the monster earthquake and tsunami. japan and libya two enormous stories. our extensive coverage continues right here. . you re the one
crisis. the two countries don t see eye-to-eye on the danger. they urged american citizens leaving japan. americans are told to keep at least 50 miles from the fukushima nuclear plant. that is five times larger than the zone established for the japanese. at the plant, last-ditch efforts have begun. military helicopters and water canyons were used today to keep the reactors from overheating. they hope to get power running to the water pumps by the end of the day. people are now packing up and leaving tokyo, despite assurances from the government that there is no reason to go. nbc chief health and science correspondent bob bazell joins me on the phone now from tokyo. bob, what are you seeing with american citizens there and how quickly are they trying to leave? well, chuck, they re not running, they re not sprinting, but it s tough to get a flight out at the moment. there s a lot of people who are heeding the advice. a lot of japanese people are
u.s. virgin islands are st. croix, st. thomas and st. john. st. croix as we heard from the governor last night appears to have weathered the storm well. st. thomas less well and st. john appears to have weathered it not well at all. eyewitnesss in st. john estimate that three out of every five homes on st. john had the roof ripped off by the storm. we re getting reports that none of the wooden homes on st. john are still standing, none of them. one nurse at the local hospital in st. john tells us that fellow residents have been donating their own personal supplies of diesel fuel to keep power running at the hospital. which is now running on generators on diesel power. this is day six since the storm wiped out this part of this american territory. it the responsibility of the u.s. government and u.s. virgin islands. there is news tonight the state department will be starting emergency evacuation flights out of the british virgin islands and st. martin as of tomorrow