politics is a lot about public spirit. the job of the leader to keep people up. keep the moral up. what is the feeling there? you went through so much with katrina, the dirty water the smell, the bed, the health conditions that led to the lost housing, the 9th ward. i think this whole country felt when you guys went through that. another hammering? it s always hard, this particular week for us is always a difficult time and you know we have to be as ready as we possibly can. it wouldn t be accurate to say we re not earn canned about i. again, we have to prepare. a different kind of event, potential flooding concerns, especially because of these rain bands that the national weather service continues to talk about. pumping capacity. you have to be ready. you have to be prepared. have you to have a plan. there s got to be good command and control. so far there is a lot leaning forward going on. let me say this, a hurricane, a
body. why he s not so fat anymore. in washington, the supreme court will decide a challenge to the sweeping health care law that president obama signed last year. a lot of people have been paying attention to this. the main issue is that controversial requirement that everyone be covered by insurance. it s called the mandate. starting in 2014, if you don t have coverage through a job or medicare or medicaid, you have to buy it yourself. while this are subsidies for those who can t afford it, the specific part of the law requiring the mandate has been unpopular. according to a new cnn/orc poll, a majority of americans are in favor of it overall. joining me from new york is nyu medical center andrew rubin. he s been on the show before. host of health care connect on siris xm talk radio. let me start off, did it surprise you the supreme court was taking this on? no, we knew it would happen. it s the best way to get to the finish line on whether health care verchl going to
pound pounds. we begin with big news out of washington, the supreme court says they will decide a challenge to the sweeping health care law that president obama signed last year. a lot of people have been paying attention to this. the main issue is that everyone be required by insurance. starting by 2014 if you don t have insurance through a job or medicare or medicaid, you have to buy it yourself. while there are subsidies for those who can t afford it, this specific mandate has been unpopular. the majority of americans may now be in favor of it overall. joining me from new york is andrew rubin, he has been on the show before host of health care connect on sirius xm radio. did this surprise you at all, that the supreme court is taking this on? no, we knew this would happen. it s the best way to get to the finish line on whether health care reform will survive. it s been going back and forth in the courts far too long. if the supreme court overturns health care reform
is fort calhoun built in 1973 on the basis of a mistake. somebody miscalculated the pumping capacity they needed for a catastrophic flood. they discovered the errorç thr years ago and planned the old system of flood protection, the nuclear regulatory commission calculated that it had a chance of protectsing the reactor core from a catastrophic flood, which is almost good enough. the fort calhoun nuclear power plant is now two feet below the level of the missouri river where the plant is required to shut down. the river is at about 1,006 feet above sea level. if it s above 1,014 feet it would knock out the generators and come over the specific berm that protects the spent nuclear fuel. don t worry. they say these 88-ton kafks,
and melting down. the plant stayed unplugged for about an hour and a half while workers inspected the backup diesel pumps and then the regular pumps came back on. this thing with nuclear power plants staying on the grid matters a lot. in japan this year they first had an earthquake that caused a tsunami, but it was when the tsunami knocked out electricity at fukushima nuclear power plant that the world knew fukushima was really in trouble. without electricity fukushima could not keep its spent nuclear excuse me could not keep its reactors or its spent nuclear fuel cool. the japanese government now says that three of the reactors may have suffered not just meltdowns, but melt-throughs. melt through the internal super strong containment vessel. that is a real nuclear nightmare. wucht things we are learning as this scary situation drag on in nebraska is that fort calhoun, ç which was built in 1973, fort calhoun was built partly on the basis of a mistake. somebody miscalculated the pu