the people who were affected right under the area of the bomb, under that radiation cloud that continued for miles. there were probably 500,000 people who had direct affects from the testing of the very first atomic bomb. how could they then not be included in this act from the 1990s? i have never received a good answer to that, but my job and the job of senator lujan and the group of senators and congress people is to bring attention to that and to try to get past an amendment which would include new mexico as well as some other counties in utah, in arizona, that were clearly under the were downwinders from these atomic tests. there were 100 aboveground atomic tests in the united states and the world. it is remarkable, i think, too, the scope of the exposure. i was surprised at the scope of the exposure. i know you ve said you believe
was dead with two men who admitted to being accomplices in the attempted burglary. no word on if jones will face charges. a proposed driving bill is sparking a whoelt lot of controversy. it would ban the use of cell phones while driving and prevent everything from eating to putting on makeup, and here is the kicker, physical interaction with pets and passengers. the bill does allow hands free devices. you can t put your arm around your honey? i wouldn t survive there. i do all of those things. this is a video of nasa the recent solar whip. it reaches 500 thousand miles and appears to break away from the surface. the eruption caused a radiation cloud to head straight for us. this cloud created aurora bore rale lis. the northern lights were visible stretching from new york to
levels, that burn them out on their exposure limits. we hear that the radiation cloud moving from japan to the west coast of the united states, while they are getting tests on the west coast, minuscule levels of radiation and we hear that the united states is not equipped for such a disaster. where do you stand on that? guest: i m not an expert on that. i can t tell you whether we are or are not equipped. we always through the cold war years maintain a level of readiness to handle something like this but i presume that has continued but i am not eastbound equipped to tell you where we are. alisyn: is japan forthcoming about the radiation being emitted? guest: the best we can do, we humans do not react well to radiation. we have seen from the islanders trapped in the pacific and airmen on the islands, that
they didn t evacuate that town. there s a million people there. all the areas along the coast have been evacuated or devastated by the tsunami. the people are still there. with the wind coming from the southeast, it s going to take that radiation cloud that s been pushed offshore the winds have been 30 miles per hour offshore. the high winds are one of the reasons why those water drops didn t work very well because the water, as the helicopter was dropping the water, disintegrated into little droplets. it was a rain shower, it didn t work. the winds have stopped and they re turned back onshore. the constant phoenix will be hard at work figuring out where the radiation is moving back westward over the country of japan and not out of the ocean, suzanne. this is serious for the people on the country s countryside in that 30 kilometer area. they said stay inside. at this point the radiation is coming their way. we certainly hope we can play. it s fantastic plane, and all the men in i
there s been no specific studies done to say this is the absolute size of the evacuation zone. it should be this size based on these readings. some of it is based on weather conditions, wind conditions and things like that. it s safe to say the u.s. recommendations are more conservative. they re saying we need a farther evacuation zone. keep in mind with that 20 kilometer evacuation zone you had hundreds of thousands, 200,000 some residents who are essentially displaced adding to the displacement of the people affected by the tsunami. this is compounding those two problems. as far as the differing numbers, i said almost since the beginning there s an arbitrary nature to this and this is another example of that. there s a lot of fears about the radiation cloud, the jet stream is going to be blowing this to the west coast of america. how concerned will we be when it comes this way? will most of the radiation be dissipated?