atmosphere over to the west coast. well, this model ran several days ago, forecasting for it to arrive tomorrow. and it doesn t really say, you know, about the concentration of the plume. the dispassion of any of those particles. may well dissipate well before getting to the west coast. and it s more of a theoretical thing. you may remember last year we talked about the oil spill. you know, in theory, that may have been so, but it didn t happen in reality. you look at a satellite picture like this, we re not seeing any sort of plume or cloud or nuclear winter ash cloud that is being traversed. these are weather clouds. and this is a computer model, not the one that they used to track the theoretical plume of radiation, but one that we use every day in the weather center. everything from japan in some way shape or form kind of makes it way to the west coast. by the time any sort of radiation plume gets to that
things, candy. we ll step back a bit. this is are model that will show you where the wind will go, taking you here to where the wind has been. in fact, the wind blowing off the country, off the shore of japan affected the water drops. i was watching the water drops live here from an nhk feed. the wind was literally blowing that water that they were trying to put on the reactor, blowing it in the wind. that wind, and it would change from offshore to very close to deep from the south to the north, and that would move this radiation plume. where he know there is one. it could move it up toward sendai in the next couple days. they ll be pointing to the north part, to the i d of honchu.
where he met with the ambassador and signed a condolence book, where people have been streaming in to express solidarity and support for the people in japan, as they try deal with this crisis. we are going to see the president, another unscheduled event in the rose garden. the president expected to make a statement on the situation in japan. he won t be taking questions. that s our anticipation, at any rate. i think we can expect him to talk about the efforts that the united states has been making in response to this crisis to help the japanese beet, logistically and humanitarian basis, across the board, to experts from the nrc. also expect the president to talk about the relative safety of u.s. shores. we ve seen this graphic now of the possibility of a plume of radiation floating across the pacific. experts stress it s a minimal amount that we are constantly exposed to radiation and it likely would not present a
earthquake, the soourn, atsunam possible meltdown crisis. mike i haviqueira live at th white house. waiting for the president to speak soon. unpredicted weather and wind conditions in japan threatening to spread radioactive contamination. forecasts show a radioactive plume should reach southern california by tomorrow. now, experts say radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels, and at worse, would have minor health consequences here in the u.s. samantha mohr joins me live from atlanta. we have tracked a lot of storms, tracking winds for a different reason. people have big questions. absolutely. because it is going to affect millions of people. now, it looks like the most concerned folks are still going to be in the country of japan, obviously. let s take a look at the prevailing winds over there right now. of course we had a frontal system move through, 36 hours
minneapolis. look at this. we re now being told that this is a gas main break, right, smack in the middle of a block and you can see, the flames just there, burning out of control. thankfully no reports of any injuries. but there were evacuations in the area, a couple of schools, a church, grocery store, all evacuated, as firefighters try to put the fire out. it is also shut down part of highway 35-w, the southbound lanes there in south minneapolis. and we ll keep our eyes on this situation, but, a scary one in minneapolis, minnesota, right now. martha: just as the tsunami wave eventually did hit the west coast of this country, now, there is this concern. radiation monitors are now headed to the west coast as scientists say the plume of radiation from japan will hit the western united states in the air tomorrow but, they say it will have extremely low levels of radiation. however, the federal government is already monitoring radiation