pretty high level. we played a sound bite earlier in this program where the guy is going listen, you better get the chernobyl stuff and the concrete and the sand. how is the japanese media handling the nuke danger? they are skeptical about it, in fact. they are skeptical of the way the japanese government is handling it. japanese prime minister was on at 11:00 a.m. people weren t really listening to him too hard. they were too busy, as my colleague noted, filling up their water canisters or filling up their car with gas just in case they have to make a run for it. there is concern, there is skepticism of the people running the operation as day by day the story changes concerning the safety levels. bill: they are not believing what the government is telling them that there is no real danger now because the government is playing it down a little bit. they are not believing that? quite skeptical. i m a veteran of three mile island, bill, i was there. and if you might remember that
this nuke story, you know, to a pretty high level. we played a sound bite earlier in this program where the guy is going listen, you betterethe chnol uff anthe concre anthean hoishe jane mia handling the nuke danger? they are skeptical about it. japanese prime minister was on at 11:00 a.m. people weren t really listeningp their water canisters or filling up their car with gas just in case they have to make a run for it. there is concern, there is skepticism of the people running the operation as day by day the story changes concerning the safety levels. bill: they are not believing what the government is telling them that there is no real danger now because the government is playing it down a little bit. they are not believing that? quite skeptical. i m a veteran of three mile island, bill, i was there.
this nuke story, you know, to as going listen, you better get the chernobyl stuff and the concrete and the sand. how is the japanese media handling the nuke danger? they are skeptical about it, in fact. they are skeptical of the way the japanese government is handling it. japanese prime minister was on at 11:00 a.m. people weren t really listening to him too hard. they were too busy, as my colleague noted, filling up their water canisters or filling up their car with gas just in case they have to make a run for it. there is concern, there is skepticism of the people running the operation as day by day the story changes concerning the safety levels. bill: they are not believing what the government is telling them that there is no real danger now because the government is playing it down a little bit. they are not believing that? quite skeptical. i m a veteran of three mile island, bill, i was there.
he would not, however, contribute the news to the heat and the smog, that smog which consists of carbon monoxide and other dangerous substances, and levels, three, four times higher than the safety levels, and over the weekend, they were as much as seven times higher. and patti an, this is the first time when the authorities acknowledged the growing death rate and that prompts speculation of a government coverup. several doctors are v written on the blogs on the internet that they were instructed not to diagnose patients with heat and smoke-related illnesses fearing dismissal and that contributes to the growing panic. many russians are leaving moscow, it was reported that over the 100,000 people have left the city last thursday alone, the biggest number of the people to fly out of the capitol in one day so far this year. patti ann: serious troubles there. thank you very much, anya. thank you. bill: amazing pictures from moscow, too, you see the red square, shrouded in smog.
changed what was considered the safety levels for ash, right? this is interesting. some would say they moved the goalpost, others would say it was modern technology. as a result of all the tests that they ve done, they re able to raise what s called the engine tolerance of the aircraft. in other words, the planes can accept more of this ash at lower density levels. and what the civil aviation authority in the uk said, it was time to revise the rules. they still said airlines need to check the planes before and after such flights, but they did say it s now possible to actually fly in less dense conditions. we ve got a text 360 question from diana in florida. she wants to know, how is all this affecting domestic air travel in the u.s.? it s had a little bit of an impact? it has a tangential effect in the sense of connecting passengers can t move on and there are maybe certain planes out of place in different areas. and airlines, of course, u.s. carriers, are also losing millions