course by a 60-mile-an-hour blast of wind. there s smokey up there. despite bill s desperate efforts, there s no way to avoid a 700-foot radio transmission tower. my first thought was to get over it. i had no option except to go up. can t steer a balloon. bill fires his burners past their safety limit, trying in vain to fight the wind, but he can t rise fast enough to clear the tower. oh, he hit the tower. he s on the tower. when we hit the tower, the balloon exploded. virtually. and it was like hearing an amplified scream of a mad woman and a mountain lion and everything you ve ever heard scream all at once. he tore a hole in him. the fierce winds quickly ripped the balloon to shreds. it s tearing. when it happened, of course,
to horde bottle water. this is after a warning not to give infants tap water here in tokyo and also not to use tap water when it comes to making baby formula. this is after officials found radioactive iodine in the tap water in tokyo. more than 240 kilometers or 150 miles south ever the fukushima nuclear plant and the levels of this iodine were at least double the safety limit for infants. now, there has been a run on walter. we know that many shops have sold out of bottled water as people have been panicked by supermarkets say they will be replenished on thursday. one shop did tell us that they re going to start rationing the water, just giving one bottle of water to each person. as for food contamination, we understand on wednesday that the government has restricted even more food movement. 11 types of vegetables have been
tap water now two times the safety limit for babies and here at home, the f.d.a. is not allowing any dairy product, the produce from the area to be sold in the united states. a shootout in athens, georgia, leaves a police officer dead and another cop is wounded and right now, there s a nationwide hunt for the gunman who is a convicted felon. officer elmer christiansen tried to stop the suspect after a carjacking several miles from the university of georgia. he was killed. the suspect, 33-year-old jamie hood was released from prison in 2009 after serving 11 years for armed robbery. president obama heads back to the united states this morning hours after breaking bread at a dinner in el salvador. he s cutting his visit there short by several hours. couple of hours. he s going to cancel a tour of the mayan ruins and says he s going to hold a conference call with his national security team. the president and first lady were in latin america for five days. after trashing his dressing room a
the plant was just evacuated after black smoke was seen rising from one of the reactors and radiation continues to spread. officials say the level of radioactive iodine in tokyo s tap water now two times the safety limit for babies. that s not good. here at home, the f.d.a. is not allowing any dairy products or produce from the area to be sold in the united states. a shootout in athens, georgia, leaves a police officer dead. another cop is wounded. and right now, there s a nationwide man hunt for the gunman who is a convicted felon. officer elmer christian tried to stop the suspect after a carjacking several miles from the university of georgia. he was killed. the suspect, 33-year-old jamie hood was released from prison in 2009 after serving 11 years for armed robbery. a grand jury indicts a washington man accused of planting a bomb at the martin luther king jr. parade in spokane, washington. he is scheduled to appear in court today. he s charged with attempting to use a weapon of
radiation release from this plant has forced over 170,000 people to be evacuated for a 12 mile radius around the plan the and the japanese government says the amount of radiation released so far into the environment is very small and doesn t pose a threat to human health, but the nuclear plant operator says that radiation levels around the plant have risen above the safety limit and it does not mean an immediate threat to human health. never the less, reporters of workers at the forms going down with radiation sickness and also 160 people have suspected radiation sickness as they were checked as they were brought out of the area. and they re also trying to cool down other react,in the area at this time. the state broadcast, nhk is now reporting perhaps 10,000 people have died during the quake and the tsunami, but those estimates that could rise considerably the next few