has made it. again, it was supposed to be two feet lower than originally expected, but still, water is supposed to be here for two weeks. eric? eric: wow. thank you so much for the very latest on the situation. julie? julie: all right. joining us on the phone is the mayor of minot. curt zimmelman. thank you for talking to us. scary numbers from your neck of the woods. 11,000 people evacuated so far and now we hear about the contaminated water. tell us about the boil order for residents. well, thank you for having me, julie. the health department issued a boil water. our water system may be contaminated. we are running some tests. we are doing it for safety reasons at this point. so we are under a boil order. among other things. julie: all right. for all of the residents that have to seek shelt they re have evacuated from their
newsroom. reporter: really incredible stuff, diana swinson came within minutes of becoming a tornado victim, her home, battered by 200-mile per hour winds, her roof, sheared off, puncturing large holes in her ceiling. that was her kitchen, furniture thrown everywhere, her windows shattered and this, what you re about to see is where swinson rode out her tornado, inside her garage was a shelter, a four by four shelt their looks more like a telephone booth, it was made of kevlar, made of material that saves cops lives and much like a bullet proof vest, it saved two lives that day. i grabbed my weather radio, my flashlight and my cat and i went into my shelter. and then about ten minutes, that storm hit. and you know, when it hit, it was just like chaos outside of the shelter. i mean, you could hear
raising some serious questions. let s start with the national, carol, from the united arab emirates. it s headline all eyes are on pakistan. the discovery of osama bin laden in a garrison town less than 50 kilometers from islamabad exposed pakistan to embarrassing accusations yesterday that either its government or security service was shelt, the world chs most-wanted man. take a look at what the australians headline is. judged by the company you keep. the article says, these suspicions mark a new test for u.s./pakistan relations, raising uncomfortable questions for both sides, among them being the competence of pakistan s security service and the extent of the country s complicity in harboring bin laden. finally, take a look at today s zaman from turkey embarrassed pakistan was excluded from bin laden raid s. it goes on to say pakistan has a long history of nurturing extremist militants and the
around the area as well. this as more concerns about radioactivity in the food chain. that s got the japanese people very upset, greta. over the weekend, the story broke and it s continuing. the government now banning the sale of milk and spinach and other vegetables from the broader region around that nuclear reactor complex because of traces of radioactive iodine found in the food stuffs. helt officials say it is not a danger to health. but they re concerned about that and concerned about even smaller traces, but traces nonetheless of radioactivity found in tap water nsea water, even in the rain. and it s spooking out to the u.s. military as well. there was an earlier than expected departure on monday from harbor, to the south of tokyo of the uss george washington, a very large aircraft carrier, as well as a destroyer. the word from the navy that this was to improve the readiness of
u. so a new study reports that having an abortion may be less harmful to a woman s mental health thap having a baby. the researchers tracked thousands of women and found that women who gave birth sought psychiatric treatment more than women who had abortions. the women who had abortions sought treatment more overall. what does this mean? for the researchers, it s fresh ammo to refute wisdom that abortions harm women s minds, meaning that it was done to prove an ideological point which is pointless. it relies on women who seek helt to tell the doctor they had an abortion. i reckon a lot of women keep that to themselves. as for the moms, they may be seeking help for reasons other than a screaming poop machine, like a husband. the fact is, the absence of stress is less traumatic short