i know. that s why, just for posterity, ander s&p, i have to record some of this broadcast of yours. i love my flip cam. a lot of reporters use them. you can put them in your pockets, take them out. when we were getting pummelled in egypt, i was shooting it on a flip cam because people don t know necessarily it s a camera. you have probably seen in all the tweets today people writing r.i.p., rest in peace, flip. it s sad to see it go. here, i ll send you this. thank you, thank you. i m totally bummed. i cannot believe it. time for the beat 360 winner. our daily challenge to viewers to come up with a better caption to the photo we put on the blog every day. tonight s photo, john mccain and john kerry at a press conference. the staff winner tonight is sam. we re waiting for al gore, bob dole, michael dukakis and walter mondale before we start. i don t quite get it. oh, they didn t win. sorry. i m a little slow.
night. we got a ton of e-mails and tweets about this dog we showed you chained up, starving in the evacuation zone near the damaged nuclear power plant in japan. a lot of you have written in about the dog and we re all dog lovers here. we wanted to find out more about the dogs in the evacuation zone subjected to high levels of radiation. we ll talk to out reporter kyung lah in japan. but first, a look at some of the animals we ve seen in the aftermath of the tsunami. three weeks after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, a dramatic rescue, a tale of survival. japan s coast guard rescues a dog found floating on debris off kesennuma. a small boat was sent out and a rescuer jumped into the sea and carried the dog to safety. she was skittish at first. after eating some sausage and cookies, she started wagging her tail and licking rescuers faces. her three-week ordeal over, her
spirit restored with a little food and a lot affection. the dog s name is ben. it turns out that her owner saw footage of her on tv in a temporary relocation center in sendai and this family member went to pick her up. unfortunately, reunions probably won t happen for many dogs, especially those left behind in the evacuation zone near the damaged fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. this video was shot by a freelance journalist two weeks after the tsunami. the journalists risked their lives entering the mandatory evacuation zone, exposing themselves to dangerous radiation levels. what they found was heartbreaking. dogs still in their homes, still waiting in vain for their owners to return. one dog chained up, left behind, starving. his ribs visible. one of the journalists gave this starving dog his lunch. and this photo captures the desperate situation. a dog left behind, likely tied up, who chewed its way through its leash. food is in short supply, and there are no organizations that will
it s only a matter of time. of course. but it s interesting, talking to him, he s been pumping this up and people have been dismissing it, particularly in washington where they say he s not a serious candidate. and yet his poll ratings are strengthening all the time. he s very, very close to being the front-runner. yeah, look, first of all he s high in the polls now because he s kind of a new name out there, getting a lot of publicity. and the people who, as i was saying before that don t like obama are saying well, maybe if sarah palin doesn t run, maybe there s donald trump. but i think donald trump is going to be somebody who is going to dislike the process, because the kind of scrutiny that he s going to come under, his financial empire, not to mention flip-flopping on issues like abortion, which are very serious issues in the republican party and in the country, i think this is going to be somebody who is going to chafe under that kind of scrutiny that
he knows it wants to be 39.6. that s up from 35% top rate. so we need that level of specificity on spending cuts. if we re going to have social security and medicare for the next generation, we need the president to describe with specifics what he intends to do so those programs don t go bankrupt and bankrupt our nation along with them. david, we haven t heard a lot of specifics up until now. we haven t, anderson. there s something peculiar going on. on sunday the president promised on this wednesday he would come forward with a plan, it sounded like he was going to have an alternative. today, they really started walking that back at the white house. they began treating this as one speech in a group of many, it will be the first step in a long journey. he may wrap himself in the commission, or the back of six. anything but being bold and concrete, which i think is what is needed now.