but you can be smart about it. we ll tell you how. plus, a special report on closing the achievement gap in schools. and keeping you safe while you fly by preventing pilot fatigue in our fix my flight series. a month ago today, a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern japan. aftershocks are still being felt today. two powerful ones in the same area happened earlier. bringing into question really the stability of that damaged nuclear plant. our michael freedlander joins us from hong kong. thanks for your perspective on this. you ve worked inside american nuclear power plants, three different ones, more than a dozen years, you ve got tons of experience. how tough dealing with all of these aftershocks make it in controlling the damage now at this nuclear plant? reporter: well, suzanne, you know, what we worry about is that the first earthquake and the tsunami damaged the plant to such a degree that any
we ve got further updates for you on the situation in japan coming up, including some of the assets americans did not necessarily know our country had before this crisis, but now that we re in this kind of crisis it is good to know we ve got them and that they are deploying. that is ahead. but before we do that, we have to be the place for politics again here for a second. because while the crisis in japan is happening, while the uprisings in the middle east and north africa have started to turn into the wars in the middle east and north africa, wars that maybe garnering international and american intervention now, while all those things are happening, domestic politics, red versus blue politics here in the u.s., have taken a remarkable turn. and it is not coming from washington where it is coming from is next.
while watching basketball. but it didn t knock you off your stride, and for that i m doubly appreciative. thank you. thank you for having me, rachel. it has been hard to think about, hard to report about almost anything but japan for almost a week now. but in the meantime, moammar gadhafi has gone so far in his effort to maintain dictatorial power niz country that the u.n. security council decided today it had officially had enough. the latest from libya, plus more ahead about the big turn in american domestic democratic politics when we come back. as low as 4.75% at lendingtree.com, where customers save an average of $293 a month. call lending tree at. today. [ male announcer ] america s beverage companies are working together to put more information right up front. adding new calorie labels to every single can, bottle and pack they produce. so you can make the choice that s right for you.
should we take their focus on reactor 3 as a sign of concern that a reactor with that kind of fuel is potentially more dangerous than another if something bad happens? probably not i think is the answer to that one. i don t know why they decided to focus their energies on getting the water into the spent fuel pool 3, but the reports i ve heard coming out of japan are that both pool 3 and pool 4 are short of water. so maybe they decided that the situation at pool 3 was more critical than the situation at pool 4. i don t think this decision was primarily motivated by the mox fuel issue. okay. you have had i know a chance to look at some of the radiation readings from japan outside the 12-mile evacuation zone. what are you able to tell from those readings in terms of how far the radiation has spread and what that means in terms of human health consequences? well, on site the radiation levels are pretty high at the
authority is apparently to wake up the democratic base like nothing the democrats themselves could ever have planned to do. that s next before we re back to japan. [ female announcer ] start your morning. hey. what are you doing up? i thought i d take a drive before work. want to come? [ female announcer ] or make his day. yeah. [ female announcer ] maxwell house gives you a rich, full-flavored cup of coffee, so you can be good to the last drop. it brings your best minds and their brightest ideas