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The trade war and they want it resolved as soon as possible. caitlin collins, cnn, traveling with the president in new jersey. in just the last few hour, a trip by the president himself. this one to pennsylvania on tuesday. cnn has obtained a memo sent to workers at the petrochemical plant where the president spoke. those workers were told that if they didn t show up for this visit they would have to use paid vacation time or receive no pay for the day. it s not clear who sent the memo, but a spokesman for the plant owner confirms employees were told they d miss out on some overtime pay if they skipped the event. the memo didn t come from them and we are told it didn t come from the white house either. a lot to get to on this saturday and cnn political kohl am nift and the national political reporter and lisa lair and eliza collins. to be clear, we don t know who ....
About go dozen more locations across the united states form bringing the total to 70. small plates will also be available at night. in detroit, a live tiger was briefly on the loose in the motor city yesterday. in addition to the tiger, a bobcat and two wolves were also brought to the now abandoned packard plant for a photo shoot. well, the problem began when the tiger sat down in a stairwell refusing to move. tamron hall has more. reporter: it was a different kind of concrete jungle monday when a photo shoot gone wild ended with a tiger on the loose in detroit s historic packard plant. this feels like the dumbest thing we have ever done. beyond anything we have ever done. reporter: british photographer arrived at the shoot with some fierce models, the tiger, a bobcat and two wolves, a small detail the plant owner said he failed to mention. ....
To communities to help evacuate because of the crisis. one of the cities is refusing the money, totals about $240,000 per community. a top japanese official says he is sorry that radioactive water is being dumped into the pacific ocean. about 3 million gallons of it is being released to free up storage space for even more contaminated water. and the plant owner acknowledges that the radioactive water pouring into the sea has concentrations of radioactive iodine that are millions of times the legal standard. we talked to bill nye, the science guy, last hour. he says we shouldn t be worried yet. because 3 million gallons, it s a lot of gallons but it s not that many cubic meters or tons of water. it s it s only 10,000 tons of water, but when you put 10,000 tons spread over the vastness of the pacific ocean, it s not that much. however, some floating stuff ....
The government says they control it, but they wouldn t give us the access to independently see. very clear gadhafi s forces are trying to hide from those nato war planes. nic robertson live in tripoli. thank you. we want to turn to the nuclear crisis in japan. here s what s new this morning. workers are using sandbags and concrete panels to keep contaminated water inside of a trench. authorities say the water is radioactive enough to be an immediate hazard and they want to keep it from leaking into the pacific ocean. the plant owner says tests have detected low levels of plutonium in soil near the plant. the power company says there is no health risk to humans and monitoring will continue. the senate energy and natural resources committee in the states is receiving a briefing on the japanese crisis. we spoke last hour with jim walsh about the plutonium finding. ....
Helicopters and water cannons to try to cool down a damaged nuclear reactor. it s a desperate attempt to prevent a meltdown. helicopters are trying to drop sea water on the overheated fuel pool at the reactor. choppers jumped 7 dumped 7 1/2 tons of sea water with each of the four passes. radiation levels remain high after the initial attempts, but the plant owner says the effort will continue. we want to bring back cnn contributor jim walsh. he s an international security analyst at mit. all right, so a lot of things have been attempted now. you ve got the water, then the attempt to get the generators going. what next? well, i think the main thing is to focus on keeping water in the reactor and water at the spent fuel ponds where the nuclear waste is stored. you know, the hopeful thing here is the best outcome is if they can stabilize the situation. over the next several days, those the active reactors, units one, two, and three, will begin to cool down. one hopes. ....