>> you can't get much closer to the heart of the fukushima disaster than this. and there are 1500 spent fuel rods. >> are we more frightened of nuclear power than we ought to be? on the left, brian schweitze are, on the right newt gingrich. in the crossfire, ralph nader a consumer advocate who opposes nuclear power and michael shellenberger featured in the cnn film "pandora's promise." unlimited clean energy or toxic trouble tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm brian schweitzer on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. in the crossfire tonight, ralph nader who opposes nuclear power and michael shellenberger who is for it. >> we're finally having an honest debate on nuclear power, one of the energy sources that can sustain civilization. tonight cnn is presenting a provocative new film called "pandora's promise." it argues that despite recent disasters like the one at japan's fukushima power plant, most of the fears expressed by anti-nuclear protesters are irrational. here's a quick preview. >> i came to realize they basically avoided look

. >> you were making the film when fukushima happened. i think a lot of people expected you to maybe abandon your argument. >> that's true. >> was fukushima not as bad as people made it out to be? >> the think fukushima is a terrible accident. there's no question about it. although fortunately nobody has died, nobody has gotten sick, and according to the best science in the world health organization nobody ever will. but that said, a lot of people have lost their homes and everything. it's a terrible thing. but i think one has to look at it from the broader context. we've had nuclear power for 50 years. there are 440 reactors operating all over the world. during that 50-year time period we've had three major accidents, chernobyl, fukushima and three mile island. only one of those accidents, chernobyl, according to the best science from the world health organization, the united nations, has caused any fatalities. >> the pilots who flew in to try to drop cement on the reactor died. >> exactly. they're saying less than 60 people have died af

fukushima is still boiling around. that's a advanced technological society, but in your area of pennsylvania, you have spent fuel rods all around those plants. all around the united states, the aging plants, half of whom can't meet the fire prevention standards of the nuclear regulatory commission, by the way, those are dead ringers for sabotage, for any earthquake, for a major storm. the whole point, newt is we don't need nuclear power. it's not insurable, except by the u.s. government, the price anderson act. it's not bankable except by u.s. government loan garchts, the weight financial years have done assist, it's not an economic proposition. they tail 10 to 15 years to build. they always come in 100% to 200% cost overruns. we haven't built within since the 1970s, what does that mean in a market sense? it means it's corporate socialism, government guaranteed, and no one has skin in the game. >> what do you say, mike? i want you're blaming this on the market. you yourself led these efforts to shut down the expansion

five kilometers from the fukushima power plant the final check point. only authorized vehicles are allowed past this point. arriving at plant, the first thing we see are the huge water tanks that hold the toxic water that's been used to keep the reactors cool. inside the plant now and we're off to get the haz-mat suits and the protection before we go into the more contaminated areas. here you can see all of the journalists getting ready. this is effectively what the workers have to go through every single day. there are strict rules about what we can and can't film. but this is the part of the plant tepco wants us to show. reactor 4. you can't get much closer to heart of the fukushima disaster than this. this is why tepco's brought us here. we're in the reactor 4 building, the building that suffered the hydrogen blast in the days after the disaster and this is the cooling pool. there are 1500 spent fuel rods. what the company's doing over the coming days is to remove those fuel rods to a more stable location, they say. they insist it is a routine operat

at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. a new very controversial documentary here on cnn argues a new generation of nuclear reactors is the only way to power the future. >> this is not a dream. this is not somebody's calculations on a piece of paper. this is real. we know how to do these things. >> nuclear power, is it dangerous, is it green, is it necessary? that's next. more than a new interior lighting system. ♪ it is more than a hot stone massage. and more than your favorite scent infused into the cabin. it is a completely new era of innovation. and the highest expression of mercedes-benz. introducing the 2014 s-class. the best or nothing. introducing the 2014 s-class. stick with innovation. stick with power. stick with technology. get the flexcare platinum. new from philips sonicare. ♪ [ male announcer ] united is rolling out global, satellite-fed wi-fi to connect you even 35,000 feet over the ocean. ♪ that's...wifi friendly. ♪ that's...wifi friendly. customer erin swenson ordebut they didn't fit.line customer'

later in the show we will take you inside fukushima. cnn was given a rare tour of japan's nuclear plant. stay with us. female narrator: through veterans day, it's posturepedic through veterans day, it's posturepedic versus beautyrest with up to $400 off. serta icomfort and tempur-pedic go head-to-head with three years' interest-free financing. mattress price wars end monday at sleep train. >>> let's update you now on the latest on super typhoon haiyan. the storm is pounding large parts of the philippines since making landfall early this morning. it is gradual weakening as it moves across land but still sustaining winds of 270 kilometers an hour. the storm is currently about 200 nautical miles south/southeast of the capital manila. at least three people have been killed and tens of thousands have fled to emergency shelters. 25 million people are said to be in the storm's path. now some are especially vulnerable to super tie soon haiy haiyan. they live on the central philippine island and many of the survivors are living in temporarily sh

everything in fukushima has changed. crews are digging, bagging and hauling away contaminated earth. 142,000 people remain evacuees across the region. children in the early days wore dissimilar ters to measure radiation intake and masks to limit radiation exposure from the air. the children of fukushima are also being carefully watched. before the meltdown, they des noted one in two million would be diagnosed with thyroid cancer. so far 44 diagnosed or suspected of having thyroid cancer. some experts say the unexpected high rate may simply be that doctors are looking. but many parents of fukushima blame the nuclear accident. the sasakis have tested their chish. they're fine so far, emphasis on so far. this is what some of the tsunami victims -- >> reporter: as far as what happened to me, i gave birth several i reported throughout the exclusion zone and even went into the fukushima nuclear plant for an up-close visit. tests later show that all my limited reporting in high radiation zones had no visible impact on my thyroi

the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant in japan. it was the site of that nuclear meltdown just two years ago. and after that terrifying tsunami that zoeft devastated so much of japan, no one is allowed to go anywhere near fukushima to this day. but plant operator, tepko, recently invited cnn correspondent anna korin to inspect the site even as they begin the precarious process of trying to remove nuclear fuel rods from this plant. >> we've been given suits, a mask, gloves, as well as a hat because no skin can be exposed. we're also carrying dosinators which will measure external radiation levels for us. >> you heard her say no skin can be exposed. just looking at what anna and her photojournalists had to wear to protect them from this radiation, even with all of this protective clothing there were still places that the radiation levels were so dangerously high that anna and her team were simply not allowed inside. but i want you to take a look at what happened when she did go in. >> 2 1/2 years later, tepko says it's reached a miles

remember, fukushima and also chernobyl were both level sevens. major radioactive launches into the atmosphere. this was an ugly, ugly event. it was a seven. but after the cleanup a couple of years, now it's back down to a one. with this dumping or this losing of some of the water and possibly into the ground water and into the ocean, eventually, this could go up to the three. three mile island was a five. seven, the only two sevens, chernobyl and fukushima. it's not over. this may take 1,000 years to truly clean up everything. so we're going to have these little bumps in the road, without a question. >> still a very dangerous situation. thank you, chad. appreciate that. >>> scientists, they want to know why dozens of dolphins have now washed up this summer along the east coast beaches. >> go ahead. feel his teeth there, brian. nice, nice sharp teeth. we look under the tongue. make sure there's nothing. some of the viruses cause lesions. >> we're going to tell you what scientists think is happening to them, up next. [ male announcer ] this is clai

it will be a long time before the market regains faith in a fukushima-branded fish. cnn, iwake, japan. >> there's an update to this story. i want to tell you about the statement that's been put out by the international atomic energy agency on this monday. the iaea is saying that tepco need to continue efforts to improve the reliability of essential systems to assess the structural integrity of site facilities and to enhance protection against external hazards. that's according to a statement put out by the international atomic energy agency, according to afp. basically they're calling on tepco to improve efforts to stabilize that. >> people in the area do not have confidence in the authorities or in the utility. and this latest nauz certainly is not going to help. >> certainly isn't. >>> now, if you're traveling by lufthansa today, i have one word for you, a couple of words. be sure to check your flight. a major strike could impact travel in and around europe. the german airline is canceling 1,700 flights after a walk-out. thousands want a pay increase of more than 5

i'm about 30 kilometers away from fukushima daichi, you can see the wreckage of boats here still here after the tsunami, trashed when the tsunami came in. the nuclear disaster that has affected the fishing community here more. >> i gather there was another earthquake there, that to rattle a few nerves if not do something more serious. tell us about that. >> reporter: that's right, it was last night, and it certainly shook me when i felt it. but we have been talking to locals too, you know, you get tremors here a lot, but they're more minor, yesterday's was about four on the richter scale and it was inland from fukushima, about 200 kilometers away. so the locals we have been speaking to say they haven't felt something like that in a long while and of course that brings back memories of the terrible sensation of the earthquake as it came in and the tsunami that followed. >>> the u.s., china and north korea taking a stab at diplomacy. >> but can they meet in the middle after weeks of heated exchanges. we'll have more on where the main players stand when we return. verify and lock. comman

and i think that's one of the real problems of fukushima. there's no way for the experts to actually communicate what is safe to the general public. [ speaking foreign language ] >> if you were exposed to the fallout from fukushima, then according to the world health organization, the u.n. generally, the increased risk of getting cancer is estimated to be so infinitesimally small given the large population, you'll never be able to identify this impact epidimialogically. >> i just want to say this particular weed here is more radioactive than the beach. so what have we got? 44? >> now we've seen what the worst is that can happen with a 1960s air remar era western designed reactor which doesn't have the structure fukushima did. but this isn't something you can brush away. this was not supposed to happen to a reactor. >> back in the 80s, it was clear to me that something had to be done. something better than present day about safety. and it wasn't only in safety, it was in matters of waste as well and in the proliferation matters. and over all

and of course, as you say, the worry was about fukushima. tepco says there were no problems. they say there were a couple of employees actually working outside and as soon as this happened, they were evacuated, brought to the quake-proof main building on higher ground, and at this point they say there was no damage. of course, the irony is i'm actually here to cover tropical storm francisco and the worries about the immense amount of rain water that's going to dump on the fukushima plant, will that cause another overflow of toxic water and then you have this earthquake. it really brings home to you just how much mother nature throws at this country. >> paula hancocks, thank you so much. keep us posted, especially when daybreak comes. >>> in national news, plenty of questions linger about what motivated a 14-year-old boy described as quiet and friendly to allegedly kill a beloved math teacher on school property earlier this week. but we are learning new information about what happened the day of the murder. investigators say colleen ritzer asked the suspect who has been identi

and i think that's one of the real problems of fukushima. there's no way for the experts to actually communicate what is safe to the general public. [ speaking foreign language ] >> if you were exposed to the fallout from fukushima, then according to the world health organization, the u.n. generally, the increased risk of getting cancer is estimated to be so infinitesimally small given the large population, you'll never be able to identify this impact epidimialogically. >> i just want to say this particular weed here is more radioactive than the beach. so what have we got? 44? >> now we've seen what the worst is that can happen with a 1960s era western designed reactor which doesn't have the structure fukushima did. but this isn't something you can brush away. this was not supposed to happen to a reactor. >> back in the 80s, it was clear to me that something had to be done. something better than present day about safety. and it wasn't only in safety, it was in matters of waste as well and in the proliferation matters. and over all of those t

fukushima not that far away where the disaster happened. all the blue lines now you can look to see what the town looks like. i'll give you an idea, an unfortunate idea of what the town is. right there, this is a mirror. i found it on the street. this is a mirror to help drivers know if cars are coming but there is the top of the car. here's the google car itself and there is the ball that does take all of the pictures. so we'll get to some of these devastating pictures. you have to understand that this was a town with bustling streets, people living through this, and all of a sudden there's just nothing here. the town a complete disaster. just an empty area. even coke still in the coke machine here. i've seen a couple pictures where there are still areas where people were selling clothes and the clothes are still hanging on the racks in the middle of the parking lot. that was two years ago. now you get closer to the ocean and this is where the devastation really occurs. this is where the wave came in. this honestly looks like wave land aft

. >>> plus, radiation levels at japan's fukushima plant are worse than thought. high enough to kill a person within four hours of exposure. >>> also, former south african president nelson mandela is back home. we'll give you an update on his health later this hour. welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. >> i'm michael holmes. >> the president intensifying his effort to persuade congress to support his plans for military strikes on syria. he has conference calls and face-to-face meetings. >> it's 14 days and counting since the attack killed people. there's no doubt that syria's government were the ones using chemical weapons on their own civilians. >> john mccain has long pushed for u.s. action inside syria. he and fellow republican senator lindsey graham with meet two hours from now with the president and samples collected by u.n. weapons inspectors in syria will be delivered to labs in finland and sweden. russia says it doesn't buy u.s. claims it was the regime. >> translator: it's said the united states said they used chemical weapons. what does i

and then we were told the threat was contained but now japan admits radiation leaking fukushima plant is a quote house of horrors. >>> good evening. i am erin burnett. the government is illegally watching you. today we learn that the national security agency collected as many as 58,000 e-mails per year over the past three years in the united states. e-mails that had nothing to do with terrorism. and the agency misrepresented the scope of this effort to the secret court that is supposed to oversee and regulate it. evan perez joins us now. how did this program work? >> well, the way the program works is the nsa works with essentially pretty much most of the telecommunication companies in the united states, at&t, verizon. it works with them to essentially under these court orders it is supposed to get foreign communications, things that might have something to do with terrorism. what happened apparently despite the fact they had court orders that said you can't look at domestic communications the computers they use to separate the stuff weren't doing the job they thought it was doing. wh

he is in the red safety helmet, personally visiting the reactors in fukushima. this happened today. paula hancocks has more on this. >> reporter: it's the second time that the japanese prime minister has visited the fukushima nuclear power plant. abe, wearing full protective gear, made a short tour thursday, a couple of weeks after pledging almost half a billion dollars to help with the cleanup effort. abe met with some of the plant workers telling those in the command center, quote, the future of japan is on your shoulders. he also decided the two remaining reactors would be decommissioned. reactors 5 and 6 shut down for maintenance at the time of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, so were undamaged the prime minister shown the water tank that leaked 300 tons of radioactive water recently and said dealing with contaminated water issues is the immediate priority. he defended comments he made this month when bidding for the 2020 olympics which tokyo won. he had said the situation at fukushima was under control. >> translator: i told the world and buenos aires there is no health impa

almost two-and-a-half years after the fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, leaks of contaminated water have been spiking the radiation levels higher than we have seen before. >> this is really turning the area around the plant into a ghost town when people don't even know when or if they will be able to go home for good. paula hancock traveled there taking us inside, a 12 mile safety zone to show the clean up here, what is being done and why this is so incredibly dangerous. >> within the 20 kilometer or 12-mile exclusion zone and this is the area that residents were moved away from in the immediate aftermath of the disaster in 2011. you can see there is a fair bit of activity behind me and cars are allowed in and residents allowed back during the daytime because the radiation levels lowered. still not allowed to stay the night. the government still worries about a cumulative radiation, so people aren't allowed to stay here 24 hours a day. what you can see by the side of the road, the cleanup operation is on going in different areas of fukushima. you can see what a pain staking operatio

it's under way right now in japan at the fukushima daiichi power plant. >> radio active water is still poisoning the sea around the plant. this is more than two years after the nuclear disaster. but in a new report, inspectors point to two important things right now happening. nuclear fuel being removed from one of the four damaged reactors, also radio active leakage is being reduced. >> anna coren has gotten very close to the recovery work there. closer than any other journalist. she takes us deep inside the nuclear plant to explain the risky clean-up operation in this cnn exclusive. >> we are here inside reactor 4 at the fukushima daiichi power plant that was severely crippled during the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 leading to the country's worst nuclear disaster. it was in here where there was that massive hydrogen explosion that severely damaged the building, that this was the least damaged of the four reactors because it was under maintenance and it wasn't actually operating. well, now, two and a half years later, tepco says it's reached a milestone. that massive crane behind me

>> you can't get much closer to the hearts of the fukushima disaster than this. there are 1500 spent fuel rods. >> are we more frightened of nuclear power than we ought to be? on the left brian schweitzer. on the right, newt gingrich. in the crossfire ralph nader, a consumer advocate who opposes nuclear power, and michael shell enberger featured in the cnn film "pandora's promise." tonight on "crossfire."

and as far as i can see from details from the fukushima area, of course, remember, this is where the crippled nuclear power plant is. it doesn't appear at this point as though there is any damage. at least we're not hearing from the operators there's habeen any damage there. >> we're going to keep in close contact with you because to use your word, crippling. that earthquake, and ensuing tsunami, crippled that town. many towns in and around these certain areas of japan. paula hancock in tokyo, chad myers, thank you very much. we'll come back to you as soon as news warrants. >> coming u, cnn speaks with an american who pushed the button in deadly drone strikes and as a result, he says he's coping with ptsd. you'll hear straight from him and his chilling confessions up next. >>> plus, a doctor is accused of drugging and drowning his wife. today, the mistress in the center of it all is expected to take the stand. stay right here. this is cnn. it's estimated that 30% of the traffic in a city is caused by people looking for parking. that's remarkable that so much energy is, is wasted. str

. >>> there are concerns over a toxic water leak at japan's fukushima plant. this country is getting ready to push the accident warning level to three which is classified as a serious indication. >> that's highest it's been since a tsunami triggered a massive meltdown in 2011. they are comparing the plant to a house of horrors. >> we have chad meyers here in atlanta. i want to start off with you paula. what's caused the officials to push up this warning level? what's changed? >> i think they underestimated the severity of this incident on monday. on monday an employee walked past one of the big water tanks and noticed there was high radio active water coming out of that tank and going into the ground. on tuesday they realized some 300 tons of this radio active water has escaped. on wednesday they said this was more serious than they had thought. just to give you some indication of how radioactive this water was, tepco if you stand close to the water you'll get a five year dose in just one hour. this is a highly technical operation to try to clean this up and a

the fukushima plant was severely damaged in peculiar march of 20 the tsunami hit japan. >>> veteran british broadcast david frost died of a heart attack last night. he was 74. frost was best known to u.s. audiences for his series of interviews with former president richard nixon. cnn's "reliable sources" will have more on david frost in the 11:00 a.m. hour. those are your top stories. i'm fredricka whitfield. now back to "fareed zakaria gps." >>> now for our "when in the world segment." watching countries from around the world grow and prosper, we tend to assume that global poverty is falling. in fact the world bank says that in 1981, nearly half the world citizens were impoverished, they lived on less than $1.25 a day. today less than a fifth of the world's population lives in poverty. in raw numbers that translates to a 40% drop, from 2 billion to 1.2 billion people. when i dug deeper, i realized the picture was more murky. most of the reduction has to do with one country, china. take it out of the equation and the numbers look very different. let's go back to 1981. back then china accoun

when a tsunami tore through the fukushima nuclear plant and led to the toughest nuclear cleanup ever. we'll get the closest any camera has ever been to the recovery work. a cnn exclus live ahesif ahead next hour. w that beats great mileage or being fun to drive. yeah, that'd be like someone being loud or clear. we need to slap the slippery fish right in the gill hole! happy time feed bag! frog face! cement leg! that's weird. i like "and" better. yeah. "and" is better. the twenty fourteen ford edge. only ford gives you ecoboost fuel economy and a whole lot more. go further. you can fill that box and pay one flat rate. how naughty was he? oh boy... [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. and our networks are getting crowded. but if congress, the fcc, and the administration free up... more licensed wireless spectrum, we can empower more... people to innovate, create new technologies and jobs... and strengthen the economy. america is the world's leader in wireless. let's keep it that way. free up licen

. >>> rethinking nuclear power despite the fukushima meltdown, a change of heart from some environmentalists, a new documentary that examines whether what you think you know about nuclear power could be wrong. i have a 401k retirement plan. i started part-time, now i'm a manager. my employer matches my charitable giving. really. i get bonuses even working part-time. where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. healthcare starting under $40 a month. i got education benefits. i work at walmart. i'm a pharmacist. sales associate. i manage produce. i work in logistics. there's more to walmart than you think. vo: opportunity. that's the real walmart. we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness if you qualify, and new car replacement, standard with our auto policies. so call liberty mutual at... today. and if you switch, you could save up to $423. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? >>> could long held fears about nuclear power be wrong? there's a stunning new cnn film that unveils new thinking about nuclear power a

but facilities here have several backup systems and fukushima is still trying to recover theirs. it sounded like one of those things it's easy to say it could never happen here until it does. >>> let's set a giant rocket engine used in apollo mission has been recovered from the darkest depths of the sea. now they're seeing the light of day thanks to amazon.com billionaire jeff bezos. he and his team are optimistic that engines belong to the rocket that carried neil armstrong to the moon. each of them weighs nearly nine tons. some of the parts that they're recovering you're looking at here are the size of small cars. now on his blog, he described the scene 14,000 feet below sea level as an underwater wonder land. >>> it has been 594 days since this country lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? the federal reserve today scaled back the forecast for economic growth this year, not a good thing. but the fed said, look, we're going to keep on buying bonds, buying bonds, buying bonds. and that, of course, sent the market ever higher. >>> now our fourth story "out

the fukushima plant was severely damaged in the march, 2011, tsunami that hit japan. >>> yemen's prime minister is okay after escaping an assassination attempt. an unknown gunman fired on the prime minister's three-car convoy. saturday's incident came only a day after a car carrying yemen's information minister was fired upon. >>> and journalist glenn greenwald, who broke the nsa spying story, is next on "reliable sources" right after this. >>> welcome back to "reliable sources." i'm brian stelter. if you've had trouble keeping up with all of the nsa surveillance news this summer, don't worry, you are not alone. since memorial day there have been new revelations every single week about america's pervasive phone and internet surveillance programs, all thanks to edward snowden, who provided documents to the guardian columnist glenn greenwald. the latest on saturday came from a german newspaper. the documents apparently show that the nsa hacked into systems belonging to the arab news broadcaster al jazeera. this has been the media story of the summer. so as fall approaches, does the repor

. >>> the operator of the fukushima nuclear plant says a rat is to blame for a power outage. a rat may have caused a short circuit in a switchboard that led to the outage and that led to the cooling system to fail. obviously there is no laughing matter. it made us wonder could a rat take down a plant in the united states? it's not likely. critters can cause problems. but facilities here have several backup systems and fukushima is still trying to recover theirs. it sounded like one of those things it's easy to say it could never happen here until it does. >>> a set of giant rocket engines used in an apollo mission have been recovered from the darkest depths of the sea. now they're seeing the light of day thanks to amazon.com billionaire jeff bezos. he and his team are optimistic that engines belong to the rocket that carried neil armstrong to the moon. each of them weighs nearly nine tons. some of the parts that they're recovering you're looking at here are the size of small cars. now on his blog, he described the scene 14,000 feet below sea level as an underwater wonder land

. >>> there's been a spike in radiation levels at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan left crippled by a tsunami two years ago. the radiation was measured in the pipes and containers that hold water at the facility. >> tepco is the company in charge of the cleanup. officials say just one drop of contaminated water dripped out of the holding tanks when a worker touched a pipe, and that isn't a leak. they also said they're making every effort to keep workers safe. >>> in california, investigators are trying to figure out why a single-family home in los angeles collapsed. look at this. according to officials, the house, which was abandoned, was used as a shelter by the community's homeless population. >> the fire department was able to clear the house after sending in a team of specialized dogs to determine whether anyone was trapped. no injuries were reported in friday's collapse. >>> you know tim tebow? he won't be suiting up in a new england patriots uniform this year. the pats cut him just days before the new season kicks off. the former heisman trophy winner is probably the bigges

google maps takes you to the streets of fukushima. and a doctor is arrested and accused of killing her own patients. that's power block coming at you next. oh, hi thehey!ill. are you in town for another meeting? yup, i brought my a-team. business trips add up to family time. this is my family. this is joe. hi joe! hi there! earn a ton of extra points with the double your hhonors promotion and feel the hamptonality. it's part of what you slove about her.essing. but your erectile dysfunction - you know, that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure.

the only thing they didn't have was fukushima. that was something that was held against them. the fact they do have those radiation spikes and toxic water leaks, but it wasn't enough to derail this bid. the games in 2020 will be coming here to tokyo. don. >> very interesting. lots of mass transportation to help the people get to and fro. last time tokyo hosted the games back in 1964. the game will be in tokyo in 2020. thank you so much for joining us. i'm don lemon in new york. at the top of the hour make sure you come back to us here. the video of that sarin gas attack is showing members of congress to convince them air strikes against syria must happen. we're going go to cnn dr. sanjay gupta for a live report for you. >>> i'm dr. sanjay gupta reporting all week from the syria lebanon border. joining me is my colleague brooke baldwin. >> you're next door to syria. i have a lot of questions for you as far as what you've seen in the last couple of days. let me just begin with what we have seen so far. we've seen the

. >> three reactors at the fukushima plant melted down after that devastating earthquake back in 2011. we're joined from japan with the latest. the cleanup process has been slow going and it's throwing up all sorts of problems. >> reporter: yes. this decommissioning process will take 30 or 40 years tepco says. the local government had been busy with more pressing clean up issues. it was the nuclear accident which has made lasting damage on the life of this small fishing community. let's take a listen. it's a huge catch for a tiny boat. the fish flap ant on the deck. by the time we're back at the port there's little movement. today's catch would have been worth $3,000 u.s. all they can do with them is sort out the biggest varieties and send them off to the lab for testing. they can sell none of this like throwing away money the fishermen say. we can't put them on the market. there's nothing we can do. wrecked boats litter the harbor still years after the tsunami. a waste land where buildings once stood. it was the nuclear disaster 30 kilometers north which destroyed these men's livelih

a vital and dangerous job but this worker at this fukushima pour pla power plant is not treated well and is scared if he complains, he will be fired. he tells me he works 300 meters from the tank. we only knows the facts when we got home. there is no explanation about what is happening and how dangerous it might be. tepco says this leak was not dangerous to workers as they were wearing protective gear telling cnn neve a system in place to know the generator levels in their area. this is a very complicated issue says tepco spokesman. once this trouble occurs we assess what emergency measures are necessary and if it doesn't affect the workers directly we don't explain the issue. as a subcontractor and not a direct tepco employee this man is paid 50 dollars lower than what we saw for a similar job with another subcontractor at the same plant. paid by his company and not directly by tepco he worries the danger money workers are promised for possible radiation exposure is skimped off by some companies. report of middlemen rich from this disaster to questionnaires and tepco says 30% of tho

>>> also, radiation levels around the tanks at fukushima 18 times worse than previously thought. plus when the radiation plume is expected to hit the u.s. west coast. the second hour of newsroom start thes now. >>> good morning from washington. thanks for being with me. i'm carol costello. new developments holding the world's attention in sere kwa. this morning the u.s. navy bolsters military might in the region sending a warship into the red sea. today u.n. inspectors sent to a lab the evidence that could prove chemical weapons were unleashed in syria. in washington the results are viewed as a formality. >> it has tested positive for signatures of sarin. so each day that goes by, this case is even stronger. >> making the case to congress, president obama faces pushback from both parties in his call to authorize military strikes. the president faces two major hurdles though. political skepticism of lawmakers and questions over whether he would be defying national law. we'll break the issues down for you this morning. dana bash is on capitol hill. and evan perez will look at the l

>> fukushima or whatever, how do you know there isn't going to be more of this if we have more nuclear plants? >> you have to look at the context. we had 50 years of nuclear power. 440 reactors operating and in these 50 years, three significant accidents one of which caused anybody to die or get sick and then the number is remarkably low if you look at what the world health organization says. >> robert kennedy, you heard the case for the defense of nuclear power. what is your argument against it? >> i'm all for nuclear power if they can ever make it safe, and if they can ever make it economic and i believe in free market capitalism. i believe the lowest cost producer should prevail in the marketplace and at this point, you know, it's -- we build a lot of nuclear power plants. we have 20% of the fleet on nuclear power plants. the most recent one built in finland is coasting $14 billion a giggawatt, $3 billion for cole, $3 billion for solar, and $3 billion for wind and conservation is about 1/10th that. on the cost issue, it doesn't make sense. it's the most catastrophically way to boil

in japan, a sharp spike in radiation levels in containers at the fukushima nuclear plant. the company is confident its crews can deal with the problem safely. the plant was severely damaged in the 2011 tsunami that hit japan. >>> david frost has died of a heart attack. he was 74. frost was best known to u.s. audiences for his series of interviews with former president richard nixon. >>> and those are a look at the top stories. i'm fredricka whitfield. now back to "fareed zakaria gps." >>> now for our "what in the world segment." watching countries from around the world grow and prosper, we tend to assume that global poverty is falling. in fact the world bank says that in 1981, nearly half the world citizens were impoverished, they lived on less than $1.25 a day. today less than a fifth of the world's population lives in poverty. in raw numbers that translates to a 40% drop, from 2 billion to 1.2 billion people. when i dug deeper, i realized the picture was more murky. most of the reduction has to do with one country, china. take it out of the equation and the numbers look

. >>> there's new concerns about the crippled fukushima plant. the contaminated water is leaking into the bay next to the plant. >> a company spokesman describes it as serious. tepco tries to create an underground barrier to stop more contaminated water from leaking out. they may be fighting a losing battle. >> translator: the situation is already beyond what tepco could handle. they're doing everything they can but there are no perfect solutions. >> others not as kind. the last month of the u.s. watchdog agency says tepco did not have a proper plan to protect japanese citizens or the environment. >> it just continues to be a problem for japan. staying in japan a rough landing for a korean air passenger jet. overshooting the runway. this while landing at the airport. the airport says 115 people were on board. this is a boeing 737 but thankfully nobody was injured. the plane was traveling from seoul. >>> teenagers here in the united states recruited to kill for mexican drug cartels. you'll hear the troubling details from two teen who is are now se

. >>> government inspectors are looking at japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant in the light that thousands of gallons of radioactive liquid leaked from the sight. the plant suffered several meltdowns and serious damage following an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. >>> north and south korea are holding talks on letting families separated for decades reunite. many were split up after the korean war with some stuck in the north wild relatives were in the south. south korea's president said it's time for the north to quote, open its heart. >> a lot of sad news this morning. we want to give you something fun to start your friday with. this is a great story. this is going to make you go wow. take a look at that picture. that fish is a 350 pound tuna. it's 74 inches long. if you stood it up, it would be as tall as a person. guess who caught it? >> jimmy buffett. this happened close to where we are on wednesday in the waters off nantucket. it was on his day off between concerts on new york's long island. he says it took him about an hour to reel that big tuna in. how awesome is that? >> c

. >>> it's the worst radio active leak so far at japan's crippled fukushima reactor. you may remember it was damaged in that tsunami a couple of years ago. let me give you an idea how contaminated the water is. someone standing a foot and a half way way from tank for one hour would get a radiation dose five times higher than what nuclear workers are supposed to get in one year. they've been cleaning up since march of 2011 when an earth wake and tsunami caused three reactor meltdowns. >>> in china 107 people are dead and roads and farmland have been inundated. the government has called out the army to help. one paper called it the worst flooding in 50 years. in the philippines flood waters have killed people and left tens of thousands homeless. the central part of manila is about 70% under water. incredible. >>> we're getting our first official look at the royal baby, prince george. two photos were released with the future king in a little blanket. pictures are putting a modern spin on what it means to be a royal these days. max foster explains how. >> reporter: a pict

. >> developing over night, the cooling system at the fukushima nuclear power plant is up and running again after it failed. tokyo power system signaled an alarm when it stopped working. this was the system's second failure in a month. >>> new this morning, a psychiatrist who treated suspected shooter james holmes warned police a month before the massacre that he was a danger to the public. documents released this week showed dr. lynn fenton, a psychiatrist with the university of colorado, contacted a campus officer about holmes. an affidavit said holmes stopped seeing dr. fenton. >>> the district attorney of kaufman county, texas was shopping for guns the day before he and his wife were found shot to death in his home. according to the store's owner, mike mclelland was not shopping for himself but for others. funeral services will be held for mike and cynthia mclelland. a memorial service for the couple was held yesterday. >>> the manhunt continues this morning in colorado for two white supremacists in connection with the state's prison chief, tom clemens. he was gunned down in his h

the problem of fukushima power plant, the company leading the cleanup said only a single drop escaped the holding tank. owners say the radiation exposure can be controlled. another holding tank leaked 300 tons of toxic water last week raising the threat level at the time to serious. >> nelson mandela's release from the hospital after nearly three months of the treatment. the 95-year-old remains in critical condition, but doctors say he can get the same level of intensive care at his home. mandela was hospitalized june 8th with a lung infection. his history of lung and respiratory infections dates from his 27-year imprisonment for fighting against are part hide. apartheid. >>> famed british broadcaster david frost has died. bbc published a statement that frost died of a heart attack aboard the cruise ship "queen elizabeth." frost was a fixture on american and british television, but he was perhaps best known for his revealing interviews with president richard nixon. david frost, 74 years old. >>> with the threat of a u.s. strike on syria looming, how might that affect americans here at

cnn, fukushima, japan. >>> anna, thank you, with that exclusive access there. >>> closing the wealth gap between the richest and poorest americans. president obama focused on that near minutes ago. you'll hear his message on economic inequality. that's next. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+. and better is so easy withrning you cabenefiber.o something better for yourself. fiber that's taste-free, grit-free and dissolves completely. so you can feel free to add it to anything. and feel better about doing it. better it with benefiber. humans. even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? >>> a so

cnn's christi lu stout has more. >> after the 2011 tsunami that hit the fukushima plant, the current level one is said to be raised to a level three meaning a serious incident. the tokyo electric power company which runs the plant says 300 tons has leaked from a storage tank. spokeswoman tells cnn the leaking container may be emptied into another tank as early as today. back in july ten poe admitted radiation is seeping into the sea and the warning level will be raised after a meeting between japanese officials and international nuclear regulators on wednesday. back to you, kate. >> thank you so much. >>> boy bands and screaming fans, they seem to go hand in hand, i guess. witness the london prenear of one direction's 3-d documentary. zain verjee has more. >> reporter: this is the world prime minister with two boys and the band mates one directin. the movie is supposed to be fantastic, it is all about -- oh, darling, really? and it is all about the way that they do things behind the scenes, the relationship with the families, and just really gives us insight into the lives of a mega

the meltdown of the fukushima plant forced more than 150,000 from their homes. most of them will never return. >>> sunday, thousands took to the streets of the japanese capital protesting that country's nuclear power programs. >>> well, it turns out heart disease has been around for awhile. a very, very, very long while. a new study published sunday in "the lancet" say mummies from around the world had a high prevalence of clogged arteries, a condition usually attributed to modern life, fatty foods and lack of expressway. since these had cheeseburgers and showed da some are reconsidering the causes of heart disease. >> got to find a new thing to blame. >>> new york congressman peter king, he is no worse for the wear after stepping into the ring this weekend for a charity exhibition with a former kick boxing champion. i think he looks great. look, the 68-year-old really held his own in the two-round bout against irish josh foley who is less than half his age. you know, he's not wearing a mask. he's an after individual boxing fan training for years. i think it sho

it also damaged the fukushima nuclear plant which sparked a global debate over nuclear energy and how safe it is. this brings me to the question of the week. what percentage of electricity consumption in the united states comes from nuclear energy? is it a, 1%, b, 5%, c, 14%, or d, 19%. stay tuned. we'll tell you the correct answer. go to cnn.com/fareed for more of the gps challenge and lots of insider

this is the way japan's nuclear watch dog is describing the fukushima power plant. but as you say, this is the most serious since 2011. it's been upgritted from a level 1 on month to a level 3. this is the proposal japan is making, claiming it is a serious incident. what has happened is 300 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from the water tanks. the plant operator claims that they have stemmed this flow. they claim that they have made that water secure, and that it hand reached the ocean. there are concerns that if one water tank can leak, surely others can as well. there's hundreds with highly radioactive water inside. just to give you an idea of how radioactive that water is, tepco says if you stand too close to it, you will get a five-year dose of radiation in just one hour. >> that is unbelievable, paula, and i wonder, because the japanese people had already lost so much confidence in telco, what does this latest incident do? i think the fact that the nuclear watch dog calls it the house of horrors sums it up. the japanese people are constantly hearin