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  1. VIDEO John Terrett in New York reports on Hurricane Irene Mandatory Evacuation

  2. VIDEO Hurricane Irene 2011: Bahamas Recovers and North Carolina Prepares As East Coast Expects to Be Hit

  3. VIDEO NY1: New York City Prepares For Hurricane Irene

  4. VIDEO Riots Rage: Anarchy in UK as London turns into war zone

  5. Windows 7 Easeus backup Question

    I went and loaded free version of Easeus backup software, I wanted to create a restore DVD disc, Like Macrium reflect has but it was grayed out I only had options to my various USB drives and thumb drives. Does any Easeus TODO users here know How I can make a DVD emergency recovery disc...
  6. Fukushima escalates to worse-case possibility

    For the first time Japan has suggested the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant has gone beyond a meltdown. Japan says that nuclear fuel in three reactors has possibly melted through the pressure vessels and accumulated in the outer containment vessels. Japanese media report this...
  7. Japan has doubled its estimate of the amount of radiation spewed out by the Fukushima nuclear plant

    Heartbreaking evacuations as Fukushima's nuclear fallout spreads BRENDAN TREMBATH: Japan has doubled its estimate of the amount of radiation spewed out by the Fukushima nuclear plant in the week after the crisis began. It comes after confirmation that plutonium has been found outside the...
  8. VIDEO Fail: Nuclear Emergency Plans by Arnie Gundersen 6/6/11

  9. Fukushima's No. 1 reactor building radiation level rises

    TOKYO — The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Saturday it has detected radiation of up to 4,000 millisieverts per hour at the building housing the troubled No. 1 reactor—the highest reading taken in the air inside the complex. Tokyo Electric Power Co also...
  10. Heavy rain may cause toxic water to overflow outside Fukushima plant

    TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power Co said Friday radioactive water accumulated at its crippled nuclear power plant may overflow to the outside if heavy rain falls by June 15, fanning fears that radiation could further pollute the ocean and soil. The plant operator plans to start activating new...
  11. Scientists urged Japan, TEPCO urged to act fast

    Japan can avoid turning the affected Fukushima Prefecture into a dead zone by immediately applying chemicals and planting radiation-absorbing plants at the contaminated soil, scientists said. Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan's crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as...
  12. How hunt for escaped tiger a wild goose chase

    Golf course evacuated, game stopped at Hampshire cricket ground, public told to stay indoors Armed police head off for hunt in golf buggy 'It looked like they were going on safari' Marwell Zoo experts on hand with tranquilliser darts When members of the public rang in saying they had...
  13. Typhoon Songda hits southern Japan

    As the typhoon made its way towards Kyushu on Sunday morning, Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a mudslide warning for Kagoshima, where recent volcanic eruptions left the ground weak and prone to such events. Kagoshima received 121mm of rain on Saturday. A little further south, Naze had a...
  14. Typhoon Strengthens, May Hit Fukushima

    Typhoon Songda strengthened to a supertyphoon after battering the Philippines and headed for Japan on a track that may pass over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by May 30, a U.S. monitoring center said. Songda’s winds increased to 241 kilometers (150 miles) per hour from 213 kph...
  15. Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan 'unready for typhoon' | Typhoon heading for Fukushima !

    Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is not fully prepared for heavy rain and winds of a typhoon heading towards the country, officials admit. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), which runs the plant, said some reactor buildings were uncovered, prompting fears the storm may carry radioactive...
  16. Lyn Benedetto, a California mother, slit her daughters’ throats

    Lyn Benedetto, a California mother, slit her daughters’ throats before slitting her own early Friday evening, claiming that “the Tribulation” was going to occur and she wanted to keep them from having to endure it. Benedetto, 47, told her children to lie on a bed and then took a knife to their...
  17. Death toll from Joplin tornado climbs to 116

    JOPLIN, Mo. – Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital. It was the nation's...
  18. Fukushima reactor had meltdown 3.5 hours after cooling system collapsed: U.S. researcher

    A meltdown occurred at one of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant three and a half hours after its cooling system started malfunctioning, according to the result of a simulation using "severe accident" analyzing software developed by the Idaho National Laboratory. Chris...