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Video: Radiation reality check

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:54 PM PDT

March 15: NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman discusses the symptoms of radiation sickness.  (Nightly News)NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman discusses the symptoms of radiation sickness. (Nightly News)




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Video: US military expands Japan relief efforts

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:57 PM PDT

March 15: Although plans for the U.S. military to deploy a massive relief operation have been overshadowed by Japan's escalating nuclear crisis, U.S. helicopter missions to search for and aid survivors in isolated communities are already under way. NBC's Ian Williams reports from Yamagata. (Nightly News)Although plans for the U.S. military to deploy a massive relief operation have been overshadowed by Japan's escalating nuclear crisis, U.S. helicopter missions to search for and aid survivors in isolated communities are already under way. NBC's Ian Williams reports from Yamagata. (Nightly News)




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Video: West Coast warily eyes wind patterns

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:47 PM PDT

March 15: Deepening concern about radiation leaking out of Japan's damaged nuclear plant has residents along the West Coast closely watching which way the winds are blowing. The Weather Channel's Brian Norcross reports.  (Nightly News)Deepening concern about radiation leaking out of Japan's damaged nuclear plant has residents along the West Coast closely watching which way the winds are blowing. The Weather Channel's Brian Norcross reports. (Nightly News)




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Tanier: Small in size but not in fan frenzy

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:26 PM PDT

Northern Colorado fans cheer as their team closes in on winning the Big Sky Conference title over Sacramento State on March 2.Tanier: Belmont, Long Island and Northern Colorado have superfans who weathered the lean years to enjoy March Madness euphoria.




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Rockefeller impostor charged with murder

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:10 PM PDT

A mystery man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller has been charged with murder in the disappearance of a Southern California man more than 25 years ago.

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Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:10 PM PDT

Libya no-fly resolution offered at UN

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:07 PM PDT

France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, left, welcomes Britain's Foreign Minister William Hague, right, for a Group of Eight Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris, Tuesday.Supporters of a no-fly zone over Libya introduced a U.N. resolution aimed at stopping Moammar Gadhafi's planes from bombing civilians, with France urging quick action Tuesday.




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Japanese city now an eerie ghost town

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 11:51 AM PDT



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US energy chief: don't delay new nuclear plants

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:21 PM PDT

Regulators should press ahead with approving construction licenses for new nuclear power plants despite Japan's nuclear crisis, President Barack Obama's top energy official said Tuesday.

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Disaster sparks demand for potassium iodide

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:08 PM PDT

Troy Jones, 46, owner of www.nukepills.com, has sold more than 50,000 doses of potassium iodide in the days since a massive earthquake and tsunami sparked a nuclear catastrophe in Japan. Despite assurances that  nuclear radiation won't reach the shores of America, demand for potassium iodide has swamped the stocks of all three suppliers approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for use in the U.S.




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54 GOPers buck party as short-term budget bill passes House

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:58 PM PDT

More Republicans than many expected voted against a three-week stopgap measure to continue funding the federal government until April 8.

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NYPD: Couple dies from cyanide poisoning

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:10 PM PDT

New York police say a woman died after her husband injected her with cyanide.

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Beijing airport jumps to No. 2 in world rankings

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:13 AM PDT

A plane carrying Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Beijing last year. Beijing Capital International Airport is the world's second-busiest airport, overtaking London's Heathrow.Beijing's airport now trails only Atlanta's hub as the world's busiest thanks to a surge in demand in fast-growing Asian economies, an industry association said Tuesday.




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Video: PFT Live: Encouraging players to boycott the draft

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:01 PM PDT

March 15: NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus says the second players are drafted they will be locked out, so he's encouraging his clients to boycott the draft to show solidarity with their future teammates. (NBC Sports)NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus says the second players are drafted they will be locked out, so he's encouraging his clients to boycott the draft to show solidarity with their future teammates. (NBC Sports)




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Video: Cookie thief rips off 3 Girl Scouts

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:47 PM PDT

March 15: Three Georgia Girl Scouts are out $50 after a sweet-tooth bandit pays for her cookies by using counterfeit cash. WXIA's Jon Shirek reports. (NBC News Channel)Three Georgia Girl Scouts are out $50 after a sweet-tooth bandit pays for her cookies by using counterfeit cash. WXIA's Jon Shirek reports. (NBC News Channel)




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Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:47 PM PDT

Video: Backlash over YouTube rant against Asians

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 11:20 AM PDT

March 15: UCLA Chancellor and students push back against a YouTube video criticizing Asian students. KNBC's Gordon Tokumatsu reports. (NBC News Channel)UCLA Chancellor and students push back against a YouTube video criticizing Asian students. KNBC's Gordon Tokumatsu reports. (NBC News Channel)




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In wake of Wisconsin law, can labor keep its political clout?

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 11:38 AM PDT

Crowds gather at the Wisconsin State Capitol Saturday to see returning Democratic senators who'd left the state to try to prevent a vote on the bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker to curb unions'  bargaining power.The law Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed Friday which curtails unions' power to bargain and to collect union dues may be a turning point in labor's political role. Here are questions that unions face in the wake of the law.




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NYT: Reactor design has long been questioned

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:16 PM PDT

The warnings for the nuclear reactor design were issued as far back as 1972: If the cooling systems ever failed, the primary containment vessel would probably burst.

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Japan radioactivity could enter food chain

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:12 AM PDT

Radioactive materials spewed into the air by Japan's earthquake-crippled nuclear plant may contaminate food and water resources, with children and unborn babies most at risk of possibly developing cancer.

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