Top of the Hour: US Looks at Japan’s Nuclear Crisis, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

The Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory Jaczko has responded to the nuclear crisis in Japan, “In a comparable situation in the United States, we would have issued evacuation instructions to a larger, larger distance away from the plant,” he said. Reuters correspondent Dan Sloan reports with the latest from Tokyo.

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