LIVE: President Obama delivers statement on Japan, with streaming link

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Click HERE to view at WhiteHouse.GOV.

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[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. Thanks for the link.

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2. Ok, feed is live now, showing his podium.

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3. Ok, President now speaking.

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5. "We do NOT expect harmful levels of radiation to reach West Coast, Alaska or Hawaii"

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[Veronica.Franco]

12. "harmful levels" ...

But levels of radiation will reach the west coast ... Japan is on the 40th Parallel and so are we ....

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14. Absolutely agreed about the intentional wording.

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17. Radiation reaches the west coast every second of every day.

Radiation reached the west coast from Chernobyl.

The devil is in the details.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. Nuclear power plants are part of our future.....

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15. Indeed they are. n/t

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7. Asked NRC to do comprehensive review of domestic nuclear plants.

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8. US military still working around the clock, having flown hundreds of missions already, to help...

...citizens of Japan.

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[LiberalEsto]

19. Are we evacuating Japan? nt

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9. Promotes USAID.GOV website for those wishing to help out.

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10. Confident Japan will recover & rebuild.

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11. Statement has concluded.

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13. Damn, it's good to have a POTUS who can talk. nt

[otohara]

18. Nukes = Peaceful Energy? ? ?

that's a stretch....

Look I love POTUS, but stop with the "code" BS

He also mentioned again "Clean Coal", when we all know, there is no such thing.

but the Peaceful Energy comment was a new one!

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16. He just talked about a baby miraculously pulled from the

ruble. Oh boy I can hear the Rethugs now, "Obama couldn't even give God credit for that miracle"