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Top Story Podcast 3/16/11: First hour: Teens and sexting - Just let them do it? Second hour: State of the City, potassium iodide pills flying off the shelves. First hour: Teens who "sext."  Just let them do it?  Or should there be serious consequences ...

Sales of iodine pills have soared in the United States amidst concerns of radiation fallout from Japan's nuclear crisis. From the Guardian: The fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have prompted a massive increase in the sale of anti-radiation tablets in the US and Canada – despite health officials and a prominent UK scientist dismissing it as unnecessary.

A Uof I nuclear engineer says the situation in Japan could very well hault the nuclear energy program here in the U.S. for a while.  Several experts say the Japanese authorities are underplaying the severity of the incident there, particularly on a scale called INES used to rank nuclear incidents. The Japanese have so far rated the accident a four on a one-to-seven scale, but that rating was issue

Top Story Podcast 3/15/11: First hour: Dr. Akira Tokuhiro, Steve Millington. Second Hour: How the president handles a crisis. With all the crisis in the world today, President Obama's Saturday message was about....unequal pay for women.  REALLY ...

The death toll is rising in Japan and there is still plenty of concern about the possibility of a nuclear disaster. More than one million people are still without power and water and in some places, food. Japan's nuclear crisis deepened dramatically yesterday...

Top Story Podcast 3/14/11: First hour: Should we rethink the use of nuclear power in light of the Japanese disaster? Randy Stapilus with Idaho Legislative update. Second hour: The libs want us scared of nuclear power...it's gonna kill us all ...

Seeing the devastation in Japan, this makes me wonder how safe the US nuclear power plants would be in an earthquake or tsunami? Would we be ready if this happened here?

The American Red Cross is accepting donations to help in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Those who wish to donate can do so at RedCross.org or make a $10 donation by texting REDCROSS to 90999. The money will go to those affected by the earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific.

Hundreds have been found or are presumed dead after a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami tore through Japan's northeast coast. Some are already declaring the 8.9 magnitude quake the largest ever recorded and after-effects are expected to hit the west coast of the US, the Phillippines, Indonesia and other vulnerable spots. The Internet has sped into action, using Twitter to report updates and