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TEPCO detects record radiation at Fukushima’s reactor 2, new leak suspected

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No. 2 reactor buildings of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear power plant (AFP Photo / Pool)

TEPCO has found a record 1.9 million becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances at its No.2 reactor. Also radioactive cesium was detected in deeper groundwater at No.4 unit’s well, as fears grow of a new leak into the ocean.

The level of beta ray-emitting radioactivity in groundwater around the crippled Fukushima reactor No. 2 reactor has been rising since November, NHK reported.

Previous the highest level – 1.8 million becquerels (bq/liter), of beta-ray sources per liter – was registered at reactor No.1 on December 13.

Meanwhile, TEPCO’s latest examination of deeper groundwater beneath the #4 reactor’s well has raised new concerns that there might be another source of radioactive substances leakage into the ocean.

For the first time, the analysis of water samples taken from a layer 25 meters beneath the No. 4 reactor’s well that is facing the ocean has revealed radioactivity in groundwater.

TEPCO investigators detected 6.7 bq/liter of Cesium 137 and 89 bq/liter of strontium as well as other beta ray-emitting radioactive substances.

However, the company’s officials said that it is early to talk about a hotspot of radiation leak and more examinations are needed to prove that. TEPCO suggested that current numbers could be wrong because radioactive substances may have been mistakenly mixed during the process of getting the sample.

Leakage of radiation-contaminated water has been the major threat to Japan’s population and environment from the very beginning of the Fukushima disaster in March 2011.

Only in late July 2013 did TEPCO acknowledge the fact that contaminated water is escaping from basements and trenches of the Fukushima plant into the ocean.

Since then, TEPCO reported about two major leaks of highly radioactive water into the ocean from storage tanks – a 300-ton leak in August and 430 liters in October.

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Ariz. mom suspected of killing 2 kids in Calif.

Anthony Bertagna, with the Santa Ana Police Department talks with media Saturday Sept. 14, 2013, outside the Hampton Inn Suites in Santa Ana, Calif., where the bodies of two children were found dead. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Mindy Schauer)

Anthony Bertagna, with the Santa Ana Police Department talks with media Saturday Sept. 14, 2013, outside the Hampton Inn Suites in Santa Ana, Calif., where the bodies of two children were found dead. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Mindy Schauer)

Two children were killed at the Hampton Inn Suites on Grand and Dyer in Santa Ana said Anthony Bertagn, with the Santa Ana Police Department. The mother of the children allegedly tried to commit suicide by ramming her car into a utility box behind a shopping center in Costa Mesa, Calif., Saturday Sept. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Mindy Schauer) /

Crime scene investigators photograph a car believed to be driven by a women who allegedly tried to commit suicide by ramming it into a utility box behind a Costa Mesa shopping center. Her children were found dead in the Hampton Inn Suites in Santa Ana earlier in the morning, said Anthony Bertagn, with the Santa Ana Police Department. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Mindy Schauer)

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — An Arizona woman who was arrested on suspicion of killing her two children after she tried to crash her car into an electrical box outside a Home Depot had a propane tank in her vehicle.

Santa Ana police spokesman Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said Sunday the 42-year-old woman tied a rope or belt around her neck as paramedics tried to rescue her.

Bertagna says officers found her son and daughter dead in a hotel room after the woman told police where to find them.

The Scottsdale woman was released from a hospital into police custody on Saturday night.

Officers also obtained a search warrant for the hotel room late Saturday.

Bertagna says children’s father, who lives in a different state, hasn’t been notified.

Further details are being withheld until he can be found.

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An apparently suicidal Arizona mother was arrested on suspicion of killing her two children after crashing her car in a Southern California supermarket then directing police to a nearby hotel room where the kids lay dead, authorities said.

The 42-year-old woman from Scottsdale, was released from a hospital into police custody on Saturday night, Santa Ana police spokesman Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.

Coroner’s officials were investigating the scene late Saturday, and the identities of the mother and two children along with the kids’ cause of death were being withheld while relatives were notified, Bertagna said.

Earlier in the day, police in nearby Costa Mesa were called to an Albertsons parking lot where the woman had crashed her gray Honda Accord with a Georgia license plate into protective poles surrounding an electrical box, Costa Mesa police Sgt. Tim Starn said.

Police said the woman appeared to have been suicidal when officers responded to the crash site.

“It was clear that it was an intentional act,” Costa Mesa Sgt. Tim Starn said.

As paramedics were taking her to the hospital, the woman told police where to find the children and what had happened to them, Bertagna said, but did not offer more details.

Officers found the children dead in a third-floor room at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Santa Ana.

The cause of death was under investigation, Bertagna said, but no weapon had been recovered from the scene.

It was not clear why the woman and her children were in Orange County.

Hotel guests were stunned at the discovery at the quiet inn on a sunny weekend in Southern California.

“My goodness if there’s two children involved that’s just horrendous to say the least,” Mike Ramey, who was staying at the hotel with his fiancee, told KABC-TV. “As a parent, it’s just a heartbreaker.”

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Snowden suspected of covering electronic tracks

FILE – A Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. The U.S. government’s efforts to determine which highly classified materials Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowden’s sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail by deleting or bypassing electronic logs, government officials tell the AP. Such logs would have showed what information Snowden viewed or downloaded. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)

FILE – A Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. The U.S. government’s efforts to determine which highly classified materials Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowden’s sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail by deleting or bypassing electronic logs, government officials tell the AP. Such logs would have showed what information Snowden viewed or downloaded. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s efforts to determine which highly classified materials leaker Edward Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowden’s sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail by deleting or bypassing electronic logs, government officials told The Associated Press. Such logs would have showed what information Snowden viewed or downloaded.

The government’s forensic investigation is wrestling with Snowden’s apparent ability to defeat safeguards established to monitor and deter people looking at information without proper permission, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the sensitive developments publicly.

The disclosure undermines the Obama administration’s assurances to Congress and the public that the NSA surveillance programs can’t be abused because its spying systems are so aggressively monitored and audited for oversight purposes: If Snowden could defeat the NSA’s own tripwires and internal burglar alarms, how many other employees or contractors could do the same?

In July, nearly two months after Snowden’s earliest disclosures, NSA Director Keith Alexander declined to say whether he had a good idea of what Snowden had downloaded or how many NSA files Snowden had taken with him, noting an ongoing criminal investigation.

NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines told the AP that Alexander “had a sense of what documents and information had been taken,” but “he did not say the comprehensive investigation had been completed.” Vines would not say whether Snowden had found a way to view and download the documents he took, without the NSA knowing.

In defending the NSA surveillance programs that Snowden revealed, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told Congress last month that the administration effectively monitors the activities of employees using them.

“This program goes under careful audit,” Cole said. “Everything that is done under it is documented and reviewed before the decision is made and reviewed again after these decisions are made to make sure that nobody has done the things that you’re concerned about happening.”

The disclosure of Snowden’s hacking prowess inside the NSA also could dramatically increase the perceived value of his knowledge to foreign governments, which would presumably be eager to learn any counter-detection techniques that could be exploited against U.S. government networks.

It also helps explain the recent seizure in Britain of digital files belonging to David Miranda — the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald — in an effort to help quantify Snowden’s leak of classified material to the Guardian newspaper. Authorities there stopped Miranda last weekend as he changed planes at Heathrow Airport while returning home to Brazil from Germany, where Miranda had met with Laura Poitras, a U.S. filmmaker who has worked with Greenwald on the NSA story.

Snowden, a former U.S. intelligence contractor, was employed by Booz Allen Hamilton in Hawaii before leaking classified documents to the Guardian and The Washington Post. As a system administrator, Snowden had the ability to move around data and had access to thumb drives that would have allowed him to transfer information to computers outside the NSA’s secure system, Alexander has said.

In his job, Snowden purloined many files, including ones that detailed the U.S. government’s programs to collect the metadata of phone calls of U.S. citizens and copy Internet traffic as it enters and leaves the U.S., then routes it to the NSA for analysis.

Officials have said Snowden had access to many documents but didn’t know necessarily how the programs functioned. He dipped into compartmentalized files as systems administrator and took what he wanted. He managed to do so for months without getting caught. In May, he flew to Hong Kong and eventually made his way to Russia, where that government has granted him asylum.

NBC News reported Thursday that the NSA was “overwhelmed” in trying to figure what Snowden had stolen and didn’t know everything he had downloaded.

Insider threats have troubled the administration and Congress, particularly in the wake of Bradley Manning, a young soldier who decided to leak hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents in late 2009 and early 2010.

Congress had wanted to address the insider threat problem in the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act, but the White House asked for the language to be removed because of concerns about successfully meeting a deadline. In the 2013 version, Congress included language urging the creation of an automated, insider-threat detection program.

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Author William T. Vollmann poses in his studio in Sacramento, Calif., in 2005.

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On “Morning Edition,” William Vollman tells David Greene about his brushes with the FBI.

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• The FBI suspected William T. Vollmann of being first the Unabomber and then the anthrax mailer, the award-winning writer revealed in a grimly funny Harper’s Magazine article [subscription required]. Vollmann’s heavily redacted FBI file, which he obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveals that he became “Unabomber Suspect Number S-2047″ based on a tip from an anonymous citizen, whom Vollmann dubs “Ratfink.” “UNABOMBER, not unlike VOLLMANN has pride of authorship and insists his book be published without editing,” part of the file states. Other sections link his appearance to composite sketches of the bomber and suggest that “anti-growth and anti-progress themes persist throughout each VOLLMANN work.” A source told the FBI that Vollmann “reportedly owns many guns and a flame-thrower.” (“I would love to own a flamethrower,” he notes cheerfully.) After the real Unabomber was caught, Vollmann was listed among the suspects in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Though Vollmann writes that he was initially flattered to be labeled “ARMED AND DANGEROUS,” he became alarmed over the privacy violations the file suggests. He writes: “I was accused, secretly. I was spied on…I have no redress. To be sure, I am not a victim; my worries are not for me, but for the American Way of Life.” Vollmann spoke to Morning Edition’s David Greene in an interview Thursday morning and said he minded the FBI’s secrecy almost as much as the invasion of his privacy: “If we’re not allowed to know what they’re doing with this information, I can’t help but think that we are headed for really serious trouble.”


• In an interview in Poets & Writers, Knopf senior editor Jordan Pavlin explains what she looks for in a book: “It’s an immediacy. It’s a sense that something is alive, that whatever mask I wear in my daily life is somehow stripped away by the experience of encountering it. It’s a cliché now, but the book that’s the ‘axe to break the sea frozen inside us’—that’s the thing I am looking for. I’m interested in being disarmed.”


• Junot Diaz spoke to The Daily Beast about his writing habits: “I wrote my first book listening to the soundtrack to the movie Conan the Barbarian on a loop. That’s how I ride.”


• Quebec is considering setting the prices of new books for nine months to give independent booksellers a chance against Amazon and bigger stores that can offer steep discounts, The Montreal Gazette reports. Several countries including France and Germany have similar protections in place.

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Two suspected al Qaeda militants killed in Yemen drone strike

ADEN (Reuters) – At least two suspected Islamist militants were killed in a drone missile strike in Yemen’s southern Shabwa province, the latest in a surge since Washington warned of possible attacks by al Qaeda in the region.

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Suspected lethal nerve agent discovered at JFK Airport mail facility was just nail polish remover

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Authorities believe the substance that sickened two customs agents at JFK Airport this morning was ordinary nail polish remover, a law-enforcement source told The Post.

The incident, which forced the evacuation of two buildings near the airport’s perimeter, does not appear to be terror-related, the source said.   

It was unclear why several tests at the scene produced consistent results indicating the presence of the highly lethal nerve agent VX, which kills through skin contact or inhalation and is used in weapons of mass destruction.

“The FBI responded to John F. Kennedy airport earlier today following reports of two sick employees. The FBI screened and tested the employees and the package they opened. The package in question was determined to be beauty supplies and nothing further. The scene has been cleared by FBI personnel,” said FBI spokesman J. Peter Donald in a statement.

Both victims suffered respiratory distress after they were overcome by fumes inside a US Postal Service facility at 250 North Boundary Road around 9:40 a.m.

A source said the substance may have been released when its packaging broke in transit.

The scene of the incident is a giant facility that processes overseas mail bound for the eastern United States, and a source said the package involved was believed to have come from China.

The building and a US Customs facility about a quarter-mile away were both evacuated and quarantined, but airport operations were unaffected.

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Drone strike kills six suspected militants in Yemen

ADEN (Reuters) – A U.S. drone killed at least six suspected al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen on Wednesday, officials said, a day after U.S. and British embassies evacuated some staff because of growing fears of attacks.

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Yemen drone strike kills four suspected al Qaeda militants: tribal leaders

SANAA (Reuters) – At least four suspected al Qaeda members were killed in a drone strike in central Yemen, local tribal leaders said on Tuesday, following a U.S. warning of a possible major militant attack in the region.

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Ind. doctor suspected in 2 deadly Neb. attacks

Dr. Anthony Garcia, 40, is pictured in this photo released by the Omaha Police. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said that Garcia was arrested Monday, July 15, 2013, in Illinois. Garcia has been linked to both the May 2013 Omaha slayings of 65-year-old Roger Brumback and 65-year-old Mary Brumback and the 2008 stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family housekeeper, 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman. The slain Brumback and Hunter fired Garcia in 2001 when he was a pathology resident at Creighton Medical School. (AP Photo/Omaha Police)

Dr. Anthony Garcia, 40, is pictured in this photo released by the Omaha Police. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said that Garcia was arrested Monday, July 15, 2013, in Illinois. Garcia has been linked to both the May 2013 Omaha slayings of 65-year-old Roger Brumback and 65-year-old Mary Brumback and the 2008 stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family housekeeper, 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman. The slain Brumback and Hunter fired Garcia in 2001 when he was a pathology resident at Creighton Medical School. (AP Photo/Omaha Police)

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer speaks at a news conference at police headquarters in Omaha, Neb., Monday, July 15, 2013. Chief Schmaderer said 40-year-old Dr. Anthony Garcia was arrested Monday, July 15, 2013, in Illinois. Garcia has been linked to both the May 2013 Omaha slayings of 65-year-old Roger Brumback and 65-year-old Mary Brumback and the 2008 stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family housekeeper, 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman. Schmaderer says Brumback and Hunter fired Garcia in 2001 when he was a pathology resident at Creighton Medical School for erratic behavior. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

40-year-old Dr. Anthony Garcia is pictured in this photo released by the Omaha Police. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said that Garcia was arrested Monday, July 15, 2013, in Illinois. Garcia has been linked to both the May 2013 Omaha slayings of 65-year-old Roger Brumback and 65-year-old Mary Brumback and the 2008 stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family housekeeper, 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman. The slain Brumback and Hunter fired Garcia in 2001 when he was a pathology resident at Creighton Medical School. (AP Photo/Omaha Police Department)

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer walks past a photo of Anthony Garcia after speaking at a news conference at police headquarters in Omaha, Neb., Monday, July 15, 2013. Chief Schmaderer said 40-year-old Dr. Anthony Garcia was arrested Monday in Illinois. Garcia has been linked to both the May 2013 Omaha slayings of 65-year-old Roger Brumback and 65-year-old Mary Brumback and the 2008 stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family housekeeper, 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman. Schmaderer says Brumback and Hunter fired Garcia in 2001 when he was a pathology resident at Creighton Medical School for erratic behavior. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities arrested an Indiana doctor Monday on suspicion of carrying out two attacks in Omaha over the past five years in which four people were killed who had ties to a local university medical school that fired him in 2001.

Dr. Anthony Garcia, who now lives in Terre Haute, Ind., was arrested by Illinois State Police during a traffic stop Monday in Union County, which is in the south of the state near Illinois’ borders with Indiana and Missouri, Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said. Officers said he appeared to be intoxicated when they arrested him that he had a .45-caliber handgun with him.

Garcia, 40, was being held in Illinois on suspicion of four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of using a weapon to commit a felony, Schmaderer said. An Illinois State Police official declined to discuss details of Garcia’s arrest or detention, and said any questions should go to Omaha police.

Garcia didn’t have a listed phone number in Terre Haute or in Chicago, where he previously lived, and it wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney. No one answered the phone at his family’s home in Walnut, Calif., Monday evening.

Public records show that since 2003, Garcia has held medical licenses in California, Illinois and Indiana, but his temporary Indiana license expired in January.

Investigators believe that in May, Garcia broke into the Omaha home of Creighton University medical school pathology professor Roger Brumback and fatally shot him and stabbed his wife Mary to death, Schmaderer said. They also believe Garcia was behind a 2008 home invasion in which the 11-year-old son and family housekeeper of another pathology department professor, William Hunter, were stabbed to death.

In 2001, Roger Brumback and Hunter fired Garcia, who was a department resident, because he had displayed erratic behavior, Schmaderer said. The police chief didn’t provide further details of the alleged behavior and he declined to discuss the evidence used to build the case against Garcia.

A task force of local, state and FBI investigators has been working on the case, and its members believe Garcia fits all the criteria of a serial killer, Schmaderer said.

“We didn’t feel this individual would stop unless an arrest was made,” he said.

Schmaderer said investigators believe Garcia acted alone, and that they are also searching several places where Garcia has lived since 2001.

The Omaha attacks happened in neighborhoods where homicides are rare. The city averages about 40 per year.

One of the Brumbacks’ three children, Darryl, said the family had no comment about the arrest. A male relative of Sherman’s also declined to speak. The Hunter family didn’t respond to a phone message seeking comment.

Hunter’s son, Thomas Hunter, and housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman, were killed at the family’s 3,700-square-foot home in the historic neighborhood of Dundee, which is home to some of the city’s most prominent residents, including billionaire investor Warren Buffet. The case was featured last year on an episode of “America’s Most Wanted,” and a $ 54,000 reward was offered.

Schmaderer said Monday that investigators don’t believe the boy and the housekeeper were the intended targets of the attack.

Authorities have released few details about the attack on the Brumbacks, other than manner in which they were killed. Their bodies were discovered in their west Omaha home on May 14.

The task force was set up after the Brumbacks’ deaths to investigate whether they were tied to the unsolved 2008 killings. Schmaderer declined to say what led investigators to Garcia.

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