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Monday, March 14, 2011

Season 2011 Episode 730

Tonight on the program, as thousands of bodies of earthquake and tsunami victims wash ashore in Japan, we look at the ongoing efforts by engineers to avert a nuclear disaster. Also, we get updates on the latest rescue and evacuation efforts in Japan and report on a plant found in California that scientists had thought extinct. Finally, Saudi Arabia sends troops to Bahrain to quell protests.

Aired: 03/13/11
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