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Urgency and Controversy over Alternative Energy

President Bush may be dubious about global warming, but in this year's State of the Union speech he said that America is "addicted to oil," a concession that's stimulated interest in alternative energy sources. But the proposal for a massive new wind farm, six miles off the coast of Cape Cod, has led to heated controversy at America's highest political levels. Meantime, because of decades-old atomic projects, Hanford, Washington and West Valley, New York will be contaminated with radioactive materials for generations. With Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island and Chernobyl in Ukraine as painful reminders of what could go wrong with nuclear power, there hasn't been a new commercial reactor ordered in the US in decades. We hear how the wind proposal has divided environmentalists, and get the latest on nuclear power.Making News: President Bush Strikes Nuclear Deal with IndiaDespite a deadly bombing near the US Consulate in Karachi, President Bush says he will go to Pakistan to meet with President Perez Musharraf. Meantime, in India, Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached a nuclear deal the President calls "historic." Peter Wallsten is traveling with the President for the Los Angeles Times.Reporter's Notebook: Video Shows President Bush Being Warned about Katrina Three days after Katrina struck New Orleans, President Bush said, "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." But a video released and edited by Associated Press shows a pre-storm conference with Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, and the President, by videophone from his Texas ranch. Seth Borenstein of Knight Ridder Newspapers has seen the video.