Keep following everything the N.Y. Times tells you to do. They wouldn't steer you wrong.
Right, shoot the messenger and skip the message.
I read it on NYTimes at a link on Drudge it was put out by the U.N. it does say
A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of THE radioactive plume (it doesn’t say possible plume) coming from crippled Japan reactors show it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aluetian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.