friends of an uzbekistani woman who died this week claim she was the world 's oldest person ever having reached the age of 135 . tuti yusupova 's friends claim both her birth certificate and passport prove she was born on july 1 , 1880 . they now want the guinness book of records to document that achievement . the current record holder is french woman jeanne calment , who was 122 when she died in 1997 . the head of the bioterrorism lab involved in potentially exposing dozens of workers at the centers for disease control and prevention to deadly anthrax bacteria has resigned . new york -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- new york police said thursday that they will talk to an inmate who admitted to being part of the 1994 robbery and shooting of rapper tupac shakur . the inmate was quoted on the website allhiphop.com this week admitting to being a part of the attack and saying he was paid by a music mogul for it . `` detectives are going to speak to the individual , '' a new york police spokesman said early thursday morning . shakur publicly blamed the 1994 attack , which occurred at a music studio in new york , on christopher `` notorious b.i.g. '' wallace and sean `` p-diddy '' combs . a fish caught close the the fukushima nuclear plant is over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit for seafood , the plant 's operator has revealed . the company tokyo electric power -lrb- tepco -rrb- caught the fish , dubbed ` mike the murasai ' online , in the bay close to the fukukshima . daiichi main reactor . it was confirmed by tepco to have amounts of radioactive . friends of tuti yusupova , pictured , who died this week claim she was the world 's oldest person aged 135 . officials in uzbekistan support the claim , releasing ms yusupova 's passport claiming she was born in 1880 . ms yusupova 's death came in the same week as misao okawa , who died on april 1 , a few weeks after she celebrated her 117th birthday . ms yusupova 's funeral was attended by baxadir yangibaev , chairman of the council of ministers in the autonomous republic of karakalpakstan , in north west uzbekistan . cesium equal to 254,000 becquerels per kilogram , or 2540 times the limit . of 100 becquerels/kg set for seafood by the government . mr yangibaev said the evidence of ms yusupova 's age was conclusive and this information would be passed onto the officials responsible for the guinness book of records . he said uzbekistan has to be one of the healthiest places in the world to live because out of its population of 30 million , they have 8,700 people who are more than 100 . the 135-year-old pensioner recently appeared in a documentary ` tuti yusupova - witness of three centuries . during the documentary , she said : ' i can tell you that the secret to a long life is to do lots of work in the fields and to live an honest life . having lived through so many wars i would also tell the children of today to try and live their lives in the company of good people , and to appreciate times of peace . ' at her 117th birthday party last month ms okawa said that her life had seemed ` rather short . ' when asked the secret to long life , she said : ' i wonder about that too . ' the guinness world records announced misao okawa , was the world 's oldest person at 114 in 2013 . ms okawa , who was born in 1898 , died earlier this week having recently celebrated her 117th birthday . the new oldest person in the world , american gertrude weaver , is aged 116 and lives in arkansas . speaking in 2014 , she said the secret to long life is kindness , saying : ` treat people nice and be nice to other people ' michael farrell , who headed the bioterrorism rapid response and advanced technology -lrb- brrat -rrb- laboratory , submitted his resignation tuesday , cdc spokesman tom skinner told cnn . he had been reassigned from his post last month , after the anthrax incident was made public . the cdc says the potential anthrax exposure happened between june 6 and june 13 . the brrat lab had been preparing anthrax samples for use in two other labs on the cdc 's atlanta campus and failed to adequately deactivate the samples . according to a cdc investigation report , the exposure happened because the lab did n't use an approved sterilization technique . it did n't have a written plan reviewed by senior staff to make sure all safety protocols were followed , and there was a limited knowledge of peer-reviewed literature about the process that would make it less dangerous . the lab also did not have a standard operating procedure that would make sure the transfer of the material would be safe . bottom line , `` the scientists failed to follow a scientifically derived and reviewed protocol that would have assured the anthrax was deactivated , '' cdc director tom frieden said . it `` should have happened , and it did n't . '' cdc director grilled over safety issues . while shakur survived the 1994 attack , he was fatally shot in las vegas in 1996 . wallace was shot and killed in 1997 in los angeles . both murders have not been solved . the 1994 shooting and robbing of shakur is viewed as sparking the infamous west coast versus east coast feud in rap music , which ultimately led to the shooting deaths of both wallace and shakur . usda finds more cdc lab problems . the murasoi caught by tokyo electric power which had over 2,500 times the legal limit of radiation for seafood due to fukushima fallout . a becquerel -lrb- bq -rrb- is a . unit of radioactive decay equal to one disintegration per second . the . becquerel is the basic unit of radioactivity used in the international . the hip hop website named the inmate as dexter isaac and said he is an inmate currently serving life in prison for an unrelated murder and robbery . isaac apologized to shakur 's family for the incident and blamed it on the music mogul . cnn is witholding the music executive 's name because he has not been reached for comment . cnn 's jason kessler contributed to this report . system of radiation units , referred to as the `` si '' units . 37 billion . -lrb- 3.7 × 1010 -rrb- becquerels = 1 curie -lrb- ci -rrb- . the maximum level of radiation allowed in foods for human consumption is 100 becquerels/kilogram . scientists in the region are increasingly worried . that other fish in the area are feeding off these and other contaminated . species . however , the murasoi specimen caught . near fukushima did not seem to show any major abnormalities in terms of . its physical appearance . tepco is installing a new series of nets beneath the surface . of the water around the 20 kilometer perimeter in hopes of restricting . the migration of the contaminated fish outside of the region . a report in october last year found radiation levels in most kinds of fish caught off the coast of fukushima have n't declined in the year following japan 's nuclear disaster in march 2011 . an earthquake knocked out nuclear plant 's cooling system , causing three reactor cores to melt and spew radiation into the ocean . researchers believe that deposits of the chemical cesium on the seafloor or leakage from the damaged reactors is continuing to contaminate the waters - and has the potential to threaten fisheries for decades . the levels in the fish are also 10 times higher than the radiation measured last august in scorpion fish caught near fukushima . the crippled fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in okumamachi , fukushima prefecture , northern japan . experts have found a fish in a nearby port over 2,500 time the legal limit for radioactivity in seafood . on 21 august last year , tepco announced that rockfish caught in the pacific ocean within the circular area of 20 km around the plant , which is closed to all human activity , had a level of 25,800 becquerels of cesium per kilogram . the fish is a murasoi , which typically lives in shallow waters near reefs in the region . a healthy murasoi - which shows the fukushima fish has no obvious deformities .
friends of tuti yusupova claim she was born in uzbekistan in 1880 . officials believe her birth certificate and passport can prove her age . they have asked the guinness book of records to update their figures . the previous record holder jeanne calment was 122 when she died .
friends of an uzbekistani woman who died this week claim she was the world 's oldest person ever having reached the age of 135 . tuti yusupova 's friends claim both her birth certificate and passport prove she was born on july 1 , 1880 . they now want the guinness book of records to document that achievement . the current record holder is french woman jeanne calment , who was 122 when she died in 1997 . the head of the bioterrorism lab involved in potentially exposing dozens of workers at the centers for disease control and prevention to deadly anthrax bacteria has resigned . new york -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- new york police said thursday that they will talk to an inmate who admitted to being part of the 1994 robbery and shooting of rapper tupac shakur . the inmate was quoted on the website allhiphop.com this week admitting to being a part of the attack and saying he was paid by a music mogul for it . `` detectives are going to speak to the individual , '' a new york police spokesman said early thursday morning . shakur publicly blamed the 1994 attack , which occurred at a music studio in new york , on christopher `` notorious b.i.g. '' wallace and sean `` p-diddy '' combs . a fish caught close the the fukushima nuclear plant is over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit for seafood , the plant 's operator has revealed . the company tokyo electric power -lrb- tepco -rrb- caught the fish , dubbed ` mike the murasai ' online , in the bay close to the fukukshima . daiichi main reactor . it was confirmed by tepco to have amounts of radioactive . friends of tuti yusupova , pictured , who died this week claim she was the world 's oldest person aged 135 . officials in uzbekistan support the claim , releasing ms yusupova 's passport claiming she was born in 1880 . ms yusupova 's death came in the same week as misao okawa , who died on april 1 , a few weeks after she celebrated her 117th birthday . ms yusupova 's funeral was attended by baxadir yangibaev , chairman of the council of ministers in the autonomous republic of karakalpakstan , in north west uzbekistan . cesium equal to 254,000 becquerels per kilogram , or 2540 times the limit . of 100 becquerels/kg set for seafood by the government . mr yangibaev said the evidence of ms yusupova 's age was conclusive and this information would be passed onto the officials responsible for the guinness book of records . he said uzbekistan has to be one of the healthiest places in the world to live because out of its population of 30 million , they have 8,700 people who are more than 100 . the 135-year-old pensioner recently appeared in a documentary ` tuti yusupova - witness of three centuries . during the documentary , she said : ' i can tell you that the secret to a long life is to do lots of work in the fields and to live an honest life . having lived through so many wars i would also tell the children of today to try and live their lives in the company of good people , and to appreciate times of peace . ' at her 117th birthday party last month ms okawa said that her life had seemed ` rather short . ' when asked the secret to long life , she said : ' i wonder about that too . ' the guinness world records announced misao okawa , was the world 's oldest person at 114 in 2013 . ms okawa , who was born in 1898 , died earlier this week having recently celebrated her 117th birthday . the new oldest person in the world , american gertrude weaver , is aged 116 and lives in arkansas . speaking in 2014 , she said the secret to long life is kindness , saying : ` treat people nice and be nice to other people ' michael farrell , who headed the bioterrorism rapid response and advanced technology -lrb- brrat -rrb- laboratory , submitted his resignation tuesday , cdc spokesman tom skinner told cnn . he had been reassigned from his post last month , after the anthrax incident was made public . the cdc says the potential anthrax exposure happened between june 6 and june 13 . the brrat lab had been preparing anthrax samples for use in two other labs on disaster in march 2011 . an earthquake knocked out nuclear plant 's cooling system , causing three reactor cores to melt and spew radiation into the ocean . researchers believe that deposits of the chemical cesium on the seafloor or leakage from the damaged reactors is continuing to contaminate the waters - and has the potential to threaten fisheries for decades . the levels in the fish are also 10 times higher than the radiation measured last august in scorpion fish caught near fukushima . the crippled fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in okumamachi , fukushima prefecture , northern japan . experts have found a fish in a nearby port over 2,500 time the legal limit for radioactivity in seafood . on 21 august last year , tepco announced that rockfish caught in the pacific ocean within the circular area of 20 km around the plant , which is closed to all human activity , had a level of 25,800 becquerels of cesium per kilogram . the fish is a murasoi , which typically lives in shallow waters near reefs in the region . a healthy murasoi - which shows the fukushima fish has no obvious deformities .
friends of an uzbekistani woman who died this week claim she was the world 's oldest person ever having reached the age of 135 . tuti yusupova 's friends claim both her birth certificate and passport prove she was born on july 1 , 1880 . they now want the guinness book of records to document that achievement . the current record holder is french woman jeanne calment , who was 122 when she died in 1997 . the head of the bioterrorism lab involved in potentially exposing dozens of workers at the centers for disease control and prevention to deadly anthrax bacteria has resigned . new york -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- new york police said thursday that they will talk to an inmate who admitted to being part of the 1994 robbery and shooting of rapper tupac shakur . the inmate was quoted on the website allhiphop.com this week admitting to being a part of the attack and saying he was paid by a music mogul for it . `` detectives are going to speak to the individual , '' a new york police spokesman said early thursday morning . shakur publicly blamed the 1994 attack , which occurred at a music studio in new york , on christopher `` notorious b.i.g. '' wallace and sean `` p-diddy '' combs . a fish caught close the the fukushima nuclear plant is over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit for seafood , the plant 's operator has revealed . the company tokyo electric power -lrb- tepco -rrb- caught the fish , dubbed ` mike the murasai ' online , in the bay close to the fukukshima . daiichi main reactor . it was confirmed by tepco to have amounts of radioactive . friends of tuti yusupova , pictured , who died this week claim she was the world 's oldest person aged 135 . officials in uzbekistan support the claim , releasing ms yusupova 's passport claiming she was born in 1880 . ms yusupova 's death came in the same week as misao okawa , who died on april 1 , a few weeks after she celebrated her 117th birthday . ms yusupova 's funeral was attended by baxadir yangibaev , chairman of the council of ministers in the autonomous republic of a long life is to do lots of work in the fields and to live an honest life . having lived through so many wars i would also tell the children of today to try and live their lives in the company of good people , and to appreciate times of peace . ' at her 117th birthday party last month ms okawa said that her life had seemed ` rather short . ' when asked the secret to long life , she said : ' i wonder about that too . ' the guinness world records announced misao okawa , was the world 's oldest person at 114 in 2013 . ms okawa , who was born in 1898 , died earlier this week having recently celebrated her 117th birthday . the new oldest person in the world , american gertrude weaver , is aged 116 and lives in arkansas . speaking in 2014 , she said the secret to long life is kindness , saying : ` treat people nice and be nice to other people ' michael farrell , who headed the bioterrorism rapid response and advanced technology -lrb- brrat -rrb- laboratory , submitted his resignation tuesday , cdc spokesman tom skinner told cnn . he had been reassigned from his post last month , after the anthrax incident was made public . the cdc says the potential anthrax exposure happened between june 6 and june 13 . the brrat lab had been preparing anthrax samples for use in two other labs on `` should have happened , and it did n't . '' cdc director grilled over safety issues . while shakur survived the 1994 attack , he was fatally shot in las vegas in 1996 . wallace was shot and killed in 1997 in los angeles . both murders have not been solved . the 1994 shooting and robbing of shakur is viewed as sparking the infamous west coast versus east coast feud in rap music , which ultimately led to the shooting deaths of both wallace and shakur . usda finds more cdc lab problems . the murasoi caught by tokyo electric power which had over 2,500 times the legal limit of radiation for seafood due to fukushima fallout . a becquerel -lrb- bq -rrb- is a . disaster in march 2011 . an earthquake knocked out nuclear plant 's cooling system , causing three reactor cores to melt and spew radiation into the ocean . researchers believe that deposits of the chemical cesium on the seafloor or leakage from the damaged reactors is continuing to contaminate the waters - and has the potential to threaten fisheries for decades . the levels in the fish are also 10 times higher than the radiation measured last august in scorpion fish caught near fukushima . the crippled fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in okumamachi , fukushima prefecture , northern japan . experts have found a fish in a nearby port over 2,500 time the legal limit for radioactivity in seafood . on 21 august last year , tepco announced that rockfish caught in the pacific ocean within the circular area of 20 km around the plant , which is closed to all human activity , had a level of 25,800 becquerels of cesium per kilogram . the fish is a murasoi , which typically lives in shallow waters near reefs in the region . a healthy murasoi - which shows the fukushima fish has no obvious deformities .
friends an uzbekistani woman died this claim the world 's oldest person having reached 135. tuti yusupova 's friends claim both her birth certificate passport prove july, 1880. they now want the guinness book records document that achievement. the current record holder is french woman jeanne calment, 122 1997. the head the bioterrorism lab involved potentially exposing dozens workers the centers for disease control has. new york -lrb- cnn -- new york police said thursday will talk an inmate admitted being part the 1994 robbery rapper tupac shakur. the inmate was quoted on allhiphop.com this admitting paid a music mogul. `` detectives going speak the individual, '' a new york police spokesman early thursday. shakur publicly blamed the 1994 attack, occurred a music studio new york christopher `` notorious b.i.g '' wallace sean p-diddy combs a fish caught close the the fukushima nuclear plant is over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit seafood, the plant 's operator has revealed the company tokyo electric power -lrb- tepco caught the fish, dubbed ` mike the murasai online in the bay close the fukukshima. daiichi main reactor. it confirmed tepco to amounts radioactive. friends tuti yusupova, pictured, who died this claim the world 's oldest person aged 135. officials in uzbekistan support the claim, releasing ms yusupova 's passport claiming 1880. ms yusupova 's death came misao okawa, april 1 a celebrated ms yusupova 's funeral was baxadir yangibaev chairman ministers in karakalpakstan in north west uzbekistan cesium equal, or 2540 times the limit. of 100 becquerels/kg set for seafood by the government. mr yangibaev the evidence ms yusupova 's age conclusive this information passed onto the officials responsible the guinness book of. he said uzbekistan to one the healthiest places because out 30, they 8,700 people more. the 135-year-old pensioner recently appeared a documentary ` tuti yusupova - witness three centuries. during the documentary, she said : i can the secret a long life do lots in live. having lived i would also tell the children today try live the company, and appreciate times. ' at her 117th birthday party last ms okawa said that her life seemed ` rather short. ' when asked the secret long life, she i wonder about too ' the guinness world records announced misao okawa, was the world 's oldest person at 114 in 2013. ms okawa, who 1898, earlier having recently celebrated the new oldest person, american gertrude weaver is aged 116 lives. speaking 2014, she the secret long life kindness, saying : ` treat nice be other people ' michael farrell headed the bioterrorism rapid response and advanced technology -lrb- brrat -rrb- laboratory, submitted tuesday cdc spokesman tom skinner cnn he had reassigned last, the anthrax incident was made the cdc says the potential anthrax exposure happened between june 6. the brrat lab had preparing anthrax samples use two other labs on the cdc 's atlanta campus and failed adequately deactivate. according a cdc investigation report, the exposure happened because the lab did n't use an approved sterilization technique it did n't have a written plan reviewed senior staff to all safety protocols, there a limited knowledge peer-reviewed literature the process that make less dangerous the lab also did a standard operating procedure that make sure the transfer. bottom line, `` the scientists failed follow a scientifically derived and reviewed protocol assured the anthrax was deactivated, '' cdc director tom frieden. it `` should happened, and n't. '' cdc director grilled over safety issues. while shakur survived the 1994 attack, fatally las vegas 1996 wallace was shot 1997 los angeles. both murders have not. the 1994 shooting and robbing shakur is viewed sparking the infamous west coast versus in rap music, ultimately both wallace usda finds more cdc lab problems. the murasoi caught by tokyo electric power which had over 2,500 times the legal limit radiation for seafood due fukushima fallout. a becquerel -lrb- bq is a. unit of radioactive decay equal one disintegration. the. becquerel is the basic unit radioactivity used the international. the hip hop website named the inmate as dexter isaac and said currently and. isaac apologized shakur 's family blamed the music mogul. cnn is witholding the music executive 's name because not reached. cnn 's jason kessler contributed. system of radiation units, referred the `` si '' units. 37 billion. -lrb- 3.7 × 1010 becquerels =. the maximum level radiation allowed foods for. scientists in the region increasingly. that other fish in feeding these and contaminated. species. however, the murasoi specimen caught. near fukushima did seem show any major abnormalities terms. its physical appearance. tepco is installing nets beneath. of the water around the 20 kilometer perimeter in hopes restricting. the migration the contaminated fish outside the region. a report in october last found radiation levels most kinds fish caught off fukushima n't declined the year following japan 's nuclear disaster march. an earthquake knocked nuclear plant 's cooling system, causing three reactor cores. researchers believe deposits the chemical cesium on or leakage the damaged reactors is continuing - has threaten fisheries for decades. the levels in the fish also 10 the radiation measured last august in scorpion fish caught near fukushima. the crippled fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen okumamachi, northern japan. experts have found a fish a nearby port over 2,500 time the legal limit radioactivity seafood. on 21 august last, tepco announced rockfish caught within the circular area 20 km around the plant, closed all human activity a level. the fish is a murasoi, typically lives near reefs in the region. a healthy murasoi - which shows the fukushima fish has no obvious deformities.
friends of an uzbekistani woman who died this week claim she was the world 's oldest person ever having reached the age of 135 . tuti yusupova 's friends claim both her birth certificate and passport prove she was born on july 1 , 1880 . they now want the guinness book of records to document that achievement . the current record holder is french woman jeanne calment , who was 122 when she died in 1997 . the head of the bioterrorism lab involved in potentially exposing dozens of workers at the centers for disease control and prevention to deadly anthrax bacteria has resigned . new york -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- new york police said thursday that they will talk to an inmate who admitted to being part of the 1994 robbery and shooting of rapper tupac shakur . the inmate was quoted on the website allhiphop.com this week admitting to being a part of the attack and saying he was paid by a music mogul for it . `` detectives are going to speak to the individual , '' a new york police spokesman said early thursday morning . shakur publicly blamed the 1994 attack , which occurred at a music studio in new york , on christopher `` notorious b.i.g. '' wallace and sean `` p-diddy '' combs . a fish caught close the the fukushima nuclear plant is over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit for seafood , the plant 's operator has revealed . the company tokyo electric power -lrb- tepco -rrb- caught the fish , dubbed ` mike the murasai ' online , in the bay close to the fukukshima . daiichi main reactor . it was confirmed by tepco to have amounts of radioactive . friends of tuti yusupova , pictured , who died this week claim she was the world 's oldest person aged 135 . officials in uzbekistan support the claim , releasing ms yusupova 's passport claiming she was born in 1880 . ms yusupova 's death came in the same week as misao okawa , who died on april 1 , a few weeks after she celebrated her 117th birthday . ms yusupova 's funeral was attended by baxadir yangibaev , chairman of the council of ministers in the autonomous republic of karakalpakstan , in north west uzbekistan . cesium equal to 254,000 becquerels per kilogram , or 2540 times the limit . of 100 becquerels/kg set for seafood by the government . mr yangibaev said the evidence of ms yusupova 's age was conclusive and this information would be passed onto the officials responsible for the guinness book of records . he said uzbekistan has to be one of the healthiest places in the world to live because out of its population of 30 million , they have 8,700 people who are more than 100 . the 135-year-old pensioner recently appeared in a documentary ` tuti yusupova - witness of three centuries . during the documentary , she said : ' i can tell you that the secret to a long life is to do lots of work in the fields and to live an honest life . having lived through so many wars i would also tell the children of today to try and live their lives in the company of good people , and to appreciate times of peace . ' at her 117th birthday party last month ms okawa said that her life had seemed ` rather short . ' when asked the secret to long life , she said : ' i wonder about that too . ' the guinness world records announced misao okawa , was the world 's oldest person at 114 in 2013 . ms okawa , who was born in 1898 , died earlier this week having recently celebrated her 117th birthday . the new oldest person in the world , american gertrude weaver , is aged 116 and lives in arkansas . speaking in 2014 , she said the secret to long life is kindness , saying : ` treat people nice and be nice to other people ' michael farrell , who headed the bioterrorism rapid response and advanced technology -lrb- brrat -rrb- laboratory , submitted his resignation tuesday , cdc spokesman tom skinner told cnn . he had been reassigned from his post last month , after the anthrax incident was made public . the cdc says the potential anthrax exposure happened between june 6 and june 13 . the brrat lab had been preparing anthrax samples for use in two other labs on
 Friends of an Uzbekistan woman, who died this week at the age of 135, claim she was the world's oldest person ever recorded. The current Guinness World Record holder is Jeanne Calment from France, who lived to be 122 years old. The friends of Tutti Yusupova have provided documents proving her birthdate as July 1, 1880, and are seeking recognition from Guinness World Records.