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Out of the woods yet. first responders back at the scene at the facility, after smoke from a second reactor caused yet another evacuation. martha: now we are hearing there may be juice flowing, once again, in terms of power to that zone, david piper is streaming live for us, from tokyo. good morning, david. >> there does seem to be progress now, at the stricken reactor. about 150 miles northeast of here in the japanese capital. japan power and electric which controls the plant says they have pow...

Fly zone in libya while the president is criticized from both sides of the aisle. karl rove weighs in on how hed advise the oval office. another setback in japan, a wire thats supposed to go cooling one reactor is now boiling, michio kaku is here and why he fears an explosion is possible. also nasa may be flying its missions but the future of the spacecraft is unveiled. see you at the top of the hour with jon scott. martha: thank you very much, jenna. we have brand new sound coming in from t...

Development of alternative energy forms. but that is a... you know, that wasnt done. martha: a tough look in the rearview mirror, he said he was worried about the reactor being able to withstand a large-scale accident, which is sort of what we had, under a statement and he says he instantly knew there would be trouble when he heard of the massive quake and tsunami that slammed into japan. bill: now we hear about this, martha. 24-year-old woman out of virginia, said to be the first american victi...

Radiation and theyve dumped 18 tons of sea water into the storage pool and managed to bring down the temperature. encouraging news but they havent finished the job yet. back to you. martha: we hope to keep putting small pieces of the good news together, thank you so much as all way, and in the meantime, one atomic whistleblower saying he saw this catastrophe coming 40 years ago, a former engineer for ge, claiming that he always had concerns about the design of the reactor that was used at fukush...

We have a lot of news out of there and some of it has been promising, and david piper, we want to go over all of that with ken bergeron who worked on simulated nuclear reactor accidents at sandian national labs. good to have you here this morning, ken. good morning to you. you hear that, 1600 times the normal levels, at that kind of mile radius, does that surprise you, given the work you have done? >> no, it doesnt surprise me. that is a result, really, probably the releases that occurred last w...

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