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campaigning, elections set to show much of a grip donald trump still has on the gop. our correspondents are standing by live later on in the show. im hallie jackson with you on this monday afternoon in washington. so lets get right to ken delainian and danny. ken, we havent heard from guy during the trial. he didnt testify on his own behalf. he wasnt expected to make a statement today, but that has changed and hes now going to speak, we understand. >> reporter: yeah, the latest twist i...

We did have unfortunately 3 fatalities that are still under investigation but right now we are getting a little bit cooperation with the weather, on shore weather pattern moving in the area assisting us with containment process. this fire was wind-driven fire driven primarily by offshore santa ana winds that caused extreme rate of spread in high-level of destruction, we are at 98,000 acres right now, 82% containment. we are continuing to sure up and contain reinforcement lines as we speak. eric:...

Leading to a bad outcome. this mine has been leaking sludge for a long time and epa was on the scene in hopes of cleaning it up. what they inadvertently did was knock the dam loose and it came down the river. thought it was 1 million, turned out to be 3 million gallons its heavy metal, arson nick, lead, 3,000 times the normal level. theyre in a containment phase. they dont know what the cleanup will be, theyre trying to cap it again. >> so its gotten less orange because of the containment proces...

How did this spill happen? >> what they found is when they went to this company, they found a container of the chemical and it was leaking. there was supposed to be a containment process in case of the leak. that process failed as well. there was a leak and the process that was supposed to contain it also failed. the company did not report the leak. the way they found out about it was that the consumers started calling and say, why did my water smell like black licorice. this chemical gives off ...

Like i am, you get green tea from japan, you shouldnt worry about that? >> i wont make scientific judgments. i think they made it clear that they have been able to handle much of the radiation because we stayed within the vessels. thats one of the reasons im concerned about unit four. ha is outside the containment process and that why its earthquake or tsunami can be so serious. i was visiting and we were getting on the bus to go to the airport. people said oh, pretty amazing that you didnt have...

A top official says that is likely because of a partial core meltdown which we have known from the very beginning was going on but they did not want to tell us. and we are told officials outside the complex discovered dangerously high levels of radiation? seawater up to a mile away. and now dominic from osaka, japan. hello, dominic. >>reporter: those levels in the sea up to four times above safety standards, enough, actually, to induce radiation sickness in anyone who actually finds themself cau...

Would like to ask you to remain indoors. and avoid going outside. >> cnns stan grant has been following the fukushima nightmare from what we thought was a safe distance in tokyo. he sent us this report just minutes ago. >> reporter: each day, almost each hour, this nuclear emergency in japan seems to throw up new challenges. this time the focus is on two of the reactors, reactor number two and reactor number four. in reactor number two, there was an explosion, and thats raised concerns about dam...

That could be catastrophic like that. one of the first steps coming up would be to open some of the choke valves. possibly replacing the cap itself with that riser and begin the containment process of pulling the oil up to the containment ship. we are hoping it wont get to that point, but we may get to that containment process. we have a variance on that. thad allen is in favor of using the coin containment process. bp is happy to keep the lid on until the relief wells are complete, but the reli...

Theyd like to get it up closer to 7,500, 8,000 or higher so they know it is holding and there are no leaks anywhere else in the well. the containment process will resume sometime soon were told. as of right now no oil is coming out and no oil is being siphoned up to the surface of the water but that process could continue, theyll reopen the valve at some point, going to release more oil on the surface ships and start collecting once again. the first lady michelle obama is going to be headed back...

Storms ahead. alex passed well to the south but you saw what the heavy wave action did to the containment process. anything else that comes through could be a temporary disruption. if theyre able to knock this thing out and control it, it certainly wont be catastrophic. >> reynolds wolf in new orleans, we appreciate you as always. well talk to you again here shortly. the man in charge of b.p.s compensation fund has an earful from gulf residents. ken feinberg recently met with residents whose l...