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Passengers didnt know. they landed in dallas but were expecting to be in houston. why the diversion? >> we lost two of our screens. now if we kept flying, wed lose them all. >> reporter: the united express pilot telling the 50 passengers from knoxville there was a cooling problem and their flight data screens were shutting down. two as he said, and worry that others were in jeopardy. >> there is tremendous heat behind those screens. this dictates that we land as soon as possible because if we ha...

Eight miles away from columbine high school where the school shooting happened in 1999. >> thank you so much. jamie. >> it was horrible to see the picture of the kids in the paper today. each child at that school was patted down outside. just awful. a final farewell as mourners line the streets in south africa today. a motorcade that carries nelson mandelas coffin will make its way to his final resting place. were going to have a live report for you on that. have you heard about this, china la...

We should know that, for some soon. >> if the spent fuel rods in the fuel pools, as they say, it sounds like you think its of greatest concern at this moment. that has to do with not enough water. the electricity will help with the cooling down. dont they have to keep pouring water in? lek pristy will not necessarily cure that problem. it would if they could rig a cooling problem. essentially its the same problem, more or less, across the reactor units chrks is you need water to cool whats at ea...

Into the plant to try to fight this cooling problem. in all, its about 180 who are on staff. so 50 at a time go in. these men are knowingly risking their own lives. one radiologist describing them as suicide fighters in a war. its that simple. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom with more. trace? >> reporter: i think the takeaways is that way know the radiation levels are going up and the information out of the japanese government is going down. you touched on these things briefly...

Tsunami that hit california, the least of color problems would be those two nuclear reactors, you would have water from los angeles to las vegas, 25 million people would be underwater. >>neil: i would not want to compound that with a crippled nuclear plant. >>guest: but the reactors even with the old technology, they shut down. what happened was the cooling, we have a cooling problem similar to three mile island, you know how many have died due to nuclear power in the united states? zero. >>neil...

If you have high cholesterol you may be at increased risk of heart attack and stroke. dont kid yourself. talk to your doctor about your risk and about lipitor. more disturbing troubling news just in to cnn. an explosive impact occurred on tuesday morning, it is now tuesday morning in asia. this is the same reaction officials said earlier today had its rods fully exposed during a cooling problem. they were pumping sea water in, they had a temporary problem with that, the rods were fully expo ex...

Thats what leads to the fears about a meltdown. now, according to government officials here, they cannot rule out the possibility of a meltdown or at least a partial meltdown in all three of these reactors. and thats because theyve been unable to cool the reactors. in the numbers one and three reactors that have been having this problem, and then there was this hydrogen explosion, actually, in the number three reactor today, which blew out part of a wall and part of the roof of the building hous...

How effective is that? >> that -- its not very effective. there are certain isotopes that you certainly dont want to breathe in, theyre much more hazardous if you inhale them, but simply covering your mouth is not effectively screening those out. >> you have concerns about this experimental type of fuel that contains plutonium that is being housed at the same facility. >> yes. one of the reactors that suffered a cooling problem is the number three reactor, and in september of last year a number ...

In the process. >> they are very concerned could take place. now we haveens of thousands at a minimum who are without power or cell phone service, who are without access to roads or any other easy means that least of finding out what is the status of their loved one and and families elsewhere in japan. the one thing on this nuclear site. according to our brain room, japan is the worlds third largest producer of nuclear power. nuclear power provides 30% of the countrys electricity. they are exper...