not to abandon hope. let s go back now to japan and for the latest, our correspondent lee cowan in tokyo. lee? martin, a little bit of good news that we re hearing. japanese officials are now saying they think that they have gotten a power line to at least some pumps that are in the nuclear reactors that may start them working again, help start the cooling process all over again. they haven t test this had power line yet. they think it might work. it certainly starts the day off with a little bit of good news that there is one more step at controlling this. like we ve seen all along, every time there s one step forward, seems like there s two steps back. thank you very much. high winds and low temperatures are creating further challenges for rescuers charged with the grim task of searching for bodies amidst the rubble. today, 450,000 are homeless. living in makeshift smelthelter.
our home is gone so she wouldn t know where to go. as other family members are safe, i only hope my daughter is alive somewhere. and sometimes hope is fulfilled and nothing else matters. this is a different woman and child reunited in northeast japan. look at that. right now i want to get the latest on the nuclear crisis and stan grant is watching that for us from tokyo, stan, what about those fuel rods? i understand they have noticed they have exposed. reporter: critical situation, exposed for the second time now in the number two reactor. previously that hadn t been affected. as you mentioned before, an explosion, there was a hydrogen explosion in the building that houses the number three reactor that tore a hole in the wall and the roof. it also knocked out the cooling process, the cooling function for the number two reactor.
where it will hit triple digits again. the weather channel mike seidel is live again in washington, d.c. we broke over two dozen records yesterday, what about today, mike? more records, chris. let s give you some of the big cities. here in washington we re already in the low 90s right now and temperatures heading up to 102. that will break a record. philadelphia also heading to a record high of 100. and richmond, virginia, how about temperatures today at 104. in new york, officially, we re going 97. that s six degrees cooler than yesterday and one degree off the record. a little bit of an east wind and that starts the cooling process because the water temperatures there in the 70s. mid to upper 90s and forecasting upper 88, 89 in atlanta.
a new tack resurrection to find out more about that i had to phoenix arizona. in most cases over eighty percent of the time we can be there at the bedside in the hospital a suitable that has been declared with the patient into the us car from the hospital bed cover the nice at some water will use this device to circulate icy water around the patient or some of the cooling process as quickly as possible those first agrees a critical because the more you are the first things are falling apart we ve also taken the restoration of the stuff in that we use this mechanical device and we do mechanical c.p.r. so restarting circulation not with the goal of reviving the person but we don t really want to revive the person but the idea is we have to restart everything so we can circulate the medications were take the cells as well as possible and maintain viability of the biological tissue for as long as possible so our goals were to get that temperature down from going to be done to get above fre