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Area, there are four million buildings with no electricity at this time and if a nuclear plant cant cool down the reactor core, thats a bad situation. the good news is so far, according to government officials and the associated press, no leak of radiation at this point has been detected. >> got to be worried about this, though. when you see this video and see the massive amount of fire and devastation and you know that there are nuclear plants that exist in and around japan, you got to be nervo...

Down. so can you imagine being in the middle of an earthquake with 30 aftershocks and with all lights out. >> and the thing about the power plants, weve got a news alert that a nuclear power plant is in trouble right now. theres been an escape of emergency declared. theres a cooling system failure. theres no electricity to cool the core. no radiation leaks at this point. but nonetheless, japan is a nation that gets a lot of its electricity from atomic power and if they cant cool down the core, t...

Nuclear power plant has had a cooling system failure. no radiation leakage at this point. but japan is a country that does get 30%. about 30% of their electricity from atomic power. there are 55 nuclear plants in the country and as we just heard from him, theyve shut them down just to be safe. >> we did know from tom byer who is in tokyo said theres gas fires in and around the suburbs of that -- >> at the gas refinery right there. >> of that city. meanwhile -- >> were learning that orange county...

United states, were talking about california specifically, washington state, oregon, possibly alaska. 11:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m. eastern time. it seems to be shifting later. i dont know what that means. >> joining us right now, we have mark hibbs, a senior associate at the nuclear program at the endowment for international peace, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> mark, we have some troubling information. apparently, there are three or four plants in the area that has been impacted the most the...

Suspect, like you said, it will be minimal flooding. >> we dont want to minimize whats happening in japan but we need to tell the people up watching on the west coast of the united states not to go into a state of panic about this. >> all right. mika? theyve got a state of emergency at a nuclear plant after a cooling system failure. they say no radiation leaked but this is the latest ap report out. i was wondering about this. >> its very fascinating, as you read through the news script, i noti...

Now you hear the president speaking to his drilling record and oil production record and consideration of tabbing the s.o.r. were getting word of a scary situation in japan. according to "the associated press," japanese officials are reporting that pressure is now rising at that nuclear reactor in japan that were all watching after a cooling system failure. it was all died to the massive earthquake that took place earlier. this would take the catastrophe to a new level. theres a reason that the ...

As high as 7 point something on the richter scale. you can see from these photos the massive fires have broken out as well. there was one at that nuclear plant and they initially sent out an emergency about that saying they could not cool the plant but no radiation has leaked. and that appears to be not still a cause of concern. meantime, scott peterson is the senior vice president of communications for the national energy institute and joins us now on the phone. i guess we just -- well get back...

Will japan be able to reform, absent a crisis for two decades now, zero evidence that its willing to do so? interesting message for the united states. >> an 8.9 magnitude earthquake has hit japans northeastern coast at 3:00 p.m. local time. news in from the japan meteorological agency, they have a new system in place which prompts alerts jucht as an earthquake starts which may help in keeping the death toll lower than usual. given the fact this is the fifth strongest earthquake on record since 1...

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