Daiichi Facility News Today

Doing enough to protect cities like misrata. they say its been hard to do air strikes. officials of the japanese oil company tepco say they have stopped the leakage of high rates of radioactive water at the daiichi facility. they say the so-called liquid gas they injected into the seaside pit stopped the outlowe. he is accused of paying for sex with a 17-year-old belly dancer. the scandal-ridden leader denies the charges. those are the headlines. im zain verjee at cnn in london. "world busin...

Water pumps at the daiichi facility crippled reactors this weekend. lets go to anna coren. she joins me in total. lets begin with the ongoing efforts at the nuclear plant. they are hoping power can be restored through a power line. that has not been a change just yet but theyre hoping that will be done by today and if that is successful, three and four by tomorrow. restoring power to all six by the end of tomorrow is the best

We cant have any vents on, we have to keep the windows clear of fogging up. especially for our driver. >> out the other side of the road rolls one reminder after another that japan is a nation with twin disasters. convoys of rescue vehicles race the opposite direction into the tsunami zone, unable to stay behind to help those trapped too close to reactors. >> thats lee cowen in japan. we have videos of helicopters specially equipped to protect from radiation. they were dropping liquid on the dai...

Of fogging up. especially for our driver. >> out the other side of the road rolls one reminder after another that japan is a nation with twin disasters. convoys of rescue vehicles race the opposite direction into the tsunami zone, unable to stay behind to help those trapped too close to reactors. >> thats lee cowen in japan. we have videos of helicopters specially equipped to protect from radiation. they were dropping liquid on the daiichi facility. they are saying the liquid was dropped just on...

Specially equipped to protect from radiation. they were dropping liquid on the daiichi facility. they are saying the liquid was dropped just on reactor three, not on reactors three and four as they said earlier. they said there was going to be planned 40-minute long shifts for helicopter water air lifts. from what we can tell, they did not complete a full 40-minute shifts today. we dont know why. helicopters have now pulled back. we have word they are bringing in water canons to try to keep this...

Which is a battery-powered mechanism that also failed. that means inside because theres not water pumping in one, two, three different ways into this fuel core, you have heat. and that heat is a serious problem as this begins to melt. as you begin to damage this core. engineers went to battery pumps. those worked for a while, they went dead. you saw the diesel pumps, they worked for a while and went dead. its not exactly clear what happened. of but in the last-ditch effort, theyre starting to pu...

Is not well with the reactor. >> another warning sign could be -- and keep me honest on the numbers -- you i believe there are 55 reactors online there and a group went offline. how concerning is that to you? >> yes. japan is very heavily vested in nuclear power. the government and the power industry has made a big investment in nuclear power. 30% of their electricity comes from nuclear power. 55 plants. one of every six reactors in the world is located in japan. 11 went offline after the earthq...

Im sure people are still very jittery between whats happening at the nuclear facility and the aftershocks and warnings of even more tsunamis possible. we can certainly understand that. steven, appreciate your time today. becky? residents describing life in the capital there. lets get you a different picture. our international correspondent anna coren is in sendai. and just describe, firstly, how far away you are from tokyo, and then what you see around you. >> becky, were several kilometers no...

Right now looks like tokyo will have temperatures in the 60s, mild temperatures in sendai will go up to about 59 degrees, and then we see a chance of showers in their forecast come tuesday night into wednesday. and believe it or not, snow showers possible. so cold enough to accumulate snowfall as early as wednesday into thursday. thats the concern a lot of the rescue efforts need to be done as quickly as possible because the temperatures will be going downhill and certainly sitting close to 60 d...

Nuclear emergencies for each of these five nuclear reactors. the most serious one is the one were looking at, reactor number one at the daiichi facility. this is going to go down in history as one of the three greatest nuclear incidents if it stops now. if it continues, if they dont get control of this and we go from a partial meltdown of the from a partial meltdown of the core to a full meltdown, this will be a complete disaster. the release of cesium that you mentioned, was the indication yest...