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Cesium escapes into the area, a strong possibility it was caused by a melting fuel rod. thats indication, again, i think your guest talked about before what we dont know. how much contamination there is inside. we do know there is extraordinary heat, up to three times the normal heat. we do know that there is eight times the radioactive material outside the gate. but officials are keen to stress there is no danger yet to people. now the explosions have taken place again as workers have tried to ...

Explosion and that radio activity has been detected. so this sounds like they could have lost this race against time and this could be a worst case scenario. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, the -- the fuel rods conduct or continually produce radioactive material under great heat and pressure. unless that is cooled down, the heat and pressure will build up and the fuel rods can melt through the reactor core container. and in this case, the building is the only containment to keep it from be...

Assessing the problems with these nuclear plants. as you do join us, i believe we have some sound & video at the time of the explosion. lets bring that up for our viewers. i hope youll be able to see it if not hear it. okay. so we dont have any sound on this. its just the moment at which we started to see activity from this plant. i think youve seen these pictures before. this is the shots of this sort of white plumes of smoke, stan, misting from one of these sites. weve just been talking to an ...

Material, eight times hotter than normal outside the fence of the reactor. and it has just continued throughout the day, the steam being released, the explosion, the cesium, so it has been building. again, we come back to what daniel said. if this a race against time, if weve seen 24 hours pass and unable to get in there to cool the reactor, you are getting into a case of worst case scenario. >> stan, thank you for that. stan, one of your reporters on the ground, of course, one of our senior cor...

Plant in fukushima where theres been an explosion at the damaged nuclear facility and reports that it leaked radiation into the air. the tokyo electric company says four workers on the ground were injured in the blast. japans nuclear agency believes a fuel rod may have melted after the facilitys cooling system failed. residents have been evacuated from the area and they are not alone. a cooling system has failed at a second fukushima plant, triggering a second evacuation. the wind will go a long...

In your mind, tell us what is going on right now. >> i think theres two areas for concern and the important thing is whether they are directly linked or not. first its what is happening in the fuel itself suggest that some of the metal cans that surround the fuel have probably burst and thats allowing some of the radioactive material out into whats called the containment. that has been measured for some hours and thats of itself is not a huge question. then weve seen the collapse of the outside ...

That it leaked radiation into the air. four workers on the ground were injured in the blast. japans nuclear agency believes a fuel rod may have melted after the systems cooling system failed. residents have been evacuated from the area. a cooling system has failed at a second nuclear plant, triggering a second explosion. time is running out since failure to cool the reactor could have or would have disastrous consequences. >> this is the situation that has the potential for a nuclear catastrophe...

Recapping our top story for you, an explosion has been reported in northeastern japan pap small amount of radioactive cesium has escaped into the air. thats about 250 kilometers northeast of tokyo. the agency says there is a strong possibility this is caused by a melting fuel rod. japanese media say radiation levels are more than eight times normal near the daiichi and daini nuclear plants. a 8.9 meter tsunami tore through towns. more than 900 people are reported killed at this point. and we wan...

Luckily, no one was inside at the time of the storm. news not so good in franklin county, tennessee, a twister ravaged a mobile home leaving a 79-year-old man dead. and now to toledo, ohio, where floodwaters are expected to rise nearly 7 feet above flood level today. crews are still searching for a woman who was trapped in her car. in indianapolis, a rescue of the four legged kind. rescuers pulling dogs to safety when their shelter was flooded out. a gas explosion shaking lakewood, washington, t...

Minneapolis with the next system. this one doesnt have nearly as much moisture, maybe an inch or two. i want to applaud our keiran chetry for braving this. she can get a hotel room to make sure shes there. gut to get this video, of course with an armada of snowplows to get her here. >> no, see what happened, that snowplow pulled up when he was trying to plow the on-ramp and that car was completely stuck. and then the nice samaritans with their own snowplow stopping, they actually helped us out. ...