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>> weve been clearing it for the past few days, so were making good progress. lets head to tokyo and nbcs lee cowan whos developing stories there. >> reporter: it all stems from the injuries to the workers we talked about yesterday, the ones that were in the basement level of unit number three. they were trying to strip a cable there. they came in contact with radioactive water and had to be taken to the water. they were actually transferred to a hospital here in tokyo today so they could moni...

Themselves. all five of the containment has appeared to be maintained. because we had nor time, the fuel in there has turned to degrade. it has gotten less potent. so that is a positive. it is the spent fuel pools i think we need to be most concerned about. as you know, within the last 24 hours they re-established hours in units five and six. that is going to allow them to put water into the enclosed spent fuel pool. you mentioned the fact at unit two they are hoping to re-establish power to get...

Eyes on japans nuclear reactors as workers struggle to cool fuel rods. after days of setbacks, a fire broke out earlier this morning at reactor number four soon after naoto kan addressed the nation and the world. >> translator: for reactor number one and reactor number three, hydrogen came out and caused a hydrogen explosion. weve also seen fire at reactor number four. radiation has spread from these reactors, and the reading of the levels seems very high. theres still a very high risk of furthe...

People running for their lives behind them the incredible wall of water destroying everything in its path. japans prime minister calls this the worst crisis. as i mentioned, since world war ii. we have team fox coverage this hour and james has the latest from washington on the u.s. effort to help. but first we will get to the pacific coast of japan. what is the latest on the nuclear situation there to the north? >>reporter: well, it is happening again, up the coast from where we are, the massive...

With each one. give us an overall sense of exactly whats going on as far as we can tell. >> one picture is worth a million words here. look at this. this is the closest image weve had yet of the battlefield. this is the degree to which theyve had destruction of the side of the building here. look at this, this super structure collapsing over here, pipes down here disconnected and falling apart. look at all of that and think about what were talking about in terms of the damage that has occurred i...

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Given enact tphreufgts in times past. a lot of people -- inaccurate information in times past. >> sean: radiation that causes severe cancer, thyroid, bone cancer, leukemia. i want to go through these reactors within by one. reactor number 1 began leaking radiation if we recall saturday. they vented the air that triggered the explosion there. theres the fear the fuel rods are melting on reactor 1. reactor 2, they did the explosion the day before and the rods similarly overheated and we expect a m...

Lets bring in cnns jeanne meserve following the nuclear crisis for us. jeanne, what do we know? >> reporter: in a very worrisome development the head of the nuclear regulatory commission told congress today that there may be no water in the spent fuel pool at the fukushima plant. >> what we believe at this time is that there has been a hydrogen explosion in the unit due to an uncovering of the fuel in the fuel pool. we believe that secondary containment has been destroyed, and there is no water ...

Have been injured as a result of that. now, i think you may have some before and after pictures that we can pull up on the screen. these are coming from nhk, our affiliate here showing the power station before the explosion, then you see the explosion, of course, the smoke and everything else coming from it and then the damage as a result of that. now, once again repeating a hydrogen explosion, thats been confirmed. not in the reactor, not in the casing surrounding the reactor but in the buildin...