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Rain on the four corner states. heavy snow in denver and the threat for severe weather, well be talking about tornados tomorrow and tuesday across parts of the southern plains and another big rain maker, and here are high temps for the day today. across the east, 56 for a high in new york city for the marathon today and tomorrow, a repeat of the same. guys, back to you. >> thanks, rick. >> thanks. very nice their -- marathon weather, they like it cool. and a one-on-one debate and well have the h...

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Over. lets get to martin savidge who is on the phone. bring us up to date. >> reporter: right now, as you point out, the fresh water is key here. what has happened over the last couple days, tons and tons of salt water to keep it cool. as you know, it is highly corrosive and especially in a heated involvement. it clogs up all sorts of things that cant be clogged if youre trying to cool a nuclear power plant. so flush everything out. especially flush out those crucial pumps. then hopefully you st...

Joining us is ed crooks, energy editor for the "financial times," and from chicago, carol addison-strauss, director of environmental health and consultant. hi to both of you. welcome, ed. how is the new technology in terms of better safety thresholds? >> certainly there is a bit of an advance. the technology were seeing are third-generation reactors. most presently in use out there are second generation. >> those are from when? >> thats really from the 60s to the 90s, basically. >> is second gen...

Meltdown within the reactor in number one and the possibility of a meltdown in reactor number three. what theyre doing is pumping seawater in to cool it. they brought stability to reactor number one but the temperature is cooling and remaining stable at least. in reactor number three, theyre just pumping water in there to keep it cool, but the reactor itself is still exposed so what happens is the water level drops, the reactor is exposed and when that heats the reactor, of course, there is noth...

We can expect to see continued fluctuations of the radiation level as this crisis evolves. >> what do we know about the spent fuel rods? its not only the reactor core itself but its also apparently exposure to the spent fuel, which is also supposed to be cooled but all of the backup systems failed as we know. >> the the spent fuel, andrea, is something that worries me at the moment. after fuel is taken out of a nuclear reactor, its stored in bas basically next door to keep it cool. then the wate...