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To that. because it requires not only a readiness if you impose a no-fly zone over all of ukraine, a readiness for nato to shoot down russian planes, but also to protect the nato planes that are carrying out that no-fly zone, that has to be readyiness to strike ground based air deeft assets not only with the russian invading forces in ukraine, but also an occupied crimea, belarus and russian proper. and i think that gets to pretty close to an all-out shooting war which it seems to me that nato w...

Someone who knows that region intimately well. >> chris cillizza putting a vote in governor granholm for dnc likely replacement. chris cillizza, thanks so much. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow on the show, well take a closer look at japans nuclear facilities with james actin. and my colleague, tamron hall has a look at whats on "news nation." >> good to see you, norah. next hour, developing news out of japan where uranium rods reportedly likely melting, at a ...

Dangerous with our next guest. thats james actin who has been following the nuclear situation in japan today. i understand once you lose, as they say here, the power to the cooling supply ins an hour before basically you have coolant boiling off and possible meltdown. is that right? >> thats basically right, cenk. when you scram a reactor, when you turn it off, it continues to produce heat. you need a source of water to cool that while the reactor cools down over the course of a number of days. ...

Thats a call for extreme concern. what i want to emphasize is a huge range of powerful outcomes. while the core is not damaged, it may not cause any fatalities outside of the plant. if the core starts to get damaged and the steam continues to flow, then youre in a very different situation. >> all right, james, fthank you for your expertise tonight. i tell you, if i was in, i would go, man. i would go and get out as quickly as possible. maybe thats just me, but thats really scary. well be right b...