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Tokyo. they tried a little bit of everything from milky bath salts to shredded newspaper. it doesnt sound very advanced but is it working and if not, whats next? >> reporter: well, this he have to stop the flow of the water, thomas, because if they dont, its going to be almost impossible for the workers and engineers to get in close enough to even try to fix the broken cooling systems of the overheated reactors. thats the priority. that water is coming from the engineers who are pumping water in...

Some sort of underground leak somewhere that is coming from that very, very radioactive water we found in the turbine building. time will tell in terms of finding the source. >> michael, the concern and question, if the sea water is being contaminated, is it inevitable the contamination will engulf or or most of japan? >> when you talk about engulfing all of japan, i think thats probably being a bit dramatic. certainly there is no doubt they detected some radiation, some 20 and 30 kilometers awa...

In pressure that would mean that theres a leak somewhere, right? >> reporter: well, every hour that goes by gives them that much more confidence. every hour the pressure goes up a little bit more, about 2 pounds per square inch. they say this is doing exactly what they thought it would do. and its telling them that this well has integrity that so far theyve seen no leaks, and its exactly what they wanted to see. so the longer this holds, the longer the good news keeps coming out like this, the m...

It may take decades to clean up this disaster and to clean up the disaster in the gulf of mexico so that part of the story will continue, but us a poias y out, theres no guarantee that the test is going to lead to success. its a very critical several hours now, ed. >> reporter: right now. can i give you a little bit of a time frame here. were right about halfway through the first six-hour window. the best way to kind of think about this, wolf, is break up the next 48 hours into six-hour blocks, ...

The task but i want the senate an the house to come out with the findings. >> that is his way of denying it. but when he hear him and say it, it reads like a denial but had you hear him saying you realize he is fudging it. >> that did not sound like donald trump trying to be serious or be honest, frankly. and look, at this point his credibility is in the negative numbers. you cant believe -- >> especially on this issue. on this issue in particular. >> well on many issues. but on this issue espec...

B. you say this is the right move. >> and its so obvious, dagen. look, let me make an analogy, if you have a leak somewhere, a pipe in your house, the plumber comes, what they do is turn off the water going into the house. they dont do it permanently, no more water forever. they do it temporarily so they can find where the leek is. thats what donald trump is doing. hes not doing it for all countries. hes doing it to the most dangerous countries in terms of terrorist, iraq, iran, syria, et cetera...

Thats why they call it static kill. now theyre looking at that option to give them the means to end this threat a little more quickly. heres what they had to say about it. >> what youre doing is youre putting mud down and youre not putting hydrocarbons into the formation. so the question would be at that point what that would tell you. we would have to analyze the data associated with that. if we thought there was a problem with well integrity we could at that point start going to containment or...