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Higher. meanwhile, weve just received this extraordinary video. it was shot the moment the tsunami struck in the japanese city of sendai. weve also received a new video of a shopping mall that erupted in flames in northern japan. but i want to start by going to sendai in japan, where my colleague anderson cooper is live on the ground. anderson, tell me what the latest is on this explosion at the power plant, which is the third now weve had in the last three days. >> reporter: piers, as you know,...

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Bracing for what could be a selloff as reports of quake damages running into the tens of billions of dollars and japans problems are helping saudi arabia and its market was up and up 3% today on what some are calling a flight back to oil. and exactly running back to nuclear, and the saudi arabia itself not many protesters seem to be running around at all. with us now on focusing on the big developments, the nuclear and record service, head of the nuclear issue, is a big issue here, two plants th...

The atmosphere? why were they detecting those elements in the atmosphere after the explosion? those detections were indication that the fuel rods had been damaged. and that let some of the radioactive elements in that nuclear fuel get released, and that is not good. as i say, a partial nuclear meltdown. it doesnt sound good, it is not good. but it is not the same as a total nuclear meltdown which they are working to stave off. the explosions that happened at two reactors at the daiichi plant, th...

Countries? doctor? >> well, ms. king is absolutely right in pointing out that the danger is from the stored fuel, not from a nuclear explosion, which is physically impossible. there is not going to be a nuclear explosion. there is not going to be a run away chain reaction. its the fire in the storage fuel pool that were worried about. now, if that fire is the worst case scenario, what it does is it releases a lot of nonvolatile material, such as seize yum that is spread all over the countryside....

Nuclear power plant. theres the reactor core itself and theres also the storage coal for high level radioactive waste. and this monstrous amount of radioactivity at risk of being released into the environment so i hope and pray that theyre able to prevent that, but the loss of the containment building is a huge blow. these are massive levels of radioactivity. chernobyl in that 25 year ago after that, involved an explosion and fire that burned for ten days. here, we have an explosion that has rem...

>> now the growing nuclear emergency. dangerous radiation leaking from damaged reactors. hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes. can japan avert a meltdown? and if disaster strikes this country, will you be safe? also, aid for japan. ill ask the head of the red cross where your moneys going. and my exclusive live interview with yoko ono. this is a special edition of "piers morgan tonight." good evening. the situation in japan tonight is dire. we start with breaking news. a little whi...

I am obviously a layman, trying to understand this for myself as well as make it understandable for viewers. >> it was a solid and accurate description of where we are today. >> okay. within the last couple hours, as i mentioned, a third explosion was reported at fukushima number 2 reactor. number 1 had explosion this weekend, number 3 did 24 hours ago. and now number 2 has happened as well. can we tell yet if this is a more consequential blast than the others or is this likely to be of the same...

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