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Tsunami. for two days he clung to a piece of his home roof before he was spotted waving a self-made flag by a maritime destroyer. almost 500 people from the town were killed and 2200 are missing including his wife. >> more fox news reporting on the disaster in japan, just ahead. what does it take to fly? it takes knowing we have our work cut out for us. but if you run before the wind you cant take off. youve got to turn into it. the thing you push against lifts you up. so, every challenge is a c...

Meet in paris to discuss a possible intervention. president obama saying if qadaffi doesnt stand down the u.s. will join in military action but not send any ground troops. im marianne rafferty. now, back to "fox news reports the disaster in japan." for the latest, go to fox news .com. >> sunday, march 13. we begin this moring with a fox news alert. the japanese government confirms a nuclear meltdown is possibly underway and now they also say more nuclear reactors are failing. this as more than 2...

Restaurant and these japanese tourists were on their phones trying to call back to families in japan and ther they couldnt through. >> do you sense there is panic? >> yeah, i do. >> extremely dangerous tsunami waves expected at 3:00 a.m. >> on the other side of the country, in washington, president obama was surprised at the developing -- apprised of the developing situation. >> the president issued a statement in the last few minutes and our own peter doocy is live in washington with the detail...

Out now while we can. >> there are so many different sources. on tv saying different things. >> good morning. today is friday, march 18. im alisyn camerota in for gretchen. japan raising the emergency rating, putting it on par with three mile island. >> meanwhile in southern, california, radio active fallout from japan has been detected but the levels are a billion times below what would be health threatening. >> im just worried that winds are blowing west and it as problem. >> we will alert the...

Two. there. >> there is breaking news now on fox news channel and this just in to us here at fox news in tokyo. we have just gotten word from folks on the scene that there has just been an explosion heard at unit no. two. the temperatures were riding. they were trying to put seawater into the particular reactor. now, the european union is calling for a reassessment of its energy policy and what role nuclear should play. and chancellor americ merkel ad the 7 erathors that went into service before...

Three mile island was rated a five and the chernobyl catastrophe was a 7. >> woo f. we learned one thing from chernobyl, it is that we dont know. the radioactive clouds spread over the them fear sphere after chernobyl. >> is there a nuclear coverup in japan? history tells us it has happened before at the height of the cold war in 1957. there was another level 6 nuclear accident shrouded in mystery in the former soviet union. on may 1, 1960, it became one of the prime targets on frances gary powe...

Rescue teams find life. >> three elderly people trapped inside their car. the car tumbled over and over and they had the doors jammed by debris. the rescue crews pulled them out alive and a 20-year-old man was also rescued where it 2* thousand people have died. he was under that debris for four days, pulled out suffering from hypothermia. >> other people were not as lucky. these parents who were looking for their son only found despair among the rubble. >> shepard: they went to the local post of...

Back from the reactor cores and try and throw as much water on them and cool them down that way. >> the nuclear crisis in japan has turned the economic situation in the country from bad to worse. the nikkei plunged 11%. after two days of massive losses a glimmer of good news. japans stock market went on the rebound. >> 5.7 points higher. >> but more bad news wasnt far behind. >> all kinds of automobile and technology electronics companies are shutting down their factory operations until next wee...

>> japans closest neighbors, china, south korea and russia are on edge. officials began to check owl livestock imported from japan for radiation levels. they have detected no increase in radiation and japans largest trading partner china issues an order for monitoring. >> what about all of the people living at or near the plants especially longer term. >> there is no to radiation. >> but the person exposed to it. >> it is an increased list. >> workers have been evacuated from a nuclear plant in ...

The situation at the fukushima plant changes again for the worst. this is a fox news alert. nuclear officials confirm hydroagain explosion at unit three of the fukushima plant. >> currently they are pumping seawater around the reactor to try to cool it down and stop any kind of meltdown. >> the japanese authorities say there could be a partial meltdown already but they dont know because they cant get in to the reactor. >> sending one helicopter to dump 50-tons of water on a flaming nuclear pow...