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reporter ryan riley and kelly odonnell. im andrea mitchell in washington. ryan, can you get us up to speed on the latest? in my read of this, she is also enjoining the government from using the seized materials for investigative purposes, but is not preventing the director of national intelligence from proceeding with the damage assessment, correct? >> thats right. its a pretty devastating ruling for the government. the biggest question here was whether or not the special master was go...

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were tossed in with non-classified items like newspaper clippings, even items of clothing. some of these documents are so tightly restricted they are only to be viewed in secured facilities. joining us now with more, cnn correspondent cara skin nel, and former prosecutor, michael moore. just the gross sloppiness of these boxes is obviously telling of last days of this chaotic administration, and hearing there were empty envelopes and top secret documents, items of clothing, a lot of th...

Company authorities, tokyo power company authorities to pave the thing over. this deal of trying to keep the reactor cool, not being sure whether or not the containment vessel is cracked, stuff like that, thats a short-term solution or short-term addressing it. it has to be shut down. >> especially when you think they have 60,000 tons of contaminated water and they have to figure out how to store that stuff. if they are already dumping these low-level amounts of radioactive water into the sea, t...

Containment vessel inside one of the reactors has a leak and that fuel rods that have been burning up are now leaking out into the environment. thats what is important about this. it gets to the broader question that you raised, this problem with water building up and water building up and then leaking out. essentially, tepco is in an awful dilemma right now. on the one hand they want to cool the reactor and keep the reactor cool so they have to pour water in. if there is a leak in one of the co...

Vessel of reactor number three at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant is increasing. officials say they are planning an operation to reduce that pressure. that comes as a super pumper tried to keep a reactor cool and engineers struggled to restore power to cooling systems at a plant. the prime minister says the situation there remains very grave. many people have fled the areas surrounding the nuclear power plant in fukushima. and that includes people who worked at the disabled facility. as st...

We can all see. so what we are doing is necessary. it is legal. and it is right. >> britains defense secretary says british war planes flew 4,800 kilometers from their base in england to hit targets inside libya, making it the longest-range bombing mission by the raf since the falklands war. the pendulum of good news/bad news continues its uncertain swing at japans stricken fukushima nuclear power plant clekds. in the last hour japans nuclear safety agency revealed the pressure on the containm...

Brazil. barack obama is making his first trip to south america. the five-day tour will also take him to chile and el salvador. some analysts say washington cannot afford to ignore its economic ties with latin america, despite the many challenges in other parts of the world. the search continues for more than 12,000 people still missing since the march 11th earthquake and tsunami in japan. the death toll has now reached almost 8,200. meanwhile, japans nuclear safety agency says the pressure is ...

Emotional. its a small group of people, they have to wear suits, theyre working in suits, so theyre overheated, and they dont have the touch and feel of their hands and having to work at night when theres no electricity. and so they have to use flash flights and trying to battle fires. one -- at one time they have to be firefighters battling a fire, reactor number one, and then go over to reactor number three, two, or one, and try to pump sea water to keep the reactor cool. and all the other sor...

Whee a meltdown but it was contained and thats -- were not there yet but if we.god forbid were to get to this point, we would hope the containment vessel would nevertheless hold that radiation and that material in so that we would not have a chernobyl style accident. >> why are they pumping in sea water now at this point? >> yeah. because they got no other choice. you dont pump in sea water as your first choice or your fifth choice. theyre doing it now because theyre trying to keep that reactor ...