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Meltdown at chernobyl in the former soviet union. also fire engines continue to pour water on reactor number four. number three, water sprayed on that reactor to cool it down sunday into this morning, but now gray smoke this morning has been seen billowing from it. and workers evacuated from that area. engineers also monitoring a build-up in pressure in number threes containment vessel. theyre going to decide to release hydrogen gas to prevent an explosion. now, let me just tell you about nuclea...

>> yeah, it was a job rejection. but to lighten the mood behind set, i tear paper -- >> it works every single time. >> and you have about as much hair. >> all right. well, its good to have a little levity because weve got a lot of serious news this morning. yeah, three days of coalition attacks on libya. moammar gadhafis regime is crippled. but where is the elusive dictator? how engineers in japan hope to use concrete to prevent a nuclear meltdown. weve just had news from smoke coming from r...

Doesnt feel like spring just yet. good morning, coming up this hour, the crisis in japan worsens. new safety concerns, workers are evacuated again from a reactor. new signs of smoke coming in from two of those reactors. also, looking into the safety of food supply in japan and coming out of japan. theres word the radiation may have spread. also ahead this morning, big news in the business world this morning, the possible merger of at&t and t-mobile ahead. well tell you whether your bill will g...

And running at one shortly. three and four theyre hoping to get the cooling engines back up in time. there are also reactors five and six, those seem to be under control. lets get more on the situation at reactors two and three and what could be a big setback to efforts to prevent more radiation from getting into the atmosphere. anna coren is live in tokyo. whats the latest you have for us? >> reporter: ali, weve been working the phones trying to get confirmation on new reports that smoke is com...

Away from the reactor than they had expected to and water. >> thats exactly right. the world health organization is saying its far more serious than what they -- what they thought. basically spinach and milk is where theyve located higher levels of radiation in both those products. so a ban has been placed on those products in the region that is close to the fukushima daiichi power plant. as far as water goes, high levels of iodine have been found in drinking water around that plant. and authori...

Fukushima daiichi power plant that smoke is, in fact, rising from reactor two. they had earlier confirmed that smoke was coming from reactor three. that, of course, is the problem reactor, the one that has -- had that explosion, the fire, and earlier reports of smoke over the last coming days. it was also where we saw the build-up of pressure and they thought theyd have to release that pressure yesterday, that was until levels maintained or just leveled out, i guess. but the problem with this sm...

And grease. the dark substance is believed to be sediment, which was washed down the mississippi by dredging and high water. some local residents who believe it is the result of that massive oil spill. looking to beef up her foreign policy resume, sarah palin in jerusalem. she looks forward to discussing key issues with netanyahu. she also stopped in india over the weekend. she has yet to decide if shell make a run for this white house in 2012. the struggle to cool down reactors at a nuclear...

What would have been this week on your show and all the other shows a report about a massacre occurring inside -- in benghazi. so there is, you know, a limit to what america can do. and as far as the analogy to bahrain, its been made, youre absolutely right, but i dont think its a fair analogy. bahrain is a very, very different place than libya. and gadhafi is a uniquely dastardly figure in the community. >> thank you so much for joining us and giving your perspective. >> its been great having y...

Three, but we -- we do know that they -- as soon as they saw that smoke, they got out. the problem, ali, they just dont know what this smoke actually is. and that is -- that really is what is alarming. you can only, you know, assume it may contain radioactive material. and that is obviously causing fear, not only among officials and workers who are, you know, working tirelessly to try and contain this situation, but also among those people who live, you know, close by to this nuclear plant in fu...

Anything you heard, particularly as it pertains to the pool of water around the spent fuel rods? >> reporter: lets start with the good news first pause we havent had a ton of good news this week. its good news if reactor one and reactor five and six are stabilized. one of the challenges is with so many things in play, over such a long period of time, i think its tough for the workers on the ground to be able to manage multiple problems in multiple places. so i would say thats good news. i would ...