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Effort to stabilize reactors and radioactive spent fuel at the daiichi plant is facing new set backs, plural, set backs. a light gray smoke was seen emanating from reactor three, and white smoke from reactor two. they say what was coming from reactor two was steam. it caused a temporary evacuation of workers from the daiichi plant. "the washington post" reported that readings near the plant nearly tripled shortly after the smoke was seen at healthcare three. as workers continue to restore electr...

About the crisis in japan. one is bad weather. look at this. keep in mind because of the time difference even though it is monday night here, it is tuesday there. it has been raining in parts of japan, raining through tomorrow. forecast calls for winds to shift to blowing inland instead of out to sea. plus, it is getting really cold there. subfreezing temperatures at night. combinations of rain and snow in the day. the reason thats important in light of the disaster in japan is because it highli...

This is an ongoing situation, a fluid situation. certainly officials thought they had been able to stabilize the situation, but as one said to us yesterday, this is unpredictable and as whats happened in the last few minutes, it certainly shows. pauline? >> this is a setback because it seemed as if tepco, the power company and the government had been starting to get control over the situation, and the big milestone that they reached was trying to get electricity back to the reactors in order to ...

>> the good thing is that the cold temperatures are not going to come with snow. we had significant accumulation across a region and thats unusual now that were getting into spring here. we have warned up, although we are going to cool down the next couple of days. lets show you the temperatures here. were running generally in the mid-teens. we had reached up to 60 degrees or 50s in fahrenheit, comfortable here. clear skies across the region. an area of low pressure is moving in and frontal boun...

Lives upside down. it was a moment this worker will never forget. >> earthquake. >> earthquake? >> translator: it kept going for two or three minutes. i told everyone to get out of here. i was scared. >> reporter: he doesnt want to be identified. what who he has to say he fears could lose him his job. for 17 years he has worked for the tokyo electric power company at the now-crippled plant. he wor worries especially about the spent fuel rods in the stricken reactor number four, potentially in a ...

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 ...

So, but you notice no one is spraying the building or unit 1 spent fuel pond. there is a lot of trepidation that maybe the u.s. is right, and it could be dangerous to spray the pond without knowing whats there. and so one of the priorities is going to be, i think after they deal with reactor three, is to turn to the spent fuel pond in unity 1 and try to get that under control. that probably will continue into next week. >> shepard: i know people get bogged down in 1, 2, 3, 4s we talk about all t...

Of fogging up. especially for our driver. >> out the other side of the road rolls one reminder after another that japan is a nation with twin disasters. convoys of rescue vehicles race the opposite direction into the tsunami zone, unable to stay behind to help those trapped too close to reactors. >> thats lee cowen in japan. we have videos of helicopters specially equipped to protect from radiation. they were dropping liquid on the daiichi facility. they are saying the liquid was dropped just on...

That so little is known about whats going on inside the power station. the priority is cooling the reactors. a cloud emerged from this one today, no ones sure why. the aim is to keep water flowing through them to reduce temperatures, but theres a dilemma. doing this creates steam and too much of that could trigger another leak or explosion. now, all the time, increased radiation is a serious threat to the workers. reactor three is reportedly giving off so much that they cant get close to reactor...

It appears to be the number four reactor that led the u.s. government to say that u.s. citizens should evacuate from an area around the reactor that is larger than what the japanese government has suggested. here is whats going on at reactor four. reactor four reportedly contains 130 tons of spent fuel. theres a reactor there. that was off when the quake happened. but it is still there. theres the reactor there, that was off. thats presumably cool shut down. then the spent fuel pool. 130 tons of...