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Chernobyl, and its staying that way, and if we keep our fingers crossed, it will stay that way and get cooler over the next few days as they manage to pump more sea water into it. it remains to be seen whether they can do that. it seems like they will, but we dont know for sure. >> well just have to watch and see what happens. bob, thanks for watching for us there from tokyo. well see you again soon. im joined by robert alvarez, a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies. robert, wit...

Front, robert. i mean, from a technical standpoint, and also just humanitarian. >> what happened was we had a bunch of reactors that were built in an area thats very earthquake-prone, and the earthquake that struck was five times more powerful of the earthquake that these plants were designed for, and i think a lot of people are going to be asking the question, how could that have happened? how could you design an -- a power plant -- a nuclear power plant in that area an earthquake five times th...

Thats hardly functioning. although rescue and relief efforts are being stepped up, the challenges they face here are enormous. back to you. >> all right. we mou head back to tokyo and robert bizzell. its been a couple of days since the quake and tsunami hit. give me a sense of what things are like in tokyo right now, and i have to say we spoke with a gentleman named david abraham earlier who we talked with yesterday as well, and he talked to me about 25 minutes or so after the second quake, the ...