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Morning here. sign as you noted we are not out of the woods. in the last 45 minutes we report of white smoke or a haze or steam coming from specifically reactor 2 one of the most troubled in that complex. that has halted all activity, repair work, spraying, whatever. folks had to clear back. the latest reports of high levels of radiation 12 miles away. one could imagine the levels at the plan. one can suppose that. a quote this morning from a top japanese government minister saying in fact, thin...

Inside reactor number three at fukushima is building to a critical level. they planned to vent radioactive steam to release the pressure but said later the situation had stabilized for now. officials are now considering widening the evacuation zone just in case. finally, an aspect of this story thats bound to be getting a lot of attention in the coming days. new reports surfacing that the operator of the power plant faked the safety records, pretending to do rigorous inspections but not really d...

Most seriously damaged is showered almost nonstop with seawater to keep it from overheating. emergency power was turned on to reactor number 6. a critical step in ending the crisis. >> government officials say samples of milk and spinach from near the power plant show a spike in radioactive iodine and much higher than normal but officials say the trace amounts do not pose a health risk. >> and john, more than a week after japans worst-ever earthquake, you find destruction and mountains of debris...

Death on those farmers. theyre never going to be able to sell any produce. what happens if it starts to pop-up at more places? you cant, you know -- they have a tough public policy problem right now about what to do with a very, very small amounts of radiation that are showing up in food and other samples. >> is this plant still at risk from earthquakes? we keep seeing earthquake -- significant ones, 6.0, 6.1, i mean could those still rat this will thing to the point you might make enough progre...

Detected high radiation levels in six samples of spinach. because of this minster of health, early in the morning, to fukushima prefecture and it interrupted that investigation to be conducted. these products have been transported and asked the prefecture government to take appropriate measures. the national government of japan would assume that these productions are affected by the fukushima power plants effects, however we would continue with a further survey. the survey results will be

Magnitude 5.9. this is south of fukushima. that is the same region as the damaged power plant. >> there is worry over the food supply. tested radiation from milk and spinach samples. the levels are low. >> that has to be worrying if you live in that area. the nuclear plant itself, a device is spraying sea water continuously to try to cooldown one of the overheated reactors. >> a revised death toll from the quake and tsunami. it is now at more than 7,300 with nearly 11,000 people still missing. >...

When people hear that. he said that as far as milk, the source of that was some 30 kilometers from the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. spinach was a little bit further out. but before we get carried away and become quite alarmed about the situation, we should note that you would have to drink a years worth of milk for it to be the equivalent of undergoing a ct scan. thats how much radiation that you would take in. so, that is what we know at the moment. the government has launched a thoro...

To one or more nuclear force. fundamentally it means they have a lot more information like this. look at this. these are the radiation levels that occurred in here. you see the big spikes back here. now, the good news is you dont see so much as we get closer to today, elliott. there have been drop-offs in the specific but heres the tricky part. i think its important to bear in mind. sometimes the spike owes kur because this is not at all uniform. the radiation coming out from here, as i believe ...

That will be collected. this is exceptional cases or will we see similar cases? at this point in time we dont see similar relatively high raid yag levels detected in samples for the time being, we would focus on collecting data you will be able to identify the site, the production of these samples we do not disclose the names. the fukushima prefecture might suffer from information and negative rumors. the detailed information is going to be disclosed by the ministry of health. from the newspaper...

Necessary interpret it and that will be used for further appropriate guidance and advice. this is the end of my report. i will read from the newspaper about this milk and spinach samples. he said there will be a full survey conducted. how long will it take to come up with definitive results? >> for the time being, even as we speak we are collecting data and some of the data indicates similar infection levels weefl have found the detection levs recently. so our intention is to collect more dita a...