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Surface wind across japan. but lets look at whats happening right now on the radar. heavy rainfall from the midwest all the way down towards the southeast. and you can see the rain coming down really heavy right now parts of atlanta making for a messy commute out there. were not expecting any delays right now at any of the airports. but notice this, we still have some snow through parts of north and south side. yes, coming down, but were only talking about an inch of snowfall. this should not ca...

Snowfall occurred overnight. thats making it more treacherous for the rescuers. weve had three major aftershocks just since weve been here over my right shoulder you can see a tractor tra yoor- truck lifted and placed on a building. thats the kind of danger that youre dealing with here with aftershocks. >> you are with a team that has done this so many times before. they understand the clicking clock. whats their sense as they move in? a friday afternoon quake. now wednesday morning in japan. wh...

That is good news. and the flow out of the jet stream has been out of the northwest and that offshore flow. i want to point out -- lets talk about the weather across parts of japan. were going to see it deteriorate through the evening and overnight. were going to be dealing with cold rain as well as the snow. and that will be moving through parts, the earthquake-hit area as well as the tsunami region. people are homeless, they dont have any belongings, any warm clothes, and the temperatures are ...

Right here. this is coming to us from nhk, which is japanese television. this is what is supposed to happen. water pumps in. it cools the reactor rods in the reactor core. after the tsunami, unfortunately, that power source became lost so they went to their diesel-powered backup reactor. the diesel pumps kicked in and eventually they failed. then go to their battery pumps but unfortunately the battery pumps only continued working a number of hours and they also went dead. why that happened is st...

48 minutes past the hour. lets check in with jennifer delgado with a look at the headlines. >> hi, kiran, hi, christine. i also wanted to point out that the flooding youre talking about in parts of new jersey, looks like the river slowly receding in the next few days. lets talk about whats happening right now on the radar. some heavy rain out there from the midwest down towards the south. if youre driving through parts of atlanta through georgia, the heaviest rainfall moving out of the area. but...

The fire. stan grant, cnn, tokyo. >> stan is following all the stories up to the minute. and were still trying to sort through exactly how significant is this health wise. but we do know that radioactive material is being released in northeastern japan. were going to our meteorologist jennifer delgado in atlanta this morning. what do we know right now about the winds and how they may perhaps be carrying the nuclear plumes? radioactive plumes? >> right now weve been dealing with winds coming in...

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What your biggest concerns right now as they try to stem this before more radioactive material leaks? >> really two issues here. the first is, how much radio activity is going to leak out of these four plants? and, of course, we dont know the answer to that as yet. the other big part of the story is the wind. the wind is absolutely crucial here. by and large the wind is blowing offshore, meaning that the activity is going to be blowing in towards the ocean, which is a good thing. >> how long doe...

We are also seeing here, lots of cloud cover that is getting thick and creating light rainfall and light snowfall. anything that gets pushed aloft can also be brought back to the surface through the precipitation, the rain or snow that is coming back down. we will begin to see a lot of movement 4 this material. megyn: a man gets arrested by the secret service for assaulting former vice president dick cheney. charges are dropped. now the man is suing the secret service agents in court. the lawsui...

And be able to meet that goal and we just dont know the answer to that. every time i wake up in the morning, i turn on the computer and overnight a new problem has arisen. its definitely a big challenge they are looking at. >> is it as simple as continuing to find water sources and the mechanism to bring that cool water to those rods? if it is that simple, why are they unable to make that happen at this point? >> it seems simple in theory, just put the water in and it cools down, but it turns ou...