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Problems and getting hydrogen explosions. now theyre trying to pump water from truck, drop water from the area. all about getting as much water in there to cool this down. and all the while they want to hook up generators and hope it kick starts the cooling system and that gives them a greater chance of reducing the heat. >> thank you, stan. >> whats inside these boxes could help thousands of earth quake victims in more than japan survive.

Particularly the radiation levels, we know theres no power. theyre probably doing this in the darkness or using flashlights. wearing protective suits that seal around the neck and wearing a mask to provide some protection. again, the most dangerous types of radiation, the gamma rays that weve been talking about, they penetrate just about everything. you can measure how much radiation youre getting using certain devices like these. carol, i mean, this is what they do for a living. they know -- ho...

Cnn crews are in place. stan grant, sonja gu-- sanjay gupta will talk about the radiation and threat it poses to the public. and jill dougherty at the white house with new efforts to get america out of harms way. lets begin with you, stan. the water drops seem like a last-ditch effort to cool the reactor to prevent a meltdown. but i dont know, it just seems more like an act of desperation. >> reporter: they are trying everything they can. theres no doubted about thatment you know, theyve tried s...

Bring the situation under control and at least get in there and have a look at the text ents of the damage and operation listen throughout the night and perhaps more water spraying tomorrow. >> we will see, of course, we are taking this minute-by-minute as the developments change and, stan, thanks for keeping us up-to-date. appreciate it. the earthquake and tsunami hit last week, officials say a hydrogen explosion at reactor number one. possible containment damage at reactor number two. and th...

Stable. the stroutrouble is with two, t and four, especially three and four. dangerous material is seeping out, in the event of a full-blown meltdown. in four, the problem is a pool of water. the fear is that the water is actually evaporating and its exposing spent fuel rods, very dangerously. again, the risk of pumping more radiation into the air. according to the nuclear safety agency, the radiation level has been dropping. at the gate it was less than the rate of some x-rays you may have. the...

After those higher readings, they drop to a letter sometimes less than some x-rays. its very difficult to pinpoint exactly wa is in this radiation and exactly how dangerous it is and it doesnt stay high all the time. it does drop very quickly. >> stan, thanks very much for that. i want to go right to the white house where the chair of the regulatory commission is speaking. lets listen into the questions with him. >> is the administration satisfied or not with how japan is handling it and how wou...

Out hundreds of thousands of times in japan. people who survived the earthquake and the tsunami, but they lost their homes, all of their belongings. as many as 450,000 people now are said to be homeless. well, on top of the natural disaster, japan is coping with a nuclear crisis, radiation levels spiked again today at the fukushima nuclear plant. and earlier, another fire spotted at one of the reactors. stan grant is following the developments there. hes joining us from tokyo. and stan, what i...

There, and thats raising speculation about a pool of water that may be overheating and evaporating and exposing spent fuel rods. and that may put more radiation into the air. and thats been the big headline here today, suzanne. the radiation levels continue to go up and then they come down. at one point they had to evacuate the workers there, having them come back in a little later. an attempt to bring helicopters in had to be aborted when they found the radiation levels. then it was traces of c...

Senior international correspondent stan grant is live in tokyo. do we know any more details on what they think may have caused that and what they think it is at this point, stan? >> reporter: no, they dont. and that is the problem, kiran. so many questions here that are not answered. you mentioned that white cloud of smoke. they are looking into exactly what has caused that and they are still working on whether this consumption vessel that surrounds the core of the nuclear reactor holding in the...

They say japan needs not only the expertise of the iaea but also needs to assure the world its doing everything possible. >> when this crisis first started, i would go to different websites trying to find out information. i would talk to my friends in japan and the nuclear community here and they had virtually nothing, they were mum. the world nuclear association, theyre the ones putting out better data and were more informed and frequently updating their website with facts than the internationa...