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If the water boils, it could evaporate exposing rods and risk of meltdown. high level radiation leaked this morning after a third reactor was rocked by an explosion and a third caught fire. in a brief agrees to the nation today, the prime minister urged calm but said there was a quote very high risk of further leakage. some 140,000 people living near the plant are sealing themselves indoors, trying to avoid exposure. fortunately, government officials say winds are disbursing the radioactive mate...

Risk. joining us now, nbc news senior investigative correspondent lisa myers, who spoke with the experts to get their opinion. lisa? >> mika, what u.s. regulators say is that u.s. power plants are built to withstand significant earthquakes and tsunamis and that they believe that current protection its protect the public. but japanese officials would have said the very same thing a week ago. and some scientists say that what is happening in japan could, in fact, happen here. this was not supposed...

All members where we are and where were going, what are the challenges. one of the biggest problems in washington is we never get fact based, get accounting gym mimmg. every time you ignore the problem, you add $12 trillion. if you think for a moment, imagine the potential for every american if they were freed of this debt? it would just be tremendous of where we would be able to go. the challenge really is, is 2011 the year america makes a comeback or is it the year faded in history. >> let me ...

>> mark has had extensive time in japan. >> we show jay carney coming in, sort of brushing aside comments about bahrain. the saudis, we talked about it before, saudis will not allow iranian influence on the peninsula. this could become an ugly situation, couldnt it? >> thats right, joe. bahrain is just across the water from iran. we havent seen how the iranians will act but theyre very opportunistic put with saudi intervention they may uptick they are with the arab people and its much like the i...