now, incredible pictures coming in again out of japan. in fact, this fire broke out at an oil refinery near tokyo. tonight, the bigger concern is what is happening at a nuclear power plant it so happens that we re getting live pictures from nhk in now. new video coming off the nhk feed. nuclear power plant emergency across that nation. plus, the president says he is heart-broken by the devastation in japan. tonight, the u.s. military is on the move. help is on the way. it s a global disaster. team fox coverage continues across america and around the world. this is the fox report. how does gm exccelerate ? by designing, building and selling the vehicles the world wants today and into the future. and by choosing the new york stock exchange to accelerate their business. challenge the need for such heavy measures
network report that two reactors are rising and no longer to control the pressure levels inside. serious. team fox coverage of the disaster aftermath. shannon bream and laura ingle with more. the japanese government has now issued a state of emergency. what s the situation? the tokyo electric power company announcing the cooling system at a second nuclear facility in the fukushima area has failed. three reactors now at that plant. radiation now leaking outside of the plant according to japan s nuclear safety agency. a swift evacuation was ordered for nearly 3,000 people within a two mile radius. but now with temperatures rising, combined with the uncertainty of when they can be cooled down, the evacuation order has widened to a six mile radius. officials will release a slightly radioactive vapor they say to relieve pressure that will not effect the environment or human health according to those officials, shep.
provide wll be providing. japan i m sure will come back stronger than ever, hopefully with our help. shepard: in the united states, waves are swamping hawaii beaches and damaging harbors in california along the boarder with oregon. that s where these pictures are. this is what many hawaiians woke up to in the middle of the night. [ buzzer ] a tsunami warning is in effect. shepard: we have team fox coverage of the epic disaster. alicia acuna at the earthquake center. and first, trace gallagher. japan continuing to get rocked. reporter: since the 8.9 earthquake, they have been struck with three major aftershocks and two were stronger than the san francisco earthquake in 1989. i want to show you video inside a grocery store. this will give you an idea this is an office building in tokyo and this will give you an idea how powerful the earthquake was. this is hundreds of miles away
and rocked cities hundreds of miles from epicenter an spawned dozens and dozens, as we hear it of aftershocks. look at one of japan s three nuke we re power plants, that are having some problems right now, the worst in the city of onahana where police ordered evacuations where a fire disabled a cooling system there. no reports of radiation leaking, secretary of state hillary clinton says the u.s. is sending coolant. there are fires as well, though, burning across the region with several major explosions, and japanese oil an chemical plants, you are looking at one over the oil refineries on your screen there. incredible pictures, live team fox coverage, trenton truitt, and, let s begin with trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom in los angeles. trace? reporter: john, they are telling us the expert now saying those tsunami waves are a little bit later than expected here in california. but they do believe the first effects are now coming to shore
strikes against qaddafi s army of non-libyan mercenaries. as he unleashing a major attack to try to take back rebel territory. let s get to team fox coverage now. jen griffin at the bernanke with more on the u.s. warships in the mediterranean. first our steve harrigan streaming live from capital of tripoli. what s the situation there tonight? shepard, over the past couple of hours, we have heard steady, small arms fire in the distance behind us. right now it s impossible to tell whether that is simply celebratory fire, excited firing off their weapons or whether, in fact, there is a fight going on. right now our movements are controlled by the libyan government here in tripoli. what we say is not controlled but can i tell you even moving around this city at night with the government escort is dicey. there are rings of security everywhere in this capitol. and it s a real mix, a hodgepodge of militia, police, as well as soldiers, sometimes the communication seems dicey as