what did we learn on the show tonight craig craig: good night, everybody. good night. [cheers an,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, from japan ever did come across you re watching cbs 5 eyewitness news in high definition. if radiation from japan ever did blow across the ocean, we d know about it. a look at the sophisticated detection system in the bay area. and a new look at the healing power of music. i play the drums for her and she said me name. i said my god, this is amazing. what music can do for alzheimer s and stroke patients that pill cannot. good everyoning, i m ken. and i m dana king. bay area pharmacies are inundated with a request for pill to fight radiation poisoning. we learned that new radiation monitoring may be installed here. we ll have more on that in a moment. we start in japan, the real possibility of a nuclear meltdown. japanese are taking safety into their own hands. they are getting mixed messages from their own government. another crisis at the f
you re watching cbs 5 eyewitness news in high definition. if radiation from japan ever did blow across the ocean, we d know about it. a look at the sophisticated detection system in the bay area. and a new look at the healing power of music. i play the drums for her and she said me name. i said my god, this is amazing. what music can do for alzheimer s and stroke patients that pill cannot. good everyoning, i m ken. and i m dana king. bay area pharmacies are inundated with a request for pill to fight radiation poisoning. we learned that new radiation monitoring may be installed here. we ll have more on that in a moment. we start in japan, the real possibility of a nuclear meltdown. japanese are taking safety into their own hands. they are getting mixed messages from their own government. another crisis at the fukushima nuclear plant. a second fire. it lasted only a half hour, but signified japan s unpredictable nuclear troubles. plant workers had to step back a
tonight: the extraordinary we do believe that there is a possibility that melt down has occurred. nuclear anxiety in japan. tonight extraordinary measures after word of of emergency. 6.12 days after the 8.9 catastrophe. now, as new tsunami video emerges, thousands of miles away a tour of the bay area damage and the outrage. this is a joke, it s sickening. good evening. the official death toll from japan s earthquake and tsunami just rose tonight to at least a thousand. and if those disasters weren t bad enough, now this the government says there s probably a partial melt down going on right now at a japanese nuclear power plant. here is the source of the fear. reporter: this blast at a nuclear power plant is putting all of japan on edge. three reactors are having problems with their cooling function. and top government spokesman says a partial melt down is likely underway. authorities have evacuated more than 200,000 people living within a 12-mile radius of the