Uranium Rods News Today

>> we had three developments around iran, sendi inin ining ss around the world. we have conflicting of iran cutting off oil to six eu nations and theres reports that they were involved in two bombin bombings. senator gillibrand, thank you for joining the program. >> pleasure. >> lets talk first about iran. theres a lot going on. the enrinched uranium rods of course you are serving on the senate armed services community, how is this changing the reaction to iran, we heard low ringing alarm bells ...

This is a multilayered crisis. were dealing with the issue of search and recovery, search and rescue. but japan is also dealing with the fear of a possible nuclear disaster. with the second explosion at a stricken power plant that has taken place. lets bring in cnns tom foreman following the breaking news for us. >> all eyes are on the fukushima daiichi plants up here. this is the one that everyones concerned about. you mentioned these explosions. this is the first one, a hydrogen explosion insi...

Its been good at times, at other times theyve had the water level drop and had them exposed and the heat has been building up. the whole issue here is you have a bidup of steam which you have to release in some fashion. that will automatically release some sort of radioactivity into the environment. is the question is how much, does it pose a real threat. right now theyre saying pretty much not. but if they cant get this heating under control, if this goes further, then you start looking at a me...

Of the building housing the number one reactor at this stricken nuclear plant. you see the smoke obviously an explosion. so today the roof blew off the number three reactor. keep in mind were talking specifically abo specifically about number one, two, three. both of these reactors may have had partial meltdowns already. perhaps so bad enough to begin with. but now we have this. at the number two reactor, the water level dropped around the extremely hot fuel rods not just once but twice. so they...

After, the devastation. the green is gone. thats sendai. also pretty interesting to look at sendai airport because obviously planes arent coming in here at all anymore because youre about to see why. let me move the before, and you can see the after. just mud, muck, and what happens when a tsunami washes over this particular area. the next place, this is the fukushima power plant. this is the before. this is where weve been talking about some of these explosions, some of the uranium rods being e...

Someone who knows that region intimately well. >> chris cillizza putting a vote in governor granholm for dnc likely replacement. chris cillizza, thanks so much. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow on the show, well take a closer look at japans nuclear facilities with james actin. and my colleague, tamron hall has a look at whats on "news nation." >> good to see you, norah. next hour, developing news out of japan where uranium rods reportedly likely melting, at a ...