taken a turn for the worse or could potentially get worse? i think that, you know, of course it's difficult to predict the future. as much as we can say, the power plants are in a stable configuration right now and what this really represents is the authorities having gone back and looked at data that was -- that what they thought was going on several weeks ago, when the releases were going on, they have probably it should have been categorized as a 7 back then and now they're coming to the realization. >> it's playing catch-up with the events we know and the deterioration of the events we know. i'll tell you, ali and i both, the day after this earthquake and the tsunami, right away there were assurances from the iaea and others that all four reactors had been shut safely down. from the beginning they've been behind the crisis a little bit. >> yeah. there's absolutely no doubt. it's been one of my frustrations as well. you know, sitting here from a distance trying to piece together information like a