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>> reporter: amid these concerns over what russia may do next, the united nations holding an emergency meeting on the volatile situation at ukraine's zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. ukraine saying russian strikes damaged infrastructure and transformers, briefly cutting off power at europe's largest nuclear plant. the ukrainians also claiming russians are shelling the plant's nearby ash pits where nuclear waste is stored, raising clouds of toxic radioactive dust, stoking ongoing fears of a potential nuclear disaster. >> and so let's bring in ian pannell tonight reporting from kyiv. ian, i wan...

To bari, i'm so sorry this has happened to your community. for me, it is a slightly different story. . the piece i wrote, it began, with a trip i took to auschwitz, when i was a senior in high school. and i remember this moment where i stood over the ash pits of the concentration camps, where people, the dead had been thrown, after going into the furnace. and i couldn't bring myself to cry. and it was a really weird emotional situation for me, where i'm trying to cry, because i know that i should be crying, and i feelt like a fraud in that -- i felt like a fraud in that moment. and then when i...

Hours. >> and a jew. it's been tough. the piece i wrote was about my experience going to a concentration camp when i was a young kid and the camp was in poland and i remember standing over the ash pits and i couldn't cry. i just couldn't will myself to cry, and i felt incredibly, i don't know. i felt like a fraud because i felt this was supposed to be the most poignant part of my spiritual existence. it wasn't that i was a fraud but incredibly blessed i was brought up in a country where i was surrounded by fellow jews but we never felt any form of anti-semitism overtly, certainly nothing compa...

In 2016 it was hurricane matthew. this is something people down there dealt with before. i think colash is something that flew under the radar until 2016 with the duke energy ash pit there that really raised awareness within the state and resulted in a pretty record criminal find against duke of about $100 million and cleaning out their ash pits. they were trying to dig out the old ash pits and trying to put in a new line fill. >> really appreciate your time tonight. you're one of the national reporters out there who i've got a google alert on. i read every single article that you publish. tha...