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Down of those plants. on the other hand, many of these nuclear power plants are under construction and i don't think the countries will stop them. >> in the united states, nuclear energy is part of president obama's green initiative, or initiative to wean the united states off foreign oil and billions of dollars in loan guarantees for reactors to be built in this country. we do know olli 23 reactors are like this plant we are talking about. this daiichi plant. do you think these plants, there is any ramifications of what is happening in japan of plants of a similar make in the united states? >...

Tough to get around to the people. you don't know about the fear and panic because you can't get to them physically. it's important to get search and rescuers to them tomorrow. >> kelly: that is adam housley laying it out in what the people are facing. >> jamie: and it's a scramble as they try to deal with the damaged nuclear power plants, the government is declaring a state of atomic power emergency. it's asking russia to raise energy sfleismt was the scene at one of the country's major refineries, up in flames. the prime minister says they will increase liquefied natural gas supplies by more...

Understand there's been a series of aftershocks. are these aftershocks, do they amount what you experienceed with the initial earthquake? >> the first one, yes. s first one, i personally felt was just as big as the first earthquake. it all started again, everything was shaking again and we've had quite a few aftershocks after that. and the last one we had was actually just about four minutes ago. so everyone is saying we're wondering if the aftershocks are going to get bigger. >> right now, it's the middle of the night. everything is dark. you don't have power where you are. >> we do. there's ...

Down. so can you imagine being in the middle of an earthquake with 30 aftershocks and with all lights out. >> and the thing about the power plants, we've got a news alert that a nuclear power plant is in trouble right now. there's been an escape of emergency declared. there's a cooling system failure. there's no electricity to cool the core. no radiation leaks at this point. but nonetheless, japan is a nation that gets a lot of its electricity from atomic power and if they can't cool down the core, that's going to be a problem. >> and brian just mentioned a few moments ago, the president has p...

Nuclear power plant has had a cooling system failure. no radiation leakage at this point. but japan is a country that does get 30%. about 30% of their electricity from atomic power. there are 55 nuclear plants in the country and as we just heard from him, they've shut them down just to be safe. >> we did know from tom byer who is in tokyo said there's gas fires in and around the suburbs of that -- >> at the gas refinery right there. >> of that city. meanwhile -- >> we're learning that orange county, california, many of you have been asking what's going to happen to california, well, closing it...