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Nas. talking $12 billion in cuts for a week while fully funding the department of defense. not likely to go anywhere. it's a chicken. as of yet, no one blinked. >> thanks so much. workers at the crippled fukushima power plant finally stopped the leak of radioactive water into the pacific ocean, but no sell bragtss under way yet. workers grappling with radiation burns and the prospect of more ruptures as they try to keep nuclear fuel from overheating. nbc's charles sad loclock joins live. how vulnerable is the plant to more ruptures s fukushima? >> reporter: still ahave vulnerable situation. ...

Still pumping low-level amounts of radioactive water into can tainment tanks to make room for the mother highly radioactive water pooling around in the reactors basements. they cannot get to the area to fix it up until they get that water out. that's critical to repairing the plumbing systems with the cooling systems with the nuclear reactors. now, at this moment they're also pumping nitrogen into containment building number 1, to prevent the buildup of hydrogen. three hydrogen explosions early in this crisis heavily damaged the entire plant. so they're trying to stabilize the plant as best th...