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Japan's prime minister plans to tour the quake ravaged region, and, once again, japan is raising the death toll and now stands at more than 8400 people. greg palkot is streaming live from osaka, japan with the latest. greg? >> reporter: heather, a gloomy, rainy day here but some optimism on the nuclear crisis front. as you know, two of the six re'r reactors in question are thought to be under control in what is called a cold shut down, two others, the two most seriously damage have been sprayed with sea water throughout the weekend, using fire engines and their situation basically stabilized, ...

Over the safety of one particularly vulnerable facility, located within miles of the big apple, julie bandaras, live in our new york city newsroom with more on that, hi, julie. >> reporter: in light of the catastrophe in japan, concerns are deepening for new yorkers living in a 50 mile radius of indian point, power plant, calling for renewed called for it to be shut down, governor cuomo saying it is too vulnerable to earthquakes, in the nation, and in the 40-year history, the westchester county plant experienced radiation leaks, useless warning sirens, transformer explosions an oil spills. its...

Integrity of the core, what's left in the structural integrity of the core. so i don't think it is a simple matter to dump a heavy material like sand to try to cover the spent fuel pools where you might well cause a worse situation. >> so the way forward remains attempting to continue to cool the spent fuel pool. that is the priority and get power up and ultimately the cooling system running so they can take care of the job? >> that would be the goal, to transition to cold shut down state and wait until the decay of the material takes care of the problem itself. then it will be a cleanup mess ...