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Homeless campsite and a suspect has been arrested. governor rick perry has asked president obama to declare texas a disaster area. perry says conditions this spring are the driest they've been in texas since 1917. more than 1 1/2 million acres have burned this wildfire season. with radiation levels too high for humans, remote controlled robots have been sent in to inexpect japan's nuclear reactors. the robots are being used to determine conditions to help assess a shutdown strategy. tokyo electric says it may take until the end of the year to put the fk fook knukushima nuclear a cold shutdow...

>> president obama will head to chile late they are morning to lay out his vision for deeper ties within latin america. in japan, new problems at the country's crippled nuclear complex are overshadowing some success at cooling the plant's overheated reactors over the weekend. there had been some optimism. this morning, workers at the facility were evacuated after gray smoke rose from the spent storage pool at the plant's number three reactor. it development comes after officials said they had successfully restored water pumps to two other reactors, putting them under control in a state known...

Facility were evacuated after gray smoke rose from the plant's third reactor. that comes after officials said they had successfully restored water pumps to two other reactors, putting them under control in a state known as a cold shutdown. however, the crisis far from over with the discovery of radiation tainted vegetables and tap water adding to public fears about contaminated food and drink. all that as officials now predict the death toll from the country's earthquake and tsunami will exceed 18,000. energy secretary steven chu weighed in yesterday an concerns about the japanese government's...

Osaka. it's now monday morning and what more do we know about the nuclear situation in fukushima? >> yeah, harris, those two reactors you mentioned that are pretty much safe, they were pretty much undamaged by the quake, but still, in cold shutdown and they're not to worry about. as for the gas pressure building up in yet another reactor, that has stabilized and foors of venting radioactive gas which looked like a possibility in the last 24 hours, that seems to have gone away. the attention today, monday, japan time on reactor number two, it's also heavily damaged, but there is electricity now...

Inside the reactor, and there's concern that there is a partial meltdown at each of these three reactors. so the question is, will the containment vessels, will the three feet of concrete and reinforced steel hold that together so that -- those partial meltdowns do not reach the environment, and that's what people are concerned about, especially for reactor number two. last night there was an explosion inside the reactor and you had the government and the iaea speculate that the containment vessel, the last line of defense, had been damaged, possibly compromised. we don't know that for sure. b...