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Georgetown central. tim, you have one bit of a water and 11,500 tons of water, they are pouring into the ocean versus the higher toxic, more contaminated water coming out of the nuclear reactor number two -- is that worrisome at all that they are putting the water into the ocean? >> well, they are in a tough situation, because as you say, this highly radioactive water, they don't want to release unless they have to, so they are moving that to the containment facilities that are currently full, and moving what is in the containment facility which is a relatively low radioactive waste into the o...

So, i don't know what they are -- i don't know what the next game plan is in terms of plugging the leak, but the leak is filling up the tunnels and the trenches below the reactor which is making it impossible for the workers to work in there and also threatening the electric power supply, and that is why it is vital they pump this water out into the containment facilities that they have that will buy them a lot of time to get this problem solve and perhaps once the water is gone, they can go in with more conventional methods the plug the leak. >> and that is a perfect segue to vital power supp...

>> reporter: yeah, absolutely, christine. the story today has been radiation. these workers had to evacuate because these levels once again spiked. it's been a common trend the last few days, the radiation levels spike and drop back again. helicopters flying over today to try to check the level of radiation to see if they could actually drop water into these reactors to help in the cooling process. they actually found that the radiation levels were so high above the area that they simply had to suspend that activity. they will try again tomorrow. now, there's also been some traces of cesium an...

Water, the stronger the storm is going to be. now this is the latest projected path from the national hurricane center. notice how wide that cone of uncertainty is. it goes from all the way north of corpus christi down to throughout much of northern mexico. here's why the cone is so wide. the computer models have been all over the place. and every time we get a run of these, four times a day, these lines have been zig-zagging all over the place. and we've seen the trend up to the north. if that ends up happening, drew, this could have a little bit of interaction. not directly, but the winds ar...

This is the only device that they have that's capable of doing this. this say one of a kind job, never, ever tried before. >> so, david, this i take it is a temporary fix, it's just to stop the oil from spewing out. long-term, what do they plan to do? >> reporter: that's right. this is going to go over the largest of the leaks. they've got two leaks they have to cap still. this is go going over the largest of those leaks. it's going to funnel that oil to a containment vessel on the surface. it's going to contain 80% to 85% of the oil. so the leak will not be completely stopped once it gets dow...