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Be a potentially dangerous situation. but no abnormalities a t the nuclear plant right now. but at a separate plant, we have just learned that the cooling operation, one of the reactors, has stopped. when the cooling pumps stop due to loss of power or what not, that is the type of scenario that led to the meltdown in 2011. but tepco says they do not believe there's an immediate danger, because the storage tanks can keep the nuclear r0ds for up to seven days without power and they're confident they can get the pumps back within operation well within that time frame. but for the people living in...

>> fires this big tend to smolder for a very, very long time and there can be flareups, just dangerous. what are they doing to avoid that? >> reporter: well, throughout the day and after things -- after they got the flames under control and the actual fire, what has been going on is the cooling operation, where they basically let the embers burn out, and they get to the areas -- they hose down the areas they weren't able to get to last night. this is a 63-story tower and the problem is it snaked up the side of the building. they didn't have hadders to get up there to the higher floors so they ...

Helicopters have now pulled back. we have word they are bringing in water canons to try to keep this rather desperate cooling operation going. this is nuclear safety in extremist. joining us now, a pulitzer prize winning journalist. she's a best selling author of betrayal of trust, collapse of total public health. laurie, thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> there is a human health catastrophe upon us in terms of the quake and tsunami. major health challenge from the reactors, potential escalation of that if things get worse there. how can a government do this well? are there models of good ...

Specially equipped to protect from radiation. they were dropping liquid on the daiichi facility. they are saying the liquid was dropped just on reactor three, not on reactors three and four as they said earlier. they said there was going to be planned 40-minute long shifts for helicopter water air lifts. from what we can tell, they did not complete a full 40-minute shifts today. we don't know why. helicopters have now pulled back. we have word they are bringing in water canons to try to keep this rather desperate cooling operation going. this is nuclear safety in extremist. joining us now, a p...

This rather desperate cooling operation going. this is nuclear safety in extremist. joining us now, a pulitzer prize winning journalist. she's a best selling author of betrayal of trust, collapse of total public health. laurie, thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> there is a human health catastrophe upon us in terms of the quake and tsunami. major health challenge from the reactors, potential escalation of that if things get worse there. how can a government do this well? are there models of good response to challenges this big? >> this one's huge. i don't know if you could really find a gov...