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The situation is fluid to say the least. as you say, a lot of the mixed reports. a fire at one japanese nuclear plant, and cooling problems and mixed reports of whether they were able to cool it down and whether or not there was a radiation leak, and some evacuation of japanese citizens of course around this area, but what is interesting is that secretary of state hillary clinton said earlier today in washington that a u.s. air force plane took some cooling liquid, coolant into japan to help cool down that reactor that they airlifted some supplies in. i have to tell you that we asked about tha...

>> reporter: yes. the second explosion in the number three reactor is exactly the same that took place in the first reactor just the other day. what happens here is as they release steam from the reactor to relieve the pressure, the water particles disintegrate and disburse and that's a combustible mix. that affected the outer wall of the building and the roof. at the same time it knocked out the coolant in the number two reactor. now we have three separate reactors all backing these cooling problems and they have been trying to bring it under control. even that was disrupted when human error ...

The death toll mounting. exact numbers unknown. now a nuclear emergency. several badly damaged power station reactors with serious cooling problems. pressure building. reports now of radiation venting at two of them. we'll talk to a woman whose husband was in one of the plants when all this began, he escaped. all of it and everything else. the result of the fifth largest quake in recorded history. just look at that wave. followed by the wave, a fast-moving tsunami wave that turned everything into its past, even miles inland, into rubble. watch as it hits those buildings head on. this is what i...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.

Couple of hours ago. of course there was an explosion in the number 3 reactor. that was a hydrogen explosion in the outer building, which houses the reactor itself. now that was similar to another explosion in the number one reactor just a couple days ago. it also had similar damage. it blew out one of the walls of the building there. now there is also ongoing concerns about radiation. however, authorities here say the radiation levels have actually been decreasing over the last couple of days. but they've still got this 20 kilometer, 12 or 13-mile exclusion zone. we're now hearing that the nu...