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Brave workers at the stricken nuclear plant to head off the catastrophic core meltdown that has been the tier of the entire world for the -- the fear of the entire world the last couple of days. they are making some gains. they are getting seawater pumped through fire engines, high powered pumps hitting the stricken reactors to try and cool it down and try to bring the radiation levels down. in the past, about two hours this he have been doing this to reactor four, that is one of the worst and most dangerous of the damaged reactors. no word on what they have done there. they have stopped that ...

Worst disaster in world history. n ter people saying this is already worse than three mile island. that was one reactor, you have multiple reactors here. there's really three battles, the battle to restore power to reactors one and two. that's not going so well. they had hoped on thursday to restore it, they didn't. they hoped on friday to restore, it they didn't. they're saying today they hope to restore it. even if they do, they acknowledge they don't know if the cooling pump are going to work, if it can restart. it may have been damaged in the quake or corroded by the salt water pouring in,...

One and two. but they haven't hooked the cable up to the cooling pumps and we don't know if the pumps will work. in terms of the battle to cool down reactors three and four, it doesn't seem like there's much good news there. >> yeah, it's been a good news/bad news story. it's great they have power lines up and running. now we have to hope that all the way through to the cooling pump will work. they're working on their two best shots first. reactor two looks in pretty good shape when you look at the outside. the outside housing, it doesn't look like there's a lot of destruction. so they're star...

With m.i.t. and dr. sanjay gupta is with me here in tokyo. jim walsh, in terms of what you've seen, the good news i guess is that they've at least hooked up this power to reactor one and two. but they haven't hooked the cable up to the cooling pumps and we don't know if the pumps will work. in terms of the battle to cool down reactors three and four, it doesn't seem like there's much good news there. >> it's boone a good news/bad news story. now we have to hope that all the way through to the cooling pump will work. they're working on their two best shots first. reactor two looks in pretty goo...

From libya all morning and we have a few other headlines. starting with this news alert. video giving us a look at the containment efforts going on at the nuclear sites in japan, spraying the reactors with water to keep temperatures down and stop a melt down. the real goal to restore the electric cooling pump. workers connected an external power line to the plant overnight, but there is no guarantee that will make the pump work, and the government says radiation has now contaminated the food supply surrounding the plant, and dangerous levels of radiation have been found in spinach and milk. an...