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To cool down the spent fuel rods and the power source has been hooked back up to reactor two but that cooling pump is not yet back operational. experts say there is so much pressure inside the reactors themselves it will be difficult to get water inside. another problem the spent fuel rods in the pools there are reports that the nuclear regulatory commission believes that one of those tanks, specifically number 4, could have a hole in it which is why the water is leaking out i want to show you this because waoepl are having a very difficult time understanding these fuel rods. come back here on...

Explosion did not compromise the core facility. the same process, deja vu all over again. we lose a cooling pump, had problems at one reactor, the hydrogen builds up, then explodes. that happened at unit 1 and apparently at unit 3 and we have to assess how significant the damage is. hopefully just the outer structure, concrete building itself and left unaffected the reactor and unaffected the containment vessel. if it were to affect those things, that would be bad news. oh, and by the way, they're actively trying to pump sea water into that unit number 3 in order to cool it down so we have to ...

Guiding us through it. you've got to meet this guy, a former commander. he's a former astronaut. he was a commander on the international space station. he's done space walks himself. and we're -- as you know on this show, we like talking about space and understanding what's going on out there, because what happens out in space is very important to what happens down on earth. they come up with inventions and discoveries out there that serve us here on earth. leroy joins me again, this time from mountain view, california. i think this guy just travels between places. every time i talk to you, yo...

On top of race fan, and eight people were killed. he writes on his facebook page he was incredibly dev stateded. people were standing as littles a ten feet from the trucks. china overtook japan as the world's second large of the economy and they should claim second place for all of 2010. you can see the projections in the dark blue. the international monetary funds values the u.s. economy at $15 trillion this year. let's go to the international space station where they are trying to replace a cooling pump that went kaput more than a week ago. they hope the third fix-it space walk will do t...

Checking top stories, china is poised to become the world's second biggest economy, pushing japan to third place. chinese economy has been fueled by exports an massive population. amid increased tensions in on the korean peninsula, north korea is responding to exercises with tough talk. astronauts taking a space walk this morning to replace a cooling pump on the space station. today's work is the third of a three-part repair job that began more than a week ago. seems like we need a cooling pump like that across much of the nation today, huh? >> yeah, yeah. we are starting to squeeze some o...