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Stay there long and it's difficult to fight an enemy if you can't get up next to them and engage the battle. >> after hearing that, 180 workers, they remain inside the plant. they continue their desperate attempt to prevent more radiation from escaping. experts say they may pay the ultimate price for their efforts. as the wife of one of those plant workers explains, their job is taking an emotional tol on their families. >> translator: my husband is in the midst of things. a lot happening and is prepared for the possibility of radiation exposure. all of us, his family sporting him and accept t...

About increasing your likelihood of developing cancer. you know, there's not a lot of data on this sort of thing. to study this, you'd have to knowingly expose people to radiation so they base a lot of what i'm telling you on previous things like chernobyl and trying to extrapolate that. obviously that was a totally different situation. so it's hard to know exactly what the effects would be. but these are assumptions made on past hour. >> dr. sanjay gupta, many thanks, live in tokyo. tens of thousands of americans live in japan, and evacuations are now underway for some of them. the u.s. is ch...

Moved it up to 180 and now saying several hundred working there. the water trucks operating today and flooding the reactors with water and saying too soon to say how successful they have been. the helicopters also dropped water a little earlier today. the ongoing concern about radiation exists particularly when it surrounds the numbers three and numbers four reactors with those spent fuel rods perhaps dangerously exposed in number four and sitting in a pool of water that some believe may have actually evaporated. this effort is going to continue. they are grappling with trying to bring the sit...

Fukushima plant putting their lives on the line to avoid a full-scale nuclear disaster. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is live in tokyo. sanjay, these men who are brely risking their lives to kind of control this crisis, what kind of gear are they using and will it work? >> you know, they have some sort of protective gear. i can show you a couple of things clearly. a hazmat suit that looks like this and wearing a mask that has some sort of respirator component to it and have devices which can help measure the radiation. it kell if someone has been contaminated and measure how...

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