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Report. we want to welcome viewers around the world. a meltdown may be under way in one of the nuclear reactors at the fukushima daiichi plant. but that's disputed by officials. this, after an explosion after the plant on saturday. workers are pumping sea water into the reactor in a last-ditch attempt to try to cool it down. crews are working to get power restored as well. 2.5 million people in japan are now without electricity but that's down from 6 million from just 48 hours ago. the japanese ambassador to the u.s. tells cnn that figure is substantially down. power rationing is set to begi...

To cool it down. we now turn to an eyewitness account. earlier wolf blitzer spoke with a wall street cornrespondent wh was close to the explosion. >> i was a mile away from the explosion of the first reactor, 45 minutes prior to the explosion. myself and my cloolleague got o with the last group of evac cue es. interviewing one of the officials, he was very calm, lucid, and then he got the announcement and his face changed color immediately. and things got very grim very quickly. the last group of employees were evacuated and that's the group we left with. >> the explosion that occurred -- we...

Daniel saying, look, this is a race against time that they could the be losing and, of course, the worst case scenario that this heat and pressure continues, that it melts the fuel rods and the radioactive then seeps out into the atmosphere. given that we've had this explosion that has blown the roof of one of these reactors, that would indicate to you just how serious this situation is. becky, just an update on the people themselves, the security people here have been holding a news conference saying four men have been injured as a result of the blast. but the injuries are not serious. the on...

Problem. however, the enormity of the quake, the shutdown, now the heating and difficulty in trying to call it and now the explosion and some radioactive material escaping into the atmosphere. so yes, this continues to build, becky, a highly nuclearized country. they are familiar with nuclear energy and nuclear power. they know how to deal with it. but you're getting into if you're really in uncertain waters here, becky. >> unchartered territory. stan will be with us throughout the morning. we thank you for that. stick around. we're going to take a very short break. back after this. man: no wa...

Here it is for our viewers. it may not be news to some of on our viewers, but for those who just joined it, it will be. what does that suggest to you? >> we've seen the explosion that took out the outer -- the upper structure. so now we just have a melting frame where it looks like the other three which are still intact on the site. and whenever there is an explosion on that floor today, there is a cloud, a very small particle of smoke which happens for some time. we remember the terrible pictures of 9/11 in new york for example where the buildings collapsed. there was a very large dust cloud....