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A desperate rush to get rid of radioactive water at japan's quake-battered nuclear plant. lisa is here. a lot of people are concerned about what is going on in japan right now. >> yes, wolf, and with good reason. workers are now in the process of dumping thousands of tons of contaminated water from a waste treatment plant into the pacific ocean. the facility would then be used to store even more toxic radioactive water being pumped from reactor number two where, a crack is causing a leak. the japanese government calls the dumping unavoidable. and it's considered potentially one of the bigges...

Lisa sylvester is monitoring some of the other top stories in "the situation room" including a decision by engineers at japan's crippled nuclear power plant. >> that's right. workers at the plant are dumping more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the pacific ocean. engineers are trying to stop a leak of even more radioactive water that is gushing into the ocean. japan's chief cabinet secretary calls the dumping unavoidable. the water thrtened to overheat the cooling system at two of the plant's reactors. the u.s. government hopes to prevent more explosions like this one by pressurin...