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>> it's pretty rough in the tennessee valley of north alabama from georgia to mississippi. we have damage of some kind. we do not have electrical power. we anticipate not having electrical power for anywhere from three to four days on the short side to a week or two on the long side. without electrical power it means you don't have ready access to gasoline and other fuels. you can have gas at the gas station but if the pumps don't have electricity you can't get gasoline. our hospitals seem to be doing better, they have generators. we are trying to insure they get the fuel they need for their g...

Come in and out of there? >> reporter: they have the luxury of open spaces or open gates here. they are going to be able to who have their airlines. american, airtran, frontier they will be able to move those into those slots. right now the hurdle is trying to get the computer systems moved over and the electrical power back on. the utility here says should happen in the next couple of hours. they will move over into new slots while they do wholesale work on concourse c. they are trying to make the rest of the cosmetic repairs, at least some of them, before they get going tomorrow morning. >> ...

Actually a different nuclear power plant called onigawa, some miles further north closer to the epicenter. that reactor was shut down, is in safe condition, and does have offsite electrical power. that plant is also doing fine. >> so in terms of the radioactive risk from another earthquake, what would be your number one concern at this point? >> well, the concern, obviously, is having -- the initial earthquake and tsunami, which have caused significant damage. each additional aftershock and earthquake, do they have a cumulative effect? so far it appears from the limited information we have ava...

Water into the cooling system into steam, it will start to evaporate. if the power is off so long that the watery vap rates so much that the water levels fall so low that the nuclear core itself gets exposed to the air, it is undissipated heat and will cause what is known as nuclear melt down. not using it as a metaphor, it is literally. it overheats, it melts, it melts through and ultimately destroys the reactor, then we pray whatever containment facilities built around the reactor are sufficient to actually contain the disaster. at 2:43:00 p.m., they reported that the three reactors were shu...