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Produce heat. you need election terrorist run the valves, pumps, and -- electricity to run the valves, pumps, and apparently the tsunami knocked out the emergency generators. the batteries won't last forever, they're rushing to find an alternate form of electricity. they don't have a lot of time do this, but so far they don't have a lot of damage either. they're really racing to get things set up before the battery power is lost. >> and how long do we have here? what is the hour-by-hour time scale that we could be looking at before there's some sort of inevitable meltdown? >> at this point, a ...

Fukushima plant? >> when you shut down the new york plant, you're continuing to produce heat. you need election terrorist run the valves, pumps, and -- electricity to run the valves, pumps, and apparently the tsunami knocked out the emergency generators. the batteries won't last forever, they're rushing to find an alternate form of electricity. they don't have a lot of time do this, but so far they don't have a lot of damage either. they're really racing to get things set up before the battery power is lost. >> and how long do we have here? what is the hour-by-hour time scale that we could be ...

Main gate near one of the country's nuclear plants. rattling in the earthquake, japan's nuclear power plant. an american working inside told his wife of falling lights and windows. >> everything was shaking. and the next thing they were told to get out, leave, evacuate. >> 3,000 people living close to the plant were also told to get out. >> so far they have not seen evidence of radiation leaks. but obviously you have to take all potential precautions. >> when the quake hit, a reactor automatically shut down. but power coming into the plant was also disrupted, shutting down the system that cool...

That's pretty rare here. we've seen some heavy machinery come in. it took us 14 hours just to get here from the provincial of xinhua. it's a long winding road in up this mountain. we're essentially on the foothills of the himalayan mountains. the tibet autonomous region is next door. we're at an altitude of 12,000 feet. that is one of the difficulties of just getting in. there is a nearby airport. but when the earthquake happened, it knocked out the electricity plant and meant there was no electricity and meant that airport was not operational. emergency generators have been brought in and tha...

Started cleaning up around the apartment. as we were in the room, my daughter who is also shaking, was screaming loudly, things are falling. as we looked out the window, to see if we could see anything outside and the whole block was dark. we lost electricity. everyone lost electricity around us. it's quite odd in a city of six million and to see darkness. but we could see emergency generators started but very dark. suddenly, we saw a number of explosions, as well, which we had heard conflicting reports. some of them may have been gas related explosions, natural gas. others were transforms, el...