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Aerial information saying the cooling of the overheated spent fuel pools is having little effect, meaning the water drops in the water cannons not doing the job at this point. reactor number three is still highly sensitive and the fuel pool is believed to be dangerously low. the japanese and u.s. governments have had different ways to deal with radiation fears, but now a team of specialists is headed to japan. they're going to give their best advice on manning the situation. >> chris lawrence with more on this operation and how they're trying to help. hey, chris. >> hey, kiran. hey, christin...

These buildings. what does that tell you? >> well, i think anderson cooper had it right. there's a lot of rubble there. and it isn't clear that once they get the electricity to the pumps that are in those buildings that the pumps will work. and if the pumps work, it's not clear that the pipes that are connected to them will work. so getting the electricity's critical, but it's not game over at that point. it's a real big question about whether or not they'll be able to get water in. on unit 4 this picture is a little hard to see, but there's a definite crack in the side of unit 4. and that's w...

The real bottom line is we have a situation where the nuclear complex has been compromised as a result of a station blackout. the reactors have a very limited cooling for some period of time and have released some form of their nuclear radioactivity and the issue that makes this similar to three mile island is the reactor. the thing that makes it more complex is we don't have one reactor that's affected here, we have four plus a large fuel pool. >> what's your worry now that it's reached five. does that mean it will keep heading upwards in terms of horror? >> chris, the real core issue, no pun...

Jeg bri gregory jaczko delivered the bad news. >> what we believe at this time is that there has been a hydrogen explosion in this unit due to an uncovering in the fuel in the fuel pool. we believe that secondary containment has been destroyed and there is no water in the spent fuel pool age we believe that radiation levels are extremely high which could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures. >> no water in the spent fuel pool. that means that radioactive fuel rods are now exposed without party, the fuel rods could overheat and catch fire, a fire that would spread radioactivi...

>> i tell you the truth, i think you're overplaying the difference, the information that they put out was available -- in fact, i got it this morning from the japanese nuclear industry website. they put out a chart and that spent fuel pool in unit 4 is marked in red and about the water being low. it's a very serious situation and i think that they're very much aware. i mean, my god, the emperor spoke on the subject. but we are at a very, very critical stage, the company is saying and i don't know if this is correct, they're bringing up a power source, a new line and they hope to connect it up ...