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Want to take you to japan, where there's a zblimglimmer of news. workers plugged a hole spilling radioactive was north ocean but the prime minister warns this is not a time to be on mystic, he says. engineers are scrambling to stop another hydrogen explosion by injecting nitrogen gas into the reactor container. charles hadlock from tokyo, closely following today's developments. good day. with the plug now, does this help the cooling challenge that you and i have been talking about for so many weeks now? >> reporter: yes and no. yes, it stops the pleau of radioactive water reaching the pacific ...

There's no indication yet that that radioactive water has gotten outside the containment vessel that surrounds it. there's that possibility because there was a hydrogen explosion in that reactor. this could be, at the very least it will be a serious setback in the efforts to contain those reactors or worse it could lead to a lot more radiation into the environment. rain, when it's raining here like it is now, is not a happy thing at all because it brings radiation out of the sky and sometimes into the water supply as it did here in tokyo, bringing the temporary warning that infants shouldn't b...

That water turned out to be 10,000 times the level that would normally be at that part of the plant. there shouldn't be water at that part of the plant anyway. now what officials are saying is the only way it could be that contaminated is if there was some kind of leak from the reactor itself, either a crack in the core perhaps or perhaps leaking from the pipes that go in and out of the reactor. they don't know exactly how much is leaking. they don't know how long it's been leaking or exactly what caused it. i could have come from the initial explosion some three days after the tsunami, the hy...

The earthquake. and this is a fox news alert.ba. >> nuclear officials confirm hydrogen explosion at the fukushima plant. >> they are pumping sea water around the reactor to try to cool it down and stop any kinds of melt down. the japanese authorities say there could be a partial melt down already but they don't know because they can't get into the reactor. >> sending one helicopter to dump 50 tons of water on a nuclear power plant is like putting a squirt gun on a forest fire. >> what did gorbachev do in 96 he called off the red airport. hit churn noble with helicopters sands bags concrete and...

You're saying? >> there's a disagreement, first of all, about the nature of the problem. is there a hole in that spent fuel pond? is it leaking out? every time you pour water in, is that leaking out. japanese officials and american officials have different points of view about that. and if there is a hole, then the question, is you know, how are you going to fix it? how do you get close enough to fix it? that's the story to watch. that's the danger to watch as we go forward. now, let me quickly add, progress, progress, but tenuousment you know, we can wake up tomorrow and there could be a hydr...