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With the latest on that and plus anna i was told a few seconds ago that the japanese defense inistry released the first peculiars from inside the plant. what do you know about that? >> that's exactly right, natalie. they held a press conference and released video taken by the military inside this plant. it shows that the tank is firing water into reactor three. this of course is the number one priority. this is where they think the pull containing the spent rots has the least amount of water. they need to cool it down. that is what the pictures are showing. spraying water directly into the rea...

Explosion. i take that back. in unit two there was no hydrogen explosion so that may be a good indicater that they could get the pumps working. hard to say but that is a better possibility. >> the japanese are growing a little more skeptical at least some of the ones and how even in terms of the fact that the united states offered lots of assistance that may have been rejected or turned away or maybe they said later. that doesn't give me great comfort. >> i think there is a lot of things when the dust settles on this and we really look back at what happened there are key elements we need to ta...

Thfirst is the reactors themselves. all five of the containment has appeared to be maintained. because we had nor time, the fuel in there has turned to degrade. it has gotten less potent. so that is a positive. it is the spent fuel pools i think we need to be most concerned about. as you know, within the last 24 hours they re-established hours in units five and six. that is going to allow them to put water into the enclosed spent fuel pool. you mentioned the fact at unit two they are hoping to re-establish power to get that spent fuel pool facility water -- >> are the pumps still working? >> w...

Able to keep the fuel rods cool enough to the point where they wouldn't melt down completely? >> i suspect that they are not able to keep these fuel rods cooled enough. there's clearly been some fuel damage, because of the hydrogen explosion in the pool of unit 4. >> okay. not cool enough, but how bad is all of that? because we have not seen what is, you know, commonly known at nuclear meltdown. >> no. no. what i think is happening is that the water they are putting on it, any water is good at this point in the incident. so it's good that they're getting water directed into the pool. but the p...

Explosion. i take that back. in unit two there was no hydrogen explosion so that may be a good indicater that they could get the pumps working. hard to say but that is a better possibility. >> the japanese are growing a little more skeptical at least some of the ones and how even in terms of the fact that the united states offered lots of assistance that may have been rejected or turned away or maybe they said later. that doesn't give me great comfort. >> i think there is a lot of things when the dust settles on this and we really look back at what happened there are key elements we need to ta...