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It's 12 minutes past the hour right now. we're continuing to watch as developments continue in the nuclear situation in japan. we saw those water drops, helicopters trying to cool down some of the reactors at the plant. >> right. >> engineers at the fukushima plant are hoping to avoid full meltdown, the goal at that time and trying to get things back on track. we talked about four out of the six plants have had some sort of explosion, hydrogen explosion within them as engineers try to cool the reactors and to make sure that radiation levels don't spike. >> there are fires elsewhere in the spen...

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The workers to focus on the core problems and let the others just simply be managed, that would be welcome news and a victory. of course, we could wake up and there could be another hydrogen explosion, so on and so forth. so i'm not saying we're out of the woods. but each day that passes that we don't have a new dramatic development that is worse, buys time, allows the reactor units to get a little cooler and allows the team on the ground, which must be dog tired, to come up with a plan to deal with that nuclear waste and the spent fuel rods in reactors three and four. >> yeah, michael freelan...

I have been talking about reactors 1 and 3. now reactor 2 an explosion. how serious is this? what does this mean? >> well, it certainly sounds more serious, anderson. you know, when i first heard about it, i thought, oh, this is just the same movie being rerun. right? we had a hydrogen explosion at unit 1. we had a hydrogen explosion at unit 3. they put sea water today into unit 2. ah, this must be a hydrogen explosion. but the press conference that the utility gauge seemed to suggest that there may be something more and more serious, that the containment vessel might be ruptured. that's bad n...