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>> that's right, becky. we talked a little bit earlier, becky, about what the worst case scenarios could be. and really, if you're looking at the government's situation and the nuclear officials here, this is already getting into worse than they would have ever hoped for. it's an unprecedented situation. of course, the knock on effect with the nuke clear reactors. they shut down after the quake. from the cooling problems we see steam having to be released, the nuke clear authorities saying some radio activity was released with that steam. an exclusion 10 kilometer zone has been set up. then we...

Sendai and sent walls of water into the country's pacific shores and sweeping away whole villages. what used to be vibrant towns and villages it turned to rubble. more than 27,000 people are either known to have died or are still missing, thousands of bodies will never be found. and again, this what is they are reduced to living. life may never go back to normal. about 130,000 people lost their homes and are still living in shelters. this is also the aftermath of it. there's the nuclear angle, the tsunami crippled the fukushima plant sending radioactive particles over a wide area so people c...

Commissioner for refugees what can be done for the thousands in dire straits. and greece on strike. live pictures of athens as protesters send a message, no more austerity, but with debts in the hundreds of billions, something's got to give. a moment of silence for lives lost in japan, people across the country paused for reflection at the exact moment the tsunami hit two months ago and the lessons learned continue. tokyo has announced plans to review its handling of the nuclear crisis at fukushima as well as killing thousands of people, the tsunami sparked a partial nuclear meltdown. weeks ...

>> well, the trade minister of japan is that a small radiation could occur at the fukushima nuclear plant. that is according to the kyoto news agency. we understand from that news agency that the radiation levels have been recorded as more than eight times the normal amount. now, we know that there has been the evacuation around the nuclear plant. we understand that there's at least a six mile or ten kilometer zone where people have been evacuated. also, the prime minister has made it his call of japanese prime minister kan in a helicopter this morning. he went straight to that plant to see wh...

Intensity. some may be highly radioactive, cesium and iodine, and others not at all. and then there's the type of o radiation emitted. people forget there's three different types. gamma radiation can penetrate the skin. that's a big deal. but other types will not penetrate the skin so you can wash it off and it doesn't affect you. >> reporter: now, the concern here is about this explosion at reactor number two and did actually damage the outer casing, the protective layer that surrounds the reactor's core. if that is the case, there could be more of the nasty stuff seeping out. they don't know...