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Tokyo. they tried a little bit of everything from milky bath salts to shredded newspaper. it doesn't sound very advanced but is it working and if not, what's next? >> reporter: well, this he have to stop the flow of the water, thomas, because if they don't, it's going to be almost impossible for the workers and engineers to get in close enough to even try to fix the broken cooling systems of the overheated reactors. that's the priority. that water is coming from the engineers who are pumping water into the reactors, but there's a leak somewhere, and so they found this eight-inch crack in the c...

Some sort of underground leak somewhere that is coming from that very, very radioactive water we found in the turbine building. time will tell in terms of finding the source. >> michael, the concern and question, if the sea water is being contaminated, is it inevitable the contamination will engulf or or most of japan? >> when you talk about engulfing all of japan, i think that's probably being a bit dramatic. certainly there is no doubt they detected some radiation, some 20 and 30 kilometers away. what we are looking forward to finding out is, that is something localized in a very local regio...

In pressure that would mean that there's a leak somewhere, right? >> reporter: well, every hour that goes by gives them that much more confidence. every hour the pressure goes up a little bit more, about 2 pounds per square inch. they say this is doing exactly what they thought it would do. and it's telling them that this well has integrity that so far they've seen no leaks, and it's exactly what they wanted to see. so the longer this holds, the longer the good news keeps coming out like this, the more confident they're going to be to perhaps keep this well closed in. but that decision is not ...

It may take decades to clean up this disaster and to clean up the disaster in the gulf of mexico so that part of the story will continue, but us a poias y out, there's no guarantee that the test is going to lead to success. it's a very critical several hours now, ed. >> reporter: right now. can i give you a little bit of a time frame here. we're right about halfway through the first six-hour window. the best way to kind of think about this, wolf, is break up the next 48 hours into six-hour blocks, and after each of those blocks all of the experts will huddle back together, compare notes and ki...

The task but i want the senate an the house to come out with the findings. >> that is his way of denying it. but when he hear him and say it, it reads like a denial but had you hear him saying you realize he is fudging it. >> that did not sound like donald trump trying to be serious or be honest, frankly. and look, at this point his credibility is in the negative numbers. you can't believe -- >> especially on this issue. on this issue in particular. >> well on many issues. but on this issue especially. you can't take what he says at face value. these kinds of leaks and obviously there was a le...