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Jigsaw puzzle where the piece is missing, i've been as frustrated as you are. so i understand it. >> michael, when we think about chernobyl, we think about miles and miles, tens of thousands of miles, uninhabitable for a long time. what is happening to this? as we go to a 7, we've concurrently increased the amount of space around nuclear plant where they don't want people to live or evacuating. is this going to be habitable again? >> yeah. we should separate the two c topics. the issue in terms of the amount of radiation that's gone into the air a good news/bass nude. -- bad news. we've had me...

>> jim walsh, michael friedlander, kyung lah, thank you very much for the reporting. we appreciate it. we're going to continue monitoring this for any late developments tonight. let us know what you think. we're on facebook or follow me on twitter @anderson cooper. i'll try to be tweeting tonight during commercial breaks. who's playing politics over the showdown to extend america's credit limit? is it president obama? the white house did some major explaining today. or is it republican lawmakers? no taking sides, just keeping them ons had. when will eman al obeidy be allowed to leave tripo...

History. by comparison the three mile island accident was classified as a category five. earl yes on "american morning," former plant operator michael friedlander says while fukushima isn't exactly chernobyl, the signs aren't good. >> the power plant was severely damaged. we don't exactly know what the condition it's been in, but just one data point, the fact that we're sitting here a month after the event, still not on a long-term situation of core cooling, we still don't have a backup emergency power supply and still injecting off of water brought in by the u.s. navy several weeks ago is a d...

Readings. and now -- and i think the extension of the evacuation zone and this finding looking back saying there was more radiation released than maybe we had anticipated, my guess is those two things are linked. going forward, anderson, you know, i think of that nrc, the nuclear regulatory commission memo that was leaked. it was a memo from late march that expressed concern about aftershocks because these plants have already been stressed. they've gone through the earthquakes. they're filled with water. you know, and there may be damage to some, more severe in some units than in others. so ye...

Tepco, the plant's owner, now says it has no idea when it will be able to restore normal cooling for the reactors and spent fuel pools. in the last 24 hours two more powerful aftershocks have shaken japan. a 6.6 tremor knocked out power across tokyo, forced workers at the damaged plant to evacuate. at least one person was killed in a landslide. hours later a 6.4 quake struck, killing at least six people. around the same time came word that a fire had broken out at the plant's number 4 reactor. tepco says that fire has been put out. also today for the first time tepco's president visited fukush...