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tokyo electric says it plugged a major leak at the fukushima nuclear plant today. highly radioactive water gushed into the pacific for days, if not weeks now. and workers try concrete, saw dust, even newspaper to stop that leak. well, a chemical mixture dubbed liquid glass finally did the trick. today is the first day of the new school year in japan for many children from the fukushima area and they are attending tokyo schools. children outside the nuclear evacuation zone will go to their usual schools. teams will check radiation levels to reassure the parents, of course, and schoo...

But i think that it's just an example of this is not excellence in nuclear operation and it's just another example of how the crisis is being mismanaged. >> they also used, tepco tried to use, michael, a mix of newspapers, sawdust, cement to help seal a crack. that failed. now they're trying to use bath salts i guess to find the source of the leak. this leak is different than the water that they're just pouring out. >> yeah. that's correct. as i understand it from the reports that i've read, the water that they're dumping is water that has been processed to some degree. so the levels of radioa...

In fact leaking out because that is very, very, very highly contaminated water. and we certainly need to deal with that promptly. >> and kyung, i know you've tried to and had a tough time doing it. have a lot of reporters been able to speak to the families of the workers at the plant? >> certainly not. what reporters have been doing is trying to talk to those family members, and what the difficulty has been is if you go to the shelters, and i've been to a couple of these shelters where these evacuees from fukushima are staying, there is the sense, and one person told me directly, that tepco ha...

Michael friedlander, i appreciate your xwptees, as always. thank you. kyung lah as well, thanks for the reporting. up next something, good news out of japan. the dog rescued from an island of debris on friday is back with her family tonight. we'll show you the amazing reunion that took place. and transocean, which owned the oil rig that exploded in the gulf of mexico, says its statement calling 2010 its "best year in safety" may have been insensitive. you think? all right. discov customersall are gettinfive percent cashback bonus at home improment stores. it pays to switch, it pays to di...

Mismanaged. >> they also used, tepco tried to use, michael, a mix of newspapers, sawdust, cement to help seal a crack. that failed. now they're trying to use bath salts i guess to find the source of the leak. this leak is different than the water that they're just pouring out. >> yeah. that's correct. as i understand it from the reports that i've read, the water that they're dumping is water that has been processed to some degree. so the levels of radioactivity are dramatically lower than the water that's leaking. then the logic is we're going to dump a lot of very low-level radioactivity to g...