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"ac 360" coming up 2 1/2 hours. you'll want to be with us for that. despite fire crews' efforts to spray tons of water on the krim'lled reactors, the japanese network nhk reports water levels are still very low at the storage pools. in addition to the radiation hazard efforts to stabilize the reactors are taking an emotional toll at workers on the plant. let's start there with cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta, also in tokyo. and sanjay, i cannot imagine, and again, we praise these heroes who are trying but i cannot imagine what it would have been like to have been in there, m...

The tsunami. those backup pumps were knocked out by the tsunami. i want you to see what those sprayers and air drops are aiming at, not the reactor core itself which is in the center of this picture, but the pool that houses the rods. it's on the right. those rods don't generate power, but they are still radioactive. when the pool runs dry or merely low, those rods overheat. fires and explosions can happen after that. the worst case scenario is a meltdown, which let's be clear, has not happened yet at least not on a major scale as far as we know. we do know from the international atomic energy...

Not happened. people are using that word all over the place, or at least it hasn't happened on a major scale as far as we know. what we do know, at least 20 people are believed to be suffering from radiation sickness and the nap niece network nhk is reporting elevated radiation levels 20 mile from the plant. that's higher than we've seen at times in tap water, but not nearly as high as the air itself. 20 miles, by the way, is beyond the japanese evacuation zone, on the edge of the stay indoors graphic. there's the 10 kilometer zone, the initial evacuation zone, and then there's the 20 kilomete...