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Ellsworth in antarctica, which is where we're going to send you on your next assignment. >> i'll get the moon boots ready. british scientists have begun drilling through the ice there and what they find could be forms of life that we have never seen before. the bbc's david shukman has more. >> reporter: it's hard to imagine anything below the ice sheet, but this mission will reveal what's there. the aim is to drill right through the ice. amazingly, it's two miles thick. down to an ancient lake as big as lake windermere locked away for half a million years pape device would be lowered right int...

Hello? >> simon, my apologies there. i had my producer speaking to me. so japan has also been issued other tsunami warnings. i mean how long will this last? ivan cabrera, our meteorologist, said sort of a the two-hour time frame. what can you tell us about that? >> for japan you're looking at standby. for the pacific as a whole, it will take 12 hours. the way the wave in the ocean was created was about 500 miles an hour. so after 12 hours, really the danger has passed by immediately around japan for the next two hours is going to be critical. >> all right. simon boxall from the national oceano...