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But let's take you back in time. like just yesterday, we dealt with this onshore flow for several hours. as i show you on this graphic right here, as i take you back, we're looking at an air trajectory model. when we have the flow coming onshore yesterday, we're showing you air parcells at three different levels, 150 meters to 300 meters. this is showing you how it was pushed over towards the west, as well as up towards the northeast. you can see towards the populated areas. very close tofu ku shimma, as well as up towards the north through areas including sendai. this goes from five hours, an...

To come home in colorado in the coming weeks and that scene there never ever gets old. al require's nice to see something heart warming after all the heartbreak we have had last couple days. strong winds and colder temperatures in japan. how does this affect the cloud of radiation leaking from the nuke nuclear power plants. what are we seeing in japan? >> we have a shift in the wind. 24 hours ago we had onshore flow, now we have offshore flow. so that's good news there. those winds will dominate through tonight into tomorrow. the big reason why we saw this shift in winds is because of our stor...

That is good news. and the flow out of the jet stream has been out of the northwest and that offshore flow. i want to point out -- let's talk about the weather across parts of japan. we're going to see it deteriorate through the evening and overnight. we're going to be dealing with cold rain as well as the snow. and that will be moving through parts, the earthquake-hit area as well as the tsunami region. people are homeless, they don't have any belongings, any warm clothes, and the temperatures are going to be quite cold. going to fall below freezing as we go through tonight as well as tomorro...

Snit what do we know right now, jennifer? >> hi, christine. over the last couple of hours, we've been seeing the winds coming onshore. well, that's certainly not what we want to see. because that is actually going to potentially continue to push that radioactive material towards populated area. and you're seeing on this graphic right now the winds coming through, and again, you have to keep in mind the fukushima daiichi plant with that actually leaking, it's pushing that in the lower levels over toward the west. now, again, today there is going to be a bit of improvement or i should say tomorr...

Snow. that's not going to be for the search efforts. we should be at 9 degrees for the afternoon high. for wednesday, in addition to that snow, temperatures only climbing to 3. and thursday, we still could see some of that, again, snow lingering around those areas, including sendai over towards the west and certainly up to the northern parts of japan. and in addition to the cold as well as the snow, we're going to be talking about the winds for the next several days. right now, the winds coming in from the southeast, this is out of fukushima. of course, the power plant is a little bit close to...