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>> the nuclear crisis is escalating. we'll start first with fukushima. we have been monitoring this for 24 hours and explosion there and there are fears of another explosion at another reactor. they are fighting now to try to cull two reactors, just the one plant. also there are concerns of overheating reactors and they have declare and emergency. now back at fukushima two, this is a plant nearby. they understand there are nuclear reactors. they are trying to pump coolant to stop the nuclear reactors from melting down in the last few minutes,

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I an few hours later it was announced it had been a mistake. it was safe for the engineers to go back. there was a new strategy using helicopters to scoop water from the ocean and drop it onto the overheating reactors, but this was quickly aborted because radiation levels above the plant were judged too high with options running out, there's now a suggestion that police will try to use water cannon normally deployed in riot control. if the japanese people were worried before, the rare sight of their aging emperor giving a televised address in which he said he was praying for the country will n...

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Suffered extensive damage. three of them are in some stage of melting down, and nearly everyone who works at the plant, some 800 people now have evacuated leaving just a few dozen workers to try to cool down those overheating reactors. cnn international correspondent stan grant has the latest from tokyo. >> reporter: the nuclear emergency here in japan continues to move into uncharted waters. there has been so many developments and so much confusion about those developments, there was a hydrogen explosion in reactor number three earlier this day. that has raised speculation that it may have da...