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presidency in the republican party primary. >> ron paul is running for president again. if he had won the last time, guess what he wouldn't have done about bin laden? then, remember japan. >> this is a ticking time bomb. >> i'll ask him if the japanese government has learned from its mistakes. how bad in libya? 30,000 refugees crammed into leaking boats. a terrifying trip toll safety. some have made it. many have not. more on the way. body parts scattered across the street. that's how witnesses describe the gruesome scene in northwest pakistan after the taliban followed through o...

Broken, therefore, we have no cooling system, and we have to have these firemen -- it's a suicide mission, they're like samarai warriors going in with hoses keeping everything cool. this is not in the manual. >> is it doing anything? >> it's keeping the rods cool temporarily. once the firemen no longer put water in, everything boils off. at that point levels begin to drop like they did next week and the meltdown starts and you have to evacuate because of a small earthquake or pipe break, if they evacuate and abandon ship, then meltdowns are inevitable in three reactors. jenna: then what? >> th...

Force is on reserve, they can hit it with everything they've got. you know we should hit that thing with everything but the kitchen sink. i say hit it with the kinken sink. sandbag it, concrete -- >> today. >> as a reserve. today it's somewhat stable, another earthquake, we are one pipe break away from having to exercise this option. but right now, it's stable. >> i was talking to bill nye yesterday and he said that nuclear scientists are what he termed believers. they are, as it were, perseverers, keep going. but do you think that outlook is causing us problems because nobody is calling time ...

There's no chapter that talks about the sequence of what's happening. hitting the reactor with firehoses, that's not in any text book, calling out firemen to put out a nuclear accident. >> but every day we have further explosion, we have smoke, radioactive plumes pumping out, attempts to reconnect electricity, none of it's worked. how many days is it now, ten? >> two set backs in two days. yesterday smoke coming out of the reactor because of the spent fuel pond is boiling over. if those rods are exposes a metal air reaction will create roman candles. think of fireworks coming out of a nuclear ...

You're in "the situation room." happening now -- president obama signs an emergency disaster declaration for the state of massachusetts after a giant pipe break that left much of the boston area without safe drinking water. just how dangerous is the water and then will the supplies be restored? stand by. as the massive oil slick expands across the gulf of mexico, a firsthand look how to stop it. brian todd will show us the containment under construction right now. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." with a potentially crippling oil spill slowing towards its coastline, miss...