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In the middle of judge pan's triple disaster, perhaps there is some good news having to do with tokyo's water supply. but to the north at the daiichi power plant, two workers have been hospitalized. our martin savidge joins us with the latest. marty, tell us exactly what happened to these two workers. it really sounds like perhaps what everyone was fearing. >> reporter: well, it is. i mean, one of the things, of course, you're concerned about are all those who were up there at the fukushima nuclear plant that are struggling to try to bring things under control. and we know that there are liter...

>> reporter: i think despite the warrantings the iodine levels have lawton down in the water, i don't think it allayed fears. government is asking for calm. they're going try to deliver bottled water to families that have children under 1 year old, that's about 80,000 families in the tokyo area, hoping that that will stop the run on the water. it was already in short supply this warning went out and even more so. people don't know what to trust at this upon. i don't they anybody's taking any chances. >> what about those workers treated at the plant? they may have received burns from the watt t...

Radiation. from what we understand, they were dragging a power cable through the basement of one of those reactors, underneath some of that machinery and were exposed to water that was contaminated. they were taken to the hospital. that's direct exposure, that's not radiation exposure out in the air, so it doesn't affect people outside the plant, but certainly tough for those workers and speaks to just how hard this job really is. contessa? >> lee, thank you so much. we just received this in. the faa says an air traffic controller at ronald reagan airport has now been suspended from all oper...

Voltage electrical line in reactor number two. that powered up some systems although they are getting the cooling systems working again. they hope to have that on line relatively soon. they will run a power cable from two over to three and four and one as well. that will get some systems up and running again but at this point that still hasn't happened. these are baby steps. the smoke, more evacuations today, clearly an issue. certainly cause for some concern but they say that they seem to be making a little bit of progress. as for the radiation as a whole, there have been some concerns about ...

Detected in tap water, authorities say it's within acceptable safety levels. radio active part cells have begun to enter the food chain here, spinach and milk produced in the plant tested positive and have been banned from sale. there has been one positive tellment -- development from attempts to cool those overheated reactors engineers say they've attached a power cable to the outside of the plant this, could be crucial. if they can power up power systems it can help in cooling reactors. they'll try to get water pumps working as the second reactor then move on to other three remaining in dang...