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Network report that two reactors are rising and no longer to control the pressure levels inside. serious. team fox coverage of the disaster aftermath. shannon bream and laura ingle with more. the japanese government has now issued a state of emergency. what's the situation? >> the tokyo electric power company announcing the cooling system at a second nuclear facility in the fukushima area has failed. three reactors now at that plant. radiation now leaking outside of the plant according to japan's nuclear safety agency. a swift evacuation was ordered for nearly 3,000 people within a two mile ra...

Listen. >> translator: and major tsunami waves hit the pacific coast of japan. >> shepard: so they are recapping a little bit. new information for you. "associated press" is citing safety agencies saying that the nuclear power plant radiation levels have surged to 1,000 times the nowhere man pressure levels. or i should say radiation levels. in addition, the pressure inside one of the reactors, the reactor there has risen to 1.5 times what is considered to be normal. again, these are pictures coming in to us from many different news services, including the kyodo news service, the official news...

Don't ask me. jon: bp engineers are hoping to begin sealing that blown-out well that's caused such misery in the gulf. they are still conducting tests trying to figure out whether underwater equipment can handle the i increase in pressure. we are getting reports bp is winding down cleanup operations despite evidence of fresh oil reaching sensitive wetlands. chris is live for us in louisiana. what is the latest on the effort to kill this well. >> reporter: we learned overnight that bp actually managed to seal several hydraulic lee in the procedure called the static kill. it has not started yet....

Night. first though tonight could be the beginning of the end of the oil leak in the gulf of mexico. a live look now a mile below the surface of the gulf where bp reports it started a procedure to pump heavy mud, drilling mud into that broken well. then cement, if that works. to permanently seal the gusher. if the plan's successful it would end the first accidental marine oil spill in the history of planet earth. kris gutierrez live in slidell, louisiana. how will we know whether this works, chris? >> shepard, it could take several days, according to the coast guard. anywhere from 30 to 60 hou...

Speaker newt gingrich and 14 months later, the house ethics committee found the speaker guilty, guilty, guilty on one, two, three counts. >> bret: b.p. has begun what it hopes is the first step in the solution to the gulf oil spill. correspondent kris gutierrez is live in slidell, louisiana, to tell us how it's going. good evening, kris. >> reporter: hello, bret. the much anticipated static kill procedure began two hours ago. b.p. plans to pump heavy drilling mud for several days, stopping only to monitor the pressure levels. now b.p. could then use the same pipe to mint in the well. but today...