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It overwhelmed the city's pumping systems. the pumping system there is designed to handle 1 inch of rain in the first hour and 1/2 inch every hour after that. residents there are upset. >> it's like katrina all over again. >> unbelievable. it's crazy. you can't go out your front door. . >> it wasn't a hurricane. it wasn't katrina. it wasn't a major storm. it was 2 hours of rain. >> in kansas city, missouri, heavy thunderstorms and flash flooding shut down roads and reports of multiple cars stalled, stranded and even up to 5 inches of rain was dumped. stay away from standing water. >> thanks. f...

And pumps could keep running. they believe not only are the levees strong enough for something like a tropical storm but also that the pumps that stopped working now have redundancies and backup generators to backup generators and people working 24 hours monitoring situation. even with this storm, cindy, which will be a soaker and we could see up to 12 inches, they believe that the pumping system will be able to keep up to make sure the water that continues to rise as up to 12 inches come down is pumped out keeping things level and safe for everybody. >> we see cars in the parking lot and peop...

What's happened now is there's a leak so that ground water won't be clean. one of the many problems is that ground water is leaking into the damaged reactor buildings. 400 cubic meters a day. that water gets contaminated too and all of it needs to be stored somewhere. leaks in the underground reservoir system means tepco has to resort to tanks, 80% have full. last week inspectors examined the site to check on the decommissioning site. tepco says would make the contaminated water safe enough to release and a pumping system to lower the water level so it won't seep into the reactors.

International atomic energy agency examined the site to check on the decommissioning process and to see for themselves whether tepco's measures to deal with its water issues were effective. namely, a better purification technology, still in testing, which tepco says would make the contaminated water safe enough to release and a pumping system to try and lower the groundwater level so it won't seep into the reactors. but these men lost their faith in tepco a long time ago. they always say it's all right, it's safe, says suzuki, but if anything happens and it comes on the news it always turns ou...

Saying, i'm going to die. the next day i went back to her, and we had gotten food to her, clothing to her, and she said, "i feel better. i'm going to start rebuilding." there are scenes of horror, and then there are scenes of some growth. and i try to look at the optimistic part in this terrible tragedy. >> mark. >> senator, as a former house member, you get constituent service. thank you for working so hard for the whole state. >> it's my old district. the rockaways, fire, because the pumping system failed. so it just spread. and there's like a four-block area, it looks like dresden with just...