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Explosion in russia, some sort of missile or rocket engine exploded. the initial reports were still worrying but you know, nothing nuclear, no radiation issues. everything basically fine. it's described as a liquid fueled rocket engine that blew up at a testing site, two people dead, that's it, don't ask any more questions. that story quick lly evolved, though, after local officials in a town about 25 miles from the missile site reported they were experiencing elevated radiation readings. local people there rushed to the drugstore to buy iodine to try to protect their they'reoids from absorbin...

Let's get started, "american morning" begins right now. all right. good morning. it is wednesday. >> yesterday we thought we were making some progress in japan. with heard they had restored power to a couple of the reactors, and again this morning. news has taken a turn for the worse. >> black smoke is rising from one of the reactors at daiichi's power plant and dangerous levels of radiation have been discovered in the tap water in tokyo. levels in the tap water there are double the legal limit for infants to drink. tokyo is 150 miles from the crippled daiichi power station. the likely sourc...