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The level have radiation, we're talking about these three work pes were exposed on thursday as they were trying to lay a new cable in reactor number three. they stepped in water that was reportedly 10,000 times the radiation level it should be in that part of the plant. t okay. that would suggest there is a leak and a pretty serious one possibly coming from the reactor itself. that reactor number three is probably the most dangerous of all six out there because it has a mixed fuel of uranium and plutonium. en overnight, a new development. now op10co, the company that operates facility, speaks ...

Half lives and go away. what we have to be concerned about is to 5,000 feet because that can come down in rain drops. it does blow around in the wind, it does attach itself to dust, to molecules torqu molecules, tr vapor. there's almost the dna to the radiation that's coming out of the plant here. we know what's coming out, we have looked at what's coming out. typically in a regular day, that never gets to america, that stuff isn't in our air, the winds blow offshore, they come and they go. i found this amazing epa monitor, and i will put this on my twitter site in a second, chadmyerscnn all o...

Highest radiation level and the only one of the six reactors that uses plutonium in the fuel mix. it is a long lived and toxic material and if it escapes it would be hazardous for tens of thousands of years. and now, streaming live from the southern city of osaka in japan. what is the latest? >>reporter: well, shep, it is a major set back to getting back essential power on the cooling systems online at fukushima. the black smoke you were describing, that caused the evacuation of 11 of the brave recovery crew workers working on four of the six reactors there and they had to stop pumping the wat...

Radiation level south of the plant were 300 times normal and even then, 300 times they were not considered fatal or harmful. maybe that changed but hopefully it has not. in japan. martha: i fear we will not know for some time. bill: now it is one of america's most successful companies. and the founder and owner of starbucks, why he says the new health care law is bad for american business. we're on that, in a moment. martha: and, what do americans think about the union stand off raging in wisconsin? you remember these pictures, right? frank luntz has an amazing look at america's temperature on...

Higher than normal, i should say. not high enough to cause human health impact and they acknowledge that but the anxiety is considerable. they thought the situation would be better by this toy and the nuclear reactors would have more control over those in terms of those radiation level spikes. that hasn't happened yet. not to say they haven't made progress. it hasn't happened yet. i think they made a decision, look. we should consider this. they, obviously, allowed voluntary evacuations before but the decision to make it mandatory. >> i think when you hear about radiation lelvets in the food, ...