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Tsunami is going to be contaminated. it's mixed with every household chemical, there's oil and potential radiation risks and there's the issues with all different types of things mixed in that rubble. they have to handle it carefully. >> thank you for joining us. we appreciate your special insight. >> thank you. that wraps up this hour for me. i'm contessa brewer. thank you for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern and 9:00 a.m. in the west. more u.s. military teams arrive in japan. three ships we're told to help with disaster relief. we'll follow the efforts. up next a...

Water and, people with fractures to the hospital and triage them and keep their wounds clean and how do you get lungs clean from people who partly drowned. bill: before you get to all of that you have to get access to them and from best we can tell it is still very very, difficult. >> no question, you have 84 teams out there, trying to get to these people and, once you get them, where do you take them, hospitals are clearly going to be overloaded and hospitals that are used to taking care of people with heart attacks are taking care of people who are injured and a tough situation before you ge...

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To the cooling pumps. two of the workers today were sent on to a radiation treatment hospital. >> let's talk more about what the government is saying, when it comes to the precautions for the residents living in that area. here in the states, it's been recommended that people stay -- we were told that people should be staying at least 50 miles away from this fukushima plant. but what are they saying to people living so close by? is it still remaining just 19 miles right now, the prim, that they're trying to keep safe? >> reporter: well, today the chief cabinet secretary did advise residents li...

Radioactive steam burst from another. it prompted remaining workers to be yanked and more residents to flee the area. >> if the fuel rods are exposed the radiation material inside the container could seep out. >> it's also causing the people of tokyo 140 miles away to get very nervous. >> this is tokyo and normally the sidewalk would be packed with people but fears over possible nuclear catastrophe are keeping a lot of people off the streets. >> snarled with traffic looked like a sunday. warnings by the government to stay inside due to radiation risks are being heeded. "i am worried about my h...