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The higher explosion is being reported by japanese media now at reactor number three, but expected to be in the building reactor, anderson. >> i'm also getting an update from japan's meteorological society and the threat that some sort of tsunami wave has now dissipated. that is no longer a threat. i'm not sure if sanjay is hearing it from the people on the ground and we'll check with him in a moment. we'll take a quick break and our coverage continues live from japan. today, investors want retirement planning on their terms.

>> i can speak to the second better than i can speak to the first. essentially what may have happened at unit number 3 and we don't know, this is something government officials politically warned about earlier in the day, cooper and what we saw at unit number 1 yesterday, a build-up of hydrogen, ignites, blows off, explodes, in the case of unit number 1 yesterday, it didn't do so inside the reactor, in the reactor building, so you have the concrete housing the reactor collapsed and then you saw a big cloud of dutst, and the reactor was not compromised and containment vehicle not compromised. n...

You have to so you don't have something horrible happen. if you do that, you run other risks. this is one of the other risks. as to unit number 1, if there's new smoke to unit number 1, that's open to speculation, i can't comment what may be causing that. clearly, that's already a compromised plant. earlier, we had gotten good news about unit number 1. they had made progress flooding it with sea water. even though it would kill the plant forever, it would have the positive effect of cooling it down. people were feeling pretty good. if there's smoke there, it's unclear what that would mean. >> ...

Fukushima? north? which way this is wind blowing? west. all right. i'm just concerned, jim, if there is an event like this, you have evacuations around fukushima 20 kilometers, 12 miles, we're 100 kilometers to the north of this reactor. do you expect japanese authorities to be expanding the evacuation zone? >> it all depends on the particular lars of ths of this . >> should i get out of here? >> i hear you, anderson. i want toaire err on the side caution. i think you're okay but i don't want you to sue me if i'm wrong. i'm inclined to think you are okay insofar as government authorities warne...