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Want to take you to japan, where there's a zblimglimmer of news. workers plugged a hole spilling radioactive was north ocean but the prime minister warns this is not a time to be on mystic, he says. engineers are scrambling to stop another hydrogen explosion by injecting nitrogen gas into the reactor container. charles hadlock from tokyo, closely following today's developments. good day. with the plug now, does this help the cooling challenge that you and i have been talking about for so many weeks now? >> reporter: yes and no. yes, it stops the pleau of radioactive water reaching the pacific ...

Grey smoke can be seen rising from unit no. three at the complex. reports say the blast was is likely caused by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen producedpy efforts to cool down nuclear fuel rods with seawater. there is word that the inner reactor container is still intact. 600 responders tents in the area are told to stay indoors. all clear given following a tsunami warning on japan's northeast coast. sirens were sounding and people were scrambling to get to higher ground. the warning has now been canceled. the death toll is expected to exceed ten thousand in one state alone. scores of other p...

Been given following a tsunami warning on j japan's northeast coast. the warning has been canceled. friday's 9 magnitude quake is blamed for thousands of death but scores of people remain missing. at least 1.000000 households have gone without water since the quake struck and some 1.9 million households without electricity making things even harder. reports are saying that the explosion was likely caused by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen produced by efforts to cool down the nuclear fuel rods with seawater. there isn't any word about a radiation leak and officials say that the inner reactor c...

Video in the tsunami and we have shown you the video of the blast, a new report is coming in now saying the national agency says that serious damage to a reactor container at the nuclear power plant was "unlikely." so, although you can see from the pictures here in the center of the screen the plumes of smoke rising after an explosion, at least officially, the nuclear agency is japan is saying major damage to the reactor, the reactor container, was unlikely. it is hard to know. and it is hard to know what the damage is, the result of it, and as far as the threat, we do not know but that they a...

In four days. tonight japan's nuclear safety agency said it suspects the explosion may have damaged the reactor container, itself. emergency workers are battling to prevent a potential catastrophic release of radiation. but a spokesman for the nuclear safety agency told the associated press, quote, a leak of nuclear material is feared. hundreds of thousands have been evacuated from a 12-mile radius as officials distribute potassium idiote in nearby shelters. experts warn a full meltdown cannot be ruled out. joining me now to discuss this unfolding nuclear crisis is james acton of the carnegie ...