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Vessel of reactor number three at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant is increasing. officials say they are planning an operation to reduce that pressure. that comes as a super pumper tried to keep a reactor cool and engineers struggled to restore power to cooling systems at a plant. the prime minister says the situation there remains very grave. many people have fled the areas surrounding the nuclear power plant in fukushima. and that includes people who worked at the disabled facility. as stan grant reports these people in particular have no idea what their future holds. >> reporter: it lo...

We can all see. so what we are doing is necessary. it is legal. and it is right. >> britain's defense secretary says british war planes flew 4,800 kilometers from their base in england to hit targets inside libya, making it the longest-range bombing mission by the raf since the falklands war. the pendulum of good news/bad news continues its uncertain swing at japan's stricken fukushima nuclear power plant clekds. in the last hour japan's nuclear safety agency revealed the pressure on the containment vessel of reactor number three at daiichi nuclear plant is increasing. officials say they are...

Brazil. barack obama is making his first trip to south america. the five-day tour will also take him to chile and el salvador. some analysts say washington cannot afford to ignore its economic ties with latin america, despite the many challenges in other parts of the world. the search continues for more than 12,000 people still missing since the march 11th earthquake and tsunami in japan. the death toll has now reached almost 8,200. meanwhile, japan's nuclear safety agency says the pressure is increasing in the containment vessel of reactor number three at the crippled nuclear power plant. a...

Emotional. it's a small group of people, they have to wear suits, they're working in suits, so they're overheated, and they don't have the touch and feel of their hands and having to work at night when there's no electricity. and so they have to use flash flights and trying to battle fires. one -- at one time they have to be firefighters battling a fire, reactor number one, and then go over to reactor number three, two, or one, and try to pump sea water to keep the reactor cool. and all the other sort of things that have to be done. taking measurements at the plant, trying to assess what's hap...

Whee a meltdown but it was contained and that's -- we're not there yet but if we.god forbid were to get to this point, we would hope the containment vessel would nevertheless hold that radiation and that material in so that we would not have a chernobyl style accident. >> why are they pumping in sea water now at this point? >> yeah. because they got no other choice. you don't pump in sea water as your first choice or your fifth choice. they're doing it now because they're trying to keep that reactor cool. they are not able to pump in fresh water. they don't want to pump in sea water because on...