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Extinguished. they also said earlier today that some more cracks have been found in some of the rack tores all at the fukushima plant. this is one of the english language newspapers here in japan. it has them all lined up. reactor one, reactor two, reactor three, reactor four. all four of them continue to suffer problems. shepard? >> shepard: do we know where we go from here? you know, the japanese government has instituted this no-fly zone around the plant, adam. i understand the basics of it. is it just too dangerous for the helicopters to get up there to try to put this fire out? particular...

Which is a battery-powered mechanism that also failed. that means inside because there's not water pumping in one, two, three different ways into this fuel core, you have heat. and that heat is a serious problem as this begins to melt. as you begin to damage this core. engineers went to battery pumps. those worked for a while, they went dead. you saw the diesel pumps, they worked for a while and went dead. it's not exactly clear what happened. of but in the last-ditch effort, they're starting to pump sea water into this core, into this reactor. if these rods become exposed, the temperature ins...

Inside the reactors. first, this is all the seismic activity you've seen in japan over the past week. i mean, the original seismic event, you can't see it anymore because these yellow dots show you how many other aftershocks they've been. here's inside the nuclear plant before the quake and tsunami. reactor one, two, three, and four. most recently an explosion at reactor number four. three explosions overall, and a fire. i want to take you inside on what exactly is happening inside that reactor. hold on a second. there we go. so this is the core. these are the control rods coming up, these are...

U.s. aircraft carrier that has equipment. the company and government are saying they will get the situation under control. there's a lot of respected physicists who are saying, well, not so fast, they may not. that's where we are. >> let me ask you, bob, there are three reactors. one has had sea water let into it. to try to cool the temperatures down. is that reactor seen as less of a problem than the other two? or do we have three big question marks hanging over all three reactors at this time? >> one of the problems is the information is spotty and it's not always very clear. it seems that t...

Friday, charles, everything in japan in this region, since they are on the pacific rimpf fire and since this region gets 90% of the earthquake in the world, they were probably prepared as well. i suspect they never expected a 9.0, plus the kicker, the tsunami waves which wiped out the radiators -- not the radiators. wiped out the -- you know what i'm talking about. wiped out the backup plan to cool down the reactor. >> right. well, one important thing to remember is that at least unit one, the reactor one was built 40 years ago. it's a very old facility. it predates a lot of their kind of read...