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Radiation gets carried there. is no dispute this is a monstrous humanitarian disaster. shepard smith joins us live from tokyo where now just after 11 a.m.. >> shepard: good morning. it is hard to imagine all of these days late water the people of japan are dealing with. first a cataclysmic quake that we know was 9.0. followed by that a tsunami that no one predicted. follow that with a nuclear meltdown of sorts, of one reactor that explodes. another with a fire. now nuclear rods that are exposed sending we believe some sort of steam into the air that may contain radiation. thousands upon thousa...

Made it is time to move on to recovery. >> greta: now the nuclear issue. five minnesota and women trying to do -- -- been doing that since saturday they must be exhausted, probably hot wearing those suits. last night i asked if there is any reason toe believe the government and you tiley companies are not being totally candid with the japanese people? any reason to be suspicious of the information they are giving? >> shepard: i can give you facts and let you decide. yesterday, tuesday here in japan, they told us there had been explosion and fire at reactor number 4. number 4 is important, that...

Three. that's been a reactor that was a huge problem. where they think there are low levels o of water in the pools that house the spent fuel rods. so when the smoke came at 4:00 p.m. this afternoon, it only took about 15 minutes before they decided they needed to get the workers out of there straight away into another building. there are some 430 workers at the fukushima daiichi power plant. we don't know how many were involved in reactor three. and we don't have any reports of, you know, severe exposure to radiation or injuries. we are working to get those details. but we do know that that e...

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