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Let's get started. "american morning" begins right now. good morning, everybody. >> it's monday, march 21st. >> it's great to see all of you this morning. we're following two stories again, but major developments from where we left off on friday. >> breaking news from japan. >> smoke spotted coming from a damaged nuclear reactor. engineers are struggling there to prevent a meltdown after a devastating earthquake and tsunami earlier this month. let's get to anna coren. i understand it's now been evacuated. what's going on there? >> reporter: that's exactly right, ali. they thought they were g...

Suffered extensive damage. three of them are in some stage of melting down, and nearly everyone who works at the plant, some 800 people now have evacuated leaving just a few dozen workers to try to cool down those overheating reactors. cnn international correspondent stan grant has the latest from tokyo. >> reporter: the nuclear emergency here in japan continues to move into uncharted waters. there has been so many developments and so much confusion about those developments, there was a hydrogen explosion in reactor number three earlier this day. that has raised speculation that it may have da...

Danger perspective. >> hi, eliot. jim and i were talking, 24 hours about the very thing u.s. officials are confirming their belief, as well. look at the satellite view and just get a picture of this damage. i think you cannot see enough of this to get an idea of what we're seeing here. look at this. reactor here in trouble. reactor number two in trouble. steam coming out. three, the only one loaded with plutonium in trouble and then the really important one down here, reactor number 4, look how torn up this thing is. let's go inside and look a little more deeply at what's going on here. 1, her...