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The pregnant women and the children to leave right now. because they're the ones with the fastest growing cells and more likely to get injured from the radiation. >> you know, giving it the seven c categorization is about time, but how do we deal with this? one, two, three, and four, these are just four of the six reactors at the complex. these have had the biggest problems. what's your sense? walk through them in terms of where they are now this far out. have they reached the point where they have them stabilized? or are they still dealing with the crisis? >> well, reactor one's got the hotte...

Somehow that is making its way to the ocean. you have the problem of the pools of water slowly inches up. in reactor one, they did make some progress in pumping some water out. at the other two, not so much. they have to pump the water out of those areas to get that out of the way and then they can pump the radio can atiactive wa those. there is no playbook for this. they have thought about the possibility of bringing in a tanker and anchoring it somehow off the shore near the plant and piping the water into the tanker and then what do you do with the water when it is in the tanker? all of thi...

Meltdown or some problem with the core in reactor one. is that reversible? >> actually, there's only one way. it usually goes down. you can stop it and keep it, you know, at a steady level, but you don't recover that reactor core. whatever's melted has melted. and what they have to focus on now is not getting any more melting down. >> and what about these high elevations? the radiation, 100,000 times normal level at reactor two and 10,000 the normal level of radiation at reactor three? altogether, what does this indicate when it comes to their efforts to try to stop any more problems at those ...

Disaster for japan. there is the reactor we've been watching the development so carefully. and now there's questions about the food and water around the plant. radiation found actually in some of the food. tell us about some of those concerns this morning. >> reporter: i know, it just doesn't seem to end, does it? we got reports yesterday that high levels of radiation had been detected in both spinach and milk. in both those products. and by last night, the government came out and said they would ban both of those products and the shipment of both of those products. some of those items have be...