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Is pretty much for this reactor, these series of reactors uncharted territory. >> you talked about a significant release -- >> i was telling you, i'm very upset about what i'm seeing just because, you know, it's very unfortunate. and i know they're doing everything they can. >> and glenn, i think your perspective is reflected by a lot of nuclear physicists we've talked to and experts who said they started cautious and now they're getting more concerned. you said a significant amount of radioactive material. what do you think is coming out of that plant? >> well, when you have fuel failures, yo...

Level by 10 times. back to you in the studio. >> martha: thank you for much. david piper reporting there. >> brian: it has raised levels outside in the province. that is the kyoto news reporting that as we started the show. >> steve: some spots the radiation is 400 times higher than what a person should be exposed to in a year. the pictures are heart breaking. we'll look at the reactors that have gone hay wire. reactor one an explosion on saturday . reactor two, an exposure . reactor two yesterday. 90 percent of the core uncovered . the reactor caught fire today and started spewing radiation a...

Radioactive. so what happens? it did catch fire at reactor number four. and that's why people suspect the radiation spiked. and then later, declined after they put the fire out. you know, each of these rep actors may have spent fuels at them. those spent fuel ponds are vulnerable. >> what happens to these 50 workers that are left behind to try to get to the bottom of this? what are they doing? and are they going to survive this? >> you know, i'm so glad you asked me that question. because i really wanted to speak to this. a lot of people, myself included, have been critical of the utility. the...

Is deteriorating this morning from haul accounts. there's been a new explosion at one reactor, a fire in another, and this means now that four reactors at the fukushima daiichi power plant have been damaged in some way. some high radiation levels also detected, dangerously high right now, in the air. japan's prime minister is warning everyone within 20 miles of the facility to remain inside for now. meanwhile, the growing nuclear threat has overshadowed the ongoing rescue and recovery effort days after the quake and tsunami, pictures of the devastation are still, frankly, very hard to compre...

Start solving these problems and we're going to turn this thing around? >> well, i think there is some hope, christine. at the same time, one worries that you might have a problem. you can deal with a problem but when one turns to two and two to three and now three to four problems, all at the same time, while you're withdrawing workers, the number of people who can be working on these problems, you know, you begin to wonder at what point do people become overwhelmed or the system becomes overwhelmed? i don't think we should assume the doom's day scenario here at all. if they can cool each rea...