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Problems, among the dead, several prominent members of the community. including a real estate developer, they were headed for a ski trip, in utah. martha: the u.s. saying the next 24 to 48 hours at japan's fukushima power plant is very, very critical. if the workers cannot find a way to cool down those reactor rods they will likely trigger a melt down across those reactor. one administration official is quoted as saying that if this is not brought under control now it could be, quote, deadly there, for decades. in that area. considering what happened to the ground and perhaps the groundwater a...

And i think we can get through this. it's hard to say that every day when you wake up and there's something else that has happened. but i think the goal here is sort of limit it to where we are at right now. where are we right now? three damaged reactors. the best we can hope for is to hold the situation where it is. we keep that sea water in there until after a couple of days, they cool down some more and then, you know, it's like putting a lid on it. at that point you entomb them and shut them down and deal with that over a number of year. freezing the status quo, and with four, five, and si...

Been recovered, thousands more may still be buried. and we want to share these new images. the tsunami virtually leveled this fishing town and left it largely isolated. brian todd was able to reach it because he's shadowing the usaid on a humanitarian mission. we don't know how much radioactive material was released earlier today in that explosion. but a spoke a short time ago with jim walsh about the last line of defense against radiation leaking outside the reactor. that is the condition of the containment vessel. >> the government has said that is possible. and they've never said that bef...

Right here. this is coming to us from nhk, which is japanese television. this is what is supposed to happen. water pumps in. it cools the reactor rods in the reactor core. after the tsunami, unfortunately, that power source became lost so they went to their diesel-powered backup reactor. the diesel pumps kicked in and eventually they failed. then go to their battery pumps but unfortunately the battery pumps only continued working a number of hours and they also went dead. why that happened is still not exactly known. the problem is as the water source slowly starts to end, you have the buildup...

Thing three days into it. so they have to keep pumping sea water, forget all about this, this doesn't even exist anymore. they have taken this and pumped sea water in here. it eventually boils all that water away and they release it. that's what happened in that one reactor,n't a nuclear reactor. these rods -- if we have to do this for three months until we rods actually cool down. this is a dead reactor, these reactors are never going to come online. >> what happened to the meltdown. >> real quick. when water is not around the reactor, it's like trying to run your car without radiator fluid. ...