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Before it was a nuclear disaster, Chernobyl was a land of wild grape and lilac, owl, polecat, and bees.

Feet that hit some par of the island. you compare that with the earthquake in 2011 and tsunami warning when waves were 30 to 60 feet high. so there's actually very little damage to see. it was the anxiety that was triggered today. japanese television following the protocol from the government where they're instructed to issue very emphatic warnings to people. you saw broadcasters like nhk with live stream, cameras all over the country, explicit graphics telling people to move to higher ground. the main focus of concern was the dinai nuclear power plant. reactor three was knocked offline tempor...

Starts. so we have a new report of smoke. i understand it's black smoke coming out of reactor number three. how do we make sense of that? >> reporter: yeah, i know. this is a problem, ali. i think when we spoke yesterday, it was barely visible. that's what authorities were telling us. and late this afternoon, sure enough, that black smoke began billowing from reactor three. this, of course, has been the problem reactor for officials that had the explosion, the fire, the buildup of pressure. and of course the smoke over the last couple of days. something is burning, they don't know what it is. ...

He was speaking about the water issue. we did get off the phone from tepco, they confirmed that smoke, grayish, blackish smoke is rising from reactor three. they say something is burning. they just don't know what it is. of course this is raising huge alarm at the site. there's been a massive evacuation around reactor number three. and we believe also that reactors one and two, there have been evacuations from there as well. reactor three has been a problem for officials for the last couple of days. this, of course, is where there was that explosion, the fire, the build up of pressure, and the...

Nobody knows why. are they actually making progress or not? >> reporter: it's really to tell. it appears there's positive news and then two pieces of negative news. certainly this wednesday there has been negative news. we've heard that there is more blackish grayish smoke throughout the daylight hours emanating from reactor three. this was announced about 4:30 p.m. this afternoon local time. of course this had started on monday but we had heard from tepco officials that it was barely visible and it started once again. what they told us is they don't nowhere the fire is or what's on fire and t...