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Effort to stabilize reactors and radioactive spent fuel at the daiichi plant is facing new set backs, plural, set backs. a light gray smoke was seen emanating from reactor three, and white smoke from reactor two. they say what was coming from reactor two was steam. it caused a temporary evacuation of workers from the daiichi plant. "the washington post" reported that readings near the plant nearly tripled shortly after the smoke was seen at healthcare three. as workers continue to restore electrical power to the facility to get cooling systems up and running in the reactors and spent fuel pool...

About the crisis in japan. one is bad weather. look at this. keep in mind because of the time difference even though it is monday night here, it is tuesday there. it has been raining in parts of japan, raining through tomorrow. forecast calls for winds to shift to blowing inland instead of out to sea. plus, it is getting really cold there. subfreezing temperatures at night. combinations of rain and snow in the day. the reason that's important in light of the disaster in japan is because it highlights the need for warm shelter among those whose homes were destroyed. hundreds of thousands are in...

This is an ongoing situation, a fluid situation. certainly officials thought they had been able to stabilize the situation, but as one said to us yesterday, this is unpredictable and as what's happened in the last few minutes, it certainly shows. pauline? >> this is a setback because it seemed as if tepco, the power company and the government had been starting to get control over the situation, and the big milestone that they reached was trying to get electricity back to the reactors in order to try to cool down those areas to try to cool down the fuel rods. at this point, i realize this is st...

>> the good thing is that the cold temperatures are not going to come with snow. we had significant accumulation across a region and that's unusual now that we're getting into spring here. we have warned up, although we are going to cool down the next couple of days. let's show you the temperatures here. we're running generally in the mid-teens. we had reached up to 60 degrees or 50s in fahrenheit, comfortable here. clear skies across the region. an area of low pressure is moving in and frontal boundary. you can see cloud cover in the sea of japan rushing from west to east. that is going to co...

Lives upside down. it was a moment this worker will never forget. >> earthquake. >> earthquake? >> translator: it kept going for two or three minutes. i told everyone to get out of here. i was scared. >> reporter: he doesn't want to be identified. what who he has to say he fears could lose him his job. for 17 years he has worked for the tokyo electric power company at the now-crippled plant. he wor worries especially about the spent fuel rods in the stricken reactor number four, potentially in a pool drained of water. very, very dangerous, he says. he sees the fires and explosions and the dama...