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Brazil. barack obama is making his first trip to south america. the five-day tour will also take him to chile and el salvador. some analysts say washington cannot afford to ignore its economic ties with latin america, despite the many challenges in other parts of the world. the search continues for more than 12,000 people still missing since the march 11th earthquake and tsunami in japan. the death toll has now reached almost 8,200. meanwhile, japan's nuclear safety agency says the pressure is increasing in the containment vessel of reactor number three at the crippled nuclear power plant. a...

So, but you notice no one is spraying the building or unit 1 spent fuel pond. there is a lot of trepidation that maybe the u.s. is right, and it could be dangerous to spray the pond without knowing what's there. and so one of the priorities is going to be, i think after they deal with reactor three, is to turn to the spent fuel pond in unity 1 and try to get that under control. that probably will continue into next week. >> shepard: i know people get bogged down in 1, 2, 3, 4's we talk about all the time. the truth is if those spent fuel rods in number 1 have heated up to a very high temperatu...

Of fogging up. especially for our driver. >> out the other side of the road rolls one reminder after another that japan is a nation with twin disasters. convoys of rescue vehicles race the opposite direction into the tsunami zone, unable to stay behind to help those trapped too close to reactors. >> that's lee cowen in japan. we have videos of helicopters specially equipped to protect from radiation. they were dropping liquid on the daiichi facility. they are saying the liquid was dropped just on reactor three,{ not on reactors three and four as they said earlier. they said there was going to ...

That so little is known about what's going on inside the power station. the priority is cooling the reactors. a cloud emerged from this one today, no one's sure why. the aim is to keep water flowing through them to reduce temperatures, but there's a dilemma. doing this creates steam and too much of that could trigger another leak or explosion. now, all the time, increased radiation is a serious threat to the workers. reactor three is reportedly giving off so much that they can't get close to reactor four. and the problem there is with a tank or pool storing rods of nuclear fuel. it's been losi...

It appears to be the number four reactor that led the u.s. government to say that u.s. citizens should evacuate from an area around the reactor that is larger than what the japanese government has suggested. here is what's going on at reactor four. reactor four reportedly contains 130 tons of spent fuel. there's a reactor there. that was off when the quake happened. but it is still there. there's the reactor there, that was off. that's presumably cool shut down. then the spent fuel pool. 130 tons of spent fuel in that pool. for reference, that's about 28% less fuel than what blew up at chernob...