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They're working very hard to do. but obviously the smoke just causing more and more problems, more and more delays, christine. >> are the workers still in that facility? are they away from that facility while they try to figure out what to do next? >> reporter: we believe that only the workers around that site, around reactor three had to -- had to evacuate. but we're waiting on word from tepco. of course, we're keeping in touch with the officials there. >> anna coren, thank you so much, anna. two workers at the daiichi power plant, the daiichi fukushima power plant have been reportedly been...

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Closest to the daiichi power station from entering the united states. anna coren is live in tokyo. what do you know now about the black smoke coming from daiichi's reactor number three? what is that black smoke? and what does it mean? do we know yet? >> reporter: no, we don't know, and that's the alarming thing. it started a couple of hours ago. we had thought that things were under control at reactor three. earlier, smoke was barely visible. and then a couple of hours ago, those black plumes were seen billowing from reactor three. tepco, the company that owns the nuclear power plant says that...

And three were on, were producing power when the earthquake hit. they automatically shut down, now it has been a matter of keeping enough water flowing into the cooling systems of the reactors to keep the hot radioactive fuel rods covered up so they don't melt any more than they already have, in all of those reactors though. not just fuel rods in the reactors themselves, there are also just pools that contain other somewhat hot, somewhat radioactive fuel rods. so in each of the six reactors at daiichi, as far as we understand it, there is a reactor, but there is also a spent fuel pool. spent f...

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