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Choppers, there's mostly silence. sometimes you hear a bird or something rustling in the wind, but the silence always returns. in the wreckage you find all manner of things. children's dolls, empty shoes, wedding photos covered in mud. as we left, japanese soldiers arrived to begin a cursory search. they go by smell, searching fast. there's too much ground to cover, too many more neighborhoods to search. two search and rescue teals from the united states, fairfax county, and los angeles, both remarkable groups of men and women. they've arrived in northern japan. we'll be following their effort...

That's bad news. and the government says that in all three reactors now, it is likely that the core has melted to some extent. not a full-blown meltdown, but it is melting. and particularly this reactor where we had an explosion today, that reactor core was exposed for several hours to the air, without being protected by water. so the combination of those two things, a possible containment breach and the exposure of the fuel elements, that -- if, if, if that's true, that's bad news. we should be able to take air samples soon, we should be able to take ground samples soon and determine whether ...

Evacuation zone around this reactor a few days ago. but you said that's pretty arbitrary? >> it is. and you almost get the sense that there's something they know that they're not sharing. they come up with these numbers that are not rooted in any particular science. sort of this idea they're walking around with these geiger counters. you've seen the images where they're testing the air. we've seen pictures where they're waiving them over people. that's really meaningless. that doesn't tell you anything about an individual's potential exposure. so a lot of it just doesn't seem to make sense. i ...

Reactor several days ago. but you were saying that's pretty arbitrary? >> it is. and you almost get the sense that there's something they know that they're not sharing. they come up with these numbers that are not rooted in any particular science. sort of this idea they're walking around with these geiger counters. you've seen the images where they're waiving them over people. that's really meaningless. that doesn't tell you anything about an individual's potential exposure. so a lot of it just doesn't seem to make sense. i don't know if that's by design or it's -- they're not sure what they'r...

We'll be live until midnight on the east coast in the united states. we continue to follow the breaking news, the explosion now in reactor number two. at the fukushima daiichi plant. the japanese government saying that anyone -- radiation levels are elevated around that plant. and that -- they're saying that levels that can impact human health are being experienced around that, and that people in the immediate area around that plant should stay indoors. people within a certain -- how many kilometer radius? people within a radius of 30 kilometers in that plant should stay indoors at this time. ...