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Level by 10 times. back to you in the studio. >> martha: thank you for much. david piper reporting there. >> brian: it has raised levels outside in the province. that is the kyoto news reporting that as we started the show. >> steve: some spots the radiation is 400 times higher than what a person should be exposed to in a year. the pictures are heart breaking. we'll look at the reactors that have gone hay wire. reactor one an explosion on saturday . reactor two, an exposure . reactor two yesterday. 90 percent of the core uncovered . the reactor caught fire today and started spewing radiation a...

Some point in the past. you get a sense of how big the actual reactor is. here it is copping up, that's the reactor part. and you see the workers. you get a sense of the scale. here's what's interesting, this has been a series of issues from the beginning. they had an electrical failure and the pumps that cool the reactor down stopped running. it's not clear why, maybe the tsunami did this. then another set of battery pumps kicked in, they worked for a while and then they went dead. and then they started pumping sea water into this area to try to solve the problem. anderson, i want to go back ...

They're all close to each other in this area, when we talk about where the concern is. and i can give you a sense of the size of this. this also helps. this is video of reactors at some point in the past. you get a sense of how big the actual reactor is. here it is coming up, that's the reactor part. and you see the workers. you get a sense of the scale. here's what's interesting, this has been a series of issues from the beginning. they had an electrical failure and the pumps that cool the reactor down stopped running. it's not clear why, maybe the tsunami did this. then another set of batter...

What's that? there's a wave coming, let's go. wave coming. which house? which house? up, up, up. >> we continue to follow breaking news out of northeastern japan. radiation levels, and i'm reading this -- we're just getting this information in a couple minutes ago. radiation levels at the damaged nuclear plant, the daiichi plant, there's been an explosion at reactor number two, that's now three reactors that have had explosions over the last couple days. i quote, according to a government officials, increased levels that can impact human

Plants. let's start off with you, jim walsh, what do you make of the explosion at reactor number two, for the last couple days we've been talking about reactors one and three. now reactor two an explosion. how serious is this? what does this mean? >> it certainly sounds more serious, anderson. when i first heard about, i thought, oh, this is just the same movie being rerun. we had a hydrogen explosion at unit one, we had a hydrogen explosion at unit three. they put sea water today into unit two, this must be a hydrogen explosion. but the press conference that the utility gauge seemed to sugges...