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Two out of three that are bad and i hope we can make the best work. >> we will hope for the best. msnbc military analyst, thanks for your time. >> the military force with no plan and no real leader. the libyan rebels. richard engle was on the road with them and we will hear what they think about the end goal of the military operation. new goals in the nuclear nightmare in japan. it's tuesday morning and yesterday's black smoke at reactor two has given way to white smokes should a sign that it could be steam rising again. we now have word that power has been connected to yet another reactor, bu...

Been stabilized. they have electricity. the cooling is working. that's good news. reactor one we haven't heard about any problems from for a while. that sort of narrows the problem to reactors two, three and four. reactor two you remember had that internal explosion and there was concern about its containment vessel. we're not sure what's happening there. in reactors three and four they really have been where the attention has been paid and the concern because of the spent fuel ponds and of course the other problems in reactor three. they've cut the problem in half which is great. still a long...

And running at one shortly. three and four they're hoping to get the cooling engines back up in time. there are also reactors five and six, those seem to be under control. let's get more on the situation at reactors two and three and what could be a big setback to efforts to prevent more radiation from getting into the atmosphere. anna coren is live in tokyo. what's the latest you have for us? >> reporter: ali, we've been working the phones trying to get confirmation on new reports that smoke is coming from reactor two. tepco, the power company that owns the fukushima daiichi power plant will ...

What would have been this week on your show and all the other shows a report about a massacre occurring inside -- in benghazi. so there is, you know, a limit to what america can do. and as far as the analogy to bahrain, it's been made, you're absolutely right, but i don't think it's a fair analogy. bahrain is a very, very different place than libya. and gadhafi is a uniquely dastardly figure in the community. >> thank you so much for joining us and giving your perspective. >> it's been great having you walk us through all this. thanks. okay. this news just in. there is smoke coming out of re...

Power plant. late this afternoon, around 4:00 p.m., smoke was visible from reactor three. within 15 minutes workers were evacuated. a short time later, reactor two, they found smoke coming from it. both reactors believed to be spewing smoke. all workers at the sight have been evacuated. no injuries or severe exposure to radiation at this stage. >> as we watch on here, the news of the smoke coming out of the reactors, they are taking in the news about radiation levels, traces being found in food. give me a sense of how people are reacting to that in a country where they are dealing with shortag...