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Released. warning anyone living within 19 miles from the fukushima daiichi complex to stay inside. spartan's purse is all over the world doing humanitarian relief work. -- now they are sending aid to japan. staff members are delivering supplies to the millions in japan. as you may remember we went to haiti with samaritan's purse last year after the 7.0 quake destroyed that country. president and ceo of samaritan's purse reverend franklin graham joins us on the phone. what is -- good evening. what is samaritan's purse doing for the people of japan. >> first my prayers to everybody in japan. i w...

Jenna: right now new fears over the health safety of u.s. troops and also the japanese people, anyone in what is happening in japan right now. the u.s. s. ronald reagan may have passed through a radioactive cloud while doing relief work off the coast. 17 helicopter crew members treated for radiation exposure during one mission. what health issues are facing our troops as well as the japanese. dr. cromwell is joining us now. we are talking about radiation affects or poisoning. what would that feel like to the average person? >> reporter: well the radiation affects we can separate into things th...

The u.s. contributing another $25 million in addition to the $35 million that they had already pledged. the u.s. also chipping in with a number of military helicopters, donating prefabricated bridges, water filtration systems, and 90,000 pounds of foods. also later today in new york city, the u.n. set to announce another $400 million in aid. so the relief work, john and kiran, seems to be picking up some momentum but there's a lot more work left to be done here. >> we also understand the taliban is urging the pakistani government not to accept aid from the united states? what's the latest on t...

The military and the government are telling us they are doing all they can to get help to these flood victims as soon as possible. on the tour today, they took us to a relief camp to show us some of the work they are doing, but what we are hearing over and over again from flood victims that we are speaking to directly is we are not seeing the help. and that seems to be the challenge for not only the pakistani government, but for private aid organizations. we spoke to one aid organization who told us, we have the food ready, we have relief goods ready, what we can't get ahold of is some chopper...

A huge moment in the course of what we've been covering over the last three months. i mean, i don't think there's any words that can add to this to explain why this is such a crucial moment in the hope that what we see on the right of your screen there is what we can hope -- would hope would continue from here on out so we know that we're in the middle or the beginning of this integrity test. it will last a couple of days, and why this is significant, because if one of the two options that they hope will play out here, essentially what we could be seeing is even if it's not capped, even if it'...