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Effort to stabilize reactors and radioactive spent fuel at the daiichi plant is facing new set backs, plural, set backs. a light gray smoke was seen emanating from reactor three, and white smoke from reactor two. they say what was coming from reactor two was steam. it caused a temporary evacuation of workers from the daiichi plant. "the washington post" reported that readings near the plant nearly tripled shortly after the smoke was seen at healthcare three. as workers continue to restore electrical power to the facility to get cooling systems up and running in the reactors and spent fuel pool...

An american teacher who went missing struck japan over a week o is no longer missing. the family of 24-year-old taylor anderson said they received a call from the embassy with the devastating news that her body has been found. anderson has been in japan teaching english for two years and was due to return home in august. operators of japan's fukushima power plant suffered several set backs and worker his to evacuate twice after smoke starred to rise from reactors two and three. they discovered some of the key pumps no longer worked. replacements have been order and when they will arrive is unc...

About the crisis in japan. one is bad weather. look at this. keep in mind because of the time difference even though it is monday night here, it is tuesday there. it has been raining in parts of japan, raining through tomorrow. forecast calls for winds to shift to blowing inland instead of out to sea. plus, it is getting really cold there. subfreezing temperatures at night. combinations of rain and snow in the day. the reason that's important in light of the disaster in japan is because it highlights the need for warm shelter among those whose homes were destroyed. hundreds of thousands are in...

An american teacher who went missing struck japan over a week ago is no longer missing. the family of 24-year-old taylor anderson said they received a call from the embassy with the devastating news that her body has been found. anderson has been in japan teaching english for two years and was due to return home in august. operators of japan's fukushima power plant suffered several set backs and worker his to evacuate twice after smoke starred to rise from reactors two and three. they discovered some of the key pumps no longer worked. replacements have been order and when they will arrive is u...

David, a general question here are we better off now today than we were last monday at the same time? >> yes, much better off. last monday started a whole series of major explosions and fires that led to quite a large amount of radio activity being released into the environment. i think this week i think the japanese are on kind of an uphill climb to getting the reactors under control. but it remains a very serious situation and i think the fire today in unit three particularly shows that some serious accidents can still happen, and the japanese are going to have some i think greater number of...