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Plants have been damaged as we heard from stan grant a little earlier. another problem with another reactor at one of those power plants. certainly it authorities do not have the situation under control yet in fukushima. authorities have been releases radioactive team to try to relieve the pressure in the reactor there is a 20 kilometer exclusion zone around fukushima at this hour. now before the earthquake, the city of sendai was home to about a million people. now the population of that city about 130 kilometers from the quake center is unknown. martin savidge now gives us a look at the apoc...

Welcoming this hour, our viewers in the u.s. as around the world. well, there are also reports of more trouble at the nuclear plant in fukushima. japanese media are reporting the cooling system has stopped at one of the reactors there. let's get straight to stan grant. he is following that story from our tokyo bureau, and he joins us live now. stan? >> reporter: yeah, this continues to grow, doesn't it, andrew? this entire nuclear emergency. it seems to be one development after another. and none of them particularly good. we're hearing now about the number 2 reactor at the daiichi nuclear plan...

>> they had been pumping seawater into the reactors to try to cool them. now number 1 was being reported as being fairly stable. what they have done is interrupted that supply because the supply of the seawater was running low. what had happened here is the seawater was being stored in a particular place, and that one running low. they're still pumping seawater into number 3 reactor to try to keep that cool. i will imagine they'll have to lock at a similar process here at number 2. you keep in mind too, andrew, the seawater itself is considered to be a last resort. and if effectually what you'...

Couple of hours ago. of course there was an explosion in the number 3 reactor. that was a hydrogen explosion in the outer building, which houses the reactor itself. now that was similar to another explosion in the number one reactor just a couple days ago. it also had similar damage. it blew out one of the walls of the building there. now there is also ongoing concerns about radiation. however, authorities here say the radiation levels have actually been decreasing over the last couple of days. but they've still got this 20 kilometer, 12 or 13-mile exclusion zone. we're now hearing that the nu...