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Just about the lava. hawaii county issuing an air quality alert known as condition read it, after one of the most recent areas of began emitting a high amount of sulfur dioxide. the high amount of toxic gas could lead to choking and the inability to breathe. people in those areas should just get out. >> remove oneself from the exposure, that's the treatment. we don't want people to be in some sort of a device in the exposure, we want them out of there. >> those of us who have respiratory problems, that's very harmful. >> reporter: so harmful that 2,000 people have been ordered to evacuate sinc...

>> i knew that kilauea was capable of the eruptions and here we are. >> the last pictures yesterday before the national park ran the volcano. the lava lake continues to drop and now as it drops, the e eruption is more likely. now we're told it's likely to happen within a week. it was spark a steam explosion bringing more fear for those that have homes nearby and already forced to evacuate. >> my kids are safe and our dogs are safe. we have each other. but we just want to go home. >> we all knew it was coming.

now we know that hamza alkhalee is dead. pictures of his body are disturbing. his family received his remains. it appeared the 13-year-old had been tortured. he was mutilated. many of the pictures we've received are too graphic to broadcast. cnn made repeated attempts to reach for comment without success. hamza's murder brought syrians into the streets. even children have joined the protests. we'll have more on dramatic developments in syria and the strongest words yet from washington in just a moment. but first, a look at the other stories we're covering tonight. what do robert e....

Hours that may have come from the reactor core. plutonium is a heavy metal. it doesn't travel very far. so i think the hope here is that most of the radiation is contained to the area immediately around the plant. the worry is that either it gets down into the ground water and then travels outside of the plant area, or that there's a subsequent explosion, a steam explosion, something inside the reactor, and then that like chernobyl would carry up material up into the atmosphere and be spread by the atmosphere. but so far, it's localized, and the best hope is that it will remain localized. >> j...

You were just talking about, that big question of how much power can we maintain at these plants to keep them cool if something happens. that's what they were testing here in chernobyl back in 1986. there was a gap of time they were worried about before generators kick in. what happened, a power spike, one thing led to another, there were two massive explosions, one was a steam explosion and the second one is believed to be within the nuclear core. here's what we're left with. that is the hulking sarcophagus over reactor four and around us, the radiation remains spread. normally what you would...