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The sense of distrust, mistrust, fear going on among the people, contradictory information about the nuclear system, the aftershocks are terrifying. there have been many of them, quite strong. we feel them all the time. then sort of a sense of no one knows what's going to happen next, combined with it's brutally cold, a lack of food, a lack of fuel, and lack of information. none of that is a big surprise to me. >> this confusion, contradictory information, it definitely feels like that from here in the united states. is it more so in japan where governments are saying there are dangerous level...

P. in japan today, the death toll is 4,313, but 8,306 people are still listed as missing. 2,282 are injured. meanwhile, there are fears about the growing nuclear situation, so much so that many people are going to the airports to try to leave. cnn's soledad o'brien joins me live from tokyo. you just got back from the airport. what's going on there? >> reporter: yeah. we flew in, our flight was pretty full and crowded, when we got there, late at night japan time, the airport was not packed but we've seen pictures, really, really packed and not even close to the situation at the other airport ...

Fukushima nuclear reactors, we saw what looked like a cloud of smoke rising over reactor number 3. officials saying they believe there was no breach of the containment vessel and it probably was vapor, not smoke. there's also been some developments at a nuclear plant south of that. in pakistan, american cia contractor raymond davis has been released from jail after the families of the two men he killed in january forgave him. the u.s. official says he has left the country. davis said he shot the men after they attacked him. a lawyer closely connected to the case said the families were paid a...

Yesterday trying to give a lot of information and the emperor was on television as well, speaking to the japanese people, which as you know is a very rare event. >> yes. >> reporter: which was both comforting to people, especially the elderly, but also an indication of how severe the crisis is, if the emperor who very, very, very rarely goes on television proactively in a crisis is addressing the people. i think it's sort of that consistently, well, it must be a very bad crisis but everybody is saying remain calm, combined with the temperature, the lack of food, the empty streets, combined wit...

So more than 24 hours ago. witnessing the flight of rebels from the town of ajdabiya, eastern town of ajdabiya. there were second hand reports of the journalists being swept up by advancing libyan government forces, but nobody could confirm this. at this point, we have confirmed that four missing journalists there are four missing journalists, the beirut bureau chief for "the new york times," steven ferrell, reporter and videographer kidnapped by the taliban in 2009 and rescued by british command douowes two photographers from the new york times have disappeared. tyler hicks and lindsay adrio,...