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How high up this steam cloud goes. because the higher it goes up, the further distance the radio activity -- the radioactive material might be carried. i think it's going to be very careful to monitor. >> shepard: i didn't mean to interrupt, tim, you know we have this hideous delay. to that end if we can get somebody from the weather center up. we know there are two sets of prevailing winds. one is at the lower level. it's been a very windy day today. in fact, it's morning now. it's like 8:00. 8:15 in the morning. we are waiting for a storm to come. the weather forecasters here have promised t...

Generating so much heat. >> shepard: tim trevan who will remain on stand by for us throughout the hour because of the very serious situation. you might be asking if they know it needs water on it, why don't they put water on it. imagine this, you are in the middle of a world with no water no, electricity, no food, no fuel. a tsunami has come through, a large part of your area, and eliminated thousands upon thousands of people. there are many tens and thousands of more who are now homeless and waiting for the snow to begin to fall, and many hundreds or thousands more who are trapped beneath rub...

>> shepard: continuing coverage of the disaster in japan. i'm shepard smith live in tokyo where the official japanese news agency is now reporting an explosion at reactor number two at the fukushima power plant to the north of us by 190 miles. it is further reporting that 2.5 meters of a nuclear fuel rod is now exposed. i want to go to tim trevan joining us live. he is a former u.n. weapons inspector. explain to you if you what this means. >> they are having real problems getting water into the reactor to cool down the rods. and we have had that confirmed by them saying that so much of the fue...

Ment much more a concern than the steam being vented earlier. >> tim trevan on the line with us. i need to take a quick commercial break. gather more facts from the official news agency here. we are also listening to a news conference from the japanese power company. the folkio power company. we will have the latest update ahead of o'reilly right after this. ♪ ♪

Complicates the problem of cooling it down even further and secondly it increase the risk maybe more catastrophic failure of the containment so far. >> tim, we have gotten reports now from the news agency and from the japanese government that there appear to be radiation level increases around that facility and concerns of a crack in the outer containment dome. help us understand that. >> well, there would be some rise in the radiation from the steam that's been vented earlier. if they're indicating that it's from the immediate vicinity, what that could be an indication of is that it is now no...