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Quite frankly, they don't know what is causing this leak at this point. they can't get close enough to the reactor core to see it. obviously already three workers have been injured by stepping in that water, and so they can't put anyone else in that kind of danger. and so at this point they really don't know what the cause of it is. and, of course, another thing they're worried about is the fact the sea water has been tested just off the coast of the fukushima nuclear plant and it's more than 1200 times the level of radioactivity than it should be. we've also just had another press conference ...

Surroundings. >> i want to read this. looking at the computer, if we can put up this animation. animation of a reactor to, in the yellow. look at this thing. there it is. so the core is in yellow. the containment flashing green to go along with the stories. that's a containment there, flashing green. the men are working near number three reactor. they step into the water. 10,000 times the amount normal in a radiation plant. this is what it looks like inside the core. the reactor is in yellow. the reactor core. the containment is flashing in green. so is this typical as we look at this animatio...

Into the reactors. one of the reactor cores could have been cracked during the explosion 15 days ago. what you see in yellow is the reactor core. already the damage from the quake and the resulting tsunami estimated at $309 billion? more than 10,000 people now confirmed dead. some 17,000 still missing. we do want to turn to our paula hancocks who is up for us in tokyo after midnight there. hello to you once again. they don't know where this is coming from. it's not saying that this water in the ocean necessarily a dang are to someone, but they need to know where it's coming from. >> reporter...

Gadhafi in power, leave him behind, believe me, the western countries will suffer more than the libyans. because he's a man of revenge. he will never forgive. >> ambassador, thank you for coming in. my best to you and your family. >> thank you, i appreciate it. up next, troubles news out of japan where that damaged reactor core may vab breached. it mean much larger amounts of radiation are already leaking out. we'll get the latest on that crisis when we return. you're watching "hardball."

>> reporter: well, suzanne, if this is true, this is potentially very dangerous. what may have happened is that there may be a crack or a rupture in the containment vessel. now, this vessel is basically the last line of defense when it comes to this reactor core. it is a shell around it, and it's supposed to stop any radioactive wasteful or material from seeping into the atmosphere. now, the reason they realized something was wrong, if you remember, trsday, yesterday, three workers were taken to hot hospital, two at least talken t hospital, because they had radioactive contamination. standing ...