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Across the border with thailand and reportedly people hundreds of mile in bangkok and beyond could feel the earthshaking. they are reporting 70 people are dead and mean more injured and we're told the quake damaged roads and bridges which could make it difficult for relief teams to get in. >> there is word that the crippled nuclear plant. new concerns that a reactor core has been breached. just ahead, details of the desperate efforts to seal the source and radiation exceeds. how crews of u.s.s. ronald reagan carrier are working to decontaminate the deck and what are workers hiding behind this ...

Well, there are new fears today that the reactor core being breached at japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear power ant, it's raising the possibility of more radiation beingreleapsed into t released penetrating the ungrod. paula hancock is there for us to explain what it means. what is the status of the reactors, particularly reacr number three? >> reporter: well, suzanne, at this point, the team in charge of this plant, don't actually know whether or not there a brea crack, or a rupture in unit the. this is the containment vessel they're worried about, which is basically the casing around the rea...

Concerns virtually every day goes to another level. in the number three reactor at the fukushima nuclear power plant, authorities say there was likely a breach in the crucial containment vessel, which protects the core of the reactor. they say contaminated water from that vessel probably seeped out and employees working ppnear th site stepped into water that had 10,000 times the amount of radiation typical for a nuclear plant. >> i think it is more likely that the wat came from the treactor core. as to the root of the leakage, we are yet to know. >> reporter: other significantly contaminated w...

Over the past two weeks or so, but to understand the impact of are possible containment breachi want to bring in at. scientist. bill nye, the science guy, joins us live from l.a., and bill knows all about this. bill, good to see you. would a leaking reactor core which we m be seeing here, would it be a major escalation of this disaster or just simply another complication? >> it's probably a major escalation. now, if it's not the core that's cracked, it's some plumbing, some pipes, that lead into it. because when you get this knd of radioactivity level going up so fast, it's probably plutonium....

Welcome back to "hardball." let's go to another continent. the radiation leak in japan's crippled nuclear reactor could signal that the reactor core has been breached. although it's unclear where the radiation is leaking from. another setback today. also today, the japanese government said people living up to 19 miles from the reactor site should consider a voluntary evacuation. earlier they had suggested people in that zone just stay indoors. how bad is it? james is the associate with the nuclear program at the carnegie endowment for international peace and joins us now. james, let me start w...