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You've been speaking with the people you know in japan. you've been in touch with them quite a bit about this. did you learn anything that you can share with us that might be new? >> yes, i worked closely with japanese emergency management. and including one that's in the control room there, the number one reactor. and they were concerned about a uncovering a part of the core at one point. and that's a disturbing development. this is kind of the critical period. they should be able to control this if they can keep that core covered. it has to have water around it to take the heat away. when th...

Radioactive cloud. apparently it was a hydrogen blast, which is not a good thing for those four people injured. but right now, we really have to keep an eye on this because that reactor core has to remain covered. >> right. >> they've got to keep that thing covered. and without diesel generator power, that means they're resorting to batteries to do that. >> you know where we are. so if your friends call from japan with more information, we'd love to tell our viewers the latest that's going on. >> okay. okay. >> andrew? randi, we're getting news coming into us from the kyoto news organization...

There isn't radio activity in the air. is that a good thing? >> that's a good thing relative to the other possibilities that it could have involved their reactor core, which apparently it has not, not at this time. however, any explosion of that nuclear reactor is very distr s distressing. they had 13 diesel generator backups that should have been available and they all went down. that's a disturbing development. this is kind of the critical time right now. these reactor cores, you can't cool them down very quickly. it's like analogies i've heard on the air on cnn where it's like a stove. you ...

But, of course, there is great concern particularly after the explosion early in the day which we understand did not break the containment vessel of the reactor but as the rescue teams are fighting to keep the pressure down, keeping this reactor core, if they fail, the people, the town of sendai which was hit badly is a town of a million people in the area, and you look further down, if there is a cloud, we have 30 million people here in tokyo. >>dave: it is not just the nuclear situation but the earthquakes, essentially 8.9 and pore than 120 after shocks and we talked to a canadian photograph...

In broadcast. meantime the crisis with the two reactors followed the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck northern japan on friday. this is our breaking news here on cnn and they're calling it -- this meltdown, a catastrophic failure of the reactor core. a meltdown may be under way at one of the fukushima's nuclear power reactors. and that's according to an official in japan. more breaking news on cnn after the break. ♪ hello sunshine, sweet as you can be ♪ [ female announcer ] wake up to sweetness with honey nut cheerios cereal. kissed with real honey. and the 100% ...