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Terms of your safety and it goes from level one ald goes up to seven. and as you go up in each category, the debt level raises ten fold. level five, where we were at before, that was on par with the three mile incident of 1979. now they say fukushima is up there with 1986. what kind of consequences are there as a result of this? level 5, according to this scale, they call it an accident with wider consequences. several deaths can occur at a level 5 and severe damage to the reactor core. i'll advance this for you. taking you to a six, they consider this a serious accident with a significant rel...

>> his view of this is how would it be libyan forces doing that because much of their if not all of their air strike capability is supposedly -- >> and there's concern among the rebel forces, they feel that they're becoming targets and now accidentally and that there's some sort of disconnect with how they're engaging in these air strikes. we'll check in with ben wedeman there. new in japan. officials at the badly damaged nuclear power plant now say that radiation levels in the seawater are dropping dramatically. they're shooting nitrogen into the reactor core at the fukushima daiichi nuclea...

Them any closer to finding the source of the leak itself. that's going to continue as they continue to pump more water in to cool those reactors. even though they stopped the water going into the ocean, it's still going to be building up somewhere. they just don't know where it may build up next. that was the bit of good news. the bad news is now they are turning their attention to try and prevent a possible hydrogen explosi explosion. they don't think there's an explosion imminent. but they're trying to inject nitrogen into the containment vessel around the reactor core. and i'm no chemist, b...

Say they ought to be doing this or ought to be doing that but in many ways it is an unprecedented problem an they're having to innovate the fixes on the fly here, aren't they? >> yeah, i would say from my particular arm chair that what the japanese could be doing is learning from past crises. we had one at 3-mile island, ukraine, in the then soviet union, had one at chernobyl, and we know there are situations of uncertainty and they are in that situation now, and so one of the best things they could do is be absolutely honest about what they don't know. one of the things they said was right on...

Hours that may have come from the reactor core. plutonium is a heavy metal. it doesn't travel very far. so i think the hope here is that most of the radiation is contained to the area immediately around the plant. the worry is that either it gets down into the ground water and then travels outside of the plant area, or that there's a subsequent explosion, a steam explosion, something inside the reactor, and then that like chernobyl would carry up material up into the atmosphere and be spread by the atmosphere. but so far, it's localized, and the best hope is that it will remain localized. >> j...