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Her. we were to surmise workers were -- pumping water into that which would keep the fuel rods under water. if they are not underwater what water is there will boil and that boiling water will send off radiation. the only way they got water on to those rods is through those workers. the pumps are not working. you have to bring it in and physically put it on there. no more workers at the plant? i believe that's what they just told us that means no more water on these fuel rods? that's what we can sur nice. -- surmise. otherwise they would tell us don't worry the workers are gone we now have an ...

I read some place this ge design in terms of containment was not as good as for instance we have in many here in the united states. does that fac trf rods instead the 70% in the first one? >> honestly greta i don't know enough about that specific plant design. i do know the process is always to work to maintain containment. that means, protect the fuel if you can. if you can't, protect the vessel. if you can't, protect the building. i think they've done a pretty good job of at least protecting the vessel and the building. spent fuel is not contained once the roof of that building is gone. >> g...

Now the people aren't there any more. i think we'll know in the hours ahead where we are. i think this is a very bad development. >> greta: if you think about it, if this were a functioning nuclear reactor, they wouldn't have to evacuate them. we can start from the premise this is from a sick nuclear reactor. whether it is 1, 3, 2 or the fuel rods that have been in this pool we don't know. obviously, it's to be from one of those. you wouldn't have to evacuate 55 or y workers from a healthy plant -- or 60 workers from a healthy plan. the translator didn't say we have good news. we have now been...

Levels increased rapidly. for a society that uses words carefully, and use nuance tones increase rapidly is a statement of great substance. let's put the facts together. reactor number 1, 70% exposed. which is tantamount to a meltdown. reactor number 2, 33% compromised. which is tantamount to something toward meltdown. reactor number 4, a fire yesterday, then it was put out oromething like that. then today a fire again at reactor number 4. the reactor where the rods were in a cooling pool they had been off-line before putting off steam they don't have enough water they will contaminate the air...

Radiation gets carried there. is no dispute this is a monstrous humanitarian disaster. shepard smith joins us live from tokyo where now just after 11 a.m.. >> shepard: good morning. it is hard to imagine all of these days late water the people of japan are dealing with. first a cataclysmic quake that we know was 9.0. followed by that a tsunami that no one predicted. follow that with a nuclear meltdown of sorts, of one reactor that explodes. another with a fire. now nuclear rods that are exposed sending we believe some sort of steam into the air that may contain radiation. thousands upon thousa...