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let's go "out front" -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hi there, and good evening. i'm brooke bolduan sitting "out front" with erin burnett. five days, we're five days away in the contest for the gop nomination, and as i mentioned a moment ago i know it's following. newt going after romney and perry going after santorum and everyone going after paul and bachmann is fighting very publicly with her now former iowa chief, but romney, he seems to be riding pretty high after a new cnn poll shows he hasec broen out of this dead heat and has first place pretty much all to himself. let...

These buildings. what does that tell you? >> well, i think anderson cooper had it right. there's a lot of rubble there. and it isn't clear that once they get the electricity to the pumps that are in those buildings that the pumps will work. and if the pumps work, it's not clear that the pipes that are connected to them will work. so getting the electricity's critical, but it's not game over at that point. it's a real big question about whether or not they'll be able to get water in. on unit 4 this picture is a little hard to see, but there's a definite crack in the side of unit 4. and that's w...

So, but you notice no one is spraying the building or unit 1 spent fuel pond. there is a lot of trepidation that maybe the u.s. is right, and it could be dangerous to spray the pond without knowing what's there. and so one of the priorities is going to be, i think after they deal with reactor three, is to turn to the spent fuel pond in unity 1 and try to get that under control. that probably will continue into next week. >> shepard: i know people get bogged down in 1, 2, 3, 4's we talk about all the time. the truth is if those spent fuel rods in number 1 have heated up to a very high temperatu...

They increase, then you run the risk of melting, and that's what they're trying to avoid. who's the honest broker here, lawrence? the truth is i don't know, and i am not sure anyone knows. you've got people who are trying to get the best information they can, but when they're not sure of the information, that's why you have governments urging their people to leave because you just can't take that risk. >> nbc news chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson reporting to us from london. thank you for joining us tonight, anne. >> take care. >> joining me now, paul gunther. your group...

Lower. in fact, iaea as of 15 minutes ago is now publishing the data that they have on the water levels in the spent fuel containment areas for all the reactors and you can see they're getting lower in several of the different reactors. >> guys, we got to break here. we got to break here. i want to add one thing, unit 4, the spent rods had been taken out of that active nuclear reactor only a couple of days before we're told. even though sometimes rods in the pool have lower levels of radiation, these have been taken out so recently they were very, very hot in terms of their nuclear radiation c...