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Tonight we are live from japan with the multiple disasters ongoing right now. . the largest nuclear disaster happening since chernobyl going on right now. multiple problems at six reactors in one location in japan. we'll have details on that. new picture from that plant of smoke rising from reactor number four, where a second fire broke out today. very alarming news. we'll have all of that. we'll also have the problems with the tsunami areas, the hardest hit areas. and we have new pictures of the moments when the tsunami actually struck. dramatic new pictures to show you the power of the water...

Plant? there were 800, 750 have left. are there enough people physically to do the job that's required? >> they have no need to keep more people than they absolutely need since all are soaking up dose -- if this goes on, i imagine they'll rotate people through to share the dose as widely as possible. that number of people can run pumps, emergency generators and dump water into spent fuel pools and reactors. it's challenging work, and i suspect they will find volunteers to get it done. and i suspect they've sized their crew to the minimum they need. >> how does this disaster compare, this nucle...

Different directions. they had a fire in one of the reactors. there was some initial report it was the spent fuel pool which would have been really awful. it turns out to have been oil, lubricating oil in machinery near the pool. they're talking about bringing in helicopters as they did at chernobyl. in this case, the helicopters would drop water into the spent fuel pool. the spent fuel pool started out with maybe five or six times as much material as is in the reactor. and 30 feet of water over it. it hasn't really been cooled since the power went off when the tsunami hit, and now that water'...

And we don't know a lot with precision about the effects of small doses. there's a theory that every little bit hurts, but there's observational data that says we can't demonstrate that. >> without wanting to be doom-laid ben thden about this, is the worst possible news that you would hear as an expert in this area from that plant? >> probably that the spent fuel spool on fire because what would burn there is the metal cladding, and that's very difficult to put out. that would disperse more radioactive material than is in the reactor itself, but with a little work, i think they can keep that f...

Astonishing images of all, people running for their lives, literally, as the tsunami sweeps through their town. let's begin with the latest from japan. here's my colleague, anderson cooper. >> reporter: day five this disaster. and the problems keep on growing, it seems. a fire break out in reactor number four at the fukushima daiichi plant. the plant that has six reactors. virtually all of them have had problems over the last several days. there are now deep concerns about the spent fuel rods in reactors four as well as reactors five and six. those reactors were offline when the tsunami struck...