is no water covering spent fuel rods in one of the reactors, why are people in tokyo only hearing that from u.s. officials, why aren't they hearing that from you? why can you not comment on that? >> actually, at this juncture, it is very difficult to make a judgment about the level of water. i don't think anybody can definitively talk about the level of water, and we are actually carrying out massive operations in terms of dropping water by self-defense forces and bringing in the ground police chopper to spray water through a cannon truck. >> many people i've talked to here in tokyo frankly don't believe the statements that japanese officials are saying.