we couldn't make it to the door. it i was shaking too far and too much. too violently for us to get out. >> he was lucky to get out. we will have more on the interview later this week. tonight the crisis, quake. the clock is running. michael friedlander was an operator at a nuclear paurmt for a decade. when the cables were hooked up, it hasn't been fully restored, the cooling pumps haven't been turned on but you believe the risky work is ahead. >> that's right. think about it. when that accident happened, much of the radioactivity basically stayed inside of what we call the primary containment building. certainly over the days we have seen the venting and consequences of that on the countryside and now reaching its way to tokyo but most of the radio activity is outside of primary containment and as we