today. earlier, the plant's operator was planning to use helicopters to try to douce the reactors with water and acid to stop the radiation leak but now ers are being told to leave, and we are learning it's just too dangerous for anyone to stay brian. >> well, laura, what's the damage right now? >>reporter: right now brian, officials are saying that 70 percent of the fuel rods in one of the six reactors are significantly damaged. there is damage to at least one other reactor, if not two, and this crisis is really tring international alarm. the us navy is distributing antiradiation pills to american service men and women and also trying to reposition ships in the area. meanwhile about 140,000 people within 20 miles of fukushima's plant are being told to seal themselves indoors, even in tokyo, which is 170 miles away there are indications of elevated levels of radiation. austria and france have now started moving their diplomats out of tokyo because of that brian. >> laura, on fox 5 news at 10:00, we had a spokesman from the nuclear energy institute on tonight, he seemed to be ing caution in his tone. how is the white house responding to this latest threat? >>reporter: the white house wants all american diplomats in tokyo to follow japanese guidance, and that is to stay put, a level of caution there as well. some say the radiation is not a threat in tokyo at this point. although, as we have seen the situation is changing by the minute. >> all right, laura, in the meantime, let's talk about the search and rescue efforts here. they continue in the rubble and water left in the wake of the tsunami. officials have confirmed 3300 deaths. they're guessing the tollwill at least triple. rescuers found two survivors today, but stores are running out of necessities. the stock market in japan plunged a second day and also recently opened in the past couple of hours. the edge in the district. a quiet fort washington neighborhood is stunned to learn a car with a dead body in the trunk sat in their neighborhood for weeks. they say the police did nothing. the car was reported missing at the same time a 22 year-old father of two disappeared. it was two days before his scheduled wedding. yesterday, the man's body was found in the trunk of that car. stacey cohan is here with the story. >> the family is fine and spent months searching for that father of two but never dreamed they'd find him like this. folks are wondering why a car that is the focus of a missing person in the district was left to sit on a prince georges county street even after the neighbors called police. >> he would have called he would have came around no. he'd have done something. it's not like maurice. we've been to maryland dc police, we're calling around. we're trying to find him. >> reporter: that's what maurice's binem's family told police in december days after he disappeared along with his mother's black honda accord. then in mid-/swr-pb, january, a resident of this neighborhood called police to complain about an abandoned black honda accord. >> he was dispatched to the location and checked the vehicle but for some reason it did not come back as being stolen. >> reporter: the car was legal legally parked, so the officer left it here. this resident remembers seeing it on her walk through the neighborhood. >> i can remember as late as early february or something seeing a car, you know, but not really paying too much attention. >> reporter: after several more weeks, neighbors called again on march 8. police came and this time the car came up as stolen and was towed, and the family was called to get the car they had reported missing so many months ago. >> the family felt they wanted the police to respond to the scene as well to search the car. it was at that time officers arrived at the tow company, searched the car, and found the victim. >>reporter: by late afternoon, police confirmed the body was that of maurice binem. >> big questions come up to pg, you know, as far as -- i know the neighbors called and reported it as to why , you know nothing was done. that's a huge problem. >> if there was already a missing person report, you know, and you can run the and you can get who the vehicle is registered through, to me it should have like came like that you know, it should have been without hesitation. >> reporter: but prince georges police say it didn't come like that, and in a phone conversation, the family of maurice binem say /práeugs and prince georges and dc police dropped the ball on this investigation, brian. montgomery county investigators now say they have forensic evidence in the attacks of two women in a bethesda store friday night. they're not confirming whether they have dna evidence. jana murray and a coworker were both bound, sexual assault and did badly beaten when two men got into the store after closing friday. murray died. her family came to the store earlier today to read all the notes and see the flowers people have left behind. police have not made any arrests. 14 accused pirates pleaded not guilty in a virginia federal court after a hijacking led to the deaths of four americans. the men are all charged with piracy kidnapping and firearms charges in the february incident on a yacht by an american couple sailing around the world. more charges could come later. officials swarmed the yacht after hearing gun fire. if convicted they face life without parole. should there be a fly zone over libya? that question is on the security council. >> germany, russia china and other nations say not so fast. they're concerned with how to fund the no fly zone. ghadafi is still ordering attacks on his own people hoping to put down revolts against him. it's up to the senate to sign a bill keeping the government going for the next few weeks. both sides are growing impatient and say they need to come up with a long term solution soon. a security chief at a mine that blew up in west virginia pled guilty to charges that he lied to federal prosecutors. stover ordered an employee to get rid of thousands of documents. stover is the first person to connect to the explosion. up next, people who lived through the three-mile island disaster share their stories, including a woman who said she was urged to have an abortion because of the accident. let's check out some of the other stories on our run-down. the news edge is back in 60 seconds. >> so, ah, your seat good? got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok? just stay off the freeways, all right? i don't want you going out on those yet. and leave your phone in your purse, i don't want you texting. >> daddy... ok! ok, here you go. be careful. >> thanks dad. >> and call me--but not while you're driving. we knew this day was coming. that's why we bought a subaru. >> the nuclear scare in japan reminding the nation of similar disasters closer to home. like 3-mile island the partial core meltdown happened in middletown pennsylvania back in 1979. luckily, the radiation was contained and no one was hurt. claudia gomeas has more on what it was like to live through that disaster. >> reporter: march 28, 1979 equipment failed but the operators didn't notice until a partial meltdown occurred in unit 2. >> the first couple of days was okay. i had four young children at the time and then people started leaving. >> we went to johnstown and everybody there thought we should be glowing or green or something because we were exposed to radiation. it was very weird. >> reporter: plan officials insisted everything was under control but on day 3, officials finally admitted radio active material did leak out. >> i was in my first trimester 2 1/2 months pregnant. i was told by the firearm fireman to get out. >> reporter: the governor called on everyone within a 5-mile radius to evac uate and that's when linda hellman got unsound advice. >> they said you have to have an abortion. i said i waited 29 years to have this baby. i'm not going to have to an abortion. >>reporter: he turned 22 in september. >> we tease him. >> reporter: despite the terror and the legacy as the worst nuclear disaster in american history, what happened at 3-mile island didn't kill a single person. a report from a presidential commission could not relate a single incident of cancer to the accident. >> the most anybody could be exposed to was about 2 x-rays. >> reporter: neither sandy nagle or her four kids got sick as a result. >> the accident did scare many people. there was no doubt about that but as experts looked at the consequences of the accident they found not enough radiation was released to hurt an body. >> the former voice of aflac's duck is apologizing for jokes he made about the disaster in japan. gilbert godfried says he's sorry about the jokes. i have no idea what the video was. coming up next a local law maker lashes out. why he claims his own party is putting communities at risk. a boy taunted and bullied until he fights back. the story behind the video that makes him a hero when we take the edge off. tt6warh[x cf=up3arb- ú?40 tt5dep4d0nf.7!xá[ó?@ %.htt6warh[x cf=up3arb)@5h/x tt5dep4d0nf.7!x(wó?@ %($tt4warh[x cf=up3@r02ioh tt5dep4d0nf.7!x&só?@ '20tt4warh[x cf=up3@rp,6,d tt5dep4d0nf.7!x$só?@ ef0tt4warh[x cf=up3@rp'[t0 tt5dep4d0nf.7!x"só?@ &x4 prince william county chairman cory stewart says his own party is letting him down on capitol hill. he's demands information on illegal immigrants in his county. he says the department of homeland security has released 3,000 dangerous criminals back into communities and he wants to know where they are and who they are. he said the house isn't giving up that information. >> we have asked for this information. we were expecting some better results but they've stone walled us. they have actually asked us, why do you need the information? why do you want to know who was released back into your community. we were completely just flummuxed by that response and it's been disappointing. >> he's filed charges against department of homeland security because of crimes committed by illegal immigrants who should have been deported. promising news about life after breast cancer. back to shawn yancy for your fox 5 top 5. >> we're starting off tonight with promising news in the battle against breast cancer. number 5 older women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer are expected to live just as long as their peers without breast cancer. researchers say doctors should talk to them about risks of being screened. number 4, if you really want to enjoy march madness, don't bet on the game. a researcher from washington university in st. louis found people who make predictions about uncertain events enjoy the games a lot less and even picking the winner doesn't necessarily help you feel better either. number 3 is a head's up if you hear low flying fighter jets over dc over the region thursday night, norad will be conducting training flights between midnight and 3:00 a.m. those flights are part of routine exercises that test air space security. do not drink and drive this saint patty's day. they'll be out in full force in every county this thursday and friday. more than half of americans will be celebrating the holiday, a third of them at a bar or at a restaurant. number 1 tonight, metro is preparing for the large cherry blossom crowds. the agency will put more eight car trains in service and will stop weekend track maintenance during the festival which runs march 26 through april 10. metro is also working to make sure ac service is working at full capacity. brian, that's tonight's fox 5 top 5. >> thank you shawn. we got a little bit of a rain situation overnight tonight . >> it really is. i think there will still be a little bit hanging around in the morning as the sun comes up east of the district probably east of 95 and to the bay. you'll have to get the e-mails now brian. overnight showers conveniently timed and you can see the roads look wet in this live shot over northwest washington down toward the cathedral and the windshield wiper going by on cue. there's already been moderate rain. dc is in a bit of a break but more to come too. we'll see that in the overnight hours and that is going to be moving up. you might pick up another quarter inch out of that. when all is said and done we may end up getting close to a half inch in some spots especially where we have heavier down pours, so a little bit more to come and you can see that moving in from the south. over to max and we'll show you that the headline is the overnight showers. our temperature will not get very cold. we'll drop to about 43 degrees, and most of this will be out of here by morning, but could linger east of the district. the next three days tomorrow 62 degrees significantly er than today, which only came in at about pop. maybe not as much sun as you'd like in the morning but we should begin to see breaks of sun in the afternoon. for saint patrick's day, doesn't get a lot better than that 66 degrees, until you get to friday and then it gets even better how about 76 degrees on friday with some spots possibly away from water getting closer to 80 and for bonus, even the weekend is looking nice so we've got lots to talk about that's great in the 5-day forecast and even tonight's showers not as heavy as what we had last week. here's your future cast. you can see some of these bands going on by. i want you to see at 8:00 in the morning, most of this is on the eastern shore. clouds are already breaking up west of 95 so we may see some clearing squise skies even earlier and that trend continues into the afternoon. sometimes the clouds linger a little longer than our future cast wants to show. but the break for saint patrick's day, a mild, nice day, blue skies so a wonderful end of the week. friday looks terrific. a warm day, if not bordering on toasty for a lot of you, and maybe just maybe some of you touch 80 on friday. now, i want you to see that the jet stream brings more good news for the weekend the chilly air will stay up to the north and a bigger warm surge around. this is what we'll cert be seeing on friday with temperatures in the 70s, and then down through the deep south into the 80s. as we head into the weekend, i think it looks good too but i will tell you this, i think it looks cooler sunday as a front comes through. by the way, if the skies clear tomorrow a rare opportunity to see the tiny planet mercury. you want to look to the west as the sun is going down. find the bright planet. that will be hard to miss. that's jupiter and a little bit to the northeast of it will be mercury. what's really cool about this rarely visible planet you usually have to use a telescope is that there's going to be a spacecraft near it for the first time ever. messenger will be in mercury's orbit on saint patrick's day. so check it out yourself and we'll see what the picture looks like from nasa. let's look at the big picture of the 5-day forecast. we've got a nice trend going for saint patrick's, 66 degrees, a couple of showers tomorrow morning. friday 76, 67 on saturday and spring begins sunday with a little bit of a cool down down to 58 degrees but all things considered, a winner of a forecast. we'll find out if it was a winner of a night for the caps when we return in sports. si t 's rig >> remember when the caps struggling before the winter classic, everyone was freaking out. i don't hear those people anymore. eight straight wins will do that, tonight looking for n 9 in montreal. the caps have a power play. marcus johansen takes advantage. now ahead to light, he beats price. caps up 2-1. third period tied at 2 alex silveskin loses control but regains it. caps win 4-2, ninth straight, sixth on the road behind the lead in the east. wizards in chicago against the bulls and a big night for jordan crawford, stroking the 3. had 21 of his game high 27 in the first half. back to wall and when you have someone who can /skwruflt throw it up to mcghee 11 points and 12 blocks the wizards down 4 at the half. second half, bulls outscore the wiz by 15. wiz fall in chicago 98-79, their 50th loss of the season. the georgetown hoyas took off for an undisclosed location. chris wright's broken left hand is fine they say. the radio show host always goes with the hoyas in the ncaa tournament. his son, head coach jt 3 focused as follows. the hoyas have received wide range in opinions from predictions on how they'll finish. either a final 4 team or a one and done team. jason clark, do you listen to all that? >> not at all. we know what kind of team we are and we know the potential we have. we know what we can do on the court so we don't listen to any of that. we go out and play our game. we do what we can do. >> at the end of the day, a lot of it has been focusing on us on stuff that we have not been doing as well as we need to to have success come friday and then we'll find out wednesday night, early thursday morning who we have to play on friday. >> we all will. virginia commonwealth play tomorrow night for the right to play george town on friday. george mason take heading to cleveland to take on villa nova. friday's game will be george mason's first in 12 days so too long of a lay off? >> no, because a 10-day lay off gave us time to rest but also get better, you know from especially coming off the loss you know it's just motivation that we still have the opportunity to get into tournament. >> rest and recuperate like the rest of the nation is doing, and prepare yourself mentally and physically. so the rest has been good. i use my body a lot, a lot of jumping and pushing down there so i'm enjoying the rest and aye i'm ready to get back to the actual game time. port saint lucy ike davis. rick angel comes up with a perfect home run but he can't hold onto it. nats fall to the mets 5-2. last year's mls rookie of the year, and today, nahar who turns 18 tomorrow surprised with an early birthday present. a volkswagen after practice /k-rs courtesy of the team. tonight's game, north carolina defeats little rock in overtime. brian's back in a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] bursting with mouth-watering real fruit and refreshingly blended with creamy low-fat yogurt mcdonald's strawberry-banana and wild berry smoothies are 100% pure sipping fun. the simple joy of real fruit smoothies. ♪ ♪ >> a bully picked on another kid one too many times. take a look at this video in sydney australia. that little guy is the bully, but the big kid gets the last laugh. he grabs him reaches up and throws him down in a body slam. both students were suspended