about 30 minutes, and then sped toward the main gate where he blew himself and his car up. this is a picture of al mehdi s best friend, carrying his remains after the blast. if i didn have his body in the car, i could not believe it. reporter: he said al mehdi s suicide attacks sent gadhafi troops running, clearing the way for bel fighters to overtake the barracks. he s a erhero. he s a real hero. reporter: for oppositn forces it was a victory, made possible by al mehdi, one of hundreds of civilians that died in the war for libya. for his two daughters, the sudden lost of their father is heart-wrenching but one they say they are honored to live with. he did something very important. we re definitely very proud of him. and reza sayah joins me now from benghazi.
meltdown, but two weeks after the plant and mu of japan were ravaged by an earthquake and tsunami, experts fear one. containment vessel may have cracked. and at the worst possible actor, that s reactor number three that we re talking about. it s only one of six at the daiichi complex to contain plutonium, you can see the reactors behind me. it contains uranium, the lltale sign was the highly radioactive water that three workers stepped in by wednesday. by highly radioactive, i mean 10,000 tes t norm for that location. beefing checked out at japan s national institute for radiological sciences. japan s government says peop living within 20 or 30 kilometers of the daiichi plant should now leave. people living closer were never given a ntchoice, but until tod the rest were told simply to stay indoors. the u.s. and other countries have set a much wider evacuation zone for their people, 80 kilometers or 50 miles from daiichi. now, we ve all gotten a crash course in nuclear phy