jon: right now breaking developments and brand new stories this hour. forces loyal to moammar ghadafi unleash new attacks on the libyan people shelling rebel groups in the east. reportedly, they re rooming the streets of the last roaming the streets in libya s west, but what could ghadafi have in store for the u.s. and allied countries? also, tensions rising in yemen amid growing calls for the u.s.-backed president to step down immediately. what it means for our counterterrorism efforts there. and major developments in japan s nuclear crisis. workers reconnecting the power lines to all six reactor units at the troubled nuclear plant. this as crews continue to dump water into a nearly boiling storage pool. it s all new, all live, it s happening now.
they get it okay at this time. also, concerns, as you said, about a large pool which had a number of spent fuel rods in it, and it was overheating earlier today, but they did manage to dump 18 tons of sea water on to that pool and they have got the temperature down now, so that s one worry out of the way at this time. also, concerns about radiation here in japan, still. they have banned some food products from leaving that area around the fukushima plant and concerns here in tokyo, still, about radiation levels, but the japanese government says despite some radioactive iodine found in tap water here, that it s within safety levels. now, the death toll from the quake now stands officially at over 9000, with more than 12,000 still missing. back to you jon. jon: david piper live from tokyo, thank you david. jenna: a quick fox news alert, taking you to egypt
jenna: so many thought domestic issues were going to dictate the issues of 2012 but now they will be whether or not international polices are going to do that. karl rove, we ll discuss this another time, i guess. always nice to have you, thank you. thank you for having me. jon: a fox news alert, workers at the nuclear plant in japan taking action to hold down a storage pool that holds spent nuclear fuel, water in that pool reaching a poiling boiling point. crews also reconnecting power lines to all six reactor units at that stricken facility but more work needs to be done before the electricity can actually be turned on. radiation from the plant, now said to be contaminating the sea water nearby but japanese authorities are telling us it is no cause for alarm. meanwhile, folks in northeast japan are now working to clean up their quake and tsunami-battered communities. the tsunami completely