the utility is facing a growing backlash, though, for its handling of the crisis and for the lack of transparency. cnn s kyung lah joins us now from tokyo. and in hong kong michael friedlander, a former senior nuclear power plant operator for more than a decade. so michael, is dumping so many tons of radioactive water into the ocean really the best option available? well, anderson, i have my doubts about that. you know, over the course of my career i ve seen some pretty amazing things done in similar circumstances where there s large volumes of water such as bringing in temporary 100,000-gallon tanks, storage bladders, building evaporation basins and things like that. it s certainly the most expedient, but i m not sure that it s exactly the most prudent thing to be doing. so what do you think? i mean, is it that they re not creative? or they re just completely fried? i mean, they ve been working so much they re kind of not exploring other ideas?
that they re not asking for input and help from others? you know, it s difficult to say. there s no doubt that everything that you just said is true. and i m certain and there s no doubt, don t get me wrong, by any stretch of the imagination, water and water management is the crisis right now. and they are going to have to figure out how to solve this problem. but you know, quite honestly, until they get the systems put back into service or reconstructed or whatever, this is not a one-off deal. this issue of water and water management is going to plague them until they can get on long-term core cooling and get the liquid processing systems put back into service. so this is going to be the crisis du jour for some time to see. kyung, we spoke friday about a growing frustration from the public toward this company tepco, this private company which runs the plant. this weekend there was actually a protest against tepco. it might not sound like a big deal, but protests are pretty rare
last drop of our blood to get rid of moammar gadhafi. there s no talking with the gadhafis, they want all of them out. anderson? and ben, how are things at the front? i mean, opposition forces took some hits over the weekend. where do things stand now? reporter: well, they continue to take those hits. but there is sort of an emerging force among the rebels, which is this new national libyan army that is trying to organize itself, trying to push forward, and in fact keeping the irregulars to the rear. what we did see today is that for the first time there was a rebel counterbarrage of missiles that went on for quite some time, longer than i ve seen yet. and so it does appear that they are beginning to organize themselves. and i think what we re also seeitw we t nzo, of natoirsts, really haven t been too many in the last 24 to 48 hours in this part of the country, but we re being told by opposition officers in the opposition army
that the troops within the gadhafi troops within brega are beginning to run low on ammunition, they re cut off, and after all of that they are saying they re confident that they may take brega within the next 24 hours. but we shall see. yeah, we shall see. jill, it was reported today, and ben just kind of mentioned it, that nato may not have the military equipment to actually continue this kind of bombing campaign. are they looking now to keep or basically for an increase in the u.s. role? because the u.s. said they were going to be out of it more or less in terms of the active bombing campaign. reporter: yeah, that s right, anderson. but the u.s. is the only country that actually has what they need
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