Your favorite clock in the corner of the screen, the countdown clock. Its up and running. The New York Primary on msnbcs coverage now officially on the clock, and happy primary eve for new york. This is a state that three of the five remaining president ial candidates call their home or adopted home. And right out of the gate, we have some brandnew National Polling numbers for this republican race. According to our nbc news wall street journal poll, donald trump leads with 40 of support among likely Republican Voters. Without rubio in the race, trump is up ten points from our poll last month that did include rubio. Cruz trailing trump back at 35 , up eight points from last month. And john kasich has the smallest change since last month, a twopoint gain for him. Hes sitting at 24 in our new national poll. As for the democrats, the gap between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has narrowed from last month. It now sits at just two points, 50 for Hillary Clinton, 48 for Bernie Sanders. Th
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material. and company executives have publicly apologized. in the event of a large meltdown, the japanese government has distributed 230,000 doses of stable iodine to evacuation centers that experts say there isn t a significant health risk yet. the amount of radiation that is likely to be released is going to be relatively small compared to an accident like chernobyl. we re just learning that a nuclear industry official here in the united states says that the primary containment structure of those reactors in japan, it looks like has breached. it raises the risk now of a further release of radioactive material. let s go right to tokyo now. msnbc chris jansing is standing by. i received a note the winds have shifted and are blowing over the pacific sxnt over tokyo. i m sure people there are very concerned. reporter: it s been a very concerning situation because there have been levels, low levels i need to emphasize that of radiation here in tokyo. it has caused enough o