we turn to continuing coverage of the disaster in japan. for the first time fukushima plant owners are admitting four of the six reactors had too far gone to be saved. radiation near the plant has spiked to more than 3,000 times normal levels. that s the highest rate yet. inside those reactors, there is so much caed water, workers are running out of places to put it. charles hadlock is in the region closely following the latest details. i guess when you take a look at the announcement of the four reactors not necessarily surprising given the pictures and reports that we ve been hearing. reporter: that s right. the moment the saltwater was poured on to those reactors they were dome because of the corrosive nature of the saltwater. they re going to have to decommission the plant. right now they re just trying to bring the reactors under control and to do that, they have been pumping water through the reactors to try to cool them down. as they do that, radioactive