previously thought. today the japanese government pledged new action to stem the fallout from that crisis caused by an earthquake in tsunami in 2011. david piper is streaming live from bangkok. yes. they re going to try to stop the leak of the fukishima plant. about 300 tons of water is leaking into the pacific ocean every day. a stairy thought. the contaminated water is also seeping into the ground water, water that s been tested in the area shows radioactivity is still hundreds of times above safe drinking levels. the nuclear regulatory agency is describing the issue as an emergency. the government has urged the problem be solved as soon as possible. three reactsors reactors
this. reporter: the investigation that has begun are indicating what the cause actually could be. it could be anything from a changing water temperature to deleting the kind of fish that young pups actually eat. they want to get the fish down there and looking toxins in the water or even could be radiation that drifted across from japan from the fukishima plant back in 2011. they tell us what is going in the water before we actually find out ourselves. one marine biologist explained just what the implications of that could be. they are visible because they do come up on land. by investigating causes into there things are impacting them. we get information that in turn can impact us. we eat the same seafood. we are using the oceans in
their things that are impacting them we do a lot of teams get information that in turn can impact us. we eat a lot of the things, using the oceans in similar ways so what we learn from them definitely goes to our health. well, will it get inside our food chain? who knows. investigations are underway and marine biologists are looking to everything from biotox ins to possibly radiation traveling across the pacific from the fukishima plant. quite a journey and trail to follow and interesting connection between the sea lion and human and what potentially could come to be. thank you, dominik. they may be called man s best friend but these k-9s will bring you down if you are on the wrong side of the law. an inside look at police dog training. and honoring an american folk legend.
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then this. a massive wall of water. devastating tsunami. it swept ashore along japan s northeastern coast. surging well inland. sweeping away cars, boats, homes. almost anything in its path. hundreds of people are dead with no way to know just how high that death toll will rise. we will bring that back to you. that s the situation developing right now. we have a situation at a japanese nuclear plant, trying to cool down a reactor. the plant is called the fukishima plant. it suffered a quake-related problem with its cooling system. joining us is a professor of disaster management at the university of georgia. mr. delles, explain to us, the last we heard they re trying to release some of this radioactive steam to try to relieve some of the pressure. what will that do? well, what s happened is that about 11 reactors all the m ero went down, stopped on purpose due to ground acceleration to