in the middle of judge pan s triple disaster, perhaps there is some good news having to do with tokyo s water supply. but to the north at the daiichi power plant, two workers have been hospitalized. our martin savidge joins us with the latest. marty, tell us exactly what happened to these two workers. it really sounds like perhaps what everyone was fearing. reporter: well, it is. i mean, one of the things, of course, you re concerned about are all those who were up there at the fukushima nuclear plant that are struggling to try to bring things under control. and we know that there are literally hundreds of employees that have been working on that. but there were at least three of them today that were working specifically on reactor number three. this is considered to be the most dangerous of all the reactors out there because of the fuel mix which includes plutonium, very dangerous stuff. they were trying to run a new power cable in there.
considered safe for babies. officials also increased restrictions on food today. 11 types of vegetables tested positive for radioactivity. hong kong today banned food imports from five regions of japan. the government says japanese tu turnips and spinach contained as much as ten times the accepted levels of radiation. black smoke poured from reactor number 3 at the fukushima nuclear plant. that happened today. authorities evacuated workers but say that the radiation levels have not speiked today. two workers were injured while working with an electrical panel, and despite constant setbacks, crews say they re making some progress. it has settled down quite a lot compared to the beginning, and we could even begin to see a bright hope that maybe it would somehow work out in a little bit. we are constantly switching over all the time since the work cannot be stopped. here s your chance to talk
president nicholas sarkozy in paris a couple of weeks ago. ishe is the man that they say wl be the defactor leader of libya if and when qaddafi is forced out or indeed is killed, shep. shepard: jonathan hunt for us. thanks. in japan tonight there has been another set back in the nuclear crisis. you see this thick black smoke here billowing from a reactor. reactor number three the most problematic one at the fukushima nuclear plant. all the plant s workers have reportedly been evacuated although it s unclear what exactly is wrong there. bad news because reactor number three has the highest levels of leaking radiation. because it contain as plutonium fuel mix which is considered far more toxic than the uranium ones. meantime officials down in tokyo are now recommending that parents in that capital city not let their infants drink any tap water. japanese media reporting tests at a treatment plant in tokyo show the water now contains levels of radioactive material
reporter: someone commented unlike the situation at the eiffel tower no one phoned in before warning of attack. police say there was no warning or intelligence that an attack was coming in jerusalem and they were not on alert but what happened three weeks ago a bomb was placed in the road from jerusalem to bethlehem and a palestinian man who works for the city of jerusalem, his arm was blown off by the bomb and tonight they are checking to see if there might be a connection. shepard: that is the latest from jerusalem. thank you. and now to japan for the latest on a dramatic situation at the crippled nuclear plant northeast of japan. look at this: huge clouds of smoke billowing from the reactor number three there. the officials, the tokyo electric power company have evacuated the whole place now, and the government is firsting people in a twelve immediate radius to leave the area. reactor number three is a top priority because it has the
that the experts consider unsafe for babies. the national disaster in japan looking to be the costliest in reported history. the government stems put the damage there as $309 billion. more than double the cost of hurricane katrina. our dominick dinatale streaming live. what s going on in reactor number 3 now, do we know? shep, the authorities have got no clue whatsoever what is causing that mysterious black smoke coming out of reactor number three. that reactor and reactor number one now a major concern, shep. that s because the con tam takenment vessels for the fuel rods have now exceeded the maximum operating temperature levels they were designed to with strand. 700 degrees is what they re at. if they are exposed they will expose the fuel rods to the atmosphere. that will cause a flood of lethal radiation the scale we haven t seen so far here. in japan on top of that we are hearing that a neutron beam that