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word they captured an opposition stronghold west of the capitol. what is next, a question we are going to ask. it s all new and live and it s happening now. greg: a lot of news to get to on this tuesday. good morning to you i m jon scott. jenna: good morning, i m jenna lee. we are here in the fox newsroom. happening right now a new aftershock rocking gentleman man as the nation koeps with a nuclear disaster in the making after a third exemploys at one of your plants causing radiation to league out at dangerous levels. the water meant to cool off the fuel rods now reportedly boiling, a very tphopl must sign, jon, some way. greg: that s right. at least two dozen people nearby getting the contamination treatment while another 140,000 people in the danger season have been ordered to seal themselves indoors. jenna: just imagine what that would be like, an international scale of nuclear disasters ranking the crisis in japan a six on a seven point danger sale. for some perspective
at approximately depending on what happens at the power plant, we would like to ask you to remain indoors at home or in your offices. new warnings from the japanese prime minister tonight after a fire erupts at the nuclear power plant. good evening. that fir has been extinguished but it caused radiation to leak from the crippled reactor. authorities say the levels are harmful to human health. they also say there is a high risk of further leak acknowledge. diana has more from japan. another explosion has been heard. reporter: this explosion was different. this time officials immediately warned everyone to stay away from the facility. the fear that radioactive material could seep out from the damaged reactor. we understand that others may be saying there may be damage or cracks. their response earned rare public rebuke from the prime minister. now the prime minister told reporters he was not officially inform of the explosion for app hour and told the company pull yourse
exposed to radiation. meantime, a dramatic situation is playing out at the damaged nuke site. we re told that at least 50 workers being described as many as heroic are risking their own lives by staying behind to monitor the situation and try to keep cooling levels in effect. u.s. nuclear officials and international atomic energy agency warning that the safety shield surrounding the nuclear fuel may have been breached. that has more than 140,000 nearby residents locked down inside their homes right now. trace gallagher has more live from our west coast newsroom. trace? reporter: as a backdrop, the japanese government is being criticized for getting information out to the people too slowly. they re blaming the tokyo energy and power company from getting information to slowly to them. and in context, they ve been known for misleading statements in the past. here s the facts, as we know them at this minute. the reactors at fukushima, we re concerned about mainly two of them. t
we re go glad you are with us on this very busy monday morning. hi, everybody i m jenna lee? i m jon scott. happening now a new explosion at a japanese nuclear power plant raises fears of an all out meltdown. the fallout from that could reach across the pacific affectth west coast of the u.s. more powerful after shocks rocked japan today. a thousand bodies wash ashore on the devastated northeast coast of the country. raising the death toll officially now lis listed as tad 9.0 and the tsunami that hit just half wards. the details get worse by the day. reporter: absolutely. it s completely unbelievable. every day i go out it gets worse than the day before. i went down by the airport which was hit by the tsunami on friday afternoon. the military here are walking through the fields picking up body parts from the culverts and amongst the rice paddies. it s appalling. jon: just the rebuilding, even the cleaning up has to be so badly affected by the fact that there is so little