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Daniel saying, look, this is a race against time that they could the be losing and, of course, the worst case scenario that this heat and pressure continues, that it melts the fuel rods and the radioactive then seeps out into the atmosphere. given that we ve had this explosion that has blown the roof of one of these reactors, that would indicate to you just how serious this situation is. becky, just an update on the people themselves, the security people here have been holding a news conference saying four men have been injured as a result of the blast. but the injuries are not serious. the ongoing problem is the radioactive material seeping out into the atmosphere, as you already know. people have been moved backed in a 10 kilometer to prevent potential problems there. stan, it s about 6:45 local ....
Problem. however, the enormity of the quake, the shutdown, now the heating and difficulty in trying to call it and now the explosion and some radioactive material escaping into the atmosphere. so yes, this continues to build, becky, a highly nuclearized country. they are familiar with nuclear energy and nuclear power. they know how to deal with it. but you re getting into if you re really in uncertain waters here, becky. unchartered territory. stan will be with us throughout the morning. we thank you for that. stick around. we re going to take a very short break. back after this. man: no way! ....
daniel, we re going to keep you with me, if i can. i have stan gronz that the i want to bring in. i don t know if you heard what daniel was staying there, stan, and we ve been discussing what we thought the worst case scenario might be going forward. things aren t looking great at this point, are they? no, they aren t. i have heard what damage has had to say. essentially, if you look at the chronology of this, the shutdown of the disaster, the quake, triggering a heating problem and not being able to cool the reactors and the steam being released, the nuclear officials admitting that yes, there was some radioactive materials the released with that steam, not enough to cause any harm, then this cesium being detected, also, another indicator that the fuel rod could have been damaged, could have been melting down. as you re hearing there from ....
Problem of great concern. on one hand, the manmade situation with the nuclear reactors in a heavily nuclearized country. becky. yeah. and talking about a 10 kilometer perimeter within which there will be nobody at the moment. let s remind our viewers just how important nuclear power is to a country like japan, stan. yeah. they rely on these nuclear reactors for a third of their total electrical output. so obviously, very, very important to japan. in fact, when the there was the outage after the earthquake, more than a million people were affected by the power outage resulting from the shutdown of those reactors. now, officials say that was meant to happen. the reactors were expected to shut down because of the ....
The reason we re colder today is we had a disturbance move through the northwest and southeast that brought snow to sendai. we re done with the precipitation, but as far as the gusty, cold winds that are going to continue tonight. it s going to feel like it s below zero because of the winds there. the winds will play it back in the situation and the nuclear power plant, we ll watch that closely for you. we have a westerly component to the wind and that is better than having an on-shore component that would impact the denser, populated areas here across coastal japan. temperatures now warming up as we take you into the low to mid teens by sunday and monday. then another front comes in and we will cool back down to 6 degrees for a high on tuesday. to you. all right. ivan, your forecast, we thank you for that. he ll be with us throughout the morning, of course. let s cross to stan who is ....