CNN Evening News for Thursday, Mar 17, 2011
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(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper) Breaking news from Japan on the dead/missing figures and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plants reviewed; plant worker blog defending TEPCO and a daughter's Twitter plea about the sacrifice quoted.
(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta, Anna Coren) The stories of the plant workers who are making the ultimate sacrifice with some dying from radiation, the lack of radiation danger to the US at this time, a report that radiation has peaked today, the lack of government information about the situation discussed; map/diagram shown. [MIT's Jim WALSH - comments on the mental stress of radiation exposure for these workers and the entire community, the problems on continually watering down the hot fuel rods; assesses the reported radiation levels.]
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