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Japan / Earthquake and Tsunami / Nuclear Power Plants #993984

NBC Evening News for Friday, Mar 18, 2011
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(Studio: Brian Williams) The raising of the level of nuclear danger from the facility damaged by the earthquake in Japan reported.

(Tokyo: Robert Bazell) The critical situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant featured; details given about the effort to cool the reactors; scenes shown of fire trucks shooting water; photo of the damage near the fuel tanks at Reactor 4 shown. [Nuclear engineer Margaret HARDING†- explains the idea to put sand on the spent fuel pool.]

(Studio: Brian Williams) Report introduced.

(Akita, Japan: Ann Curry) The situation in Japan a week after the earthquake and tsunami featured; figures on the dead and missing cited; scenes shown of a moment of silence, the Prime Minister’s address, the destruction, people in evacuation shelters, US relief supplies arriving in Yamagata, a reunion of cousins, a girl and her dog. [In Hachinohe, NBC’s Ian WILLIAMS – comments on a ship dumped by the road and the toll on the elderly.] [New Zealand rescuer Bryce CONEYBEER†- says there were able to send a girl’s body to her family.]

Reporter(s):
Williams, Brian;
Bazell, Robert;
Curry, Ann
Duration:
00:05:50

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