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CNN's Anderson Cooper fearful in Japan, video

By April MacIntyre Mar 14, 2011, 15:50 GMT


Japanese Self Defense Forces doctors check local residents for radiation exposure in Kawamata village, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, 14 March 2011. Radiation levels at a damaged nuclear power plant at Fukushima, 240 kilometres north of Tokyo, were rising well above the legal limits, top government spokesman Yukio Edano said. EPA/STR
CNN reporter Anderson Cooper, who was attacked during last month's civil unrest in Egypt, expressed a bit of fear while he reported live from Japan in the wake of the country's major earthquake.

Sunday, March 13, Cooper was on the air interviewing nuclear expert Jim Walsh when he received news of a second explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

"How far are we from Fukushima?" Cooper asked his crew. "Which way is the wind blowing?"


Cooper then asks: "Should I get out of here?"

Walsh then says, "My guess is that you're OK, but I don't want you to sue me if I'm wrong. I'm inclined to think you're OK...but there's a lot of uncertainty here and we're not going to know for a little while."