joey chen standing by to tell us what is coming up tonight. joey? is. >> tonight on our program, the 4th and final part of our exclusive return to fukushima series. after the disaster, japan shut down all of its plants. and more fuel imports for the first time in years but now there is a power struggle in the country. over the future of nuclear power. will it stay off line? america tonight sits down with the prime minister who was in power at the time of the accident, former leader once a supporter has now promised to end reliance on nuclear energy. >> do you feel a responsible to personally reach out to those people? a oi felt the biggest political father layed with me. i came to believe the only way to keep that from happening is get rid of nuclear nudger itself. >> more from our correspondent, as he joins us with his final report, return to fukushima, coming up a at the top of the hour. >> joey, thank you. there are two brothers who have become legends sort of legends for making perhaps the greatest sports deal business deal of all time. this sto

i am joey chen.t has been almost sin fukushima spread a banket over wide areas of the japanese countryside. in our first of a series, michael oku investigates whether the massive government effort to the decontaminate fukushima and convince people to return home has any hope of succeeding. >>> a life-long ranch with his cattle his life. he was buying-by-when the magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit. >> there was a huge shaking. i rushed out into the parking lot of the store and there heard reports of a three-meter tsunami. i was worried about my cattle. so, i rushed back here. >> that's where he first heard about the trouble at the nuclear power plant just miles from his home. he lived close enough to see it through binoclars. >> translator: i saw five or six helicopters in the air taking turns circling over fukushima. then i heard an explosion, a noise that sounded like it came from a battlefield. >> that sound was a hydrogen explosion caused by a meltdown of uranium at fukushima's reactor 1. everyone withi

those are the headlines i will see you back here at 11:00 eastern, 8:00 pacific america tonight with joey chen is coming up next, and of course you can always get the lastest news on aljazeera.com. we will see you later on tonight. on america tonight, reconsidering a return to fukushima. in the final part of our exclusive look at the aftermath of the nuclear power disaster we ponder that nation's energy future. ism imagines of an iraqi city under power. and why falujjah is luking to descend into a new cycle of violence. it is not just this spectacle, to rap revelation. >> the outsider acts that cob signs of a slow thaw with north korea. good etching and thank you for joining us. for many of us there are certain fears, real, imagined, about nuclear power tie the most memorable vision of that long controversy energy resource, there's three-mile island through nobodile and now fukushima. this week in our series of reports return to fukushima, we focused on how the jap please people have been coping with the hue imagine and the political fall out of the nuclear plant disaster that began three year

i'm joey chen. it's not a stretch to say that atlanta never deals well with emergencies, but even someone with a lot of affection for that city, what's going on right now is incomprehensible. we hear 10, 12 hours, people stuck in their cars, only to finally give up and walk a couple more hours to walk the icy roads home. children stuck in schools, and people sleeping in big box stores because of the unprecedented deadly weather. some of this is nature's fault. but it turns out that some of what happened is a manmade disaster. the chaos in atlanta started with the weather ports creating everyone scrambling to get home. on mostly untreated roads, nearly 1,000 wrecks reported. and thousands left stuck overnight freezing in their cars. charles was stranded on a bus along with 80 other passengers south of atlanta. >> it was very frigid on the bus, and the inside and the outside temperature couldn't have been much different. it was a really miserable situation. >> somewhere amid all of the misery, new lif