this is our first look at the fukushima daichi plant.workers are installing machines to absorb some of the radiation leaking from the plant. they need to lower levels before they could install more cooling systems for the dangerous fuel lines. >>> check in for eyewitness news at 6:00. denise is in the newsroom with a preview for us. >>> horrific living conditions. as new at 6:00, more reaction to this heartbreaking discovery. >>> life in prison. he admits killing an eastern shore girl. what happened to thomas legs, junior, while he was serving his sentence. more at 6:00. but now, back to kai and mary. >> okay, denise. thank you. >>> flowers and a card are nice for mother's day. but they don't exactly repay mom for what she does. >> the website, price.com, just put the average price for a mom's work. if you had to pay someone to do everything your mom does, it would cost a little more than $61,000 a year. >> we're talking everything from cooking to cleaning and driving the kids around. >> and don't forget, laundry. that's worth at least 2

i have become very interested in the nuclear fuel cycle, particularly follow daichi. we have 104 nuclear power plants in this country. california has two and we have around two dozen plants that are of the same model as the boiling water reactors da atiichi. some have said we have something better and daiichi says they have upgraded. in looking at the two nuclear power plants in california, and particularly the spent fuel part of it which is what senator murray is really referring to, in a sense, the fact that the spent fuel pools are to some extent fallible. they arere-stacked and in have large numbers of rods and then. they are kept there for as long as 24 years. the ranking member and i and the head of the energy commission said this is good for 100 years. i don't know how anybody knows that this stuff is good for 100 years. i also sought dry casks and the transference of the rods into casks. i was told that they were specially built for transfer to some former repository. i have come to my own conclusion that the way we best protect americans is having some region