he was hired as a senior adviser by tepco, the tokyo electric power company that owns the plant, and is in charge of the effort to find the missing fuel. he's also advising on the development of new robots, like this six-legged spider robot that engineers are designing to hang from scaffolding and climb onto equipment. he describes them as: >> barrett: very advanced working robots that will actually be the ones with long, muscular arms, and laser cutters and such, that will go in and actually take the molten fuel and put it in an engineered canister and retrieve it. >> stahl: should we think of this as a project like sending someone to the moon? >> barrett: it's even a bigger project, in my view, but there's a will here to clean this up, as there was a will to put a man on the moon. and these engineering tasks can be done successfully. >> stahl: why not just bury this place? why not do what they did at chernobyl? just cover it up, bury it, and just leave it here, all, you know, enclosed? >> barrett: number one, this is right next to the sea. we're 100 yards from the ocean. we have ty

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according to tepco officials, more than 2,800 households in the city are now without power due to the flowing debris, as you see there. extraordinary pictures there. want to bring in cnn's selina wang who is joining us from tokyo. this is just devastating, selina. and thankfully, it is, still, late afternoon in japan. just working there, on 3:40 in the afternoon. and as we say, in fact, officials are on their way to the town. the problem is this is in the middle of the rainy season, the monsoon season in japan. the torrential rains continue to come down, and they are becoming increasingly worried about precarious roads throughout the entire region. we will see what happens, at this point in time, especially, as you can see there, that communications are out to the area. japan is putting together this task force, as we were telling you, to try and get together some kind of a rescue mission. it is very clear, though, that this was a dramatic landslide and -- and -- and that it really happened with next-to-no warning. you can see, in the pictures that we are looking there, right now, som

according to tepco officials, more than 2,800 households in the city are out of power, and you can certainly see why looking at those devastating pictures of the landslide coming down the road there. meteorologist derek van dam joins me for more. we've been told, right, this is a normal pattern in terms of heavy rain for japan. but what could possibly be causing that kind of extraordinary damage, derek? >> yeah. you're right. this is part of the monsoonal rain that sets up this time of year across the southern sections of japan. but what makes this particular scenario unique is the backdrop of where atami is located. in fact, mt. fuji is just to the north of the city of atami. so we're talking about very mountainous terrain, sitting on the slopes of volcanos, and this is leading to the factor of landslides. because of the incessant rain that has taken place, this is a matter of gravity taking over. eventually the heavy rain saturates the ground. heavy rainfall will soak into the soil and eventually the slope cannot hold that weight of the soil combined with the rock and the mud and the vario

they're now tepco expects in office work, whether full time or hybrid will peak around the end of this year. even with more office space coming here, 10% of south main tech company office space is vacant and the cost to rent space has also gone up on great, alright, thank you so much. i got reporting for us live in downtown san jose. appreciate it on wall street today, stocks pulled back from their record highs yesterday, the dow lost 259 points. the nasdaq snapped a three day run of record highs, dropping 105 points. and the s and p fell 37 jobless claims rose slightly last week to 373 even as the economy and the job market are rebounding from the pandemic, business and union groups are joining forces now to push congress to pass an infrastructure bill, the u. s chamber of commerce along with the f, l and cia announced the coalition today. say they compromise $1.2 trillion package will create new jobs as spending begins to make improvements to roads, bridges and transit. they said the legislation should draw support from both parties and tyson foods is now recalling more than £9 mill