This doesn't sound good

Some facts gleaned from this March 13 Kyodo News story: "Water injected into troubled nuclear power plant to avert disaster"

• There are two plants at Fukushima that are 11 kilometers apart.
• The explosion on Saturday was at the No.1 plant.
• The blast occurred as vapor from the container turned into hydrogen and mixed with oxygen outside.
• The explosion blew away the roof and part of the walls of reactor's container.
• The plant's No. 1 reactor core partially melted Saturday.
• They are pouring in boric acid to prevent an occurrence of criticality.
• The core of the No. 3 reactor at the No. 1 plant may have been deformed due to overheating.
• The core of the No. 3 reactor has also partially melted.
• In No. 3, the tops of MOX fuel rods were 3 meters above the water inside before they began injecting fresh water into the core vessel.
• The reactor will have to be dismantled because of the use of seawater.
• The No. 3 reactor is the sixth reactor overall to experience cooling failure.

Reading the crawl at 9:08 am PT, they report the cooling system pump have stopped at the Tokai power plant. See below.

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Tokai- "cooling system pump stopped operating at Tokai No. 2 Power Station, a nuclear power plant, in the village of Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture."

Lots of information in Time Magazine: "Japan's Nuclear Emergency: How to Stop a Meltdown" including this: "unit 1 was reportedly scheduled to be retired later this month" and why that may affect how fast the rods cool down.

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PERSONAL VIEW : I agree with Instapundit and the Sundries Shack and other bloggers that there isn't enough information to go on  to get any perspective.   (And, I might add, honest people without agendas on the MSM rolodexes.)

One thing we can know. Watching CNN go hysterical, it is beginning to sound like their Katrina Coverage all over again.  Whatever the outcome, their lead story will be "disaster" or "disaster averted," not, "THE TRIUMPH OF DEDICATED HUMAN BEINGS WORKING HARD TO OVERCOME VERY BAD ODDS"

Or, a simple, human blessing, "God be with you, Japan".