ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) – The mother of accused child killer Casey Anthony testified on Tuesday that her daughter’s car smelled “worse than rotting flesh” when she and her husband found it in an impound lot a month after she had last seen her 2-year-old granddaughter Caylee.

“The car was overwhelming,” Cindy Anthony said. “The closest thing I could resemble it to was rotting flesh.”

But in her second emotional day on the witness stand, Cindy also provided testimony that could help support the defense team’s claim that Caylee accidentally drowned in the family’s backyard pool.

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Less than a week after touring the radioactive rubble of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a team of international safety inspectors on Wednesday plans to hand Japan’s government a preliminary review of what triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

The report, from an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)team led by Britain’s top nuclear safety official Mike Weightman, is expected to highlight some of the well-documented weaknesses that contributed to the crisis at Fukushima when the plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, was hit by a massive earthquake and then a tsunami in quick succession on March 11.

Those start with the failure to plan for a tsunami that would overrun the 5.7-meter (19 ft) break wall at Fukushima and knock out back-up electric generators to four reactors, despite multiple forecasts from a government agency and operator Tokyo Electric Power Co’s own scientists that such a risk was looming.

“We had a playbook, but it didn’t work,” said Tatsujiro Suzuki, a nuclear expert and vice chairman of Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission.

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