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Japan. $720 billion, that is the number that were hearing of how much has been wiped off the value of the japan stock market. thats an incredible number. and this is why. theres been another big, big selloff today. if you look at the nikkei 225, down by 10.5% at the close, it was down by 14.4% at one stage today. this was panic selling. the market players in japan were saying that everything was being sold today, particularly by the big hedge funds. they were just dumping stocks. you had this ...

Can into the affected areas, isha. >> as they move into the hard hit areas, what is your sense of how they are being impacted by the heavy aftershocks that just keep on coming? >> reporter: right. we felt last night, as a matter of fact, we had two aftershocks and apparently we had an independent earthquake, in other words, not another aftershock but another earthquake of 6.2 so thats rattling peoples nerves as well as physically rattling their building, and on top of that it is making it diffic...

>> thats right. between the two days, something like -- well, if you look at the entire tokyo stock index, something like $720 billion in value has been wiped off the value of japanese companies. it sort of puts it in context just how big this selloff has been over the past few days. as you say, 6.2% yesterday, and another even bigger fall today. 10.5% down. this is the nikkei 225, which looks at 225 of the biggest companies in japan. at one stage today, the nikkei was down 14.4%. even as it sta...

Space shuttle "endeavour" ready for its final flight died today. an engineer fell to his death while working at the launchpad. it is tuesday in japan, in tokyo, stocks fell 5% in early trading. yesterday the nikkei fell 6.2% on the first full day of trading since the earthquake. european and american markets fell slightly as well. but analysts are saying they dont expect the disaster will have a huge impact on world markets over the next few months. anderson, back to you. >> isha, thanks ver...

The situation, clearly, megyn, is getting worse. megyn: trace gallagher, thank you. tokyo is 170 miles south of this nuclear plant. and radiation levels just north of tokyo were seven times normal. thats not enough, they tell us, to be a big threat to health, but its feeding a growing sense of concern about the nuclear mess and were seeing more and more pictures like this one. look at this. this baby being tested for radiation exposure. powerful aftershocks rattled frayed nerves. two quakes, one...

To say that there is concern i think is accurate, to say that there is panic is overstated or something we havent witnessed. megyn: what do you do, they are giving one bottle of water per person. i was asking before we went to the top of this hour, what would you do if you were in tokyo, would you drink the water out of the faucet? would you be a little worried about doing that? >> reporter: i heard you ask the question earlier ive got to tell you and i thought about it when you asked it. you no...

Moving off of our area near the water. tsunami alert yesterday had us racing from the water. in our hotel early yesterday morning we felt the 6.2 that shook us pretty darn good. those aftershocks are consistent. you feel them several times throughout the day. >> greta: adam, thank you. first the buildings crumble upon people inside then roads broke in two and the tsunami came in and swept towns clean of life. there is more the economic crisis. japan the third largest economy in the world and our...

One yesterday that had us moving off of our area near the water. tsunami alert yesterday had us racing from the water. in our hotel early yesterday morning we felt the 6.2 that shook us pretty darn good. those aftershocks are consistent. you feel them several times throughout the day. >> greta: adam, thank you. first the buildings crumble upon people inside then roads broke in two and the tsunami came in and swept towns clean of life. there is more the economic crisis. japan the third largest ec...

On the situation, of course. contractors are working to get the space shuttle "endeavor" ready for its next flight died today, he fell from the launch pad. in tokyo, stocks fell 5% in early trading. yesterday the nikkei fell 6.2% on the first full day of trading since the earthquake. american and european markets fell as well. they dont expect the disaster will have a huge impact on world markets over the next few months. anderson, back to you. >> isha, thanks very much. the situation here...

Japan a series of aftershocks were felt moments ago in tokyo. the epicenter actually was southwest of tokyo, not near the original place where the quake was and the readings are about a 6.2. so that is some level of aftershock there. all right. moving to some domestic politics a little bit of a break here from japan coverage, the conservative establishment has always had reservations about ms. sarah palin and she has been no fan of theirs, vigorously defending her tlc reality show. >> im sorel...