85th Disaster News Today

>> reporter: in this area, no. we witnessed that in tokyo. again the city itself is 13 million in the center we were seeing empty shelves. people not going out. obviously, people who were staying inside and hunkering down. what we also saw the americans who were here are in line with the japanese in being careful, being conservative, maybe not panicking. today for example, the second charter plane that the american embassy here has been scheduled. theres one that went out yesterday with about 10...

>> greta: what is profoundly different than katrina and the other disasters weve covered. the disaster was over and the question of rescuing people and trying to deal with the death and agony. this may have another punch coming, which is a meltdown. thats why im saying the information. the people in the area they still have a chance not to be inflicted by some horrible punch. thats why it is so important whether they are 13 miles 15 miles it is important to get the information to get out of ther...

Sendai helping with the relief efforts pleading for more help to come. i was reading you said dinner yesterday was a roll and banana and everyone gets one meal a day. you said it seems like the ocean came up and took everything back into the ocean. tell me about sendai and what youve seen? >> im in front of disaster center. if you can see behind me, it is the americans in the city lined up to get on buses. the situation is -- this is our 85th disaster. weve never seen anything remotely like this...

>> greta: lets take the case of libya. the timing now for a no-fly zone and possible airstrikes, many think that it is really late that had we acted perhaps inspired nato to act, it would be foolish for the united states to act alone. if we inspired nato to act earlier the u.n. to act earlier might be a different outcome. is it too late for air strikes or for a no-fly zone for the libyan people? >> i dont think it is too late. the arab league was key. the u.n. endorsement was key. we want to pre...

El salvador. should he be heading to brazil while all this is going on? he has already taken heat for unveiling his ncaa picks and playing golf this past weekend. he did drop in today at the japanese embassy to give his condolences and spoke publicly about the disaster. senator evan bayh joins us. good evening. >> how are you? >> well. >> greta: how much of leadership is sending a message want what kind of message to you see the president sending? the >> the president is capable of multi-tasking...

In iraq we are fully committed. we have to be careful about how we go. it is a very difficult path there. are no great options. lets prevent the humanitarian disaster. from there it is difficult to see how to proceed. >> greta: you see prevent the humanitarian events in libya, i think they have happened. i think some may think it is really bleak. i guess my question is should we have moved sooner, not alone. i dont think we could have moved alone but inspired others to move with us to move faste...

Sendai helping with the relief efforts pleading for more help to come. i was reading you said dinner yesterday was a roll and banana and everyone gets one meal a day. you said it seems like the ocean came up and took everything back into the ocean. tell me about sendai and what youve seen? >> im in front of disaster center. if you can see behind me, it is the americans in the city lined up to get on buses. the situation is -- this is our 85th disaster. weve never seen anything remotely like this...

Were now six days in. really in just a couple of hours we will be one week since this disaster has hit this country. most folks say that five plus days out, you will not find any more survivors. thats why as shep noted, the british relief teams, rescue teams have decided to pack it in. theres an australian team that did not mind -- did not find one survivor in two days. the quake was one thing, the tsunami as our viewers, as you have seen from all this home video, is just another animal. it took...

Really in just a couple of hours we will be one week since this disaster has hit this country. most folks say that five plus days out, you will not find any more survivors. thats why as shep noted, the british relief teams, rescue teams have decided to pack it in. theres an australian team that did not mind -- did not find one survivor in two days. the quake was one thing, the tsunami as our viewers, as you have seen from all this home video, is just another animal. it took a lot of people, we t...

>> reporter: in this area, no. we witnessed that in tokyo. again the city itself is 13 million in the center we were seeing empty shelves. people not going out. obviously, people who were staying inside and hunkering down. what we also saw the americans who were here are in line with the japanese in being careful, being conservative, maybe not panicking. today for example, the second charter plane that the american embassy here has been scheduled. theres one that went out yesterday with about 10...