Page 236 - Emergency Workers News Today

>> numbing to watch entire buildings and cars floating away. the tsunami hit hardest in northern japan. this is a small fishing town where much of the fleet about 80 boats destroyed by the waves. a teacher rode out the tsunami on the top floor of city hall. early saturday zach tried to get to a nearby town. >> i was lucky to actually sneak my way past the persons directing the traffic. i just pulled my hat down over my face and kept walking in behind some emergency workers. and hopes at that poi...

Work my way past the police by literally pulling down my hat so as my face wouldnt be shown and falling in line with a group of emergency workers who i followed into the city until i could find a path through. but it was pretty terrifying experience. >> it sounds like sheer luck that you even eventually located your girlfriend. you said you were able to find her and this is also disturbing she was actually cutting up table clothes. she was trying to cover some of the bodies around her. >> yeah, ...

Some towns reporting they cannot handle all the dead bodies. and evacuation centers are starting to report they are running out of food and water as well. >> and, akiko, did any of these fears prompt you to have to move throughout your reporting today? >> reporter: yeah. we were actually 40 miles south of the nuclear reactor plant. thats where we spoke to you from yesterday. but this morning after hearing reports of this latest explosion and assessing the situation, we decided to move further we...

Actually washed right in the middle of the main street blocking the way. and beyond that were even more homes. so i was lucky enough, like uh i said, to follow the emergency workers and the japanese military around to a back road, more of a path that has now since been turned into a road and worked my way to her apartment, she wasnt there, worked my way to one of her kindergartens she taught at, which was completely washed away. went to one of her junior high schools. they told me she was at her...

Efforts failed this time and thats why the explosion damaged the steel containment structure. government officials evacuating emergency workers out of that area right away. and just urging people, anybody that is left within that 12-mile radius to just get out. now, we got a sense of just how urgent the situation was when we heard the prime minister speak in a nationally televised address earlier today. he went as far to tell people who were outside of that evacuation zone to be sure to stay ind...

Some towns reporting they cannot handle all the dead bodies that have washed ashore. and evacuation centers are now reporting they are running out of food and water as well. >> akiko, just amazing to hear some of the details there. we know this has had an impact on you as well. you said some of the workers at that plant have been asked to leave. i know they were staying there, trying to keep the reactors cooled, but now theyve been told to evacuate as well? >> reporter: they did. we did get a ch...

International arrivals from where no one knows. the drop-off section has become an eerie trap for the tsunamis wave power to deposit cars and trees. >> this was once a vibrant town along the coast but you wouldnt know it by looking at these pictures. it was flattened by the tsunami and now emergency workers here are concerned with finding the dead and stopping the spread of disease. this disaster has affected every facet of japanese life. in one port city one-third of the city was destroyed by t...

Chernobyl was totally different it was a nuke la facilities, in april of 1986, a reactor exploded the reactor had no containant structure. it released more than 400 times more radio act sieve fallout than an atopic bomb. the explosion killed two workers, 28 emergency workers died within three months, mostly from acute radiation sickness, in the end 200,000 people were evacuated. more than 1 million people are on a national register as potentially affected by radiation. in fact, about 4,000 cases...

Arabia and more on libya where the relatives are begging for support from the outside world. but, first, back to shep live in tokyo. >>shepard: we will go to the north of this part of the country where they are working to find out where thousands of missing people may be and the home is some are still trapped in the rubble and there are man areas no journalists have traveled and emergency workers are trying to find if they can give assistance, an effort to save lives of people trapped beneath th...

People are homeless and staying in shelters. as you can see the pictures there, it is absolutely devastation. you can see why there are so many people homeless. their homes are gone. emergency workers are frantically trying to cool down the reactors at the troubled fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, located about 60 miles south of the earthquakes epicenter. there have already been two explosions at this power plant, generating from reactors one and three, first on saturday and then a second ...