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Are you still on top of that building? >> reporter: we are. just after we heard the official tsunami warning had been cancelled, a chopper flew over and said, the tsunami is on its way. you can imagine the people over here picking up what they can find from whats left on their home is perplex. we are on top of this roof. and if you can show below, where i do my live shot below is where you can see, the second floor level. we are protected about a kilometer is where the ocean is, where we were se...

They were pulling people out of these houses like this one and a lot of these people are elderly. for the people that weve spoken to who managed to get out in time, they say that they had half-an-hour between the time of the earthquake hit to when that wall of water just roared straight through here. so for the elderly who were on ground level, standing where we are standing, they would have gotten just swept up, carried away. >> it is about a kilometer to where the sea actually begins so it rol...

You can see the full scope of the damage in our after picture. when you get even closer to the photos on the ground, again, this is that same town i showed you of the before and after, ishinomaki, you can see as they try to evacuate people out, some of the government help in boats and im going to leave you with this photo because i cant get it out of my mind. the most striking image we have seen in still images so far also again in ishinomaki, one of these towns hardest hit by the earthquake and...

I believe we have re-established our connection with anna. anna, you were out helping to look for survivors, and when searchers go door to door, more often than not, theyre finding a sad alternative? >> reporter: thats right, we were with this military team and they were hoping to find survivors, i spoke to one rescue mission literally within minutes, they went to a door, they walked inside and they came out with a body. and that is the harsh reality, that there is so much devastation and that i...

Everything that he owns is now destroyed. thats the case not just here but up the coast. all of the villages along japans northeast coast hit so hard by the tsunami. anybody on ground level, standing where im standing, they would have been swept away. >> they had less than 30 minutes to get away since the earthquake struck and enin the tsunami hit. anna core nechlt n in ishinomaks for bringing us thor to story. more on the devastation, rescue and recovery effort on the other side of the break....

Roofs have just been ripped off their foundations. other houses just falling on their side. there have been tractors, ships, boats just tossed around like toys. so if you want to talk about the power and the force of this wave, this monster wave that hit this community and so much of japans northeast, this is the evidence. this is the watermark of where this roared through and weve been with a military team as i mentioned a little earlier. and they were going from door-to-door. seeing if there w...

Strewn absolutely everywhere. we have been following a military team who have been going door to door in this particular neighborhood we are in. the idea was to find survivors. that was obviously the hope. but it became very apparent very quickly that this would be a recovery operation. a number of bodies were recovered. bodies of the elderly. this is what we were hearing. many elderly people did live in this neighborhood. the earthquake and less than half an hour later the ten meter wave roared...

That was northeast of tokyo and sell fires being reported in tokyo itself. ive getting a number tweets from people in japan. this from kevin. hey, in japan on teaching exchange. didnt expect this. watching your updates. aftershock not as bad as i thought. he is clearly in an area fairly safe, away from all of this. anyone who is there at ground level, anyone near the coast needs to get to higher ground. got our reporter there at the bureau in tokyo there with us. an incredible day for you. it st...

Continue. would a no-fly zone push gadhafi out of power in your mind? saddam hussein lived under one for ten years, did he not? >> it depends on how you enforce it. remember, saddam hussein survived at the end of the gulf war because he was able to use his helicopters and airplanes to prevent the rebellion from succeeding in southern iraq. so i do think air power can be decisive in a battle between the two forces, and thats why i believe that taking away gadhafis advantage of air power is part o...

Are frustrated. there were a lot of empty seats. some fans said these seats arent ready. when they did was put 850 of these fans into different seats. there is room to do that. the other 400 fans they split them up. some of them went down to the ground level and had to watch the game from a monitor over behind the steelers bench and the rest of them had to stand in standing room only areas. believe me, the people who were caught up in that snafoo were frustrated. >> we probably wont see the game...