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Are being washed away. one of the shots you can see the water move across the field. in the background you can see a japanese highway with semis and cars. >> in some of the pictures we have seen, there are bridges out. there are cars driving up and going whoa and turn gz -- turning around. >> and with the bridges out that affects first responders. the biggest worry besides their equipment is trying to get to these places. the debris will be left everywhere that will clog roadways and if the brid...

You and other people are going to survive. >> i dont know. weve got water out in the -- virtually the whole city. theyve shut down the reservoirs. powers coming back to parts o of the city. we just got power back about an hour and a half ago. the power stayed on throughout. and the central city wont have power for a long time yet because theres gas leaks and damage they have to worry about before they switch the power back on there. but the real problem i think is going to be the water system. t...

People dead. we are talking about a massive am of infrastructure damage as well. just in the northwest, we are talking about 278 bridges that have been destroyed. so you can imagine how difficult it is to get aid to the people that really need it. >> and perfect opportunity for the taliban to seize the most vulnerable with regard to recruiting. we always see that happen whether it is the earthquake in iran to the massive flooding in pakistan. >> thats right. we have see islamist groups led to th...

Begun. new york is hit first. elevators stuck. subways come to a halt. four million commuters are strand in the darkness. after 24 hours of blackout with repairs under way, theres a new disaster -- a massive summer storm sweeps over the eastern seaboard damaging thousands of lines. within 30 minutes, lights go out across ten states, from michigan to vermont and all the way up to canada. by day two, its clear the northeast grid has suffered significant infrastructure damage. gas stations cant pum...

Viable country compared to any country in the world. you got to remember that this economic recession that were living through has affected the rest of the world. but chile has had a really strong economy for decades now. i mean, a couple of decades ago it was growing at 8 1/2%. just recently, 4 1/2%. the economy now has suffered a lot more, but a lot of the wines that we drink in the united states come from chile. a lot of the grapes that we find in our supermarkets are made from chile -- or ma...

Harrowing for emergency workers who have been on the job now since the early hours of the morning. >> and is it clear that emergency workers have been able to get to those areas that are most devastated? we were talking with a gentleman earlier who was talking about sort of the geography of chile which is a long and narrow country, with a road system that really has very few main arteries that allow rescue workers and the kind of emergency relief workers to get down south with all the destructio...

And 4 normally wouldnt do anything. if a building has been structurally compromised, that can go down as well. how many aftershocks? upwards of six. the strongest ive seen 5.3. that occurred pretty shortly thereafter. what will happen over the next few days is the intensity and the frequency of the earthquakes will continue to diminish. so that in a week were already doing a heck of a lot better. when you talk about a 7.3, it really lingers how much additional earth movement continues. this is t...

It is nothing short of a major disaster. we have a lot of flooding, a lot of infrastructure damage. our tell communications system is partially down. our energy infrastructure is completely down. i tried to go around to certain critical areas, the hospitals, police force, first responders to make sure things were moving correctly, but certainly we still have a ways to go. although the tougher part of the winds have left, we still have heavy rains coming our way, which, as you know, represent the...

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Notifying people through things that have worked over the ages, long before we had the technology of social media, where now everybody seems to be on twitter. weve got to start relying on the older technologies like good, old-fashioned phone calls, and weather radios. >> what are you hearing in terms of reports of damage? were getting in at the 1:30 a.m. hour local time, an hour and a half ago, but a high school destroyed -- damaged, i should say, as well as a harbor master building along the co...