Inside Sendai News Today

This day for you up to 293 that the point but no major earthquakes that would be in the 7 to 7.9 range. so certainly some good news there. and good news, too, as far as the weather here. we have moderated the temperatures a little bit. temperatures up to about 11 there in iamyamagata. that station dont know if it is there anymore and it could have been destroyed by the tsunami. there is the clearing sky. now its going to be chilly tonight. drop temperatures in significant fashion here and then w...

Pressing concern is how do we get more water into that reactor and keep the levels above the reactor so you dont get meltdown, this overheating and thats what theyre really focusing on, max. >> stan, thank you very much. go back to you for updates that. right now go up to sendai it seems another natural threat there. martin savidge, youre there. what can you tell us? >> reporter: im actually right now we can tell you there have been another round of tsunami warnings, at least thats whats being a...

. >>f. >> this is the morning of friday. just one scene in one area of japan. there you heard it the terror but when we come back, whats left now, sendai, will be looking at one of the hardest hit areas from the tsunami. our kyung lah is there for more on the search and the rescue operation that is very much under way. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

Peoples attention and they immediately say, thats a sign that another tsunami is coming. if they see a quick change of the flow of water. so it just gives you an indication of how nervous and how much on edge people in this area remain even as they try to rescue and as they try to find what is left of their shattered lives. now, are there still some people who continue to pick through the debris field. apparently not concerned about the warnings that are being given out by authorities. again, no...

You can say sendai now, it may be one of the hardest hit areas in japan, as far as our knowledge is right now at least. it is the closest to thepy center of fridays quake. there is an image after the tsunami struck. devastation of course. and now theres fresh concern. we heard from martin savidge of cnn. hes in sendai. but the t knowf a tt sysyle. and i ing area. now, inside sendais airport, have captured the video when the tsunami wave swept across the car park outside.

Sendai before all this happened just a couple of days ago and these are the images afteren you just -- i mean, speak for themselves, dont they? were going to try to speak to ivan cabrera now. because ivan, its interesting there, were hearing from martin that there is another tsunami warning, because there will be aftershocks. so how long is this going to go on for? >> theyre probably going to have tsunami warnings here for quite some time as long as the aftershocks continue. now, we have to be c...

Warnings going out. there could be more tsunamis. sendai is still reeling from the force of that first tsunami. these pictures have collapsed and submerged houses. terrified people. theyre telling the real story. okay so things have, of course, calmed down from that. this is a country that knows about earthquakes and tsunamis. it has got operations ready to go. contingency plans. but few armies, militaries can deal with this on their own and certainly japan is using military support from the uni...

Anna, tell us what support the japanese are getting and whats around you? >> reporter: max, i can tell you that were in ishinomaki, which is about several hours northeast of sendai. and this is just a scene of utter devastation. we are in farming land that there are suburbs within these areas and there are probably hundreds of homes in this particular neighborhood where weve been standing. we came through here with the military. the idea was it was to go on a search-and-rescue operation. that sa...

Town just north of that area now. and that is what the rescue teams are going to have to contend with and thats where those dogs are going to be used, areas like that because you cant get under that rubble without support dogs and very specialist equipment. utter destruction, more than three kilometers from the ocean front and half of the residents are still missing. you can see theres no one there. cnns paula hancocks was the first reporter there. heres her report. >> reporter: this is the town...

Submerged and that he survived. >> anna, thank you so much for that. and just to give a sense of the nervousness still in japan, were talking about a tsunami warning coming from officials in sendai. there is no official tsunami warning. we want to clarify. there is no advisory in that sense. there wont be another tsunami but there have been aftershocks. there is concern about more tsunamis. so one local officials hear about this, send some femhigher ground and everyones rushing up to higher grou...