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The center of japan. >> thats a big city, sendai, theres a million people there. its not just a little town in northeastern japan. this is what it looked like in sendai. all of thetsunami hit and you can see the water moving relentlessly? these pictures are heartbreaking to see the destruction? you have to imagine people were in the homes and cars and working those fields. it happened in mid afternoon in tokyo friday afternoon. and now 17 or 18 hours later were only beginning to appreciate whats...

As many people as they can. john. >> barbara, thank you. barbara starr hive for us at the pentagon. lets go back to wolf. >> you know, the pictures, as we look at the pictures, especially the live pictures coming from tbsi and nhk in japan, and you see the devastation, hard to believe that mother nature could cause this kind of destruction. an 8.9 magnitude earthquake followed by an enormous tsunami. this is something thats going to be hard for a lot of us to comprehend in the coming days as we ...

Killer tsunami. this has been a devastating day for the people of japan. the whole world is watching right now whats going on. were only beginning to appreciate the destruction and the devastation as its daylight. clearly moved by the tragedy as well, president obama today expressed his deep condolences to the people of japan, and he vowed that the united states will do all it can to help. our white house correspondent briana keiller is standing by with more. >> wolf, after answering a lot of qu...

As it moved across. wiping the land and everything on it clean. >> you know, wolf, also some of those waves got as high as 20 to 30 feet, we saw a number of people stranded on top of those buildings, and now the rescue effort is only just beginning, wolf. >> what amazing devastating pictures. thank you very much. for sharing that with our viewers here in the united states and around the world. christi is with us in hong kong. as we show our viewers live pictures for japan, i want our viewers to ...

Communities. utter devastation. it is a sea of liquid destruction. water, mud and debris. again, the damage from the tsunami may be far, far worse. lisa sylvester is looking into that. >> were going to get to lisa shortly. she has a special report for us. lets show the viewers some of the pictures that are so heartbreaking and devastating. you see the cars. you see the devastation. you can only imagine the people who have been killed by the earthquake and tsunami. the people who have been injure...

So widely covered, be it on cell phone video or tv crews, this is providing valuable information for oceanographers and for scientists in actually understanding how tsunamis happen and their impact. now, many of these images have been very disturbing when weve seen the destruction and the damage and the devastation which is being caused, but this is really the first time, were told, that a tsunami like this has been caught on video and recorded. providing valuable information. not much help for ...

Live pictures. look at this devastation and destruction. cars obviously from the tsunami, from the earthquake, destroyed. you can see the fires security sieve our affiliate pictures coming in right now. still going on 12, 14 hours after this earthquake struck an 8.9 magnitude earthquake. these are nhk pictures coming in as well. wow, these pictures are -- this devastation is still going on. john voss is here in "the situation room" with us. were watching this, and as the sunlight is up now, clea...

We talk about the kobe earthquake which happened back in 1995, the repair bill for that, the damage, the economic losses back then, and it was a much smaller earthquake, it was estimated around 13 trillion yen which is about $140 billion u.s., and so the question now has to be asked, especially as we look at the damage here at first light of these live pictures from our affiliate nhk, we have to start asking not only the economic losses but, okay, more seriously, what will be the human toll in a...

Thousands, you begin to appreciate the destruction of what has occurred. >> yes, were getting a very, very clear picture of the devastation. as a result of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and the deadly tsunami that followed. lets remind the viewers that sendai, which is just 120 kilometers away from the epicenter of the quake was an agricultural community. if you look at the live pictures, the live aerial video coming in this morning, as we finally get a look at what the devastation looks like to ...

Pictures thanks to our affiliate nhk in japan. i want to show our viewers some of these pictures. this shows the devastation, the destruction. john, look at that water surrounding all of those buildings there from the tsunami, the waves just came in and in and in. this is certainly the worst quake in japans history, but the tsunami, were only now as sun is beginning to go up over all of japan, just after 7:00 a.m. saturday morning, were only now, john, beginning to seat enormity. >> its very dif...