Off Miyagi News Today

The following is an earthquake alert issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency. Day and Time: Sept. 19, 2023, 4:33 a.m. Epicenter: Off Miyagi Prefecture. N 38.5, E 141.6

People dead and you have 15,000 that are missing. there are just tremendous emotional stresses that are wearing on people. whether they were directly affected or not in this country. and then to feel the earth move once more is just another brutal reminder of what theyve been through and how much more they still may face. >> all right. marty savidge, thank you very much for putting that into perspective. obviously theres a lot of frustration, even fear, some anxiety as you can imagine as the jap...

To sleep. as far as tonight goes. any -- if someone even bumps into the side of the house or something, were just going panic and -- were all on the edge of our nerves now. >> its dark outside. does that even make it worse in some ways that you really cant even see whats happening. trip to does. id have to get dressed and go outside and look around. i dont know whats going on. i dont know if theres any damage. i dont suspect there was too much damage at this point because it was only about a min...

And the american people do not want taxpayer dollars used to fund elective abortions. >> except federal dollars do not fund abortions provided by planned parenthood. that would violate the hyde amendment. planned parenthood also offers things like birth control and breast and cervical cancer screening for mostly low-income women. you see where im going here. president obama and the democrats say this budget battle is turning into a fight over ideology. that issues like abortion should not determ...

Could be, of course, that possibility. and we knew that here. but the japanese television screens immediately light up with the map showing you exactly where and you can bet that anybody who might be near the water at that time would take those warnings extremely seriously. if there is any positive news, it is that so many areas have been so devastated from the initial tsunami, it is unlikely there would be too many people still in those areas to be hit by this event. nonetheless, the warnings g...

Magnitude scale, either one is considered a major quake. you can see here the one that occurred on march 11th, was considered 8 or more. in terms of the violent shaking, the shake map shows most of the shaking that was felt was fairly concentrated to that region. heres the epicenter, areas to the closest in yellow indicate very strong shaking to strong or moderate shaking. unfortunately a lot of structures are still hanging on very barely after the major earthquake that occurred there. thats why...

Have followed. theyve already arrived at some of the coast along the japanese coast there. tepco, which is responsible for the nuclear reactors in japan, that essentially have been having so many problems since the last major earthquake, we understand they are giving an update now on the state of the nuclear reactor after this earthquake. i want to take a listen to some sound that were getting in right now. >> repeat an update on the fukushima-daiichi nuclear plant current status. as for reporte...

Heights 3 meters or higher. one wave has already come in at approximately one meter. half a meter to two meters. it is not considered a major tsunami but it is considered strong enough that a warnings been issued and thats why evacuation has been ordered for thissing region right here. this area in orange is where we have warning issues. miyagi prefecture. to the north and south you see yellow lines here that indicate other areas under advisories including fukushima, ibarate and fukushima. begin...

That were later canceled. it was centered off miyagi, the same region where the original 9.0 quake hit almost a month ago. tokyo electric evacuated workers at the crippled fukushima nuclear plant after todays quake. the clock is ticking toward a shutdown of the federal government. senate majority leader harry reid says he thinks a government shutdown is "unavoidable" at this point. speaking on the senate floor, reid blamed the republicans for playing politics but house speaker john boehner say...

Weve got a lot of breaking news. in japan, tsunami warnings were canceled just minutes ago but not before a new wave that smash the northeastern coast. the trigger, a 7.1 earthquake which shook tokyo several hundred miles to the south. tokyo electric evacuated workers at the crippled fukushima nuclear plant. the quake was centered off miyagi, the same region where the original 9.0 quake hit almost a month ago. want to check in with our cnn i-reporter ryan mcdonald. you and i spoke just within th...