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So its going to be an issue to get help. to bet water, food to the areas. paula standby. christi has a question for you as well. >> were looking at flooding pictures. the new pictures, 8:00 a.m. local time there on sunday. the area most affected by the tsunami waves. can you tell us more about sendai, the area? we know because of its proximity to the epicenter it was very much affected, was it also affected baa of the low lying terrain? >> reporter: certainly that will play into it. its also one...

Some live pictures. that was 12, 14 hours ago. these are live pictures security sieve our affiliate nhk in japan, and can you see the smoke still coming up. the fires, one of the by-products of this disaster from this earthquake, and the multipag, multiple aftershocks that occurred, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake. some of these aftershocks, john, have been in the range of 6.5, and under normal circumstances that would be a horrendous earthquake to begin with but the aftershocks, makes the situation...

Apparently advancing libyan forces. wolf? >> a lot of u.s. officials have suggested to me their fear that with much of the world now focused in on this earthquake and tsunami in japan, ben, gadhafi is simply going to unleash his military, his troops, and theyre going to launch a major offensive to crush the rebels while much of the world is looking at another part of the world. is that the fear that the opposition forces have right now as well? >> reporter: thats one of the many fears they have....

Have been destroyed. these are aerial shots. paula hancock is in japan. shes been watching the situation. its now daylight in japan, paula, we can only appreciate the devastation more and more. what are you seeing and hearing there? >> reporter: as you say, it is 8:00 in the morning. the sun came up a couple of hours ago. it would have been the first chance to really see what kind of devastation there was. its very difficult to tell you exactly how bad the devastation is. quite frankly we dont k...

>> it is now some 18 hours since a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck off the coast of japan. it unleashed massive tsunami waves. waves as tall as 30 feet high sweeping through sendai. first aerial footage of what sendai looks like this morning. it is now past 8:30 a.m. local time. rescue crews are on their way there. tease are taped pictures of the sue naum me arriving and sweeping through the land. right now youre looking at what were seeing this morning. you can see quite clearly it is just a wa...

And they are minor here, but we just wanted to stop to show you something because anyone who is familiar with japan will know exactly what this tells you. what youre seeing over my shoulder here, that is the famous japanese bullet train. the bull train is simply not moving. they are stopped. there are two train lines that we can see here stopped, one behind the other. we dont know if there are passengers aboard there. from what the rail hines have said they have tried to evacuate people as quick...

From japan, showing the devastation, and we want to thank our affiliate nhk world for these pictures. i would like you to look at these pictures as we bring in now ashley burns, an american living in tokyo. she felt the earthquake. ashley is joining us via skype. ashley, tell us what you saw, what you felt and what you heard. >> hi, wolf, yeah, thank you. i was -- im a junior high schoolteacher so i was at school when the earthquake hit, and one of the most surprising things about it for me is h...

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...