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In japan, tuesday morning. were just getting this new video in. keeps coming in. this courtesy of our affiliate nhk in japan. devastating. every place you look, you see the destruction, the devastation. its almost unbelievable apocalyptic i think is a word that is fair to use in describing what has happened in the northeastern part of japan. there are still whole areas where rescue workers, military forces have not even been able to get close. we can only imagine whats going on there as they get...

China recently had its own earthquake not too long ago and japan helped out with that. these two countries have had antagonistic relationship for two decades now. japan stepped in, quick to send aid and rescue workers to help china. so what your seeing is two nations overcoming their differences for now at least to kind of lift each other out of very similar natural disasters. >> what kind of aid are we seeing coming from china? is it significant? >> i would say so. the china premier first start...

Continue over the coming days if not weeks. we also know that international help is finally arriving. a number of american teams have arrived with equipment and sniffer dogs. new zealand is sending a team, a team that was only in crist church last month going through the search and rescue operation for the city of crist church. we also know that britain is sending a team. this help it, wolf, is desperately needed. >> anna, i take it that there are still though whole areas of japan in the northea...

This man scrambled on top of his householding onto the roof for dear life. >> you are very lucky to be alive. >> im lucky. very lucky. >> reporter: there was lesses that 30 minutes between the quake hitting and the monster wave devouring the coast. this is your house. he managed to drive out just in time, but said his neighbors werent so lucky. this is a scene of complete and utter devastation. the power of the tsunami, it just speaks for itself. the wall of water that rolled through here within...

This neighborhood 500 meters from the coast caught the full force of the devastating tsunami. every single home was damaged by the ten-meter wall of water, most beyond repair. this man scrambled on top of his house holding on to the roof for dear life. you are very lucky to be alive. there were less than 30 minutes from the quake hitting and the monster wave devouring the coast. this is your house. this man managed to drive out just in time but says his neighbors werent so lucky. this is a scene...

Youre gonna retire. and were gonna help. retirement answers at td ameritrade. where millions of people trust their retirement investments. new video coming into "the situation room" right now from japan. take a look at this. images that are just horrific. this video just coming in right now. can you see the horrendous, horrendous disaster thats unfolded. there are whole parts of japan where rescue workers still cant even get close to because of this disaster. whole villages have been wiped out...

Get out in time. now, for the survivors who are returning to see what is left of their home, when you stand here and witness the devastation, you have to wonder where these people start to rebuild their lives. anna coren, cnn, ishinomaki, japan. >> well, another coastal japanese town has been entirely destroyed by the crush of the tsunami on friday. the seas surge raged through the town of minamisanriku and as paula hancocks tells us when the water receded, the town was gone. >> reporter: when t...

Meanwhile, lets talk about what is happening at the state department. what is secretary of state hillary clinton doing for japan today. >> reporter: the secretary of state arrived not long ago in paris, en route to her visit to egypt and tunisia to try and nudge the democracy movements along in those countries, however the diplomatic corps is hard at work on the japanese disaster, the u.s.-aid has spent just about $750,000 in relief funds and that includes the dispatch of a disaster assistance a...

And we begin this morning with a country in crisis, in japan this morning, rescuers are searching for signs of life beneath the rubble as the clock ticks in the wake of fridays epic disaster. japanese please say theyve recovered another 1,000 bodies that washed ashore along the miyagi coast, rising a mounting death toll that is believed to be above 10,000, nbcs kristen dahlgren joins us from tokyo with more. >> reporter: there have been more than 300 aftershocks registered here there were new wa...

Earlier today washed up on the shore that had been bodies carried away in the tsunami. now officials there are saying they may have as many as 2,000 people who have washed up on the shore. the rescue workers who have now turned into essentially people who are helping to collect those bodies, to identify them, to try to return them to their families. but they are running out of space, running out of body bags, running out of coffins. it is a situation almost too horrific to imagine. and yet from ...