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Or so which is an improvement. but 2.5 million homes without power. you think about the homes in sendai, close to the epicenter of this earthquake, without power. and no prospects, i suspect, of getting power anytime soon. you cant blame these people for wanting to get out. heres the question, chad. rescue workers are coming in, search and rescue teams, not only from japan but from around the world including from here in the united states, theyre on the way right now. youve got to believe there ...

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The earthquake and tsunami hit japan. rescue crews and reporters are just now getting to some of the worst-hit areas. cnns paula hancock was the first international journalist to reach a fishing community where half the community remains unaccounted for. >> when the tsunami alert sounds, everyone sprints to higher ground. police abandon their cars, rescue workers rush people to safety. one man shouts at us, its your life, run. everyone does, including us. running far higher than any tsunami coul...

They were rear to recover bodies. this neighborhood 500 meters from the coast caught the full force of the devastating tsunami. every single home was damaged by the 10-meter wall of water, most beyond repair. this man scram boned top of his house, holding onto the roof for dear life. >> very lucky to be alive. >> lucky, very lucky. >> reporter: there was less than 30 minutes between the quake hitting and the monster wave devouring the coast. this is your house? this man managed to drive out just...

Just about everything in its path. one of the worst affected areas, this industrial and housing zone around the airport. this is the parking lot of the sendai flying school. now amid wrecked cars sits this training aircraft, dumped here by the wave, swept from the hangars over the back. soldiers and rescue workers scoured the area on the ground and in the air. the authorities say they found 300 bodies in just one area close to here. we found desperate relatives searching for missing family membe...

Rescue workers have got make their way through all of that. anna coren is in one of the worst hit areas. anna, you got there relatively recently of course. this onlyoped friday. so whats it like? >> reporter: max, youre talking a little bit earlier about the force of this tsunami, and i think where i am just sums it up. were in ishinomaki, which is northeast of sendai, which was the csest city to the epicenter. well this isnt too far from the epicenter either and its smack bang on the coast. we ...

If youre on the low levels but many people did actually manage to take refuge on the rooftop. as floodwaters completely submerged much of the airport teen get a sense of the force of the tsunami, just look at those cars. heres more incredible footage from sendai. it gives you a sense of the sheer power of the earthquake. this is a -- a highway there ripped right down the middle. the reporter is saying its at least two meters deep from what he can see. but the land just being torn apart. and resc...

Contaminated water utilized to cool down the core. the good news about that is that that kind of radioactivity has a small half life. hydrogen or tritium, the radioactive hydrogen, hardly penetrates the skin. so that kind of radiation only affects the rescue workers and workers at the plant. of course theyre taking proper precaution. if there was to be a meltdown youre talking about different things. meltdown, the fission that occurs in a meltdown and the radiation comes out of the core, basical...

This is the city of sendai. someone wandering around with a camera in the sea of devastation, a sea where there is normally land and ripping away everything in its wake, unforgiving, unrelenting and now rescue workers somehow have to pick up the pieces. >> it is just turning dark in japan, but rescue workers are headed to the scene. the spokesman for the japanese prime minister says the army have yet to reach the worst affected areas to assess the damage. weather conditions are vital. meteorolog...

Is there something about the japanese psyche, if you will, that allows them to better handle this, or is there a suppression of emotion in something like this? how do you read that? >> well, thats complex, because on the one hand, the communal nature of asian societies prepares people better to handle situations together. on the other hand, emotions need to come up and be released. its all about the brain, because trauma is registered and stored in the brain, and if its not found or released, th...