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Lifting in negotiations, so the top man for speaker boehner, top man for majority leader reid have had some communication. it kind of hit a wall when it seemed like there wasnt a heck of a lot left to say until the house sort of worked through this process that we think will come to a head today and kind of the wave, point where it seemed like boehner didnt have the votes then the rejiggering of the plan. aides tell me they think that the new number coming from the congressional budget office sc...

The death toll mounting. exact numbers unknown. now a nuclear emergency. several badly damaged power station reactors with serious cooling problems. pressure building. reports now of radiation venting at two of them. well talk to a woman whose husband was in one of the plants when all this began, he escaped. all of it and everything else. the result of the fifth largest quake in recorded history. just look at that wave. followed by the wave, a fast-moving tsunami wave that turned everything into...

Of water up to 30 feet, traveling up to a mind boggling 500 miles an hour. a tsunami bears down on japans coast in minutes. >> looks like that tsunami wave is moving upstream rapidly. and were still seeing large tsunamis moving and hitting the area of sendai. that tsunami is going to hit the coastal areas, as we speak. we do not know the extent of the damage at this time, but obviously a huge tsunami. >> within just 30 minutes of the earthquake, the tsunami crashes ashore.

Now. hes with the cnn family, and he is in hawaii right now where he was vacationing and found himself thrust into this enormous news story this morning. carter, what are you hearing? >> we just heard the civil defense sirens, kiran. what that is is a warning to head to higher ground. im at the pacific tsunami warning center on the main island of hawaii. we, in fact, are in a low-lying area ourselves right now. were going to have to move. if there is anything good about a tsunami, its that we ha...

>> at 2:46 p.m. local time, an 8.9 earthquake strikes off the east coast of japan. >> oh, my god. the building is going to fall! >> its the most powerful earthquake recorded in the countrys history. the fifth most powerful ever recorded in the world. its shockwave churns out walls of water up to 30 feet, traveling up to a mind boggling 500 miles an hour. a tsunami bears down on japans coast in minutes. >> looks like that tsunami wave is moving upstream rapidly. and were still seeing large tsunam...

Causing a tsunami. complete chaos from the earthquake, even though it is information coming out, it makes it much more difficult. >> and we are just getting notice that tsunami warnings are going off in honolulu. you want to know how they know, this is one of them. the waves could start around 3:00 a.m., and you say that hasnt changed at this point. but can you tell us more about how high these waves could be? you say it monitors how high it will be for the tsunami headed for hawaii? >> yes, the...

Damage. >> reporter: this is one of the worst affected areas is housing industrial stone around at the airport. some of the first images broadcast of the tsunami came from here. the water barreling ashore and sweeping across sendai airport on friday, battering the air bridges. this is what it looked like on the ground today. this is a parking lot of the sendai flying school, now amid the wrecked cars sits this training aircraft, dumped here by the wave, swept from the hangars over the back there...

Even after spending a day in one of the worst hit areas. the devastated port city of sendai. >> reporter: re t remains difficult to reach the worst affected areas so, we traveled adds far north as a helicopter could take us. then a further two-hour drive brought us to sendai, the closest city of the epicenter of fridays huge quake. and this. the muddied and shattered remains of homes and vehicles swept away by a tsunami that here reached around two miles inland, destroying just about everything ...

We are seeing an image that doesnt look like much, carter, but what does it look like when youre there seeing the waves hit the coast in hawaii, carter? >> one of the difficult things you cant see it too well right now. most people have moved inlapped. we are looking at a few web cams. this is what i vp. official word from the tsunami warning center. waves as high as six feet are hitting mauy and kauai right now and they are saying here now that it was a very good decision to evacuate these coas...

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