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for the next few days and it s not clear when families will be able to return to their homes. in about half an hour four philadelphia priests will face a judge. a huge two-year investigation into that city s diocese named 21 priests of suspected child molesters. preliminary hearings are scheduled for the first four today. lent, the most holy season for catholics is under way and a philadelphia cardinal told parishioners at mass he s sorry for what happened and renewed his commitment to protect children. another death involving a high school basketball player. 16-year-old robert garza came out of a game for a time-out and drink of water and high-fived a teammate. moments later he collapsed on the court. he was playing in the aau tournament with his high school club team in austin, texas this past weekend. paramedics could not revive him and aren t sure. last week 16-year-old wes leonard died after hitting the game-winning shot at a high school basketball game in michigan. americ
the seventh century temple swayed but was undamaged. a different story for this coastal fishing village. home video of minamisanriku shows a deadly four-story-high wave pushing six miles deep. 10,000 of the 17,000 residents are still missing. but amid the wreckage and tragedy, amazing stories of survival. a 60-year-old man clung to the roof of his home for two days after being washed nine miles out to sea. japanese maritime troops rescued him. translator: someone shouts, there is still another person. reporter: in natori crews rescued a person trapped 20 hours in a car. many don t have ways to contact family. today show s ann curry received a tweet asking for help finding her sister who is a former english teacher in japan who returned to that country the day of the quake. ann found her and helped her reach her sister. do you have my sister? i have your sister. here she is. she is on the phone. are you okay? hi. are you okay? yeah. i m totally okay. let
california that have been called upon in so many tragedies, will be moving out into the stricken towns. an indication just how desperate the japanese are for aid, in the 1995 earthquake there where 6,000 people died, the japanese refused most foreign aid. this time they are accepting aid from even rivals like china and south korea. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. that is certainly telling. now, at ground level, as you can imagine, it is hard to exactly take in the size and scope of the destruction in japan. abc s christiane amanpour has a different perspective after taking an aerial tour. reporter: with search and rescue under way in the earthquake and tsunami zone, we wondered how much of the country is affected by this kind of chaos and destruction. the helicopters taking on fuel and we re going up to the sendai earthquake zone. japan is not a massive country. but part of that sendai area is quite remote. some the roads have been damaged. there are mountains in
weather forecast. eyewitness news saturday morning starts now. we are getting a look at the scope of the devastation in japan this morning, as a massive rescue effort is underway to find survivors of the disaster that rocked the entire pacific. good morning, welcome to eyewitness news this saturday, i m gigi barnett. we ll have more on the situation in a moment, but first. good morning to you. those pictures and this whole situation is as fascinating as it is horrible. it s one of those things as much as you see, you never know how devastating nature can be, and that is really a reminder. we have in sight, some scientific insight if you will, on that devastation and we ll share that with you as welcoming up. we also have a very nice day shaping up here today. temperatures going up to 60 degrees. we re looking at clear skies, a calm day, drying out today, much better than the last two days. yesterday not so bad, today we will see more sunshine, calmer winds. temperatures 1