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Disaster. here it was a little different. its really spread out along the coast. and like sanjay was mentioning, hard to get to. but, you know, its vast. the people are a little different. its an older population that is affected. and so, yeah. thats probably the biggest difference ive noticed. >> i think people dont realize, theres a lot of retirement communities up and down the coast there north of sendai. so the demographics of who are injured or affected by this were a lot of elderly people....

Followed by a tsunami. so we are actually reporting i guess a couple of days ago. and all of a sudden while were reporting, people started to run down the street saying that a tsunami was coming. and it was interesting. having been in haiti and sort of seeing that same sort of panic all of a sudden develop. one person says a few people start to say it, and all of a sudden you have an entire city running through the streets. you know, we waited a little bit. you know. and watched. you know, thoug...

The government? do they believe theyre being transparent? >> reporter: there is certainly a trust deficit, fionnuala. there has been throughout this. you hear the soothing words from the government trying to say that there is no risk to peoples lives from the radiation. but then you see the images. i think thats what that gentleman there was pointing out. the images seem to speak louder than the words right now. now we dont only have radiation at high levels, we have contamination. what happens ...

>> i mean, dozens of aftershocks. in all the various cities weve been over the last week here in japan. just a few -- just less than an hour ago we had an aftershock when sanjay was live on the air. it almost felt like a wave under our feet. were on the top of this building and it was shaking for a good 15, 20 seconds. >> how dangerous potentially will it be by the time it gets here or not dangerous at all? >> whoa. were feeling an aftershock right now, karen. i dont know if you saw that at all....