making statements which are clear and declarative and that certainly not in the nature of the japanese government or in the history of the japanese government, but this is a time when people want transparency and honesty and most of the people i talked to don't feel they are getting that at this point. >> not getting it. it was a weak government to begin with. this is a major credibility test. let's take a minute. we are justifiably spending most of our time looking at the nuclear emergency and trying i get better information but from day five to day six, i mentioned the better weather conditions. have we moved on simply to recovery now in the country you just spoke of. >> reporter: you know, i certainly don't want to be somebody who's making pronouncements about whether people should be hopeful or not. i can tell you this, those debris fields are extraordinarily difficult. this is not haiti where there was an earthquake and things fell and you kind of new where