you might see one or two buildings made of concrete and with stood the tsunami. and then a mile, mile and a half of debris. personal effects, a child's doll, a wedding photograph, an old guitar and thousands, hundreds of thousands of ton s girders of bricks, of mortar, everything imaginable that you can see from a town that's been put through the most pulverizing machine of the tsunami. you can bring in a certain amount of protection against earthquakes and the japanese do that as good as anybody on the planet. you can't build in protection against these forces when a tsunami upwards of possible feet high comes into a town at 15 to 20 miles per hour. >> does the government or do the news media have a full picture yet of the damage? >> reporter: we don't have