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explosion today at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. and the u.s. military has shifted some of the fleet a little further from shore after some personnel were exposed to a cloud of low level radiation. the state department is warning americans they should avoid travel to japan. that seems like good advice. also ahead the devastating earthquake that hit on friday was the biggest in japan s recorded history, but the aftermath may be worse with the tsunami washing out swaths of coastal civilization. many areas are cut off. no rescue getting in and very little information getting out. plus, six nuclear reactors suffered damage in the disaster. there have been two explosions now at the fukushima daiichi plant. 180,000 people were evacuated from around that area. what is known about the extent of the damage and what is the radiation threat to the people of japan and possibly even around the globe. ann curry is on the scene in japan. it seems to she ll update us live in a moment as well. just ahead also, many here in the united states are concerned about loved ones in the disaster zone. ann curry got a tweet from worried relatives and actually found the missing person. we ll hear and find out how later on. all right. let s go to ann now with the very latest on the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you. as you have aptly put it, japan is reeling. about a half million people are still evacuated. more than a million don t have access to clean water. this, as you point out, as potential nuclear disaster looms. reporter: nbc news has obtained this home video of the tsunami as it struck the coastal fishing village of minamisanriku considered one of the hardest hit. 10,000 of 17,000 residents are now missing. it is a city obliterated. and heartbroken. hiromi hirayuchi can t find six members of her family. another eyewitness video shows the power of the wave as it engulfed the coastal city of miyako. the destruction is so widespread and sudden the prime minister is calling this japan s gravest crisis since world war ii. . [ speaking in a foreign language ] . reporter: this is a nation on edge. hit with more than 1,000 aftershocks which sounded the alarms in sendai repeatedly this weekend. they re yelling at us saying a tsunami is coming right now. they are yelling at everybody to get out of the way. we re leaving the area. tsunami alarms are so frequent, even emergency crews lost count. add to that the quake impacted nuclear power plants. the nuclear and safety industrial agency said an explosion occurred in the number 3 building of the reactor around 11:00 a.m. japan time on monday. reporter: now, more than 180,000 people have been evacuated from around the plant which has released some radiation. more than 60 nations have pledged aid, sending in 13 rescue teams including from europe and china on sunday. u.s. teams are already on the ground searching. the u.s. navy has dispatched eight warships. we are here to help protect the japanese people. reporter: the u.s.s. ronald reagan arrived on sunday to bring in supplies by helicopter. in the midst of so much destruction, there is hope. floating for two days, this 60-year-old was found alive, clinging to the roof of his house, nearly ten miles out to sea. survivors on a rooftop saw signs of life in the debris, and three elderly people who were trapped for 20 hours in a car were saved. as for the potential for a nuclear disaster here, about 50 miles away from the nuclear power plants people aren t even talking about it. in some cases they are not aware. in other cases they are too focused on survival. matt? ann, thank you. let me ask you about aftershocks. i know you have experienced a few. some of them as big as 6 on the scale. what is it like? what does it create in terms of further panic? do rescuers have to retreat from the rubble? reporter: absolutely. it creates a considerable amount of panic. we spent a lot of the weekend in send sendai. it s almost incessant tsunami warnings. we were caught in one of these moments when we were headed to the coastline. there is an oil refinery burning there and all of the sudden, it happened like clockwork. these emergency vehicles come roaring out of the quake and tsunami zone. they have been trying to retrieve bodies, find survivors. people are yelling and in a calm society when people start yelling it s a stunning moment. that s what happens. we got caught in one of them. we were ordered out and people hear them all the time. simply because more than 1,000 aftershocks, matt. this place is still rocking. a story that s far from over. ann, thank you very much. we ll check back in with you in a few minutes. now here s natalie. that s a frightening situation. rescue efforts are continuing on the coast of sendai. the scene is grim but there are stories of incredible survival. ian williams is in yamagatu, japan, with more. good morning. reporter: good morning, natalie. rescue teams are only just beginning to reach some of the worst hit areas close to sendai where the tsunami laid waste to entire coastal towns. this is what remains of the coastal district, once home to 10,000 people. here they had half an hour between the quake and the tsunami. 30 desperate minutes to get out. reporter: it s hard to imagine but until friday this wasteland was a busy residential neighborhood. they have no idea how many bodies are buried here. for now the priority is simply to gain access to some of the worst affected areas. clearing a path through the debris. in their wake, rescue teams made slow progress. the dogs trained to detect bodies still alive. there have been none today. some of those who escaped before the wave hit returned today to search for missing relatives. miwa saito was looking for her brother but was overwhelmed by the scenes around her. [ crying ] reporter: the ishikawa family was more lucky. they lost their mother but found her sunday. the family home was one of few left standing. they were able to al advantage at least some belongings, including photo albums. my memory. my grandmother s memory. reporter: nearby a vivid reminder of the power of the tsunami. a school bus wrapped around the wall of the remains of another building. through the smoldering debris we spotted another family who recovered their special possession a dog called may who somehow survived the disaster. they found her wandering near the remains of their house. so she was happy to see you? yes, yes, very happy. reporter: for the rescue teams the search went on. the task so big at times they seemed hardly to know where to start. another huge challenge is caring for survivors. officials are facing a critical shortage of blankets, water and medicine, natalie. all right. ian williams in yamagata, japan. stay safe, please. excellent reporting there. really. let s get a check on the rest of the top stories. savannah is at the news deskle while ann is in japan. the wave of revolution in the middle east and north africa is being met with escalating violence. heavy gunfire south of yemen s capitol after seven were killed and a hundred wounded. in bahrain, members of parliament are calling for a military clamp down after renewed clashes between police and protesters there. moammar gadhafi s forces are retaking territory from rebels in eastern libya as the arab league made a rare plea for a united nations imposed no-fly zone. gadhafi s forces forced rebels from the city of braga. they will continue to push toward the unofficial rebel capitol of benghazi. the u.s. said it is deeply concerned by the announcement that it will build hundreds of new homes in west bank settlement. israel said the plan was in response to a suspected terrorist attack this weekend that killed five members of a jewish west bank family. an explosion at a massachusetts adhesive chemical plant overnight injured four workers and shook homes miles away. environmental officials are monitoring a nearby river for potential contamination and the cause of the blast is under investigation. survivors of saturday s horrific bus crash in new york have told investigators they did not feel a tractor-trailer clip the bus, contradicting the driver s account of what caused the accident which killed 14 people. passengers reported that the driver swerved multiple times before the bus slid off the road. police say the driver had noel alcohol in his system at the time of the accident. a new study in the journal of pediatrics says depressed fathers are three times more likely to spank their 1-year-old children than fathers who are not depressed. researchers said some of the fathers had no history of depression until their children were born and even compared their emotional state to post partum depression in women. president obama is pushing for congress to overhaul the no child left behind education policy before the beginning of the next school year. the bush era law has been criticized for inflexibility and being too quick to label many schools as failures. the battle for the weekend box office was won by battle los angeles which came in first at $36 million according to early estimates. rango was second and red riding hood in third. it is 11 minutes past the hour. back to matt, natalie and al. i guess the old classics are still popular. absolutely. red riding hood looks horrifying. terrifying. you don t want to mix up rango and red riding hood with the kids. not a good idea. let s check in with al. looking at japan and sendai tomorrow, a low of 39, a high of 44. a chance of showers. prevailing winds across japan in the pacific northwest. the strongest jet stream, 135 miles per hour. then also we have strong storms making their way across the midwest. snow on the back side of the system brings anywhere from one to two inches of snow. maybe one two three inches of rain in the mid mississippi river valley and strong storms again back to the pacific northwest bringing rain of half an inch to an inch and anywhere from six to eight inches of snow in the mountains. is going to be a quiet start to the work week. not completely sunny, but we don t expect precipitation. high temperatures either side that s your latest weather, matt? the images of devastation in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami have torn at the hearts of people around the world. we ll be back with more. first, a look at the sights and sounds of this epic disaster. the government will put its strength together and work hard in tackling this disaster. japanese officials say radiation has been detected at the fukushima number 1 plant. in the 65 years after the end of world war ii, this is the toughest the most difficult crisis for japan. search and rescue teams from ten countries are headed to northeastern japan. sounds of an explosion in the number 3. this is reportedly a hydrogen explosion. the final vessel from the quake and death tolle from the earthquake and tsunami, 10,000. it may rise as the process of finding and identifying bodies continues. d alaway. for fast eye itch relief that works in minutes and lasts up to 12 hours. only alaway comes from the eye care experts at bausch & lomb. so when allergies strike, add alaway. because it s not just your allergies, it s your eyes. for fast eye itch relief, add alaway. in the eye care aisle. to talk about the venture card match my miles challenge. they re so confident their miles are better, they ll match the miles you ve earned on your airline credit card up to 100,000 on a new venture card. it s unbelievable. believe it. venture card miles are good on any airline, anytime. it s like an upgrade from this. to this. sign up for a venture card at capitalone.com today and get up to 100,000 miles. what s in your wallet? 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[ crying ] jessica? do you see me? we re fine. we re fine. hi, monica. just go ahead and look into the camera. hi, guys. look, there s zack! he s up. hi, zack. i love you. zack, how are you? i m fine. jess, it s good to see you. we re okay. we re surviving. we re in our house. everything s okay. i can t believe we re communicating right now. this is so incredible. i know that the first i was going to say the first time you knew they were okay was a facebook message yesterday that john sent out. you had been able since to talk on the phone as of this morning. this is really the first time and jessica, john and the boys, you all look amazing. how are you getting by day to day? we re doing okay. you know, we have enough food for the next probably week. there is no supplies of other stuff. the water supply is very hard to get any water. but we are okay. we have a good we re fine. we have a good community of people that are here helping us out. you know, we re doing okay. we re very lucky we escaped the disaster. supplies are limited. so we ll take each day as it comes. monica, do you want to ask them something? i m in shock that i can see you now. look at max. he s sleeping. yep. max, we love you so much! i m so happy to see you guys. i imagine it s been a long 48 to 72 hours for you. 72 hours of hell for myself and my family. the whole family. jessica and john, i know you re there because your jobs brought you there threeears ago. how difficult was it for you just wanting to let your families know you were okay, to find the ability to communicate? it s horrible to be out of touch. it s so hard to know they were trying to everyone was trying to get in touch with us. but there was no way for us to do it. we have limited resources. we have no internet, no cell phones. but we re fine. it s heartbreaking to think that they thought the worst. so finally we have friends here with internet. we can do it now. zack, how are you holding up and your brother, max? how frightened were you? i imagine for an 8-year-old, you re seeing your world there shattered around you. was it hard? it was a little scary the earthquake. i miss you guys so much. i m so glad you re okay. the boys have been really good through all of this. they were scared the first night. we had aftershocks every five minutes and they were big. i was going to say excuse me, john. i was going to say i know you re in the town sendai which you are just ten miles or so away from where the epicenter of the earthquake was and the tsunami. how badly damaged was the area where you all lived, your neighborhood, your surrounding area? nothing like the pictures that you re seeing. in our immediate area we were so lucky. we escaped the devastation. it was just miles from us in the towns we know so well. to think that the people who have been so good to us here in japan are so devastated. supplies are so limited here. and the people of japan really need help even though they won t admit it. they need a lot of help. you know, for us it s about food and water supplies. that s what we re looking at. but so many other people, the devastation that they have had is so much greater. we re fortunate to have the people around us, the support system. just hoping that we re going to get supplies in the next few days. there is the ongoing concern with the nuclear situation, as you are all very much well aware, i m sure. what are you hearing? what are they telling you about the dangers of nuclear radiation? they re not telling us a lot. we re getting most of our information through friends. international news. it s insult to injury. we re not sure what to believe. you don t want to panic. but the japanese are good at being organized. they re overcautious about most things. so we re confident that, you know, we really can t get out right now on our own but if we need to get out, we re confident we ll have a way to get out. monica, i imagine hearing and knowing what they are going through, it has to be frustrating as well knowing that there is not much you can do except send money to the red cross to help get food and water to them. jesse, what can we do to help you? everybody wants to help. we want to send you things. we just love you so much. i know. you know, we re really okay. we are okay. you know, the resources here in japan and yeah. it s water. just send us your love like you re doing. your support is so important. we re touched by how many people have really reached out to us. it s unbelievable to hear from the u.s. being outside the u.s. you feel a little isolated. i m so happy to see you. i m so happy you re okay. it s unbelievable. jess, john, zack hi, zackie! we love you so much. we miss you guys terribly. max has had a very long 72 hours. fast asleep. it s the middle of the night for them. so you all continue to stay safe. our thoughts and prayers are with you. we re hoping people heed the call to send help whether it s to the red cross or other aid organizations so that people around you and you all can have food and water and everything you need. jessica, john, zack and little max there fast asleep, take care. i will keep the line open. i know monica and jessica, you guys want to keep the reunion going. i will get out of the conversation and let s you continue off air so people at home don t have to butt in on your reunion. but thank you all for being with us. we ll be right back with more. this is today on nbc. [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month for a year. call now and you ll get this special bonus: $100 back. there s no term contract required. if you don t absolutely love fios, you can cancel anytime with no early termination fee. fios is a 100% fiber-optic network that delivers the best channel lineup, superior picture quality, and more hd, plus the fastest internet in the u.s. why keep paying for cable? get fios tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month plus $100 back. this is a limited time offer, so don t wait. call 1.877.827.fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities that s 1.877.827.3467. at 800-974-6006 tty/v. get the network that delivers more. get fios. a network ahead. this morning in today s kitchen putting a twist on your average salad. tired of the same old boring lettuce and tomato? amanda hesser is here to help you shape things up by shaving down your veggies. i m sick of my tomato and lettuce salad. you can shave these? everybody thinks you can only use lettuce, but it s getting something thin and fine. here we use brussels sprouts. let s start with them. you serve them raw? yeah, absolutely. everybody thinks you have to cook them, but not at all. this is called a mandolin. this is a japanese version. it s very inexpensive and great for shaving vegetables. you can slice them if you want to practice knife skills. you get nice fine shreds which you can dress. what ingredients do you put with them? add nice tasty things. this is a cured ham from germany. you can use serano ham or prosciutto. this is pecorino cheese and celery chop fine for crunch. these are walnuts you can toast and chop. this is cranberry? yes, dried for a little bit of sweetness. how do you dress it? just with lemon juice. squeeze it on. okay. salt and pepper and then if you want to add a little heat you can use cayenne, any kind of chili powder or crushed red pepper flakes if you crush them further. add a little bit of olive oil. that looks fantastic. maybe more than a little bit. don t go light on the olive oil, come on. exactly. then you mix it up. it s a beautiful salad. you can serve it as a first course or lunch. it has everything in it. it s gorgeous. i will put a little bit on a plate for you. great. we ll get to the tasting. napa cabbage salad. helen s? where did you get the name. that s my grandmother. first you render bacon fat. brown the bacon. then she shredded napa cabbage. what s the first between that and regular cabbage? it s more delicate. it s a long cabbage and it s sweeter and lighter. i think it works well in salad. chop it like this and render the bacon in a pan. you want to put it on the salad. then we re going to make dressing. you can shave the cabbage on the mandolin? sure or it s easy to do with a knife. what s this? this is the dressing. i m going to quickly show you how to make it. to the bacon fat, add i smell bacon. there it goes. acbacon fat! you said bacon and they were here. add flour to make a roux, add water and it s great. you will whisk it into egg which sounds weird. bacon and eggs! it s fantastic on your salad. a perfect breakfast salad. not your ordinary salad. no, it s not. quickly, we have butter nut squash also. the scent of the gods. all we said was bacon and al and nat live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. it is going to be a nice day today. a little cooler than over the weekend. high temperatures won t be too bad. there will be a few clouds from time to time. partly cloudy, or a mixture of sunshine and clouds. clouds will thicken up tomorrow. show