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A million people. the area hit by the tsunami hard to get an estimate, but it encompassed the entire city. you go to the area and everything is fine on one street and everything is flattened on the next. those are not emergency sirens those are fire trucks that are coming back and forth all day. agencies from all over japan. as well as internationally gathered here and going out in convoys to areas to look for victims. so many areas still untouched here. they haven't gotten to. we hear the numbers of tens of thousands missing. they may be cutoff, but the fact is we don't know. >> lester, what ...

The city of sendai is one of the hardest-hit areas. as cnn's kyung lah headed there she stopped at a small town where rescuers have tried to reach 13 people trapped under the rubble and filed this report a short time ago. >> reporter: things we've been looking for are the stories along the way as we try to make it up to the area that is hardest hit, that area hit by the tsunami and we found one. this is a city called shirakawai and there is a neighborhood here. you can see some of the houses of this -- it really does look like a small little community. you can see the three houses right here. ...

Cnn's kyung lah has been heading to the port of sendai close to the earthquake epicenter and devastated by the tsunami. she stopped at a small town south of sendai where rescuers are trying to reach at least 13 people trapped when their home was swallowed up in a massive lan shied. she filed this report. >> reporter: one of the things we're looking for is are the stories along the way as we try to make up to the area hardest hit, that area hit by the tsunami. and we found one. this is a city called shirakawa. and in this city there is a tight-knit community, a neighborhood called hanoki dira. ...

Andrew. randi as we are watching that developing story, developing minute-by-minute, people are still trying to dig out to restore their lives after what happened 30 hours ago. we are going to talk a lot about sendai. it's the closest big city to the epicenter of the quake. the going the tough because of damage to the highways in the region. at one point, they went one-mile-an-hour. one community, rescuers are trying to reach several families. >> one of the things you are looking for are the storage along the way as we try to make it up to the area hardest hit, the area hit by the tsunami an...

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