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You heard a moment ago from janie, her husband was inside one of the crippled power plants. more details on how serious the problems are right you with jean me serve. what's the latest? >> reporter: reports are that at one plant there are elevated temperatures. at the other plant, radiation levels are up. but according to the kyoto news agency, eight times the normal level at a monitoring station outside the plant. 1,000 times above normal in a control room inside the plant. here's what happens. the plant shut down during the quake, but the power into the plant was also disrupted, and that shu...

Sesay. >> isha, thanks and safe travels. up next, what made this quake so punishing and how do tsunamis form? details from a leading seismologist. and minute by minute as the wave of destruction went mile after mile inland. >> the tsunami has already engulfed some cities, fires breaking out due to the earthquake in north eastern japan, tsunami waves of over four meters were observed.

The scale of the devastation that has occurred. you see there cars tossed in amongst -- it looks like one big trash heap. but this is an area devastated by the force of nature. everything that stood in the path of the tsunami, of the results -- was the result of the quake and essentially battered and left in pieces. japan is prone to earthquakes because of its unique geological position. it sits on top of three major tectonic plates. one scientist is warning despite what happened, japan is still at risk for another major quake. this morning's quake is the most powerful to strike japan in recor...

Blankets, because some of them didn't even have clothes or shoes. when you actually talked to him, where was he? >> he was outside of the hotel. he said they were going for higher ground. the ground was still shaking. they had -- sounded like a smaller van is what they were leaving in. so they were going to higher ground to get -- because they could hear the wind starting to blow. they felt like the water, the wave was coming back. then the rumbling sound, i could hear it over the phone so loud. he said it's another quake, and it just kept roaring. he said the ground was shaking under my feet....

Station reactors with serious cooling problems, pressure building, reports of radiation venting at two of them. we'll stalk to a woman whose husband was in the plant. all the result of the fifth largest recorded quake in history, followed by this wave turning everything in its path into rubble. this is what it looked like. you can see it's not just seawater. there's debris, cars, trucks, houses being swept alone, battering everything in its path. the tsunami reaching the west coast where several people were swept out to sea. 8.9 was the quake, hundreds of times stronger than the one that level...