the living in the city of sendai. in this one area, rescuers are still pulling the injured to safety. silver gurney lifts a survivor, but increasingly, the found are the dead. search crews pull a body from the water, someone who drowned in a car. another body lies under this tarp. the large number of military and search crews finding more dead and fewer living victims as the hours pass. frightening beyond believe, says this man. i have no words. his uncle and mother are feared dead. they were both home when the tsunami came in. he is now waiting for word. witnesses here say the first tsunami wave was as high as the top of this tree line, tossing cars like toys into piles, blast out windows, crushing homes or sweeping them away completely. this flooded area once had a row of houses, now gone.