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Stories of covering back in 1994 the disaer that was he inhe kbeuake. th samehig,tiffpper liand smile through it. all the information may not be right but we are not going to are not panicking of this i can report from great certainty. >> gretamaybe they don't see the pictures we see. has the earth calmed down? has it stopped giving those aftershocks? >> shepard: no. >> greta: that's not good either. >> shepard: we are not anywhere near a stopping point. as we were in the mind of -- in the middle of our sleep last night there was a 6.4 magnitude. those numbers don't mean anything except where ...

1994 the disaster that was here in the kobe quake. the same thing, stiff upper lip and smile through it. all the information may not be right but we are not going to panic. they are not panicking of this i can report from great certainty. >> greta: maybe they don't see the pictures we see. has the earth calmed down? hait sppedivg tose tehos? >>herdno gta: at's n near a stopping point. as we were in the mind of -- in the middle of our sleep last night there was a.4 itanwh the energy is where you , it rocks and rolls. that's what the hotel did in the middle of the night, shaking, creeking making...

And glass crashing to the ground. japan is no stranger to earthquakes. with reinforced building designs like nowhere else in the world. but this one was a monster, marying a magnitude of 8.9, one of the strongest in the country's history. an american university professor in tokyo on business told us the tremors were relentless. >> the shaking got worse and worse. i don't know exactly how long it lasted. it seemed like it went on forever. >> the country's prime minister, naoto kan immediately activated an emergency response plan. after the shaking came the warning. and the wave, a chilling prev...

Was at 1,015 micro-peebles, but now it has come down to 70. that's significantly lower than even before the explosion. so that's the latest situation on the nuclear power reactor. >> kaori enjoji, thank you so much. now to dave specter, he's an american that's been living in tokyo for eight years. he's joining me via skype. dave, good morning to you. you shared some video with us that you took from your car. tell us where you were when things started shaking. >> i was in the middle of the city on the way home, actually. as you just heard, it was a beautiful day, very calm day otherwise until...

Some. but again, not of this scale. and we exercise with the japanese all the time. we did at the embassy. we did with the city of tokyo, with the various prefecture governments and the united states and you practice and you prepare, but no one can prepare of something of an 8.9 magnitude. >> but you certainly knew well with your own experience, having lunch at the embassy, chandeliers shaking. >> there were a couple of times that that would happen in which the chandeliers would move so much that you could feel the building move. and you -- >> unnerving to say the least. >> well, a little bit....