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We've seen those pictures offer the last 24 hours around sendai, going from sendai off about a thousand miles it seems according to their maps, that seems to be the red zone. when you go further up, they've switched that to an orange and yellow zone. but their main concern is that area of northeastern japan which took the real brunt of those waves when they swept in. >> alisyn: all right. david piper live for us from tokyo. thank you for the update. and lets bring in d mark segal. in the past hour we've gotten reports that the government has now taken the precautionary measure of handing ut po...

Building and a lot of the other high-rises have been evacuated because of the tremors. some are so big my room is shaking and water bottles are falling down and i cannot imagine people with a 30 or 40-story building. >>dave: sounds frightening so say the least, a canadian photograph are trying to get out of tokyo and he has experienced multiple after shocks including one while we were on the phone with him. best of luck to you in getting out of the city. >> i will update the images on my website. at www.andrewpateras.com and japan is on high alert. what is the likelihood of a meltdown? could r...

But, of course, there is great concern particularly after the explosion early in the day which we understand did not break the containment vessel of the reactor but as the rescue teams are fighting to keep the pressure down, keeping this reactor core, if they fail, the people, the town of sendai which was hit badly is a town of a million people in the area, and you look further down, if there is a cloud, we have 30 million people here in tokyo. >>dave: it is not just the nuclear situation but the earthquakes, essentially 8.9 and pore than 120 after shocks and we talked to a canadian photograph...

United states to worry about. >> clayton: doctor, your thoughts. >> it's all about exposure. how long you've been exposed to something and close you are. he is he' making an interesting point, after chernobyl, a huge cloud spewed across europe and we don't know what the long-term again net the particular impact is on the dna on people. and we are he miles and miles away. i think he may be exaggerating in one sense i'm not convinced that people in the united states can get sick. >> dave: to get back to your point, you don't want to spread foreand even in tokyo taking tremendous precautions. >> ...

A worse case scenario unless they can tamp this down. >> and moments ago, word of yet nor after shock and this one an a big one. the magnitude 6.1 making matters worse, it's at the same area where that nuclear plant is located. >> clayton: also developing, the reports that 9500 people are missing in one japanese town alone. we have every angle of that breaking story covered. "fox & friends" continues right now. >> alisyn: all right. good morning again everyone, of course we're focused on the situation in japan this morning. it is changing. every single second, david piper has arrived on the gr...