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You can. >> what floor are you on in that building where you are right now? >> okay. i'm on a low floor so the sway should be quite low. what is considered a small apartment building, there is about -- there's four stories to it. i am on the first floor so actually the second story. the first floor above the ground. and so the sway would have been a lot more three stories higher. because it is a smaller building, built in the '80s, it sort of squauts. it was built to very high construction standards. you don't rent an apartment in tokyo without knowing about the construction standards. that mi...

Kilometers to vak wait. it would blow most radioactivity out to sea and could blow it over to the west coast of the united states. >> are there international resources that could be brought to bear on this that would make a difference, or is japan as good as anyone at dealing with this technology? >> japan is very good. these reactors are generally considered in japan in the state of the art. these are particularly old designs, but they have relatively high construction standards for their reactors. iaea can be brought in to help on this, and in the case of airlift, which is what the president...

The force of the tsunami, with all of that debris churned up in the water. this is what they say. it's not just the water and the wave which is so deadly, but it's also the debris which it brings with it. it sweeps everything before it. if you get caught up in this, this is why the death toll can often be so high. what they have said about japan, you can prepare for the earthquake, build buildings stronger, you can have all the construction standards that you want, but sometimes it can be just impossible to outrun -- >> to prepare for a tsunami. >> they have all of their exits marked and well ...

Structural slab up under the pool that he is looking at. so he is thinking of telling his boss we'll have to remove pipes and other things, this job will be more complicated even if we're just coming in here to do a koz me cosmetic repair. so that is what was going through his mind two days before the collapse. >> and cnn has independently reached out about the report and a spokesperson for the champlain tower south condo association declined to comment. in an op-ed, "the miami herald" newspaper was critical of the construction standards at the time the condo was built. they wrote when we lo...

Pictures thanks to our affiliate nhk in japan. i want to show our viewers some of these pictures. this shows the devastation, the destruction. john, look at that water surrounding all of those buildings there from the tsunami, the waves just came in and in and in. this is certainly the worst quake in japan's history, but the tsunami, we're only now as sun is beginning to go up over all of japan, just after 7:00 a.m. saturday morning, we're only now, john, beginning to seat enormity. >> it's very difficult to know looking at that footage, looking at those aerial images of where the coast begins...