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Did. and that affected him deeply. >> it just -- it's gone in a matter of seconds. but there's no precursor, no warnings, nothing. other than when it hits. >> reporter: eudy was evacuated to tokyo within days was back in the u.s. but his thoughts remain with the workers he left behind in fukushima. are those workers, in your mind, heroes? >> no, sir, i don't know about heroes. i would just call them like myself, just workers trying to do the best they can. >> reporter: david mattingly, cnn, alexandria, louisiana. and we have a bit of news just into cnn about the minnesota congressman michele...

>> it kind of, like, slowed down just a little, and then all of a sudden it got worse and worse. >> reporter: which the quake hit, he was in a turbine building attached to the fukushima daiichi nuclear reactor number one. the shaking was so violent, american contractor danny eudy says he didn't need a translator to know what the japanese workers were shouting. >> you know run is run. >> reporter: did you think you were going to make it out of that building? >> i wasn't sure. >> reporter: once outside, eudy says he saw cracks in the ground around the plant. a hillside had shifted onto the road....

>> kind of like slowed down just a little. then all of a sudden it got worse and worse. >> reporter: when the quake hit, he was in a turbine building attached to the fukushima daiichi nuclear reactor number one. the shaking was so violent, american contractor danny eudy says he didn't need a translator to know what the japanese workers were shouting. >> you know run is run. workers were shouting. >> we know ron is ron. >> did you think you were going to make it out of that building? >> i wasn't sure. >> once outside, beauty says he saw cracks in the ground around the plant, a hillside that shi...