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came rushing in six miles inland. most of the people found here have been found dead unfortunately and trapped in their vehicles. they've gone into neighborhoods that weren't so heavily hit by the tidal wave and the reason for this is fairly pragmatic. they know that if people had been trapped when the water came in, their chances for survival are extremely low. not impossible but low. you have to go with the odds. there may be people still trapped in buildings away from the waterfront and that's where a lot of the focus has been placed at this particular time. there are many families who say they are hearing, communicating with people who are trapped but they can't direct officials to get to them. a lot of heartbreaking stories, i can tell you that. >> martin savidge standing by. in sendai. i appreciate it. meanwhile hundreds of aftershocks have continued to rock japan. our jacqui jeras will look at the seismic activity ahead, but
hold. they settle. you think of a pile of oranges. you know how you take one original out of there and everything kind of falls down, you walk away, five seconds later another orange drops down and you thing, oh, i thought i was done. a delayed reaction. this is something they'll be dealing with in the upcoming weeks, months. people could be trapped under rubble, that could shift things around a little bit. >> jacqui jeras, always appreciate your expertise. thank you very much. people in japan are encountering everything from unbelievable devastation to loss of life and long lines for foochld our reggie aqui is here. what do you have for us? >> this is what we have been getting. absolutely empty shelves, no food, no water. a lot of things we don't think of until we're in an emergency.
blankets, flashlights. even areas in tokyo that didn't receive the worst of the damage, they're getting these rolling power outages. i actually had a chance to talk to a woman named vary finerman. she's in japan teaching english. she sent in photos i want to show you right now. what you see in the photos are fissu fissures. she said there were two lonely police officers inside. there you can see again. plenty of supplies on the right-hand side that nobody needs but plenty on the left. let's talk with sarah. >> this looks a lot worse than it is. i showed up at about 4:00 p.m. and that was about where the end of the line was. they said they were going to be providing water from the trucks until 10:00 p.m. i went back to get my car to
drive over and thought, oh, boy, it's going to take forever. i got four jugs in a half hour. i was in and out. >> this is the only way to get fresh water is to stand in lines at these various city halls around the rural areas? >> exactly. that's what we got. >> how much did you get? is it enough to get to survive? >> i thought there was a limit so i only brought four. i didn't want to be greedy. i live alone. >> people were there with huge trash cans. there were no questions asked. it's whatever you want to do. >> sarah was surprised that she could actually get as much water that she needed at the time. i was surprised at her demeanor. she was awfully upbeat given how early i was talking to her. she said people are taking care of each other as much as they can. this was perhaps surprising. although this is very serious and i'm not trying to make
they're pumping more seawater into the reactor. it's the only solution they have even though they have access to other water. that's in an attempt to try to cool the reactor. strangely enough though, officials say despite pumping water the levels are about the same meaning the reactors are still being exposed. what they're still hoping is've if there is some damage to the reactor itself, some disintell gralgs that there's another containment around it. that being said some radiation has been detected. most of it has come from steam being released. this is a venting post. but officials have gone to great pains to reassure people that those levels are not high enough to be harmless. there are exclusions around there where over 200,000 people have been evacuated. many more than 100,000 people
light. the i-reporters even in the midst of the devastation, one of them sent us this. couldn't find water, couldn't find water. what do they find, don? what do they find? >> liquor. >> plenty of liquor in japan right now. there's no shortage of that and they'll probably be needing that once things get a little bit back to normal. >> probably with this they're dealing with so much sobriety is very important. that's the least of their concerns. >> absolutely. >> thank you very much. we appreciate your reporting. we've given you the latest from japan. here's what you need to know. if you need to help the victims, they may be without power, missing loved ones, unable to find food and water or possibly all three. if you go to cnn.com/impact, you'll find a list of organizations giving aid. concerns mount about a possible meltdown at one of japan's nuclear plants and that is of huge concern. straight ahead we take you back to japan for the latest on that situation, but first we want to leave you with -- before we go to break, our affiliate, nhk in
have been checked out. >> good reports, stan grant. we're glad to have you in tokyo. we'll check back. appreciate it. up next we'll continue to investigate the threat of a meltdown. before we go to break we'll leave you with a live broadcast now from our affiliate in tokyo and these new images that are just in from our affiliates there as well. >> translator: i thought i was dying when i was pushed into the water. but for my family i decided to make every effort to survive. fi, and this is her sister tina, who i also helped do her first home loan. it was unbelievable how well it all fell together. kathy said, "well, let me give you rachel's number."
daughter but in a terrifying instant the ravaging waters swept the child away, another hellish moment that played out on one of our japanese affiliates. >> translator: i grabbed something tight holding my daughter's hand but i lost my grip when i was swept away in the debris and water. i managed to survive but my daughter was washed away. i don't know what to say. i hope my daughter is still alive somewhere. >> we hope for her as well. we've given you the latest news from japan. now here's what you need to know if you want to help the victims. they may be without power, they may be missing loved ones, they may not have food or water. if you go to cnn.com/impact, you'll find a list of organizations giving aid. again cnn.com/impact. two days after an 8.9 earthquake rocked japan, we continue to hear amazing stories of survivors who barely escaped
quake and tsunami, millions of stories. money is one measure. financial experts say this could be the most expensive quake in history, as much as $100 billion. but in human terms, cnn's anna coren says it costs some people everything. >> reporter: we've just arrived on the outskirts of the town about an hour north of sendai with the japanese military and they are going through this neighborhood to see if they can find any survivors. but it quickly became apparent this wasn't a search and rescue operation. they were here to recover bod s bodies. this neighborhood just 500 meters from the coast caught the full force of the devastating tsunami. every single home was damaged by the ten-meter wall of water, most beyond repair.
radiation. >> that's going to have to be the last word for now. stick around. we may be getting information that maybe because they had the power cuts and rolling blackouts, that may have been suspended. we're checking on that now. thank you. we'll see you in a minute. up next, we're going to talk with bill nie the science guy to find out how close that possibility is to becoming a reality. more perspective on this possibility of radiation spreading. and as we go to break, a live broadcast from our affiliate in japan, nhk. a tsunami survivor says he was suddenly engulfed in water when his house was hit by a high wave. with your mortgage,