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For that state and federal aid will be very important as people try to piece their lives back together, chris. >> kerry sanders, thank you so much. and if you can believe it, the weather channel says there were more than 150 reports of tornadoes from last thursday through saturday and even more may be on the way. meteorologist bill karins is here. bill, who's in the target zone now? >> yeah, chris, that's the question, is where are we going to see the debris fields tomorrow at this time? because we will have some destructive tornadoes later on today. first off, this is a powerful spring storm....

Making repairs. not quite as dramatic as the picture you were showing but they were right at it right away. obviously up in the north it's a completely different situation. it's so devastated that that is going to take a significant amount of time. but that said, they were out clearing at least the roadways so that crews could get in and out of the debris fields. they weren't necessarily clearing anything out, but they were just getting the roads cleared so people could get in. clearing it of the mud, clearing it of the debris and that allowed some of the search and rescue crews to come in and...

So you have this fast-moving water, which would have swept people away and then there's all this debris, cars and homes and houses and wood and steel in this water. and they may have been deposited miles away from where they lived or where they were swept away. so you have these debris fields, which are just huge, 10, 15 feet thick in some places with all manner of debris, and in order to find out, find who may still be inside, more than likely dead, even to recover their bodies you would need heavy equipment to move that debris and in a lot of these places they haven't been searched yet. they...

Brian, i've worked with these crews from fairfax county, and also from los angeles. the men and women, they're so dedicated, they're at great risk to themselves. it's difficult working. have they been able to find anyone alive at this point or because it's such a different situation with these debris fields from the water, are they basically just looking to recover bodies? >> anderson, they have not been able to find anyone alive so far, but they are still treating this as a rescue operation. they are determined to try to find anyone who could still be alive. that could change, of course, very...

In addition to the human victims of the quake. this was not by a crew in northeastern japan. one dog is injured and lying down and the other dog refusing to leave the hurt dog's side appearing to try to protect the weaker dog. according to a facebook posting, both dogs were rescued. one small bit of good news. the situation up in northeastern japan for animals and for humans, as well, is just extraordinarily difficult. right now a shortage of food. shortage of water. there are shelters and hundreds of thousands are in shelters, but again their conditions are miserable really and with no clear ...