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Underneath the wreckage. with this debris, it's not like in haiti where you have an earthquake and buildings collapsed and you could tell where people were going to be. with the tsunami, it's not the earthquake damage necessarily that killed most people. it's the water. 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 t...

Died as the thickness of these debris fields. there are several americans still missing at this point. i want to show you pictures at this point. at least two, 24-year-old woman named taylor anderson from virginia. i talked to her parents the other day. she's been teaching english in japan for three years. her parents haven't spoken to her since last wednesday. her parents want to go look for her themselves. obviously i talked to her dad, andy. he said he would like to come here and look but he's being told not to because of the obstacles that they would face. >> i did ask the consulate if i c...

What's incredible is even with no sign of life, people keep coming back. there's a couple picking their way through this rubble that you can barely walk through, trying to find something that maybe they can take back. late in the day, the hope of finding someone alive gave way to desperate reality. a body was found in this house. so this area devastated by the tsunami. no survivors found here in the wreckage. so we move on to the next area. >> brian todd joins us now. brian, i've worked with these crews from fairfax county, and also from los angeles. the men and women, they're so dedicated, th...

Attempting to restore electricity at the nuclear plant. the electricity was knocked out started this because they could no longer use electricity to cool the -- to keep water pumping and to cool the fuel rods. and that's why the fuel rods were able to heat up. they are attempting to restore electricity. they hope to do that again today. all of this information is coming from this private company company tepco. no way to now how accurate it is or if they are being optimistic in their pronouncements. whether or not they will be able to restore the electricity. we have been following efforts in t...

Find fuel, water, food. and a similar thing to what gary said. people were asking us, so what are you hearing? what do you know? what should we do next? there didn't seem to be a clear plan now that you've lost your home, there's no heat, it's really cold, and what's the next step? it's interesting to watch people seeming to be very externally calm. i think japanese people have a reputation of being calm and centered but the questions i was being asked started to indicate people were worrying about what is the next step. >> there's growing anxiety. a credibility gap over the nuclear issue and ...