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This point. frederick pleitgen is near the site of this shopping mall, retroville complex bombed over the weekend. fred, give us a sense of what you're seeing there now. >> reporter: hi there, john. we are actually at the site where that bomb hit or where the rocket hit. not exactly sure what it was. we will ask our photo journalist byron to go forward. just absolutely massive damage caused by that explosion. you will see that one building, taller building completely destroyed all the rooms in that building seem to be destroyed. there are a lot of cars destroyed. debris laying around there.

This is actually a bit of good news. 450 people were here during the time of the flood. they all evacuated, and they're all safe. that is the best news we have heard. look behind me. you can see the debris littering the bank. these slabs were once cabins. people were staying here friday night and saturday night before they were evacuated. you can see how much the river has gone down. it is still raging. just on the other side of that tree that's a concrete bridge. water is now just rushing right over it. we talked to the owners here at the resort. they say water is never that strong. it's alwa...

>> reporter: we are in harrisburg right now. i can be quiet for a second so you can hear them. [siren blaring ] >> reporter: those are the tornado warning sirens blaring right now. the good news about that we were told earlier in the day. i can show you the siren that is wailing right now. we were told that was knocked out by the last tornado. i'm hearing it at the moment, it's working. we do see people outside, we still see cars driving around. people are very concerned about this for all of the obvious reasons. you've got tarps on a lot of roofs, if this really does kick in, if we see any ki...

Remove surface water. again, you know, they're doing a massive recovery effort from the tsunami. so there's probably debris laying around. so it is going to be a huge, huge, huge effort. but we hope that most of the radioactivity that's going to go away will be away by around the may time frame. >> and that's -- it's far different than something like chernobyl, which is still in the area around not someplace that people live. it's a different kind of radiation? >> well, it's actually the same radiation. it's the cesium that we're worried about. but the two things that are dramatically differen...

Land that are going to have to be decontaminated. so what i think you're going see is late may you'll probably see people being released to move back into the areas. with some specific areas that are going to be cordoned off until the authorities can come in and decontaminate it. by decontamination, they're going to have to actually scrape away layers of dirt, perhaps pump groundwater if groundwater's been contaminated, remove surface water. again, you know, they're doing a massive recovery effort from the tsunami. so there's probably debris laying around. so it is going to be a huge, huge, hu...