Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110312:13:37:00
Of the swirling water sucking boats into its center. reports of at least one vessel missing with 100 people aboard. the tsunami hit with incredible force. the sludge sweeping away everything in its path. this wall of water and mud, some 30 feet high, washed across the low-lying coastal areas. entire towns swept away. thick and brown, strewn with debris. fast-moving, farmlands quickly disappeared. entire major roads, bridges and homes gone in a matter of minutes. the airport at sendai was completely destroyed. workers and others scrambled on to rooftops trying to stay above the mud. a huge fire...