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We want to take a moment to remind you where the hardest hit cities and towns are in japan. take a look at this map. as we've mentioned sepd is close to the quake's epicenter. closer still is kesennuma but we've yet to seen the scenes of devastation from there. also worth noting here is fukushima, that's where those nuclear power plants have been damaged and then there's the tourist town of minami sanriku first hit by the sheer power of the tsunami waves. it sits about eight kilometers from the quake's epicenter or at least it did and now there's not much left. gary tuchman gives us a look. >>...

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Be more of an onshore component. a northerly or north apparently component if that stays true. 25, 30 mile per hour winds could be pushed toward the onshore area. not only cold, but perhaps snow showers and radioactive materials could be placed or pushed somewhere where you don't want to see them. >> i can't believe they are going to get snow there. wow. all right. thank you, we'll check back with you later on. next, we'll take you on a tour of one of japan's hardest hit cities. more than half of the 18,000 people who live there are missing. and a massive search and rescue effort is under way ...

We'll have an update in the next hour. >> thanks for staying on top of this. we want to take a moment now to remain you where the hardest hit cities and towns are in japan. want to bring up this map for you. we've heard from correspondents in sendai. you can see how close that is to the quake's epicenter. closer still to the epicenter, kesennuma, we've yet to see seasons of depth devastation there. fukushima, talking about that a lot. that, of course, where two power plants have been damaged, one of them having leaks radio active material into the air. that gives you an idea where things, th...

Welcome back, everybody. we are getting new, dramatic images from one of the hardest hit cities in japan. the city of sendai is completely unrecognizable after the tsunami obliterated cars, homes and everything in its path and as survivors try to comprehend damage around them, they are searching for missing loved ones. nbc's ian williams has more from sendai. >> reporter: it remains difficult to reach the worst affected areas so we traveled as far north as the helicopter could take us. then a further two-hour drive brought us to sendai, the closest to the epicenter of friday's huge quake. the ...