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Lost their cooling functions in the aftermath of an active earthquake and tsunami. meanwhile, massive vacs are underway for a 12 mile radius around those nuclear plants. more than 200,000 residents have been forced to leave their homes. one japanese official says nine people have already tested positive for high radiation levels on their skin and clothing. the number of dead continues to climb. officials say at least 1,200 people now have died. however, that number is expected to rise and potentially dramatically. we are getting new and dramatic images this morning from one of the hardest hi...

Remind you just where the hardest hit cities and towns are in japan. we heard from sendai. she is slowly traveling from tokyo. closer still to the epicenter, kesennuma, where we have yet to see the scenes of devastation there. also fukushima is the location of two nuclear power plants, one of them having leaked radiation material into the air. ivan cabrera is at the international weather center with the very latest from there for you. ivan. >> indeed. since we last spoke, we're up to 180 after shocks here and they continue to rock nerves and

Devastating situation. so we're watching what's going on there. we thought it was contained. it's not. to recap, folks, the situation in japan, the island was rocked by a quake measuring 8.9. it's the fifth biggest quake in the 1900s. we just got this tape showing pedestrians on the street of sendai dodging chunks of concrete. this is one of the hardest hit cities in japan. japanese officials saying that hundreds are believed dead there and that number is expected to rise. the quake produced a 30-foot-high wall of water that crashed over 1,300 miles of japan's coastline and set off alerts worl...

For. people are able to hold on to the mortgage long enough for the market to come back. those are the ones that are going to be okay. for instance, home prices in california. one of the state's hardest hit by the crisis, rose dramatically last quarter. thanks to state credits, state tax credits, i should say, on top of federal credits. home prices in florida, though, and arizona, still haven't bottomed out. it will take a while for this to all sort out. so under water mortgages and therefore extension foreclosures, are gointo be a problem going forward. you can see it already in the four hard...

So you understand. realty track. markets foreclosed homes. they say the reason behind this has changed. this is what's so interesting. previously it was -- toxic mortgages. so many people out there gotten the mortgages and couldn't pay even if they had a job. well, now, there has been a really important shift. more of the foreclosures that exist now are due to unemployment. and what they are -- seeing here, when they look at the surveys, in the places higher unemployment, foreclosures, and the highest numbers of foreclosures are aware of where and more people are having the experience of unemp...