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Potentially moving toward a chernobyl-like number seven, are there really answers? do they have the answers, ed? and, clearly, so far it's been no. >> it must be. and i'm just speculating here, and you help us out with this, it must be really hard to get good, confirmed information on the ground, because everything seems so chaotic and so much is in disara ray and there's been such tremendous devastation. speak to that, chris, that it is hard to get a grip on what exactly is happening at the hour, isn't it? >> yeah, and let me put it to you in the most human terms that i possibly can, because ...

Quake and tsunami, millions of stories. money is one measure. financial experts say this could be the most expensive quake in history, as much as $100 billion. but in human terms, cnn's anna coren says it costs some people everything. >> reporter: we've just arrived on the outskirts of the town about an hour north of sendai with the japanese military and they are going through this neighborhood to see if they can find any survivors. but it quickly became apparent this wasn't a search and rescue operation. they were here to recover bod s bodies. this neighborhood just 500 meters from the coast ...

>> eric: finally, a geological shift on the earthquake at 8 feet in japan. they say the earth's axis was moved 3.9-inchs or so and the earth's rotation set up 1.6 micro seconds. that sounds frightening. the reality is that the result of this. >> well, in reality, it is not going to affect anything in human terms. those numbers are very, very small. obviously, because the earth is a very large place. and so, these tiny shifts can be calculated scientifically, but they're not in themselves going to create any effects. >> eric: we're thankful for that. don blakeman, our sympathy and heart goes ou...

>> congress can do better in terms of replacing obama care with commonsense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance and expand access for more americans. >> nbc's kelly o'donnell is on capitol hill. good afternoon. >> reporter: hi, alex. this is the ultimate argument left over from the campaign season from 2010. it is a centerpiece for democrats and republicans. democrats have sprung out in a new way, something they did not do during the campaign to fiercely defend the law and to describe it in very human terms talking about specific benefits and individuals in their district...

Into a world government. >> sean: strong viewed democracy as an obstacle. he argued that our concepts of ballot box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions, particularly in terms of safeguardsing the global environment using a global warming platform strong tried to force nations to give up their sovereignty. he went on to propose a global tax on the use of oceans, atmosphere and outer space. >> problem is, if you really take global warming as something that you have to stop right now, that gives you entree to every aspect of the pe...