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Sendai before all this happened just a couple of days ago and these are the images afteren you just -- i mean, speak for themselves, don't they? we're going to try to speak to ivan cabrera now. because ivan, it's interesting there, we're hearing from martin that there is another tsunami warning, because there will be aftershocks. so how long is this going to go on for? >> they're probably going to have tsunami warnings here for quite some time as long as the aftershocks continue. now, we have to be clear there. we're not talking about the subsequent waves that come from the original tsunami th...

Warnings going out. there could be more tsunamis. sendai is still reeling from the force of that first tsunami. these pictures have collapsed and submerged houses. terrified people. they're telling the real story. okay so things have, of course, calmed down from that. this is a country that knows about earthquakes and tsunamis. it has got operations ready to go. contingency plans. but few armies, militaries can deal with this on their own and certainly japan is using military support from the united states, as we understand it. anna coren is just on the -- to the northeast of sendai in a town.

Anna, tell us what support the japanese are getting and what's around you? >> reporter: max, i can tell you that we're in ishinomaki, which is about several hours northeast of sendai. and this is just a scene of utter devastation. we are in farming land that there are suburbs within these areas and there are probably hundreds of homes in this particular neighborhood where we've been standing. we came through here with the military. the idea was it was to go on a search-and-rescue operation. that sadly it quickly turned into a recovery operation. they pulled out to -- a bodies pretty quickly. [...

Town just north of that area now. and that is what the rescue teams are going to have to contend with and that's where those dogs are going to be used, areas like that because you can't get under that rubble without support dogs and very specialist equipment. utter destruction, more than three kilometers from the ocean front and half of the residents are still missing. you can see there's no one there. cnn's paula hancocks was the first reporter there. here's her report. >> reporter: this is the town of minamisanriku. it's just north of sendai. and it's extremely badly hurt. we have heard loca...

Submerged and that he survived. >> anna, thank you so much for that. and just to give a sense of the nervousness still in japan, we're talking about a tsunami warning coming from officials in sendai. there is no official tsunami warning. we want to clarify. there is no advisory in that sense. there won't be another tsunami but there have been aftershocks. there is concern about more tsunamis. so one local officials hear about this, send some femhigher ground and everyone's rushing up to higher ground because so fearful of this happening again but just to clarify, a big destructive tsunami cert...