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Although people were much more panicky about the day-to-day issues about food and water and just being cold and blankets and how to get through to the next day than anying in terms of the nuclear issue, something that was out of their control and they were going to wait to hear what would happen. >> gary, where you are, are people focused on the nuclear issue at all? >> that's interesting, anderson. i was just talking to an elderly couple here. they just found out yesterday their daughter was alive after three days. they're very happy about that, but they said the biggest thing on their mind r...

And this could be their future. >> there's an internet cafe not far from here, 24 hours, as we were walking through there yesterday, you could see people on the way up to the internet cafe, all gathered on the television set watching clearly while they were showing the various reactors. a group of people just sitting there hour after hour, being updated. so clearly very concerned. there was no sense of panic in the room. people weren't shouting, they were just sitting very calmly trying to take in the information that was coming out at that point. >> gary, in terms of, there was a french offic...

Country. >> so you dial a phone. >> a phone number. >> and that connects you to another country that's working. >> correct. and then you just get connected. >> it's slow it's slow. >> it's very slow. >> but it does what you need to work. >> the same thing happened with the blackout in the fall of 2003. cell phones were tough to work and if you had a cordless phone it didn't work but the old analogue phone with the cord, the best thing you could get. >> don't get rid of your landline. >> i don't even know my home phone number. i have it for security -- for the alarm -- >> that's it. >> so besid...

Is on private land or in buildings, such as schools, which need to start functioning again and landowners in order to get their businesses started again need access to their property. >> reporter: the government says it's still working on a plan for resettlement of the armies of homeless. this property owner can only watch as the camp on his soccer field becomes more and more permanent. you have a barbershop here. >> oh, my god. this is only have of it. there is a barbershop, beauty parlor, internet cafe. i swear to god. >> reporter: it may be a long time before he gets his land back. >> that'...

Do you know what you guys have done? then we went on twitter and it's like things were just -- for like three days we were just dazed. >> 50 makmende mentions per second on twitter. >> reporter: and it's not just the videos. there is the cleverly fake "gq," "esqui "esquire" and "time" magazine. and the joke, makmende doesn't cheat death, he is fair and square. kenya is more wired than you might think. the state-of-the-art fiber optic link just arrived. the internet cafe is always packed. the makmende craze is old school. early '90s term used to describe a kid who is acting like a super hero. i...