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Live pictures. look at this devastation and destruction. cars obviously from the tsunami, from the earthquake, destroyed. you can see the fires security sieve our affiliate pictures coming in right now. still going on 12, 14 hours after this earthquake struck an 8.9 magnitude earthquake. these are nhk pictures coming in as well. wow, these pictures are -- this devastation is still going on. john voss is here in "the situation room" with us. we're watching this, and as the sunlight is up now, clearly over all of japan, it's early saturday morning there. we can begin to appreciate the enormity o...

That americans both let's say in the field who do need help or families can get to, if you go on to the website for the state department, state.gov that will take you to a variety of different places. they're trying to help, literally there are thousands of americans. the good news so far, there have not been reports of americans killed or injured. >> yeah, jill, it's john here. we're obviously keeping a close track on who has been hurt or died in the tragedy, be they japanese or wherever they may have come from throughout the world. whenever there's been a disaster, be it china or turkey, the...

John voss is watching this with us as well. these are pictures, no matter how many times you've seen the pictures, you can't believe the power of the tsunami. >> absolutely, and the real danger is the water and when you look at what's happening. look at the water, all the debris, the houses, the cars. everything was just being swept away. if you get caught in that, emergency crews an rescuers say there is really very, very little hope for survival, and we saw that in places like banda aceh during the 2004 tsunami there, but obviously this is the end result of a 23-foot tsunami. >> yeah. >> com...

Pictures inside a japanese newsroom. i mean, imagine. total panic there. the biggest damage, begiagain, caused by the massive tsunami. at last count, the official, i want to emphasize official, the official death toll was 151. authorities in japan say it could climb to over 1,000. john? brooke, cnn's kyong lah is based in tokyo, she was on the subway when the earthquake hit. she filed a report now. she made her way to the most devastated part of the country. >> reporter: i'm in the back of our news van. we're trying to get to the northern area, the area that's been hard hit by the tsunami. b...

Trapped which make the whole place look like a large lake. but again, remind you, the elevation in the community as well as the size of the wave, so there may be to a point where they have to pump the water out much like we did in new orleans. >> general, it's john voss here with brooke. i'm curious, as we get into first light, what's the first order of business for the japanese rescue crews here and for the military? i think they just to have assess the damage. we hear military aircraft have been flying doing reconnaissance missions to work out how bad this is. what happens after that? >> wel...