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two powerful new tremors measuring higher than a magnitude of 6 struck within the last hour alone, after the 8.9 monster quake hit japan friday afternoon unleashing a huge tsunami. japanese media reporting that the death toll could be higher than 1,000. hundreds of people may be missing. some may be trapped alive or buried in homes that were simply washed away. the tsunami sent water rushing sever six miles inland. one area of deep concern right now. japanese authorities are trying to cool down the temperature inside a nuclear power plant rattled by the quake. president obama says th...

they have an obligation to do what they can to prevent a repeat of something like what occurred in the balkans in the '90s, what ocured in rwanda, and maintaining the surveillance there is for us to have some sort of alert system if you start to see defenseless civilians who were being massacred by gadhafi's forces. but obviously, we are going to have to look at what develops on the ground on a case-by-case basis. i don't want to generalize right now and say that's what is happening and we are prepared to step in. it is going to require some judgment calls, and those are difficult on...

then this. a massive wall of water. devastating tsunami. it swept ashore along japan's northeastern coast. surging well inland. sweeping away cars, boats, homes. almost anything in its path. hundreds of people are dead with no way to know just how high that death toll will rise. we will bring that back to you. that's the situation developing right now. we have a situation at a japanese nuclear plant, trying to cool down a reactor. the plant is called the fukishima plant. it suffered a quake-related problem with its cooling system. joining us is a professor of disaster management at t...

Think these things, you're getting reinforced by people who have the title of governor or something like that, who keep saying that? >> i mean, he's feeding to the base. the truth of the matter is -- and i think you did a poll not too long ago, republican primary poll -- >> ballpark of four in ten primary voters think that -- >> doesn't think that he's an american. they're playing to the base. it gets pretty ugly, but they're playing to the base. look, if you're going to run for president and win a republican primary, go through time republican primarieses and caucuses in states like south car...

Point, john. that's one of the reasons to be supportive. it's one thing to support the people. it's one thing to put as much pressure as you can on libya. but if the united states starts intervening, in order to do regime change, it is going to unsettle the other countries. it would be nice if we could say it doesn't matter. but it does matter. if saudi arabia doesn't cooperate with us on the pumping of oil around the world. that makes a big difference to america's prosperity and to liberty and democracy. these are balancing objectives here. libya is different. the regime is trying to stay in ...