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To accept aid and assistance from other countries or are they open armed and sailing come help us? >> it is interesting. i've covered the '95 kobe quake here as well. the difference in attitude this time is striking. this time, not only are the people willing to accept aid from external sources, foreign government. but the government itself is. that did not happen in 1995 during the kobe quake. so, i take -- generally speaking both the people and the government are appreciative of all of the offers and assistance that is coming in from 69 countries. >> greta: the whole world is watching, obvio...

To accept aid and assistance from other countries or are they open armed and sailing come help us? >> it is interesting. i've covered the '95 kobe quake here as well. the difference in attitude this time is striking. this time, not only are the people willing to accept aid from external sources, foreign government. but the government itself is. that did not happen in 1995 during the kobe quake. so, i take -- generally speaking both the people and the government are appreciative of all of the offers and assistance that is coming in from 69 countries. >> greta: the whole world is watching, obvio...

1994 the disaster that was here in the kobe quake. the same thing, stiff upper lip and smile through it. all the information may not be right but we are not going to panic. they are not panicking of this i can report from great certainty. >> greta: maybe they don't see the pictures we see. has the earth calmed down? hait sppedivg tose tehos? >>herdno gta: at's n near a stopping point. as we were in the mind of -- in the middle of our sleep last night there was a.4 itanwh the energy is where you , it rocks and rolls. that's what the hotel did in the middle of the night, shaking, creeking making...

Inflatable boats, jackhammers, things like that all the things they're going to need to go into these areas and extract victims from the rubble of the quake. it's been a long haul from washington, d.c. area for this team, we stopped in l.a. to pick up the l.a. county search and rescue team and headed to anchorage, alaska and landed here, in a bit of a holding pattern, waiting for orders to deploy into the quake zone. these guys are eager to get started. what they'll do, as soon as we get to the quake zone is set up a base camp and some of the team will be out just doing recon and already getti...

Your family members, neighbors, and people in your community, to overcome this crisis. so that japan can be a better place. we can build together. this is the message i'd like to emphasize to the japanese people. >> rescue teams are searching for quake survivors in sendai, japan, that's the city closest to the quake epicenter. and as cnn's kyung law discovered, it's now a town in ruins. >> reporter: military helicopters continued the search for the living in the tsunami-ravaged city of sendai. in this one residence area called futaki, rescuers are still pulling the injured to safety. a silver ...