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So widely covered, be it on cell phone video or tv crews, this is providing valuable information for oceanographers and for scientists in actually understanding how tsunamis happen and their impact. now, many of these images have been very disturbing when we've seen the destruction and the damage and the devastation which is being caused, but this is really the first time, we're told, that a tsunami like this has been caught on video and recorded. providing valuable information. not much help for these people right now but it will help in future situations and in efforts trying to make future ...

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...

We talk about the kobe earthquake which happened back in 1995, the repair bill for that, the damage, the economic losses back then, and it was a much smaller earthquake, it was estimated around 13 trillion yen which is about $140 billion u.s., and so the question now has to be asked, especially as we look at the damage here at first light of these live pictures from our affiliate nhk, we have to start asking not only the economic losses but, okay, more seriously, what will be the human toll in all of this. the death toll now standing at 188 people, but, of course, that will surely rise as the ...

Thousands, you begin to appreciate the destruction of what has occurred. >> yes, we're getting a very, very clear picture of the devastation. as a result of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and the deadly tsunami that followed. let's remind the viewers that sendai, which is just 120 kilometers away from the epicenter of the quake was an agricultural community. if you look at the live pictures, the live aerial video coming in this morning, as we finally get a look at what the devastation looks like to us, it is water. you do not see fields. you do not see green areas. you see water, you see homes c...

Pictures thanks to our affiliate nhk in japan. i want to show our viewers some of these pictures. this shows the devastation, the destruction. john, look at that water surrounding all of those buildings there from the tsunami, the waves just came in and in and in. this is certainly the worst quake in japan's history, but the tsunami, we're only now as sun is beginning to go up over all of japan, just after 7:00 a.m. saturday morning, we're only now, john, beginning to seat enormity. >> it's very difficult to know looking at that footage, looking at those aerial images of where the coast begins...