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>> i think we may have lost kyung. can you hear me. this is wolf here in washington. i think, john, we lost her >> i think we've lost her. >> she's had a very difficult day. she's been on the road for hours now as she left tokyo hours ago, guessing seven, eight hours ago. she's been struggling with horrendous traffic on all the major highways heading north towards the epicenter, towards this area. we're looking at live pictures security sieve our affiliate nhk and you can see the waves just ripping apart this area. i don't know if you're back with us yet. are you back there yet? can you hear m...

Yet, and what -- what we want to make clear that we're on back roads. we're not on the main highway so, you know, from what we can tell, it appears to be relatively calm. >> and tell our viewers, if they don't know, why you're on the back roads as opposed to the main highway. these are, by the way, showing pictures from our other affiliate in japan, flames still continuing as a result of this earthquake. this is a devastation we haven't seen in a long time but go ahead, kyung. >> the reason why we're on the back roads is because the highways are shut down for primary traffic. the reason why th...

We actually just experienced an aftershock where we were traveling relatively slowly in our car, and our car has a sensor, and it warned us that we were experiencing an earthquake, so these aftershocks are still coming. they are coming one after the other, and while they are not, you know, very alarming where we feel something significant while we're moving in a car, certainly as we're getting a little bit closer, you know, you do feel the aftershocks a bit more forcefully. >> kyung, stand by. we'll be touching base with you and checking in with you frequently because we know you're heading in...

To the rail people, any sort of collision involving the japanese bullet trains. there have been accidents with some of the local rail lines but not with the bullet trains, and so to see these magnificent vessels really for this country stop on the rail lines, this really does tell stop on the rail lines, it really tells you there's something very serious going on in the country. we're still about 130 miles southwest of where the tsunami struck the coastline. as we head north, we're expecting to see much more devastation towards the area. we wanted to stop and give you a look at that. >> and ky...

Town, 140 miles away from the hardest hit area, and we're already starting to see the effects. we have not seen any damage yet, but as we get closer and closer, we're anticipating that we're going to start seeing some. there isn't that much traffic heeding up to this region anymore, and as we've experienced, communications is extraordinarily difficult out of this area as well, so, you know, we're certainly at least from our viewpoint, we're going to start to understand the challenges that some of the rescuers are going to be facing as they reach this area. >> i know you're driving towards the ...