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Getting information out from there due to the loss of communications and the electricity as well. the government estimates of the death toll just a fraction of what organizations like the philippine red cross have put out as of saturday night. more than 1,000 people estimated to have become victims of this storm. and, of course, this hitting close to an area where there was a deadly earthquake a month ago that killed scores of people. in that area the locals there who had been so heavily affected by the earthquake perhaps were spared some of the worst damage from this super typhoon because aut...

9.0 earthquake, unleashing a tsunami with waves 13 stories high, swallowing entire towns hole. 15,000 dead, a second disaster was just brewing. >> the powerful earthquake that has hit japan. >> reporter: i was in tokyo when the earthquake struck. my team and i drove north towards the tsunami zone and past the fukushima daiichi plant. we would wchbs the hydrogen explosions and later learn it was the visible sign of a triple meltdown, the disaster rained invisible and dangerous radiation across fuk fuk's neighborhoods. towns turned into empty shells. 160,000 people fled, children and pregnant wo...

And -- [ inaudible ] in numbers that the last few months have really been intense for us. >> all right, anna, we thank you very much for joining us this. and that lindenfors the philippines country director for save the children in manila. now next march marks the third anniversary of japan's fukushima nuclear plant disaster. in the coming day, tokyo electric power company or tepco as it is known says it will begin moving spent fuel rods to a more stable location. but many people's lives, well, they'll never be the same. cnn's kyung lah looks back at her days in japan. >> reporter: march 201...

Hotter moments yesterday. marcia blackburn challenging sebelius on who should decide which insurance plans are best for you whether or not you should keep the plan you're on auto everybody was told they have the option. she is vice-chair of the house energy and commerce committee. ing congresswoman is in nashville for halloween and seeing grandkids. good to have you with us. >> thank you. martha: let me ask you this, were you, when you asked those questions, you know, who is responsible and, we heard several times kathleen sebelius say, i don't know, i can't answer that. i will get back to you...

Paid to train the police force, train the military, and some of these people have ideas that are a little bit extreme. it's mardi gras, march 2011, in mobile, alabama. 100,000 people line the avenues to see the floats and the parade. for the local police, it's a big event. >> we have more going on today than we will any other day of the year. >> but even in small american cities, 9/11 has changed the way police operate, think, and who's training them. the cops know how to handle mardi gras. but they don't know much about terrorism. so the mobile police department is bringing in an expert from ...