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Rally. but elsewhere in the country, a tense situation after deadly riots, the entire syrian cabinet is expected to resign, perhaps as soon as a few hours from now. just moments ago in japan another earthquake has struck, a 6.4 in the miyagi area. all of this is happening while japanese officials say the situation at the nuclear power station is very grave this morning. plutonium discovered in the soil around the plant. further evidence that the reactors at the facility have been severely damaged. another problem, radioactive pools of water. they've got to be pumped out of the plant before e...

Those fires. we're just waiting to hear more information, get more information. >> if we can go back to the video of the folks on top of the building. you know, it gives you a little bit of perspective, because you see the dozens of cars that are littered all around the area. can you tell us the kind of -- how populated that area is? how many people we're talking here? >> well, the building you saw, that was terminal of the airport in the miyagi prefecture. it's not a major hub per se. i don't believe there are many international flights into that airport. and the number of flights from that a...

And you know, we all too often see people respond to a tsunami warning by going down to the beach to see it. and i just hope that people are not that stupid. >> you know, we saw -- yeah. we saw the exact same thing, we got video from beaches in hawaii, watching people, after the chile quake where we didn't actually see a tsunami, but we saw folks down there when there was a specific warning for folks to move to higher ground and we saw people out there just trying to get a look at what may have happened. and obviously as you are warning, that is not the smart thing to do. >> i got to go to chi...

Tapes off the desk. and we were told to evacuate the building. we walked down 27 flights of stairs. and all of us. and everyone in the building were outside sort of in a daze. because of what just happened. and then we saw the pictures of the tsunami that you mentioned. in miyagi which is two and a half hours north of here. >> to give people an idea, you're talking right now of miyagi area, and that's the video that folks are looking at right now. and i'm hoping that you have a screen that you can look at as well. this is about two hours north of you. nearby where this magnitude 8.9 quake stru...

Know from other earthquakes, especially the one in new zealand, one of the things that really hampered rescue efforts was aftershocks. and we already know 30 minutes after the initial quake, that a magnitude 7.4 quake struck. that was 30 minutes later. what kind of risk are we seeing of that now? >> whenever we see an earthquake of this magnitude, you know, and in the upper crust, basically which is what's happening, this is exactly the type of behavior we're going to expect from the earth's crust. we're going to have aftershocks. we're going to see large aftershocks associated with this event...