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Tokyo right now. are people there, i mean, presumably they have many people in tokyo, might have friends or family members in the areas that were struck by this earthquake. are they able to get in touch with their family and loved ones? >> reporter: well, it's very difficult to get in touch with anybody in the area, certainly, but over the past couple hours we actually found it difficult to phone out from here as well. i know there have been some difficulties in tokyo. so certainly the phone lines are a real issue, especially in those areas where people need to get help, need to inform the eme...

Damage. >> in fact, if you look at this picture, it looked like anymore mall day, but look at this picture in northern japan and the damage there is monumental. the known death toll in the hundreds. it is certain to clichmb. that was 8.9 magnitude and that is the strongest earthquake in more than 100 years. water has no business being here, ali. this is debris, cars, houses, just slammingk against the coast and going inland as far as several miles. >> one always wonders if you don't have experience with this how much damage can do, and we have seen example after example of this. this police in...

Highways and there is a massive aftershock, you have a disaster on top of a disaster, so that the authorities have shutdown all of the highways and raillines have been shutdown, and people cannot get in and out of the city quickly. we should point out that at 3:00 in the morning, normally tokyo's rails are not moving, but because they stopped moving at 2:40 or 2:50 in the afternoon, there is all of this backup of people who are still stuck in the city of tokyo trying to get home to the suburbs. we are seeing people hop on bicycles trying to get home or even head on foot home. i have heard peop...

If it was 300 miles into the earth, that's 300 miles of padding. we're almost 300 miles away. if it's only 6, 10, 12 miles deep, there's a lot of shaking going on. that's a violent rattling of that city. >> i'm just -- we're getting more information in, chad. kelly, go ahead with that. there are no tsunami alerts issued as a result of this, but two reactors are in the area of nagano and they continue to operate. everything is okay at this point with the two reactors in the nagano area. no tsunami alerts, although tsunamis are not just triggered by earthquakes. we're going to take a quick break...

News agency. >> about 4 1/2 hours from now. as christine was saying, the airport, narita is not closed for any reason that there's any damage there. they have congestion, they're trying to get flights out. equivalent of what you might know as a ground stop in the united states. they're not letting a lot of flights to take off to head to tokyo. there have been cancelations there. hundreds of tweets a minute. next, how japan's earthquake and tsunami are dominating social media sites today.