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The risk is. i want to tell you, however, first of all, about some breaking news we're hearing from the state department that there is a large pocket of americans up in the sendai area. now, the sendai area was hard hit by the tsunami and the quake. it is north of this fukushima nuclear power complex. and so, now what's happening is 14 buses are now en route, according to the state department, to get this large pocket of americans that's been trying to get out ever since the tsunami and the quake. it's en route and it's supposed to be transporting these buses up to 600 americans that may be up...

What's happening to them? are they afraid to go in now because of the radiation? >> reporter: well, it is a big concern. every aid agency, every responding group has got to assess the risk for their workers. and what we're looking at on a map, if you can imagine this, the hardest hit area is in the north, and they are hard hit. we're talking about people who have no heat, who are in freezing temperatures because now the temperatures dropped and snow has arrived, are shivering at night. we're talking about elderly people shivering at night in whatever coats they have in evacuation centers. we'r...

Workers. and what we're looking at on a map, if you can imagine this, the hardest hit area is in the north, and they are hard hit. we're talking about people who have no heat, who are in freezing temperatures because now the temperatures dropped and snow has arrived, are shivering at night. we're talking about elderly people shivering at night in whatever coats 9/11 evacuation centers. we're talking about people not having enough food. we want to an evacuation center, chris where people were down to one ball of rice and water a day, and you know, we're talking, in that evacuation center, the p...

It is north of this fukushima nuclear power complex. and so, now what's happening is 14 buses are now en route, according to the state department, to get this large pocket of americans that's been trying to get out ever since the tsunami and the quake. it's en route and it's supposed to be transporting these buses up to 600 americans that may be up in that area. the problem is, these buses are now going to have to travel south past this nuclear complex to get to tokyo. so, there's going to be a lot of, obviously, concern about the winds, and certainly, this is going to be a very thought-out op...

Candidates for president but also flirting with the birther vote. does that mean he's actually running, the fact that he's doing that? we start with the nuclear crisis in japan. nbc's ann curry is joining us from akita, japan, northwest of the nuclear complex. ann, i love having you on the show, but what a terrible time. what's happening to our american compatriots in that country? >> reporter: well, there's a lot of fear, anger and distrust here, chris, especially because of the discrepancies now between the u.s. government and the japanese government on just what the risk is. i want to tel...