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Putting trust in their seawall. >> reporter: army aid convoys heading east over the central mountains into the quake zone this morning. several japanese have asked me what have we done to deserve an historically powerful earthquake. this vast tsunami damage and now the blizzards. with officials here now saying more than 4,000 people are confirmed dead we've come to the east coast to see how far search and rescue for bodies has gone in this vast area of damage. our drain just can't believe what he's seeing. he was last here on holiday several years ago. >> translator: the tsunami reached up the...

Is bad, snow in the quake zone and subfreezing temperatures well beyond the five day survival possibility so rescue teams, for example, the folks coming from the united states and other countries are now saying they are going home. they have finished. now it is a recovery effort, recovery of the bodies and there are, we believe, thousands of bodies out there and relief efforts for all the folks that have moved from the area interest the shelters and we are told that had to move from one shelter to the next, to the next, because the shelter conditions are not that great including a lack of elec...

Just announced in the past 12 hours or so, a call from the u.s. embassy here for all americans within a 50 mile radius of that complex to leave. japanese also nervous. we were in the center of tokyo today this is a bustling metropolis at rush hour it looked like it was sunday. few cars, few pedestrians. businesses and shops closed. run on gas and food in the stores. finally, overshadowed is the huge humanitarian challenge which still remains following the earthquake and tsunami last friday. in fact, the survival period right now is just about over. still, rescue and relief efforts go on. the u...

There were no choppers flying off of the uss ronald reagan, the aircraft carrier. cold and snowy. half a million people have been evacuated from the quake zone. but they are evacuated to shelters that have no electricity.:g7ji no power. no fuel. no water. no heat. you name it. they are going from one place to another. the death toll is rising. now another problem, what to do, how to handle the bodies as well as how to track down the missing. it is a desperate scene for sure. ironically, with all the attention paid to the nuclear crisis which of course is of world class -- world scale, the huma...

>> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly. sage of southern california closely following the japanese nuclear situation. he joins you now from los angeles. so, miller, how do you see it? you are in the quake zone out there. you have two nuke plants in california. it's going to happen. >> well, first off i have no doubt if this cloud is coming towards the west coast that the great state of california and their state legislature will jump into the fray and immediately pass a supplemental sin tax on iodine tablets. because that's the way we work it out here. i think that this has giv...