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Contessa brewer. >> nuclear fears, japanese authorities scrambling to avert a full scale nuclear meltdown and one senator calling for a temporary halt to new nuclear plants in the united states. plus, could it happen here? with the horrific ipages coming out of japan, could the site of the next big quake actually be in the united states? and how prepared are we? we'll take you to a japanese village that was literally wiped off the map. thomas just gave you a quick preview of that. we're taking you to the ground. the population 17,000 people and today only 7,000 people are accounted for. comp...

Inflatable boats, jackhammers, things like that all the things they're going to need to go into these areas and extract victims from the rubble of the quake. it's been a long haul from washington, d.c. area for this team, we stopped in l.a. to pick up the l.a. county search and rescue team and headed to anchorage, alaska and landed here, in a bit of a holding pattern, waiting for orders to deploy into the quake zone. these guys are eager to get started. what they'll do, as soon as we get to the quake zone is set up a base camp and some of the team will be out just doing recon and already getti...

Areas of the quake zone. the u.s. is just one of 49 countries now offering relief to japan. britain, canada, australia, china, and france. thailand has also offered financial aid. the first wave of aid from the u.s. did arrive on saturday. more equipment and search and rescue crews from virginia and california are expected to arrive today. china is also preparing to send equipment, military personal nell and medicine. red crossed placed $150,000 and britain and australia are sending search and rescue teams as well. andrew, weather is playing a big role in the search and rescue effort in ja...

Me. our house was swept away. >> translator: i'm looking for my son's wife. i have no idea which shelter she is in. >> translator: my son might have been engulfed by the tsunami. i hope he's taken shelter somewhere. i'm struggling to locate him. >> with communications the way they are in the quake zone, it is going to be a long and difficult task. meanwhile, japan's meteorological agency said today the worst still may not be over. there's a good chance of another significant aftershock, magnitude 7.0 or even higher could happen within the next three days or so, randi. riveting, compellinging p...

Kamaishi city. >> those two reports from two towns in the northern region of japan, they are just two towns. a lot of towns like this haven't been properly got to yet by the rescuers, so we just don't know. but we can assume that the devastation we've seen in those two reports is going to be repeated and repeated. the outlook looks incredibly bad for so many towns along that area. that is going to be a story that's going to be revealing i guess for a better word, over the next few days. there's also another challenge for the survivors as well. they went through a tsunami. went through an earth...