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This is gary tuchman in the earthquake zone, in japan. dozens of countries are offering to help japan. take a look at the map. the countries in gold have either already sent crews and supplies, or have announced that they intend to offer assistance. even the poor southern afghan city of kandahar announced it is donating $50,000 to what it calls its brothers and sisters in japan. one of the first u.s. search teams are now on the ground in japan. and cnn's brian todd is embedded with them. he was able to send this report before the team headed to the areas where we might not be able to make ...

His roof, he went back to his house to get belongings and, the tsunami hit and, his wife, apparently remains missing and in addition to military help the u.s. is providing civilian humanitarian aid, two urban search and rescue teams, one from virginia and the other from los angeles arrived in japan and are awaiting deployment to the quake zone, among rescue teams, sent from ten different countries, to japan. the american red cross also accepting donations, go to foxnews.com if you want more information how to contribute to them. the red cross basically serving an assistance role to the japanes...

Sea cling to go his roof. he had run back to his house to retrieve belongings when the tsunami hit. upon his rescue by a japanese navy ship he broke down and cried. his wife remains missing. in addition to military help the u.s. is providing humanitarian aid. the red cross, two search and rescue teams have arrived in japan and are awaiting deployment in the next couple of hours to the quake zone. they are among rescue teams sent from ten different countries. speaking on cnn, japanese's ambassador expressed his gratitude for all the help. >> not only the government, a lot of international organ...

Also the south, those are areas where there could be problems, correct? people may not realize they are living in an earthquake area. >> we think of california as earthquake country, but earthquakes are a national hazard. part of it is that we think about recent events and not events that are several hundred years old. before the earthquake that struck haiti it was several hundred years before port-au-prince since the last time port-au-prince was destroyed in an earthquake. just because earthquakes don't happen often doesn't mean the consequences are not severe. we are coming up on the by cent...

Involving the nuclear power plants? >> reporter: well, as we were talking about yesterday we have made our way to the west up through a couple different mountain passes. we are now in namagata which is to the west of the quake zone and tsunami zone. it's the only thing that's being talked about on the radio. there is a lot of concern and fear. i have to be careful. the government is still insisting that they have it under control, they have a controlled cool-down that is in what they call safe levels but they say employees that were working at the plant have been exposed to levels of radiation...