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You take a look at the pictures that came out of tokyo there is a lot of debris falling. people are arounding around streets wondering what do i do? still chaotic situation. they felt it. and we saw, you know fires and smoke, things that happened there in tokyo after this happened but the worst, again just looking at the fields of debris just everywhere you take a look. and a lot of the people that were stranded, you know? maybe upper floors of the homes are building, still in need of rescue. >> the situation with the nuclear power plants, japan declared a state of emergency because of higher ...

Of explosions leaving homes and businesses ablaze. and mass transit in down. some some places, trains detrailed. with daybreak here, the search for dead and injured of the disaster is just beginning. not to mention the cleanup which will likely take months if not years. >> as i mentioned, the shaking continues throughout the region. but in the capital of tokyo, at least this morning, there was a sense of normalcy with businesses, many businesses remaining open and many of the transportation systems remaining open. i do want to update you on the nuclear power reactor because the prime minister ...

Development at that nuclear power plant which has had a problem with one of the reactors not cooling properly, not closing down. they are now saying the radiation level around the plant is 1,000 times higher than normal. we've also heard from the japanese prime minister that the evacuation area is now being extended from three kilometers or two miles all the way out to ten kilometers which is now six miles, so what does this all actually mean? a disaster management expert here at the university of georgia is still with us. we hear the radiation levels, radioactivity levels 1,000 times more tha...

A quarter to 3:00 in the afternoon on friday. the quake is nearly 8,000 times stronger than the one which devastated new zealand weeks ago. hundreds of aftershocks across japan have followed. so did a towering tsunami. with walls of water as high as 30 feet. four complete trains are now missing along the coast, train services are now suspended across much of the nation, stranding millions of commuters in the japanese capital. a ship carrying 100 people was swept away. thousands of homes are destroyed. even an airport is under water. hundreds are reported dead. hundreds even thousands missing. ...

Ar area, we have reports coming to us from one of the news agencies that there could be a very high radiation level surrounding that nuclear power plant. do you know anything more about that? >> reporter: from what we've heard, the big issue, and this is what -- what's being reported in the local press here, is that it's a power issue and that there's been trouble trying to keep the fis suh res and reactors cool enough. we know that as we're heading up there, we're starting to see glimmers of that, but we can definitely say that the infrastructure is certainly going to be a challenge and so tr...