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Remind you just where the hardest hit cities and towns are in japan. we heard from sendai. she is slowly traveling from tokyo. closer still to the epicenter, kesennuma, where we have yet to see the scenes of devastation there. also fukushima is the location of two nuclear power plants, one of them having leaked radiation material into the air. ivan cabrera is at the international weather center with the very latest from there for you. ivan. >> indeed. since we last spoke, we're up to 180 after shocks here and they continue to rock nerves and

>> reporter: nbc crews left northeast japan. when they arrived in tokyo, they were scanned with a geiger counter. everything was okay except their shoes. >> that's a bad thing. >> reporter: it was a bad thing, but to put it in perspective, very, very minute levels of radioactive material. >> reporter: but from this perspective, it's hard to imagine only minute levels of ratiq%=9 emanating from the crippled fukushima plant. you can see smoke billowing from reactor three here. and satellite images show damage to four of the six reactors. tokyo electric power officials say when fuel rods are exp...

Radioactive steam burst from another. it prompted remaining workers to be yanked and more residents to flee the area. >> if the fuel rods are exposed the radiation material inside the container could seep out. >> it's also causing the people of tokyo 140 miles away to get very nervous. >> this is tokyo and normally the sidewalk would be packed with people but fears over possible nuclear catastrophe are keeping a lot of people off the streets. >> snarled with traffic looked like a sunday. warnings by the government to stay inside due to radiation risks are being heeded. "i am worried about my h...

Accident that's less although i would say more significant than three mile island. you've had a slow bleeding of radiation into the environment and that's being picked up in various parts of japan. and you have a risk that something worse could happen and we saw a preview of that. the international atomic energy agency reported yesterday based on japanese information there was a fire in the spent fuel ponds at unit 4. there you can have radiation material directly into the atmosphere. there's also been a worry that if they don't cool the reactor that you could have a meltdown. there's been a p...