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So it's going to be an issue to get help. to bet water, food to the areas. paula standby. christi has a question for you as well. >> we're looking at flooding pictures. the new pictures, 8:00 a.m. local time there on sunday. the area most affected by the tsunami waves. can you tell us more about sendai, the area? we know because of its proximity to the epicenter it was very much affected, was it also affected baa of the low lying terrain? >> reporter: certainly that will play into it. it's also one of the highly populated areas of that particular prefecture. probably a million people live in s...

Some live pictures. that was 12, 14 hours ago. these are live pictures security sieve our affiliate nhk in japan, and can you see the smoke still coming up. the fires, one of the by-products of this disaster from this earthquake, and the multipag, multiple aftershocks that occurred, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake. some of these aftershocks, john, have been in the range of 6.5, and under normal circumstances that would be a horrendous earthquake to begin with but the aftershocks, makes the situation much more worse. >> there was an aftershock measuring up to 7.0 and normally that would be consider...

Apparently advancing libyan forces. wolf? >> a lot of u.s. officials have suggested to me their fear that with much of the world now focused in on this earthquake and tsunami in japan, ben, gadhafi is simply going to unleash his military, his troops, and they're going to launch a major offensive to crush the rebels while much of the world is looking at another part of the world. is that the fear that the opposition forces have right now as well? >> reporter: that's one of the many fears they have. the international community is completely distracted. and this was an ideal opportunity for libya...

Have been destroyed. these are aerial shots. paula hancock is in japan. she's been watching the situation. it's now daylight in japan, paula, we can only appreciate the devastation more and more. what are you seeing and hearing there? >> reporter: as you say, it is 8:00 in the morning. the sun came up a couple of hours ago. it would have been the first chance to really see what kind of devastation there was. it's very difficult to tell you exactly how bad the devastation is. quite frankly we don't know yet. the prime minister is in the area. he's touring the area to find out how badly it's bee...

>> it is now some 18 hours since a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck off the coast of japan. it unleashed massive tsunami waves. waves as tall as 30 feet high sweeping through sendai. first aerial footage of what sendai looks like this morning. it is now past 8:30 a.m. local time. rescue crews are on their way there. tease are taped pictures of the sue naum me arriving and sweeping through the land. right now you're looking at what we're seeing this morning. you can see quite clearly it is just a watering so sogged area. water was one threat. and fire it was another. a refinery fire one town sen...