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Get to as many towns and villages all throughout northeastern japan we've been able to. we have teams scattered throughout the region. we were in one small village yesterday. and i want to show you what we saw in an area that used to be rice fields. take a look. there's still so many places that need to be searched. there's no telling what lies beneath the acres of debris. we arrived late mondays, the military had not yet searched here. when you see a debris field like this, you almost have to refocus your eyes, none of it makes sense 37 sense. it takes a while to adjust to what you're seeing....

Causes of radiation exposure at that time. >> so we are certainly watching the forecast. we're checking in with our meteorologists often. phillip white, nuclear expert from the citizens for nuclear information center, he's joining us from tokyo. thank you so much, mr. white. the story out of japan is about people, people whose lives have been completely turned upside down and wondering what is next. hour kyung lah is long the ground in sendai, a city completely devastated by the kuhn. what have you been able to gather so far. >> reporter: we've been primarily spending our day natalie in this...

She could get her daughter, hearing the glasses clanking in the background, but eventually they were evacuated from that lounge. also have a couple of images from the water, overwhelming water when the tsunami struck, overwhelming everything in its way. take a look at this. walls of water, there you go, walls of water up to 30 feet high. the waves were sweeping into that building, tearing that building apart and chewing through it and knock the boats around like they weigh absolutely nothing, getting sloshed around. those waves sloshed across rice fields and over highways. they toss cars aroun...

We've got big i for you today, the big idea. everybody has ideas right now about how to get us off of oil. how can we get off this stuff that's causing so many problems in the gulf right now? we've got a big idea for you today. the big i has to do with fueling your car with algae. you heard me right. alg algae. it's called green crude. let's turn around and show you how this would work. starting on the far left, what you're seeing there is essentially analogy farm. now, it's fueled, if you will, by the sun, and also from factory emissions. so you have essentially these big fields, kind of like...

Well talk more long-term with odierno coming up in the next hour. your long-term on the weather front when you are looking not only at the volcanic ash but also our severe weather. >> that ash deal has been a longer term event than we were hoping for. so that's the deal with this. we have got a couple of cool pictures i'm going to show you. nasa aqua satellite, this is high res. these are the northern glacier and ice fields of iceland, the southern part of the country, very lush, very green. that's where the volcano is erupting. you can see the north to south trajectory of the plume itself and...