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We want to welcome our worldwide audience back to our special coverage of the disaster in japan. i m randi kaye. and i m becky anderson in london. thank you very much indeed for watching. it s 12:30 in the morning in japan. it s sunday there. the biggest concern this hour, an explosion at a nuclear power plant. aftershocks continue to rattle nerve s and the ground. the latest struck within the past couple of hour. several countries coming to the aid of japan. a search and rescue team from los angeles is among those emergency personnel headed there. more than 180 aftershocks recorded since the earthquake and tsunami struck japan s northeastern coast. at least 900 people dead. in one city alone 9500 people are missing, an unknown number are injured. highways in that part of japan are damaged. utility services are out for ....
International teams move out. it s not glamorous any more. it s not exciting. that s when the country s really going to need help because there s only so many earth moving machines in a country, only so many structural engineers in a country. the finances are going to be a huge drain because you ve got to start from scratch. they re going to have to decide do they even rebuild some of these communities. robert jensen joining us this afternoon. we thank you very much for joining us, sir. you re welcome, becky. and as we ve been saying and actually showing you, the northeastern city of sendai is one of the worst hit areas in japan. the picture there really one of utter and complete devastation. it is really the only way to put it. cnn reporters are on the ground. families are looking for their loved ones. they re looking for help. they re looking for gasoline, they re looking for something to eat. we are there. and we ll bring you the very latest. ....
Becky? stan grant also in tokyo. we re getting report of more aftershocks being felt off japan s eastern coast. can you verify that from where you are? are you feeling any tremors? yeah, a little bit. nothing that i would say would be startling, but you do feel agent bit of a shake under your feet occasionally and have been reports of these aftershocks. one was 5.8, i believe, may have been happening periodically throughout the day in intensity. but nothing that i would say startling as far as we can feel here in tokyo. a lot relies really on this unfolding nuclear emergency. you know, the attempts to try to cool the reactor, particularly, becky, a lot of focus on this explosion. this caused a lot of alarm earlier. an explosion, four people injured. we saw that there were plumes of smoke coming from the reactor. now it seems that that explosion ....
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Welcome to our viewers worldwide. i m becker anderson with randi kaye and our special coverage of the aftermath of the japanese earthquake and tsunami. the country is dealing with two natural disasters at the same time. and that is a huge challenge. robert jensen assists disaster recovery. he s an expert who has directed response efforts to numerous incidents from haiti to indonesia. and he joins us now from houston, texas. one of the major challenges as you see them at this point? becky, there s several challenges. really, there are three disasters they re facing. they have the natural disasters of the earthquake and the tsunami. they also have the nuclear emergency, which in and of itself would be a disaster. what they re facing right now is coordinating the right resources to do life saving activity, get food, staples to people who need them. rescue people who are at risk of dying. then start to come up with a ....