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Where were you and what happened? >> hi. i was fortunate enough to have just pulled into a station when the, you know, tremors first began. and it seemed like your -- average every day brief little tremor at first. but then it continued. and it began to shake the train more violently. i noticed, you know, fixtures around the station swaying. so while some people exited the train, i decided to stay on just because i was concerned about just falling objects. >> you felt safer unside that train. was it underground, the train that you were on? >> no. this was above ground. so, you know, there was ...

Because they are able to be found at this point. these were coastal trains. this train that you were on was than along the coast at all? was it in tokyo? where? >> no. this was in the center of tokyo. >> okay. center of tokyo. when you got off that train, what did you see? >> when i got off, the -- somewhere on the platform, there was definitely water leak with water trailing down to the other next platform. a lot of people just sort of -- hanging around and the -- in the -- i guess in the main floor, lobby. waiting for the trains to start again. >> really. waiting for the trains to start agai...

Japanese public broadcaster nhk is reporting at least 9500 people are unaccounted for in one port town. officially the death toll is at 574. powerful aftershocks con to shake that region. for survivors stranded in the hardest hit areas, help is on the way, though. today the first wave of 50,000 troops has begun arriving by boats and helicopters to those areas. an explosion at one of japan's nuclear power stations has destroyed a building that houses a reactor. there you see the explosion there on your screen. officials say that the radiation levels, though, have actually been decreasing. the t...