Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110311:22:08:00
We talk about the kobe earthquake which happened back in 1995, the repair bill for that, the damage, the economic losses back then, and it was a much smaller earthquake, it was estimated around 13 trillion yen which is about $140 billion u.s., and so the question now has to be asked, especially as we look at the damage here at first light of these live pictures from our affiliate nhk, we have to start asking not only the economic losses but, okay, more seriously, what will be the human toll in all of this. the death toll now standing at 188 people, but, of course, that will surely rise as the ...