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Coming from that plant and also, number four plant at the fukushima complex, they have found one dead worker there also now. and there are concerns, particularly at that complex, but also, there are other nuclear plants in that area that have been shut down, uma. >> i want to remind viewers it's early morning there as they try to contain the situation there at the nuclear plants. what are the people staying in and around where you are, about the situation? are people genuinely alarmed that there could be a major fallout from this nuclear meltdown-- the possible nuclear meltdown after fallout f...

This is a fox news alert, the scale of the destruction in japan not yet known, but what is known is that it is indeed massive. adam housley has been making his way from tokyo to the hardest hit area and joining us from the city just north of toek. adam. >> reporter: yeah, uma, we're on the edge of the destruction. when you pass through the city anything to the north of here is flat in every direction. we 25 miles further north before we came back to this location to find power. and even small cities not affected by the earthquake and tsunami, there's no one there. no lights, power, no gas serv...

Missing or dead and that expected to fluctuate and go up as well. uma. >> reporter: and you say the roads are badly damaged there. have you seen any type of emergency response vehicles headed in the direction that you're taking right now? >> we've seen a couple, but not many. that's the one thing that surprises me. we saw some people actually from this city, which, again, three quarters of the city had power and a quarter-- in size maybe 100,000 people live here i'm guessing, driving around, that's what i figure. we saw people from here driving up to see the destruction and a couple of securit...

Meteorologist are suggesting that the wind has changed direction now. it is now pushing south toward tokyo . so if there is a problem in the's reactor, any plume will head toward the japanese capitol. >> that is a troubling situation. we are hearing about the after shocks that is 6.1 on thor scale. they are strong after shocks. >> there are earthquakes in their own right . that's why the tsunami alerts are issued now and it is very much in the same area. we are also hearing about the official death tollseems to be around 1700 now . we are getting reports from the state network that close to 10...

Million in dollars to the public infrastructure there and over a hundred boats that were damaged. 20 sank. we have our hands full with the clean up and assessment process right now. but the nice thing you can say about all of that. one injury and one potential death out of this where in the past 20 or 30 years ago, we would have had a major tsunami we may have had a higher death toll. >> you think because people are taking the warning seriously at a time when they knew that japan had been dealing with a serious earthquake and we were reporting about the facts that the tsunami was head in their...