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It's really hard to get your head around. you know, when it first happened, i observed it on television like everyone else. but standing on the ground, the fact that boats are facing straight up instead of being parallel to the ground, you know, there's a car on top of a house, and next door there's a house on top of a car. there's debris everywhere. you know, the life that we know and our surroundings the way we get used to them, those rules don't apply inside the disaster zone. i've spent the last year in one conflict or disaster zone after another. and it's been -- i've never seen anything ...

But standing on the ground, the fact that boats are facing straight up instead of being parallel to the ground, you know, there's a car on top of a house, and next door there's a house on top of a car. there's debris everywhere. you know, the life that we know and our surroundings the way we get used to them, those rules don't apply inside the disaster zone. i've spent the last year in one conflict or disaster zone after another. and it's been -- i've never seen anything even close to the scope of this thing. >> i know you grew up for part of your early life in japan. you know that culture wel...

Their response and sort of closed ranks about it. you know, and tried to analyze on its own without listening to others and taking other kind of, you know, considerations into effect and so i think it's still to be determined frankly and today they claim to be making progress on the plant, not just through the electricity but a seven-hour, you know, continuous water cannon being shot at the devastated plant. they said that they have been able to stabilize it somewhat. >> all right. stoicism, strength, resiliency, all those things identified with the japanese culture. do you think there's any c...

Tragedy because everybody -- i look at the pictures in japan and i think what every israeli thinks and i think what every person in the world thinks -- this could be us. thousands, tens of thousands of people lost their lives. hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, perhaps tens of millions living under a cloud. and i think -- first of all, i think about the fortitude of the people of japan and their suffering. their stoicism. and i admire that. at the same time, i think of their great agony and anxiety. you know, there's a difference between natural disasters and what we see today. you have ...

Millions living under a cloud. and i think -- first of all, i think about the fortitude of the people of japan and their suffering. their stoicism. and i admire that. at the same time, i think of their great agony and anxiety. you know, there's a difference between natural disasters and what we see today. you have an earthquake that passes, this is different, this is a confluence of a natural disaster and a manmade disaster. and the clouds of radioactivity, the uncertainty of what will happen with it is the cloud that hangs over the people of japan, and i think right now hangs over the world. ...