of destruction that we re watching here. a once busy town silent. nbc s lee cowan arrived in the town three days after the tsunami. they call it the town that disappeared. all we could find was a shattered footprint at the end of a washed-out road. just it just doesn t stop. everywhere you look. cars swept along with the water and deposited wherever the wave saw fit. houses torn off their foundations, splintered into a million pieces. when it comes in, the power of the water as it hits things, it just knocks it apart. people think that with tsunamis you worry about drowning.
scrub them down with soap and water. in the days after the tsunami, mother nature actually helps matters. steady winds blow the radiation cloud out to sea. that cloud is going to thin out and dissipate quite a bit. the other situation that we really can see here is that the intense plume doesn t go very far from japan and that s why we re not concerned for anything being transported to the u.s. in any significant kind of quantity. by wednesday, march 16th, emergency efforts are in full force. a core team of emergency workers are rotating in and out of the complex to try to reduce their radiation exposure. a japanese official compares them to suicide fighters in a war. they are down to a skeleton crew of 50 very brave people who are taking great personal risks and who, frankly, the world is really counting on right now. what radiation sickness does
extracted from this car 20 hours after being washed away by the tsunami. throughout the chaos, people put their own lives at risk for the sake of others. two men use a fire hose to save this woman. as she tries to escape from the wall of water. she thanks them saying she thought she was about to die. in scenes reminiscent of hurricane katrina s aftermath, rescue teams mark cars that have been searched for survivors. we re working in combined team with the united states and with china. and the idea is to slowly progress through all the buildings, vehicles to make sure there s no persons missing in
literally at ground zero in the ring of fire, and because of that, they have felt the pain of devastating earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanos. this is the earth. we have these plates. so these are two plates and they re actually sliding into each other. this is called subduction. it slid underneath the other one. we have this ball of energy that goes to the surface of the water, then this tube forms. now, this tube isn t right here. it s actually a ripple. so it s stretching around the entire pacific. it lifts up to 30 feet, devastating, dissolving, destroying everything it touches. what you discover is that as this ripple effect, this series of waves moves inland, it has it s ferocious. imagine, if you would, a flank
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