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Struck. she joins us on the phone now. what is the situation like there, kyung? >> reporter: what tokyo is going through now, karen, several hours after the first quake struck, there is a big problem at least within the city of tokyo with infrastructure. the train lines are down. highways are cut off. and so it's extremely difficult to travel around this city. the problem is tokyo has 13 million people in it. a lot of people, like new york city, have to commute outside the immediate city center. what we have here are a lot of people just walking it out on foot. they have to go to the daycare c...

Nightmare, highways in the worst-hit areas, severely damaged. train service in japan, in around tokyo, suspended. those lines, the train lines, normally serve 10 million people on any given weekday and today, they are at a stand still. martha: checking in now on the american service members in harm's way in japan, we have -- understand that there is nobody hurt, thankfully in that regard. but we do have a significant presence there and one of the largest u.s. bases outside of the country is in southwest japan, the home of the navy's 7th threat fleet and a japanese foreign minister, the headlin...

Shaking went on? >> it was shocking. went on for an extended period of time. at least a minute, maybe two, and the experience was like trying to stand up on a skate board on a carnival ride. unlike anything i've ever experienced in my life. >> tokyo, this was a city of 13 million people. but they're fairly prepared for this. japan is used to, quite frankly, earthquakes no matter how strong. they are prepared. you said tokyo pretty much intact. >> yes. tokyo is in great shape. and i even heard some reports from people who were in skyscrapers downtown. and although there was definitely a little ...

System is still shut down. for precautionary reasons, they're checking for any damage to track. a lot of the train lines ultimately run coast to coast and as you talk to your guests in hawaii, it's not just the first wave you have to watch out for, it's the next wave. and they could continue. we just don't know until the meteorological agency feels safe to lift those warnings. >> these pictures we're looking at from the coastal areas almost defy belief. all right, thanks so much for all your reporting this morning. we'll check back in with you a little bit later on. we'll have much more on thi...

I should say. we don't know the answer but it took place inside the airport. not on board a plane or outside, but inside the airport. which is intriguing, nonetheless. russia's busiest airport, about a year ago, one of the main train lines that runs from moscow to st. petersburg, was blown off the tracks. and when you hear people like vladimir putin talk about challenging the chechen separatists and the rebels who launched many attacks upon the russian people over the years, this will be not only heavily investigated from the chechen standpoint, but, also, since we do not have the source of wh...