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Laden was giving instructions or plans for the next phase of al qaeda's operation. it's possible it was a tape made some time ago in anticipation of the possibility he would be killed. it's clearly significant as is the al qaeda web site announcement that bin laden is dead. that's helpful in laying to rest some how he's not dead. bill: the audiotape when it comes out will be pored over by the intelligence communities to look for clues. sometimes there are messages that could trigger the next attack. >> together with the information on the hard drives and the computers, this could be a major br...

Jon. jon: jenna, we have long known that usama bin laden liked to use airplanes in his terror plots, he did so successfully unfortunately on 9/11 but there were indications from what was found in his compound that his next attack would involve trains in the united states. go to our "happening now" show page, if you scroll to the bottom of the page here, you'll see this train picture, and we've got an interactive map of the train lines around the country that carry passengers. check out your part of the country. how safe are you, is there the possibility that al-qaeda could yet pull off an atta...

Outwardly about it. they were trying to carry on life as normal, knowing it wasn't normal. >> yeah. especially, i think i felt that the next day, the day after, i think the electricity was back and the day after the disaster, at least in the tokyo area, the train system was back up. so i think people went to work. all of the stores were open. i think we were trying to, you know, kind of go back to the routine to kind of make sure that, you know, things were happening normally but i guess underneath people felt the shock. >> you got to do what you got to do. thank you for joining us today. we a...

Again. it's been -- we are very, very dependent on our train system. so it's been very crowded in the streets. outside my apartment, there has been traffic going all day, like almost -- traffic has been almost stopped, which is very unusual. normally it's empty. normally people are not using their cars. it seems people are a little afraid to use the trains. >> yes, i can fully understand that. now, the thing is, japan and tokyo obviously is as earthquake prone zone. anybody who visits tokyo will know that they have always run that risk of being hit by an earthquake. do you think this one, thou...

Family were on the train, next to the station, which comes out of tokyo and at 2:55 p.m., it suddenly stopped, and we knew there was a quake, right there. an, my first idea was, well, you know, this is fantastic, the japanese earthquake technology is at work. essentially, the train system -- if it feels the magnitude of the earthquake, it stops to prevent any derailing and that was good news and the bad news is we were stuck on the train two hours after that, no power and no bathroom and, we had to get down on the train tracks for a while to get to the station after that. and, after that, the ...