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Of a 6.5 magnitude quake, believed to be an aftershock from march 11th quake and tsunami. also, we're hearing there's a tsunami warning in japan as well. this is in northeast, the northeastern part of japan, miyagi prefecture. we have correspondents there, of course, following the original news out of japan on march 11th. traveling in the region very near the epicenter of this last quake. we'll be joined in moments by our cnn correspondent in japan. rebel forces in libya are advancing on two key cities. moammar gadhafi's forces have retired from ras lanuf and brega. nato has okayed taking ov...

If it frproduced a tsunami, it would be very localized. the japanese meteorology agency issued the tsunami advisory and that type of advisory basically means they're expecting an increase in the water level about half a meter, that equates to about a foot and a half. this would not be a major tsunami, this would not be pacificwide, would not affect hawaii or the united states. so it would be mostly looking for the potential for damage. we also have an update for you in terms of timing for when the tsunami could happen. i think if this were to happened we would have heard about it by now, but s...

We're afraid gadhafi's people will give eman something to make her go crazy. now back to the crisis in japan. many of the people who survived the march 11th earthquake and tsunami are considered lucky, but we report that many of them don't feel that way. >> reporter: in the haunted shell that remains of takata hospital, under the broken beds, the i.v. bags filled with mud, nurse suzuki hears the screams of the lives she could not save. the patients couldn't walk, she says. i heard someone screaming, auntie, i can't save you. i'm sorry. i looked out and the wave was as high as a fourth floor ...

These kind of earthquakes pretty consistently since that magnitude 9.0 on march 11th, obviously in that particular area. it's been very hard hit, the tsunami devastation very clear. so every time they hear a tsunami alert, many people are likely to head to higher ground. in the space of just two hours in that particular area there were two alerts and people were making sure they got out of the way. many of these tsunami alerts, in fact, all of them, have come to nothing. let's hope that's exactly the case for this one as well. it's quite usual to have so many aftershocks and fresh earthquakes ...

Upstairs. >> reporter: you had to leave patients behind. >> translator: it is the biggest regret i have. >> reporter: the tsunami flooded every single floor of this hospital, 51 people were hospitalized that day. 12 drowned in their beds, 3 died on the roof awaiting rescue. but it wasn't just patients who died that day. ten of takata's hospital staff died with the patients. among them, a man who ran for a satellite phone so survivors could call rescue crews. the hospital's director said he tossed it to the roof seconds before the tsunami killed him. that handwritten note says, he's helping us ...