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After after-shock. it has been a very disconcerting afternoon here in tokyo. but certainly nothing like what we're seeing up north. up north is where we are seeing an entirely different crisis altogether. at this point, we simply cannot fathom what the scope of that devastation is going to be. we were speaking to a news colleague who is from that region. he said the images that you're looking at, where you're seeing that wall of tsunami debris coming ashore, that is unimaginable that water should simply not be there and so for people who live in that region, it's something that wasn't even in ...

Continuing coverage of the break willing news out of japan. that 8.9 magnitude quake. it spawned a killer wave that struck 130 mill kilometers. sendai japan. cars toppled over and buildings. this is a regular season in northern japan. an ordinary street where people would have been walking. the earthquake struck at 2:46 p.m. local time. you're seeing mangled cars, the wreckage of homes, and here some sort of area in northern japan that may have suffered flooding. somebody wave ago white sheet there asking for help. asking for rescue. >> as we're now learning, it was the earthquake one disaster...

Welcome once again to our breaking news coverage of the earthquake in japan and the fallout rippling across the world pm i'm kate balduan. thanks for joining us. >> and i'm hornio. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all of our viewers around the world. at any moment right now the first tsunami waves are expected to wash across the west shore in the united states if you're there. it's next in the path of this massive disaster. a surge of one to three feet is predicted there. >> it is a breathtaking contrast to the devastation we're seeing in northern japan truly near the epicenter ...

Japan because it ended up causing a lot of damage and many deaths. we want to show you some of the best video we have. some of the video that shows you the extent of the devastation. it was 8.9 magnitude quake. historically very rare to register that kind of magnitude quake. this is inside a private home. it went on for a long time, kate. it was sustained. and that is what people who were in japan at the time the quake hit said was unusual about it. it felt different. >> in tokyo, they could feel it which is 230 miles from where the actual epi center hit. we are looking at video within japan, ...

Coast is next in the path of this disaster. we've been talking about this quite a bit. the first tsunami waves are expected there any moment now. we've seen some waves have actually hit along hawaii, and they are heading to the west coast, but as the millions brace for what's next in japan, as hala was talking about, they are just struggling to grasp the full magnitude of what has happened. a disaster truly continuing to unfold. 2:46 p.m. in japan, the ground shakes. an 8.9 magnitude earthquake strikes about 80 miles off the northeast coast of honshu, japan's most populace island. it unleashes...