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Your hands it was developed to give indonesians and the technical part of a system work but of course for old system to work or the warning really needs to be to people on the ground and that seems to have not worked completely at least so how does one learn the lessons from this because this is an area that is that is prone to this sort of seismic activity so well. was there a government that was that was well enough prepared. well little good preparation. has been made but has also acknowledged that this was a particular tough challenge. time from the time of you have clicked with tsunami hi...

Hours ago. 28 countries will be affected now by those watches. but right now, there are no signs of a major tsunami hitting. meantime, new video showing the tense moment as the quake hits. people seen running out of their homes and offices. electricity has been knocked out. there are also reports of several aftershocks. people being told to move to higher ground now. at this time, there appears to be little damage. another breaking news story to tell you about right now to sky fox, first on the scene of a fire in paterson, new jersey. you can see firefighters trying to get water on the flames ...

Because they believe it is going to come back. >> nightmares. parents, you hear that? children in japan. they are scared to death of another tsunami hitting. they are also scared apparently of staying indoors. they are afraid of being buried alive. coming up, a brand-new look inside the disaster zone and the scenes you are about to see, they are going to be tough to forget. also developing right now, the damage at those nuclear reactors is now worse than originally thought. coming up next, what does this news mean in terms of a possible meltdown?

That tsunamis that are hitting, i'm looking at the coverage of the aurt up north which has been completely inundated. it is completely underwater. so this is a major, major hit to japan's infrastructure. i haven't heard anything about what's going on with the subways downtown. i know that they are prone in some cases to being filled with water in the event of a tsunami hitting but i haven't seen or heard any reports of that. certainly up nor and all of the coastal areas are taking a major, major hit. >> and of course we know as we've discussed that the japanese are very used to these earthquak...

Interested to see is whether or not they're telling people to evacuate immediately was heeded. if it was, many more lives will be saved. now the japanese are not strangers to earthquakes. they're not strangers to tsunami warnings. they take them very seriously. but the fact is there was only 15 minutes between the earthquake and the tsunami hitting. it was a case of how many people were able to get out of the area in time. as you say, it is a low lying flat area. we can see how quickly the water can move, just how devastating it was to carry in all that. >> there are a number of nuclear power ...