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Sanjay gupta, m.d. is coming up. hello. i'm sanjay gupta. we're now in tokyo and i can tell you over the last several hours we're still feeling aftershocks here. there was a bic earthquake. people know about this. one of the largest ever reported in history. magnitude 9.0. remarkably there wasn't as much damage to the buildings from that earthquake as you might expect. the building codes here in japan are of a very high standard. as a result you can see many of the buildings in the capital city still standing up behind me. but it was the tsunami wave that people have been seeing the images o...

So i guess he fell behind. >> miyako, who made it out alive by trying her hardest to climb up a hill, says the tsunami wave crept right up to her feet. >> the wave kept on rushing toward you from behind? >> yes, it kept coming. >> if you had stopped running you would have been swept away? >> yes, of course. >> their house is barely standing. and this is how it looks. >> no water comes out of the kitchen faucet or anywhere else in the house anymore. all tatami mats are flipped over? >> yes, they're all gone. >> the water crept up to that point? >> yes. >> quite high, maybe over two meters. >> y...

Of heat insulation. he evacuated patients who were crying that it was the end. >> you know, we keep getting those kind of eyewitness reports. also amazing pictures coming into us here from cnn from the earthquake and tsunami. imagine you're standing under this crane, folks. this is a crane obviously swaying a little bit here. got to watch closely. this is during friday's quake. the crane is 35 stories tall. now watch this. so this is the perspective of a driver in the car as a tsunami wave kind of comes crashing over him as he's driving. he know he's okay. in fact, we know that because this is...

Minneapolis. look at this. we're now being told that this is a gas main break, right, smack in the middle of a block and you can see, the flames just there, burning out of control. thankfully no reports of any injuries. but there were evacuations in the area, a couple of schools, a church, grocery store, all evacuated, as firefighters try to put the fire out. it is also shut down part of highway 35-w, the southbound lanes there in south minneapolis. and we'll keep our eyes on this situation, but, a scary one in minneapolis, minnesota, right now. martha: just as the tsunami wave eventually did ...

>> and the ports that are so organized. have you seen this person, looking for my daughter. >> it's important to keep in mind that the japanese population is a very old population, and it's aging. more than 21% of japanese people are over the age of 65. this isn't haiti. it isn't a country in the developing world. it's an extremely aging population, aging rapidly, because only 20 years 11% were over the age of 65. this is because of a very low birth rate. this is adding to the misery of people. elderly people having to cope and go through this with the senior years. >> perhaps that's who they ...