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About seven minutes to the top of the hour now. so much of the focus on japan right now is on the mounting nuclear crisis. but as you know, there is so much else going on right there. there was the historic earthquake. 10,000 people dead. cities were wiped out by that tsunami, but as we report, there are signs, in fact, that life will go on. >> reporter: if you need a sign that life can return to japan's devastated tsunami zone -- here is a small one. his name is yuma and hers, yukia, their still weary mother went into labor in the car, fleeing the tsunami, barely made it to a hospital on high...

Are the answers they will have to provide congress. we want congress wanting accounting done on how expensive this mission is and could be. >> it is unclear if the president will address any of those things before congress is able to ask the questions to the president. that could be as early as monday when the president addresses the nation on the operation. thank you, chris lawrence at the pentagon. we are turning to the ongoing disaster in japan where survivors are struggling to move forward. the only resource that there is no shortage of right now is japan's fighting spirit. here is our k...

Lose my home town. i wanted to come back. we won't give up, he says. a fighting spirit that keeps this region from crumbling. the son who won't leave the wreckage of his home until he can find his parents' bodies. the home town boy who floegs rebuild despite that nearly every part of his town is leveled. and the newborn babies, just days old. small signs, say their homeless mothers, the next chapter in the rebirth of a region can be written. cnn in northern japan's tsunami zone. >> wow. as we mentioned earlier, cnn has new high-tech tools for smart phone users around the world who want to then...

Nuclear power plant. workers began pumping fresh water into several reactor cores that should flush out sea water used in the immediate emergency after the tsami. >> at least that's what they're hoping. two of the reactors, numbers five and six, are the least damage asked said to be safe. the other four are said to be in some sort of critical condition. all are believed to have damage to the reactor cores. for now they're not getting any worse which gives plant officials confidence to say reactors one, two, three, and four are stable right now. the numbers alone offer a clear picture of the su...

I can't trust them from the bottom of my heart. >> so far damage estimates from the quake and resulting tsunami are being put at more than $300 billion. well, there is a fighting spirit for the survivors of the earthquake and tsunami. here's cnn's kyung lah. >> reporter: if you need a sign that life can return to japan's devastated tsunami zone, here's a small one. his name is uma and hers ukia. she went into labor in the car fleeing the tsunami. she barely made it to a hospital on high ground. after i gave birth to my baby, says this first-time mom, i wasn't filled with joy because i heard ...