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As possible. at this market vendors sell the remnants of anything they can find. it is good that we're only just opening now people are only coming in now as the last two days have been quiet we haven't made any money meanwhile the grim recovery effort continues but the true extent of the damage is yet to unfold with rescue is only now reaching areas that were previously inaccessible. we're now joined by the deputy correspondent and she's in in western java which is about the worst affected areas hi anna give us an indication of how many people are still missing and how is the search going. i'...

Kathy was saying she lives in this area and she doesn't recall something like this happening. >> right. natalie, george, we need some sort of displacement of water to take place. that's how a tsunami is formed. but it's triggered by an earthquake, that's typically what we hear the trigger mechanism to be, maybe a landslide or perhaps even the shifts of tectonic plates underneath the weather, but this particular instance appears to be volcanic activity. and we have video of that volcano actually erupting. this is the krakatau volcano. what took place was actually just as exciting aboveground as...

A volcano may have triggered the tsunami by setting off underwater landslides. at least one official says the disaster struck without warning because of that. >> we've been following this disaster, the results of what happened there for the last several hours. we're starting to hear now from those on the ground, including our colleagues at cnn indonesia. >> here is a report from our correspondent from java. >> the first time i came or arrived here in the location, i saw dozens of houses were damaged and destroyed. and i saw the waves in the sea because the main streets and the land is very clo...

Western java and portions of sumatra. now the focus going forward will be the search and rescue efforts because this is a concern for people as they try to reach their loved ones. we have a very wet forecast as the red cross director just talked about a moment ago. this is the rainy season. we have nearly 100% chance of rain today right through the early parts of this week and you can see our future radar just showing more showers and storms the search and recovery effort. george, natalie. >> derek, thank you very much. obviously this is a developing stories. more than 100 350epeople have b ki...

>> of course they had a devastating earthquake few months ago, more than 2,000 people died there. this is a region that sees a lot of this activity, but it must be traumatizing. what are you hearing? >> oh, it is. these people, i wouldn't say they're used to earthquakes, but they sit on the ring of fire, so the country is prone to getting them. back in late july and early august, lumbak experienced a series of devastating earthquakes and the earthquake at the end of september and this one the end of december in the western part of java. from what i'm seeing in silowasi is people are terrified....