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Disaster. here it was a little different. it's really spread out along the coast. and like sanjay was mentioning, hard to get to. but, you know, it's vast. the people are a little different. it's an older population that is affected. and so, yeah. that's probably the biggest difference i've noticed. >> i think people don't realize, there's a lot of retirement communities up and down the coast there north of sendai. so the demographics of who are injured or affected by this were a lot of elderly people. those of the people who are in these evacuation centers. those are the people who went to th...

Followed by a tsunami. so we are actually reporting i guess a couple of days ago. and all of a sudden while we're reporting, people started to run down the street saying that a tsunami was coming. and it was interesting. having been in haiti and sort of seeing that same sort of panic all of a sudden develop. one person says a few people start to say it, and all of a sudden you have an entire city running through the streets. you know, we waited a little bit. you know. and watched. you know, thought to ourselves, this is just panic? is this hysteria? or is it something for real? >> i'm just try...

The government? do they believe they're being transparent? >> reporter: there is certainly a trust deficit, fionnuala. there has been throughout this. you hear the soothing words from the government trying to say that there is no risk to people's lives from the radiation. but then you see the images. i think that's what that gentleman there was pointing out. the images seem to speak louder than the words right now. now we don't only have radiation at high levels, we have contamination. what happens here is that the words themselves become radioactive. people hear contamination and they fear th...

>> i mean, dozens of aftershocks. in all the various cities we've been over the last week here in japan. just a few -- just less than an hour ago we had an aftershock when sanjay was live on the air. it almost felt like a wave under our feet. we're on the top of this building and it was shaking for a good 15, 20 seconds. >> how dangerous potentially will it be by the time it gets here or not dangerous at all? >> whoa. we're feeling an aftershock right now, karen. i don't know if you saw that at all. things are moving around a bit on us even as i'm talking to you. these aftershocks have come qu...