the journalist risked their lives entering the mandatory evacuation zone, exposing themselves to radiation levels. what they found was heartbreaking. dogs still in their homes, still waiting in vain for their owners to return. one dog chained up, left behind, starving. his ribs viz in. one of the journalists gave this starving dog his lunch. and this captures the desperate situation. a dog left behind, likely tied up, who chewed its way through its leash. there are no organizations that will come to rescue them. for them, hope is virtually nonexistent. kyung lah joins us live right now from tokyo. there are a lot of interest in the dogs, particularly that one found tethered to a pole, people asking whether the man who shot the video untied the dog. do you know? >> reporter: he did not. and he says that, and we just spoke with him a short time ago,