missing. homes merely memories. those who survived are finding basic necessities nearly impossible to buy. this mother says, i was so stressed that i could not produce breast milk. i didn t know what to feed my baby. i didn t want her to get dehydrated. i m so glad i could buy her formula. where they ll go from here, they don t know. the force of friday s tsunami swept away entire communities, leaving nothing to come home to. and i just want to take a moment to talk about these aftershocks. they ve been constant and they ve been powerful. in fact, a couple of hours ago, we literally felt like we were surfing on dry land. that s how powerful these aftershocks have been. and if they re feeling this way in narita, we can t imagine how powerful they are in sendai. rob, peggy. absolutely. a lot of people wondering about that. we ve heard about so many aftershocks. just incessant. hundreds of them. more than 180,000 people have been evacuated now due to
very carefully at how much risk power plants might face, those near earthquake fault lines. what s happening in japan could be a major wake-up call for us. you hear people, my god, if the big one hits california or something like that. certainly, this is another example of what we have to fear in this country as well. considering nuclear power, that s right. coming up later, the difficulty many americans had getting out of japan after surviving such an ordeal. it s a story told at many u.s. airports all weekend long. people there reconnecting. you can imagine the relief to get home. the lucky few. first, the unfolding nuclear crisis in japan. there has been a second hydrogen explosion at stricken fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. the japanese authority say radiation levels have exploded and within legal limits, however. diana alvear has the latest. from narita, japan. good morning. reporter: good morning. what happened earlier today is just a sign of how fluid and how
tremendous earthquake. bruce is the associate director for young americans, a music advocacy group that s currently on an outreach tour there in japan. and part of those kids are right there behind him. so, with a good morning to you and your friends there, the students, bruce, let s talk about where you were when the quake struck, because you guys were all together, right? absolutely. we had just arrived in narita, preparing to do a workshop at a theater here in narita, and we were just unloading our truck and setting up things in the theater when it struck. okay. was that theater secure? i mean, were there things dropping? was there anything that touched get out of the way for fear of having debris? we actually didn t wait that long. we saw the lighting fixtures swinging, and we could feel just how strong the shaking was, so we just knew to get out. yeah. and this wasn t the first time you d felt some tremors, right? you had already been in the area for a while and you felt t
here, so we just decided to stay put, and we ve just been trying to make the best of it. we ve been fortunate enough to have a great support system around us, some local families have been really great at provide blankets and food and drink and just really taking care of us. yeah. we re going to throw up a map so people get an idea of where you are there in narita and sort of the proximity to everything. i mean, you re there between sendai, which saw the most damage from the tsunami, and tokyo. can you give me a sense of that shake, rattle and roll feeling, though? because you didn t experience anything in terms of water from the tsunami, i m presuming. it was just the earthquake there. i mean, how terrifying is that? it was a little unsettling, for sure. especially when you re in a theater and there are all this equipment hanging above you shaking. you know, it s definitely unsettling, to say the least. yeah, and bruce, i mean, you ve got a lot of young people there behind you.
you trading there? number one in online equity trades: td ameritrade. trade commission-free for 30 days, plus get up to $500 when you open an account. a close call in japan just as the quake hit. look at this ireport sent in from aria adam inside narita airport. he landed in tokyo just as the terminal started shaking. he and his fellow passengers spent the night in the terminals as you see there. a lot of folks bedding down right in the concourse. the airport passed out sleeping bags and blankblankets, water a food for everyone. he says if there is an airport to be trapped in, it s narita. the nuclear plant explosion in japan has emergency crews racing against the clock. they re now trying to cool down the reactor at the fukushima nuclear plant.