fail to reach an agreement with iran to stop enriching uranium. now that everyone has walked away from the table, what can bring them back? welcome to the lead. i m jim sciutto filling in for jake tapper. hope you re having a meaningful and memorable veterans day. we begin with the world lead. just moments ago, the u.s. government announced that it is giving $20 million in humanitarian aid to the philippines after what was quite possibly the strongest storm ever in the recorded history of our planet. super typhoon haiyan. officials estimate that as many as 10,000 people were killed. the number of missing, impossible to say at this point. it s one of those times where words fall short of the images we re seeing. images so eerily reminiscent of the 2004 asian tsunami. towns wiped from the map. families washed away. children ripped from their parents arms by the rushing,
of town. a couple of houses still standing. 3.3 kilometers from the sea. almost 2 miles from the coastline. you can have a sense there of just how strong this tsunami was, to be able to destroy homes, boats have ridden on the tsunami, came all the way up here. there was a huge truck carried on the wave all the way up as well. 3.3 kilometers. there were 18,000 residents here. we spoke to a couple of them that have come back to see what s left of their homes and try to start the impossible cleanup. they ran when they heard the tsunami warning. one woman says she knows some of the neighbors stayed in their home. and inevitably they would not have survived. it s impossible to see how many could have survived in those
to each one of the japanese people. we japanese had a lot of difficulties in the past, but we were able to overcome those difficulties to reach this peaceful and prosperous and society we have been able to build. so with regard to the earthquake and tsunami, i am confident that the japanese people can be united to work together to further this difficulty. that s my strong belief. please, i ask each one of you, please have such determination.
turns the turbine. you cool it off, pump it back through here and cool down the reactor. rather than burning coal and remember wag the steam, well, you have a reactor core and control rods and pods here warming with you are rain yum inside a nuclear reactor. those rods are warming water to warm water, to warm steam, to warm a turbine, and it goes on and on. and as long as processes are working, everything works great. the problem is that it didn t work right, because when the earthquake happened, power got shut off. this was generating its own power. the power shutoff and backups came in. the backups were little generators, literally, that got flooded by tsunami. and then they had to go to backup power by batteries. they only last eight hours. they couldn t get it cooled down. now they finally flooded it with sea water and boric acid. they have killed this reactor it will never come back online. that s the only way at this
yeah, i mean you get a snapshot i m sorry. randi, go on. no, keep going. to get a snapshot of destruction and size, take a look at the view from above as well. these satellite images show the areas before the tsunami and then again after the tsunami. it s barely recognizable. after the massive wave that swept through. we have plenty more of this, just ahead. stay with us. nique. pure. and also delicious. like nature valley. granola bars made with crunchy oats and pure honey. nature valley 100% natural. 100% delicious. is a powerful force. set it in motion. and it goes out into the world like fuel for the economy. one opportunity leading to another. and another. we all have a hand in it.