the quake struck 80 miles off the northeast coast and felt all wait to beijing, china. as you can see, it sent people running into the streets in a frenzy, dodging debris falling from buildings. 4 million buildings without power in tokyo. but the quake wasn t the worst part. shortly after a violent tunisia crashed into the northeast coast, killing hundreds of people. waves washing away cars, roads, homes. aftershocks lasting for hours, causing explosions and fires. me y miyagi is burning out of control. the toourn htunisia hit hawaii around 9:00 eastern time. the waves made their way to the mainland s west coast before 11:00. these pictures from santa cruz, where the waves damaged boats in port. president obama talked about the quake s devastation during anews
then this. a massive wall of water. devastating tsunami. it swept ashore along japan s northeastern coast. surging well inland. sweeping away cars, boats, homes. almost anything in its path. hundreds of people are dead with no way to know just how high that death toll will rise. we will bring that back to you. that s the situation developing right now. we have a situation at a japanese nuclear plant, trying to cool down a reactor. the plant is called the fukishima plant. it suffered a quake-related problem with its cooling system. joining us is a professor of disaster management at the university of georgia. mr. delles, explain to us, the last we heard they re trying to release some of this radioactive steam to try to relieve some of the pressure. what will that do? well, what s happened is that about 11 reactors all the m ero went down, stopped on purpose due to ground acceleration to
our bureau there in tokyo as well. some of our co-workers being thrown around at times as well. this is just one of the views inside. people poured out onto the streets afterwards. they say it s a city in chaos right now. the danger we have now, the concern, a tsunami. it did trigger a tsunami, massive waves, some as high as 30 feet, starting to come ashore in places. this wall of water is starting to bring with it it s washing away cars, boats, buildings. looks like lava almost making its way through. here s the most stunning picture. waves of mud and debris can be seen like lava flowing through some farmlapped. some of these pictures, it s hard to imagine this is what s happening. we ll have pictures continuing to come throughout the morning. there are at least eight deaths reported, but we re certainly expecting that number to go up. tsunami warnings across the