In January 1989, then Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizo Obuchi held up, with great deliberation, a panel bearing kanji characters in traditional Japanese ink-and-brush calligraphy.
yep. supposed to be given in a couple of days. reporter: a beautiful handwriting award a little boy named jackson was supposed to receive this week. tammy won t let the tornado take away what jackson earned. reporter: what do you want to tell your students if you could see them right now? i love them. i miss them. we have three days left but i just i want to make sure they re all right. ed, it s just amazing to watch that when you realize what people are capable of. briarwood, it s gone. you showed the bathroom only thing standing but do any of the schools have shelters or not? reporter: you know, it s interesting. tammy has an older son in high school. not too far away from there. it s a school built in the last ten to 15 years and that school has a shelter, a safe place where all of the students can be rushed in to and huddled in to one safe place enolder schools don t have them necessarily. we spoke with a lot of people