basic necessities. they survived so much of the tragedy already. it s just heart breaking to think that they may not survive because of some basic needs. well, help is on the way from the united states. we just hope it gets to where it needs to be. dr. sanjay gupta reporting live from tokyo. in the heart of the disaster zone, a small but welcome sight of normalcy. one of the areas hardest hit by the earthquake and tsunami, for the first time since those twin ranlg tragedy, bus service has resumed and making the trip to sendai. the japan crisis impacts a gm plant here in the united states. it is suspend production due to a parts shortage.
letting the japanese people know that we care and god cares and we re standing by them. samaritan s purse is already working with those in shelters around the coastal japanese city of sendai. if you want to help the victims of the earthquake and tsunami, here is how. go to cnn.com/impact to reach the impact your world site. you ll find links to several charitable organizations where you can send or text donations.
is it too late? are they bringing out the informations because of what they know will happen with the no fly zone? reporter: there are a number of things that i think we can fairly readily see and say that i think will be troubling difficult for the implementation of the no fly zone. and if you are in the mind set as will this libyan regime may be that they can push ahead with the military offensive, they will exploit these issues and this is an urban environment where there are civilians living in houses in the city to know from the air or even from the ground if you re an international force who was opposition and who was rebels and where it was safe to bomb and target would be a very difficult thing to do and before you could even get in that position, we ve heard from senior officials at the pentagon
reporter: the nearby made civic provides one of the great charms of living in the neighborhood, but now many of the homes are decimated. the ocean they say has turned against them. the city has spent an enormous amount of money to build this elaborate series of sea walls, 30 feet tall, to protect its neighborhoods from flooding. but not surprisingly, when the tsunami came, these walls made very little difference. they have no idea how to even start figuring out whether they can ever live in this house again. translator: this is a nightmare, but we are alive. reporter: a for that, they are grateful. gary tuchman, cnn, japan. a lot of americans are reaching out to the victims. the christian aid organization samaritan s purse is sending a plane filled with 90 tons of relief supplies. last hour i talked with franklin brown, the organization s president, and asked what he would say to those who wonder
supplies and i asked him how do you plan to get them from a main city to those in need. and he didn t have an answer. can he possibly do that? i think so. i m not entirely sure what the issue is. it could be everything from people avoiding some of the evacuation zones around the nuclear plants to the roads being, you know, affected by the earthquake and the tsunami just being difficult to traverse. there could be lots of different reasons for this. but clearly people are now getting to these areas, journalists are like us, the relief organizations are. so whether it involves taking big trucks and literally going to these devastated areas with lots of blanket, food, water, et cete cetera, or even using air, it has to be done. i can t overdescribe how cold it is for the people. these are elderly people living in retirement communities whose homes are washed away who are literally at risk of freeze to go death or dieing from lack of