kilometers to vak wait. it would blow most radioactivity out to sea and could blow it over to the west coast of the united states. are there international resources that could be brought to bear on this that would make a difference, or is japan as good as anyone at dealing with this technology? japan is very good. these reactors are generally considered in japan in the state of the art. these are particularly old designs, but they have relatively high construction standards for their reactors. iaea can be brought in to help on this, and in the case of airlift, which is what the president was talking about, the united states could help lift things like generators, backup power supplies. this should be an all hands on deck exercise. as bad as the natural disaster was today and still is today in japan, this could be a technological could tas trof ee.
the force of the tsunami, with all of that debris churned up in the water. this is what they say. it s not just the water and the wave which is so deadly, but it s also the debris which it brings with it. it sweeps everything before it. if you get caught up in this, this is why the death toll can often be so high. what they have said about japan, you can prepare for the earthquake, build buildings stronger, you can have all the construction standards that you want, but sometimes it can be just impossible to outrun to prepare for a tsunami. they have all of their exits marked and well maintained roads to higher ground. when you look at something like this, there are so many fears that the death toll is going to skyrocket when the rescue operations get into full swing in the coming hours. that s what the true concern is. when you look at a photograph like this. how many people have been caught up in this? we will begin to figure that out once sun begins to rise over
structural slab up under the pool that he is looking at. so he is thinking of telling his boss we ll have to remove pipes and other things, this job will be more complicated even if we re just coming in here to do a koz me cosmetic repair. so that is what was going through his mind two days before the collapse. and cnn has independently reached out about the report and a spokesperson for the champlain tower south condo association declined to comment. in an op-ed, the miami herald newspaper was critical of the construction standards at the time the condo was built. they wrote when we look at the images of the destruction in surfside, we d be fools not to wonder whether slipshod construction and look the other way enforcement of that era played a part. residents of condos across
pictures thanks to our affiliate nhk in japan. i want to show our viewers some of these pictures. this shows the devastation, the destruction. john, look at that water surrounding all of those buildings there from the tsunami, the waves just came in and in and in. this is certainly the worst quake in japan s history, but the tsunami, we re only now as sun is beginning to go up over all of japan, just after 7:00 a.m. saturday morning, we re only now, john, beginning to seat enormity. it s very difficult to know looking at that footage, looking at those aerial images of where the coast begins and where it stops. where the sea is and where it is in land, and, of course, one of the things about an earthquake is that you can prepare for that. you can change the construction standards, but it is very difficult, as they are now finding out in japan, to prepare for a tsunami this powerful, wolf. you know, i want to keep these pictures up for our viewers because these are the first live pic