we can. after katrina we jumped on his bandwagon. the whole paying it forward thing is just contagious. it s like this big dysfunctional family reunion of all the disaster survivors who get together to do a barn raising. you re banging nails and doing something, but it s the relationship that helps you heal. it s by using the 9/11 anniversary to celebrate the volunteer spirit. we ll see you next year. people say thank you for doing this, i say you want to thank me, show up on the next one. and just remember, cnn heroes nominated by you. go to cnn.com/heroes to nominate that hero you know. you can also follow cnn heroes on facebook and twitter. and we do want you to know we are keeping a close eye on what s happening in st. louis right now. we re starting to get more information in about exactly what they went through last night. the devastating pictures, ah, look at that folks, that s a neighborhood. these people are going back to their neighborhoods this morning and se
volunteers are not from new york. people from all of the small towns that we helped keep showing up to help the next community, and they are from louisiana and california and illinois and every year you will see more t-shirts from every location. we will pitch inasmuch as we can. on katrina, we just jumped on the bandwagon and the whole paying it forward is contagious. it is a dysfunctional family reunion of all of these disaster survivors who put a barn together. it is helping the nation heal. it is about using the 9/11 anniversary to celebrate in the volunteer spirit. we will see you next year. people say thank you for doing this and i say, if you want to thank me, show up at the next one. if you know a young person like jeff who is making a world of difference, tell us about them, and all of this year s cnn heroes are chosen from people that you nominate at cnn.com/heroes. today is earth day, and we want to tell you about some free stuff. yes, that will get your at
want to show the world that new yorkers will never forget what people did for us following 9/11. every year on the 9/11 anniversary we take volunteers from new york and send them to some part of the country where they had a disaster and help folks rebuild. nice to meet you. the tallest thing there is the grain silo. it s definitely a little culture shock. rebuilding homes or barns or churches, it s our way to say thank you. more than half our volunteers are not from new york. people from all the small towns that we ve helped, they keep showing up to help the next community. they re from louisiana and california and indiana and illinois. every year you keep seeing more t-shirts from more locations. we re going to get new as much as we can. i think katrina, we just jumped on his bandwagon. this whole paying it forward thing is just contagious. it s like this big dysfunctional family reunion of all these disaster survivors who get together and do a barn raising. you re bangi
u.s. territory, much less the u.s. coastline is threatened by anything that might come our way, but the citi. send sendai. no question that s the possibility coming up for friday and saturday. a million people in that city. we know how many sendai is just fine, a million people there, the big sky scrapers, the coastline to the east of that city. that s what was devastated. if the wind shifts and ra radiation goes there, there may be a completely new evacuation plan for that city, or at least an evacuation in place, stay inside your house action don t go out at all. that s outside that barriers, outside that radius that they have drawn right now. chad myers, thanks. you re welcome. some disaster survivors in japan are asking what they could have done to deserve this.
disaster. and why it may already be too late. plus, some members of the u.s. military exposed to radiation as they try to help disaster survivors. and now the u.s. navy getting its ship out of the danger zone. good tuesday morning from tokyo, japan. 8:00 a.m. here in a metropolis of 13 million people in a. [no audio] jon: i m jon scott in new york. we have temporarily lost our connection with shepard smith. shepard? shepard: infrastructure largely intact. and back here in tokyo, a city of 13 million people now dealing with the possibility of nuclear cataclysm. right now warnings of rolling blackouts that officials at tokyo electric power company or at the