171, between 5 and 5.9. that could cause moderate damage here. take you into the scale here. we have not had anything above a 7. 0 in quite some time. i want to leave you here with pictures of kamaishi, which is just incredible here, as we fly you in. i want to show you what s happened before on google satellite and what is left of the town at this point here. and there it is, there is kamaishi. and watch what happens after the tsunami hit. you can barely make out what s left. there are rescue crews in this mess trying to get people out. i will be back in the next half hour to let you know how weather conditions will play a role as that recovery effort continues. you heard from our nuclear expert how important it is that it doesn t rain, in case there is some sort of radio active fallout from the nuclear plants.
neighborhood that i m in is about as bad as it it gets. it s still under three feet of water for the most part. all these homes behind me evacuated for several days in this town of colfax a few dozen people evacuated and they re not going to be able to get back for some time and with the threat of rain, the future looks very uncertain. bigger city in iowa of 50,000 people and there the town water system was knocked out and no one has drinking water or water running into their homes. the weight of the ground saturated with water caused the underground water mains to crack and now they re bracing to try to repair them. they re out of water for several days. donations of ration water are coming in and people are making due. again, everybody is watching the forecast hoping it doesn t rain too much more as the forecast does suggest. all right, ron, thanks so much. as ron mentioned, those forecasters predicting another day of storms in parts of iowa. bill karins, exactly what they don t ne
through it all. chad myers. the only place i want to be is under the boardwalk, somewhere i can get wet and get under the boardwalk. 106 in charleston it feels like. 102 in jacksonville. and the heat is just going to pile up here. and it s the humidity, obviously, because this is always muggy. there is not a day that you don t get the muggies in savannah, georgia, but when it s going to be nearly 100 degrees and muggy, then you ve got something to worry about. and really, it s one of those days where you just cannot leave the pets in the car, you can t leave the kids in the car for any amount of time, because you don t know how long you might be out there. we have a big of high pressure in the west causing very cry conditions. and when you get that, you can get lightning that comes down during the day. they re called dry lightning storms. and you say, well, it s a thunderstorm, how can it make fires? because it doesn t make enough rain to actually stop the fires that it starts. it st
we have lost in the past those were local horse lovers you will recall doesn t rain at the moment here in afghanistan now the training there is when you leave your home in the morning you leave and a piece of paper if you have got our small children or family has it s like by forty four years and you may never come back so far as working involved in bodmin like panasonic exactly the same song i was afraid of graf or everybody knows it here in afghanistan and the. handing picture as though it was media and only couple of days that we look at the tape to act around he has written that you can use shadow and warn those that he might die someday which of course is a lie today says that is now the kind of thing the below than what we all look at the kind of chord alongside a lot some great cameramen and reporters from you know the leading afghan the channels as well. this attack happened inside the city s diplomatic corps which supposed to secure what s going wrong. well i