an 18-year-old college student was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building overnight. take a look at this. one of five survivors rescued just today, three days after the earthquake first hit. nbc s michelle franzen joins me now from ercis, turkey, with the very latest. michelle, how s it looking there now? reporter: well, we are on the outskirts of ercis, where a tent city has been set up. this is all right. so we ve been having some problems with that shot, but you can see, the rescue efforts that continue to go on. you probably saw yesterday the 2-day-old baby that was rescued. now more today, these folks have been working absolutely around the clock, but i think we have michelle back. from what i m hearing, they re feeling like the clock really is ticking now. they don t have much time, given the weather and the amount of time that people may have been buried for these rescues, right?
unlikely a tsunami could hit tokyo because it s tokyo bay. it s likely surrounded, it s difficult to get a straight line of site into the bay, that would be very unlikely. so those pictures are likely to be the coastline, north of tokyo, where the earthquake first hit. yeah. that s what we figured, near the epicenter. you were telling us about tokyo bay, saying that that would provide a buffer, as far as the city of tokyo is concerned. it would. but there is a danger in tokyo bay because of the building there. very high-rise buildings as well, a lot of experts have said that this is a real danger, building on not very strong base, you know, it s a sand base, there is rocks, but modern buildings have been built to sway, with the earthquake. but if have you smoke rising from buildings around the port, it looks like there has been some damage there. which a lot of people have
which means they are on alert in guam, taiwan, the philippines, indonesia and also hawaii. so you are talking about a large, large area in the pacific where they are really going to be watching what is going on. a small tsunami has struck off the coast of japan at 3:00 p.m., which was much wasn t much time after the quake hit at 2:46. they re saying that that tsunami was small, a smaller one, but they expect that there could be one as high as 20 feet. that that could strike the coast near myagi, which they are saying is close toast that epicenter, where the quake hit. we are bringing you these pictures as they are coming n. it s really hard to tell if that s a bridge that may be collapsed during the earthquake. or what s going on there. it looks pretty chaotic. you don t really see anybody looking.
live with, correct? reporter: believe it or not tbecomes quite normal. there are often loud tremors. you will get them every month, at least, some kind of tremor, sometimes you will miss t. but the great fear is a very large earthquake. from what i am hearing now, it cements that tokyo has dodged a bullet in some respects. have you one building on fire, that is very, very small to what could happen. have you to remember that japan is in the ring of fire of the pacific, a very unstable place. david, it looks like there are several buildings on fire at this point in tokyo. reporter: is there? yeah. they just found out just got this they were hit by a 13-foot tsunami. this just came across. we are seeing a lot of that. there is a lot of rushing water through the city. we have seen a lot of vehicles in the water. it looked like a bridge out. that s what we were looking out.
coast of japan, about 2:45 their time. right now, i am spawk speaking with john rundle, a u.c. berkeley seismologist. john, i would like to talk to you more as this is progressing. but i am going to go ahead and take us to fox news bangkok correspondent. david, what you can tell us about what is going on there? reporter: well, i lived in japan before. they have a very organized way of dealing with this. this is a large quake, not too far from tokyo. but they have low-lying buildings. they are braced for this kind of thick. but a tsunami, they can t really take into account, because you could get a 20-foot wave or 6 inches as the previous person said. so at the moment, it s a wait and see if a tsunami will be formed and spread across the pacific. but as you know from the tsunami that hit in thailand and came from just off sumatra and