is open right now, just two hours outside of sendai, tremendously long lines. and the shelves of the stores here in northern japan, it s what we see during our hurricane coverage in the united states, empty shelves. not a lot to buy. you know, for us, the journalists who have to cover the story, you know, we re buying our supplies in tokyo and then trying to get it up here. but it s a very difficult situation. i feel so sorry for the people who live here. give us a little contrast between what you re seeing here in japan and what you saw in haiti last year in the aftermath of the earthquake there? reporter: people come up to us and ask us, what can we expect? in haiti, there were a lot of people who would come up to us and they were fully expecting that there would be an earthquake that was stronger than the first. a lot of people, sadly, think it s punishment from above, and that they ve done something wrong and that s the cause of this. it makes you so sad. and you try to reassur