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be. gregg: pictures tell the story. it s heartbreaking. it s horrific and there are great many personal stories out there. among all the stories you ve run across, what strikes you as the most dramatic? i don t know if i can point to one, but you see in a situation like this, you see the nation come together. japan is known to be come together in times of crisis. certainly we ve seen this with this event. people helping with the search and rescue. it s really a time for the country to come together and you see countless pictures of that happening. gregg: i want to end our conversation by getting your thoughts on the nuclear situation there. how desperate does it appear to
tsunami more than three stories high. people on the japanese coastline had only ten or 15 minutes to escape it. look the a those pictures. truly amazing. those waves also surged westward, hurling across the pacific ocean, incredible speed, here s a picture of it, ocean depth about four miles, the wave moving the same speed as a jumbo jet liner racing towards shore at 500 miles-per-hour. for up to the minute update, all you have to do, you can get videotapes and pictures from japan, head to our web site, foxnews.com. complete coverage there. heather: dealing with the world s problems every day, it weighs on every occupant of the oval office, but a comment reportedly made by president obama is raising eyebrows, according to the new york times the president is said to have told white house aides that it would be easier to be president of china.
be? caller: well, if you take the government at its word, it doesn t appear to be it appears to be contained. of course, there is no way to tell at this point if that will end up being the case. as you know they ve set up an exclusive zone around the reactors, 20 kilometers and at least the authorities believe that they can contain the situation into that zone. if that is the case, then perhaps the ultimate damage from this could be contained, but there are so many factors at play. you have the wind. we just don t there is not enough information to tell just what the final situation will be here. gregg: earthquake after earthquake, a tsunami, now volcanic eruption, the people of japan are really facing a very
general electric. it says given the thousands miles between the two countries, hawaii, alaska and u.s. territories and the u.s. west coast are not expected to experience any harmful levels of radioactivity. whether that changes, we just don t know. heather: that is good news. gregg: the earthquake is most powerful tremor ever reported in japan. three days later, how are people coping with the devastation. nathan wayne is tokyo bureau chief joins us on the telephone. talk to us about people who must be horribly traumatized are dealing with this. caller: yes, hello, gregg. i believe obviously a very tragic event and people are still coming to terms with the