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quite a number of them, of course should listen to local news reports, check with local authorities, and contact their neighborhood evacuation centers. and the other thing, i think, as you ve been reporting, is this tsunami could affect many different countries. so the state department will be monitoring this and trying to figure out with countries that perhaps don t have the resources that japan does, what they might be able to provide. jill doherty for us this morning from the state department. we appreciate it. thanks so much. earlier, we let you hear a little bit of a firsthand account by somebody who was in tokyo when this happened, matt alt. he joins us this morning with more on what it s like there. i know you said you had lived there for eight years, and this is the strongest you felt anything like this. what is it like right now? darkness has descended on the city. right now tokyo is in a state of gridlock. all the major train lines have stopped. many stores are closed.
indeed. this is unfolding before our very eyes. as we talk the audience through this know we re looking at these pictures now from the airport where people have gone to the highest ground they can possibly get to. and water surrounds them at the base there. and as you mentioned, presumably, that area where the water is sweeping under is a measure in place to ensure that when these tsunamis hit, the water can actually clear the area. the problem is for anyone who unfortunately was on the ground at the time. of course, matt, we talk about how hopefully casualties will be low. we keep comparing this to the earthquake back in 2004 that particularly affected indonesia. the one in the indian ocean. the difference here as you point out, the structures. we re going to pause. matt, i want you to stay there if you wouldn t mind. we re going to pose for a moment to listen in to nhk coverage.
earthquake, you grow up realizing that a giant earthquake could possibly happen. so will he talk about the person you spoke with. matt. the american. he must have felt a very different experience than the japanese wife because she grew up understanding that the earthquake could happen at any time. you sort of learn that. you learn that from when you re a child. if you can get back to the tsunami as well. along the coastlines, if you ve been anywhere along a japanese coastline, it really is quite different than other coastlines around the world. if you go to a port. even though we re seeing some sizable devastation from the tsunami. what is different is that there are structures in places that try to protect the people of the up to. even in a town that could face a tsunami. people learn that they could evacuate at any moment if there is a earthquake. there are systems in place to try to help them get out of there. certainly if you have a sizable
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