you might see one or two buildings which are made of concrete, which have withstood the tsunami, and then there ll be anything up to a mile, a mile and a half of utter wasteland, debris, houses reduced to matchwood, personal effects, a child s doll, a wedding photograph, an old guitar, and thousands, hundreds of thousands of tons of girders, of bricks, of morter, of concrete, anything imaginable that you could see from a town which has been put through the most extraordinary pulverizing machine of the tsunami. you can build in a certain degree of protection against earthquakes, and goodness me, the japanese do that as well as anybody on the planet. you cannot build in protection against these sorts of forces when a tsunami upwards of 30 feet high comes in to a town at 15 to 20 miles an hour and pushes five, six miles into the land. does the government or do the news media have a full picture
and a half of utter wasteland, debris, houses reduced to matchwood, personal effects, a child s doll, a wedding photograph, an old guitar, and thousands, hundreds of thousands of tons of girders, of bricks, of morter, of concrete, anything imaginable that you could see from a town which has been put through the most extraordinary pulverizing machine of the tsunami. you can build in a certain degree of protection against earthquakes, and goodness me, the japanese do that as well as anybody on the planet. you cannot build in protection against these sorts of forces when a tsunami upwards of 30 feet high comes in to a town at 15 to 20 miles an hour and pushes five, six miles into the land. does the government or do the news media have a full picture yet of the damage? reporter: we do not have anything like a full picture of the damage. i m speaking to you from sendai, which is one of the more easily