subsided to the land goes down and the water comes up and some of the areas which were close line, in other words, areas where people lived and worked and farmed will now be reclaimed by the sea and literally the map of the nation of japan will change as a result of this incredible act of mother nature. in other words, it is possible that some of these areas will never be dry land again. this is the first time that we have seen these pictures and my goodness, we heard so much about the devastation with train travel that a lot of these train tracks i m led to believe are along the coastal regions and that would have been affected by the tsunami, not to mention the wake itself. and here you have a house and a train just store sort of on top of each other. difficulty getting shoppers to some of the areas now and this may be the first time that we have seen live chopper pictures from here. president obama called this a catastrophic disaster. japan is one of our
reactor three may have boiled dry. that means even more radiation is now spewing into the area. as firefighters and plant workers continue to furiously fight to head off a total meltdown, several nations including the u.s. and britain telling citizens to evacuate. television here in japan is now reporting high levels of radiation 18 miles from the fukushima plant. that happens to be outside of the japanese government s evacuation area. but within the u.s. government s 50-mile zone. there is a real gap between what the united states experts are recommending and what the japanese officials are saying. the united states we would make a recommendation to evacuate personnel to a much larger area than is currently being done in japan. we are not sure if it is sensible to stay and if the exclusion gets extended then we can t get out. i think it is better are to get
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meet in paris to discuss a possible intervention. president obama saying if qadaffi doesn t stand down the u.s. will join in military action but not send any ground troops. i m marianne rafferty. now, back to fox news reports the disaster in japan. for the latest, go to fox news .com. sunday, march 13. we begin this moring with a fox news alert. the japanese government confirms a nuclear meltdown is possibly underway and now they also say more nuclear reactors are failing. this as more than 200,000 people are evacuated from the area. the stores in tokyo already were limiting sales of water. the shelves were almost out of
restaurant and these japanese tourists were on their phones trying to call back to families in japan and ther they couldn t through. do you sense there is panic? yeah, i do. extremely dangerous tsunami waves expected at 3:00 a.m. on the other side of the country, in washington, president obama was surprised at the developing apprised of the developing situation. the president issued a statement in the last few minutes and our own peter doocy is live in washington with the details. good morning, pete. the president was told about the earthquake and the resulting tsunami by his chief of staff at 4:00 this morning and the white house did put out a statement and reads in part michelle and i send our deepest condolences to the people of japan. as the united states woke up friday morning, march 11 we begin to see the full horror of