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of the water. the tractor-trailer is flipped over on its side. over here is one of the strangest things i ve seen today. this is another tractor-trailer filled with vehicles that s actually wrapped itself around a utility pole. just picked up by the tsunami waters, hitting that pole and literally wrappingself around it. it gives you a sense of how strong this water was when it came ashore here in sendai. let s get a quick update on some other stories we re following with isha sesay. in libya, the opposition seals to be holding government forces at bay. it s not clear who controls the town at this hour. air raids were carried out in a town about 40 minutes away. in the next hour, we ll get more
you begin to wonder. you need water and sea water for reactors one, two and three. they need salt water water to keep the rereactors cool. essentially there are big demands on being able to mobilize large amounts of water, whether it s sea water or fresh wate water. guys, hold on for one moment. anderson cooper is joining us now. anderson, tell the viewers where you are. they all hope you re not anywhere near this nuclear power plant. where are you and what are you seeing? caller: i m in a city called kita, northwest of the fukushima plant. we left the sendai area where, where we were yesterday, which
release with these hydrogen these vendings that jim s talking about. this seems like a change in tone, what you were just saying about the prime minister. we ve been following this along. now to say it remains very high, this seems a little bit different from the tone we ve been hearing from some of the ministers over the last several days. it s a little more concerning actually. we re going to be closely monitoring this over the two hours we are live, coming to you from sendai. as you can see there s devastation all around. i don t know if you can tell what s behind me here, but this is the port area, when the tsunami hit there were a number of people trapped in their vehicles, unable to get out. they perished in their vehicles. a lot of the bodies have been taken away. the cars all around. there are semi trucks that were actually moving cars, that had cars on them, that have just been tossed around like toys. i ll show you some of that coming up. also, the reunion of peter and ma