on saturdays with tourists and shoppers but the market was quiet with the long term concern of contamination of tish shops. there was concern about radiation threat expressed. federal officials say the amount of radiation on the west coast is so small it poses no health risk. jean has been following all the radiation testing there. what is the latest on the testing in california? do you think officials are satisfied or will they continue to test as a precaution? it s a little bit of both right now. yesterday was the day of alarm when that plume of radiation from japan was supposed to reach the west coast. so you had a little bit of, i wouldn t say panic but slight alarm and concern certainly here in los angeles certainly among my circles of friends and news
be honest. they re worried about getting through day by day, trying to find shelters. the temperatures have dropped considerably over the last few days. it s been snowing like crazy. they re more worried about finding food, water, shelter. the rescuers, the volunteers up there still trying hope against hope to try to find anybody that might be alive in the rubble. they know what s going on with the situation, they re clearly not worried about it in tokyo where it s a completely different scene. they re watching the news, listening to the radio, trying to figure out exactly what s going on. as we sort of experienced all week long, part of the problem is not only the information coming out, about you what is coming out is technical and it s difficult to figure out what it all means. you talk about lester and i, we drove down today from the north to tokyo. we got in a couple hours ago. when we had arrived, we had to go through radiation testing. there was trace amounts on the bottom of ou
tamation they ve been exposed to. yeah, adam, we ve been seeing video of some of that radiation testing going on. where do you put more than 200,000 people who were evacuated in the middle of an earthquake zone? well, we re going to talk about that, too. i want to show you something behind me and i ll answer that question. before that, where we are, this fish market had ten feet come through and there were no fatalities. what happened in thailand 2004 and 2005, a similar area we went to where thousands were killed. the reason why not one person was killed here in a significant part of the coastline in japan was because of the tsunami warning system. while the damage here is extensive there were no deaths here. now, the government is estimating potential as many as 10,000 people have died, all up the coast and marbly inland and that s due to the massive wall of water that went a lot further than many expected in rural areas, generally speaking. now, as for the people who