now nearly 300 police officers and firefighters wearing protective suits searched a town four miles from the plant. this area was completely destroyed and much of the town has been reduced to rubble. authorities believe there could be about 1 how people who were killed in the area around the nuclear power plant. rescue workers found 10 bodies and will continue to search around this area for about 10 more days. this comes despite an increase in the disaster level at the nuclear plant by japanese authorities to the same level of the chernobyl disaster in 1986. meanwhile the emperor and empress of japan visited an evacuation center of north of tokyo where they met with residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed by last month's quake and tsunami. the evacuees expressed concerns about continued aftershocks which hit japan each day and there's also concern about the leaking of radiation from the fukushima nuclear plant. workers at the plant are still focusing on trying to