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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110311:19:09:00

Now, we ve seen the footage in the daytime. this was, of course, several hours ago now because it s 4:00 in the morning past that time. and the devastation seemed extremely but of course, it is very difficult to know until daylight and until those rescue teams can actually get on the ground because much of what we ve seen has been from the air at this point. all right. thanks very much. the prime minister kan is going to visit the earthquake hit areas. he ll be back at 11:00 after visiting the quake hit areas. the difficulty of the moment, despite the resources japan has and all of the infrastructure, they need airborne support, need the ability to evaluate what s going on. we re hearing the uss ronald reagan is part of the mission deployed to help efforts in japan. the reagan is a supercarrier. so as barbara starr was telling us, what japan needs is the support of helicopters and airplanes that can go up and see what s going on. the uss ronald reagan is being ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110311:19:08:00

Tokyo right now. are people there, i mean, presumably they have many people in tokyo, might have friends or family members in the areas that were struck by this earthquake. are they able to get in touch with their family and loved ones? reporter: well, it s very difficult to get in touch with anybody in the area, certainly, but over the past couple hours we actually found it difficult to phone out from here as well. i know there have been some difficulties in tokyo. so certainly the phone lines are a real issue, especially in those areas where people need to get help, need to inform the emergency service of exactly what s happening. this is really why we haven t got a clear picture at all at this point of just how widespread this damage is. the japanese prime minister said it is extremely widespread. even he doesn t know at this point. he ll be getting in a helicopter first thing in the morning to find out just how many areas have been affected. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110311:19:07:00

Japan is no stranger to earthquakes, no stranger to these tsunami warnings. they certainly take them seriously and the hope is enough of them took it seriously that the death toll could be lower. of course, it is in the hundreds already and we haven t even seen some of those smaller areas, sendai, we understand, the city of about a million people, seems to be one of the hardest hit at this point. of course, it s difficult to say without daylight. the police say there was some 200, 300 bodies that they found in just that one city, alone, and that was many hours ago. we haven t got an update from that particular city. phone lines are down. it s very difficult to get in touch with people. of course, the transportation links are appalling at this point. sendai airport is water logged, pretty much under water and the roads to that area are also cut off. a very difficult job for emergency groups and aid agencies. pretty much the only way they d be able to get there quickly is by the air. a ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110311:18:41:00

All of the plants shutdown, and 111 of the pla the pla 1 all of the plants shutdown, and 111 of the pla 111 of the pla 11 of the plants shutdown. it is like putting a pan in the oven. you can turn the oven off, but if you go in to reach for the pan, it is still going to be hot. and the reactor core is still hot even though the plant is shutdown. so you have to cool it down so that the fuel inside of that plant doesn t melt. the problem is that theel cooing system, the initial cooling system broke down, and then the backup cooling system which was running on diesel fuel was flooded, and so it is not whether they have coolant or not, but electricity to pump the water into the plant to keep the plant at a regulated level. so was this with the way that the plant was designed or something that could not be controlled? well, all of the nuclear power plants have several layers of defense, and lots of backup systems, but this is a case in which the backup system has failed. now, we are not ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110311:19:06:00

We ll get a better sense of exactly what the devastation has been. and we know that the japanese prime minister at 6:00 a.m. in just a couple hours will be in a helicopter. we ll be going to the nuclear plant. this is the fukishima nuclear plant where concerns have been centered that one of the reactors was unable to cool down. it may be an ongoing situation. the u.s. president barack obama saying he was told by the japanese prime minister there was no radiation leak. certainly that s something that is a great concern to japan at this point. about 3,000 people were evacuated from that particular area. but it s mainly those smaller areas that has been no contact with at this point that rescue teams will be heading for about two hours time when sunrise happens. the emergency teams obviously have been working all through the night to try to reach the people who need help. the hope being, though, many people along those coastal areas did actually evacuate tokyo and ....

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