thank 2 people in weston, japan are still on the edges. aftershocks continued to hit the region. that's all from a series of ass, griggs that has risen to at least 55 rescue crews have been struggling to reach some of the hardest hit add is due to infrastructure damage, mondays, strongest as quite jolted ishikawa prefab jet triggering so now me warnings along the line and nations west and coast. japan is pro to us quakes, and this is the strongest seismic activity. the country has seen the mold in 5 years. the moment of thea, when the quake struck the now the off them off. the series of powerful quakes reaching $7.00 on the risk, the scale have left wide spread, damage and destruction. a weld turned upside down. this aerial footage gives an idea of the devastation done to the coastal robes in chicago. and on the ground, the human cost of the quake lives in chaos. and homes destroyed the clean up might have begun. but for some the devastation is too much to cope with. the house was like this of to the last as quick in 2007 we would need just rebuilt it. i don't think we can rebuil

for off the shocks and bad weather have heard rescue efforts in weston japan. following the earthquake on new year's day, hundreds of buildings collapsed in the area, 5 minutes to fully, okay. shita has warranty. it is a race against time to say those still track. at least 73 people on known to have died. i just need his eunice kim, travel to a hard hit area in the north of no toe peninsula, on our way to the most affected areas of know to a peninsula were met by a road closure now and driving on local roads. i'm not sure how long it will take along the way. we see several homes abandoned and leveled and lun, line at patrol station siren sound as ambulances from across the main island of when she reese to rescue people in need of me. a warning for help. there was a 5.5 magnitude tremor nearby. we finally arrived at north coast some 30 kilometers south of the epicenter of that week, where many elderly people call home. they tell us they were simply shocked at the level of destruction with so many structures needing to be visual. it feels like how many kites utic

days of the news now and at least 6 people are dead out for a series of damaging us. quakes truck weston japan late on monday, local time. a. the trim is it triggered so not a warnings at all. thirty's have since done graded. those 2 advisories. i saw some of it just as report the the, these are the moments of maggie to 7.6 earthquake struck western japan the ground shapes for nearly a minute. the city of what g mail near the epi center of the chicago prefecture down the power line, sparked fires across japan's western coast. there was another thread. well, it's a whole half bill statements a may just so now me warning is an effect for no to issue kind of what prefixed you . we are currently observing a large tsunami people near the shoreline and river banks. please evacuate to higher ground nearly 13 years after it's not the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in japan killed more than 20000 people here are scared and a run to hide the whole group while shaking the tv or shaking, i have to keep everything on the table uh yeah, uh i do, i did feel safe in my room though, but everything else

$7.00 magnitude. quake was in the central issue, co op press, the prefecture people living in weston, japan hotel to move to higher ground as far away as possible from the coast. now the quake has extensively damaged public infrastructure, the roads and the city of which he might have been a cracked at more than $36000.00 homes and chicago up prefecture without power. so to speak, to chris gilbert, to standing by for us in tokyo. the law just as a quake recorded on the opinions here. it seems that chris, so just bring us up to speed on the latest synonymy warnings on what the authorities are saying to the public, sat about what they have to look out for now. the, well, they're asking local, sustain vigilant. that is the mrs. coming from the prime minister because it doesn't seem as though uh, high tide has passed in that part of the country. that the so not me, um, you know, by over a pause. a warnings are not going to become more severe. in fact, they had been downgraded from a major as of now me wanting to just, you know, so not even wanting into the end of last hour or so. and so they're

a still ongoing a, a spring and some of the days of the news now under weston japan, the death toll from a powerful of quick on monday has risen to at least 62927.6, quite strong with the coast of chicago, a prefecture because it widespread damage emergency teams are still searching for survive as well. and the thousands of energy personnel helping rescue efforts in his ken has moved from the town of new to west in japan that we've arrived at no, to a town which is about 30 kilometers south of the epicenter of that new year's day. quick mounted to 7.6, and as you can see behind me, the destruction is here. this vehicle just barely holding up. that structure that is collapsing into its left is what seems to be the towns supermarket. now this is a community where a lot of the elderly call home and we had a chance to speak with one such man in his eighties, who says he's lived here for since he was a child and he's never seen damages like this from an earthquake. he runs a barber shop and he told us that even though right now is in disarray, he does hold to we open any hopes that others wil