hi, this message is for elana. elana, this is bill weir with abc news. i'm in northern japan right now. and i just saw your sister, elsa. she's okay. and she wanted you to know that and that she loves you. hope you get this message. >>> after all the horrific details coming from japan, there is one absolutely miraculous story of survival this morning. japanese rescuers found a 4-month-old girl in the debris of one village. it's believed that little girl survived three days all alone. >> now, amid the chaos, she was reunited with her father. and just moments later, another tsunami warning came. but it was followed by the all-clear. so, a couple of good stories among the devastation. >> glimmers of hope. >> yeah. what you really need. >>> coming up next, japan's economy takes another hit today. >>> plus, a looming shortage of japanese goods. even the popular prius could be in short supply. . [ shrek ] calm down donkey. it's vacation time! ohhhhh, who ays ogres can't surf? nice moves fiona! ha, ha, ha, i love3d. wooo hooooo! [ shrek ] gingy! [ laughs ] hey

hi, this message is from elana.weir from abc news, i'm in northern japan right now and i just saw your sister elsa and she's okay and she wanted you to know that and that she loves you. >> reporter: she never heard our voicemail. so, today, we tracked her and her daughter down to give her the details of our meeting with elsa. this is bill weir with abc news, i met your sister elsa in japan yesterday. >> oh, my god. thank you. thank you, lord. >> reporter: yeah, she's okay. she's in good health. the rest of the family is okay. >> i'm so glad you found her. >> reporter: she was telling me that just minutes before the tsunami, she went to the hospital to get her medicine and that's what saved her life. >> oh, really? >> reporter: she wants you to know that she's fine and she loves you. >> oh, i'm glad. i love them, and i love you, too, you found my sister. it's a real miracle, you know? >> reporter: she's going to need your help at some point because the house is gone, but for the moment, she's safe and alive, and that

is and the confusion often caused by our own governments confusing us through misinformation sergei elana coughed gets eight years prison sentence as the puts it the man who single handedly the last stole goldman's algorithm that could quote manipulate markets that's according to the judgment is now the person with the biggest prison sentence to come out of the entire financial crisis sergey alaina call has just gotten a ninety seven month sentence for doing absolutely nothing but copying some goldman code that would never be recreated by anyone in the meantime the bank exacts who should be in jail are currently benefiting from their co-opted fed to allow them to collect taxpayer funded dividend payments that's right so the high frequency trading code of the algorithmic trading code used by goldman to manipulate markets to engage in high frequency trading to steal money every single day remember they reported last year that two or three quarters of straight profits not a single down day which is statistically impossible unless you're stealing and using rate markets they of course are cons

. >> reporter: hi, this message is for elana. elana, this is bill weir with abc news.hern japan right now. and i just saw your sister, elsa. she's okay. and she wanted you to know that and that she loves you. hope you get this message. >> bill weir, bringing good news to a family. that's good to see. >>> we want to go back to sam at the smart screen. we've been seeing the one-two punch, of the earthquake and the tsunami, reshaping the coast of japan? >> we're getting the pictures in. and it's amazing to see. we've been talking nuclear all day. but the waves, the tsunamis, changed the coastline. we'll take the southern zone first. you look at what is a beautiful stretch of beach along here. and watch what happened once the wave came in. this area right here that is all water, that is your a bay, was not there before. once the wave came in, the power of the water completely carving out the land in that zone. we'll go to sendai, in the northern section there. this is a town, about 1 million people lived in this area. a nice, open stretch of beach there. look at the after

elana levine is a spokesman from the american academy of pediatrics. good morning to both of you.obviously have a public relations problem with all the parents. first of all, what is your response to this argument that 30 minutes a day, 2 1/2 hours a week are being spent out of the children's education to protect one child? >> well, first of all, i believe there are certainly some misperceptions and misunderstandings on the part of the other parents. it certainly doesn't take that long. washing hands twice a day and wiping around the mouth is what is required. >> how much time does it take? do you agree with this idea that it's coming out of the education time for these other students? >> we have two sinks in each of the bathrooms for the boys and girls. the impact -- the class size is not that large, and so i don't believe it's an impact on the instructional time or the educational time. as i said, i think this is just some misunderstandings and misperceptions. we're trying very hard to work this through. one of the administrators at the district level who works with schools in t