and jim harris, a structural engineer whose firm designs earthquake-resistant buildings, among other things. thank you all three for being with us. sheila smith to you first, you know the country of japan. help us, this devastation happened in the northeastern part of the country around the city of sendai. give us a sense of what that area was like before disaster struck. >> sure, it was a lovely part of japan. it was not as densely populated as other sections down further south, tokyo region and further south. but nonetheless it was a place where many japanese traveled as tourists for business trips. sendai was to the a small town. it was a 15th largest city in japan so a medium size city by japanese standards. >> woodruff: two million. >> 2 million population, when are you looking at the mid have clipses a lot of what you are seeing are a number of coastal villages, fishing port, for example, that fires are at. but sendai itself is a very modern city and a large city. >> woodruff: and highly populated. >> highly populated area. >> woodruff: chris meinig, help us understand. the ear

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jim coming off a 32 point outing. sexy pick for an upset, gray to harris for the flush. zag is up early. he got his teammates involved. the kick to jackson emery for the 3. bur debt had 6 assists. as they say, he got gymerred long ball from the top of the key. off the screen and from way downtown in the second half, zimmer had 34 points. byu advances to the sweet 16. frank's owls hanging tough with two seeds san diego state down to under a minute to go. lavory allen ties it at 54. the jumper in the lane. it would force overtime. the owls still have a 3 point lead. but malcome thomas gets the foul. game tied at 61. they go to double overtime. that's when the aztecs put the game away. billy white with another san diego state bucket down below. two minutes to go. then thomas puts the exclamation on the game with a big block. they had six collectively. they win 71-64 and will play yukon next. joshua smith tried to put the brewens on his back against florida second half. irvin walker bounces off smith. put the gators up five. brewens back within 1. it's walker again this time with a dagger. 2

jim crow media." >> "washington journal" continues. host: harry johns, alzheimer's association president and ceo.with their annual report. this is the headline. "burden climbs with cases."ratialzheimer's guest: there are three big pieces of information in this 2011 alzheimer's disease fact and figures. 5 million people are estimated to have alzheimer's in america, which is up by 100,000 from last year. fundamentally, we know the disease is increasing in numbers in america and will continue to do so at an even greater rate. second, the caregivers for alzheimer's are now estimated to be 14.9 million, which is up from 10.9 million previously. that is new information and it indicates just how much of a burden is for the families, as well. finally, the cost of alzheimer's is now $183 billion each year. last year -- that cost continues to escalate. it's $11 billion more than the prior year. host: what does that mean for policy makers? guest: we believe it means they have to act and they have to act now. they need to enact the national alzheimer's project act, which they passed last year. the president

jim sciutto, thank you. >>> now to the congresswoman and her comeback. we learned today of an important but difficult milestone forgiff beginning to grasp part of that awful day. here's dan harris. >> reporter: as captain mark kelly and his five crewmates entered the news conference, you could see right there on their wrists the turquoise bracelets that read "gabby." and then, the commander announced that the congresswoman is doing, quote, remarkably well. >> she's improving every day and in the realm of brain injuries, that is very significant and pretty rare. >> reporter: he said giffords is walking and talking more every day. >> i see her every morning before i go to work and when i come home from work at the end of my day. >> reporter: captain kelly said his wife is now aware of how she got injured. that shooting outside the shopping center in tucson. >> she's starting to process some of the tragedy that we all went through in january. she's going through that as we speak. despite that, she remains in a very good mood. >> reporter: kelly is set to blast off next month on the second to last shuttle mission ever. he is a man balancing towering professional responsibilities wi

jim daves has wrestled me to the ground and won. again. all right. >> oh, hoda, give it up, baby. >> coming up next, we have harry conick jr. a special celebration. first hese messages. ♪ ♪ won't you please arrange it, 'ccuse i love you, just the way you look tonight ♪ >> that's the unmistakable sound of the all-around talented grammy and emmy winning harry connick jr. >> he recently took his big band sound to broadway for a two-week sold out run. lucky for us the concert will be live on both -- what is -- if you could see this. harry connick jr. in concert on broadway. hi, harry! what a cool project, by the way. >> so fun. >> a lot of people can't make it to those kind of venues. how great to be able to pop it feel. >> it's pretty cool. just being on broadway, you know, is pretty -- >> there's nothing like it.. >> there's really nothing like it. even though i wasn't doing a broadway show, it's just a concert that we filmed. >> it's the real estate, baby. you wereeon broadway. it was the last two nights of the run. you were real comfortable there by then. >> it was great, you know. >> he looks comfortable anyway. >> you hav