days later, opposition fighters storm kadhafi's compound. >> these are cars that belong to the kadhafiegime. they are blowing off rounds on the top of them. i'm going to try not to get hit by any of those rounds. >> kadhafi is later found and killed. in 2011, the world also watches a natural disaster unfold on live tv. the most powerful earthquake to hit japan causes a massive tsunami. and widespread destruction. this feels like it's the ground, but this isn't actually the ground. this is probably about 10 feet up off where the actual ground is. there's just so much debris, there's actually an entire van beneath me. >> more than 15,000 people are killed. >> when the earthquake happens, the elementary evacuated out of the school. they had no idea a tsunami was coming. out of 108 students, 77 are either dead or missing. that's 70% of the children at the school. >> the quake also causes a nuclear emergency after flood waters damage some of the country's largest nuclear reactors. the radiation league forces the evacuation of 200,000 people. journalists retreat to tokyo, but continue to rep