. >> narrator: trafficked on the same ship as anya and katerina, her name is katia. >> narrator: katia and viorel met in odessa, where viorel worked as a bartender. her nightmare began when an acquaintance of theirs offered to take her to turkey, where she could buy goods cheaply for her mother's market stall back home. >> basically an acquaintance of theirs had told him that he was going to turkey anyway so he might as well accompany katia, and he speaks turkish, and he could just help her and watch over her. and a week after they left for turkey, viorel got a phone call from this gentleman, vlad, saying that he had sold his wife for a thousand bucks. >> ( translated ): for katia i was paid $1,000. that's how they priced katia at the time. >> ( translated ): he said, "i've sold your wife." i immediately realized that i shouldn't jump on it. otherwise, he'd disappear-- like, he wldn't give me his telephone number and i would never find him or my wife. i spoke to him nicely. >> ( translated ): why did i phone him? to say that i felt guilty might sound absurd after what i did. however, s

katia and his wife holding out hope for a lost sister-in-law, getting a first look at the destroyed neighborhood, too much for him to bear. there is nothing, there is nothing, he cries. nothing but sorrow and growing distrust. the first u.s. chartered flight out of japan carrying americans has left with 100 on board. another flight is expected tomorrow. also, there is this news. the u.s. state department is saying that there is a large pocket of americans above sendai and it sent en route now 14 buses to pick up to 600 americans. these are civilians. now these buses will have to make the trip back down from sendai past the nuclear power complex, a very careful journey, to get them back to tokyo, brian. >> ann, considering tonight marks the one-week anniversary, it is still so difficult to watch. ann curry in japan for us tonight. thanks. >>> president obama made an unannounced visit to the japanese embassy in washington this morning. he signed a condolence book there for those who perished in the earthquake and the tsunami. later he spoke from the rose garden at the white house about the situati