they have taken control of several major cities in the region the incumbent president laurent gbagbo refuses to step down it's quite an international consensus that he last november's election up to a million people have fled their homes fearing a widespread civil war. right now it's time for the business news with dmitri. welcome to the program japanese carmakers of mostly resumed operations almost three weeks after the disaster. however the car market globally still concerned about roi disruptions forecasting firm i.h.s. automotive recently estimates that the quake caused a sixty five percent decline in production in the last two weeks of march however russian car dealers apparently think no shortages so far one of the country's top car dealers rolf is confident about that market. to you or to and the submission russia we're not affected by the crisis in japan we're

that's a major city near the epicenter. the waves, water, just flooded out there. and tsunami warnings in effect throughout that region. >> akiko, in addition to being our abc correspondent. you lived through this earthquake. you were there at work. this happened in the middle of a work day, on friday afternoon. hitting at 2:36 on friday afternoon. tell us as a firsthand account of living through it what happened. >> reporter: you get a lot of earthquakes out here. you tend to ignore them. i was sitting at my dessing. felt a little shaking but didn't think anything of it. it got stronger and stronger. it lasted quite a long time. and i started to see tapes there starting to fall. and at that point, i knew i had to get under the desk. it lasted a long time. we've been feeling a lot of aftershocks since. they've gotten weaker. but you never get used to all the shaking. >> and this occurred in the northeastern part of japan, in the miyagi province. tell folks about that area a little bit and why it's economically important. and how many folks, roughly, are in that are

now to the city of jawad that this city is clearly in the hands of gadhafi is made it is the last major city before the city of sirte which is a good half a stronghold it is certainly his hometown and they were initially reports coming that the rebels would actually advance into sirte but now not only have they been pushed to bin jawad we are hearing that they've also been pushed further back to the port city of ras lanuf and indeed the next city for them to be pushed back to the city of brega once this happens they are not that far from the city. which is just outside of benghazi and if you remember it was a little more than a week ago that the rebels first started making their advance and there was so much celebration and so much talk that because of the coalition airstrikes they had actually after a week of a stalemate been actually able to advance to that city of ajdabiya there was a lot of confusion there's a lot of chaos on the frontline with this constant forward and backward movement that syrupy what is becoming more and more clear is that. his tactic seems to be she has moved his fo

city, waves six to eight feet high damaged boats. most of the docks destroyed. for this town, the fear of killer waves, rekindled memories of a major tsunami that struck here in 1964. >> nobody knew it was geeing to come in like that. >> reporter: the town was nearly destroyed, a dozen people died. today, officials say the city is far better prepared. now, keep in mind, we are 4500 miles away from japan, so that should give you an idea the force and energy behind the waves that caused all this destruction. and since we've been here this morning, we're still seeing surges of 4 to 6 feet in this area. which explains why there is still a tsunami advisory in effect. dan. >> ands it 4500 mile as way. >>> we do have breaking news at home. a horrific bus crash. >> this was a bus returning from a casino east of new york in connecticut. the bus apparently hit a large sign post on interstate 95 in the bronx. it flipped on its side. the top was sliced off as you see there. at least 13 people were killed. rescue workers inside the wreck ajs, trying to extricate people. some 31 people were on the bus returning from that casino. and police at th

. >> it brings san francisco from one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. with regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12-inch wide border. for people with low vision to get the same information. the shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. >> we have a beveled transition on the change in level, tape on the surfaces, temporary asphalt to fill in level changes, flush transition to temporary wood platform and ramp down into the street under the scaffoldinging. detectable ramps. they are all detectable. nothing down below or protruding that people are going to get snagged up on. smooth clean that nobody is going get caught up on. >> our no. 1 issue is what we see here, the up

>>> conditions getting worse in libya's third largest city where people say shelling and sniper attacks are now continuous. misrata is the last major western city still in the hands of rebels who are trying to

actual light change, the light cycle built into it. >> it brings san francisco from one of the major citiesn the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. with regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12-inch wide border. for people with low vision to get the same information. the shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. >> we

so, there is a major city there. you know, we would like to say, good news is that the images we're seeing is in the rural area. obviously, tremendous damage. >> right. >> reporter: you see those homes being washed away by the waves. >> the prime minister has already said he's ordered his officials to start accepting international assistance because the scope of this is going to be huge. i do think it's important for folks out there to know this is not isolated. other countries are under tsunami warnings and watches. they're saying a tsunami could hit hawaii, obviously a u.s. state, by 8:00 eastern time this morning, mexico, chile, peru, australia, guam, philippines, russia, all of those areas. >> take a look at this video of this person standing outside of their house, waving a sheet, trying to get the attention of the helicopters capturing these images. sheer desperation from the people trapped in these homes. as you see the water that has just flown through this area. we're getting these pictures from nhk, public

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to be looked at the past few days, the protesters have managed to take hold of major cities in the east like benghazi and others. they are managing to -- it can set the country. we are now writing a constitution. he is really a major and prominent official in the libyan regime. he has defected and has joined the protesters. that is amazing progress, of course. >> do you think we have learned anything new in the past couple of months about how arab nations have been governed? >> definitely the major lesson is that things have to change. the arab leaders are faced with two choices. they have to introduce changes into their system or they have to leave. in the case of gaddafi, they are not leaving easily. others are left -- like a mubarak we have a mess and other countries, like yemen, bahrain. these countries shows that the social fabric of their society is a bit different. bahrain, we should not expect a major regime changed in bahrain. we might see some standoffs. we are deflating the protests. yemen is a different case as well. it is threatened by a civil war and an army. if this -- an

if you look at the past few days the protesters have managed to take hold of major cities in the east and also they are managing to build some structure that can set the country in a revolution area -- revolutionary era. they are now drafting a constitution. many are joining the council. [unintelligible] who is a key official in the libyan regime has joined the protesters which is major progress. >> we are looking at the wider picture. have we learned anything new in the past couple months about how peregrinations are governed? >> definitely. things have to change. the buzzword is a change. the arab leaders are facing two choices. they have to institute meaningful changes or they have to leave. some of them are not meeting easily and are clinging to power. others left like mubarak of egypt. we have unrest in other places like yemen and jordan. i think these countries show the social fabric is different. bahrain, it will be difficult to measure regime change. we might see some kind of internal changes within the regime by way of [unintelligible] yemen is a different case as well. yemen

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northern coastal line this is where the libyan surface to air missiles are based it's so where the major cities are the city of tripoli as well as some of the most important oil installations here in tripoli as i made my way to this night i had to walk through a crowd that has barricaded it's just a few meters away from this live position people are protesting people are screaming and people are shouting their support for it done so here in the capital city it's becoming a lot more tense overnight because anti aircraft fire from the libyan forces and for several hours we could hear back fire from from where we are the the compound of gadhafi is a short distance from here now thousands of demonstrators have gone there they are barricading the leader inserting that's what we're hearing is a story where there has been a call for human shields the deficit even on state television did say that this was an onslaught against his country who is not only caught it illegal but he says that he has done nothing to justify these attacks in the mediterranean now has become a battleground he also says that hi

pose the disco problems of its own because the length of space if you like between the various major cities and major fighting has been happening in urban areas. but nonetheless i think that his forces in misrata back on the offensive sanction on the street snipers in the buildings and it's very hard for me to see what tactical air power is going to actually deliver against that in an urban environment with many civilians around without creating a least the impression of an own goal if not in fact causing casualties among civilians amongst the rebels themselves so this is this is the really all aspect for me is you know where it goes how you actually deliver on that without making the controversy new jackson that exists already worsens teach expats you know horace just to really point out some very important points here i mean no matter how you cut it this is a slippery slope isn't it it's a slippery slope if you want you can be a cynic and say yes no fly zones really don't work you have to go to the next step in maybe this was the rationale behind it in the first place. well you know let's

census numbers, found that over the past decade there's been an exodus of african-americans leaving major cities. >> when we look at the cities that have the highest concentrations of african-americans, more than half of them are showing declines in the populations of those african-americans. >> reporter: the cities with the sharpest drops, traditional black strongholds including detroit, chicago, oakland, cleveland and atlanta. detroit lost a quarter of its entire population. one resident left every 22 minutes. >> a lot of our middle class african-americans have moved out of the city into the suburbs. >> reporter: another finding, blacks are moving from the north to the south, reversing a trend from the early 20th century, when hundreds of thousands of blacks were moving in the opposite direction to escape racism and find work. experts say today's south is more welcoming. >> it's a kind of mainstreaming of a group that had been marginalized for so long in our history. >> hey, sweetie. >> reporter: families like the walkers now call the suburbs of atlanta home. they are recent transplants from a

. >>> this morning, some of libya's major cities are without internet access. fighter loving to gadhafi set up sites in protest. they expect them to began in the capital city after near prayers and that call appeared to work. in the last 30 minutes we have learned that 1,000 people are marching and chanting. >>> this morning in the united states, the wisconsin state capital is clear of prounion protesters after they were asked to leave. >> from the bottom of my heart, i want you to voluntarily leave the building. it's real simple. >> now that polite request was made last night after a judge ordered the building closed. the protesters were part of a 17 day demonstration against a bill that would take away collective bargaining rights by public employee union. senate democrats in the state are still on the run in illinois refusing to vote on the measure. governor scott walker says he will now issue 1500 layoff notices today if none of the democrats return to the state to vote. he threatens to hold them in contempt and force police to bring them back to wisconsin.

one of nearly a dozen taking place at the end of the week in major cities across the country. the organizing group answer coalition said america should not be launching another war while vital public services are getting cut at home. >>> house speaker john baynor demanding president obama outline america's goals in libya. a senior u.s. defense official said u.s. war planes are responsible for more than 90% of coalition bombing runs overnight. secretary of state hillary clinton says the quickest way for the libyan leader moammar gadhafi to end this is to step down. >>> california voters seem to prefer senator diane finestein over barbara boxer. exclusive new field poll finds 48% approve of senator finestein's job performance compared with 42% for senator boxer. 40% also disapprove of senator boxer's work in washington. >>> california's cup runeth over. >>> after years of drought the reservoirs are full. perhaps too full. i'm consumer editor with the state of reservoirs stil ahead. >>> why people are being kicked out at a rate of 20,000 every day. >>> students, teachers and pare

as the fighting gets closer to this major city there is a potential for more civilian casualties, especially if colnel gadhafi's aircraft operate unchecked. everyone here is watch to see if the west engages actively to curb colnel gadhafi's forces. >> now back to japan. around the world there is an amazing outpouring of support for those effected by the effect quake and tsunami. millions are reaching out to help. in the united states it has been a tense wait for some japanese-americans who have not heard from family and friends who live in the hardest hit areas. >> it is an anxious time for new york's japanese community. those that came here to make a new life are consumed by the crisis back home. in the east village i met this man who is watching what is going on with a growing sense of unease. >> most of my worries are my friends. >> have you heard anything from your friends? >> no. i tried to reach maybe 10 times, calling and emailing. but no response. >> it has been an agonizing few days for the japanese community in new york. first the shock of what happened and then the waiting. commun

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[applause] look -- [laughter] look at all of the major cities around the country. what do they have? they have a vibrant economic immigrant community. san francisco depends on tourism. who goes to those places? immigrants. we need to engage with the community to and -- believe their fears. i invited a lot of people to come here, and a few i can recognize, but they are afraid to talk to you. you need to go to the communities, churches, places of gathering and tell them, yes we are government, but we want to have you continue to help us. i see those ads on the buses. maybe it could say, did you know 91% of immigrants bring good things to the country? that is what we need to do. just show the positive that immigrants bring to the community. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioners, we have quite a stellar panel and we look forward to hearing their insights. the commission has invited a few individuals to provide firsthand testimony on how current immigration policies are affecting their lives, work, and dreams. each of these individuals has demonstrate courage in sha

approval of the deal and outline a plan to jumpstart testing of transmission lines running underneath major cities> janelle: residents are seeing snow rising to levels they haven't seen since the early 1970s. laura anthony has this report. >> we're looking at condition red. >> what does that mean? >> it means we're going to be swamped. >> in the high sierra say they have run out of places to put all the snow, the most anyone has seen here in 40 years. >> we have nowhere to put it and neither does the county. we throw the snow out, goes in the street and have to move it twice and the county doesn't know what they are going to do with their snow. >> the latest onslaught is too much for the big plows. drivers are having a hard time seeing wall of snow that is approaching 20 feet in some places. >> there is no room. >> there is no place to put the snow either. >> what do you do with it? >> they are trying to get it where they can. >> laura anthony, "abc 7 news." >>> nuclear crisis in japan goes from bad to worse. the breach that has everyone concerned. >> a chain of command for the libyan no-fly zone.

hearing from the rebels is that they are now advancing towards the capital city of tripoli the next major city on the map is the city of sept this is some six hundred kilometers away from tripoli it is the hometown of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi and it is very much his strong support base so the questions that the international community now needs to grapple with is as the rebel fighters at vons through the waste words and as they clearly are on the offensive and as they clearly need those airstrikes is the international community going to come to their rescue and continue with their involvement this raises very real concerns as we hearing from the libyan government they're accusing the coalition powers of not actually being independent they say they taking sides and that they prolonging the action on the ground essentially they're accusing the coalition colors of bringing this country to the brink of civil war there are also questions being asked in london for example in terms of whether or not gadhafi is not going to do some kind of revenge tactics that we've been and we're hearing tha

as the fighting gets closer to this major city of benghazi, there is the potential for many more civilianrticularly if colonel qaddafi's aircraft operate unchecked. this is one of many western warships to visit benghazi recently. everyone is watching to see if the west engages actively to curb colonel qaddafi's forces. >> now back to japan and around the world there's been an amazing outpouring of support for those affected by the earthquake and tsunami. from international rescue teams to individual donations, millions of reaching out to help. but in the united states, it's been a tense wait for some japanese-americans who still haven't heard from family and friends who lived in the hardest hit areas. this story from new york. >> it's an anxious time for new york's japanese community. those who came here to make a new life are now consumed by the crisis back home. in the east village, i met takeshi, who, like so many others, is watching what's going on with a growing sense of unease. >> most of my worries are my friends. >> have you heard anything from your friends? >> no. i tried to reac

the defenses that they have faced have been relatively lightweight from the move onwards the next major city is the city of sept which is the hometown of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi there his support base is incredibly strong and the rebel fighters are likely to come under a lot more fire and a lot more intensive fighting in the cities that they are recapturing as can be imagined the residents there are expressing relief they celebrating but we're also hearing voices of concern about some people saying that they fear that there will be a return to fighting and also that some of these rebel leaders cannot be trusted a very different picture coming out of the west of the country from the city of misrata which is so she said she should leave this city is in the hands of gadhafi forces are not going to that they had begun to treat me shelled the city the city of. my day. nice by french missiles the french saying that they took out five libyan planes and two helicopters and air force base not far from misrata we also hearing from the american army that they fired some one hundred tomahawk c

that's the closest major city to the epicenter of friday's quake. >> the satellite image shows the explosion at the plant's unit two. that blast was immediately regarded as much more serious than the previous blasts that took place at units one and three. there was also a brief fire this morning inside unit four. >> although that was extinguished quickly, it also led to a release of radioactive materials into the air. that release resulted in an elevated level of radiation in and around that plant. all but 50 of the 800 workers at the plant have been removed. >> everybody talking about the radiation. >>> and slightly higher radiation levels have been detected in tokyo today. but officials there are saying there's no immediate risk to public health. >> but does it pose a threat here in the u.s.? here with that story is martha raddatz. >> reporter: we wanted to know, what is the worst-case scenario in japan? >> the reactor cores in several reactors get so hot, they fuse into a molten mass, spewing into the water, air, and ground. >> reporter: unlike chernobyl, the japanese reactors are surroun