when we arrived at narita international, i want to say we sawh2q members of the search-and-rescue teamlooks like they had just arrived about the same time we did. they were wearing their uniforms, and it looks like they were getting their instructions to get ready to go up to the sendai, fukushima area. >> and did you get a sense of what the people, what they're feeling? >> well, obviously, it was the talk of the airport. i mean, conversations talking about the earthquake, people with friends and family up in that area, just obviously concern. but everyone trained to, you know, create a sense of normalcy because, you know, here in tokyo, it had been feeling the aftershocks since thursday. but they still want to maintain a certain sense of business as usual because the prime minister, it's important for the prime minister when he came out and said that he wants the japanese people to realize that the country still has to keep going. in fact, he spoke to the nation a couple hours ago, we got to the room, turned on the television, it was around-the-clock coverage. he got on camera and bas

links are paralyzed making it difficult to confirm levels of damage or casualties tokyo's narita international airport has also closed all the quake's epicenter was located one hundred thirty kilometers off of japan specific coast and three residential areas some russians north of japan are also other threats with her if you see services on standby now again just to remind you we're looking at live pictures of the devastated area in a pram a tsunami is underway there is being hit by a tsunami after an eight point eight earthquake. you know. and now let's move on to other top stories on our team the colonel gadhafi forces retake key areas from brussels to locals warning that media exaggeration was stoping to foreign intervention nato is moving its fleet closer to libyan shores and won't rule out military action which russia refuses to support. next to moscow outtakes and more of russia's influence around europe and today is in paris. hello and welcome to one of the most loved and visit cities in the world paris basically great a look at the culture and architecture here and throughout the centu

aircraft scrambled to the worst affected area and communication has been crippled and tokyo's narita international airport has been closed now the entire pacific region is a tsunami alert with her wire brace to be hit within the next few hours. well let's go back to libya and the effects of the political turmoil there while the fighting is picking up pace leaving the country's ravaged oil industry in the firing line well both sides are striving for total control of production but without damaging it repairable to get their way well as artie's it's on a boy who reports importers might not care who supplies the oil so long as it keeps pumping. and he says of stability in the scorching we've been desert the country's all industry that's prior to the uprising was churning out around two percent of the global oil output has also fallen victim to the unrest to brokers the last major oil facility in levy still maintaining its regular federations and sending all the world markets just last week to tankers departed from this all terminal one carrying a million barrels of oil that was bound for china and an

narita airport. the staging ground for u.s. and other international help rushing in. the government is concerned about a second meltdown at a second reaction, and a possible explosion there. it's playing down the idea of leakage of nuclear radiation. and we're going to talk about that. we're going the talk about what we saw today. my team and i went to the north where most devastation has been. my colleagues have reached some of the worst hit areas. as aid officials are also reaching those areas for the first time. we'll have all that in the broadcast. >>> later, jake tapper, my colleague, will turn to all the news from washington. president obama and the united states administration are not only having to monitor this crisis but also the civil war in libya. and as well, a bitter budget battle on capitol hill. but first, to the situation here in japan. let's look at a map of the country. the earthquake struck just off the coast of japan. it sent strong tremors at least 200 miles from the epicenter. the tsunami wave destroyed and damaged two-thirds of the east coast of