it's the tsunami's fault" sato says. "we have to get on with our lives." is no blame, only perseverance and fellowship in the face of so much loss. lucy craft, cbs news, koizumi, japan. >> couric: and that is the "cbs evening news" for tonight. i'm katie couric. we leave you with a reminder of the friendship between japan and the united states, the cherry trees presented to washington, d.c. by the mayor of tokyo 99 years ago this weekend. now in full bloom. a delicate symbol of hope and rerule in. good night.,,,,,,

on the roof we find sonoko sato. "it's like a nightmare" she says "with all the aftershocks and warnings, i can't calm down." today good news. there was no tsunami. but no one here will ever forget the day there was. another reason they can't forget these relentless aftershocks. 60 in the last 24 hours, some of them major earthquakes in their own rights. magnitudes 6 and above. katie? >> couric: bill, there are obviously tens of thousands of homeless people in that area. what's being done to help them? >> couric: well, there are city- run shelters, but it's cold here and there's no electricity. water is being rationed, gas is being rationed, and people are starting to ask why in this rich country more isn't being done. katie? >> couric: bill whitaker reporting from sendai, japan tonight, bill, thank you. outside sendai along the coast, many smaller towns and villages exist now in name only. ben tracy shows us how natori, once a thriving farming town, has been turned into a wasteland. >> reporter: more than three days

yukio sato's family home was on the right side of that line, but only just. the breed just stopped short -- debris just stopped short of the back door. >> [unintelligible] >> so the water got to this level? >> it was astonishing. there used to be lots of houses out there. and they are all gone. the buildings are probably all washed up here and they were crushed. >> chance. the difference between home saved and many lives lost. life is just going to get harder and in this village. the japanese the week way of dealing with it helps a lot. for the children, it is something they will never forget. and neither will those who lost relatives and friends, homes and possessions, and will now have to begin again. bbc news, japan. >> stay with this -- with us if you can on "bbc world news." much more from japan, of course. plus, gatherings in benghazi calling for an end to infighting and political unity. first though, the government in egypt has dissolved its secret police who were blamed for decades of human rights abuses. abolishing the force known as the state securi

sato cleaning up the meses. his family says they are okay. here on the top of this debris pile, a family album. school, pictures, a father and son, brothers together, schoolmates. and you remember who this belonged to and whether or not they are alive. there are rescue crews here and their only mission is to re-- it looks like war. harry smith, cbs news, japan. >>> well here at home, it took minutes for the tsunami to destroy more than a dozen boats in the santa cruz harbor. the majority of those boats remain under water. several were pulled from the water today. in santa cruz with an update on the progress. kit. >> right now, there's a heavy smell of fuel out hire. that's because a lot of boats they pulling out of the water are leaking gas. that explains the heavy, kind of gassy fume out here. when you watch them pull the boat out of the watt ire. it looks like they are slow going. pulling out a boat or two every single day. but with 12 more boats to go that are sunken out here, it will be some time before the harbor gets back to normal. to