Japan earthquake, tsunami aftermath

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Japan earthquake, tsunami aftermath

Japan earthquake, tsunami.

A Japanese man waits while Natori firefighters work to pry open his car to look for his missing family members after he found the family car in Natori, Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The firefighters found no one in the car.

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members search for the victims of Friday's tsunami in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011.

Upon hearing another tsunami warning, a father tries to flee for safety with his just reunited four-month-old baby girl who was spotted n the rubble of tsunami-torn Ishinomaki on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit northeast Japan.

A Red Cross rescue worker, in red, is scanned for signs of radiation upon returning from Fukushima to his hospital in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Monday, March 14, 2011. Fukushima prefectural officials said that 190 people have been exposed to some radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant damaged by Friday's strong earthquake.

A rescuer searches for the victims of Friday's tsunami in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011,

A family picture lies among the rubble in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011.

Signs of "HELP" and "SOS" are written on the ground of Ohara Primary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Monday.

An evacuee searches name lists for friends in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. On top of the losses of family and friends in the earthquake and tsunami, evacuees in the area are now faced with the fears of radiation contamination from damaged nuclear facilities nearby.

Japan Self-Defense Forces personnel search for victims around a ship swept out by Friday's tsunami in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011.

A Japanese rescue team removes a body from the debris inside the completely leveled village of Saito, in northeastern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011.

Evacuees gather around the candlelight at a blacked out shelter Monday, March 14, 2011, in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami.

People evacuate to higher place after tsunami warning was issued in Higashimatsuyshima, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami.

John Dicola from New York and Shakir Briggs from Orlando, Fla., were among U.S. Navy personnel helping remove debris from the Misawa Fishing Port on Monday. More than 90 sailors from Naval Air Facility Misawa volunteered to help Misawa City employees and members of the community begin to clean up.

U.S. search and rescue dogs sit on the floor of a gymnasium after arriving with their handlers at the Setamai school in Sumita, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. Two search and rescue teams from Fairfax County, Va., and Los Angeles County in the U.S. and a team from the U.K. have arrived in northern Japan to help in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami.

A firefighter finds a victim in the debris in Saito village, Miyagi Prefecture, Monday, March 14, 2011.

Elderly people who evacuated from a town near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant read newspapers at a shelter in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Monday March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked the Japanese nuclear plant Monday, devastating the structure housing one reactor and injuring 11 workers.

A hand of a victim is seen in the debris in Saito village, Miyagi Prefecture, Monday, March 14, 2011 after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake.

Japanese rescue team members carry the body of a man from the village of Saito, in northeastern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011.

A Japanese earthquake and tsunami survivor walks alone on a road past the destroyed village of Saito, in northeastern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011.

In this March 13, 2011 photo, a man walks by Japanese word meaning "food" drawn over fading sign of SOS marked on the ground in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo, Sunday March 13, 2011, two days after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan. Kan appealed to the Japanese to unite in overcoming what he says is the nation's worst crisis since World War II.

A woman whose home was badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami speaks to recovery officers in her destroyed neighborhood in Sendai, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 13, 2011.

Evacuees walk on a flooded street in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Sunday, March 13, 2011, two days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast.

Tsunami survivors walk on a muddy street as they evacuate from tsunami-torn town in Natori city, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday morning, March 12, 2011 following a massive earthquake and tsunami.

Evacuees walk through a flooded street in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Sunday, March 13, 2011.

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A Japanese man waits while Natori firefighters work to pry open his car to look for his missing family members after he found the family car in Natori, Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The firefighters found no one in the car.

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