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Nearly a year after a massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan swallowed whole towns and left more than 15,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of people displaced, the nuclear town of Okuma is eerily empty.
The 9.0 magnitude earthquake led to a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant and led to mandatory evacuations 12 miles around the power plant. NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel journeyed to the exclusion zone and discovered a ghost town. Restaurants, grocery stores, factories remained as they were left on Mar. 11, 2011.
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FYI - We are commemorating the Anniversary of Fukushima in San Clemente on 3/10 and holding a protest at San Onofre on 3/11. More info here...
WOW, where to begin here with this sensationalism?
He wears gloves and mask, but no shoe covers? What did he do with his shoes after this tour? Take them home and give them to his kids?
And the meter that is dinging and he is reading out numbers, what are the units?
Richard should stick to middle east and other foreign affairs and leave the science to us scientists before he loses all of his integrity!