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IT LOOKED LIKE A TSUNAMI
DISASTER.
SO PAULA, TAKE IT FROM HERE.
TELL US YOUR REACTION AND THE
REACTION OF YOUR CREW WHEN THEY
SAW THE DAMAGE BELOW.
>> Reporter: WELL, AS WE WERE
FLYING OVER THE AREA IT WAS
QUITE CLEAR THAT THERE WAS A LOT
OF WATER, AN AWFUL LOT OF THE
GROUND COVERED BY WATER.
ALTHOUGH IT WAS DIFFICULT TO SEE
FROM THE CARGO PLANE.
ALSO YOU COULD SEE THE VAST
MAJORITY OF TREES WERE EITHER
BENT OVER OR HAD BEEN COMPLETELY
FELLED.
WHEN WE LANDED IT WAS VERY CLEAR
THAT THE TERMINAL BUILDING HAD
BEEN COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
IT CERTAINLY DOES LOOK AS THOUGH
A TSUNAMI HAS COME THROUGH HERE.
IN FACT, IT DID.
THIS IS A STORM SURGE, A WALL OF
WATER THAT CAME THROUGH THIS
PARTICULAR AREA.
ONE OF THE MILITARY OFFICIALS
HERE TELLING ME THAT IT REACHED
THE SECOND STORY.
YOU CAN BELIEVE HIM BECAUSE YOU
CAN SEE THE SECOND STORY HAD ALL
THESE WINDOWS BLOWN OUT AND
DESTROYED AS WELL.
EVERYTHING INSIDE THE TERMINAL
BUILDING IS NOW SPRAWLED OUTSIDE
THE TERMINAL BUILDING.
BROKEN WOOD, CHAIRS, TURNED
UPSIDE DOWN CARS AND ALL SORTS
OF DEBRIS YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM
A WALL OF WATER COMING THROUGH
HERE.
>> IMAGINE WHAT THAT MUST BE
LIKE FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO
UNDERWENT THIS HORRIFIC NATURAL
DISASTER.
AND THEN SEEING THE DEVASTATION
FIRST HAND, SEEING WHAT IT HAS
DONE.
I THINK THE SCOPE OF THIS
DISASTER WILL BECOME CLEARER IN
THE COMING HOURS AND DAYS BASED
ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN THIS
HARD-HIT CITY.
PAULA, ARE YOU SEEING ANY
ACTIVITY ON THE GROUND?
DO YOU SEE PEOPLE WALKING
AROUND?
>> Reporter: YES.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF RESIDENTS
WALKING AROUND.
SOME OF THEM HAVE COME TO THIS
PARTICULAR TERMINAL AREA
OBVIOUSLY KNOWING THAT THE
MILITARY PLANES WILL BE LANDING
HERE AND THIS IS WHERE THE FOOD
AND THE WATER WILL BE
DISTRIBUTED.
IS LIKELY TO BE DISTRIBUTED.
THIS IS ALSO WHERE IF THEY HAVE
INJURIES THEY WOULD THINK THAT
THEY CAN GET SOME FIRST AID.
AND WE'VE SEEN A VERY BASIC
AMOUNT OF THAT, WIPING AWAY
BLOOD AND PUTTING A BANDAGE ON.
NOTHING TOO SOPHISTICATED AT
THIS POINT.