 Stacy can you give us a sense what's going on now in Japan? Where is the disaster headed the recovery so forth? Well, I think we can break it down into three different areas I mean one we can talk about the disaster as a whole the other we can talk about the nuclear sort of Situation that's going on and the third situation is about electricity and gas shortages. So first off in terms of the disaster I mean the death toll keeps rising There are search and rescue teams There's like 15 different countries who have search and rescue teams on the ground access is difficult in certain parts of the northeast and Miyagi prefecture But I think that people are getting help and definitely that that is happening Apparently there are you know food supplies blankets Medical supplies in the hospitals that are required, but I think that the Japanese government is doing you know a Very commendable job in sort of coordinating those needs a telecom San Frantier is also there to work out sort of the landline issues and the communication issues as family reunification becomes more important and also in terms of the logistics of The response in terms of the nuclear situation as we know there was a second Reactor that exploded today I'm not in a particular position to actually speculate about what that situation is But we know obviously that there were the evacuations of the people in the nearby areas And they've been told to stay indoors for now in terms of the electricity and Gas shortages. I believe that you know basically they were rationing both of these things And which was a smart thing to do in terms of trying to figure out You know how long they might Have these and wanting to really have everything available for the response efforts I also get reports though, you know first we heard over the weekend There were about 6 million households without electricity that went down to like 2.5 I just read a note your report of sort of 1.3 million households without electricity So perhaps, you know, they are getting some cutoffs or actually less Homes now are having to deal with that situation. I need to look into that a little bit further It's also important to say that a UN undack team, which is kind of the disaster Response team that first arrives in an emergency is on the ground in Tokyo and they usually health government in coordination issues They do initial assessments and they also put out a flash appeal so that donor governments know exactly what is needed in terms of Contributions. We've heard language like worst disaster since World War two That it's going to take the Japanese people a lifetime to recover from this How do you compare this disaster with recent disasters? Hurricane Katrina the earthquake in Haiti the earthquake in New Zealand. Well, I was asked on Friday actually Well, how does this compare to the tsunami of 2004 and I'll take that as a first instance and then we can talk about the others obviously The economic damages are going to be much much higher than they were in the tsunami Just because we have a highly industrialized country to give some sort of context Kobe earthquake of 1995 was a hundred and thirty four Billion to build back that city. That's considered Before this disaster to have been the most expensive disaster on record In terms of Katrina it was 81 billion or 81 to 83 billion damages estimated when we talk about Back to the tsunami of 2004 where a lot of the damage happened in sort of rural non industrialized places like Vanda Ache We were down to let me just look at the figures again because I have all of this written down It was about 10 billion Szechuan earthquake 20 billion So definitely this is above and beyond anything we've seen before there have been some very interesting though Not necessarily coherent studies done the World Bank just put out a report on you know Kind of how long does it take for a country to build back Their GDP after a disaster of even a median scale. It's usually at least five years and usually involves a Deficit and sort of external depth external debt and also internal deficits and as we know Japan already had a large deficit So we'll have to watch this carefully How's the international response been so far has it been coordinated? Is it helpful? Is it progressing in the right direction? You know, I think it is well organized I believe that you know obviously the UN and any country that wants to help Japan has to have that Offer accepted by the Japanese government from what I understand the Japanese government is coordinating everything and everyone is there to support them So I believe that we're very much in the certain rescue phase There's going to be a phase of basically collecting identifying and storing Dead bodies and also working out sort of water food medical supplies as sort of a secondary thing Shelter and getting all those food and non-food items to victims of the disaster and then In the next few days, I think you know organizations will really start talking about family reunification and trying to figure out Who is still missing and who is? Deceased and who has survived? What are some of the key lessons that we hope to learn to improve our Techniques in this particular disaster what I find very interesting on a day like today. I mean, it's it's nighttime now in Japan, but these search and rescue teams are going to be learning so much from each other This this is as as all the media have said one of the most videotaped photograph to disasters of all time Scientists are already saying that you know, they they have such a wealth of data in terms of studying tsunamis and how they move and how they They hit coastlines, so I think we're going to learn a lot from the Japanese experience Stacy white. Thank you for your time