10K Dead In Japan Amid Fears Of A Nuclear Meltdown. SENDAI, Japan - The death toll from the disaster in Japan has climbed past 10,000 on Sunday that authorities were quick to counter the threat of collapse of several nuclear reactors and hundreds of thousands of people struggling to find food and water. The Prime Minister said the nation's worst crisis since the Second World War.

Nuclear plant operators have worked tirelessly to try to keep the temperature down several reactors paralyzed by the earthquake and tsunami destroyed at least two of sea water dumped them in the efforts of last resort to avoid collapses. Officials cautioned against a second explosion, but said he would not pose threat to health.

Temperatures near the freezing point to the misery of survivors and hundreds of miles (kilometers) off the northeast coast is battered by the tsunami that destroyed the interior with awesome fury. Rescuers pulled bodies covered in mud houses destroyed codes, broken tree trunks, cars twisted and tangled power lines, while survivors examined the remains in ruins.

A few rare good news was the rescue of a 60 year old man displaced by the tsunami, clinging to the roof of his house for two days until a military ship spotted him waving a red rag to about 10 miles (15 km) offshore.

The death toll rose as the report of Miyagi, one of three major states. The chief of police officials in case of disaster has said more than 10,000 people were killed, a police spokesman told the Associated Press Go Sugawara. It 'was an estimate - only 400 people were confirmed dead in Miyagi, with a population of 2.3 million.

Officials said more than 1,800 people confirmed dead - including 200 people whose bodies were found Sunday along the coast - and more than 1,400 missing from the disaster on Friday. Another 1,900 were injured.

For Japan, one of the largest economies in the world with a modern infrastructure, a disaster plunged the ordinary life in an almost unimaginable deprivation.

Hundreds of thousands of starving survivors huddled in the dark PSAPs that have been cut off from rescuers, aid and electricity. At least 1.4 million homes were without water since the earthquake, and about 1.9 million homes were without power.

While the government has doubled the number of soldiers stationed in the audience and sent 120,000 to 100,000 blankets, 120,000 bottles of water and 29,000 gallons (110,000 liters) of gasoline and food to affected areas, said Prime Minister Naoto Can electricity would take days to recover. Meanwhile, he said electricity would be rationed with yet more cuts in several cities, including Tokyo.

"This is the worst crisis in Japan since the war ended 65 years ago," Kan told reporters, adding that Japan's future is decided on its response.

In Rikuzentakata, the port city of more than 20,000 virtually wiped out by the tsunami, Etsuko Koyama fled to the water rushing through the third floor of his house, but they have lost their grip on the hand of her daughter and did not find him.

"I have not given up hope," Koyama said the public broadcaster NHK, wiping tears from his eyes. "I am saved, but I could not save my daughter."

A young man described what crossed his mind before fleeing in a separate rescue operation. "I thought, ah, that's how I'm going to die," Tatsuro Ishikawa, face bruised and cut, told NHK as he sat in the Striped Pajamas hospital.

Japanese officials raised their estimate Sunday in the quake at a magnitude of 9.0, a notch above the reading of the U.S. Geological Survey 8.9. Still, it was the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan, which lies on an arc of seismic activity. A volcano on the southern island of Kyushu - hundreds of miles (kilometers) by the earthquake "epicenter - has also resumed spewing ash and rock Sunday, after a quiet couple of weeks, the Meteorological Agency of Japan said.

Dozens of countries have offered their help. Two groups of U.S. aircraft carriers off the coast were ready to help Japan. Helicopters flew over from one carrier USS Ronald Reagan, providing food and water in Miyagi.

Two teams of U.S. rescue of 72 people each and rescue dogs arrived here Sunday, as a team of five dogs in Singapore.

However, large areas of the field is surrounded by water and inaccessible. stations were closed, but some cars waited in lines hundreds of vehicles long.

The United States and several European countries urged their citizens to avoid traveling in Japan. France took a step added to the impression people were leaving Tokyo in the event of radiation reaching the city.

Community after community plot scale devastation.

Minamisanrikucho in town, 10,000 people - nearly two-thirds of the population - have not heard from him since the tsunami destroyed it, a government spokesman said. NHK showed that some concrete structures still standing, and the three lower floors of gutted buildings. A few feet was a hospital employee told NHK that hospital staff had saved about a third of patients.

In hard-hit port city of Sendai, firefighters dug with picks made of wood in a neighborhood devastated. One of them shouted: "A corpse." Interior of a house he had found the corpse of a gray-haired woman in a blanket.

A few minutes later, firefighters discovered a second - that the man fleece jacket and pants blacks, crumpled in a fetal position and partially fund a wooden staircase. From the outside, but the upper part of the house, seemed almost intact on the first floor, where the body was hit. MPV provides built-in one of the outer wall, which was torn, mangled bicycles near the dust.

The neighbor man, 24, Ayumi Osuga, dug through the debris of her house, her white mittens muddy black.

Osuga said she had been the practice of origami, the Japanese art of folding paper into figures with his three children when the earthquake stuck. She recalled her husband shouted warning from the outside: "Come out now!"

He gathered the children - ages 2-6 - and fled in the car with her husband above. They spent the night in a hill belonging to the house of her husband's family about 12 miles (20 km) away.

"My family, my children. We are lucky to be alive, "she said.

"I realized what's important in life," said Osuga, nervously waving a cigarette ash in the rubble at his feet like a giant column of black smoke in the distance.

The evening fell and the temperature dropped to freezing in Sendai, the people who had stayed underpasses or offices in the last two nights, the heat collected from youth associations, schools and City Hall.

This is a large refinery on the outskirts of the city, high flames 100 feet (30 meters) orange fired into the air, spitting out plumes of dark smoke. Body was burned by Friday. the roar of the fire was at a distance. Smoke burned the eyes and throat, and gaseous stench hung in the air.

In the small town of Tagajo also near Sendai, dazed residents wandered the streets full of cars smashed, twisted metal and broken families.

Residents said the water rose and quickly than the first floor of buildings. On the bed General Hospital staff have worked feverishly to pull a bedridden floor at a time. With dark pools now, they may have gone to the local community center.

"There are no water or power, and we have very sick people here," said hospital official Ikura Matsumoto.

Police cars drove slowly through the city and warned residents through loudspeakers to try higher, but most just stood and watched them pass.

In the city of Iwaki, there was no electricity, the shops were closed and residents left as food and fuel has declined. Local police took about 90 people and gave them blankets and rice balls, but there was no evidence of government support trucks or military.

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