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Japan earthquake deaths rise to 13 as rescuers race to find people trapped in mall · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: We begin in Japan, where at least thirteen people have
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  Speaker 1: died after Tuesday's powerful earthquake on the southwest island of Qshu.
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Sinai Takeichi says it's a race against time,
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  Speaker 1: with many people still waiting to be rescued. The quake
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  Speaker 1: has caused severe damage, including a shopping center where people
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  Speaker 1: remain trapped, and we are showing you live images on
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  Speaker 1: the Aon mall where so far, officials say that eight
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  Speaker 1: people have been rescued. The magnitude six point eight earthquakes
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  Speaker 1: struck on Tuesday afternoon, damaging buildings, cutting power, and disrupting
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  Speaker 1: transport across the region. More strong aftershocks are expected in
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  Speaker 1: the coming days. Our correspondent j Quan has been following
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  Speaker 1: Takeichi's press conference and sent this update.
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  Speaker 2: She said that now the latest death toll is thirteen people.
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  Speaker 2: Now it is unclear how many of these people are
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  Speaker 2: coming from the collapsed shopping mall. This is where the
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  Speaker 2: rescue effort has been concentrated over the night and this morning.
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  Speaker 2: We have heard from the fire authority that they have
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  Speaker 2: brought eight people. They've found eight people inside this partially
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  Speaker 2: collapsed building. Three of them had been declared dead and
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  Speaker 2: five others were liked to moderately injured. Now, this is
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  Speaker 2: the place where we have heard from eyewitnesses saying that
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  Speaker 2: shortly after the tremor yesterday afternoon that there was an
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  Speaker 2: explosion and fire and the second floor of this mall
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  Speaker 2: had collapsed. Now, I think it is worth mentioning worth
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  Speaker 2: emphasizing that struck this earthquake had struck at four twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven pm. And this is usually when a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are still at work, We're shopping, many families would
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  Speaker 2: be out shopping for groceries so they can make their dinners.
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  Speaker 2: And we've seen extraordinary videos of the retail store Costco
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  Speaker 2: where shoppers were screaming as the boxes of food was
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  Speaker 2: falling from the shelves and the stacks were being knocked over. Now,
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  Speaker 2: mis Hanai Takaichi had said that she will mobilize. She
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  Speaker 2: had mobilized thirty six hundred members of the Self Defense
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  Speaker 2: Force to help with the rescue effort as well as
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  Speaker 2: the recovery, she said. She said the government is also
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  Speaker 2: aware of many roads and bridge damages as whereas power cuts, fires,
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  Speaker 2: and then they also had gotten the report of derailing
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  Speaker 2: and you know upturning all the railroad train as well,
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  Speaker 2: and they're still sort of assessing the full extent of
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  Speaker 2: the damage at this point.
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  Speaker 1: To get a sense of how things transpired on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: we can speak with Chantel Moha. She's a tourist from
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  Speaker 1: the United States who was on holiday in Kumamoto when
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  Speaker 1: the quake happened. Until joins me from Fukuoka. Chantelle talk
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  Speaker 1: us through what happened when the quake hit.
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  Speaker 3: Where were you?
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  Speaker 4: We were on the way back to fu Guoca on
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  Speaker 4: a tour bus when all the phones and the bus
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  Speaker 4: systems went off and.
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  Speaker 3: When you look it said that there was an earthquake happening.
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  Speaker 4: And there's just a lot of rocking and.
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  Speaker 3: Confusion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it must have been quite a friending experience. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us what happened next.
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  Speaker 3: So we just kept heading back.
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  Speaker 4: It was about a two and a half hour ride,
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  Speaker 4: but we kept having to turn around.
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  Speaker 3: So first there was a down power line.
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  Speaker 4: This poor lady was trying to lift it with a broom.
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  Speaker 4: Our bus driver got out into directing traffic. They were
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  Speaker 4: very nice, very helpful. We ended up having to turn
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  Speaker 4: around go back. We went through a neighborhood to turn around.
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  Speaker 4: There that's where there was a lot of collapsed homes
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  Speaker 4: and smashed cars and fissures in the road, so we
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  Speaker 4: couldn't go that way, so we continued circling until we
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  Speaker 4: finally got on the the evacuation route, and that took
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  Speaker 4: us about nine hours to get back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like quite a distressing experience. Who are
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  Speaker 1: you traveling with? Whether we were quite a few people
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  Speaker 1: on this bus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the bus was full. And then in my entire.
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  Speaker 1: In my family, okay, and what's happened to you now?
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  Speaker 1: Since then? What have you been doing.
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  Speaker 4: Since then?
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  Speaker 3: We got back safely. They did a great job of
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  Speaker 3: taking care of us.
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  Speaker 4: They were really concerned about water because there was no power,
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  Speaker 4: so we couldn't even go to the vending machines to
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  Speaker 4: get water along the roads. So they just did everything
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  Speaker 4: they could to make us comfortable and they got us
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  Speaker 4: back safely.
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  Speaker 3: Everything in Fukuoka was running, I kindas station was running.
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  Speaker 3: So we're here and we're just happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, earthquake quite common in Japan. Talk to us a
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  Speaker 1: bit more. How you saw people sort of respond to them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody was.
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  Speaker 4: As we drove by housing, just everybody was standing outside.
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  Speaker 4: I think just trying to be safe. My cousin said
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  Speaker 4: there was some people that were outside throwing up, but
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  Speaker 4: basically people will were calm but very scared, just standing outside,
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  Speaker 4: had their pets tied up outside.
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  Speaker 1: Chantel, thanks very much for talking to me about this,
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  Speaker 1: So do you stay safe over there? Chantal Moha, a
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  Speaker 1: tourist from the United States who was on holiday in Kumamoto,