[Holmes:] Welcome back to "Around the World." To Japan, where more than two years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, tens of thousands of people still can't go home.
[Malveaux:] So the mayor of one contaminated town invited Google to capture what his city looks like today. And these images, quite eerie, you see them there. Chad Myers is telling us a little bit about how did Google explain this for us. How did Google get these pictures in the first place?
[Chad Myers, Ams Meteorologist:] Well, it's a grim reminder of what happened there a couple years ago. We have a car. Google drives around in his car and sometimes you may see it in your neighborhood with a big bubble on top taking 3D or 360- degree pictures. Well, for the first time, Google was allowed to drive its car, not unmanned, a manned car, through the streets of Namie, Japan. Fukushima Daiichi there, not that far away where the disaster happened. So all these blue lines now, you can look to see what the town looks like. So I'm just going to kind of give you an idea, an unfortunate idea, of what the town is. And right there, this is a mirror. I found it on the street. This is a mirror to help drivers know if cars are coming, but there's the top of the car. Here's the Google car itself right there, and there is the ball that does take all of the pictures. So we'll get to some of these devastating pictures. Now you have to understand that this was a town with bustling streets, people living through this, and all of a sudden, there's just nothing here, the town a complete disaster, just empty areas here. Even Coke still in the Coke machines here. I've seen a couple pictures where there are still areas where people were selling clothes and the clothes are still hanging on the racks in the middle of the parking lot. That's two years ago. Now you get closer to the ocean and this is where the devastation really occurs. This is where the wave came in. This honestly looks like Waveland, Bay St. Louis, after Katrina. This is what the area looks like, all of the buildings completely knocked down, and it's the same story no matter where you go closer to the ocean. Here, now this is almost a half mile inland. That boat or that ship was pushed by the wave all the way through here. And if you notice, there are foundations of homes here, here, here, and here. Just a grim reminder and you can go online to Google Maps and take a look at this of what happened to those people over there in Japan on that fateful day, which was a devastating earthquake to start with and then the tsunami that knocked all this stuff down.
[Holmes:] Chilling stuff, isn't it?
[Myers:] It is.
[Holmes:] It's like when they went back to Chernobyl
[Myers:] Exactly like Chernobyl.
[Holmes:] Years later and all deserted but still intact. Nothing
[Malveaux:] And he says Katrina. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw those pictures, post Katrina in New Orleans.
[Myers:] Yes.
[Holmes:] Horrible. Horrible. Chad, thanks for that.
[Myers:] You're welcome.
[Holmes:] An amazing look around.
[Malveaux:] So this is kind of a strange story.
[Holmes:] This is bizarre. The pictures are amazing.
[Malveaux:] An invasion of locusts threatening a food supply. This is in Madagascar.
[Holmes:] We're not going to show you the pictures. We want you to stick around.