Albuquerque residents with family in Japan talk to them

March 12, 2011

we've spent the day talking to people in new mexico with close ties to japan. they're people who had to make that desperate call to see if their loved ones in japan are alright. cristina rodda continues our team coverage. masayau noda just returned to albuquerque from japan yesterday--- hours before the earthquake and tsunami hit. but his wife and son are still there. "i ask them no one get hurt? good thing is no one get hurt." masayasu noda's wife and son are alright-- they are about 300 miles from the northern japanese coast-- which was ravaged by the earthquake. "my wife said the house roof has been damaged." he says the three weeks he was in tokyo -- he felt tremors... small size of the earthquake we get use to... so many times here and there and there." it's something those living in japan are accustomed to but this is something else. nodal is thinking of those injured and killed-- and hoping there won't be another powerful quake.. "tokyo mainly underground transportation all over in tokyo so if it hit i hope not but it's going to be disaster." nodal's wife and son hope to return to new mexico at the end of the month. back to you. our team coverage of the disaster in japan continues at 6 o'clock. cristina rodda talks to a woman who's been making frantic calls to japan -- since realizing those horrible pictures on t-v are from her home country