Day 6

Vehicle headlamps illuminate the disaster area of the town of Yamada in Iwate prefecture on March 16. The official toll of the dead and missing following a devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast has topped 11,000.

A member of a British search and rescue team looks out from the window of a tsunami-damaged house in Kamaishi on March 16.

A rescue worker stands on top of a burned vehicle looking for more bodies amid the rubble of Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, Japan.

Survivors keep warm under covers in a school gymnasium being used as a shelter in Ofunato, Japan.

People retrieve gasoline from a car damaged by the tsunami in Minamisanrikucho in Miyagi prefecture.

Policemen gather around the covered bodies of victims retrieved from the debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture.

People wanting to leave Tokyo wait to enter the Immigration Bureau of Japan on March 16 in Tokyo.

Teams of government specialists at the emergency rescue headquarters frantically analyze radiation data from the Fukushima nuclear reactors damaged by the quake and tsunami, March 16 in Fukushima.

A Japanese military cargo helicopter takes off on a mission to dump water onto a reactor at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant on March 16. Japanese broadcaster NHK reported the operation was aborted after deciding it was not safe.

Damage at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, 150 miles north of Tokyo, is seen in this satellite image taken 9:35 a.m. local time on March 16.

A picture released from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on March 16 shows the damaged third (left) and fourth reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.

Evacuees from the west side of Fukushima receive radiation scans in Nihonmatsu city in Fukushima prefecture, March 16.

Japan's Emperor Akihito addresses the nation on television on March 16. The 77-year-old monarch said he was praying for the people's safety, and expressed his deep concern about the escalating nuclear crisis.

A family wearing face masks prepares to leave Tokyo on the Shinkansen bullet train at Tokyo station on March 16. Nuclear radiation fears and the threat of another earthquake have prompted many mothers with young children to leave Tokyo by any means possible. Despite Japan's reassurance of radiation levels being below hazardous, several airlines have stopped flights into Tokyo and a number of companies are evacuating foreign nationals.

Reiko Miura, 68, cries as she looks for her sister's son at a tsunami-hit area in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture, northern Japan on March 16.

A Mexican Red Cross member, center, points toward a body found by a sniffer dog to French firemen during a search operation in Sendai on March 16.

An official in a radiation protection suit scans an evacuated woman and her dog with a Geiger counter in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture on March 16.

Heavy snow falls on rubble and rescue workers at a devastated factory area in Sendai on March 16.

Youths carry a woman from a shelter in Miyako, northern Japan on March 16.

A boy waits for boiled water to cook instant noodles outside a shelter in Sendai, in Miyagi prefecture on March 16.

Women react after they were reunited in Onagawa, Miyagi, on March 16.

Police officers carry the body of a victim in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi on March 16.

A pump attendant holds a placard telling motorists not to queue up outside the petrol station in Akita, northwest Japan, on March 16, as the country rations fuel following the earthquake and tsunami.

Two bodies are left covered in blankets in the devastated town of Rikuzenmaeda in the Iwate prefecture of Japan, March 16.