to move up and down
Christine Lee of Canada performs on the Beam aparatus during qualification at day one of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Tokyo. Adam Pretty/Getty Images
Photos: Typhoon Roke hits Japan, threatens damaged nuclear plant
A powerful typhoon struck Japan on Wednesday, pummeling the Tokyo area with heavy rain, disrupting public transportation and leaving four people dead, and it was headed towards the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Typhoon Roke, the second big storm to hit Japan this month, was packing winds of up to 220 km per hour and dumped more than 40 cm of rain in parts of eastern and western Japan over the past 24 hours, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (Photo: JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)
A devastating tsunami triggered by the biggest earthquake on record in Japan looked set to kill at least 1,000 people along the northeastern coast on Friday after a wall of water swept away everything in its path.
