A2: Japan Quake Survivor

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien reports on the experience of Paul Fales, an Eastern Michigan University graduate who’s teaching in Japan and who survived Friday’s earthquake and tsunami there: “Outside, Paul asks to use my satellite phone to call his parents. He hasn’t gotten word to them, and he knows they must be worried. We agree and ask him to join us live on Anderson Cooper’s show ‘AC360°’. He agrees, and we call New York to tell Anderson’s producers that we will have a young American as a guest. The producer’s voice is disbelieving. … It turns out that Paul’s parents, Mary and Peter, have already been booked to be guests on Anderson’s show. They have been desperate to find their son and were going on television to plead for any information about him.” Mary Fales is an attorney for the city of Ann Arbor. [Source]