CNN reporter hears from grandmother after several tense days

CNN Newsource reporter Sandra Endo talked with anchor Ali Velshi today about how her family in northern Japan is coping in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. Endo’s father was born in Fukushima. Her grandmother, aunt and cousins lived through the quake, but many neighbors did not.

Endo is a national correspondent for CNN Newsource — the affiliate news service of CNN — based in Washington, D.C.