Now, some good news from Japan 9 days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, two people have bee rescued in north eastern Japan.

An 80-year-old woman and her teenage grandson. Both were conscious but weak after surviving on the food they had in their refrigerator.

The youth was able to pull himself out of their flattened two-story house. Like other homes in northeastern Japan, they had lost electricity and telephone services in the March 11th earthquake.

Meanwhile, Japan's National Police Agency says 8,277 people have been confirmed dead and 12,722 others are unaccounted for after the earthquake.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan will visit quake-hit areas Monday near the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant, where the scope of the devastation is overwhelming.