Japan

Ever since they announced that small amounts of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plant might hit the U.S., Americans have been stocking up on potassium iodide pills, which are the only treatment available for radiation exposure. See the next page for three reasons it's a bad idea to take them.

You have to check out a new photo gallery from ABC News. They took satellite photos of the exact same areas of Japan from before and after the tsunami and set it up so you can compare the two by dragging your mouse over each one. Get more info on the next page.

If you're having trouble understanding the crisis at Japan's damaged nuclear plant, maybe this will help: Someone in Japan made a cartoon about it for children, and compared it to a little kid pooping his pants. See this very strange video on the next page!

We'll probably be hearing more of these stories as the days and weeks progress, but Sandra Bullock is the first celebrity to write a big, fat check for the relief effort in Japan. Read more on the next page!

The Salvation Army is warning donors to beware of a bogus email appeal which asks for donations to The Salvation Army's Relief efforts in Japan. The appeal, claiming to be from "Salvation Army National Corp.," urges donors to send a donation to an email address which IS NOT a valid Salvation Army address. Read more about it on the next page.

As the voice of the Aflac insurance duck, Gilbert Gottfried had one of the sweetest gigs in showbiz. All he had to do was show up to a recording studio every once in a while and shout "Aflac!" into a microphone a few times. And it probably paid him more money than any job he ever had. With the possible exception of playing the parrot in "Aladdin". But he BLEW IT. He posted a bunch of insensitive tsunami jokes, and Aflac fired him. Read more on the next page.

After scouring the web for footage of the earthquake in Japan, I found quite a few that are pretty unbelievable. See the most incredible footage yet on the next page.

The coast of northeast Japan was hit by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake last night. That's Friday afternoon in terms of Japanese time. The epicenter was 231 miles from Tokyo, but they still felt the aftershocks, and it cut power for 4 million people. Read more on the next page.