Japan: 70-yr-old woman found alive after 4 days

Last Updated 7:54 a.m. ET

SOMA, Japan - Rescuers have found a 70-year-old woman alive four days after the disaster struck.

Osaka fire department spokesman Yuko Kotani says the woman was found inside her house that was washed away by the tsunami in northeastern Japan's Iwate prefecture.

The rescuers from Osaka, in western Japan, were sent to the area for disaster relief.

Kotani said the woman was conscious but suffering from hypothermia and is being treated at a hospital. She would not give the woman's name.

NHK reported that in the town of Ishimaki in Miyagi prefecture, a man in his 20s was also rescued.

"I was washed away by the tsunami but I am alright," he was quoted as saying.

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Their rescues were a rare bit of news for Japanese traumatized by the disaster.

On Monday, 2,000 bodies were found washed ashore in Miyagi.

Reporting from Ishinomaki, CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy spoke to people waiting in long lines as a Red Cross hospital - one of the only hospitals still left in the area - to get information about missing loved ones.

Inside the tent, it's quiet as people scour the lists of names, hoping to learn if their loved one has been treated at this hospital, and whether they're dead or alive.

One woman in line feared her only son is dead. She told Tracy people witnessed the tsunami washing him away in his car.

At a school - now a makeshift evacuation center - many come to check a wall full of names and messages left by people so if their relatives come in, they'll know how to find them.

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