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I think going back to the earthquake in heightaiti 2010 the first team on the ground. we had a huge number of personnel there, and i eely never have been more proud of cnn than with our coverage there. i spent a month, i think on the ground there as well. i had been able to go back multiple times. to be there, you know it was a great privilege to tell peoples stories and to be able to bear witness to the suffering of others to bear witness to what other people were going through, people who had ...

For bill its the race to somebodys bottom. look hillary is writing the news cycle like kelly slater on a breaking wave. she knows if she holds back something like baltimore comes and shes blown off the pages. she knows, naturally, if she just lays low, shes going to ride that wave to nomination because theres always something worse. by the way, nobody really expects trust in a career politician. thats like expecting a boulder to sing opera. for some reason people really like him. i dont trust th...

Vertically. a breaking wave can drive this stuff down below the surface where its no longer visible from the air. surface of the ocean has little wavelets thats reflective. makes it extremely difficult if you ever try to look into the water with the sun at a low angle. if you threw a net into the ocean you come up with different bits of plastic. like in this jar this is indian ocean broken bits of plastic. they turn into fragments. by the time this stuff disintegrates due to photo degradation it...

>> we are watching what is the effect we are hearing reports thatty woor supposed to see wave action on the west coast. what do you know about that? northern california and oregon are likely to be hit the hardest and on the eastern side of the pacific. damaging levels especially around the crescent city where we have seen big tsunamis in the past. as you go further south, the possibility of damaging waves gets a lot less. the big issue is a rising sea level rather than a breaking wave. the impac...

A rogue wave is a wave that comes out of nowhere thats extraordinarily large and part of the bell curve waves are on in a storm. and its called a rogue wave but really an exceptionally strong wave. >> theres a couple places in the world where i guess these kind of bigger waves tend to occur. were going to show it on the map. off the coast of japan, also off the coast of south africa and apparently the east coast of the united states. why would these areas be prone to these kind of waves? >> what...

The form of white water and hits the boat, sets it back and can literal literally situation it, break it. >> if the boat is to the side of a breaking wave then it can be broken? >> thats right. a swell, its no problem. so waves break. when waves break depends on their steepness. thats effected by a current. if waves are going into an oncoming current it shortens the wavelength, makes the wave steeper and starts to break. the rogue waves, not that there are more rogue waves there, there are more ...

Doesnt come in as a breaking wave at all, but instead that the water just rises. >> gregg: could it come in as a tall wave, could it do either one? >> tsunamis rarely come in rarely as tall breaking waves. >> gregg: so a contraction and storm surge and expansion into the coastline. think of it as if you speeded up the clock for high tide and low fide. >> gregg: so this figure that has been widely report of eight feet, where does that come from? >> i dont know where that comes from. you are can...

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Theres something new to the story. the president concluded by saying theres no there there. well have more to come this hour and the other story, the irs story that the president also reacted to very strongly and with very sharp language. all ahead this hour. but this is one of those news days when the news was breaking like waves in the ocean. just one thing after the other. the largest late breaking wave of news today was about the associated press. it is a story that both broken by the "assoc...