Concepcion Area News Today

>> we from the very first moments of the crisis beginning at 5:00 a.m. on friday morning we set up a 24-hour operation center here. we have reached out to every means that we have e-mail and other kinds of contacts we have through our network to try to get a handle on how the americans are doing. up to this point we have no confirmed reports of any fatalities or any serious injuries in the american community, however, we do not have good information back from the concepcion area. we had a few sp...

And farther away from the fault lines. so we have to sort of couch everything we say. but i think its safe to say that at this point, no, were not seeing the level of destruction that we saw in haiti. for a number of reasons, alex. >> okay. msnbcs michelle kosinski, i want to thank you for helping us with our continuing coverage from london. well take a short break on "msnbc saturday" as we give you the latest look, the pictures coming in to us from the santiago, chile and perhaps concepcion are...

And those guys are in hawaii. i dont have their message out right now. the one we have, a tsunami advisory for california and alaska. theres actually, the way that the wave is moving, it looks like its going to miss california, im sorry, not california, oregon, washington and british columbia. but the thing that i want to stress here is that the local emergency managers in your community, if youre on the west coast, will tell you if you need to evacuate and tell you what you need to know. so cer...

Around their homes and mainly in the concepcion area. and theyre sleeping in parks, stadiums, schools overnight. as night sets in, there is more concern about looting as happened in the early hours of the morning in some cities. right now people are trying to stay inside and hope for the best. >> tell us about concepcion. i understand this is a very -- this is one of chiles largest cities and the other surrounding areas closer to concepcion where there might be the worst damage. >> definitely. c...

Earthquake, at which about 1550 people died as a result of that earthquake. and since then, chile is a prosperous and well-industrialized country, its had the money to put the infrastructure needed in place. sitting right there on the ring of fire. that area that sieismologists will call the area of the tectonic plate where the ocean and the land come together. and its a highly active area there are values in the area in the whole ring of fire. it really circumnavigates the whole pacific rim as ...

Ground shifts suddenly. probably in the matter of just a few seconds, the whole earthquake probably takes about a minute. thats what caused the ground to shake. >> so would that be visible. could you literally see an open area of fault line im just going to say, im from california and the scene of the san andreas fault line, you could see where the san andreas has split the earth. is that what youre going to see in chile? >> caller: its similar, but the motion is in a different direction. in cal...

Lot better today than yesterday and the day before. new york has canceled over 600 flights. thats a lot of people who werent going anywhere. today the airlines are doing what they can to get back on schedule. but here and jfk and laguardia, over 400 flights were canceled. the weather will be cooperating today. we are going to see snow showers throughout the day, but not anything to really worry about, maybe an inch or two of accumulation. still pretty cold out here as well. but flying conditions...

Wave may be just centimeters high. maybe ten centimeters high. but it traveled at upwards of 500 miles per hour. so this is moving at the speed of a jet engine. as a jet would go across. and the wave, what happens is the wave as it gets into shallower area, begins to draw up. and then as we know from banda aceh, it draws it away from the shore. and also like the sea goes out and then it all comes tumbling in. thats why it was often called a tidal wave. anyway. juan fernandez island is a very roc...

Going to be more quakes striking, aftershocks, about 15 have struck so far, ranging from 5.0 to 6.9 on the richter scale. so if you look at that thats just barely beneath that which we had strike in haiti at 7.0. lets get now to nbcs kerry sanders, who joins us from miami. kerry, i understand that youve been in chile many times. give us a sense of this community and how it is, that it has withstood an 8.8 earthquake as well as it has. were seeing pictures of destruction. but you would think it w...

We hear the president saying that the death toll is at 70. i would say from my experience, i fear that its going to be much higher. its very hard to get a calculation of how many people have died, in the darkness, with phone lines down. and just trying to get communication as people are quite frankly still in a panic. there have been at least 15 aftershocks. were also talking, as you know, about the tsunami threat. and while youve mentioned hawaii and other locations, ive been to an island off t...