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Feet elevation and it was a warm day that day. >> this creates a condition called high density altitude, which actually means hotter, thinner air, giving the pilot less lift and less power. >> i had to take certain steps, make certain changes to my routine. >> dennis calculates the changes hell make and at first, everything goes smoothly. >> the standard routine commences with pirouette, on the left front skids, to rotating the helicopter. >> i got the camera out to take footage of his performan...

Gallons on board, which weighs 80 pounds, 72, in fact, and i had 30 on board, three times the weight. >> as dennis takes off, hes aware of another element that will have a major impact on his performance. >> the air park had two things going for it. it was high and it was hot, 96 degrees that day. >> both those factors spelled danger for a pilot. >> in utah, its about 5,000 feet elevation and it was a warm day that day. >> this creates a condition called high density altitude, which actually mea...

And go to higher ground. guam, they are saying you have to get to 50 feet elevation. >> its just south of the number two you had there. maybe an inch. everybodys screen is different. all these areas of concern, right? >> right. this is a great way to see who is affected, how much. not necessarily tsunami. everyone is bracing for that. the tsunami wave, what happens, this is interesting. i dont know how much you hit on this. the chilean earthquake happened under land. this one happens under water...

Those are your headlines. >> rick reichmuth has a check of our relatively unpleasant weather. >> not as bad as last weekend. overall not that bad in the southern part of the country hanging on to summer. still pretty pleasant and very sunny all across much at least the southern tier of the country except for florida. there is some tropical stuff down around parts of the caribbean. nice across the mid-atlantic, gloomy great lakes into the northeast. big disturbance here is not going to budge much...