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Then the water backs up and it begins moving? >> right. its basically a slip fault or a strike slip that happens underwater and causes a wave to occur and push water away from it like you see in a bathtub or swimming pool and thats what hit areas of japan first. came across and hit some islands in hawaii and now have made it ashore in california but whens interesting is that as it spreads out its not the same impact all along the coast. theres a greater impact. if you look at that modeling there...

Already seen abnormally high surf coming up along the coastline and reminded me of something else. we did get a report of somebody here in the city of san francisco watching the beaches. he said around 9:00 this morning there was a large evacuation of the water that left an open, exposed area of sand and no doubt at this point that there is something going on here today that can be attributed to the quake that could go down as the fifth strongest earthquake since 1900 that happened in japan. >> ...

Public, we had a length of time, eight hours to tell people that they need to evacuate or listen to their local officials about what they want to do and then now that the waves have started coming onshore crescent city to the bay area, we are seeing what jeff described, not exactly what we predicted but we are seeing wave activity thats causing damage in crescent city and santa cruz. and heres the catcher to this and that is that people think that when the first wave or two hits its over with an...

Im thomas roberts. we have special coverage of the japan quake at 2:00 p.m. im going to talk to an american actor living in japan for about 20 years and tsunamis can move as fast as a jet plane. im talk to bill nye the science guy of how it spread from japan all the way to the west coast. and right now as we continue our continuing coverage right now, the tsunami warning for hawaii has been canceled but we still want to know whats happening in california so we go to san francisco and jeff vane...