Pier Damage News Today

Rising seas and frequent storms are taking their toll on California's iconic public piers and raising questions about the future of the landmarks.

Rick reichmuth, philadelphia is going to get hit. >> i think theyll be fine for that ship going through the water. that river is not frozen, at least that far south now. >> no. >> exactly. more cold air on the way. take a look at these temperatures this morning as youre waking up across the northern plains. it feels like its january. if this were january this would be temperatures. its march so its incredible cold temperatures. minus 5 in international falls. towards omaha, 0, 2 in kansas city. ...

Across the west coast. we saw that with a two-foot surge that we saw from the chilean earthquake and that caused some damages. it caused people to lose their boats there was pier damage. we can see larger waves certainly from this as well. that can cause significant damage. people are headed to bed and they need to be paying extra close attention. >> we also talked about the fact that when things like this hit you have a lot of power outages. people can monitor what is going on and thats the sca...

A boat being knocked off of a pier, in hawaii a lot of pier damage. its going to pull through much of the pacific basin. that is exactly how this works. youll notice this will continue to progress all the way down and eventually maybe even towards chile we can see water rises as the big bathtub sloshess across the pacific ocean. jon: youre on the surface of the ocean you dont really notice it, its not the gigantic wave that you see when it comes ashore. >> reporter: i was reading reports in hawa...