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The quake and the disturbance to get to hawaii. if you look at the lines, thats another hour to get to about van kurve and maybe an hour and a half to get to seattle, portland, and then all of those coastal cities up and down the oe east coast a lot of sirens are going off on the west coast. that means you must get to higher ground. i know a five foot wave doesnt sound like much but when it comes on shore from charleston to crescent city at 7:23 a.m. and san francisco 8:00 pacific standard time ...

They are all about the same, six feet right there. if you see one wave in california and say oh, its over. no its not. that wave is going to go out and another one is right behind it, 20 minutes later and going to go out and another one is behind it 20 minutes later. this is a long-term event, and people need to be literally away from the shore. theres nothing more to say than that. >> of course, you said something that caught our attention here, that this is a big deal, that might be in the lif...

The size of the wave when it hits the shore. there are a number of things that can affect this, as some of your other guests said. these waves travel quite rapidly, 500 miles an hour, the speed of a jetliner in the ocean. theyre not that high. some of these waves have been estimated to be about three feet high in the open ocean. thats actually pretty high, to be honest. what happens when these waves get to shore is they slow down. the water gets shallower. so they slow down a lot. the water behi...

Its cold. theyve got to pluck the people off of the buildings. theyve got to try to assess the damage and realize that this is still an ongoing disaster. it sort of ceased a little bit in the last hour or so, but were still feeling aftershocks here in tokyo. so what you have to also do is keep the people of japan calm. i heard the prime minister come on the television and say, everyone remain calm. what they do not want is a second disaster on top of that, and that being a disaster of crisis, of...

West coast is a tsunami warning issued from oregon to the washington border, moving down the coastline to california to point conception, which is just north of santa barbara in through -- they may have extended this to the mexican border at this point. it looks like this may have been expanded to the mexican border. were talking about a timeline of when its going to reach the u.s. west coast would be 7:00 a.m. pacific time. so pacific time, 7:00 a.m., that would be 10:00 a.m. eastern time here....

That the damage cannot be assessed right now and cannot be safely assessed for several hours. its not known the significance of the damage. but we do know from the sea level observation stations that the waves hitting certain parts of the islands right now are as high as six feet. what youre going to see, and i believe what youre seeing on some of these web cam shots, is what looks like shallow water, low tide. exposed reef in some areas. and that is very, very common in a tsunami. if youre a su...

Sirens did go off in japan prior tots tsunami. hopefully some people had a chance to get out of the way. if you see how far this wave goes, i dont care how fast you drive or how quickly you get to your car, you may not be able to make it that far away, especially in the farming communities. i also have been told if -- if a tsunami was to reach california, at this hour we want give a warning, it would come at 7:00 a.m., if it comes here. there is the potential we could get a watch here in califor...

Pacific ocean and racing is almost an understatement toward the west coast of the u.s. the wave was unleashed by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of japan earlier. >> and listen to these figures here. police in miaji are saying 200 to 300 bodies have been found in the coastal city of sendai alone. closer to the epi center than the capital city of tokyo. still important to underironically this. we havent gotten the casualty count numbers yet. >> people not on the ground there...

Starting to see. just how populated is that area where the wave of water is now rushing through, that tsunami is coming through. how populated of an area are we talking about? >> its spread out. but that region has 1 million people in it. its a community that is known for -- as a fishing community, but there are a lot of people who are there. so this is a populated place. this is a country also that, along the coastline, you dont have those big wide open beaches that you think of in other parts ...

Were not sure. yet. welcome back to our breaking news coverage of the earthquake that hit japan and the ripple effects coming afterwards of one being a massive tsunami wave that has leveled parts of coastal japan. youre seeing these pictures. the wave coming in.