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Delay, duke cunningham, you had just breaking about a month before the election the sex scandal of mark foley. >> thats key. >> chris: do you think there is the same drum beat? >> not yet. i dont think that charlie rangel getting a caribbean vacation paid for and unclear whats happening with eric maza, what he said to this staff. i think having a sex scandal, especially a home soaksial one and the republican family values party breaking so soon before the election it was something that everybody...

Right now. power is not become on in most of these communities. telecommunications are still spotty as well. those are the needs and, of course, peoples patience is running thin, as we have seen with the looting. now the governments response to the looting, for example, has been simply to extend the curfew. so right now, another night of a curfew that runs from 6 p.m. to midday the following day. citizens can only be out and about for about six hours a day to try and stop that looting, anderson....

Example, when they were interrupted by that tsunami warning, that was only the second aid drop theyd had from government agencies. higher on the hill, they say that they had no aid at all and desperate for aid. they dont have drinking water right now. power is not back on in most of these communities. telecommunications are still spotty as well. those are the needs and, of course, peoples patience is running thin, as we have seen with the looting. now the governments response to the looting, for...

Delay, duke cunningham, you had just breaking about a month before the election the sex scandal of mark foley. >> thats key. >> chris: do you think there is the same drum beat? >> not yet. i dont think that charlie rangel getting a caribbean vacation paid for and unclear whats happening with eric maza, what he said to this staff. i think having a sex scandal, especially a home soaksial one and the republican family values party breaking so soon before the election it was something that everybody...

The fishermen say that this weighs at least 25 to 30 tons, and it was blown ashore, probably 600 meters from the sea on a tsunami wave of about two meters they say. it would have been pitch black, and the people that i have talked to say that at first they heard of the wave was the clattering of the ship bashing against the houses, and shipping container being washed ashore as well. they said it was completely terrifying. now the way that the fishermen and the other inhabitants described the sou...

Like clockwork. the island of oahu where the famous waikiki beach is it is different. there is so many people there and and so much congestion, i was over there earlier this week to see pearl harbor and there, people are inches away from each other on the beach, it is crowded. the last time they tried to evacuate that section of honolulu there was gridlock and no one could get through. >> geraldo: that did not happen this time. thank you, gerry shargel. this time was very orderly. of course, it ...

Is a mowia, i foregot that just -- samoa, i foregot that just five months ago, 183 people on samoa died in a tsunami. why werent they warned? what happened with the intricate system developed since the sumatra tsunami. >> we have 43 station buoys around the pacific ocean. if it happens goes cloture escaped to the target zone there is not enough time to warn the people. here we have plenty of warning because the wave travels at a hundred miles an hour but the distances are huge, thousands of mile...

>> geraldo: amen to that. give my love to beth and enjoy the rest of your vacation there now hopefully it has passed you by. but dog, thanks a million, i appreciate it, buddy. >> thank you, we love you, brother, thank you. >> geraldo: when they talked of the brown dirty kind of water coming could that possibly have been transported over 6,000 miles from chile or was that just the bottom of the local waters being scooped up by the tsunami? >> i think the latter. when the earthquake hit chile the ...

They are predicting the wave. it is a surge which last 15 minutes completely inundating the coastal areas. is that what you were afraid of? >> thats correct. coastal surges overrunning many areas like beachfront properties, hotels, roads, ports and harbors so we had many, many things to be concerned about. >> ironically i was sitting next to the adjunct general for civil defense here in hawaii, general robert lee was sitting next to me getting reports minute by minute from the captain through hi...

That you feel able the tsunami did not live up to the fears that we had when the warning was published? >> well, you guys have been talking about this and the quake -- this quake had a little depth to it and being about 25-kilometers deep or 21.8 miles deep it is -- it mitigates the size of the wave quite a bit. so i would have to say they were very fortunate that this was not shallow as was the quake in haiti. that quake was extremely shallow and that is why there was so much more damage locall...