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Worried, knowing the strength of the earthquake and to make any generalizations at this point. youre right, hopefully, we wont see that kind of devastation we saw in and around port-au-prince. >> michelle kosinski joining us live from london, having covered the aftermath of the haiti earthquake. michelle, im going to ask you to stand by for just a moment. right now, joining us live on the phone is a government scientist, whos actually been keeping very close watch on a wave triggered by the eart...

Long, long ones would be, what? 30 seconds or so. tsunami is many minutes, like a half hour, between the wave crests. its like a fast moving tide, it comes in, water moves up, i dont know if youve seen the pictures of the sumatran tsunami, its a fast moving tide, moves in, will go away, an hour later another one comes in. its a fast moving tide. not like the movies, it jumps up ten feet and comes and gets you. >> i see. i see. when we then hear of the aftershocks that have occurred since the ini...

Close to the shore. the only thing an aftershock could do is generate another wave and we would treat that as another incident and issue tsunami products, as needed. >> this earthquake, this 8.8 magnitude earthquake, can you -- granted 8.8 magnitude earthquake, we know that is significantly larger than what we just saw in the tragic images coming out of haiti in the 7.0 earthquake, can you put into perspective the potential impact how much stronger is it, and then how much more devastating could...

Tsunamis are not normal ocean breaking waves that people see. they dont just hit the wave and break and peel away. theyre three miles of water moving up and down and propagating, more like steam shovels that commas-- come and masquerade as a fast tide and push in like a steam shovel and rake out like a steam shovel, but basically, theyre projected sizes arent -- theyre definitely something to worry about and take seriously on the coast, but were not talking catastrophic, hollywood movie waves, t...

Hirshhorn from the tsunami warning center in hawaii right now and give us some information about what we are preparing for in the islands of hawaii. what do you have for us, sir? how are you preparing? >> well, at this point, were watch -- were monitoring water level, and trying to get as best grasp what sort of wave were going to see. how large. we know the arrival time, but we can only make sort after educated guess based on the data weve seen and our modeling code as to how big its going to b...

Living in chile, 88% of them in the countrys urban population centers. the capital of chile, santiago is about 200 miles north of the epicenter, badly hit, buildings are toppled, bridges collapsed and after shocks are not helping the rattled residents. with the christian science monitor, she joins us by phone from santiago. give me the latest whats happening there and what youre hearing. >> well, right now, essentially, people are trying to peck up the pieces and sort things out, the electricity...

Jon bottom of the hours, heres whats happening now, brand new information on that the days big stories, a successful launch has nasa blasts a rocket into space, our assignment manager tim gaughan has the latest. >> reporter: nasa lawrchging the most advanced observatory ever built, blasting off today. the goal of the mission is to study the earths star. the observatory is the first mission in nasas living with the stars program. a very great launch for viewer, its on foxnews.com right now. jon, ...

Immigrant community but the environmental movement, gay rights movement, occupy wall street, weve been marching for ten years on how a generation of americans, a younger generation of americans wants to define the rest of the century. and while he keeps trying to push it back and his cronies at the justice department try to fight it back, the election just recently in alabama with doug jones, the wave of a new electoral base coming out and voting for a completely different slate in virginia, dem...

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