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Come by sea or by air. most of it comes by sea. so there is always big concern during a tsunami event that the offshore pipelines where the tankers off-load their oil to run the electric plants here, those might be damaged and why we saw such a big rush to the gas stations when this warning was initially issued this evening. people were going to fill up their cars not because they had to escape half a mile inland but afraid if there is any significant damage they may not have access to gasoline,...

All the way the west coast and the entire pacific basin now that we are talking about -- well, what we are watching closely is hawaii. the warning has been going on there for a couple hours. it is three hours to the time the saw knew me warning center predicted a tsunami event could hit hawaii. that is 8:00a.m. our time. people have been told to take higher ground. >> adam, have you been with us and you can tell us what is going on since you work for fox. what can you tell us as far as where thi...

We were talking about the tsunami warning in affect for hawaii, a tsunami event expected to start there by 3:00 a.m. hawaii time. thats 8:00 a.m. eastern. that is being watched closely. there are bowies being placed in the pacific and monitored by the tsunami center so they know what they are looking at and what to be on the lookout for. right now it is hard to predict how hard the waves could be, but there are warning sirens going off right now in hawaii. we are told to let people know to get t...

Pearl harbor. and i guarantee you the navy has been in touch with the japanese. we have close relations with them on many levels and you can see u.s. troops on the ground, saleters, soldiers, you will see them on the ground if they are not thrrd there. three hours from the time of the tsunami warning center says the tsunami event could hit hawaii. the sirens scr been going on. we heart from courtney who is with her husband and their family were getting to higher gownd. -- ground. there are plent...

Youre a meteorologist there and youve witnessed evacuations when tsunamis have come towards hawaii. what can you tell us as the local state of mind right now? whats going on? >> reporter: well, good morning, rob. it is just after 2:40 a.m. here in the hawaiian islands. and we have gotten word from civil defense that they will be sounding the sirens at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, three hours, 20 minutes from now. kind of give the word that the police, the civil defense will be out and about evacu...

Heres what he had to say about the quake and the coming tsunami. >> what can you tell us is the local state of mind right now? whats going on? >> well, good morning, rob. it is just after 2:40 a.m. here in the hawaiian islands. we have gotten word from civil defense that there -- they will be sounding the siren 20 minutes from now. the evacuation sirens to kind of give the word that the police, civil defense will be out and about evacuating people within an evacuation zone. and i dont know if we...

The city. city is virtually on flatland. >> a lot of destruction caused by that 1960 tsunami right along the bay front there and replaced by open park land. soccer fields are in that area. so were hoping that thats our barrier now that we have created with the knowledge of the type of tsunami destruction that can be caused by these far distance earthquakes across the pacific. >> you look at that destruction. and paul talks about the river and the tsunami, the water went throughout rivers up into...

We are seeing an image that doesnt look like much, carter, but what does it look like when youre there seeing the waves hit the coast in hawaii, carter? >> one of the difficult things you cant see it too well right now. most people have moved inlapped. we are looking at a few web cams. this is what i vp. official word from the tsunami warning center. waves as high as six feet are hitting mauy and kauai right now and they are saying here now that it was a very good decision to evacuate these coas...