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Your hands it was developed to give indonesians and the technical part of a system work but of course for old system to work or the warning really needs to be to people on the ground and that seems to have not worked completely at least so how does one learn the lessons from this because this is an area that is that is prone to this sort of seismic activity so well. was there a government that was that was well enough prepared. well little good preparation. has been made but has also acknowledge...

Hours ago. 28 countries will be affected now by those watches. but right now, there are no signs of a major tsunami hitting. meantime, new video showing the tense moment as the quake hits. people seen running out of their homes and offices. electricity has been knocked out. there are also reports of several aftershocks. people being told to move to higher ground now. at this time, there appears to be little damage. another breaking news story to tell you about right now to sky fox, first on the ...

Because they believe it is going to come back. >> nightmares. parents, you hear that? children in japan. they are scared to death of another tsunami hitting. they are also scared apparently of staying indoors. they are afraid of being buried alive. coming up, a brand-new look inside the disaster zone and the scenes you are about to see, they are going to be tough to forget. also developing right now, the damage at those nuclear reactors is now worse than originally thought. coming up next, wha...

That tsunamis that are hitting, im looking at the coverage of the aurt up north which has been completely inundated. it is completely underwater. so this is a major, major hit to japans infrastructure. i havent heard anything about whats going on with the subways downtown. i know that they are prone in some cases to being filled with water in the event of a tsunami hitting but i havent seen or heard any reports of that. certainly up nor and all of the coastal areas are taking a major, major hit....

Interested to see is whether or not theyre telling people to evacuate immediately was heeded. if it was, many more lives will be saved. now the japanese are not strangers to earthquakes. theyre not strangers to tsunami warnings. they take them very seriously. but the fact is there was only 15 minutes between the earthquake and the tsunami hitting. it was a case of how many people were able to get out of the area in time. as you say, it is a low lying flat area. we can see how quickly the water c...

Area, you just sort of froze with the crowd and looked around. because you werent sure exactly how to escape. especially in the underground region. in the area that i was in, in the underground subway, you heard the announcement. everyone was told to stay put. there was certainly much more of the sense of concern. i wont say that it was a level of panic. people in japan know if there is an earthquake, the worst thing you can do is panic. i will say there is a high level of concern as this earthq...

Breaking news this hour. were watching whats happening live in tokyo at this moment. 8.9 quake off the northeastern coast. this just about 230 miles northeast of tokyo. 13 million people at the risk of a tsunami hitting. you can see some of the effects hitting one of the local airports in that area, not hitting the main airport in tokyo. but the aftereffect of this 8.9 earthquake, 2:46 local time, is a tsunami. a concern of further waves. already you can see the aftermath of this. absolutely dev...

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Scientific curiosity, you were able to take a picture that you tweeted to show everybody what you were monitoring there in northern california. so explain what caught your eye, caught your interest. >> well, there was a line in the water. but i suspect thats just there all the time. i think it was more of a tidal effect than the tsunami hitting. but i took it within just a few seconds of what everybody thought was going to be the first hit. and its just fascinating that you can be thousands and ...

There. that was actually the airport that is a very, very new airport that was built, thats right on the ocean line there. thats why it was so devastated. >> were showing the video that came into our newsroom a little while ago. you can see the pacific ocean in the background and the tsunami wave and this is mid wave, you can see if youre looking at h.d., screen left, part of the runway still not covered. dont exactly know where any of the airplanes are. maybe there was a bit of a warning. how l...