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Updates when we have them. more items found and well wait for the confirmation if they belong to el faro. >> once the coast guard cutters get on the ground and figure out what the items are. bryan, thank you so much. shannon has more. for the latest on the weather conditions, lets go to meteorologist janice dean. shes tracking it all. >> the good news is that conditions are becoming more favorable in and around the bahamas area. this is hurricane joaquin, category 2, this time yesterday this w...

And sunday. pushes in to the northern portion of japan, as well. the wave height indication and this is another concern. often times we say it is not the wind speed that causes problems and fatalities but the water that churned up a and the tremendous rainfall it will bring to the coastline. wave heights upwards of 15 meters high over the areas of open water. we think at the coast level that would be three meters storm surge. dangerous situation in southern japan, guys. >> thank you so much. we ...

Earthquakes, but when it comes to typhoons really 2004 is the last time weve seen anything this impressive. the typhoon sits at a category 2 equivalent. its about the size of the country of mexico. its a pretty impressive symmetry. i havent seen a category two look this impressive in quite some time. we think thursday night into friday morning in southern japan, this could be a category three. it easily could be in the 200 kph range. the concern with this is not just the tremendous winds and the...

Of the constant motion in the vicinity of this volcano but also have a hurricane off shore pushing everything offshore when it comes to the ash. something worth noting there. but dolores remains off shore and we are following this. in southern california the storm will track west of the baja peninsula. some of the models guide next monday into next tuesday. could bring decent rainfall into central california if it remains put. something worth noting there. also watching typhoon nangka. could be ...

The next couple days resemble the severity of sunday morning, potentially why we are in this area to speak of. i want to show you the wind speeds ahead of us a main factor at this point. lets take you through this afternoon, pause it notice the red indicating the deepest of the reds here that, would equate to about 70 kilometers roughly 40 to 55-mile-per-hour wind gusts the strongest winds across the ja za sea will be based on the storm field based on tomorrow afternoon. this time tomorrow of co...

Tropical cyclone jack heading into the region. how soon before the storm gets here? >> the storm is about 600 miles away and were seeing some thunderstorms beginning to develop ahead of the cyclone itself. we also know wave heights, according to the joint typhoon warping center, wave heights as high as four meters. once the storm gets here inside the next two days, wave height also be 7 to 10 feet on the water. so any visual search will be impacted. plenty of rainfall over this region as the sto...

Search for surface debris will go on, we dont know. it was angus houston last week who said it would be a matter of days that he thought that would be wound down. but it does continue at this moment. you mentioned that cyclone northwest of the search area. its not on track to actually hit the search area directly, but it could complicate things because the wave height and winds are making a pickup in the next few days. malaysian acting transport minister, jim, yesterday saying that prayers would...

There as far as the weather is concerned. it seems to be getting worse by the hour. how is it right now? >> its not just a one-off event, too. you take a look. the storm system that weve touched on in the last few hours moving through at this hour is kind of the peak of the storm as were seeing it this hour but theres a second storm moving through beijing, a third storm beginning to form over portions of the tibetan plateau. so we think over the next couple of days we get storms that cruise in o...

And the 8.2 -- 1.5 million quakes occur that you will feel. in the eight scale -- so a very significant event. felt by at least 167,000 people. and you would imagine this quake. happening about 17 minutes before midnight, a lot of people affe affected. and wave heights increasing to 2.4 feet. now, remember, yesterdays earthquake with a wave height of six feet. so, this is a significantly smaller event. being over land, the coastal

Before we knew it, suddenly, they were cancelled. explain us us what you go through at the u.s. geological survey, to put out warnings like that. >> we dont put out warnings, that would be the noa tsunami warning center that puts out the warnings, they base it on a time frame. when this quake occurred, close to the coast it generated a localized tsunami that had a wave height around seven feet maximum in the central area. over the next couple of hours, they are able to access if there are variou...