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Middle of the night when the earthquake struck. >> no, i was about to go to sleep because there was a festival coming up here in chile, a very important festival. and i was going to go to bed, and i was almost asleep and suddenly the earthquake starts. at the beginning at the start the power went off. and i heard screaming in the street. we are used to the earthquake. and suddenly it doesnt stop and it became bigger and bigger and we stand up under the door. >> was there any damage to your home?...

That centrally affected area. they are still looking for a few people, but most are accounted for as well as they acknowledged right away that communications is very difficult at this hour. so it is tough for them to get in touch with people on the ground as they are trying to account for everyone as well. by state department estimates, there are about 1,000 american citizen that is are in the most affected area. at the moment, there are no reports of any injuries or deaths of americans, which i...

They heard of it. they have been carefully monitoring the situation and they are reporting now inside of chile. lets dip into this. ill tell you whats being reported. this is information coming in as we speak. he said, many houses have now fallen in the area of arosco. a supermarket has been completely destroyed. as well as one of the supermarkets in concepcion has also fall on the the ground. [ speaking foreign language ] >> the anchor is thanking the reporter. now weve got another reporter. he...

Challenges that the chilean authorities are having to deal with right now, fed rick ka. >> all right. thank you so much, rafael. we appreciate that. well continue to check back with you. well have much more of continuing coverage of all thats taking place in chile and now the tsunami advisory affecting so many coasts, pacific coasts of the u.s., we are talking about asian coasts, australia, new zee land, it goes on. the focal point is hawaii in the 4:00 eastern hour. thats the expectation of whe...

Chile, but it is the effect of the earthquake that may be felt in parts, in fact, very far away. so expect to see the latest pictures. and, folks, we are going on the fly here, so as we get information, and as we get pictures, expect cnn to be the first to show them to you because we have a bureau there in santiago. we also have affiliations with many of the network that is are covering this story right now. >> this is coming out of santiago as well as concepcion, 70 miles from the epicenter of ...

Santiago. maybe one of the best ways to find out whats going on is to listen to what the reports are that are coming out from the many different networks and television station that is are covering this story there right now. dan, can you just pop up the sound from one of those? just to see if we are ready to go on that. all right. >> okay. these are two of the anchors there following the situation there now. this is coming in from cnn es panole or cnn chile. what i hear her saying is they are t...

In this case, where its a large shake area, but not as big of a shake, but you still get the 8.8 because you multiply those together, there are zero, zero people in the violent and extreme shaking. now, the 5 million in severe to moderate damage, but those numbers are so strikingly different compared to millions, 2.5 million feeling that violent shaking in haiti. and zero feeling it in chile. the reason why is because where it shook theres not that many people. there are not that many people alo...

In the next hours, but it is going to be around this figure. and the distraction all over the country is enormous. there are infrastructure breaches, especially from santiago to the south, and also in some buildings, especially old-fashioned buildings have been destroyed. on the other side, the chilean history is very close to these kinds of tram dids tragedies. they have higher standards for building new buildings. >> mr. ambassador, let me ask you about this then. chile is not foreign to earth...

To where haiti was struck not long ago. it is important to note, and this is the reason we are here. this is the reason i may soon be on a plane heading down there, it is important to note that this is a significant earthquake. so significant, in fact, that at first we were reporting it may be 1,000 times stronger than what happened in haiti. now it is looking like it may be 500 times more stronger than what happened in haiti. so that kind of sets the table and gives you a pretty good sense of e...

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