evacuations under way at 6:00 a.m. with the possible threat of this tsunami striking just about 4 1/2 hours later at 11:19 is when that first potentially destructive wave is expected to hit the islands. >> what do you expect to see as far as the number of people who will evacuate the coastline, how far away from coastline will they have to be? i assume there's some sort of drills if not annual, sometime -- of some frequency that are practiced in ann anticipation of these events? >> yes. we have a monthly test of these siren on the first working day of each month to make sure they're working. civil defense do these routines to practice these type of evacuation orders. i'm not sure if you can actually see these happen maps that i showed up. but it includes many big hotels in the area. so that will be a big problem in just a few hours from now when they try to evacuate hundreds or even thousands of people along the coastline there on the south shore. did have two previous events