responders participate on a level that is not replicated anywhere in the country. >> i mean, mr. mayor, we hear in japan many lives may have been saved by the fact there was some warning, given to the people, even if it was 30 seconds. do you have that kind of failsafe system in place or could los angeles be caught completely unaware? how fast can these tsunamis strike? can these quakes strike? >> well, i'm not an expert on that, but i can tell you the following. i got in real-time on my blackberry. i was in washington, d.c. i was woke up early in the morning and we got regular updates on what the status of the earthquake and the tsunami watch was. we participated in an exercise to reassess our tsunami weak points, if you will, along our city's coast.