Some of those are only about 55 miles or 90 kilometers from the capital jakarta. A volcano may have triggered which caught people off guard. Some of the video youre about to see is disturbing. This video shows the moment a concert was on going. They didnt know just behind them a wave was about to consume them as you see there. Horrible. The band kept playing, unaware of what was about to happen. Lets get the very latest details from our ivan watson following updates in the region in hong kong. Ivan, whats the latest about what happened and where things stand right now. Thats right. Well, this was a Christmas Holiday weekend in indonesia. A lot of people in this coastal area, local indonesian tourists, so these beach areas, the hotels full of people that were trying to relax when this tsunami hit at 9 37 p. M. On saturday night. Now, the cause of the tsunami, according to indonesian authorities appears to have been an underwater landslide caused by a volcanic eruption at anak krakatau. That is translated as child of crakatau. That island was created about 50 years after the 1883 just cataclysmic eruption of krakatau which killed at least 30,000 people and actually plunged Global Temperatures due the massive ash cloud as a result of that. Authorities say this volcano had been active in recent months but the tsunami may have been aggravated by the fact that there was a full moon saturday night and that it had recently been high tide. So that sent a wall of water, perhaps heights of 1. 5 meters traveling at high speed inland at distances of about 500 meters. Again, according to indonesian authorities, 500 meters inland. Some of the aerial footage weve seen does not show all of the buildings in coastal areas knocked down. We can actually see that some roofs ares, in fact, in tact. That might be good news, but the death toll stands at 168 dead, more than 700 wounded and hundreds of houses destroyed, boats destroyed as well. When it comes to that video you showed of the concert, that was being performed by a band called 17. It was a concert attended by dozens of people from a state Power Company when the wall of water broke through the stage there. The lead singer of the band issued a statement on instagram the following morning, quite emotional, as you can understand from the content of his message. Take a listen. Translator i just wanted to say that our bass player and our manager passed away. I also ask for prayers for my friends who are still missing at this time. Also, my dear wife is still missing. The rest of us have broken bones, minor injuries, including me. But we are fine. Please pray that we can find andy, herman and ujung and my wife. George, natalie, the indonesian president has sent messages of condolences to the victims of this disaster. Were still getting pieces and learning more as the Emergency Rescue teams get to the scene as they move heavy equipment to the scene as well along this long coastline. In the meantime, a spokesperson for Indonesian NationalMitigation Agency was commenting about the Early Warning systems for tsunamis. He says that in this case it was not triggered because there was no earthquake, no seismic activity. This appears to have been caused, by he says, an underwater landslide, again caused by a volcano for which he says there was no warning system. Hes now calling for a multihazard Early Warning system for these types of eventualties. Natalie, george. Ivan, but as these things go, it seems people didnt see this coming. Now were, of course, seeing the aftermath of what happened. Ivan watson live for us in hong kong. Thank you for the reporting. And for more now, were joined on the phone by Kathy Mueller in indonesia with the canadian red cross. Kathy, we know youre very busy. Thank you for talking with us. Ivan was just reporting this was a bizarre phenomenon it seems, a tsunami out of nowhere triggered by what looks to be a volcanic eruption. Can you give us a sense of the vastness of this area that was hit. From what were understanding, natalie, is that its a wide swath of land, perhaps one kilometers long that has been impacted by this tsunami. The main access roads to this very popular beach resort area as was mentioned by for local tourists, the main access road is also damaged, so that is hampering efforts to actually get to the area that is impacted. And then its not just going to be the highly Populated Areas that also need attention, but any of the remote areas where people may be impacted and we have to make sure that we get to those communities as well. Im sure communications are impacted. We do know people are missing, 168 confirmed dead right now. Any idea how many people may be missing from this. Thats always so hard to say. Especially were still in the very early hours of the response. What the indonesian red cross has done in the past, for example, with the earthquake in tsunami which im here responding to, they set up this restoring family links program. They work at reuniting families who may be missing or separated during a disaster such as this. So, the days to come, things will become much clearer as to what the impact is, how many people are affected, what kind of support theyre going to need in the weeks and months ahead. Of course they had a devastating earthquake few months ago, more than 2,000 people died there. This is a region that sees a lot of this activity, but it must be traumatizing. What are you hearing . Oh, it is. These people, i wouldnt say theyre used to earthquakes, but they sit on the ring of fire, so the country is prone to getting them. Back in late july and early august, lumbak experienced a series of devastating earthquakes and the earthquake at the end of september and this one the end of december in the western part of java. From what im seeing in silowasi is people are terrified. They would rather stay in a tent than move into any kind of a solid structure because any time there is an aftershock theyre afraid that that structure is going to come down on top of them. It takes a long time to help people, especially the adults, to work through that theyre experiencing. We find children tend to rebound a lot quicker. We know kids are very resilient, so the teams of the red cross volunteers go in and play with the children, get them to try to see kids again and laugh and play. We find that they respond really well to that. Right. Is there any danger, kathy, that youre aware that this could happen again since this volcanic eruption and im sure whats adding to peoples anxiety is the fact that this seemingly came out of nowhere. Well, yeah. And i am no expert on volcanic activity, from what i understand, this is an extremely rare event. So, you know, the chances of it happening again, whos to know. But what our priority now to make sure that were going in, were providing people with the basic necessities they need. Things like clean water. Its the rainy season right now, its bad enough that people have already lost their homes, we want to make sure that theyre at least somewhat protected from the elements. And by doing that, then hopefully we can keep disease at bay which, of course, is always at risk once the infrastructure and everything collapses after a disaster. Right. We know that homes have been destroyed. Hotels have been damaged. Restaurants in the area. Well continue to follow the information as it comes in. Still early on here. Kathy mueller, we appreciate you talking with us. Thank you. Thank you. Again, this tsunami likely triggered by a volcanic eruption that set off underwater landslides. Derek van damme is here with more on that. Kathy was saying she lives in this area and she doesnt recall Something Like this happening. Right. Natalie, george, we need some sort of displacement of water to take place. Thats how a tsunami is formed. But its triggered by an earthquake, thats typically what we hear the trigger mechanism to be, maybe a landslide or perhaps even the shifts of tectonic plates underneath the weather, but this particular instance appears to be volcanic activity. And we have video of that volcano actually erupting. This is the krakatau volcano. What took place was actually just as exciting aboveground as it was below the surface of the water. Underwater landslide allowed for that displacement of water, allowing for a triggering mechanism, a dispersement of that water to just propagate in all directions and bringing up to a meter high wave into the coastline of western java and that caused destruction obviously. On our satellite loop, we actually timed this out and you can see the exact moment when the volcano erupted. The plume of smoke and ash was so high and so intense that it was picked up by satellite. Theres that shading of red and orange. That is the eruption plume from the krakatau volcano. Let ees zoom into the strait. This erupted back in 1883 and that killed over 36,000 people all due to a similar instance to what were experiencing today although were not expecting that kind of number. However, what we do know from that volcano back in the 1800s was the fact that there was this underwater landslide that took place all thanks to the volcano that triggered that sediment to be dislodged from the side of the volcano, causing that displacement of water and causing that tsunami wave that propagated across the ocean and unfortunately today has left scenes of devastation within western java and portions of sumatra. Now the focus Going Forward will be the search and rescue efforts because this is a concern for people as they try to reach their loved ones. We have a very wet forecast as the red cross director just talked about a moment ago. This is the rainy season. We have nearly 100 chance of rain today right through the early parts of this week and you can see our future radar just showing more showers and storms the search and recovery effort. George, natalie. Derek, thank you very much. Obviously this is a developing stories. More than 100 350epeople have b killed. Other stories were following for you this day, the u. S. Government shutdown about a quarter of the federal government is not open for business sunday morning. Both sides appear to be digging in for what could be a long wait. Also ahead here, the sudden departure of this man, President Trumps point man on isis, coming up, how will the region react to a second high profile resignation. Well have a live report. Dayquil new severe with Vicks Vapocool. Whoa and vaporize it with an intense rush of vicks vapors. Ahhhhhhh new dayquil severe with Vicks Vapocool. The daytime coughing, stuffy head, vaporize your cold, medicine. Here at snowfest. For your worst sore throat pain try new Vicks Vapocool drops. Its not candy, its powerful relief. Ahhhhhh vaporize sore throat pain with new Vicks Vapocool drops. And im the founder of ugmonk. Before shipstation it was crazy. 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And you see the aftermath there. A volcano may have triggered the disaster setting off underwater landslides. One official says the disaster struck without warning he says indonesia lacks the right equipment to warn of an underwater tsunami threat. Of course well continue to follow developments there. Back to our story from the United States and the Government Shutdown that is still under way. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are working without pay for now or staying home on furlough. Not exactly what people wanted for christmas. Right. Mr. Trump sent Vice President mike pence to try to work out a resolution at capitol hill. Sarah westwood reports so far theres no deal. Reporter President Trump is still not signaling what he would consider in terms of a deal that could get 10 Senate Democrats on board and start the process of reopening the government. White house Officials Say the president is not budging from his demand for 5 billion for the border wall, they say that money has to be used for the construction of a physical barrier along the southern border. They say it cant just be used for Border Security in general, which is one of several potential options that had been floating around capitol hill amid the shutdown talks. But make no mistake, despite that current hard line stance the president has been all over the map when it comes to the funding fight first saying he would be proud to accept responsibility for a shutdown if it was over money for his border wall. Then through aides signaling he might be willing to entertain a temporary spending bill passed by the senate that would have kept the government open through february 8th. Finally by thursday, rallying House Republicans to pass a funding mechanism that did contain 5 billion for the wall, buckling under pressure from conservative allies on capitol hill and in the media to avoid what they described as a surrender on the border wall. Now, the president held a lunch here at the white house on saturday with republican lawmakers. No democrats were in attendance. And those who did attend were mostly conservative allies, like congressman mark meadows, jim jordan, senator lindsey graham. Allies of the president who already agree with him when it comes to the strategy behind the shutdown. And as Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said earlier saturday the log jam will persist until the president huddles with Senate Democrats to talk about a potential compromise. The lack of clarity surrounding what exactly the president might be willing to entertain has caused headaches for some lawmakers who really have no idea what kind of deal the president might support beyond that hard line stance for 5 billion. Vice president mike pence is leading negotiations for the white house side, but earlier this week pence told lawmakers that the president might be inclined to sign that temporary spending deal, something that turned out not to be true. But heading into christmas, both sides appear very entrenched. Washington appears poised to enter what could be a lengthy shutdown. The president canceling his plans to travel to west palm beach, florida, over the holiday amid the legislative log jam. Sarah westwood, cnn, the white house. And thats not the only thing the president is facing. A second senior u. S. Official has quit over President Trumps decision to pull u. S. Troops out of syria. The person, brett mcgurk worked as a u. S. Special envoy to the International Coalition fighting isis. He was in iraq and had just finished briefing partners that the u. S. Would stay in syria when he learned President Trump had reversed course. His resignation on friday came just one day after u. S. Defense secretary james mattis quit over the same thing. And this tweet from the u. S. President claiming not to know his own envoy. He belittled mcgurk as a obama holdover and quote grand stander who is going to leave the administration soon any way. Joining me now is political analyst Peter Matthews a frequent guest of our program. Peter, thanks for being with us. Good to be with you, natalie. All right. Its the holidays. Happy holidays to you. I dont know how much happy holidays is going around washington because this is the first time in 40 years the government will have been closed three times in one year. And now congress says, well, well take it up after christmas. What do you think of the impasse and who is to blame for it . Well, they almost had a compromise worked out just a few days ago and then President Trump said he wanted money for the wall and not backing down because what happened was someone on fox news said he was backing down, he shouldnt do that. He says, no, im not going for the deal and the deal was off. The whole thing ended up falling apart. I would blame him the most for it actually in the end. Yeah. Do you think the president is surprised that the hardliners will hold him to this wall . He did promise it. He did say mexico would pay for it. Thats not going to happen. Then he seems willing to compromise but then those who really believe in him say, wait a minute, youre not doing us right. Hes always concerned about those really hard core right wingers who he may lose, few percent among them could cost him the election next time he thinks. At this point hes not going to be able to win because 30 support him. Hes causing disaster for himself and the country in a sense and chaos to say the very least. Its not good what hes facing right now with the stock market crash going down and couple other things happening. Lot has to do with uncertainty brought about by this kind of behavior. Right. Theres so much going on with this presidency. This is probably the last thing that people wanted to deal with, a Government Shutdown. But here we are. Democrats indicate they have no plans to fund a wall. Never did. Lets listen to the republican leader, Mitch Mcconnell, talking about the shutdown and then after that democrat leader Chuck Schumer and then well talk about it. Democr