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News out of alaska. there has been a major earthquake. 7.0 and reports of a lot of damage. this is the early stages. folks are still trying to assess what's going on there. we are talking about windows blown out. there are highways that are closed. damage to roads. we have seen what looked like an on ramp to a highway that just crumbled. we are talking about serious damage here. i want to tell folks who might be listening to cnn on satellite, if you are in the cook inlet area, there is a tsunami warning for those areas. you want to head to higher ground and check in with your neighbors about t...

We will keep getting more. as john showed you -- >> we are looking at the local affiliate, k tv a. allison is monitoring this from the whetheather center. it is normal for the numbers to be adjusted. 7.2 and down south of 7 and now it's back at a 7.0 quake. either way as you look at the damage, windows blown out. this is a major earthquake. >> yeah, the main focus should not be the number. it is likely going to continue to fluctuate. the main concern is to get to higher ground. again, this is where the earthquake was just outside of anchorage. a lot of folks there could feel it because it was ...

Let's take a look at what we are talking about. you can see the areas in orange where they have the tsunami warning. it does not extend throughout much of the rest of alaska. it's just that localized region. we don't have actual tsunami observations that came in, but those take time. they will monitor those over the next several hours. often times they come from 5 to 40 minute intervals. it does take time with those. this was a 7.0 earthquake near anchorage, alaska. we had one aftershock so far. there is a tsunami warning for localized areas of the cook inlet and peninsula. we will let you kno...

Downtown, a lot of these coastal regions are at a significant area where we have the potential for that liquifaction to take place. no flights are leaving out of the anchorage airport as of now. in terms of some planes coming in, they are still there in that area, they may reroute them. there is a ground stop. if you have any travel plans there today, please check with your carrier to make sure that may still be taking place. again, we talked about some of the impacts here from this particular earthquake. again, it was a 7.0 depth of about 40 kilometers. that's about 25 miles give or take. thi...

Violent shaking. debris falls from the ceiling. terrified people dive under desks. >> it's okay. you're okay. >> this video from a tv reporter inside a sixth floor office of the courthouse in downtown anchorage shows the earthquake lasted several seconds. inside this home, a horrified mother grabs her children. she heads toward the door, then hugs them. a passenger in this vehicle took this video of an off-ramp that collapsed, an suv stuck in the middle of the damage. the earthquake, which measured 7.0, struck at about 8:30 a.m. local time, and caused significant damage to homes, buildings and...