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That's how they described it, a tsunami, in fact. they had a tsunami wave affect them probably about 45 minutes ago. now they have sent two ships there to send supplies. there are generally about 5 or 600 people that live on robinson caruso island, very small island. also on easter island, one of the most remote places in the world. they get lots of visitors. they do have a few thousand full-time residents that live there. they also are saying that they are looking at the potential for tsunami, and they are going to evacuate some of the coastal areas there and put people towards the inland por...

And juan fernandez island, the juan fernandez, the whole or almost -- most of the territory there on the island was covered by a big huge wave. and they are sending chiefs and helicopters with help for the people there. we don't really know because juan fernandez is sort of isolated. it's really difficult to get communications live from there. we're just having information through the chilean fema. it serves with the same purpose as fema there in the u.s. and they are telling us that juan fernandez island has been covered by this big, big wave. as i say, they don't want to call it a tsunami. i...

This wave is going to be approaching from the south and east. would northern coastlines be a little bit safer or is this a situation where the islands, as small as they are, it's all encompassing? >> it is all encompassing, rob. this type of energy is not like an ocean generated swell where we see most of the energy on the direction where that energy is coming from. this type of energy has in the past several times wrapped around the islands and we actually see waves much larger on the back side of the islands. this depends on the fning togr y topography of the ocean floor where we could see a...

Morning local time. we understand at this hour 78 people have been reported dead. now, there are a lot of communications that are still down, especially as you get into those areas closer to the epicenter. so that death toll unfortunately could rise throughout the day. but the problem is twofold. you're seeing now the effects of the earthquake and the damage there. but also the worry of not only a tsunami that we understand has struck there in chile but tsunami warnings that are going out to other countries, including japan, australia, and even, you know, hawaii is being told to prepare and ev...