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Determined by the implements and procedures used to make them, which essentially means just because we in the media don't know what the impact is, doesn't mean there haven't been an impact. so because -- >> i don't think it is as big as haiti, without a question. even though it is an 8.8 instead of a 7.0, a lot more shaking went on, many more people were effected violently with the haitian earthquake. i don't think most people know this -- >> so these reports that i just heard, that they don't have any information from the coastal areas, and that the roads are blocked so they can't get in ther...

The low 60s and now as rafael pointed out moments ago we are well into the hundreds. >> and getting to people, getting to hard-hit areas is part of the reason why assessment takes a little bit of time. so we are going to talk more about what's taking place in chile. now let's talk about the effects of what took place in chile. we are talking about people in hawaii who got a very alarming wake-up call this morning, just really about an hour ago. >> so i don't know how well you can hear me on the mike, but -- >> so that was the siren. tsunami sirens baring away warning people to leave coastal ar...

And government officials cannot -- don't have access to these areas. chad, are you there? chad myers, are you there? chad, can you hear what i am translating from these reports? >> sure, of course. >> i just want to bring you in. now, it sounds to me, and you, fred and i have covered these an awful lot. you know, fred, we in the media have a tendency to bring you the pictures from where we have them. >> sure. >> where information is available. >> right. >> and guess what, information is going to be available to us, you know, closest to the region where we have our satellite trucks, where we ha...

The if you look at it from the side, here's the ocean. all of a sudden the ocean plate going down below the andes. the andes are here, and the earthquake was very close to shore. only three miles from shore, so if there was an earthquake and a tsunami very close to shore, it would have have been instantaneous. you would have felt the shock, felt the wave and you would be able to see the wave coming in. if it was going this way, which we do believe it was, that would be the three, six, nine, twelve hours as it goes on into the central pacific. >> hey, chad, do us a favor. go back to your origin...

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