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>> we from the very first moments of the crisis beginning at 5:00 a.m. on friday morning we set up a 24-hour operation center here. we have reached out to every means that we have e-mail and other kinds of contacts we have through our network to try to get a handle on how the americans are doing. up to this point we have no confirmed reports of any fatalities or any serious injuries in the american community, however, we do not have good information back from the concepcion area. we had a few sporadic reports, but we have not established regular communication. the lines are down, electricity i...

And farther away from the fault lines. so we have to sort of couch everything we say. but i think it's safe to say that at this point, no, we're not seeing the level of destruction that we saw in haiti. for a number of reasons, alex. >> okay. msnbc's michelle kosinski, i want to thank you for helping us with our continuing coverage from london. we'll take a short break on "msnbc saturday" as we give you the latest look, the pictures coming in to us from the santiago, chile and perhaps concepcion area as well. concepcion being the epicenter of this 8 .8-magnitude earthquake, about 220 miles awa...

And those guys are in hawaii. i don't have their message out right now. the one we have, a tsunami advisory for california and alaska. there's actually, the way that the wave is moving, it looks like it's going to miss california, i'm sorry, not california, oregon, washington and british columbia. but the thing that i want to stress here is that the local emergency managers in your community, if you're on the west coast, will tell you if you need to evacuate and tell you what you need to know. so certainly don't you know, take any action thaw don't need to. >> john, real glad you say british c...

Around their homes and mainly in the concepcion area. and they're sleeping in parks, stadiums, schools overnight. as night sets in, there is more concern about looting as happened in the early hours of the morning in some cities. right now people are trying to stay inside and hope for the best. >> tell us about concepcion. i understand this is a very -- this is one of chile's largest cities and the other surrounding areas closer to concepcion where there might be the worst damage. >> definitely. concepcion is a city with a population of 900,000 and it's quite close to the coast. the actual cit...

Earthquake, at which about 1550 people died as a result of that earthquake. and since then, chile is a prosperous and well-industrialized country, it's had the money to put the infrastructure needed in place. sitting right there on the ring of fire. that area that sieismologists will call the area of the tectonic plate where the ocean and the land come together. and it's a highly active area there are values in the area in the whole ring of fire. it really circumnavigates the whole pacific rim as well. we're getting a lot of pictures now in to us. and you can see for yourself, there's certainl...