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Only a couple of inches but what about in previous years, any larger ones? >> caller: if i am correct in my hawaiian history i believe the last devastating to hit the hawaiian islands is back in the 1950s and that struck part of the big island of hawaii. a town called hilo. >> i think we've just lost our carter evans who is reporting live in honolulu, but as he's said it's just gone 10:45 p.m. people are hearing the news of what is taking place japan. they know that the sirens have gone off and that they're being told to go to higher ground. let's now go to christy. >> let's map out this ongoi...

Taiwan. arrival in just about an hour and then the philippines and the southern philippines and we get into indonesia, papua new guinea and into malaysia as well. the tsunami travels at about 800 kilometers per hour so it's a pretty simple program that we punch in and that we're able to determine exactly the arrival of the first of many waves to come. >> yeah, thankfully there is some predictability involved in these tsunamis as they attack the coastline. thanks for going through. i want to go back to ana, who is part of hong kong and that region. >> thank you, rosemary. now to bring in conor ...

a hold of loved ones. family members. i'm seeing a lot of that on my twitter account. people trying to make contact with their friends and family. >> yes. i think the problem is that the phones are very jammed. everyone is on the phone, on their mobile. even the land lines are a bit difficult. i was able to get through to my family in the first half-hour after that happened. they were fine. the system i think is overloaded. i suspect that rather than damage to the telephone's infrastructure. so there will be a lot of anxiety. particularly for people who have family in the northeaster...