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Probably in earthquake engineering and systems that warn trains and get them to shut down before the seismic waves hit so hopefully those systems worked well for them. >> well, you know, they can build buildings to withstand earthquakes but they haven't figured a way to stop the pacific ocean from doing what it just did right there. >> that's right. >> robert, thank you very much from the u.s. geological survey. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. >> first we heard from the white house. now we have a statement from vice president joe biden on the earthquake and for that, we go to washington live ...

Saying from those areas. on the island of guam which i'm also monitoring which is the closest american territory just to the east of me, the -- the governor of guam has reported that the commonwealth. northern marianas north of guam, also american territory, has reported a two foot rise in sea levels. this is in the islands north of guam. so as you can tell, the alerts are going on. people are evacuated and ready for anything to happen in these areas and maintaining a high level of alert. >> mike, of course, japan and the philippines both along the pacific ring of fire, oftentimes when there's...

>> he was going to tokyo. a little bit south, going up towards tokyo. >> because the major damage that we're looking at as this tsunami wave rips through a town are to the north of tokyo. >> yes, that's correct. >> there's that tower cam video. that's terrifying. was your father after they stopped the train, did everybody get off? what was happening? >> no, they were stuck inside the train. >> and they're going to sit there for a while. >> yeah, they sat there for quite sometime and i just got an e-mail from dad saying he was finally able to check into his hotel. >> that's great. >> at least w...

Jarrett there. >> apparently, there in chile, they are expecting it to arrive, if a tsunami wave does arrive, around 5:00 p.m. in santiago. >> yes we hopped on the air a couple of hours ago, 20 countries will be affected. so they're all waking up their citizens saying look out, we're not kidding. it's amazing to see that cop car riding down the street in hawaii saying, there's a tsunami warning. wake up. in the middle of the night, and run much this is not a drill. >> no. as these reports keep coming in now as you reported earlier, a ship carrying 100 people apparently swept away by this tsuna...

People it's very difficult to get a phone line to connect to anybody within tokyo or within japan. we're all trying to call our families with mixed luck. i've been able to get through finally but it took quite a few tries but government, the prime minister held an emergency press conference very soon at earthquake. he seemed quite prepared in that sense and now he's considering trying to figure out what local officials need aid and military assistance. >> uh-huh. this is the biggest earthquake in the history of japan. and i know you've seen the images. there's never been a tsunami wave in reco...