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I felt such a huge earthquake to start with. and you re absolutely right. with the tsunami, i mean, there are whole houses being swept away by the water. we ve been watching live footage on tv in our office and you re seeing a whole ship kind of bashing against a bridge. i ve never seen anything like that in my country. are you scared? it s quite frightening. there was a little bit of a panic within our office when the quake would not stop. what floor? we re on the 19th floor. and also, the aftershocks first every few minutes and now every now and then. right before i m talking to you guys, there was another swaying an hour after the earthquake, there was quite a bit of rattling and right by the windows the blinds would rattle against the windows so it s quite frightening. let me ask you this, why are ....
Down nuclear power plants, you re going to trigger power outages all over the country and the sony electronics firm, it is closed six factories so far. we can tell you that the asian shares have fallen after the earthquake, european shares are falling to their lowest level in three months but there are other factors related there as well. so we continue to see more information from japan as we show pictures of the you know, the water sweeping over the farm land, carrying entire buildings, some on fire. the tsunami roared over the embankments. debris has been carried out to sea and the death toll continues to rise almost minute by minute and we almost take hate to give a number here. because i talked to a seismologist earlier today who said look, over the course of the next few days as bodies are ....
Shaking. that tsunami effect along the coast. we also understand that apparently there was an earthquake this morning in hawaii. and it was a 4.5 that has hit hawaii. we understand, of course, they re bracing for the tsunami which will probably hit there at 3:00 pacific time. they say that that is unrelated. that earthquake is unrelated to this gigantic earthquake in japan. i would agree with that right now. there s been a series of small earthquake near the big island of hawaii where this event happened and it may be related to the volcanic eruption that s been going on there for several days. right. and several days ago in this area of japan, meanwhile, we understand that they have had a series of earthquakes and there was a 7 point something magnitude a couple of days ago in japan, right? that s right, a 7.2 on march 9th and not far from the epicenter of the magnitude 8.9. ....
michelle and i send our deepest condolences to the people of japan, particularly those who have lost loved ones in the earthquake and tsunamis. the united states stands ready to help the japanese people in this time of great trial, the friendship and alliance between our two nations is unshakeable and only strengthens our resolve to stand with the people of japan as they overcome this tragedy. we will continue to closely monitor tsunamis around gentlemjapan and the pacific going forward and we re asking all our residents in affected region to listen to their state and local officials have i ve instructed people to be ready to assist hawaii and the rest of the territories that could be affected. we re expecting to hear more from the president in a news conference at 11:15 this morning. there s a chance we could hear something before that. he had a scheduled 11:15 news conference this morning. the pentagon spokesman jeff morel just made some comments that were not on camera but he ....
Day, it s a very broad wave so it will bring in a lot of water with it. right. and i guess the speed in which the wave hits is key, correct? it is. it depends on the shoreline s configuration, it can quite variable can be the effects, right. and robert, you said that the earthquake they had a day or so ago in that region, seven something magnitude foreshadowed this one which was a gigantic one of 8.9 magnitude. is there a possibility of an even larger earthquake after this? there s always a slight chance of a larger earthquake. i d say it s very low probability. what we are seeing so far are there s a very good chance of magnitude 6 and 7 earthquakes to continue in aftershock sequence. they ve already had 19 aftershocks. that s to be expected. we ve got 35 now greater than ....