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Buildings collapsing in different regions. we've seen a number of fires as a result of gas. the international airport has been closed. i've been saying repeatedly that facades are falling off of buildings. we don't want people to believe that buildings are collapsing everywhere. they are not. some in mexico city have collapsed. we have a somewhat disturbing lack of information out of the epicenter area. i say that guarded. mexico is slow about reporting in these sorts of situations. there was an earthquake a couple weeks ago and we all remember, all of us of a certain age the earthquake in 198...

On the 24th of august. there is incredible, you know, really horrible devastation in the towns and the toronto valley and the other area. those little towns were sitting on the fault. they were extensively damaged. it's important to get information after and there are big rock falls that we have to and a half have i ga navigate around. >> you're sitting on the fault line. what are you learning from where you are at the moment? >> so i was in my hotel which is several tenths of kilometers, maybe 20 miles from the epicenter area. i was brushing my teeth when it

Significantly for a big earthquake qulike this and that misplaces the water which causes the tsunami. it's like a child making a sudden disturbance in the bathtub it causes a lot of water to go places it normally doesn't go. >> just so i understand this, kate, how exactly does an earthquake result in a tsunami? by. >> by changing the level of the ocean floor and it either drops down and the water comes in to fill that or raises up and displaces the water, and that causes waves which propagate outward away from the epicenter area. >> kate hutton, thank you very much, indeed, for your ensaying. ...

Remain contained in that epicenter area or spill over into other sections of the capital? you were mentioning the military not intervening and stepping in when there was clear danger directed against ordinary people. but it's not just the fact they're not intervening but the military presence is tiny considering the level of danger and the thousands and thousands of people. you have one or two tanks here, one or two tanks there. but ben was talking about how when you have 100 protestors, you might have thousands of riot police to control them. it is also a numbers game. >> arwa damon, you're j...

Of curfew." they are telling americans who want to get out of egypt to proceed to the airport as soon as possible after curfew, which is in one hour, to try to get on u.s. government flights. the u.s. government started offering flights on monday. they got about 1,000 people out after the first day. the numbers dropped to about 500 the next day because of traffic problems with all the demonstrators. but clearly this is a much more direct message than we have heard. >> after the developments today, the state department is telling u.s. citizens basically this has become a very dangerous situatio...