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Last couple of hours. >> what about power? power outages in the number of 200,000 that we're seeing so far. some locations have not seen any loss at all. what have you seen? >> we're one of the lucky ones. we're at a hotel here that kept its power. the power would sort of flicker on and off throughout the evening but basically held. yeah, those power outage numbers that have sloedsly and steadi - slowly and steadily cropped up throughout the corpus christi area, but we still have power. >> the water, that's the tornado we were hearing from maya earlier, about where the water is safe to drink. ...

She's a hero to me, her name is erin, also works here. >> had your wife in a wheelchair. >> yeah, to help push her down. >> 90 minutes earlier she was delivering a baby. >> pretty much, three, four hours, right before when everything took place. as we get down there, the lights start to flicker on and off, and they kept telling us just kind of keep calm. we were on backup generators. with that being said, lights eventually went out. my wife was still under medication from delivering the baby, so she wasn't really into -- she didn't know a lot of what was going on. >> had a c-section. >> yes, s...

Flicker on and off and that swaying very abruptly turned into just a very violent shake and that's when i stood up and headed towards my doorway. >> so you saw his picture. you may not have recognized his face, but his singing voice you would recognize that is former "american idol" contestant, came close to winning, his name is elliott yamin. he was caught in the middle of the chile quake. we will hear from him. we have been saying hawaii dodged a bullet. did they really? there could be aftershocks. the tsunami warning center cancelled the tsunami warning. jacqui jeras tells us what is next. ...

The lights were starting to flicker on and off. and then that swaying very abruptly turned to just a very -- just a very violent shake. and that's when i stood up and kind of headed towards my doorway and opened my door, of course, just to see if anybody else was doing the same and if anybody else was out, you know, in the hallways and i was kind of yelling out earthquake, earthquake, get out, get in the doorway. >> you were yelling to people, earthquake, get out? >> i was yelling very frantically at the top of my lungs. >> you're in vina del mar, right? >> vina del mar, about 90 miles southwe...

Scariest night and morning of your life. tell me what happened from the moment that this first struck. what did you feel? where were you? what happened? >> well, i was -- it was about 3:20 in the morning. i was on the sixth floor of our hotel in my room. at my desk, coincidentally go figure, i was actually tweeting at the time that the earthquake struck. and it was just, you know, obviously without warning. it was a very abrupt kind of swaying back and forth. and then -- >> swaying as in the building? the whole building? >> right. the building was swaying back and forth as was my room. things ...