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Areas. people pouring out their hearts trying to figure out how they can help. not only the people in haiti, but now the people in chile. >> you love it or hate it, but facebook and twitter are instrumental in times like this. laura ingle is working on that and hopefully we'll see her later on. once again if you're just tuning in, there was a deadly 8.8 magnitude quake that hit chile. this is video as it was happening. it happened at 3:30 a.m. local time in an area that the epicenter was an area called conception, which we talked to a local reporter there, it's about 200 miles from santiago. i...

Tsunami warning. he urged people in hawaii, american samoa, guam and the west coast to follow the instructions of local authorities. here is what he said. listen closely to the instructions of local officials who have will full support of the federal government as they prepare for a potential tsunami and recover from any damage that may be caused. i also urge our citizens along the west coast to be prepared as well as there may be dangerous wastes and currents throughout the day. >> reporter: and white house officials saying the president will be updated throughout the day on the situation. ...

Command and if military assets are needed as they were in haiti, that military assets will be brought in to help. you talked about infrastructure problems with bridges and that sort of thing. so perhaps there may be a request for military to help with some of those infrastructure type issues. i can tell you secretary of state hillary clinton was scheduled to travel to the region this week to chile, brazil, costary a and guatemala. they're assising what to do about the trip, but no change of plans at this time. so we will wait and see on that. we'll bring you the latest information when we have...

Explaining it to us. we are only about 15-20 minutes away from the tsunami hitting the hawaiian islands. >> julie: we have breaking news out of vancouver. athletes and coaches from chile are planning to skip the closing ceremonies following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that devastated their country. a spokesman said this morning that athletes and copies are trying to get home from vancouver as soon as possible because of the quake. we should mention that chile has three alpine skiers representing the country at the vancouver games, all have finished competing so therefore, they won't be missin...

Here is the information. or i'm looking for so and so, and it's an interactive way to get information on people who may be there in chile. >> mike, let me interrupt you. we're going to get back with you. mike emmanuel, he's going to stick around. for the moment, we're going to go to a slight break and be back with more details about the earthquake in chile.