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And there's a lot of action and urgency and that officials are responding to. >> kelly: hey, matt, it's kelly wright talking to you right now. in terms of your neighbors, your friends and people there, are you all banding together to try to help each other through this situation? >> yeah, there's definitely -- during the day after cell phone coverage of the stories and called several of my friends here and i've received many concerned phone calls just making sure everything was okay and definitely was in my building here, i was on the 25-floor apartment building, a lot of solidarity definitely...

Media reports and some older buildings, such as the fine arts museum which dates from about a hundred years ago, also, smaller houses and older parts of the city, falling facades and rubble. >> kelly: all right. yeah, matt, we thank you. matt malnowski talking to us from santiago. we're wishing the best for you and neighbors and friends throughout chile and remind everyone that what this 8.8 magnitude earthquake has done, it's actually triggered tsunamis throughout the pacific rim and smack dab in the middle of it hawaii. we're going to look, in fact, if we can bring it up quickly we can show ...

Catastrophic tsunami. what's it like on ground right now in chile? joining me now on the phone from santiago chile, is business news reporter matt malnowski. thank you for joining us. i've been asking who was there, take us back to 3:30 this morning when the 8.8 earthquake hit. what was going on. >> at 3:35 in the morning, i was fast asleep in my bed and woke up to a more of a gradual sway back and forth which quickly erupted into more of a jarring and shaking and at that point i grabbed my things and headed out of my apartment and went down 14 flights of stairs and out the front door e had yo...