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No tsunami warnings or advisories have been issued as of yet for alaska, california or the coast of oregon or washington, or hawaii, so that s a little bit of good news for us here in the u.s. so we don t think that this earthquake was powerful enough or of enough magnitude to bring a wave over into our coastline, but still very imminent threat out there for japan and that s the location of the earthquake is similar as well to the last earthquake that did hit, that we have had amazing amount of damage. you can see on the satellite image not a lot of cloud cover through the country of japan. some clouds off to the west and we will have a new approaching storm system though and this is going to be bringing in some concern for additional cleanup efforts or radioactive vapors that may be in the atmosphere and headed to wednesday, but for monday and tuesday the problem is going to be the very cool air in place, nighttime temperatures just before the freezing mark, dangerous for anyone caugh ....
Atmosphere, and any physical damage there that could actually turn it into a major nuclear catastrophe, a radioactive catastrophe. you know, the people can t seem to catch a break and everybody holds them in their prayers. and alert coming into the news room, dominic and you re gathering, but tsunamis are expected to arrive imminently in the following coastal regions in japan and it lists the miagyi prefecture. what sort of warning or what are they telling people? there will be sirens, functioning, depending where the water causes in the area. people obviously will be those who have cell phones and cell phones towers up and operating and people s relatives around the country ....
Saw that this weekend. families going back, and see what they can salvage. well, still the risk of tsunamis coming at them and obviously, they re going to feel caught and there s a degree of panic there, and how many people are we talking about. we re talking about they re not finding themselves in that predicament. and they re less than 45 minutes the warning was issued and so, the word, if it is getting to them, no doubt will actually be we ll actually be worrying an awful lot of people. and depends how many are close to higher ground and back to the houses which were hid by the original earthquake or by the original tsunami. and there is potential in the area, to actually be cause of yet another tidal wave certainly, but no mention there is a tidal wave, harris. harris: and this may be helpful to learn as well. because this is coming into the news room now. the japan meteorology agency that very agency i said that we have been getting a lot of information from this evening, ....
Casey, we ll come back to you later in the newscast as well. if you learn any more. thank you very much. we want to go back to japan where another earthquake has just hit. we ll do that coming up. and plus, widespread flooding causing some big problems in one part the of the country. houses soaking up enormous amounts of water and an update on all the storms hitting california and where they re going next. plus, getting high-tech to secure our nation s border, but it s not the border that we share with mexico, it s the one up north. stay with us. ....
The people were getting ready to go to work and of course, people very concerned another tsunami will hit those trying to salvage their devastated lives there, you know, this happened very close to where the march 11th earthquake happened and as a result, many people actually this was probably a close call and we re not hearing of any material or large scale damage up there at the moment and hopefully people have actually escaped in this particular case. you have to remember that the march 11th he earthquake actually shifted pressure on a plate tokoyo and geologist keeping an eye whether a repeated earthquake will shake or worse to come and hopefully after what we had today that isn t going to be the case, harris. harris: dominic di-natale reporting live from japan. a weekend washout it central california. heavy rains triggers mudslides there and this is video, the drainage pipe ripping a hole into the ground, sending a ....