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Rising seas and frequent storms are taking their toll on California's iconic public piers and raising questions about the future of the landmarks.

Rick reichmuth, philadelphia is going to get hit. >> i think they'll be fine for that ship going through the water. that river is not frozen, at least that far south now. >> no. >> exactly. more cold air on the way. take a look at these temperatures this morning as you're waking up across the northern plains. it feels like it's january. if this were january this would be temperatures. it's march so it's incredible cold temperatures. minus 5 in international falls. towards omaha, 0, 2 in kansas city. there's a very strong cutoff, that's where your front is. the 64 degrees in memphis. get ready,...

Across the west coast. we saw that with a two-foot surge that we saw from the chilean earthquake and that caused some damages. it caused people to lose their boats there was pier damage. we can see larger waves certainly from this as well. that can cause significant damage. people are headed to bed and they need to be paying extra close attention. >> we also talked about the fact that when things like this hit you have a lot of power outages. people can monitor what is going on and that's the scary part. we are talking about how a lot of these people in japan probably didn't know this was comi...

A boat being knocked off of a pier, in hawaii a lot of pier damage. it's going to pull through much of the pacific basin. that is exactly how this works. you'll notice this will continue to progress all the way down and eventually maybe even towards chile we can see water rises as the big bathtub sloshess across the pacific ocean. jon: you're on the surface of the ocean you don't really notice it, it's not the gigantic wave that you see when it comes ashore. >> reporter: i was reading reports in hawaii it was an eerie thing as people were watching the horizon. a lot of the boats go out to sea ...