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Along the coast from wilmington towards moorhead city. this will be a big event, a long-lasting one and potential for a stronger hurricane perhaps. so this is the advisory that we got as of 5:00 a.m., a new one coming out in less than an hour. we're really going to have to watch that track, okay? if it moves a little more westward, more impacts for more people. we really hope that it is going to get kicked out to sea. that is the conventional wisdom right now. again a lot of these models trending westward. i don't want you to let your guard down if you live across the mid-atlantic and northeas...

Jim, the biggest problem is going to be that if the media stops covering this at some point, when perhaps search slows down, that the families are going to feel abandoned. already they feel that the media is giving them information more than actually the malaysian government. so that's going to be a real complication as part of that grieving process, if you will, they're going through. >> i heard an interview with the head of the air france flight 447 families a short time ago. and he mentioned that for him, he lost his daughter on the flight. he mentioned that for him he had two sort of perio...

>> what you are describing there, ginger, is the fact that the sea floor gets more and more shallow. >> right. >> therefore the churning of the water as it comes slower, in other words the wave slows down, but it gets higher and higher like the waves you see on the coast of california. except this is, of course, a tsunami wave. the concern might be when we look at the west coast, is how flat the land is and what sort of breakers there are. san diego, the beaches there, southern california, san francisco, which basically doesn't have much of a breaker there. only ten feet tall. then there are o...

>> the wave generated by this earthquake in the hours immediately following the quake itself were described as moving across the ocean as fast as a jetliner. how would you characterize the waves now from the data you're looking the at and what you're hearing? >> yes. the waves are proilgating across the ocean at the speed of a jetliner, 450 to 6 a miles per hour. as they get nearer to shore in all of these areas, and it's happening at different times around the basin, but as they do get nearer to shore, they encounter shallower and shallower water, so the wave speed slows down, but that causes...

Extrapolating what might have happened, people who started jobs that couldn't get to them. >> but are they all fired because they couldn't get to work? >> these are the reasons that are cited in these reports by a guy from deutsche bank, like these are legitimate sources. but i agree with you, you know, you have to build weather into the process. >> it's winter! >> of course! it's winter like washington hasn't seen, but, still, these are the things that you build into the process. >> i'll cut them some slack in washington. atlanta got snow and atlanta doesn't have the plows and the salt. i get...