Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100227:13:09:00
I haven't been focusing on ha. what i have been looking at is the whole tsunami question. the u.s. government, noaa, after banda aceh decided to step up the warning system. and there are 20 buoys out in the pacific, and they're known as the d.a.r.t. buoys, deep ocean assessment reporting of tsunamis. they float out there and transmit data. so when the buoys sense a rise in elevation because of a moving wave, that information is transmitted to satellites and brought into noaa headquarters, and they start doing some very rapid calculations to determine the size of the wave that's coming, the spe...