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2 million people affected. rescuers are struggling against exhaustion to find people alive. >> that's a 70-ton sar dine fishing vessel, and it was washed ashore about 600 yards, in fact, by a tsunami wave that followed about an hour after that earthquake. >> looting has made the streets chaotic here. >> translator: i don't have a bed. only the clothes on my back. >> reporter: chile's government has asked the united nations for mobile bridges, generators and field hospitals. tomorrow, secretary of state hillary clinton will arrive with the first wave of u.s. relief. >> we're going to have much,...

Haiti, as you know, absolutely devastating. here in chile, far less. whenever human lives at stake then one life has that impact. what has struck me here, something that we didn't see in haiti, was the fact that this earthquake went hand in hand with a tsunami and make no mistake about it, that has been the number-one cause for the loss of life here. we were at a coastal village today and there a 70-ton fishing boat just high and dry on the main street there. it was washed ashore by a two meter tsunami wave that came in just an hour after the earthquake. >> some people blamed authorities sayin...

Warn inhabitants. now, that's one thing they didn't -- through a system of sirens. i don't know how sophisticated that system is, but another thing entirely, the inhabitants here having telling us that members of the navy told them to go back into their houses, that there wouldn't be a tsunami wave. here luckily inhabitants say they didn't lose a single member of the community, because they trusted their instincts. they headed to higher ground, and that, because they know the sea, because they live from the sea, and also because they have that experience of the earthquake back in the 1960s, th...

>> sad scene recreated all throughout most of chile right now. let's bring in karl penhaul. he's on the ground for us. karl, where exactly are you? >> reporter: we're on main street in a fishing town called talcuhuano in southern chile, we're on the main street in the town. look what's here. that's a 70-ton sardine vessel, washed ashore by a tsunami wave that followed about an hour after the earthquake. the inhabitants say that is not they heard that earthquake, they ran out of their homes and headed for higher ground. that was, they say, against

Advice of firefighters. they say they're glad they trusted their instincts and the experience from their parents and grandparents from an earthquake back in 1960. they said they knew a tsunami wave would come, and whether it did the fishermen and inhabitants said it was a frightening experience. it was the depths of night still, but they heard the wave coming, because it just rattled, made a sound, it was the rattle and the crashing of ships being bashed against their homes and their houses. it was the rattle and crash of shipping containers being dragged to shore, and in some cases ripping th...