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And once we have this water level data, we put them into the computer model somewhere, and then from there we can predict what kind of wave we are expecting at, for example, the hawaiian islands. >> okay. vindell hsu from the pacific tsunami warning center. thank you for your incites. >> you're welcome. >> we'll stay here on this breaking news. lots of news on behalf of mother nature today. we'll have more on the deadly and extremely powerful earthquake in chile. the latest on the victims, the damage as well as the winter storm. the third huge snowstorm to slam into the northeast. we'll get yo...

Away. >> you issued that warning. when do you know how high the waves are and what point they're going to hit and what the potential damage would be and if you need to move people from low lying areas? >> after we see the first water level data. and that one is i think about 40, 50 minutes up to the earthquake occurred. >> yeah. >> we measure about 2, 3 meters of wave at one coastal station. >> at that time, we issue a watch -- a watch for hawaii but a warning for the south american coastline. >> vindell, i want to ask you to stay with me as we tell people