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Tropical cyclone jack heading into the region. how soon before the storm gets here? >> the storm is about 600 miles away and we're seeing some thunderstorms beginning to develop ahead of the cyclone itself. we also know wave heights, according to the joint typhoon warping center, wave heights as high as four meters. once the storm gets here inside the next two days, wave height also be 7 to 10 feet on the water. so any visual search will be impacted. plenty of rainfall over this region as the storm system nears the zone. winds about 60 miles per hour once the storm gets here. but the strongest...

Search for surface debris will go on, we don't know. it was angus houston last week who said it would be a matter of days that he thought that would be wound down. but it does continue at this moment. you mentioned that cyclone northwest of the search area. it's not on track to actually hit the search area directly, but it could complicate things because the wave height and winds are making a pickup in the next few days. malaysian acting transport minister, jim, yesterday saying that prayers would be needed this week and indeed it's looking like that, jim. >> a lot of prayers needed just for p...

There as far as the weather is concerned. it seems to be getting worse by the hour. how is it right now? >> it's not just a one-off event, too. you take a look. the storm system that we've touched on in the last few hours moving through at this hour is kind of the peak of the storm as we're seeing it this hour but there's a second storm moving through beijing, a third storm beginning to form over portions of the tibetan plateau. so we think over the next couple of days we get storms that cruise in one after another with brief breaks in between them and again right now kind of in the peak of th...

And the 8.2 -- 1.5 million quakes occur that you will feel. in the eight scale -- so a very significant event. felt by at least 167,000 people. and you would imagine this quake. happening about 17 minutes before midnight, a lot of people affe affected. and wave heights increasing to 2.4 feet. now, remember, yesterday's earthquake with a wave height of six feet. so, this is a significantly smaller event. being over land, the coastal

Before we knew it, suddenly, they were cancelled. explain us us what you go through at the u.s. geological survey, to put out warnings like that. >> we don't put out warnings, that would be the noa tsunami warning center that puts out the warnings, they base it on a time frame. when this quake occurred, close to the coast it generated a localized tsunami that had a wave height around seven feet maximum in the central area. over the next couple of hours, they are able to access if there are various edpisode of waves that might be generated locally, they look at the prospect if