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Middle of the night when the earthquake struck. >> no, i was about to go to sleep because there was a festival coming up here in chile, a very important festival. and i was going to go to bed, and i was almost asleep and suddenly the earthquake starts. at the beginning at the start the power went off. and i heard screaming in the street. we are used to the earthquake. and suddenly it doesn't stop and it became bigger and bigger and we stand up under the door. >> was there any damage to your home? >> no. no damage in my home. i know there's a lot of damage in the houses that are old. there's a ...

That centrally affected area. they are still looking for a few people, but most are accounted for as well as they acknowledged right away that communications is very difficult at this hour. so it is tough for them to get in touch with people on the ground as they are trying to account for everyone as well. by state department estimates, there are about 1,000 american citizen that is are in the most affected area. at the moment, there are no reports of any injuries or deaths of americans, which is very good news, but as we can tell, it is very early on. still at this hour, communications is the...

They heard of it. they have been carefully monitoring the situation and they are reporting now inside of chile. let's dip into this. i'll tell you what's being reported. this is information coming in as we speak. he said, many houses have now fallen in the area of arosco. a supermarket has been completely destroyed. as well as one of the supermarkets in concepcion has also fall on the the ground. [ speaking foreign language ] >> the anchor is thanking the reporter. now we've got another reporter. he's going to be talking from concepcion. he's asked exactly what's going on the ground there now.

Challenges that the chilean authorities are having to deal with right now, fed rick ka. >> all right. thank you so much, rafael. we appreciate that. we'll continue to check back with you. we'll have much more of continuing coverage of all that's taking place in chile and now the tsunami advisory affecting so many coasts, pacific coasts of the u.s., we are talking about asian coasts, australia, new zee land, it goes on. the focal point is hawaii in the 4:00 eastern hour. that's the expectation of when they could feel the tsunami. >> those of you who have been with us for some time, and some are...

Chile, but it is the effect of the earthquake that may be felt in parts, in fact, very far away. so expect to see the latest pictures. and, folks, we are going on the fly here, so as we get information, and as we get pictures, expect cnn to be the first to show them to you because we have a bureau there in santiago. we also have affiliations with many of the network that is are covering this story right now. >> this is coming out of santiago as well as concepcion, 70 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake, 8.8 magnitude earthquake, quite huge, and it is causing this wave, this tsunami that...