glass here, you know, thankfully the tsunami did strike but it wasn't the hawaiians were very prepared, though. they received notification of the earthquake striking at 8:45. they put out a warning at 12:30 from their tsunami warning center which is just a few miles from where i'm standing right now and i'm with ed teixeira the vice director of civil defense. how important was it to conduct the evacuations that you did? >> it was pretty important. with an earthquake measuring 8.8 magnitude even our tsunami warning officials were very, very concernd that a quake like that in chile next to the water coupled with tide gage readings along the coast and other readings would result in a very damaging earthquake to hawaii. and other parts of the pacific for that matter. >> we know how poorful they are predicting the -- how powerful