hundred times difference in the energy that was released. the tsunami from this event is smaller than that one. you know, this tsunami today is in most places on the order of about three feet. the maximum we saw was about eight feet and that is, that s considered a fairly small tsunami, a moderate tsunami. brian shiro, thank you for being with us and explain what s coming next and we understand our federal government is monitoring the situation as well. thank you very much for your time. let s turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth who is at the fox weather center with more on the tsunami danger, what can you tell us? well, a great guest you had on. those are the guys monitoring the buoys to get an idea exactly how fast the waffles are travelling and they ve certainly done a great job this morning and had put out advisories across the entire pacific base p, so we ve got warnings, a tsunami warning
point in the calendar as a spring board to sell their message. beyond all of that it certainly is interesting because officials are telling us that the tone of the state of the union is said to be an optimistic one, one in which the president will try to reach across the aisle and appeal to people that aren t in his base p the president is trying to grow his approval numbers and try to gain support for his plans for the united states. it certainly surprising he wouldn t go on the road to do that, anna. boris, at the same time the president is preparing for the state of the union he is in the middle of the spat with the one of the biggest music stars. tell bus this. yeah. president taking to twitter early this morning to target jay-z. the rapper and entertainment mogul. in part because jay-z was on the show last night on cnn talking about the president and his consistent statements about african-american and employment numbers being at historic lows