capitol hill. reporter: well, jim, both house as well as senate lawmakers got briefings about 45 minutes apiece. it was a virtual briefing by the secretaries of defendse, state, as well as the joint chiefs of staff. nobody is happy with what s unfolded here. those briefings happening in real time this morning, so there s still a lot of unanswered questions as things move very quickly. democrats and republicans both privately and publicly were using things like gut-wrenching and heartbreaking and frustrating, even fatalistic language about why was the u.s. mission in afghanistan in the first place. on the senate side, you had administration officials explaining the evacuation procedure and the third-party countries that would try to take the refugees, on the house side in that briefing, it was more conte conte contentious. kevin mccarthy purchase shall as to why it was a crisis situation. secretary austin hitting back
in order to make sure that everybody who worked there is okay. it s our understanding that evacuation procedure is being followed with the new york police department. let me bring in joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst, somebody who prosecuted crimes involving bombs. joyce, can you talk a little bit about where this goes from here and your understanding of the process when it comes to a situation like this one? sure, the good news here, the obvious good news is that none of these bombs have exploded. they were intercepted and no one has hurt. it s important to remember that there could still be other bombs in the mail straem or other explosive devices and it s important to be vigilant, but these unexploded bombs will lead investigators with a lot of evidence to work forward on. we have heard some reporting
see my kilauea is one of five volcanoes on the big island. the newest one. since 1983 when it begins spewing it is literally buried 50 square miles of land and loughlin as you see behind me it s not done yet. eric: it s amazing to think the lava travels underground and can pop up in the widespread area. can you give us a feeling of what it is like? what do you smell? are you concerned? evacuation procedure for you in the other news media people still there. what is it like? i ll tell you what. the national guard and police, you can see they won t let us anywhere near the danger area, including the residence for obvious reasons. i haven t really smelled of sulfur in the air yet because we haven t been able to get that close because they are keeping people at bay if you will. the town of pahoa nearby where
hurricane? yes, the bahamas are no stranger to hurricanes, they dealt with them last year and they were prepared for irma arrival. these are six of the seven more southerly islands were evakd wednesday and thursday which was the largest evacuation procedure in the management agency, most of them were brought to this island in the island of nassau where the vast majority of the bahama population is leaving they live in houses built of concrete that are capable of resisting through the hurricane forces, and thankfully irma swing past buy the island of nassau and the northern most part of the bahamas archipelago. the way these people deal with
wave heights will build. low-lying areas of the hawaiian island, all the islands in the pacific basin, particularly low laying levels of susceptible to inundation. if you re in an area like hawaii you ve really got to be worried. it will be one of the first islands hit. with a time do you estimate that? it s supposed to be about 3:00 in the morning hawaiian time. but the entire coast of alaska and the western, the west coast of the united states and canada and mexico are also under a tsunami warning. when you have a tsunami warning and we give that issue, we came in a couple of hours ago and it was a watch. now it is a warning. people listening right now on the west coast or any of these 20 countries, what do you recommend they do? i think they should follow standard evacuation