we re camped out up here. we re ready to take a look from outdoors in this area and see what s there. he is talking about some other things here. parking lot with tsunami evacuees. and we re seeing some images here of this. all this is from a blog called ramblings of a dutchman in california. he is in hawaii right now. i also want to show you from historical perspective, take a look at this photo. we re talking about the past. this photo after the associated press this is from 1960. we ve been talking about how massive this earthquake is today. i ve been holding it at 8.8. it is one of the hugest earthquakes we have seen. and what we re seeing here is the last one. this is hilo in 1960 after there was a huge earthquake, what is considered to be the biggest earthquake in recorded history. people right. there now all these years later, we re looking at hilo again, fred. a little historic perspective.
that this is under way. here we go from the national pacific tsunami warning center that the tsunami has reached hawaii. it is just beginning to register on big island gauges. later bulletins will report details on the hawaii observation. so here we go. things are officially beginning. we re getting under way. three feet rise, not too bad. we ll keep the numbers down there. but certainly no indication as to whether or not this is going to get worse or if this will be the worst of it. oftentimes, fred reeka, the first wave is not the strongest one. so things are going to be certainly touch and go in the upcoming hours. these waves can come in inprepgss. they could be five minutes apart. they could be 15 minutes apart. they could be longer than that apart. we don t know exactly what to expect when the next one begins to push in. so earlier you were explaining the bouies. are we saying the indicator for the three foot wave that already hit is one of the bouies and the