there is a real quick reminder on the internet. in this case, i don t know many people have them taped up to their wall but it is in the phone book in the white pages so you can flip to it and the state civil defense websites were very busy this morning as well with people double-checking and going and checking your address and see where you were. i think you heard you earlier before you came to work, you were among those in the store trying to get all the supplies, trying to to get your family in check so that they would not have any worries while you re at work. that s right. we have, you know, the kids are in a good place. my husband is a mariner, he s on the sea taking care of boats at this time as well. so we had to do what many families have to do, get the baby-sitt baby-sitter, get to work and make sure we can both do our jobs for the community. appreciate your time. be safe. thank you. we ll have much more of our continuing coverage of the earthquake in chile and now
there for a destructive tsunami. however, you re still going to be seeing fluctuations in the ocean levels. the water continues to be very rough and very dangerous. and so they re saying even though the warning is canceled at this time, they say don t go back to resuming your normal activities or even re-entering any of these evacuated areas. you want to wait and listen for the official word from your county, civil defense people because there could still be some dangerous conditions out there. so the worst is certainly over with. we had the tsunami. just over three feet was the highest that we saw on maui. i would say, yes, hawaii officially dodging the bullet on this one. and such great news. however, keep in mind that those warnings are still out there for other countries in which do extend all the way to japan. you know it not completely over and done with, but certainly a bit of good news here tonight. and you mentioned that 1960 earthquake and tsunami, japan got hit very hard.
our full interview with elliott yamin, one of the most popular things we have on the web now. you hear him talk about the fact that he didn t bring enough insulin medication, he s diabetic, he worked that out. he says he ll now be okay. i ll do one more thing, fred. we started off talking about hawaii. you know what, scammers will take advantage of anything. and i want you to see a tweet that i was taking a look at here this is a tweet from a place called twitter tips. careful with links to i ll tell you about this in a second, popular target for spammers and mal ware right now this is popular on twitter this is called a hash tag. anybody reporting anything on twitter about hawaii and the tsunami includes that in there. it is the pound sign and hitsunami. there are people trying to take advantage of this. they ll send out tweets, seem to be pictures or videos or information about the hawaii tsunami. but what they actually are spam ware or mal ware that can infect your computer. so, y
let down their guard as of yet. and that s smart. the warning is still out there. so you don t want to say, hey, you know, everybody go back. because there is still a little bit of uncertainty about these situations. but when the director of the tsunami warning center says we dodged a bullet, hey, that s great news, hopefully. hopefully that s the case. we did have a tsunami. it occurred. it happened. we saw several rises in sea heights for the hawaiian islands. we actually had more significant ones over in chile. we had, you know, more than seven feet of water which came in there. so this continues to go. we also had reports across new zealand and this thing, as you can see, this is the forecast and the timing for the propagation of this tsunami. you see this is going to head up, the western u.s. coast, it is go to move up toward alaska. this will be heading over towards indonesia and into japan. in fact, you know, the tsunami that happened in 1960 from chile quake, the highest tsun
so asian coasts as well as new zealand, australia, all of them are still keeping a close watch on what potentially could be brought from this tsunami. right. jacqui jeras, thanks so much. appreciate that. a lot of folks who have evacuated, they re going to be really glad to hear this, but not really clear, jacqui, whether they ll be don t go back until they say it is all okay. we don t know if that means all clear you can go back to your hotels or homes, right? they have a siren system, so my guess is that they also have some type of an all clear siren that they ll be sounding. in addition to that, i know prior to this when the warnings were issued, the coast guard flew along the coast lines and made announcements that way. i would expect the same on the flip side of this event. wow. i was really feeling for those families with small kids that were, you know in parking lots and evacuation centers because this now will be great news including our thelma gutierrez vacationi