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Was a slim possibility that it was a collapse at the nuclear test site. Joining us, ben wedeman, who is live from tokyo. Ben, what are you hearing from there . Well, christi, multiple sources saying different things, one said it was a 3. 5magnitude earthquake in northeastern north korea, and they said it was a possible explosion. However, were hearing now from officials at the Korean Meteorological Agency that they believe it was neither a collapse of the test site, nor an explosion, a nuclear test, that it was probably a natural earthquake. Now, the United States Geological Survey has said that it happened at a depth of about three miles, but theyve said that the air force organization that can actually test for the presence of nuclear particles in the atmosphere, and that might provide us with a more definitive idea of what has happened, but at this point it seems most of the officials in the area are tending to the belief that perhaps this was a natural earthquake. One official sayi
Hello, john. Reporter julie [speaking japanese] on a sup morning, were at on a sunday morning, were at the air base just west of tokyo where the president s going to touch down in about two and a half hours time. The first order of business will be an address to the troops, 14,000 of them stationed here. Behind me, a contingent of marines here on the mainland, they were doing some training, and theyre transferring back to okinawa, so they will be part of this evenings goingson as well. The president took off a little while ago from honolulu after spending a day there. Hes going to be on a fivenation tour of the asiapacific rim. This is going to be the longest president ial tour of this area of the world since george h. W. Bush, and that was some 25 years ago. The president will start here in japan, then hes going to go to south korea. From south korea he will go to da nang for the apec conference in vietnam, then on to hanoi. From there, hell go to beijing for a couple of days and fini
With vietnams president. Earlier today, the president says he spoke with Vladimir Putin of the election 2016 election, President Trump says putin denied the allegations and the president says he believes him. The two leaders chatted informally so far. Gel zeleny and Matthew Chang is live with us in nanang. Tell us what the president said regarding his discussion with President Trump. Reporter good morning, the president says hes done talking about the russian meddling in the election. He was trying to move forward to other issues. He briefed with reporters here in nanang to hanoi here. He talked about the briefing here in nanang. He says that look, he believes hes taking Vladimir Putin at his words that the russians did not meddle in the election. Now t president said this n an off camera briefing arrest force one to reporters, lets look, every time he sees me, he says i did do that. I really believe him. The president is sticking to the fact that Vladimir Putin that he did not meddle
Try to assess some of this damage. Kcnns Martin Savidge is standing by in biloxbiloxi. How are things now . Reporter doing better. Doing better. Lets talk about the storm surge because i think that is the real story when daylight comes up. Give you a sense of where it was. It stopped about here. Okay . So gulf of mexico is all the way across four lanes of roadway there. It came roaring in around midnight last night and when i say surge, it surged. I mean, at one moment, you thought, all right, its okay, its right there. Then about one minute later its washing around your ankles and pretty soon up around your calf. A lot of debris in that water too. Tore up a number of piers so a lot of heavy debris that was floating down u. S. 90. Now you can see by the traffic that water is all gone and drained away quickly but the debris is still there. They just started a frontend loader moving down the roadway here so they have not only got to clear a lot of stuff but a lot of the beach that is on