they ve happened before in this area. were you aware of this when you bought your home? we do know that we re on a cliff, and there apparently had had not been any movement on the cliff for many years. and so we just thought, okay, that s something you pay for the marvelous view you have. i want to richard, hold on one second, i m going to bring in chad myers, he s our severe weather expert, with a question. now that the land has completely opened up, no roots holding any of that dirt. i suspect that dirt will continue to move and fall down into a lower space. but the question i have for you is kind of meteorologically speaking. have you had a wet winter there? have you felt the ground be mushy understood your feet as all, or is this a normal year? we ve had more rain than normal probably.
with the next 24 to 48 hours and perhaps intensify before we start to see any of these conditions cease. elizabeth, we ll stick with it as this storm is coming. thank you. it s on its way and fox news it tracking the hurricane closely as it barrels towards us in the northeast. we ll bring you the latest through the morning as our coverage continues. you can always go to foxnews.com for up-to-the minute information. it s not just the storm on the east coast. we have more details surrounding a tsunami hitting the coast of hawaii following a powerful underwater earthquake. forecasters downgraded the tsunami warning for the state to an advisory. the geologist tracking the developments says the first waves hitting the coast are smaller than had at first been expected. the magnitude under water quake
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under a mandatory evacuation order. we have fox team coverage with peter doocy live on the ground. first, let s go to our chief meteorologist in the fox extreme weather center. rick, they are saying this could be reminiscent of the storm of threat 38 that killed 30 people. could it be? reporter: types are different. but this will absolutely be probably the strongest storm for places like north jersey, new york city and long island that anybody has ever experienced, to put that into perspective for you. a very strong, incred iible, daicialtion, potentially deadly storm we are watching. a very interesting or annoying technicality is coming out of the national weather service, and the national hurricane center. tell not be a hurricane. and so when it makes landfall meaning meteorologically, it will be a nor easter, so while it is now hurricane sandy, it won t be a hurricane when it
exact same time and it caused a lot of damage through a lot of areas. there s a nursing home that caused damage and minor injuries there but certainly scary for everybody to try to get all of the residents in that nursing home safe. i ll tell you, every time you come to one of these tornadoes, every piece of wood that you see here that s been ripped out of one of these buildings has nails in it and that s what makes so much of this now dangerous as people go in and start to clean up and try to search through this. of course, they quickly want to search through and see if they have any belongings that they can get out of here, keepsakes or things that matter to them but it s a very treacherous time. i have to tell you, yesterday, it s amazing that there were no fatalities or even any critical injuries because it was not expected. we did not think yesterday would be a big tornado outbreak kind of day. and some situations change meteorologically in the afternoon and ended up being so and