sheriff s office, is responding to this possible hazardous material threat at this irs building. jeanne meserve and i were talking about this a while ago and i was curious why this person was being taken out in a gurney, and taken out in that situation. you might see people being walked to, perhaps, a fire resc rescue, but to be taken out. wolf blitzer will be all over this. you can expect it on the situation room. rick, thanks. also happening now, scrounging for food, digging for survivors and counting the dead. the people of chile try to claw their way out of a new earthquake catastrophe. plus 2,000 federal workers forced to walk away from their jobs without pay. unemployment for hundreds of thousands more on the line right now, and it s all because of a single u.s. senator. we re following the fallout from a political smackdown over federal spending. the health advocate in chief says it s time to walk the walk. how did one of our fittest, trimmest presidents wind
basically rebuilt itself, being conscious of that happening. my final question to you. how long before rebuilding? you keep mentioning that, but before things can get back to some normalcy. i think it is too early to answer that. right now they re just getting into many of the areas because major roads and major bridges that connect the country from north to south are gone at this point. so there is no way to really give you an idea of that. we re so glad you re safe and we thank you so much for taking the time. we know you re running the network over there, cnn chile, rolando santos, senior vice president of cnn chile, joining us by telephone in the middle of that earthquake when it hit. thank you, rolando. for people in hawaii, it has been a day of watching and waiting for tsunami waves. when they finally arrived they didn t live up to their early billing. cnn s thelma gutierrez found herself in the middle of an evacuation this morning and she s on the big island of hawaii. w
southland and the new episodes run on march 2nd. so the feedback quickly. don lemon said ginormous and i love it and i realize that we have a international audience who may not get that, and i get that. and how come no mention of the marie osmond s son? you are watching the wrong network, because i have done it several times tonight. and sorry about the breaking news, we promise to have more for you. i m don lemon from the cnn headquarters. we will see you back here tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern. we will have more breaking coverage of the earthquake in chile. the death toll rises in the aftermath of chile s massive earthquake and the number of missing is still unknown. the nation s infrastructure has suffered widespread damage adding challenges to the rescue and relief efforts. meanwhile across the pacific, japan waits to see if a quake-triggered tsunami quake-triggered tsunami materializes on its shores. captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello and thank you for joi
good choice. only meineke lets you choose your service, choose your savings. like an oil change for just $19.95. meineke. i m don lemon. this is cnn s breaking new coverage of the massive chile earthquake and the tsunami and worries that spawned all across the pacific. this is our partner network, cnn chile. you re looking at an interview they re doing now. we re listening to the president of chile. why don t we take a listen in. translator: i have flown over the capital regions, hilo and had meetings with the local authorities to learn on site and to coordinate the actions necessary for to help the affected population. the forces of nature have hurt our country greatly and we are now having to face adversity and having to stand, again, and we are taking all necessary measures to normalize little by little the functioning of all of the basic services and utilities in our countries. but there is a great task ahead of us. i have been in six main regions that have been aff
rolando santos, the president of cnn chile joining us on the phone. we will be checking with you throughout the day. in the meantime, though, rob has moved into the weather center here at the cnn center here in atlanta, georgia. and i want you to give us a quick lesson on how strong a quake like this is. when we hear 8.8, that sounds like a pretty large one. put it in perspective for us. well, you have to remember the way the magnitude scale works, it s rhythmic equation that basically everything expands. if you go from 7 to 8, you re not just increasing it by whatever percentage that is, 20% or so. you re increasing it by 32 times the amount of energy released. so if you go from a 7.0, which that would be the haiti quake to an 8.0, you re looking at 500 times the amount of energy released, 500 times the strength. the usgs puts a number on it as