rey. massive winter weather system is making its way south prompting several governors to declare states of emergency. meteorologist adam klotz has the latest, hey, adam. adam: as you said a lot going on in the weather world beginning with the tsunami where it s going to add a couple of feet of extra swell up and down the entire coast. everything here in this orange and you see it stretching all the way from the very southern bits of california all the way up into oregon tsunami advisories at least for the next couple of hours as you do get little extra chop and extra rift currents also, this stretches all the way to alaska where traditionally you get a little bit of higher surf when the systems hits as it stretches out into the pacific. already earlier this morning we got numbers maybe close to 3 feet but at least a foot of extra waves out there this morning because of this. now as you also mentioned we are tracking the wintery-type
nation. it could even be seen from space as you see in these images here. tsunami advisories remain in place across this country, the west coast specifically. california, now the biggest threat, where authorities are still warning of dangerous currents and tidal surges. nbc s guad venegas is in los angeles with more on this. talk us through this. what can folks expect there? what have they experienced so far? reporter: yasmin, impressive images of that volcano eruption as we just saw. there was a tsunami that hit the highland of tonga. it flooded the capital. a lot of people had to go to higher ground and after this, this advisory was issued for the entire west coast, that s california, oregon, washington state, and even british columbia in canada, all of these areas remain under the advisory. now, what this means is that we could see one to two-foot waves in areas that usually don t have the waves. we did see a video that you were just showing that we shared on social media from san
islands of tonga. take a look at these images from pacifica, california, showing waves crashing into the shoreline. miles of beaches along the coast closed today as residents were told to stay away. and a top seismologist calling this a once in a decade event. here s abc s zohreen shah. reporter: tonight, a massive underwater volcanic eruption triggering tsunami advisories up and down the entire west coast of the united states. the national weather service s tsunami warning system urging residents to move to high ground and away from the shore. 14 million people under alert, the eruption creating stronger waves from alaska to california. these massive waves crashing close to a home near pacifica, california s, pier. orange county beaches closed, officials in helicopter warning people to get off the sand. this satellite image from space shows the sheer force of the eruption 40 miles from tonga. waves hitting the island nation and flooding in nearby fiji. seismologist dr. lucy jones te
struck an indonesian island east of bali, not far from a volcano. dozens were injured including some of the people seen in this video. right now rescue teams are searching for survivors. the magnitude 6.4 quake caused significant damage. tourists and residents in bali say they felt the shaking, no tsunami advisories, we re happy to say, were advised. the latest on tropical storm that has hit japan, threatening areas that were marked by deadly flooding. just a few weeks ago. the storm was downgraded from typhoon status after it made landfall on saturday, still, though, some 37,000 residents in hiroshima prefecture have been ordered to get to safe locations, this because of concerns about landslides and river flooding. still ahead, russia showing off military mite, but what message is moscow sending with its military spectacle? we ll look into it. also, recently a high profile palestinian prisoner, a
local officials say a citizen of malaysia is among those killed. magnitude 6.4 earthquake caused significant damage. tourists and residents in bali say they felt the shaking. happy to report no tsunami advisories issued. the latest now on tropical storm to hit japan threatening areas hit by deadly flooding a few weeks ago. it was downgraded from typhoon status after it made landfall on thursday. still people have been ordered to get to a safe location because of concerns about landslides and river flooding. train services and flights were canceled as this storm approached. next here, long time trump confidant michael cohen made a clean break from his boss. we ll discuss why he s perhaps doing that and what risk it could pose to the president ahead here. in a delicate time for relations between russia and the west, russian president vladimir