lifted in yosemite national park, the fire is now 35% contained. and a powerful earthquake shaking the alush yan islands. no tsunami alerts were issued and that are know reports of damage or injuries. now back to on the record. congressman dun scan hunter just got back from the syrian border. what did he see there? what s it like? it was interesting. i tell you that. the biggest thing that we saw there, i was there with a democrat ranking member of the armed services kmety. we went to abu dhabi after that. the juror dane yans who are our friends, they have liquor stores. they re a very secular country in the middle east.
tsunami which killed so many people around this region. tsunami alerts were issued for both the earthquakes and didn t appear until a few hours later that no large tsunamis hit any shores. as you said, one small tsunami did hit acaay but it was inconsequential. the first quake 8.6 magnitude struck under the seabed near the island of sumatra. it was felt as far as away as singapore, bangladesh and thailand. they immediately issued a tsunami warning. warning alerts were issued along the coast of indonesia. there were panic in the streets as people tried to escape for higher ground. hospitals were evacuated with patients carried out. tsunami alerts also issued across the indian ocean. here in thailand people were told to evacuate the coast which borders the indian ocean in places like the holiday island of puket with
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honors at his funeral today. we are joined live from prague with more on that, atika shubert. reporter: we are expecting heads of state, heads of government and personal friends of pavel to come today, many dissidents who were in prison with him when he was jailed by the communist regime here. we had an extraordinary sight here at the grounds of prague castle last night. we saw tens of thousands of people coming to pay their last respects to vaclav havel, putting flowers by his coffin. it was an extraordinary scene when people talked about how much he men the to them and how he represented freedom. and atika, in terms of the kind of legacy he leaves behind, what are people saying was his biggest impact? reporter: they say, of course, his biggest impact was simply leaving the velvet revolution here in the czech republic, that peaceful transition away from that authoritarian communist regime to democracy as he, of course, became the first president of the czech republic.
coalition air strikes. eyewitnesses say the rebels have entered the city of sirte without a fight. a heavy bombardment of tripoli, the capital, is also reported. over the weekend the rebels captured two important oil refineries as well as a strategic port. they say they met little resistance. and you can tune in tonight for our live coverage of the president s address to the nation on the libyan crisis. abc s diane sawyer anchors tonight s special report which will start at 7:30 eastern time. meanwhile in japan, new misery this morning after a 6.5 earthquake struck the same part of the country still reeling from that devastating 9.0 quake just two weeks ago. tsunami alerts went out along that stretch of the coast. that s where thousands have died. but the alerts were lifted just a short time later with no reports of new damage or injuries. aerial pictures of the crippled fukushima nuclear plant were released over the weekend and they show just how badly