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in about 30 minutes with abc 7 news at 6:00. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air in the west. a hostage situation at a texas synagogue. a young man taking multiple hostages including a rabbi and three others inside congregation beth israel near the dallas/ft. worth area. he has released at least one male hostage uninjured. s.w.a.t. teams, the fbi, and hostage negotiators responding to the scene. authorities say the suspect is demanding the release of a terrorist now in federal prison. the white house closely monitoring the situation. another major story we re following tonight, the entire u.s. west coast facing a tsunami threat after a massive undersea volcano erupted near the pacific nation of tonga. satellite images show the resulting plume of ash, steam,
the tsunami threat, the areas in yellow are under a tsunami advisory. about 14 million people. we are expecting one to two feet of increase of waves from the tsunami, between 7:30 and 10:00 a.m. pacific time. it is a wide variety because it is a wide advisory when you talk about how many states are involved. it ranges from homer, alaska to expecting 9:05:00 a.m. we have seen the first wave push into monterey. we ll start up to 7:50 a.m. in los angeles. 8:10 around san francisco. those are in pacific times. hawaii has a tsunami advisory up, but they ve seen observed waves come through not just one but multiple islands. most of them range between one to three foot range. similar to what we are expecting
missiles to overwhelm missile defenses in the region. and a tsunami threat following massive volcano eruption on saturday, begun to recede, erupted near the nation of tonga creating solid boom all the way to alaska. more after the break. to alaska. more after the break
and create this shock wave that sent ripples literally across the globe. in california, many beaches were closed as a precaution and that s more than 5000 miles from where the volcano erupted. jon donnison, bbc news. they re monitoring the tsunami threat right across the pacific, of course, and i ve been speaking tojoe sirard, a meteorologist with the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, based near los angeles. he says it s been a worrying time but the worst seems to be over. we have had a tsunami advisory along the west coast which means tsunami waves above the mean sea level about 1 3 feet was expected and most areas had that range so we had some minorflooding, we had some surges into various harbours with some damage to some boats, that sort of thing.