this new president from mexico means to them that he s a leftist that campaigned on helping the poor. whether he takes any action, we will wait and see. it s encouraging that there s no one else there be just you reporting from the wall without anyone trying to get over it or through it . thank you. alaska is experiencing more than 1000 aftershocks from friday s major earthquake near anchorage. the magnitude 7 quake opened roads and left thousands without power.utility companies are scrambling to restore service. fortunately, no deaths or serious injuries were reported. roof collapse and structural damage appears less widespread than expected. there have been rare december tornadoes ripping through central illinois in the midwest.that destroyed homes and injured at least 30 people so far. adam class is tracking the storm from the fox news weather center. pretty rare and unusual to have this at this time of year. it s very rare and all
anchorage, alaska where it is about 9:30 a.m. local there. there is an earthquake of 7.0. this is a major earthquake. we are getting some of our first pictures of some of the damage that we have seen here. you can see food strewn about in this eating establishment. we have also seen reports and video from the local tv station. you see windows blown out. the glass blown out of these windows. this is major. i want to bring in allison. you have been monitoring this from the moment that we first got word that this happened. we are also looking at pictures hereof a school.
coverage from alaska. this is our cnn affiliate there, k tv a. no power in wasilla. his family lives out in wasilla. this is preliminary still. this comes in from the national weather service. 7.2 earthquake recorded 10 miles northeast of anchorage, alaska. the reason it did feel so strong is it was so close to us here in anchorage. tsunami warning in effect for the cook inlet. you want to get inland. it is not expected to spread too far away from there, but still it s right here. you want to get in. that s the take away here. 7.2 earthquake. a lot of videos. we will keep getting more as we go.
news out of alaska. there has been a major earthquake. 7.0 and reports of a lot of damage. this is the early stages. folks are still trying to assess what s going on there. we are talking about windows blown out. there are highways that are closed. damage to roads. we have seen what looked like an on ramp to a highway that just crumbled. we are talking about serious damage here. i want to tell folks who might be listening to cnn on satellite, if you are in the cook inlet area, there is a tsunami warning for those areas. you want to head to higher ground and check in with your neighbors about that as well. i want to bring in blair who is coming to us from wasilla, alaska. she was heading to anchorage, alaska. you were there from wisconsin to train for the iditerod for the
let s take a look at what we are talking about. you can see the areas in orange where they have the tsunami warning. it does not extend throughout much of the rest of alaska. it s just that localized region. we don t have actual tsunami observations that came in, but those take time. they will monitor those over the next several hours. often times they come from 5 to 40 minute intervals. it does take time with those. this was a 7.0 earthquake near anchorage, alaska. we had one aftershock so far. there is a tsunami warning for localized areas of the cook inlet and peninsula. we will let you know if we get more up to date information. if you would, stand by with me. i want to listen in to live