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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110823:18:13:00

Should note that two buildings in the new york city area, and this is according to the associated press, but government buildings here in new york city including city hall have been evacuated. the 26-story federal courthouse in lower manhattan evacuating hundreds of people seen leaving that building and at this point, they are not letting people back in. we have not gotten reports of tremors here in the past few minutes, but again, reports of people feeling the tremors from the east coast. and now in parts of the midwest apparently. okay. you know what, craig. thank you. let me go to peggy hellway, a seismologist who is standing by, and tell us what happened here. well, there was an earthquake west-southwest of washington, d.c. and one of the big differences was that it was a magnitude of 5.9 and one of the big differences between the east ....

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