geraldo: the government of chile declared the central part of that country to be in an official state of catastrophe. the president has just so declared. what is not a catastrophe is hawaii where we thought for a time today a tsunami of epiexistences proportion was headed of epic proportion was headed. craig is there and he has some important guests. craig introduce them, please. geraldo, you are looking at some scenes of the park right now and you will see some surfers out to sea and some boaters, it is a beautiful boating community here and i m with the honolulu mayor. mayor, we were talking with the general and his associates about the evacuation and how orderly it was and we know that evacuations in the past in the hurricanes we have seen in texas, could be disasterrous. how did it go? it went well and i can t say enough about the excellent
however, many people got hurt inside because things fell on them or they got cut with glasses that get broken when running out of the building. this is a very high density area and there are many apartment buildings everywhere. people were in the streets with their kids and their families and, you know, it just felt that it was never going to end. geraldo: a very telling and sincere and eloquent report from the scene in santiago, chile. they didn t know when it was going to end. in hawaii, they didn t know when it was going to start, the tsunami that was predicted for 4:00 eastern time never really materialized to the extent that it was feared it might. maria zimmerman, a reporter for the hawaiian reporter, a life long surfer has been telling us her own experiences on the commercial break with her family along the coast there. you can pick up your narrative.
recorded, each measuring a magnitude of 5.8 or greater. one of the worst days in chile s history but the only light being shed in the matter is that help is finally on the way. in that note, hawaii dodged a massive bullet, we are anxiously awaiting to see what happened today. they were expecting to get hit with a major tsunami that turned out to be anything but and the emergency warning called off as you know. i will keep on the stories and report the latest, geraldo, when we get that in? have you ever experienced an earthquake? many. as a native san franciscoian, i can remember being a little girl and learning to duck and cover and protect ourselves. we would go under the school desk and had the drills on a monthly basis. do they still? i don t know. they never have them in new york. in my day we used to worry about an at tomorrow bomb hitting. i went from being a student to being a teacher and showing the students how to do that so i feel like i m an expert on
every red cross society around the world has its own forte and we are waiting for the chilean red cross to decide what they need and we are ready to come forward. today we released $50,000 from the international relief fund and that is the first hit of the tap in case they need more. geraldo: how do you keep your contributions straight? if people give to haiti they don t want it spent in chile. have you gotten it to where if somebody wants to help a specific cause they can? absolutely. in you denied that you want to donate to haiti it goes directly to haiti. to the national relief f f f f o
help them. the relief efforts. there are a number of things the yates is outstanding in, hoagies ticks being the primary thing we are againstly capable of doing and that is largely because of our military. our military is astoundingly efficient at being able to move men and equipment into areas where no one else can go and set up perimeters for command and control and communications. things that ha v. to happen in the aftermath of a tragedy like an earthquake or a hurricane and the sooner that you can communication lines established, command and control. again, the chilean government has seemingly operated with a great deal of efficiency themselves and they are to be commended. they don t seem to need the kind of help that obviously was needed in haiti but that offer is the single most important thing that the united states can provide to another government. geraldo: fair enough. i would like to compare your presumed action in the face of an emergency like that with