what are they saying, what are the conductors or whomever would pass along information say to the passengers? they are saying it is going to be a while, while they inspect, and they have not made it sound all that ominous to us. they said it is just out of an abundance of caution and no particular reason that at least we can tell from the travel that we had before we stopped that there was any danger with the tracks, but obviously, everybody is concerned about whether or not there s an aftershock or whether the tremors that were felt initially in the beginning of something or the end of something. all right. john, let me go back to our colleague andrea mitchell and update from homeland security, and what is that information? well, we heard a public address announcement, which we heard because we are in their backyard or ours, because we are neighbors, but to standby, because this is a real world announcement that the secretary
building is sound. and we are going to inspect our airfields at those two airfields to make sure they are sound, and if they are, we will resume operations. our other airport, teterboro and laguardia and stewart international airport were not affected. bill, were you in the office when these tremors were felt and did you feel anything hang on, bill. we are looking at video that is just feeding in of people, i believe in the press room when the tremors were felt, and you see them scattering about, and bill, tell me what was happening in your office when the tremors were felt. some people in my office felt the tremblers, and other people affected immediately said, what was that? funny enough, i didn t feel a thing, and i have felt earthquakes in the northeast before. i think about a 4.0 magnitude
emergencies that people have been calmly evacuating the nation s capitol. tamron. all right. thank you, andrea. now over to jim miklaszewski, we have reports of northern atlanta georgia says that the earthquake was felt near them, and the chicago bureau is saying they are receiving calls from indianapolis, and people saying they also felt tremors, there and what can you report from your vantage point, because i assume you are near the pentagon, mick? well, i was in the pentagon and in the nbc office where i m talking to you now. and you know, it started out as a just a shimmer for a couple of seconds and i sort of cocked my head and thought that is odd and then it started to shake for five to ten seconds and knocked some books off of the shelf, but i have to tell you that this is a solid concrete building. and the last time i felt that
with you on the jobs fair down in mime mooi and preparing to talk other guests and wrap up the show, so we have had a lot of breaking news today out of libya, and we were focused so heavily on all of the developments there. it just didn t register for a while that this was an earthquake, something that i have lived here now 40 years and i have never experienced anything like that in washington. well, i have an e-mail from willie geist our colleague, and he said he felt it in new york, and the walls in his apartment shook for five to seven seconds, and no damage, and nothing since, but i believe that willie is near the west side of manhattan, and he is e-mailing me saying that he felt the tremors there. the usgs map showed that the earthquake centered near charlottesville, virginia, they believe and capitol police are evacuating the u.s. capitol and we got the head s up from the senator coons that this is happening, and after the
east coast and craig, what is so ironic here is that we are in south florida and we have been paying attention to irene and we thought that was the potential natural disaster that we would be talking about because of the hurricane picking up power and intensity, and it really battered puerto rico and headed to the bahamas, so we thought we would be talking about the effects of that, but now we are talking about the earthquake and we want to put in perspective as you did, craig, so far, no reports of injuries and debris problems and issues reported from a number of people, but it is a 6.0, and whether people are injured or not, that is the most important, but you can imagine how frayed nerves are right now, because boom, boom, boom, all of the information is going across the country, did you feel that? did you feel that? and people learning it was an earthquake. tamron, columbus, ohio, and cincinnati, ohio, and add that to the list are two more cities feeling the tremors, and we