Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on the tsunami warnings hitting the US after Russia earthquake

People are scrambling to higher ground across the Pacific, after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's east.

It's recorded four-metre waves, with half-metre waves reaching Japan and tsunami alerts in effect for Alaska, Hawaii and the entire US west coast.

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says Hawaiian residents are 'scrambling' - and traffic is building up.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dan Mitchenson US correspondence with US Hello Dan, Hello Heather,
So how's your tsunami watch going.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Have you got a problem, Well, I personally don't. Much
of the California coastal area does. At least tonight, we
had an a point eight to magnitude quake that struck
near Russia a few hours ago. So we've got a
tsunami advisory and warnings for parts of California and Hawaii
and Alaska. And this will probably hit about eight o'clock

(00:29):
your time, so maybe about one o'clock in the morning
our time. Hawaii, they're scrambling. I'll tell you that the
traffic there, that the people trying to get off the
beaches and higher ground. They're telling people go to higher ground,
go vertical. The traffic jams, as you can imagine in
the gridlock when you're on an island and so many
people are living along the coast, is just terrible.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
At this point, How long have they gone.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
About for Hawaii, I believe it's probably less than two hours.
For most of the California coastline and Alaska, they're looking
at about another three to four hours. Waves I mean
are three to four feet maybe here they're gonna be
a lot bigger though, along some of the coastal areas
of Hawaii, in Japan and Guam. They're saying they could
be anywhere from five to nine feet possible. And you know,

(01:15):
these are a series of waves and surges, so they
may not look overly impressive. You could say, well, three
foot wave, that's not much, but when you get that
kind of surgeon there, it can cause some damage.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, we'll keeping one on that. Hey,
do you see that shoes were in New York lift
of notes saying that playing football gave him CTE.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, there's a lot of dots that need connecting to this.
I mean, he left the note saying that he apparently
was a great football player that went to school high
school in California, and then he walks into the headquarters
of the NFL and shoots four people. And they're saying, well,
how can something like this happen? I mean with a

(01:52):
security I mean, they've got a deputy that was working
as a security officer off duty at the time. He
went into an elevator and he went up to the
thirty third floor, And so that's rattling a lot of
companies over here saying that how can something this easy
happen when you've got so much security these days? And
I don't know if that's a question that we can

(02:14):
really answer right now. A lot of companies are starting
to install these artificial intelligence video surveillance software so they
can look for anybody that is approaching your building that
has a weapon, and as soon as they see that,
it'll trigger the building to go into a lockdown mode
or for the elevators to you know, all of a
sudden shut down. But again, I don't think we're there

(02:36):
yet with a lot of businesses.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
So did he actually make it into the NFL's offices
because he died what was a floor above or a floor.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Below, a floor above? I believe he was on the
They're saying that he got into the wrong elevator and
that's why he ended up so high up on the
thirty third floor. That's not where he was intending to go.
Right now, had he gotten to where he was going
in and we don't yet know exactly where that was,
I mean, there could have been a lot more fatalities.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Now, give me a scenes check on how all of
the stuff is going for Donald Trump. Ree Epstein at
the moment. Is he in trouble or not.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
The President is still trying to push this to the
back burner of the news cycle right now. But as
you've heard in the World wires there, I mean, it
is kind of confusing. He's saying that Epstein stole these
young women from him, and we're not kind of sure
what he's doing. I mean, he started talking about this
the other day when he was in Scotland, and he
had said he had banned Epstein from his private club

(03:35):
in Florida two decades ago. On the White House originally
said that Trump had banned him because he was acting
like a creep. But now the story's kind of changing,
isn't it. And we've got that, and at the same time,
we've got him saying that the Wall Street Journal wants
to settle this this defamation lawsuit that he filed after
they reported that Trump allegedly sent Epstein a letter. So yeah,

(03:58):
there's just I think this is just taking up too
much of his time and it seems to be wearing
on him quite honestly a little bit.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Is he putting enough space between himself and it or
is he you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Like people him talking about it is almost I feel
as if him explaining things is working in his favor
and that he is managing to put some space between
himself and and Epstein.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Am I reading it wrong?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
No? I think you're right. I think that's what he's
trying to do. I think originally he was trying to
ignore it and put it on the back burner. Now
he still wants it on the back burner, but he's saying, Okay,
let's be a little bit more proactive about this, let's
try to get a lot of transparency out of there.
But no matter what he says, I think it's still
kind of not going in the in the direction that
he's hoping it will go, and it's still sort of

(04:41):
taking away from a lot of his agenda that he's
trying to do, whether he's in you know, over in
the UK or Scotland or trying to make these these
deals with Congress.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Good stuff, Dan, appreciate your time. Chatting in a couple
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