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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Down there in Hawaii. We're talking about the heat advisories
going away today, whether it's just it's kind of wacky
around the globe right now, including the Hawaiian Islands, a tsunami,
and a couple of things. First of all, I want
to let you know how it's going, how they're recovering,
how the folks of the state of Hawaii you're doing. Also,
I don't know if you can address it or not, Alex,
but there was some nasty crapol going on today about
(00:22):
OPRAH and Hawaii. Do you have the official verification of
the BS level of that story.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, Well, we're told is in that she did open
up the road to allow people to get through, and
that there was a lot of social media wrongness that
was going on that But that's what we're told at
this point. I don't know, but there was a lot
of back and forth because she owns property, a lot
of property in Hawaii, so does the government, and they
opened up roads and according to the Hawaiian government, she
(00:50):
did as well or her staff did it so good. Yeah,
it seems like it was on the up and up,
but it doesn't seem like there was any mouthfeasance there
of you know, trying to lock people from getting away
from the whatever was coming.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
After all those fires last year. You know, everybody wants
to try to find a villain, and they tried to
make one out of her today. So I'm glad that
they immediately shut that rumor down because I wouldn't want
to think that kind of thing was happening. How is
how's the island doing, how are the people doing, how's
the progress coming?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, it looks better today and all the tsunami warnings
have come down. Some advisories remain in California, but otherwise
everything's come down, and even La County beaches are open again,
and then they've completely opened everything up. But it was
a really tense eight hours nine hours overnight where half
the world chuck along the Pacific rim from Japan to
Russia than into the US as the world was waiting
(01:40):
over fear of not knowing what was coming. And everybody
has these images of Fukushima and twenty eleven in Southeast
Asia in two thousand and four, and Russia and Japan.
They did have a little bit of an impact, but
in the US it's really being described as dodging a bullet.
Very little impact here. But overnight Hawaii's governor told people, hey,
take it seriously.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Soon warning and what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
That is the most serious warning that you can have.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It is not a watch. It is a warning, which
means we have to evacuate the coastal zones right away.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And it was a mad dash to evacuate the beach areas,
all the visitors, all the residents, all around the Hawaiian islands,
and everybody was told, look, you this would wrap around
the islands if it comes in, so it's not like
one side and the other side would be okay. But
it was bumper to bumper for hours as people went
to higher ground. The military and OPRAH ended up opening
up those roads, and in the end, sensors picked up
(02:33):
tsunami waves, but they were quite small. It was a
couple of feet and it wasn't something people saw other
than the water receding a little bit. They didn't see
these big waves coming in, and so it wasn't what
the fear was. But there were also the concerns along
California and Oregon and Washington state coasts, and in far
northern California there's Crescent City near the Oregon border, They've
(02:55):
got a history of tsunamis, it's just their geography. If
there's ever a tsunami threat, they always get something. And
they did have a little bit of damage from the
water rising there, and the harbor master today saying.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
As the water levels continued to rise, the structure was
unable to adjust and attacking became lodged on the pilings
and was eventually submerged in. This resulted major structural failure
and complete separation of the dock.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But that was kind of the worst of the damage.
That dock was destroyed. So in the end, based on
an eight point eight magnitude earthquake and all the concerns
of this wall of water coming in, no major damage,
no injuries, warnings are coming down, kind of back to
life as normal.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I know you have to roll, Alex, but I wanted
to ask you, is there any concern any follow up
at this point on the fear. I don't want to
say fear mongering, but Hawaii's had a few incidents in
the last few years where they thought they had something
happening that turned out to be not so much. Was
this just kind of an accidental interpretation of information or
(03:53):
did any kind of system or department fail.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I think it's the best of the science that they've
got right now in tsunami predictions, in that an eight
point eight earthquake and this type of earthquake can create
and we've seen it through history major deadly tsunamis, and
they had to be careful. You've got so many in Hawaii,
so many huge resorts right along the water that that's
what the economy is built on that if this had
(04:18):
turned into a major tsunami and come flowing in like
in Southeast Asia or in Fukushima, you would have had
tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people dead. So
and then it would have been the question, why didn't
they do it? You know, why didn't they if they
knew that there was a threat there, so they had
to be careful. And the doctors who were running the
whole thing from the US Geological Survey and others said
(04:40):
that they were being overly careful in this and telling
people to get out because they never know how big
it's necessarily going to be. But luckily in the end
that they would rather be where people just drive home,
and that's what they did, you know, versus water inundating
a big populated area, all.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Right, Alex Stone, ABC News, Thanks buddy. We will talk
again in the very very near future. You got a
big trick.
Down there in Hawaii. We're talking about the heat advisories
going away today, whether it's just it's kind of wacky
around the globe right now, including the Hawaiian Islands, a tsunami,
and a couple of things. First of all, I want
to let you know how it's going, how they're recovering,
how the folks of the state of Hawaii you're doing. Also,
I don't know if you can address it or not, Alex,
but there was some nasty crapol going on today about
(00:22):
OPRAH and Hawaii. Do you have the official verification of
the BS level of that story.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, Well, we're told is in that she did open
up the road to allow people to get through, and
that there was a lot of social media wrongness that
was going on that But that's what we're told at
this point. I don't know, but there was a lot
of back and forth because she owns property, a lot
of property in Hawaii, so does the government, and they
opened up roads and according to the Hawaiian government, she
(00:50):
did as well or her staff did it so good. Yeah,
it seems like it was on the up and up,
but it doesn't seem like there was any mouthfeasance there
of you know, trying to lock people from getting away
from the whatever was coming.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
After all those fires last year. You know, everybody wants
to try to find a villain, and they tried to
make one out of her today. So I'm glad that
they immediately shut that rumor down because I wouldn't want
to think that kind of thing was happening. How is
how's the island doing, how are the people doing, how's
the progress coming?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, it looks better today and all the tsunami warnings
have come down. Some advisories remain in California, but otherwise
everything's come down, and even La County beaches are open again,
and then they've completely opened everything up. But it was
a really tense eight hours nine hours overnight where half
the world chuck along the Pacific rim from Japan to
Russia than into the US as the world was waiting
(01:40):
over fear of not knowing what was coming. And everybody
has these images of Fukushima and twenty eleven in Southeast
Asia in two thousand and four, and Russia and Japan.
They did have a little bit of an impact, but
in the US it's really being described as dodging a bullet.
Very little impact here. But overnight Hawaii's governor told people, hey,
take it seriously.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Soon warning and what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
That is the most serious warning that you can have.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It is not a watch. It is a warning, which
means we have to evacuate the coastal zones right away.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And it was a mad dash to evacuate the beach areas,
all the visitors, all the residents, all around the Hawaiian islands,
and everybody was told, look, you this would wrap around
the islands if it comes in, so it's not like
one side and the other side would be okay. But
it was bumper to bumper for hours as people went
to higher ground. The military and OPRAH ended up opening
up those roads, and in the end, sensors picked up
(02:33):
tsunami waves, but they were quite small. It was a
couple of feet and it wasn't something people saw other
than the water receding a little bit. They didn't see
these big waves coming in, and so it wasn't what
the fear was. But there were also the concerns along
California and Oregon and Washington state coasts, and in far
northern California there's Crescent City near the Oregon border, They've
(02:55):
got a history of tsunamis, it's just their geography. If
there's ever a tsunami threat, they always get something. And
they did have a little bit of damage from the
water rising there, and the harbor master today saying.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
As the water levels continued to rise, the structure was
unable to adjust and attacking became lodged on the pilings
and was eventually submerged in. This resulted major structural failure
and complete separation of the dock.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But that was kind of the worst of the damage.
That dock was destroyed. So in the end, based on
an eight point eight magnitude earthquake and all the concerns
of this wall of water coming in, no major damage,
no injuries, warnings are coming down, kind of back to
life as normal.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I know you have to roll, Alex, but I wanted
to ask you, is there any concern any follow up
at this point on the fear. I don't want to
say fear mongering, but Hawaii's had a few incidents in
the last few years where they thought they had something
happening that turned out to be not so much. Was
this just kind of an accidental interpretation of information or
(03:53):
did any kind of system or department fail.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I think it's the best of the science that they've
got right now in tsunami predictions, in that an eight
point eight earthquake and this type of earthquake can create
and we've seen it through history major deadly tsunamis, and
they had to be careful. You've got so many in Hawaii,
so many huge resorts right along the water that that's
what the economy is built on that if this had
(04:18):
turned into a major tsunami and come flowing in like
in Southeast Asia or in Fukushima, you would have had
tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people dead. So
and then it would have been the question, why didn't
they do it? You know, why didn't they if they
knew that there was a threat there, so they had
to be careful. And the doctors who were running the
whole thing from the US Geological Survey and others said
(04:40):
that they were being overly careful in this and telling
people to get out because they never know how big
it's necessarily going to be. But luckily in the end
that they would rather be where people just drive home,
and that's what they did, you know, versus water inundating
a big populated area, all.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Right, Alex Stone, ABC News, Thanks buddy. We will talk
again in the very very near future. You got a
big trick.
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