This is CNN breaking news.
Good morning.
We're following the breaking news overnight of a growing tsunami threat extending from Russia all the way to the West Coast of the U. S. Hey everybody,
I'm Audi Cornish.
This is CNN this morning and Hawaii is where we start.
That's where they're on high alert with tsunami alerts for all of the Hawaiian Islands.
The governor there warned tsunami waves could, quote, wrap around the islands.
Waves measuring more than five feet started hitting Maui just a few hours ago.
But the Pacific tsunami warning center believes that, quote, the worst part of it is over.
The tsunami alerts were triggered by a massive 8.8 magnitude quake off the coast of eastern Russia,
where tsunami waves were seen coming ashore in some Russian towns.
Local authorities there have declared a state of emergency.
Joining me now to discuss CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar.
Allison, thank you for being with us.
I know you've been following this overnight.
Can you just start with sort of where things stand in terms of the actual weather and wave movement?
Yeah,
so let's take a look at some of the higher numbers that we've been able to pick up over the last few hours.
Looking at some of these numbers,
these are the wave heights from the tsunami that have come in and we've had several surrounding Hawaii that have been around the one to three foot wave height range and remember that's going to be above what the water level would normally be.