Response

President Obama has been monitoring the situation since 4 a. Washington time. Preparations underway to aid Japan, but FEMA has also been alerted for situations in Hawaii and here on the West Coast. The CNN weather guy continues to talk about 2 to 4 ft. waves or higher here, the highest estimates I've heard or seen. I've also heard estimates of the wave heights in Japan at anywhere from 12 to 15 ft, to 20 to 23 feet.

Now Hawaii has experienced a 4.5 earthquake, which is being reported as "unrelated," though a UC guy interviewed earlier said that seismologists are beginning to move towards accepting that quakes thousands of miles apart can be related, if one of them is very big. The one in Japan was very big.