Tsunami Fears in Chile; Aftershocks & Aid in Chile
BOLDUAN: Days after the deadly earthquake in Chile, one word still terrifies those who survived: tsunami.</s>ROBERTS: Aftershocks and tsunami fears are making it hard to keep people safe and distribute aid in the country. Our Karl Penhaul is on the ground, he's got the latest for us this morning.</s>KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This woman tries to steady herself. She just felt a 6.0 aftershock. In this fishing town of Dichato (ph), Chilean marines continue handing out food aid for a few minutes more. And then this -- (on camera): Concerned citizens are banding together as well and sending in supplies -- tsunami, tsunami, tsunami. OK. There has been a tsunami alert now, and that was after an aftershock earlier on, and the military have been handing out aid have told us all to run. We have been separated from our producer. He was in the vehicle, but we hope that he is hearing the same warnings, too. Marines hustle people to higher ground fast. "The sea will come from over there. The waves never come straight on," she warns. Rescue teams too abandon their search and head out of harm's way. Citizens are breathless, clearly scared. "I feel tense, worried, and I pray to God this will all calm down," he says. After 45 minutes, the alert was lifted. It turned out to be a false alarm. But Dichato citizens have good reason to be terrified. Look at new video obtained by CNN shot about three hours after Saturday's quake, and the time on the camera says 6:16 a.m., too dark to see, but listen. That's the sound of a tsunami wave destroying homes, dragging away cars and fishing boats. Six-twenty, first light -- the first hint of the scale of the disaster. These pictures were taken from high ground above Dichato. At 6:44, the man who gave CNN this new video ventured down to low- lying ground. He was risking his life. Another tsunami wave was on its way. By 8:46, that wave had crashed ashore, homes wrecked, souls lost. Images sheared so deeply into the minds of the people here, that five days after the quake -- they are still ready to run for their lives. Karl Penhaul, CNN, Dichato, Chile.</s>ROBERTS: You could imagine, they have had so many aftershocks as well.</s>BOLDUAN: I know.</s>ROBERTS: And many of them well up into the six-something range.</s>BOLDUAN: And that's -- I mean, that's huge enough as it is. And that's an aftershock. I mean, what this people are going through right now?</s>ROBERTS: You can't imagine. We've got almost 45 minutes after the hour now. Rob Marciano is going to have this morning's travel forecast for you right after the break.</s>BOLDUAN: And in 10 minutes, Clinton and both Bushes -- even Ford and Reagan? Jeanne Moos with a look at a reunion of sorts of the ex-presidents.