Happening now, breaking news.

Tsunami alert, a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake.

Off the coast of Russia triggers a tsunami.

Japan, Hawaii, Northern California are now feeling the impact.

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Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer.

Pamela Brown is off today, and you're in the situation room.

This is CNN breaking news.

And we begin this hour with the breaking news right now.

Multiple countries are on high alert after an enormous 8.8

magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia triggering a tsunami.

The impacted areas, Pacific and South American countries, including Japan and Peru, as well

as Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast.

The tsunami warning prompting evacuations in Japan,

some people even sheltering on roofs. Four-foot tsunami waves hit its shores in Maui. A tsunami

wave topped five and a half feet and waves off waves of four feet hit northern California. That in

addition to the normal surf levels.

The quake that prompted this tide for the six strongest ever recorded.

This shocking video from Eastern Russia shows doctors performing surgery as the earthquake hit.

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