chile is reeling in the aftermath of a massive earthquake. how the country is coping and how the earthquake affected other countries, too. transformer blew and the rest has been waiting for the power to come back on. >> he is one of many people who lost power after a huge snowstorm in the northeast. one entire town ended up in the dark. and an oregon town has banded together to keep a group of people from moving in. who may be coming and why the town says it doesn't want them there. you are watching "hln" on

this sunday. so good to see you. i'm size an hendricks. our top story, the effects of chile's earthquake are felt on the other side of the world. waves hit japan's coast today. kyung lah with our sister network cnn reports japan sue a tsunami more than three feet in height. there were no immediate reports of damage, but it looks like the danger of tsunamis from the chile quake has passed. this morning the pacific tsunami warning center canceled warnings for all countries. the earthquake also kicked up the surf in hawaii. but the waves went nearly as big as officials first feared. state authorities triggered tsunami sirens yesterday and urging people living along the coast to evacuate. the warning touched off a massive run on local grocery stores as people stocked up on everything from food, also water. but thankfully no giant waves hit the area. >> yeah, i think we've dodged a bullet. yes, i think so. in fact, it's almost -- it's

almost the best sort of tsunami you could possibly have. >> hawaii governor linda lingle said no damage was reported by any county. the scope of the damage in chile is so massive it's almost hard to believe. authorities say the earthquake toppled more than 500,000 structures. that's an aerial view for you. it has affected more than 2 million people and seriously damaged the country's economy. right now more than 300 people are dead, but that number could rise dramatically. even though the quake was centered more than 200 miles from chile's capital of santiago, people living there say they felt it, and it was pretty powerful. >> at first i just opened my eyes and waited because, well, hear in chile we're kind of used to having mild earthquakes frequently. but then it just wouldn't stop. so we decided to get up with my boyfriend and just hid by the

door, just waiting for it to stop. we just heard all around the neighborhood crashing down, children crying, women getting pretty upset. and people just started pouring out of their apartments and going outside. >> well, the earthquake knocked out basic services to santiago including water, power and telephones. the state department says about 1,000 americans were in the earthquake, but none of them were seriously injured. the earthquake also touched off tsunamis that swamped parts of chile's central coast. the usgs says one of the largest waves was nine feet high. it washed ashore near the quake's epicenter. on the island of juan fernandez which is 400 miles chile's choes, a huge wave killed six people there. the island's governor says 11 people are still missing. a family in new hampshire was connected to the earthquake in two ways, causing them to worry for quite a while. things got frantic for sue

seidner because her brother-in-law was working in chile. then the family worry turned to hawaii which was under a tsunami warning triggered by the deadly earthquake. that is where their eldest daughter was camping on the beach. >> all i could think of were 30-foot waves crashing across some hawaiian beach and there my daughter would be sitting, catching some sun rays and not be aware. >> we're happy to report neither family member was injured in the quake or the aftermath. we, of course, will have continuing earthquake coverage including dramatic pictures from our i-reporters. but first, we want to get you caught up on the other stories we're following. hundreds of people packed seaworld stadium for the first killer whale show since a trainer was killed. you may remember a 12,000-pound orca pulled dawn brancheau under water. >> i think it was great that

they moved forward. i wish they would have said a little bit more, actually, about it what happened and what was going to happen because obviously everyone there is anxious and curious as to, you know, what the future is. >> it wasn't a happy atmosphere. we all stood up with a remembrance, and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as seaworld paid tribute to dawn brancheau. the orca that killed her did not perform yesterday. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers coarsed, hoping their power will come back on today. it has been a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since that massive winter storm last week. as you see, some repair crews working there. they are now working 17-hour shifts. but toppled trees and power lines are slowing them down. hardest hit was new hampshire where about 425,000 people are without power. most feel there is nothing they can do about it.

>> it's a relief to actually see that someone's going to actually try and get some of the work done anyways. >> they haven't been able to give us, okay, we'll be to your town in three days. and basically, as i said, bad news is better than no news but they can't figure out where this is going to end. >> people in allenstown are using generators and wood stoves to stay warm until power is back on. leftover ice from that storm has created new trouble in new york. ice broke through a glass atrium at the sony building in manhattan last night. ten people were injured. the injuries were not serious. the city's fire department says ice and glass fell into the building's lobby area. police in memphis are looking for a man who shot and killed a mall security guard. authorities say the guard tried to break up a fight between two men at southland shopping mall on saturday. one of those men reportedly shot the guard in the chest. both men took off, and some shoppers saw the whole thing unfold.

>> it's like watching tv in slow motion. you know what's going on. you're hearing the emotions from the people. and everyone is helpless. they don't know if the two men would have shot at each other. you know, any of us could have been shot. >> certainly scary moments inside of the mall. the guard was pronounced dead at the hospital. a nobel prize-winning group is asking for outside help with its global warming reports. the intergovernmental clipanel looking to calm recent criticism. critics found errors in those reports. the ipcc says the errors are minor and don't impact its overall conclusions about global warming. this is day three of the search for a missing california teenager. volunteers and deputies have been combing the rancho bernardo area. one team focused on the lake yesterday. the community effort to find chelsea king seen here has deeply touched her parents.

>> thank you so much for coming out and trying to find our daughter. >> you have no idea how overwhelming. my heart is overflowing with all the support and all this love. and there's no words for it. >> up to 250 deputies, agents and volunteers are searching for the 17-year-old. king didn't come home after a run at a community park on thursday. the mayor of middletown, connecticut, says it was a fitting honor. yesterday people in the town remembered six men who died in an explosion at the clean energy systems power plant. a pipe and drum band played outside a church where a funeral mass was being held for the victims. the blast at the plant earlier this month also injured 20 people. mayor sebastian giuliano says the community is devastated by the explosion and its aftermath. some california residents whose homes were threatened by floods and mudslides are breathing a sigh of relief today. when heavy rains hit near los

angeles yesterday, county officials issued evacuation orders for more than 170 homes. the evacuation was called off in the afternoon because the storm was weaker than expected. now, those homes are located under slopes where wildfires cleared out the trees. the area is now prone to floods and mudslides. it has been evacuated at least a half dozen times this winter alone. another u.s. success story from the olympics. american athletes do something that hasn't been done in more than 60 years. also ahead, starting tomorrow, travelers could see delays at one of the country's busiest airports, and those delays could last for months.

training for the new york city triathlon is not the biggest challenge angie has faced. >> i was diagnosed with breast cancer last april. and i was out of shape. and when this challenge came along, i thought it would be the perfect thing not only to get myself back in shape again, but to show other people that they can get in shape, too. >> reporter: as you sort of have looked at the challenge that lies in front of you, what are you most excited and nervous about? >> well, i'm excited because i think i'll be in really good condition. i feel -- i think i'll feel really healthy. i think the swimming will be great. that's what i'm most worried about is the swimming. i can swim but i've never really swam. >> reporter: but it hasn't been as big a challenge as she anticipated either. with the help of a swimming trainer, she's getting more and more comfortable in the pool. >> every time i feel stronger. i can go a little further before i rest. so it's coming. >> reporter: our other

participant, meredith clark, had her own concerns. >> there's, of course, the huge possibility of crashing and burning on tv. >> reporter: but turns out it's real life that presents the greatest challenges. >> being in the office is difficult, especially in a newspaper office because we believe in eating and eating well and eating a lot. >> reporter: and schedules. >> the workouts themselves aren't really difficult. what i find hard is managing my time to fit the workouts in. >> reporter: but she's fitting it all in. walking around the parking lot at work. exercising with the help of a trainer. early morning kettle bell classes. she's even spinning on her own. for both triathletes, the journey ahead will be long but doable. >> there's only 150 days left. so it makes me want to kind of ramp up my effort. >> i feel stronger all the time, but i feel like once i can get this done, i thinkky close that chapter. i can put that breast cancer behind me, and i'll feel like

it's over, and i've conquered it. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. we have amazing video of a very close call for a cop. take a look at this right here. in a split second, he moves just in time right here to save himself. the officer was investigating a crash on i-75 in detroit. moments later, the cop, brian cashik noticed an out-of-control car headed straight for him. he jumped out of the way at the last second to avoid getting pinned to another car. amazingly, the officer walked away with only minor injuries. everything old is new again for folks living in belleville, illinois. city leaders are bringing back a so-called wheel tax. now, this means that people will have to pay $20 per vehicle for every car they own. belleville is desperately trying to fill a big budget gap. but the tax is receiving mixed reviews. >> i don't understand it.

because how can they keep taking -- raising taxes and taking more money, money, money out of people's check when they're barely making it as it is? >> i understand it for the most part, yeah. yeah, i mean, you know, if it's going to save jobs and help out the city, then i'm all for it. >> getting both sides there. the tax was in place from 1920 to 1995. and it goes back into effect in may. the city hopes to raise about $650,000. let the headaches begin. departures may get slower at one of the nation's major airports starting tomorrow. new york's jfk is shutting down its busiest runway for reconstruction. the four-month project is expected to reduce delays in the long run by more than 10,000 hours per year. jfk was ranked 22nd among the nation's 31 major airports in terms of on-time departures. some airline executives are hoping the impact on travelers will be minimal. but a veteran flight controller says travelers will definitely feel an impact.

on the last weekend of olympic competition, the usa men's bobsled team made history. joe carter has more on the record-setting day. hi, joe. >> morning, susan. the four-man team called their bobsled the night train. but it was during the day when they rode into the history books. the last sled to go down the mountain finished in first place, ending a 62-year gold medal drought. now, the last time the four-man team won gold, 1948. no other national olympic team has endured such a long wait between winning gold medals. now, the men's victory also means the united states clinched the record for overall medals won at the winter games. well, this week should go down as the most thrilling week ever for olympian billy demong. he became the first american to win gold in the nordic combined. just hours after the race he popped the question to his girlfriend. he said yes. friday he was on the "today" show. then the olympic committee named him a flag bearer for tonight's closing ceremonies. what a week!

>> the ceremony when we all kong regate at the u.s. ski team house in whistler, i asked johnny, do you think this is going to be too cheesy? no, go for it. i popped it. and it was five minutes before i found out i was a flag bearer. as always, good things come in threes. >> great stories like that one that come out of the olympic games opinion then you've got unfortunate stories like this one. russian snowboarder stanislav detkov, if he wins, he gets to stand on the medals podium. he mistimed the opening of the start gate. tough break for him. that's a look at sports. i'm joe carter. most people are happy to see new neighbors move in. but one small town is doing everything it can to keep one group from moving there. >> and they can try. they're more than welcome to try. but they're going to have a heck of a fight. >> the alleged hate group that townspeople say they want to

keep out. you're bhauwatching "hln."

we are getting more pictures of the devastating damage from the massive earth quake in chile. we want to share them with you. these are images captured by several of our i-reporters. you can see a multistory building just buckled in the earthquake. people are still walking through the neighborhoods with a sense of disbelief. the jolt brought down highways, reducing them to piles of rubble. more than 3 million people were affected by this earthquake. and the death toll of more than 300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with "hln" for extensive earthquake coverage. a horrible story at a florida. strangers helped a deputy save two kids whose mother allegedly tried to drown them. investigators say when the deputy responded to a single-car crash, the mother got out of the car holding her two kids and headed for a retention pond. police say she jumped in the water and held the children

down. that is when two passersby helped the deputy pull them out. >> basically, a tragedy was averlted through the actions of both the deputy as well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger who they didn't know as well as to help our deputy. >> the 2-year-old and 9-month-old children weren't seriously injured. the woman was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluations. she could face attempted murder charges.

chile is reeling in the aftermath of a massive earthquake. how the country is coping and how the earthquake affected other countries, too. >> transformer blew and the rest has been just waiting for the power to come back on. >> the waiting game is on. he is one of many people who lost power after a huge snowstorm in the northeast. one entire town ended up in the dark. and an oregon town is banding together to keep a group of people from moving in. who may be coming and why the town says it doesn't want them there. you are watching "hln" on this sunday. so good to see you. i'm susan hendricks. our top story today, the effects of chile's earthquake are felt on the other side of the world. waves spawned by the quake hit japan's coast today. kyung lah with our sister network, cnn, reports japan saw a tsunami more than three feet in height. there were no immediate reports of any damage. but it looks like the danger of tsunamis from the chile quake has passed.

this morning the pacific tsunami warning center canceled warnings for all countries. the earthquake also kicked up the surf in hawaii. but the waves weren't nearly as big as officials first feared. state authorities triggered tsunami sirens yesterday and urging people living along the coast to evacuate. the warning touched off a massive run on local grocery stores as people stocked up on everything from food, also water. but thankfully no giant waves hit the area. >> yeah, i think we've dodged a bullet. yes, i think so. in fact, it's almost -- it's almost the best sort of tsunami you could possibly have. >> hawaii governor linda lingle said no damage was reported by any county. the scope of the damage in chile is so massive it's almost hard to believe. authorities say the earthquake toppled more than 500,000 structures. that's an aerial view for you. it has affected more than 2 million people and seriously damaged the country's economy.

right now more than 300 people are dead, but that number could rise dramatically. even though the quake was centered more than 200 miles from chile's capital. santiago, people living there say they felt it, and it was pretty powerful. >> at first i just opened my eyes and waited. because, well, here in chile we're kind of used to having mild earthquakes frequently. but then it just wouldn't stop. so we decided to get up with my boyfriend. and just hid beneath the door, waiting for it to stop. and we heard all around the neighborhood glass is crashing down, children crying, women getting pretty upset. and people just started pouring out of their apartments and going outside. >> well, the earthquake knocked out basic services to santiago including water, power and telephones. the state department says about 1,000 americans were in the earthquake, but none of them were seriously injured.

the earthquake also touched off tsunamis that swamped parts of chile's central coast. the usgs says one of the largest waves was nine feet high. it washed ashore near the quake's epicenter. on the island of juan fernandez which is 400 miles off chile's coast, a huge wave killed six people there. the island's governor says at least 11 people are still missing. a family in new hampshire was connected to the earthquake in two ways, causing them to worry for quite a while. things got frantic for sue seidner because her brother-in-law was working in chile. then the family worry turned to hawaii which was under a tsunami warning triggered by the deadly earthquake. that is where their eldest daughter was camping on the beach. >> all i could think of were 30-foot waves crashing across some hawaiian beach and there my daughter would be sitting, catching some sun rays and not be aware. >> we're happy to report neither

family member was injured in the quake or the aftermath. we, of course, will have continuing earthquake coverag'o

30-foot waves crashing across some hawaiian beach and there my daughter would be sitting, catching some sun rays and not be aware. >> we're happy to report neither family member was injured in the quake or the aftermath. we, of course, will have continuing earthquake coverage including dramatic pictures from our i-reporters. but first, we want to get you caught up on the other stories we're following. hundreds of people packed seaworld stadium for the first killer whale show since a trainer was killed by one of the orcas. you may remember 12,000-pound orca grabbed trainer dawn brancheau by her ponytail on wednesday and dragged her under water. the trainers are not being allowed back in the water with the animals until a review of that incident is complete. >> i think it was great that they moved forward. i wish they would have said a

little bit more, actually, about it, what had happened and what was going to happen because, obviously, everyone there is anxious and curious as to what's -- you know, what the future is. >> it wasn't a happy atmosphere. we all stood up with a remembrance, and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as seaworld paid tribute to dawn brancheau. the orca that killed her did not perform yesterday. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers crossed, hoping their power will come back on today. it has been a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since that massive winter storm last week. as you see, some repair crews working there. they are now working 17-hour shifts. but toppled trees and power lines are slowing them down. hardest hit was new hampshire where about 425,000 people are without power. in allenstown, almost every single home, if you can imagine, lost power, and most feel there is nothing they can do about it. >> it's a relief to actually see

that someone's going to actually try and get some of the work done anyways. >> they haven't been able to give us, okay, we'll be to your town in three days. and basically, as i said, bad news is better than no news but we're not getting any news because they can't figure out exactly where this is going to end. >> people in allenstown are using generators and wood stoves to stay warm until power is back on. leftover ice from that storm has created new trouble in new york. ice broke through a glass atrium at the sony building in manhattan last night. ten people were injured. the injuries were not serious. the city's fire department says ice and glass fell into the building's lobby area. police in memphis are looking for a man who shot and killed a mall security guard. authorities say the guard tried to break up a fight between two men at southland shopping mall on saturday. one of those men reportedly shot the guard in the chest. both men took off, and some shoppers saw the whole thing unfold. >> it's like watching tv in slow

motion. you know what's going on. you're hearing the emotions from the people. and everyone is helpless. they don't know if the two men would have shot at each other. you know, any of us could have been shot. >> certainly scary moments inside of the mall. the guard was pronounced dead at the hospital. a nobel prize-winning group is asking for outside help with its global warming reports. the intergovernmental panel is wanting an independent review. the group is looking to calm recent criticism about its 2007 reports. critics found errors in those reports. the ipcc says the errors are minor and don't impact its overall conclusions about global warming. this is day three of the search for a missing california teenager. volunteers and deputies have been combing the rancho bernardo area. one team focused on the lake yesterday. the community effort to find chelsea king seen here has deeply touched her parents. >> thank you so much for coming

out and trying to find our daughter. >> you have no idea how overwhelming. my heart is overflowing with all the support and all this love. and there's no words for it. >> up to 250 deputies, agents and volunteers are searching for the 17-year-old. king didn't come home after a run at a community park on thursday. the mayor of middletown, connecticut, says it was a fitting honor. yesterday people in the town remembered six men who died in an explosion at the clean energy systems power plant. a pipe and drum band played outside a church where a funeral mass was being held for the victims. the blast at the plant earlier this month also injured 20 people. mayor sebastian giuliano says the community is devastated by the explosion and its aftermath. some california residents whose homes were threatened by floods and mudslides are breathing a sigh of relief today. when heavy rains hit near los angeles yesterday, county officials issued evacuation

orders for more than 170 homes. the evacuation was called off in the afternoon because the storm was weaker than expected. now, those homes are located under slopes where wildfires cleared out the trees. the area is now prone to floods and mudslides. it has been evacuated at least a half dozen times this winter alone. things are also pretty bad in the northeast. they're looking at very kmil c temperatures. let's goo to bonnie schneider. >> waking up to temperatures in the 30s and 20s and even snow across the northeast include smarts of pennsylvania and new york. and also heading back out to the west, notice phoenix getting a little wet in arizona. we're watching this system because the low pressure that's in the southwest will actually work its way to the east over the next few days. not today, though. today you're still dry across much of the mid-south, gulf coast. florida looking cool. highs only in the 60s. at least the snow is shining.

snow in the appalachians and we're also watching cold temperatures across the great lakes for today. feeling very much like this last weekend in february. high temperatures in minneapolis, only 35. 36 in chicago. 43 in boston. 60 in dallas. 62 in phoenix and cooler on the west coast. 65 degrees in los angeles. 47 in salt lake city. and just to let you know, we are tracking the potential of storms later this week. we'll be watching for lows to work their way across the south and maybe even bringing a wintry mix to places like atlanta on tuesday. we're watching it closely. that's a look at your forecast for "hln." i'm bonnie schneider. another u.s. success story from the olympics. american athletes do something that hasn't been done in more than 60 years. also ahead, starting tomorrow, travelers could see delays at one of the country's busiest airports. and those delays could last for months.

we have amazing video of a very close call for a cop. take a look at this right here. in a split second, he moves just in time right here to save himself. the officer was investigating a crash on i-75 in detroit. moments later, the cop, brian cashik noticed an out-of-control car headed straight for him. he jumped out of the way at the last second to avoid getting pinned to another car. amazingly, the officer walked away with only minor injuries. let the headaches begin. departures may get slower at one of the nation's major airports starting tomorrow. new york's jfk is shutting down its busiest runway for reconstruction. the four-month project is expected to reduce delays in the long run by more than 10,000 hours per year. jfk was ranked 22nd among the

nation's 31 major airports in terms of on-time departures. some airline executives are hoping the impact on travelers will be minimal. but a veteran flight controller says travelers will definitely feel an impact. let's talk olympics. team usa and team canada face off again. this time for all the marbles. joe carter has more. it's a big one, joe. hi. >> hello to you. what a great way to close out the olympics. team usa, unbeaten throughout the games against team canada, the heavy favorite, a squad loaded with nhl stars. team usa beat team canada last week, but this time a lot more is at stake. >> we're here for the gold. and, you know, we've been getting better every game, which is great to see. >> we got nothing to lose. we're here, and we want to, obviously, want to play hard and do well. the pressure's on everyone else. the winter games opened with

heavy hearts after a georgian luger died during a practice run. tonight the games close with concern for an entire country after the chile earthquake. the only athlete representing her country of chile in tonight's closing ceremonies after learning her friends and family are all safe. american skier bode miller was going for olympic history saturday but came up short after missing a gate during his final slalom run just like lindsey vonn. it was a disappointing finish for miller, but he still walks away from vancouver with three medals in five events. so as we head into the final day of the 2010 winter games, the united states is guaranteed 37 medals after today's men's hockey game, and canada will finish with at least 13 gold medals. both are new records for each country at a winter olympics. well, danica patrick's third race in the nascar series ended with a bang saturday. after starting in the back, she moved her way up to third place, and then she wrecked her car. but this time the crash wasn't

her fault. danica now goes back to the 80-car circuit for the next four months before returning to nascar in june for ten more races. that's a look at sports. i'm joe carter. most people are happy to see new neighbors move in. but one small town is doing everything it can to keep one group from moving there. >> and they can try. they're more than welcome to try. but they're going to have a heck of a fight. >> the alleged hate group the townspeople say they want to keep out. you're watching "hln."

we are getting more pictures of the devastating damage from the massive earthquake in chile. we want to share them with you. these are images captured by several of our i-reporters. you can see a multistory building just buckled in the earthquake. people are still walking through the neighborhoods with a sense of disbelief. the jolt brought down highways, reducing them to piles of rubble. more than 3 million people were affected by this earthquake. and the death toll of more than 300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with "hln" for extensive

earthquake coverage. a horrible story at a out of florida. strangers helped a deputy save two kids whose mother allegedly tried to drown them. investigators say when the deputy responded to a single-car crash, the mother got out of the car holding her two kids and headed for a retention pond. police say she jumped in the water and held the children down. that is when two passersby helped the deputy pull them out. >> basically, a tragedy was averted due to the actions of both the deputy as well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger who they didn't know as well as to help our deputy. >> the 2-year-old and 9-month-old children weren't seriously injured. the woman was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluations. she could face attempted murder charges. the town of john day, oerk, has a message for a white supremacist group, we don't want you here. stay out. people in the town are actively battling to keep paul r. mullet,

the self-professed national director of the aryan nations from buying property in john day. mullet announced a week ago he planned to move the group's headquarters to the town. that's when people living there sprung into action. >> we're pretty inclusive of everybody. if you want to live here and become part of the community, you're welcome to live here as long as you're not spreading hate. >> businesses, threats from people. and these are threats there who saying we're hate groups. that's more hateful than anything i would say to anybody. >> so far, mullet has not been able to find a real estate agent willing to help him find property there. israel's defense minister is calling for new sanctions against iran. eye yud barack says they are necessary to stop iran's nuclear ambitions but he also says sanctions will be effective only if russia and china join other nations to back them up. israel and many other countries accuse iran of building knew leer weapons which iran denies.

he also talked about the report that accused israel and hamas of war crimes. >> i would like to say something. i think that afternoon seven years of suffering thousands of rockets terrorizing our civilian population at home, israel had the right and the duty to respond and the report is biased, distorted, totally unexplainable in my judgment and it even encourages somehow terror. >> his report encourages that? >> yeah. between the perpetrators of terror and its victims who -- and their dleliberate -- hamas and hezbollah are deliberately using civilian population as human shields. and we, while being attacked. >> the report by the aspirin

judge richard goldstone investigated last year's conflict in gaza. former president bush has been mostly out of the public eye since he left the white house. now he's talking about what he's doing these days. also this -- >> this place obviously is a legend around here because they have everything. >> yes, they do. how some classic car parts that are really hard to find ended up on sale.

chile is reeling in the aftermath of a massive earthquake. how the country is coping and how the earthquake affected other countries, too. transformer blew and the rest has been waiting for the power to come back on. >> the waiting game is on. he's one of empeople who lost power after a huge snowstorm in the northeast. one entire town ended up in the dark. and an oregon town has banded together to keep a group of people from moving in. who may be coming and why the town says it doesn't want them there. you are watching "hln" on this sunday. so good to see you.

i'm susan hendricks. our top story, the effects of chile's earthquake are felt on the other side of the world. waved spawned by the quake hit japan's coast today. kyung lah with our sister network cnn reports japan sue a tsunami more than three feet in height. there were no immediate reports of damage, but it looks like the danger of tsunamis from the chile quake has passed. this morning the pacific tsunami warning center canceled warnings for all countries. the earthquake also kicked up the surf in hawaii. but the waves weren't nearly as big as officials first feared. state authorities triggered tsunami sirens yesterday and urging people living along the coast to evacuate. the warning touched off a massive run on local grocery stores as people stocked up on everything from food, also water. but thankfully no giant waves hit the area. >> yeah, i think we've dodged a bullet. yes, i think so. in fact, it's almost -- it's almost the best sort of tsunami

you could possibly have. >> hawaii governor linda lingle said no damage was reported by any county. the scope of the damage in chile is so massive it's almost hard to believe. authorities say the earthquake toppled more than 500,000 structures. that's an aerial view for you. it has affected more than 2 million people and seriously damaged the country's economy. right now more than 300 people are dead, but that number could rise dramatically. even though the quake was centered more than 200 miles from chile's capital of santiago, people living there say they felt it, and it was pretty powerful. >> at first i just opened my eyes and waited because, well, here in chile, we're kind of used to having mild earthquakes frequently. but then it just wouldn't stop. so we decided to get up with my boyfriend and just hid by the door, just waiting for it to stop. we just heard all around the

neighborhood glasses crashing down, children crying, women getting pretty upset. and people just started pouring out of their apartments and going outside. >> well, the earthquake knocked out basic services to santiago including water, power and telephones. the state department says about 1,000 americans were in the earthquake, but none of them were seriously injured. the earthquake also touched off tsunamis that swamped parts of chile's central coast. the usgs says one of the largest waves was nine feet high. it washed ashore near the quake's epicenter. on the island of juan fernandez which is 400 miles off chile's coast, a huge wave killed six people there. the island's governor says 11 people are still missing. a family in new hampshire was connected to the earthquake in two ways, causing them to worry for quite a while. things got frantic for sue seidner because her brother-in-law was working in chile.

then the family worry turned to hawaii which was under a tsunami warning triggered by the deadly earthquake. that is where their eldest daughter was camping on the beach. >> all i could think of were 30-foot waves crashing across some hawaiian beach and there my daughter would be sitting, catching some sun rays and not be aware. >> we're happy to report neither family member was injured in the quake or the aftermath. we, of course, will have continuing earthquake coverage including dramatic pictures from our i-reporters. but first, we want to get you caught up on the other stories we're following. hundreds of people packed seaworld stadium for the first killer whale show since a trainer was killed. you may remember a 12,000-pound orca pulled dawn brancheau under water by her ponytail. the trainers are not being allowed back in the water with the animals until a review of that incident is complete. >> i think it was great that

they moved forward. i wish they would have said a little bit more, actually, about it what happened and what was going to happen because obviously everyone there is anxious and curious as to, you know, what the future is. >> it wasn't a happy atmosphere. we all stood up with a remembrance, and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as seaworld paid tribute to dawn brancheau. the orca that killed her did not perform yesterday. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers crossed, hoping their power will come back on today. it has been a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since that massive winter storm last week. as you see, some repair crews working there. they are now working 17-hour shifts. but toppled trees and power lines are slowing them down. hardest hit was new hampshire where about 250,000 people are without power. in allentown, most people lost

power and they feel there is nothing they can do about it. >> it's a relief to actually see that someone's going to actually try and get some of the work done anyways. >> they haven't been able to give us, okay, we'll be to your town in three days. and basically, as i said, bad news is better than no news but we're not getting any news because they can't figure out where this is going to end. >> people in allentown are using generators and wood stoves to stay warm until power is back on. leftover ice from that storm has created new trouble in new york. ice broke through a glass atrium at the sony building in manhattan last night. ten people were injured. the injuries were not serious. the city's fire department says ice and glass fell into the building's lobby area. police in memphis are looking for a man who shot and killed a mall security guard. authorities say the guard tried to break up a fight between two men at southland shopping mall on saturday. one of those men reportedly shot the guard in the chest. both men took off, and some shoppers saw the whole thing unfold. >> it's like watching tv in slow

motion. you know what's going on. you're hearing the emotions from the people. and everyone is helpless. they don't know if the two men would have shot at each other. you know, any of us could have been shot. >> certainly scary moments inside of the mall. the guard was pronounced dead at the hospital. a nobel prize-winning group is asking for outside help with its global warming reports. the intergovernmental panel on climate change says the it wants an independent review. the group is looking to calm recent criticism about their report. the ipcc says the errors are minor and don't impact its overall conclusions about global warming. this is day three of the search for a missing california teenager. volunteers and deputies have been combing the rancho bernardo area. one team focused on the lake yesterday. the community effort to find chelsea king seen here has deeply touched her parents. >> thank you so much for coming

out and trying to find our daughter. >> you have no idea how overwhelming. my heart is overflowing with all the support and all this love. and there's no words for it. >> up to50 deputies, agents and volunteers are searching for the 17-year-old. king didn't come home after a run at a community park on thursday. the mayor of middletown, connecticut, says it was a fitting honor. yesterday people in the town remembered six men who died in an explosion at the clean energy systems power plant. a pipe and drum band played outside a church where a funeral mass was being held for the victims. the blast at the plant earlier this month also injured 20 people. mayor sebastian giuliano says the community is devastated by the explosion and its aftermath. some california residents whose homes were threatened by floods and mudslides are breathing a sigh of relief today. when heavy rains hit near los

angeles yesterday, county officials issued evacuation orders for more than 170 homes. the evacuation was called off in the afternoon because the storm was weaker than expected. now, those homes are located under slopes where wildfires cleared out the trees. the area is now prone to floods and mudslides. it has been evacuated at least a half dozen times this winter alone. things are also pretty bad in the northeast. they're looking at very chilly temperatures. let's go straight to meteorologist bonnie schneider. >> waking up to temperatures in the 30s and the 20s and even snow across the northeast into parts of pennsylvania and new york. and also heading back out to the west, notice things getting a little bit wet in arizona. we're watching this system because the low pressure that's in the southwest will actually work its way to the east over the next few days. not today though. today you're still dry across much of the mid south, gulf coast. florida looking cool, highs today only in the 60s but at least the sun will be shining. notice all the snow especially

along the anticipate lat appala. i had temperatures in minneapolis only 35. 36 in chicago. 43 in boston. 60 in dallas. 62 in phoenix. cooler on the west coast. 65 degrees in los angeles. 47 in salt lake city. just to let you know we are tracking the potential of storms later on this week. we'll be watching for lows to work across the south and maybe evenb bring a wintry mix to places like atlanta. another u.s. success story from the olympic. american athletes do something that hasn't been done in more than 60 years. also ahead -- starting tomorrow, travelers could see delays at one of the country's busiest airports, and those delays could last for months.

an officer was investigating a crash on i-75 in new york when moments later the cop noticed an out-of-control car headed straight for him. he jumped out of the way at the last second to avoid getting pinned to another car. amazingly, the officer walked away with only minor injuries. let the headaches begin. departures may get slower at one of the nation's major airports starting tomorrow. new york's jfk is shutting down its busiest runway for reconstruction. the four-month project is expected to reduce delays in the long run by more than 10,000 hours per year. jfk was ranked 22nd among the nation's 31 major airports in terms of on-time departures. some airline executives are hoping the impact on travelers will be minimal but a veteran flight controller says travelers will definitely feel an impact. on the last weekend of

olympic competition, the usa men's bobsled team made history. joe carter has more on the record setting day. >> good morning, susan. the four-man team called their bobsled the nighttrain. but it was during the day when they rode into the history books. the last sled to go down the mountain finished in first place ending a 62-year gold medal drought. the last time the four-man team won gold -- 1948. no other national olympic team has endured such a long wait between winning gold medals. now, the men's victory also means the united states clinched the record for overall medals won at the winter games. well, this week should go down as the most thrilling week ever for olympian billy demong. thursday he became the first american to win goldman in the nordic combined. then just hours after the race, he popped the question to his girlfriend. she said yes. friday he was on the "today" show. then the olympic committee named him a flag bearer for tonight's closing ceremonies. what a week!

>> the ceremony when we all congregated at the u.s. ski team house in whistler. i asked johnny, i was like, do you think this is going to be too cheesy? he said, no, go for it. then i popped it. and it was five minutes before i found out i was a flag bearer. as always, good things come in threes, i guess. >> great stories like that one that come out of the olympic games. then we've also got unfortunate stories like this one. russian snowboarder stanislav detkov, if he wins, he gets to stand on the medals podium. instead he is disqualified because he mistimes the opening of the start gate! tough break for him. that's a look at sports. i'm joe carter.

we are getting more pictures of the devastating damage from the massive earthquake in chile. these are images captured by several of our i-reporters. you can see a multtimulti-story

building's just buckled in the earthquake. the jolt brought down highways reducing them to piles of rubble. more than 3 million people were affected by this earthquake and the death toll of more than 300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with hln for extensive earthquake coverage. o horrible out of florida. strangers helped a deputy save two kids whose mother allegedly tried to drown them. investigators say when the deputy responded to sangle-car crash, the mother got out of the car holding her two kids and headed for a retention pond. police say she jumped in the water and held the children down. that is when two passers-by helped the deputy pull them out. >> basically a tragedy was averted due to the actions of both the deputy as well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger who they didn't know as well as to help our deputy. >> the 2-year-old and 9-month-old children weren't seriously injured. the woman was taken to a

hospital for psychiatric evaluations. she could face attempted murder charges. the town of john day, oregon has a message for a white spremtist group -- we don't want you here. stay out. people are battling to keep paul r. mullet, the self-professed director of the aryan nations to keep from buying property in john day. he announced he was moving his headquarters to the town. that's when people living there sprung into action. >> we're pretty inclusive of everybody. if you want to live here and become part of the community, you are welcome to live here as long as you are not spreading hate. >> businesses. threats from people. and these are coming from people who don't want us there who are saying we're hate groups. that's more hateful than anything i would say to anybody. >> so far, mullet has not been able to find a real estate agent willing to help him find property there. israel's defense minister is calling for new sanctions against iran. ehud barak says they are

necessary to stop iran's nuclear ambitions. he also says sanctions will be effective only if russia and china join other nations to back them up. israel and many other countries accuse iran of building nuclear weapons, which iran denies. barak talked about the goldstone report that accuses israel of war crimes. >> i would like to say something about gold stl zone. i think after seven years of suffering thousands of rockets terrorizing our civilian population around the gaza strip, israel had the right and the duty to respond and goldstone report is biased, distorted, totally unexplainable in my judgment, and even it encourages somehow terror because it gives -- >> his report encourages that? >> yeah, of course. between the perpetrators of terror and its victims who --

and their deliberate -- hamas and hezbollah are deliberately using civilian population as human shields and we were being attacked. >> the report by south african judge goldstone investigated last year's conflict in gaza. slavery was once an integral part of the economy of the south. but many people don't know how important it was to new york city. well, now a new memorial center is looking to change all that. the african burial ground national memorial opened yesterday. it commemorates about 15,000 african slaves and their descendants who helped make new york the capital. the memorial is located near wall street where african slaves were once traded. former president bush has been no mostly out of the public eye since he left the white house. now he's talking about what he's doing these days. also this -- >> this place obviously is a

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all tsunami advisories have been canceled in the u.s. after yesterday's massive earthquake in chile. there was a fear that strong waves could hit the u.s., but that of course did not happen. the 8.8 magnitude quake killed at least 300 people. an updated death toll is expected later this morning. president obama will go to the doctor today to get his first physical exam as president. at the national naval medical center in bethesda, maryland. a physical made public during his presidential campaign said his health was excellent. toyota's boss will try to defend his company's reputation

in china today. a company spokesman says his boss will speak about toyota's quality problems to reporters in beijing. ok akio toyoda testified before lawmakers last week. this is hln for sunday, february 28th. so glad you are with us, i'm susan hendricks. all tsunami warnings resulting from the earthquake in chile have been canceled. they were dropped shortly after smaller than expected waves came ashore in japan. the largest waves were about four feet. that ended a 24-hour period of tsunami warnings. meteorologist bonnie schneider tracked the waves as they rolled through the pacific ocean. >> hi, susan. when you are tracking tsunami waves it is very difficult to know exactly how big they will get because you have that upwart thrust beneath the sea level and even a small wave can be caused near the epicenter where the earthquake occurred. that can travel across the ocean and create a tsunami, which is

that rush of water coming in at full force. some of the speeds of the tsunami can be at 500 miles per hour. the concern after hawaii's warnings were lifted was for japan. japan particularly a sensitive area for flooding. as you can see here, we have lots of bays and inlets here in the topography of the coastline of japan where the water can pool and even flood so advisories continued from the japanese meet lodteorological a just in case there is a slight rise in the level along the shorelines. but for the most part, things are looking a lot better. we do have the national data buoy center that's monitoring wave heights around the world. here's the pacific basin where we had the earthquake right down here in chile. it is really fascinating how the activity spread out wide across the pacific, bringing a slight sea level rise as far to the south as even australia, then up towards japan. so a large portion of the world affected by this one earthquake in chile yesterday. 8.8 magnitude.

a family in new hampshire was connected to the earthquake in two ways causing them to worry for quite a while. things got frantic for sue seidner was her brother-in-law was working in chile. then the family worry turned to hawaii which was under a tsunami warning triggered bit deadly earthquake. that is where their eldest daughter was camping on the beach. >> all i could think of were 30-foot waves crashing across some hawaiian beach and there my daughter would be sitting, catching some sun rays and not be aware. >> we're happy to report neither family member was injured in the quake or the aftermath. we, of course, will have continuing earthquake coverage including dramatic pictures from our i-reporters. but first, we want to get you caught up on the other stories we're following. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers crossed hoping their power will come back on today. it's been a nightmare for

hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since that massive winter storm last week. as you see, some repair crews are working there. they are now working 17-hour shifts. but toppled trees and power lines are slowing them down. hardest hit was new hampshire where about 250,000 people are without power. in allenestown, almost every single home lost power and most people there is nothing they can do about it. >> it's a relief to actually see that someone's actually going to try and get some of the work done aniways. >> basically, bad news is better than no news but we're not getting any news because they can't figure out exactly where this is going to end. >> people in allenestown are using generators and wood stoves to stay warm until power is back on. leftover ice from that storm has created new trouble in new york. ice broke through a glass atrium at the sony building in manhattan last night. ten people were injured. the injuries were not serious.

the city's fire department says ice and glass fell into the building's lobby area. hundreds of people packed seaworld stadium for the first killer whale show since a trainer was killed by one of the orcas. you may remember a 12,000-pound orca pulled dawn brancheau under water by her ponytail. the trainers are not being allowed back in the water with the animals until a review of that incident is complete. >> i think it was great that they moved forward. i wish they would have said a little bit more, actually, about it what happened and what was going to happen because obviously everyone there is anxious and curious as to, you know, what the future is. >> it wasn't a happy atmosphere. we all stood up with a remembrance, and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as seaworld paid tribute to dawn brancheau. the orca that killed her did not perform yesterday. some california residents whose homes were threatened by

floods and mudslides are breathing a sigh of relief yesterday. yesterday county officials in los angeles issued evacuation orders for more than 170 homes. evacuation was called off in the afternoon because the storm was weaker than expected. though homes a the area is now prone to floods and mudslides. it's been evacuated at least a half dozen times this winter alone. new regulations limit some of the fees that banks can charge you. that sounds like good news but they are finding some creative ways to get that money back. jennifer westhoven is looking out for you. >> here's something i want you to look for on your next bank statement. a lot of banks are changing their overdraft policies and they're going to talk to you about it. they're often going to say, hey, if you make a small mistake like you go over $10 on your debit account, we will transfer money between your accounts, we'll cover it for you and it will be

free. now, that sounds really good. right? it sounds fair, it's free -- but what the bank may not be saying is, if you do call and sign up for their new overdraft protection plan, and you make a mistake worth more than $10? they're going to sock you with that same old overdraft fee, roughly $35. that's because with tough new federal laws, they can't just do that anymore. but they want to keep those juicy overdraft fees so they want you to opt in. that is why they're calling you on the phone, sending letters, sending e-mails, putting things on your statement, because they want you to opt in. you can avoid those fees if you don't opt in. because remember -- because it is your choice -- it does mean that if you try to overdraw your account, your card's going to be rejected. now that may mean that you just say, okay, i'll use a different card, or maybe you'll decide maybe i'll take something out of the cart, put it back and get it next time when i can afford it. it's your choice. but you should know if you opt in to many of these new policies, you strip yourselves of some of those protections and

you open the door to the possibility of those big old overdraft fees all over again. i'm jennifer westhoven, "looking out for you." >> thanks, jen. you can get more great money advice from jennifer westhoven herself each weekday on "morning express" with robin meade. from 6:00 to 10:00 a.m. eastern. there will certainly never be another "miracle on ice," but a win tonight for the u.s. hockey team may rank as a close second. we have a look ahead at the gold medal match-up against canada. also, starting tomorrow, travelers could see delays at one of the country's busiest airports. and those delays could last for months. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider with a look at your "cold and flu report" for sunday. most of the country is reporting sporadic outbreaks of the flu, all the way from california, back through massachusetts. but we're watching for some more regional outbreaks across the southeast, including parts of georgia. as we look for local activity, you'll see that in louisiana. most of the country though doing well. if you're looking for a place where we're not getting any

reports of the flu, that would be well up into the mountain west into places like montana where hopefully everybody's feeling good. that is a look at your "cold and flu report." for sunday, i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider. " for sunday, i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider.

we have amazing video of a very close call for a cop. take a look at this right here. in a split second, he moves just in time -- right here -- to save himself. the officer was investigating a

crash on i-75 in detroit. moments later the cop, there it is again, noticed an out-of-control car headed straight for him. he jumped out of the way at the last second to avoid getting pinned to another car. amazingly, the officer walked away with only minor injuries. everything old is new again for folks living in bellville, illinois. city leaders are bringing back a so-called wheel tax. this means people will have to pay $20 per vehicle for every car they own. belleville is desperately trying to fill a big budget gap but the tax is receiving mixed reviews. >> i don't understand it. because how can they keep taking -- raising taxes and taking more, more money, money, money out of people's check when they are barely making it as it is. >> i understand it for the most part, yeah. yeah. i mean if it is going to save jobs and help out city, then i'm all for it. >> getting both sides there. tax was in place from 1920 to 1995.

it goes back into effect in may. the city hopes to raise about $650,000. let the headaches begin. departures may get slower at one of the nation's major airports starting tomorrow. new york's jfk is shutting down its busiest runway for reconstruction. the four-month project is expected to reduce delays in the long run by more than 10,000 hours per year. jfk was ranked 22nd among the nation's 31 major airports in terms of on-time departures. some airline executives are hoping the impact on travelers will be minimal be, but a veteran flight controller says travelers will definitely feel an impact. let's talk olympics. team usa and team canada face off again, this time for all the marbles. joe carter has more on today's gold medal game. >> it is a big one. hello. what a great way to close out the olympic games. team usa, the surprise cinderella story, unbeaten throughout the games, against team canada, the heavy favorite. a squad loaded with nhl stars.

team usa beat team canada last week but this time a lot more is at stake. >> we're here for the gold and we've been getting better every game and -- which is great to see. >> we got nothing to lose. we're here and we want to obviously play hard and do well. but the pressure's on everyone else. >> the winter games opened with heavy hearts after a georgian luger died during a practice run. tonight the games close with concern for an entire country afternoon the earthquake in chile. an alpine skier will be the only athlete representing her country of chile in tonight's closing ceremonies after learning her friends and family are all safe. american skier bode miller was going for olympic history saturday but came up short after missing a gate during his final slalom run, just like lindsey vonn. it was a disappointing finish for miller but he still walks away from vancouver with three medals in five events.

as we head into the final day of the 010 winter games, the united states is guaranteed 37 medals after today's men's hockey game, and canada will finish with at least 13 gold medals. both are new records for each country at a winter olympics. danica patrick's third race in the nascar series ended with a bang saturday after starting in the back, she moved her way up to third place, and then she wrecked her car -- but this time the crash wasn't her fault. danika now goes back to the indy car circuit for the next four months before returning to nascar in june for ten more races. that's a look at sports. i'm joe carter. most people are happy to see new neighbors move in. but one small town is doing everything it can to keep one group from moving there. >> and they can try. they're more than welcome to try but they're going to have a heck of a fight. >> the alleged hate group, the towns people say they want to keep out. you're watching hln. time for some "fancy

footwork." warriors rookie guard stefan curry, drives to the basket, the easy layup. what a move as he impressed his teammates. he'd finish with a team-high 30 points. now that's some "fancy footwork."

we are getting more pictures of the devastating damage from the massive earth wake in chile. we want to share them with you. these are images captured by several of our i-reporters. can you see a multi-story building just buckled in the earthquake. people are still walking through the neighborhoods with a sense of disbelief. the jolt brought down highways, reducing them to piles of rubble. more than 3 million people were affected by this earthquake and the death toll of more than 300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with hln for extensive earthquake coverage. a horrible story out of florida. strangers helped a deputy save two kids whose mother allegedly tried to drown them. investigators say when the deputy responded to a single-car crash, the mother got out of the car holding her two kids, and headed for a retention pond. police say she jumped in the

water and held the children down. that is when two passers-by helped the deputy pull them out. >> basically a tragedy was averted due to the actions of both the deputy, as well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger who they didn't know, as well as to help our deputy. >> the 2-year-old and 9-month-old children weren't seriously injured. the woman was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluations. she could face attempted murder charges. the town of john day, oregon has a message for a white supremacist group -- we don't want you here, stay out. people in the town are actively battling to keep paul r. mullet, the self-professed national director of the aryan nation from buying property in john day. mullet announced a week ago he planned to move the group's headquarters to the town. that's when people living there sprung into action. >> we're pretty inclusive of everybody. if you want to live here and become part of the community, you're welcome to live here as long as you're not spreading hate. >> businesses, threats from people, and these are coming

from people who don't want us there who are saying we're hate hate groups. that's more hateful than anything i would say to anybody. >> so far mullet has not been able to find a real estate agent willing to help him find property there. marie osmond says she and her family are devastated by the death of her 18-year-old son. michael blosil died yoed in los angeles. the coroner's office says the death is under investigation. entertainment tonight is reporting on its website that he jumped to his death from his apartment building. he reportedly left a note which referred to a life-long battle with depression. israel's defense minister is calling for new sanctions against iran. he says they are necessary to stop iran's nuclear ambitions but he also says sanctions will be effective only if russia and china join other nations to back them up. is rat and many other countries accuse iran of building nuclear weapons, which iran denies.

barak also talked about the goldstone report. >> i would like to say something. i think that after seven years of suffering thousands, terrorizing, israel had the right and the duty to respond. and goldstone report is biased, distorted, totally inexplainable, in my judgment. and it even encouraging somehow terror -- >> his report encouraging that? . >> yes. between the poe perpetratorperp victims and their believability in hamas and hezbollah as well. our ability using civilian population as human shields, and we being attacked. >> the report by south african

judge richard goldstone investigated last year's conflict in gaza. former president bush has been mostly out of the public eye since he left the white house. now he's talking about what he's doing these days. also this -- >> well, this place is obviously a legend around here because they have everything. >> yes, they do. how classic car parts that are hard to find

>> the temperatures may be frigid, but the atmosphere here is red hot. welcome to comcast on the red carpet. i'm at the 14th annual maryland state police polar bear plunge, maryland's premier winter event. >> this is my kind of weather. >> perfect day for a plunge. >> you got to get in. >> this is a huge event. it's amazing. we started back in '96 and it was probably like hundreds of people, and now it's just thousands. it's turned into a major standout event for the state of

maryland. >> this is the it first time we've had a snow like this and it really does tell who this is all about. it's raising money for a special group of people and they're coming no matter what the weather is. >> how do you do this? >> why? because i love the energy. >> the show must go on. the polar bear plunge, great benefit for special olympics, one of the great charities in maryland, and a ton of people out here. everybody is warm and in the spirit of giving, so it will be a great day. >> for one of the rookie soup sr plunger, this was an item on his life to do list. >> i've never done it. you've heard of the movie the bucket list. this was on my bucket list of things to do. i've accomplished it and can check it off my list. it was a great, great opportunity. >> this is the most amazing group of people i've ever worked with. for those of you who have not been here before, you'll leave here with life long friends. >> as a first time plunger, it's

not what you expect. i never expected to cry, but i did yesterday and today because the super plungers were so much. to hear the stories are heart-felt. >> i was a first time super plunger in freezing cold water. >> what's the water temperature? >> cold. >> my first time, i could never do it. this this year, i was like, alright, i'm here, i'm going to do it. we're in little costumes. it's cold out there. nothing compares to how cold it is out here. >> it's rewarding because of the smiles you put on the athletes faces and the camaraderie you get to be with the parents, then the family atmosphere that keeps drawing everybody back. >> are you ready? are you ready? >> it gets better every time. >> this is serious business. >> every year i challenge all of the delegates and the house delegates to come out and plunge

f they are not going to plunge, they should give us money for the special olympics. >> it's a wonderful cause, special people, and an important segment of our society, and we have to step up and be there for them. >> for law enforcement, it's a special, unique connection with the spec olympics. police officers love to be out there among the crowd, and they love to be around everyone, the young and the old. >> the 2010 marked the inaugural year, a special plunge on friday for maryland's elementary and high school students. >> we had about 2,000 students out here yesterday. the energy was amazing. these kids embraced the concept. for them to do something bigger than themselves and be active, it's awesome. >> it's for the special olympians. we live for, go for, die for, is to give them an opportunity to participate if the games. >> our athletes are children and

adults. we have athletes in their 70's. they can choose from 28 different sports all year long. we're not a one-time a year attraction event. everyday of the year an athlete is benefits from the funds raise. >> with over $3 million raised from the efforts this year, some may wonder where the money goes? >> it goes straight to the athletes like myself and show that athletes with disabilities can do anything that they put their minds to. >> think about it t you can sit there as a child and see kids playing tennis, basketball, football, running track. now as a kid because somebody looked at you as having some type of disability, you don't have a disability. this allows you to go out there and do everything that everybody else can do. you're just like everybody else. >> the bay may be chilly, but you see the steam off of me. that's the warm from our hearts. >> this is what you call

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chile is reeling in the aftermath of a massive earthquake. how the country is coping and how the earthquake affected other countries, too. transformer blew and the rest has been waiting for the power to come back on. the waiting game is on. he is one of many people who lost power after a huge snowstorm in the northeast. one entire town ended up in the dark. and an oregon town has banded together to keep a group of people from moving in. who may be coming and why the town says it doesn't want them there. you are watching "hln" on this sunday. so good to see you.

i'm susan hendricks. our top story, the effects of chile's earthquake are felt on the other side of the world. waved spawned by the quake hit japan's coast today. kyung lah with our sister network cnn reports japan saw waves more than three feet in height. there were no immediate reports of damage, but it looks like the danger of tsunamis from the chile quake has passed. this morning the pacific tsunami warning center canceled warnings for all countries. the earthquake also kicked up the surf in hawaii. but the waves weren't nearly as big as officials first feared. state authorities triggered tsunami sirens yesterday and urging people living along the coast to evacuate. the warning touched off a massive run on local grocery stores as people stocked up on everything from food, also water. but thankfully no giant waves hit the area. >> yeah, i think we've dodged a bullet. yes, i think so. in fact, it's almost -- it's

almost the best sort of tsunami you could possibly have. >> hawaii governor linda lingle said no damage was reported by any county. the scope of the damage in chile is so massive it's almost hard to believe. authorities say the earthquake toppled more than 500,000 structures. that's an aerial view for you. it has affected more than 2 million people and seriously damaged the country's economy. right now more than 300 people are dead, but that number could rise dramatically. even though the quake was centered more than 200 miles from chile's capital of santiago, people living there say they felt it, and it was pretty powerful. >> at first i just opened my eyes and waited because, well, here in chile we're kind of used to having mild earthquakes frequently. but then it just wouldn't stop. so we decided to get up with my boyfriend and just hid by the do, waiting for it to stop.

we just heard all around the neighborhood glasses crashing down, children crying, women getting pretty upset. and people just started pouring out of their apartments and going outside. >> well, the earthquake knocked out basic services to santiago including water, power and telephones. the state department says about 1,000 americans were in the earthquake, but none of them were seriously injured. the earthquake also touched off tsunamis that swamped parts of chile's central coast. the usgs says one of the largest waves was nine feet high. it washed ashore near the quake's epicenter. on the island of juan fernandez which is 400 miles off chile's coast, a huge wave killed six people there. the island's governor says 11 people are still missing. a family in new hampshire was connected to the earthquake in two ways, causing them to worry for quite a while. things got frantic for sue seidner because her brother-in-law was working in chile.

then the family worry turned to hawaii, which was under a tsunami warning triggered by the deadly earthquake. that is where their eldest daughter was camping on the beach. >> all i could think of were 30-foot waves crashing across some hawaiian beach and there my daughter would be sitting, catching some sun rays and not be aware. >> we're happy to report neither family member was injured in the quake or the aftermath. we, of course, will have continuing earthquake coverage including dramatic pictures from our i-reporters. but first, we want to get you caught up on the other stories we're following. hundreds of people packed seaworld stadium for the first killer whale show since a trainer was killed. by one of the orcas. you may remember a 12,000-pound orca grabbed trainer dawn brancheau by her ponytail and dragged her under water. trainers are not allowed back in

the water until the investigation is complete. >> i think it was great that they moved forward. i wish they would have said a a little bit more about it and what was going to happen because obviously everyone there is anxious and curious as to, you know, what the future is. >> it wasn't a happy atmosphere. we all stood up with a remembrance, and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as seaworld paid tribute to dawn brancheau. the orca that killed her did not perform yesterday. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers crossed hoping their power will come back on today. it has been a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since that massive winter storm last week. as you see, some repair crews working there. they are now working 17-hour shifts. but toppled trees and power lines are slowing them down. hardest hit was new hampshire where about a quarter million people are without power.

those lost power and most feel there is nothing they can do about it. >> it's a relief to actually see that someone's going to actually try and get some of the work done anyways. >> they haven't been able to give us, okay, we'll be to your town in three days. and basically, as i said, bad news is better than no news but we're not getting any news because we can't figure out where this is going to end. >> people in allenstown are using generators and wood stoves to stay warm until power is back on. police in memphis are looking for a man who shot and killed a mall security guard. authority say the security grard tried to break up a fight between two men at the mall on saturday. one of those men reportedly shot the guard in the chest. both men took off and some shoppers saw the whole thing unfold. >> it's like watching tv in slow motion. you know what's going on. you're hearing the emotions from the people. and everyone is helpless. they don't know if the two men would have shot each other or at schott at each other. any of us could have been shot. >> certainly some scary moments inside of the mall. the guard was pronounced dead at the hospital.

a noble prize-winning group is asking for outside help with its global warming reports. they say they want an independent review. the group is looking to calm recent criticism about its 2007 reports. critics found some errors in those reports. the ipcc says the errors are minor and don't impact its overall conclusions about global warming. this is day three of the search for a missing california teenager. volunteers and deputies have been combing the rancho bernardo area. one team focused on the lake yesterday. the effort to find chelsea king has deeply effected her parents. >> thank you so much for coming out and trying to find our daughter. >> you have no idea how overwhelming -- my heart is overflowing with all the support and all this love. and there's no words for it. >> up to 250 deputies, agents

and volunteers are searching for the 17-year-old. king didn't come home after a run at a community park on thursday. the mayor of middletown, connecticut, says it was a fitting honor yesterday. yesterday people in the town remembered six men who died in an explosion at the clean energy systems. a funeral service was held for the victims. the blast at the plant earlier this month also injured 20 people. mayor ju the mayor says the community is devastated by the explosion and the aftermath. some california residents whose homes were threatened by mud slides are breathing a sigh of relief. county officials issued evacuation orders for resident. the storm was weaker than expected. those homes are located under slopes where wildfires cleared out the trees. the area is now prone to floods and mud slides. it has been evacuated at least a

half dozen times this winter alone. another u.s. success story from the olympics. american athletes do something that hasn't been done in more than 60 years. also ahead -- starting tomorrow, travelers could see delays at one of the busiest airports and those delays could last for months.

with the ups and downs of the stock market, many investors are now shifted to bonds. interest rates on bonds can be unpredictable. what to do? hln money expert clark howard tells you what to watch out for. >> okay. i've got a special warning for you. if you're one of the people who used to be heavily involved in the stock market, you got blown away by the decline in the markets starting in '07 and then you moved your money heavily into bonds. and the bonds, they really smiled on you, didn't they? here's the thing. if you have a lot of bond fund

in 401(k) or rel investment accounts, if interest rate start going up, this is one of the crazy things about bonds, if interest rates start going up, the value of your bond or bond funds will start going down. and odds are that interest rates are going to go higher in the future. could be wrong about that, but that's the most likely trend because there's not much further for them to go down. what does that mean you should do? if you're going to stay in bonds you need to be in ultrashort bonds because the longer bonds and the intermediate ones are the ones that are really going to take a hard fall. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to protect your wallet, check me out at cnn.com/clarkhoward. clark also has other great ways to help you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. check the clark howard show at noon eastern right here on hln. let the headaches begin, departures may get slower at one

of the major airports tomorrow. new york's jfk is shutting down the busiest runway for construction. it's expected to reduce delays in the long run. jfk was ranked 22nd among the nation's 31 major airports in terms of on-time departures. some airline executives are hoping the impact on travelers will be minimal, but a veteran flight controller says travelers will definitely feel an impact. on the last weekend of olympic competition, the usa men's bobsled team made history. joe carter has more on the record-setting day. good morning. >> good morning, susan. the four-man team called their bobsled the night train but they rode into history books. the last sled finished in first place ending a 62-year gold medal drought. the last time the four-man team won gold, 1948. no other national olympic team has endured such a long wait between winning gold medals. the men's victory also means the

united states clinched the record for overall medals won at the winter games. well, this week should go down as the most thrilling week ever for olympian billy demogg. first he won the nordic combined and then he popped the question to his girlfriend, she said yes. friday he was on the "today" show and now named the olympian for tonight's flag ceremony. >> i remember when we congress gat got together at the u.s. ski house in whistler. i said, is this too cheesy? he said, no, go for it. i popped it and then five minutes before i found out i was a flag bearer. you also have unfortunate stories like this one. russian snowboarder, you know, if he wins this race, he hits a stand on the podium medal.

instead he's disqualified because he mistimed the start gate. tough times for him. that's a look at sport. i'm joe carter. most people are happy to see new neighbors move in. one small town is doing everything it can to keep one group from moving there. >> they can try. they're more than welcome to try but they'll have a heck of a fight. >> the alleged hate group the tounspeople say they want to keep out.

we're getting more pictures of the devastating damage from the massive evert quake in chile. we want to share them with you. these are images captured by several of our i-reporters. you can see a multistory building just buckled in the earthquake. people are still walking through the neighborhoods with a sense of disbelief. the jolt brought down highways, reducing them to piles of rubble.

more than 3 million people were affected by this earthquake. and the death toll of more than 300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with "hln" for extensive earthquake coverage. a horrible story at a florida. strangers helped a deputy save two kids whose mother allegedly tried to drown them. investigators say when the deputy responded to a single-car crash, the mother got out of the car holding her two kids and headed for a retention pond. police say she jumped in the water and held the children down. that is when two passersby helped the deputy pull them out. >> basically, a tragedy was averted through the actions of both the deputy as well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger who they didn't know as well as to help our deputy. >> the 2-year-old and 9-month-old children weren't seriously injured. the woman was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluations. she could face attempted murder charges. the town of john day,

oregon, has a message for a white supremacist group. we don't want you here. stay out. people in the town are actively battling keep paul rncmullet fr buying property in john day. 'nounsed he planned to move the group's headquarters to the town. that's when people living there sprung into action. >> we're pretty inclusive of vb. if you want to live here and be part the community, you're welcome to live here as long as you're not spreading hate. >> businesses, threats from people, and these are coming from people who don't want us there, who are saying, we're hate groups. that's more hateful than anything i would say to anybody. >> so far mullet has not been able to find a real estate agent willing to help him find property there. israel's defense minister is calling for new sanctions against iran. ehud barak says they're necessary, but hes sanctions will be effective only if russia

and china join other nations to back them up. israel and other countries accuse iran of building nuclear weapons, which iran denies. barak talked about the goldstone report that accused israel and hamas of war crimes. >> i would like to say something about goldstone. i think that after seven years of suffering thousands, terrorizing our civilian population, israel had the right and the duty to respond. and goldstone report is biased, distorted, totally unexplainable, in my judgment. and it even encourages somehow terror because it gives -- >> his report encourages that? >> yes, of course. create more between the perpetrators and its victims who -- and they are leading hamas -- and hezbollah as well, the ability using civilian

population as human shields. and we -- while being attacked. >> the report by south african judge richard goldstone investigated last year's conflict in gaza. slavery was once fallen apart of the part of the economy of the south but most don't know how important it was to new york city. a new memorial center is looking to change all that. the african burial ground memorial opened yesterday. it commemorates 15,000 african slaves who helped make new york the nation's capital. many slaves worked without pay and were buried under what is today manhattan. the memorial is located near wall street where african slaves were once traded. former president bush has been mostly out of the public eye since he left the white house. now he's talking about what he's doing these days. also this -- >> oh, this place obviously is a legend around here because they have everything. >> how classic car parts that

are really hard to find ended up on sale. 

all tsunami advisories have been canceled in the u.s. after yesterday's massive earthquake in chile. there was a fear that strong waves could hit the u.s., but that, of course, did not happen. the 8.8 magnitude quake killed at least 300 people. an updated death toll is expected later this morning. president obama will go to the doctor today. he will get his first physical exam as president at the national naval medical center in maryland. a physical made public during his presidential campaign said his health was excellent. toyota's boss will try to

defend his company's reputation in china today. a company spokesman says the boss will speak about toyota's quality problems in beijing. ak y toyota has ambitious plans to grow in china. in is hln for sunday, february 28th. i'm susan hendricks. all tsunami warnings resulting from the either quake in chile have been canceled. they were dropped shortly after smaller than expected waves came ashore in japan. the largest waves were about four feet. that ended a 24-hour period of tsunami >> when you're tracking tsunami waves it's difficult to know how big they will get because you have that upward thrust beneath the sea level and causes a small wave near the epicenter of where the earthquake occurred and that wave can travel across the ocean and then eventually create a tsunami, which is is that rush

of water coming in at full force. some of the speed of tsunami could be at 500 miles per hour. the concern after hawaii's warnings were lifted was for japan. japan, a sensitive area for flooding. as you can see here, we have lots of bays and inlets in the topography of the coastline of japan where the water can pool and even flood. a advisories continued in japan in case there would be a slight level in a rising in and around the shore line. for the most part things are looking a lot better. just in case as well, we do have the national data buoy site measuring wave heights around the world. here's the pacific basin where the earthquake occurred near chili and it's fascinating how the activity spread out wide, bringing a slight sea level rise as far to the south as australia and up toward japan. a large portion of the world effected by this one earthquake in chile yesterday. 8.8 magnitude.

>> thanks so much. now the situation in chilean town seems to be deteriorating. look at this video. as you can see, police are arresting people who appear to be looters trying to make out with clothes and supplies from a busted store front. in concepcion, police say criminals have taken to looting as well. a family in new hampshire was connected to the earthquake in two ways, causing them to worry for quite a while. things got frantic for sue seidner because her brother-in-law was working in chile. then the family worry turned to hawaii, which was under a snaum warni tsunami warning. that's where their eldest daughter was camping on the beach. >> all i could think of were 30-foot waves crashing across some hawaiian beach and there my daughter would be sitting, catching some sun rays and not be aware. >> we're happy to be report neither family member was injured in the quake or the

aftermath. a noble prize winning group is asking for outside help with its global warming reports. the intergovernmental panel on climate change says it wants an independent review. the group is looking to calm recent criticism about its 2007 reports. critics found some errors in those reports. the ipcc says the errors are minor and don't impact its overall conclusions about global warming. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers crossed, hoping their power will come back on today. it has been a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since that massive winter storm last week. as you see, some repair crews working there, they are now working 17-hour shifts, but toppled trees and power lines are slowing them down. hardest hit was new hampshire where a quarter million people are without power. if allentown, most loews power and there's nothing they can do

about it. >> it's a relief to see that someone is going to try to get some of the work done. >> they haven't been able to give us, okay, we'll be to your town in three days. basically as they say, bad news is better than no news but we're not getting any news because we can't figure out where this is going to end. >> people in allens town are using again generators and wood stoves to stay warm until power is back on. leftover ice from that storm has created new trouble in new york. ice broke through a glass a tree yum at the sewn building last night. ten people were injured. the injuries were not serious. the city's fire department says ice and glass fell into the building's lobby area. hundreds of people packed seaworld stadium for the first killer whale show since a trainer was killed by one of the orcas. you may remember a 12,000 pound orca grabbed trainer dawn brancheau by her ponytail. trainers are not allowed back

into the water with the animals until an investigation is complete. >> i'm glad they moved forward. i wish they would have said a little more about it, what was going to happen, because obviously everyone there is anxious and curious as to what the future is. >> it wasn't a happy atmosphere. we all stood up for the remembrance. and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as seaworld paid tribute to dawn brancheau. the orca that killed her did not perform yesterday. some california residents whose homes were threatened by floods and mudslides are breathing a sigh of relief today. when heavy rains hit near los angeles yesterday, county officials issued evacuation orders for more than 170 homes. the evacuation was called off in the afternoon because the storm was weaker than expected. now, those homes are located under slopes where wildfires cleared out the trees. the area is now prone to floods and mudslides. it has been evacuated at least a half dozen times this winter alone.

new regulations limit some of the fees that banks can charge you. now, that sounds like good news but they are finding some creative ways to get that money back. jennifer westhoven is looking out for you. >> so here's something i want you to look for on your next bank statement. a lot of banks are changing their overdraft policies and they're going to talk to you about it. they're often going to say, hey, you know, if you make a small mistake like you go over $10 on your debit account, we will transfer money between your, we'll cover it for you and it will be free. now, that sounds really good, right? it sounds fair, free. but what the bank may not be saying is, if you do call and sign up for their new overdraft protection plan, and you make a mistake worth more than $10, they're going to sock you with that same old overdraft fee, roughly $35. that's because with tough new federal laws, they can't just do that anymore, but they want to keep those juicy overdraft fees,

so they want you to opt in. that is why they're calling on you the phone, sending letters, sending e-mails, putting things on your statement because they want you to opt in. you can avoid those fees if you don't opt in. but, remember, because it's your choice, it does mean if you try to overdraw your account, your card's going to be rejected. that may mean you just say, oh, i'll use a different card or you'll decide, maybe i'll take something out of the cart, put it back and get it when i can afford it. it's your choice. you should know, if you opt into many of these new policies, you strip yourselves of some of those protections and you open the door to the possibility of those big old overdraft fees all over again. i'm jennifer westhoven looking out for you. >> thanks so much, jen. you can get more great money advice from jennifer westhoven herself each weekday on "morning express with robin meade" from 6 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. eastern. there will certainly never be a miracle on ice but a win tonight for the u.s. hockey team may rank as a close second. we have a look ahead at the gold

medal match-up against canada. starting tomorrow, travelers could see delays at one of the country's busiest airports and those delays could last for months.

we have amazing video of a very close call for a cop. take a look at this right here. in a split second he moves just in time, right here, to save himself. the officer was investigating a crash on i-75 in detroit. moments later, the cop, brian, noticed an out of control car headed straight for him. he jumped out of the way at the last second to avoid getting pinned to another car. amazingly the officer walked away with only minor injuries. everything old is new again

for folks living in belleville, ill ill. city leaders are bringing back a so-called wheel tax. people will have to pay $20 per vehicle for every car they own. belleville is desperately trying to fill a big budget gap but the tax is receiving mixed reviews. >> i don't understand it. because you -- how can they keep taking -- raising taxes and taking more money out of people's check when they're barely making it as it is. >> i understand it for the most part, yeah. yeah, i mean, if it's going to save jobs and, you know, help out the city, then i'm all for it. >> you're getting both sides there. the tax was in place from 1920 to 1995. it goes back into effect in may. the city hopes to raise about $650,000. let the headaches begin. departures may get slower at one of the nation's major airports starting tomorrow. new york's jfk is shutting down its busiest runway for reconstruction. the four-month project is expected to reduce delays in the

long run by more than 10,000 hours per year. jfk was ranked 22nd among the nation's 31 major airports in terms of on-time departures. some airline executives are hoping the impact on travelers will be minimal, but a veteran flight controller says travelers will definitely feel an impact. let's talk olympics. team usa and team canada face off again. this time for all the marbles. joe carter has more on today's gold medal game. >> hello to you. when a great way to close out the olympic games. team usa, the surprise cinderella story, unbeaten throughout the games against team canada, the heavy favorite, a squad loaded with nhl stars. you know, team usa beat team canada last week but this time a lot more is at stake. >> we're here for the gold, and, you know, we've been getting better every game. which is great to see. >> we got nothing to lose. we're here and we want to -- obviously, want to play hard and

do well. the pressure -- pressure's on everyone else. >> the winter games opened with heavy hearts after a georgian luger died during a practice run. tonight, the games close with concern for an entire country after the earthquake in chile. an alpine skier will be the only athlete representing her country of chile in tonight's closinger is monies after learning her friends and family are all safe. american skier bode miller was going for olympic history saturday but came up short after missing a gate during his final slalom run just like lindsey vonn. it was a disappointing finish but he still walks away from vancouver with three medals in five events. as we head into the final day of the 2010 winter games, the united states is guaranteed 37 medals after today's men's hockey game and canada will finish with at least 13 gold medals. both are new records for each country at a winter olympics. danica patrick's third race in the nascar series ended with a bang saturday. after starting in the back, she

moved her way up to third place and then she wrecked her car. but this time, the crash wasn't her fault. danica now goes back to the indy car circuit for the next four months before returning to nascar in june for ten more races. that's a look at sports. i'm joe carter. most people are happy to see new neighbors move in, but one small town is doing everything it can to keep one group from moving there. >> can and they can try. they're more than welcome to try. but they're going to have a heck of a fight. >> the alleged hate group the townspeople say they want to keep out.

we are getting more pictures of the devastating damage from the massive earthquake in chile. we want to share them with you. these are images captured by several of our i-reporters. you can see multistory building buckled in the earthquake. people are still walking through the neighborhoods with a sense of disbelief. the jolt brought down highways, reducing them to piles of rubble. more than 3 million people were effected by this earthquake. and the death toll of more than

300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with hln for extensive earthquake coverage. a horrible story out of florida. strangers helped a deputy save two kids whose mother allegedly tried to drown them. investigators say when the deputy responded to a single car crash, the mother got out of the car, holding her two kids and headed for retention pond. police say she jumped in the water and held the children down. that is when two passerby helped the deputy pull them out. >> basically a tragedy was averted through the actions of the deputy as well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger who they didn't know, as well as to help other deputy. >> the 2-year-old and 9-month-old children weren't seriously injured. the woman was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. she could face attempted murder charges. the town of john day, oregon, has a message for a white supremacist group, we don't want you here, stay out. people in the town are actively

balgsing to keep paul mullet, the self-proposed national director of aryan nations from buying property in john day. he announced he planned to move the group's headquarters to the town. that's when people living there sprung into action. >> we're pretty inclusive of everybody. if you want to live here and be part of the community, you're welcome to live here as long as you're not spreading hate. >> businesses, threats from people, and these are coming from people who don't want us there, who are saying, we're hate groups. that's more hateful than anything i would say to anybody. >> so far mullet has not been able to find a real estate agent willing to help him find property there. marie osmond says she and her family are devastated by the death of her 18-year-old son. michael blosil died yesterday in los angeles. the coroner's office there says the death is now under investigation. entertainment tonight is reporting on its website that blosil jumped to his death from his apartment building. he reportedly left a

he apparently left a note that dealt with suffering with life-long depression. stop nuclear ambitions, but he also says sanctions will be effective only if rusha and china join other nations to back them up. israel and other countries accuse of iran of building nuclear weapons, which iran denies. also talked about the goldstone report that accused israel and hamas of war crimes. >> i would like to say something. i think that after seven years of suffering our civilian appropriation at home had the right and the duty to respond and goldstone report is biases, distorted and totally unexplainable in my judgment and it even encourages some hope,

too. because it gives -- >> his support encourages that? >> yes. between the perpetrators and its victims and hezbollah, as well. deliberately using civilian population as human shields and we, while being attacked. >> the report by south african judge investigated last year's conflict in gaza. slivry was once an intragle part of the south but many people did not know how important it was to new york city. now a memorial center is looking to change all that. it commemorates about 15,000 african slaves and their descendants who helped make new york the commercial capital. many of the slaves worked without pay and were buried under what is today manhattan. the memorial is located near wall street where african slaves

were once traded. former president bush has been mostly out of the public eye since he left the white house and now he's talking about what he's doing these days. now this -- >> this place is a legend around here because they have everything. >> how some classic car parts that are really hard to find ended up on sale.

chile's aftermath of a massive earthquake. how the country is coping and how the earthquake affected other countries, too. >> transformer blew and the rest has been just waiting for the power to come back on. one who lost power after a huge snow storm in the northeast. an oregon town is banding together to keep a group of people from moving in. who may be coming and why the town says it doesn't want them there. you are watching hln on this

sunday, so good to see you, i'm susan hendricks. our top stories today, thefects of chile's earthquake felt on the other side of the world. japan's port saw a tsunami more than three feet in height. looks like the dangers of tsunamis from the quake has passed. the pacific tsunami warning center canceled warnings for all countries. the earthquake also kicked up the surf in hawaii, but the waves weren't as big as officials first feared. state authorities triggered tsunami sirens yesterday and urged people living along the coast to evacuate. the warning touched out a run as people stocked up from everything from food to water but, thankfully, no giant waves hit the area. >> yeah, i think we've dodged a bullet, i think so. in fact, it's almost, it's

almost the best sort of tsunami you could possibly have. >> hawaii governor said no damage was reported by any county. the scope of the damage in chile is so massive it's almost hard to believe. authorities say the earthquake toppled more than 500,000 structures. that's an aerial view for you. it's affected more than 2 million people and seriously damaged the country's economy. right now more than 300 people are dead and that number could rise dramatically. even though the quake was centered more than 300 miles from the chile's capital sa santia santiago, people there felt it and said it was powerful. >> at first i just opened my eyes and waited because, well, here in chile we're used to having mild earthquakes. but then it just wouldn't stop. so, we decided to get up with my boyfriend and just stand in the

door waiting for it to stop and we heard children crying. we were getting pretty upset and people just started pouring out of their apartments and going outside. >> the earthquake knocked out basic services to santiago including water, power and telephones. the state department says about 1,000 americans were in the earthquake, but none of them were seriously injured. the earthquake also touched off tsunamis that swamped parts of chile's central coast. one of the largest waves was nine feet high. it washed ashore near the quake's epicenter. on the island a huge wave killed six people there. the island's governor said at least 11 people are still missing. a family in new hampshire was connected to the earthquake in two ways causing them to worry for quite a while. things got frantic for sue because her brother-in-law was

working in chile and then the family returned to hawaii which was under a tsunami warning triggered by the earthquake. that's where their eldest daughter was camping on the beach. >> 30-foot waves and there my daughter would be sitting catching some sun rays and not be aware. >> we're happy to report neither family member was injured in the quake or the aftermath. we, of course, will have continuing earthquake coverage including dramatic pictures from our ireporters, first, we want to get you caught up on the other stories we're following. hundreds of people stacked seaworld stadium for the whale show. 1,000-pound dragged trainer dawn brancheau into the water.

>> it was great they moved forward and wish they would have said more about it and what was going to happen because, obviously, everyone there is anxious and curious to what the future is. >> it wasn't a happy atmosphere. we all stood up for the remembrance and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as seaworld pays tribute. the orca that killed her did not perform yesterday. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers crossed hoping their power will come back on today. it has been a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since that massive winter storm last week. as you see, some repair crews working there, they are now working 17-hour shifts, but toppled trees and power lines are slowing them down. hardest hit was new hampshire where about a quarter million people are without power. in allentown's almost every

single home lost power and most feel there is nothing they can do about it. >> it is a relief to see that someone is trying to get the work done anyways. >> okay, we'll be to your town in three days and, basically, as is says, bad news is better than no news but we're not getting any news because they can't figure where this is going to end. >> people are using generators and wood stoves to stay warm until power is back on. leftover ice from that storm has created new trouble in new york. ice broke through a glass atrium at the sony building in m manhatt manhattan. the city's fire department says ice and glass fell into the building's lobby area. police in memphis are looking for a man who shot and killed a mall security guard. authorities say the guard tried to break up a fight between two men at southland shopping mall on saturday. one of those men reportedly shot the guard in the chest. both men took off and some shoppers saw the whole thing unfold.

>> it's like watching tv in slow motion. you know what's going on and you're hearing the emotions from the people and everyone is helpless. they don't know if the two men would have shot each other or shot at each other and any of us could have been shot. >> certainly some scary moments inside the mall. the guard was pronounced dead at the hospital. a nobel prize winning group is asking for outside help with its global warming reports. the intergovernmental panel on climate change says it wants an independent review. the group is looking to calm recent criticism about its 2007 reports. critics found some errors in those reports. the ipcp says it's minor and doesn't impact its overall conclusions. day three for the search of a california teenager that is missing. one teen focused on the lake yesterday. the community effort to find chelsea king, seen here, has deeply touched her parents.

>> thank you so much for coming out and trying to find our daughter. >> you have no idea how overwhelming my heart is overflowing with all this support and all this love. and there's no words for it. >> up to 250 deputies, agents and volunteers are searching for the 17-year-old. king didn't come home after a run at a community park on thursday. the mayor of middletown, connecticut, says it was a fitting honor. yesterday people in the town remembered six men who died in an explosion at the clean energy systems power plant. a pipe and drum band played outside a church where a funeral mass was being held for the victims. the blast at the plant earlier this month also injured 20 people. the mayor says the community is devastated by the explosion and its aftermath. some california residence whose homes were threatened by floods and mudslides are breathing a sigh of relief

today. county officials ordered evacuation orders for more than 170 homes. the storm was weaker than expected. those homes are located under slopes where wildfires cleared out the trees. the area is now prone to floods and mudslides. it has been evacuated a half dozen times this winter alone. another u.s. success story from the olympics. american athletes do something that hasn't been done in more than 60 years. also ahead, starting tomorrow, travelers could see delays at one of the country's busiest airports and those delays could last for months.

training for the new york city triathlon is not the biggest challenge angie has faced. >> i was diagnosed with breast cancer last april and i was out of shape and when this challenge came along i thought it would be the perfect thing, not only to get myself back in shape again, but to show other people that they can get in shape, too. >> as you sort of have looked that challenge that lies in front of you, what are you most nervous about and most excited about? >> i'm excited because i think i'll be in really good condition. i think i'll feel really healthy. i think the swimming will be great. that's what i'm most worried about. i can swim, but i never really swam. >> it hasn't been as big a challenge as she anticipated either. with the help of a swimming trainer, she is getting more and more comfortable in the pool. >> every time i feel stronger

and i can go a little further before i rest. so, it's coming. >> our other participant meredith clark had her own concerns. >> of course, the huge possibility of crashing and burning on tv. >> but turns out, it's real life that presents the challenges. >> being in the office is difficult, especially in a newspaper office because we believe in eating and eating well and eating a lot. >> and schedules. >> the workouts themselves aren't really difficult. what i find hard is managing my time to fit the workouts in. >> but she's fitting it all in. walking around the parking lot at work. exercising with the help of a trainer. early morning kettle bell classes. she's even spinning on her own. for both triathletes, the journey ahead will be long, but doable. >> there's only 150 days left, so, it makes me kind of want to ramp up my efforts. >> i feel stronger all the time,

but i feel like once i can get this done, i can close that chapter and put that breast cancer behind me and i'll feel like it's over and i conquered it. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. we have amazing video of a very close call for a cop. take a look at this right here. in a split second he moves just in time right here to save himself. the officer was investigating a crash on i-75 in detroit. moments later the cop, there it is, again, noticed an out of control car headed stralt for him and jumped out of the way at the last second to avoid getting pinned to another car. amazingly, the officer walked away with only minor injuries. it took just seconds to bring down an omaha bridge that had crossed the missouri river since the 1930s. the veterans memorial bridge was demolished this week and chunks of it fell into the river and were fished out by cranes on

barges. a new $88 million bridge is going in its place. the new one should be ready by june just in time for the college world series in omaha. on the last weekend of olympic competition the usa men's bobsled team made history. joe carter has more on the record-setting day. >> good morning, susan. the four-men team called their bobsled the night train but during the day they wrote into the history books. finished in first place ending a 62-year gold meded drought. the last time they won gold, 1948. no other national olympic team has endured such a long wait between winning medals. the men's victory means the united states clinched the record for overall medals won at the winter games. this week should go down as the most thrilling week ever for olympian billy demong. then just hours after the race he popped the question to his

girlfriend, she said yes. friday he was on "today" show and then the olympic committee named him a flag bearer for tonight's closing ceremonies. what a week! >> ceremony when we all congregate in whistler at the u.s. ski house i asked joany, i said, do you think this will be too cheesy? no, go for it. i popped it and that was five minutes before i found out i was a flag bearer. as always, good things come in threes, i guess. great stories like that one and then also unfortunate stories like this one. russian snowboarder stanslav detnov. he is disqualified while he mistimes the opening of the start gate. tough break for him. that's a look at sports, i'm joe carter.

we're getting more pictures

of the devastating damage from the massive earthquake in chile. these are images captured by several of our ireporters. you can see a multi-story building just buckled in the earthquake. people are still walking through the neighborhoods with a sense of disbelief. the jolt brought down highways reducing them to piles of rubble. more than 3 million people were affected by this earthquake and the death toll of more than 300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with hln for extensive earthquake coverage. a horrible story out of florida. strangers helped a deputy save two kids whose mother allegedly tried to drown them. investigators say when the deputy responded to a single car crash, the mother got of the car holding her two kids and headed for a retention pond. police say she jumped in the water and held the children down. that is when two passersby helped the deputy pull them out. >> a tragedy was averted both to the actions of the deputy, as

well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger they didn't know, as well as to help our deputy. >> the 2-year-old and 9-month-old children weren't seriously injured. the woman was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evacuations. the town of john day, oregon, has a message for a white supremacist group, we don't want you here. stay out. people in the town are actively battling to keep the director of the area nations from buying property. mullein announced a week ago that he planned to move the group's headquarters to the town. that's when people living there sprung into action. >> we're pretty inclusive of everybody. if you want it live here and become part of the community, you're welcome to live here, as long as you're not spreading hate. >> businesses, threats from people and these are coming from people who don't want us there who are saying we're hate groups, that's more hateful than anything i would say to anybody. >> so far mullet has not been

able to find a real estate agent willing to help him find property there. hey, california, watch your mouth. the state assembly passed a resolution to establish cuss-free week. if the senate okays the bill next week, it will go into effect. a teenager started a no cussing club at his school in 2007. since then, no cussing clubs have popped in every state in 20 countries around the world. he says he sees a link between foul mouth and drug abuse and bullying. president bush has been out of the public eye since he left the white house and now he is talking about what he is doing these days. and this -- >> this place is a legend around here. they have everything. >> yes, they do. how some classic car parts that are hard to find ended up on sale.

chile's aftermath of a massive earthquake. how the country is coping and how the earthquake affected other countries, too. >> transformer blew and the rest has been just waiting for the power to come back on. >> the waiting game is on. he is one of many people who lost power after a huge snow storm in the northeast. one entire town ended up in the dark. an oregon town is banding together to keep a group of people from moving in. who may be coming and why the town says it doesn't want them there. you are watching hln on this

sunday, so good to see you, i'm susan hendricks. our top story today, the effects of chile's earthquake felt on the other side of the world. japan's port saw a tsunami more than three feet in height. there were no immediate reports of any damage, but it looks like the dangers of tsunamis from the chile quake has passed. this morning the pacific tsunami warning center canceled warnings for all countries. the earthquake also kicked up the surf in hawaii, but the waves weren't as big as officials first feared. state authorities triggered tsunami sirens yesterday and urged people living along the coast to evacuate. the warning touched off a massive run to grocery stores as people stocked up on everything from food to water but, thankfully, no giant waves hit the area. >> yeah, i think we've dodged a bullet, i think so. in fact, it's almost, it's

almost the best sort of tsunami you could possibly have. >> hawaii governor linda lingual said no damage was reported by any county. the scope of the damage in chile is so massive it's almost hard to believe. authorities say the earthquake toppled more than 500,000 structures. that's an aerial view for you. it's affected more than 2 million people and seriously damaged the country's economy. right now more than 300 people are dead and that number could rise dramatically. even though the quake was centered more than 300 miles from the chile's capital santiago, people there felt it and it was pretty powerful. >> at first i just opened my eyes and waited because, well, here in chile we're used to having mild earthquakes. but then it just wouldn't stop. so, we decided to get up with my

boyfriend and we heard children crying. we were getting pretty upset and people just started pouring out of their apartments and going outside. >> the earthquake knocked out basic services to santiago including water, power and telephones. the state department says about 1,000 americans were in the earthquake, but none of them were seriously injured. the earthquake also touched off tsunamis that swamped parts of chile's central coast. the usgs says one of the largest waves was nine feet high. it washed ashore near the quake's epicenter. on the island a huge wave killed six people there. the island's governor said at least 11 people are still missing. we, of course, will have continuing earthquake coverage, including dramatic pictures from our ireporters. but, first, we want to get you caught up on the other stories we're following.

hundreds of people packed seaworld stadium for the first killer whale show since the trainer was killed by one of the orcas. the trainers are not being allowed back in the water with the animals until a review of that incident is complete. >> i think it was great that they moved forward. i wish they would have said more about it what happened and what was going to happen because everyone there is anxious and curious about what the future is. >> not a happy atmosphere. we all stood up for the remembrance and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as seaworld paid tribute to dawn brancheau. the orca that killed her did not perform yesterday. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers crossed, hoping their power will come back on today. it has been a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since that massive winter storm last

week. as you see, some repair crews working there, they are now working 17-hour shifts, but toppled trees and powerlines are slowing them down. hardest hit was new hampshire, where about a quarter million people are without power. in allentown's almost every single home lost power and most feel there is nothing they can do about it. >> it's a relief to actually see that someone will try to get some of the work done anyways. >> they haven't been, okay, we'll be to your town in three days. bad news is better than no news but we're not getting any news. >> people in allenestown are using generators and wood stoves to stay warm until power is back on. leftover ice from that storm has created new trouble in new york. ice broke through a glass atrium at the sony building in manhattan. it happened last night. ten people were injured. the injuries were not serious.

ice and glass fell into the building's lobby area. a nobel-prize winning group is asking for help with its outside global warming reports. the panel on climate change says it wants an independent review. the group is looking to calm recent criticism about its 2007 reports. critics found some errors in those reports. the errors are minor and don't impact its overall conclusions about global warming. the mayor of middletown, connecticut, says it was a fitting honor. yesterday people in the town remembered six men who died in an explosion at the clean energy systems power plant. a pipe and drum band played outside a church where a funeral mass was being held for the victims. the blast at the plant earlier this month also injured 20 people. mayor jewel yawno said the community is devastated by the explosion and its aftermath. some california residence whose homes were threatened by

floods and mudslides are breathing a sigh of relief today. county officials issued evacuation orders for more than 170 homes. the storm was weaker than expected. those homes are located under slopes where wildfires cleared out the trees. the area is now prone to floods and mudslides. it has been evacuated a half dozen times this winter alone. another u.s. success story from the olympics. american athletes do something that hasn't been done in more than 60 years. also ahead, starting tomorrow, travelers could see delays at one of the country's busiest airports and those delays could last for months. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider with a look at your cold and flu report for sunday. most of the country reporting sporaddict outbreaks of the flu. we're watching for more regional outbreaks across the southeast, including parts of georgia. as we look for local activity,

you'll see that in louisiana. most of the country doing well. if you're looking for a place not getting any reports of flu the mountain west into places like montana where, hopefully, everybody is feeling good. that is a look at your cold and flu report for sunday, i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider.

we have amazing video of a very close call for a cop. take a look at this right here. in a split second he moves just in time, right here, to save himself. the officer was investigating a crash on i-75 in detroit moments

later the cop, there it is again. noticed an out of control car headed straight for him and jumped out of the way at the last second to avoid getting pinned to another car. amazingly, the officer walked away with only minor injuries. let the headaches begin. departures may get slower at one of the major airports starting tomorrow. jfk is shutting down its busiest runway for reconstruction. the four-month project is expected to reduce delays in the long run by more than 10,000 hours per year. jfk was ranked 22nd among the nation's 31 major airports in terms of on-time departures. some airline executives hoping the impact on travelers will be minimal. but travelers will definitely feel an impact. let's talk olympics. team usa and team canada face off again, this time for all the marbles and joe carter has more on today's gold medal game. >> team usa is the surprise

cinderella story. aunbeaten throughout the winter games against team canada. a squad loaded with nhl stars. team usa beat team canada last week but this time a gold medal is at stake. >> we came here with a focus on winning a gold medal and, you know, we've given ourselves an opportunity at that now. >> when we came here you look at every team and everieme out there has all-stars on it, super stars and then you have our team, a lot of young guys and just guys who go out and work hard every shift. >> well, the winter games opened with heavy hearts after a georgian luger death. an alpine skier will be the only athlete representing her country of chile in tonight's closing ceremonies, but she did learn friends and family are safe. bode miller going for olympic history saturday but came up short after missing a gate seven seconds into his

final slalom run. he walks away from vancouver with three medals in five events. we head into the final day of the 2010 winter games, the united states guaranteed 37 medals after today's men's hockey game and canada will finish with at least 13 gold medals. both are new records for both countries at winter olympics. danica patrick's third race in the nascar series ended with a bang saturday after she started in the back she moved her way all the way up to third place but then she wrecked her car. this time the crash was not her fault. danica now goes back to the indy car circuit for four month before she returns to nascar in june for ten more races. that's a look at sports, i'm joe carter. remember those ads that said milk builds stronger bones and healthier bodies. well, we're going beyond the surface this morning to look at another way you can build up your skeleton.

>> milk has often been promoted as doing a body good and that's because it is high in calcium. but the best way to get your nutrients is always through food. it's not only calcium that is important, you have to have vitamin d in your diet. without the vitamin d you can't absorb the calcium. certain food sources that are horrific for food health include dark, leafy greens such as brusal sprouts, cale and collared greens and any sort of fruit or vegetable is helpful for your bones and you need an exercise component in order to build bones. building bones stems from weight-bearing exercise, as well as resistance-based exercise. the exercise component is the stress you put on your bones to help fortify them.

we are getting more pictures of the devastating damage from the massive earthquake in chile. we want to share them with you. these are images captured by several of our ireporters. you can see a multi-story

buildings just buckled in the earthquake. people are still walking through the neighborhoods with a sense of disbelief. the jolt brought down highways reducing them to piles of rubble. more than 3 million people were affected by this earthquake and the death toll of more than 300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with hln for extensive earthquake coverage. a horrible story out of florida. strangers helped a deputy save two kids whose mother allegedly tried to drown them. investigators say when the deputy responded to a single car crash the mother got of the car holding her two kids and headed for a retention pond. police say she jumped in the water and held the children down. that is when two passersby helped the deputy pull them out. >> basically, a tragedy was averted due to the actions of the deputy, as well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger, who they didn't know, as well as to help our deputy. >> the 2-year-old and 9-month-old children weren't seriously injured.

the woman was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluations. she could face attempted murder charges. hey, california, watch your mouth. the state assembly passed a resolution this week to establish cuss-free week. if the senate okays the bill next week it would go into effect immediately. it is meant to promote greater harmony and connectedness and inspired by pasadena teenager mckay hatch. he started a no cussing club at his school in 2007 and since then they popped up in 20 countries around the world. a link between foul mouth and drug use and bullying. slavery was once an intragle part of the south, but many people don't know how important it was to new york city. now, a new memorial center issic looing to change all that. the memorial opened yesterday. it commemorates about 15,000 african slaves and their descendants who helped make new

york the commercial capital. many of the slaves worked without pay and are buried under manhattan. brand recognition is a problem that many small businesses face, but product recognition is an even bigger hurdle, you can say. christine romans has one person up for the challenge in this week's turn around. >> if you don't know what a pitzel is, you are not alone. these waffle-shaped italian cookies are hardly a household name, but stan is trying to change that. his business, little pepis makes them and only pizzelle in this modest factory. >> our biggest challenge is getting people to know what a pizzelle is. even though the product has been around since 700 bc. >> reporter: he bought the

business in 2003 from the aoriginaori original owner. little pepi's had a small, but loyal following. sales began to slow. >> when i bought the business there were two big problems. glaring problems that i saw. number one was the building was being taken for eminent domain. the second problem was the equipment was 25 years old, and all electric, and very labor intensive process. >> the solution? he moved the company to a larger suburban facility, and made a big purchase, a giant waffle stick oven made specifically to bake these. he went from baking four days a week for eight hours, to baking three days a week for ten hours. he was able to keep almost all of his employees.

>> that is the one unique thing about the business. we are like a family here. >> they are sold mainly in super markets in the northeast, and distrue bugs areas. they were off 12% last year. but an appearance on the "rachel ray" show gave them a boost. >> we get e-mails all the time, your product is just like my grandmother's, and we embrace those. and that's why our history will help us to go forward. >> christine romans, cnn, new york. former president bush has been mostly out of the public eye since he left the white house. now he is talking about what he is doing these days. also this. >> this place is a legend around here because they have everything.

>> yes, they do. plastic car parts are really hard to find.

chile is reeling in the aftermath of a massive earthquake, how the country is coping and how the earthquake affected other countries, too. >> and the rest has been waiting for the power to come back on. >> the waiting game is on. he is one of many people that lost power after a huge snowstorm in the northeast. one entire town ended up in the dark. and an oregon town is banning together to keep a group of people from moving in. who may be coming and why the

town says it doesn't want them there? you are watching "hln" on this sunday. so good to see you. i'm susan hendricks. our top story, the effects of chile's earthquake are felt on the other side of the world. waved spawned by the quake hit japan's coast today. kyung lah with our sister network cnn reports japan sue a tsunami more than three feet in height. there were no immediate reports of damage, but it looks like the danger of tsunamis from the chile quake has passed. this morning the pacific tsunami warning center canceled warnings for all countries. the earthquake also kicked up the surf in hawaii. but the waves weren't nearly as big as officials first feared. state authorities triggered tsunami sirens yesterday and urging people living along the coast to evacuate. the warning touched off a massive run on local grocery stores as people stocked up on everything from food, also water. but thankfully no giant waves hit the area. >> yeah, i think we've dodged a bullet. yes, i think so. in fact, it's almost -- it's almost the best sort of tsunami

you could possibly have. >> hawaii governor linda lingle said no damage was reported by any county. the scope of the damage in chile is so massive it's almost hard to believe. authorities say the earthquake toppled more than 500,000 structures. that's an aerial view for you. it has affected more than 2 million people and seriously damaged the country's economy. right now more than 300 people are dead, but that number could rise dramatically. even though the quake was centered more than 200 miles from chile's capital of santiago, people living there say they felt it, and it was pretty powerful. >> at first i just opened my eyes and waited because, well, here in chile, we're kind of used to having mild earthquakes pretty frequently. but then it just wouldn't stop. so we decided to get up with my boyfriend and just hid by the door, just waiting for it to stop. we just heard all around the

neighborhood glasses crashing down, children crying, women getting pretty upset. and people just started pouring out of their apartments and going outside. >> well, the earthquake knocked out basic services to santiago including water, power and telephones. the state department says about 1,000 americans were in the earthquake, but none of them were seriously injured. the earthquake also touched off tsunamis that swamped parts of chile's central coast. the usgs says one of the largest waves was nine feet high. it washed ashore near the quake's epicenter. on the island of juan fernandez which is 400 miles off chile's coast, a huge wave killed six people there. the island's governor says 11 people are still missing. a family in new hampshire was connected to the earthquake in two ways, causing them to worry for quite a while. things got frantic for sue seidner because her brother-in-law was working in chile.

then the family worry turned to hawaii which was under a tsunami warning triggered by the deadly earthquake. that is where their eldest daughter was camping on the beach. >> all i could think of were 30-foot waves crashing across some hawaiian beach and there my daughter would be sitting, catching some sun rays and not be aware. >> we're happy to report neither family member was injured in the quake or the aftermath. we, of course, will have continuing earthquake coverage including dramatic pictures from our i-reporters. but first, we want to get you caught up on the other stories we're following. hundreds of people packed seaworld stadium for the first killer whale show since a trainer was killed by one of the or kaus. you may remember a 12,000-pound orca pulled dawn brancheau under water by her ponytail. the trainers are not being allowed back in the water with the animals until a review of

that incident is complete. >> i think it was great that they moved forward. i wish they would have said a little bit more, actually, about it what happened and what was going to happen because obviously everyone there is anxious and curious as to, you know, what the future is. >> it wasn't a happy atmosphere. we all stood up with a remembrance, and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as seaworld paid tribute to dawn brancheau. the orca that killed her did not perform yesterday. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers crossed, hoping their power will come back on today. it has been a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since that massive winter storm last week. as you see, some repair crews working there. they are now working 17-hour shifts. but toppled trees and power lines are slowing them down. hardest hit was new hampshire where about 250,000 people are without power. in allentown, most people lost power and they feel there is nothing they can do about it. >> it's a relief to actually see

that someone's going to actually try and get some of the work done anyways. >> they haven't been able to give us, okay, we'll be to your town in three days. and basically, as i said, bad news is better than no news but we're not getting any news because they can't figure out where this is going to end. >> people in allentown are using generators and wood stoves to stay warm until power is back on. leftover ice from that storm has created new trouble in new york. ice broke through a glass atrium at the sony building in manhattan last night. ten people were injured. the injuries were not serious. the city's fire department says ice and glass fell into the building's lobby area. a group is looking to calm recent criticism about the 2007 reports. critics found errors in the reports, and the ipcc says the

errors are minor and don't impact the conclusions about global warning. yesterday, people in the town remembered six men that died in an explosion at the clean energy systems power plant. a pipe and drum band played outside a church where a funeral mass was being held for the victims. the blast of the plant injured 20 people. the major says the community is devastated by the explosion and the aftermath. california residents whose homes were threatened by mudslides are breathing a sigh of relief today. county officials had evacuation orders for more than 170 homes. and the storm was weaker than expected. the area is prone to mudslides. it has been evacuated at least a

half dozen times this month alone. american athletes do something that has not been done in more than 60 years. also ahead, starting tomorrow, travelers could see delays at one of the busiest airports, and those delays could last for months.

we have amazing video of a close call for a cop that will look at this here. in a split second he moves just in time, right here, to save himself. the officer was investigating a crash on i-75 in detroit. moments later, the cop -- there it is again. he noticed an out-of-control car coming at him. amazingly the officer walked away with only minor injuries. it took seconds to bring down an omaha bridge that crossed the missouri river since the 1930s. the bridge was demolished this

week. chunks of it fell into the river and were fished out by cranes and barged. a new bridge is going in it's place -- there it goes again. and another one should be ready in june, just in time for the college series in omaha. and city leaders in illinois are bringing back a so-called wheel tax. people will have to pay $20 per vehicle for every car they own that this belleville is trying to fill a hole in the budget. >> i don't understand it. how can they raise taxes and take more money and money and money out of people's checks when they are barely making it as it is. >> if it's going to save jobs and help out the city, well, then, i am all for it. >> you are getting both sides there. the tax was in place from 1920 to 1995, and it goes back into effect in may. the city hopes to raise about

$650,000. let the headaches begin. departchures may get slower at one of the major airports today. jfk is shutting down one of the busiest runways for construction. jfk was ranked 22nd among the nation's 31 airports in terms of on time departures. some airline executives are hoping the impact on travelers will be minimal, but a veteran flight controller says travelers will definitely feel an impact. the state of maryland may recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. he said his opinion was meant to guide the courts and not the law of the state. >> much like a license drivers. people are allowed to driver

with a pennsylvania driver's license. >> currently same-sex couples cannot get married in maryland. many lawmakers say this is not a good idea. >> if it comes here there will be pandemonium, because there are many, many persons against this that is not saying anything about it. everywhere i go people are telling me they don't want this. on the last weekend of olympic competition, the usa men's bobsled team made history. the four-men team call their bobsled the night train. the last sled to go down the mountain and finished in first place ending a 62-year gold medical drought. 1948 was the last the usa team

won the gold here. now the men's victory also means the united states clinched the record for overall medals won at the winter games. this week should go down as the most thrilling week ever for olympian, billy demong. hours after the race he popped the question to his girlfriend and she said yes, and friday he was on the "today" show, and then he was a flag barrier for tonight's closing ceremonies. what a week! >> when we all congregate at the u.s. ski team house in whistler, i asked john, do you think it's too cheesy, and he said no, go for it, and then i popped the question, and then five minutes later i found out i would be the flag barrier, and so good things come in threes, so it is said. >> the russian snowboarder, if

he wins this race he gets to stand on the medal podium. instead he is disqualified because he missed the opening of the start gate. tough break for him. that's a look at sports. i am joe carter. most people are happy to see new neighbors move in, but one small town is doing everything it can to keep one group from moving there. >> they can try. they are more than welcome to try, but they will have a fight. >> the alleged hate group the towns people say they want to keep out. you are watching hln.

we are getting more pictures of the devastating damage from the massive earthquake in chile. we want to share them with you. these are images captured by several of our i-reporters. you can see a multi-story's building's just buckled in the earthquake. people are still walking through the neighborhoods with a sense of disbelief. the jolt brought down highways reducing them to piles of rubble. more than 3 million people were affected by this earthquake and

the death toll of more than 300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with hln for extensive earthquake coverage. a horrible story out of florida. strangers helped a deputy save two kids whose mother allegedly tried to drown them. investigators say when the deputy responded to a single-car crash, the mother got out of the car holding her two kids and headed for a retention pond. police say she jumped in the water and held the children down. that is when two passers-by helped the deputy pull them out. >> basically a tragedy was averted due to the actions of both the deputy as well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger who they didn't know as well as to help our deputy. >> the 2-year-old and 9-month-old children weren't seriously injured. the woman was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluations. she could face attempted murder charges. could the democratic party

be losing the support of the tech savvy millennial generation? a new poll shows their support for the democratic party is now dropping. according to the research center, fewer 18 to 29-year-olds identify themselves as democrats, and 62% did in 2008, and their approval of the president is also down. dropping from 73% a year ago to 57% this month. the number of those that lean toward the republican party is up 10%. the town of john day, oregon has a message for a white supremacist group -- we don't want you here. stay out. people in the town are actively battling to keep paul r. mullet, the self-professed director of the aryan nations to keep from buying property in john day. he announced he was moving his headquarters to the town. that's when people living there sprung into action. >> we're pretty inclusive of everybody. if you want to live here and become part of the community,

you are welcome to live here as long as you are not spreading hate. >> businesses. threats from people. and these are coming from people who don't want us there who are saying we're hate groups. that's more hateful than anything i would say to anybody. >> so far, mullet has not been able to find a real estate agent willing to help him find property there. hey, california, watch your mouth. the state assembly has a bill prevent to promote greater harmony and was inspired by a pasadena teenager. he started a no cussing club at his school in 2007, and since then no cussing clubs popped up in every state and 20 countries around the world. he says he sees a link between foul-mouthed incivility and behavior like drug use and

bullying. marie osmond says she is devastated over the death of her son. entertainment tonights is reporting that he jumped to his death from his apartment building. he left a note that referred to a life-long battle with depression. slavery was once part of the south, but many people don't know how important it was to new york city. a new memorial center is looking to change that. it opened yesterday. it kau memorandum rates about 15,000 african slaves and their descendants that worked without pay and were buried under what is manhattan today. former president bush has been mostly out of the public eye since he left the white house. now he is talking about what he is doing these days.

also this -- >> this place obviously is a legend around here, because they have everything.

nichl chile is reeling in the aftermath of the earthquake. >> the rest has been waiting for the power to come back on. >> the waiting game is on. he is one of many people that lost power after a huge snowstorm in the northeast. one entire town ended up in the dark. and a oregon town doesn't

want somebody there. so good to see you. i am susan hendricks. we report japan's port saw a tsunami more than 3 feet in height. it looks like the danger of the tsunami's from the chile quake has passed. they canceled the tsunami warnings for all countries. the waves were not nearly as officials first feared. the tsunami warning signaled sirens yesterday. the warning touched off a massive run on local grocery stores as people stocked up on food and also water. but thankfully no giant waves hit the area. >> yeah, i think we dodged a bullet. i think so. in fact, it's almost the best

sort of tsunami you could possibly have. >> hawaii governor says no damage was reported by any county. the scope of the damage in chile is so massive it's almost hard to believe. authorities say the earthquake toppled more than 500,000 structures. that's an aerial view for you. and it affected more than 2 million people, and damaged the country's economy. right now more than 500 people are dead, but that number could rise dramatically. people living there say they felt it and it was pretty powerful. >> at first i just opened my eyes and waited because, well, here in chile we are kind of used to having mild earthquakes frequently, but then it wouldn't stop. we decided to get up with my boyfriend, and just hid beneath

the door waiting for it to stop. we heard all around the neighborhood, glasses crashing down and children crying and women getting pretty upset. people just started pouring out their apartments and going outside. >> the earthquake knocked out basic services to santiago, including water and power and telephones. the earthquake also touched off tsunamis that swamped parts of chile's central coast. one of the largest waves was 9 feet high. it washed ashore near the quake's epicenter. and off the chile coast, a huge wave killed six people there. the island's governor says at least 11 people are still missing. a family in new hampshire was connected to the earthquake in two ways causing them to worry for white a while.

things got frantic because her brother-in-law was working in chile, and then the family worry turned to hawaii, which was under a tsunami warning triggered by the deadly earthquake. that's where their daughter was camping on the beach. >> i was thinking there my daughter would be sitting catching sun rays, and not be aware. >> we are happy to report neither family members was injured in the quake or aftermath. we will have continuing other quake coverage, including dramatic coverage from the i-reporters. first let's get you caught up on the other stories we are following. hundreds of people packed in for seaworld's killer whale show. a trainer was dragged under water and the trainers are not being allowed back in the water

with the manimals until investigation is complete. >> we are anxious and kerr use as to what the future was. >> it was not a happy atmosphere, and we all stood up for the remembrance, and we cheered the trainers. >> emotions ran high as they paid tribute to the trainer. folks across the northeast are keeping their fingers crosses hoping their power will come back on today. it has been a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the dark since the massive winter storm last week. as you see, some repair crews working there are now working 17 hour shifts. but toppled trees and power lines are slowing them down. new hampshire, a quarter million people are without power. allens town, almost every single

home lost power and most feel there is nothing they can do about it. >> it's a relief to see that somebody is trying to get some of the work done anyways. >> they have not said, okay, we will be to your town in three days, but we are not getting any news because they cannot figure out where it's going to end. >> they are using generators and wood stoves to stay warm until the power is back on. leftover ice from the storm created new trouble in new york. ice broke through a glass atrium at the sony building in manhattan last night. the series were not series. ice and glass fell into the building's lobby area. police in fmemphis are looking for a man that shot and killed a security guard. the security guard try to break up a fight, and one of the men reportedly shot the guard in the chest. both men took off and some

shoppers saw the whole thing unfold. >> it was like watching tv in slow motion. you snow what is going on, and you are hearing the emotions from the people, and everybody is helpless. they don't know if the two men would have shot each other or shot at each other, and any of us could have been shot. >> certainly scary moments inside of the mall. the guard was pronounced dead at the hospital. a nobel prize winning group is asking for outside help with the global warming reports. the enter government panel on climate change says it wants an independent review. errors in t reports, and the ipcc says the errors are minor and don't impact the overall conclusions about global warming. another u.s. success story from the olympics. american athletes do something that has not been done in more than 60 years. also ahead, starting tomorrow travelers could see delays at one of the country's busiest airports and those

delays could last for months.

we have amazing video of a close call for a cop. look at this right here. in a slit second me moves just in time, right here, to save

himself. the officer was investigating a crash on i-75 in detroit, moments later, the cop noticed an out-of-control car and jumped out of the way at the last second, and the officer walked away with only minor injuries. let the delays begin. jfk is shutting down the busiest run way for construction. it's expected to reduce delays in the long run by reducing 10,000 hours a year. some airline executives are hoping the impact on travelers will be minimal, but a veteran air flight controller says travelers will definitely feel an impact. and this time it's for all

the marbles. today joe has more on the gold medal game. >> and the heavy favorite, team canada. and team usa beat canada last week, but this time a gold medal is at stake. >> we came here with a focus on winning a gold medal, and we have given ourselves an opportunity at that now. >> you look at every team, and every team out there has got all stars on it, super stars, and then you have our team, a lot of young guys, and just guys who go out and work hard every shift. >> the winter games open with heavy hearts after an olympic luger died, and now the only athlete representing her country of chile in tonight's closing

ceremonies, but she did learn her family and friends are safe. and then a disappointeding finish for miller, but he walks away from vancouver with three medals in five events. and so united states guaranteed 37 medals after today's men's hockey game, and canada will finish with at least 13 gold meda medals, and both are new records for each country at the winter olympics. and danica started to the back and moved up to third place, but then she wrecked her car. this time the crash was not her fault. danica now goes back to the indy car circuit for three months. that's a look at sports.

we're getting more pictures of the devastating damage from the massive earthquake in chile. we want to share them with you. these are images captured by several of our i-reporters.

can you see the multistory buildings buckled in the earthquake. people are still walking through the neighborhoods with the sense of disbelief. more than 3 million people were affected by the earthquake and the death toll of more than 300 is expected to keep climbing. stay with hln for extensive earthquake coverage. a horrible story out of florida. investigators say when the deputy responded to a single-car crash, the mother got out of the car holding her two kids and headed for a retention pond. police say she jumped in the water and held the children down, and that's when two passers by helped the deputy pull them out. >> basically a tragedy was averted through the actions of the deputy as well as the citizens. they came to help a stranger they didn't know as well as to help our deputy. >> the children were not

seriously injured. the mother was taken to the hospital for psych evaluations, and she could face attempted murder charges. people in one town are actively battling to keep the self professed national director of the air yan nations. >> we are inclusive of everybody. you are welcome to live here as long as you are not spreading hate. >> threats from people, and these are coming from people that don't want us there who are saying that we are hate groups, and that's more hateful than anything that i would say to anybody. >> so far mullet has not been able to find a real estate agent willing to help him find property there. israel's defense minister is calling for new sanctions

against iran. they say they are necessary to stop iran's nuclear ambitions. israel and many other countries accuse iran of building nuclear weapons, which iran denies. iraq talked about the recent gold stone report that accused israel and hamas of war crimes. >> i would like to say something. i think that every seven years of suffering thousands of rockets, and terrorizing our civilians on the street, israel had the right and the duty to respond, and the report is biassed and distorteded and totally unexplainable in my judgment. >> his report says that? >> yeah. between the perpetrators of

terror and the victims and that's to hezbollah. they are using civilian population as human shields. >> the report by the south african judge investigated last year's conflict in gaza. believe it or not, the government of indonesia is considering a plan to place tigers in private homes. we take a look at this unusual eco solution. >> for $100,000 deposit, ordinary citizens would be allowed to care for the critically endangered wildcats in their own backyard as long as it's one-tenth a size of a football field.

>> translator: a lot of businessmen and top officialman have tigers, and we hope this program will help to eradicate poaching, because a lot of people want to have tigers as pets, but because it's illegal, they go and alone. illegal poaching and an 80% loss of tiger habitat in sumatra has caused their numbers in the wild to dwindle down to a few hundred. at the hospital and the park we mead uda and vida month and a half old brothers. uda is the devilish one and loves to gnaw on things. >> these guys look like they would make adorable pets right now, but they're not going stay this small or this cuddly for long. officials are saying they do believe that this program will be successful because it's based on a similar initiative that they launched earlier for the balinese bird on the verge for

extinction. caring for a bird the size of a pigeon and caring for a tiger is want exact leet same thing. >> our thanks to arwa damon. for more on this tiger story and other important environmental news you might be interested in, just go to our website, cnn.com/ecosolutions. former president bush has been mostly out of the public eye since he left the white house. he talks about what he's been doing these days. also this -- >> this place is a legend around here. classic car parts that are hard to find ended up on sale.