crazy. >> in the case of phuket people had no way of knowing. my manager was on the beach in phuket and the folks on the beach had no idea it was coming. knew the earthquake was coming but it receded out so far people began running down to it, running to the waves just before it happened and he saved one child and was an able to save another child. those of us in the first world have no idea the effect of that earthquake, the photos on tv did no justice to it. >> devastation i think is often like that you sit there and you could spend the entire time reporting it saying, the pictures you're seeing are not close at all to how bad this is. it's incredible. >> for the best here. >> we'll keep watching and tell everybody as we follow. it'll be interesting to see if the 8.1 that kathy was reporting after the 8.6 original report was a new earthquake or was that an aftershock. we'll keep watching it for you. >>> other story we're watching, of course, is the latest in what is happening in george zimmerman/trayvon martin case. big question today, where i

the same reaction in phuket on thailand's west coast. locals guiding holidaymakers to safety. they've heard the sirens, followed -- lessons have been learned. today's earthquake was hugely powerful, felt as far away as bangkok and southern india. so why no tsunami this time? in 2004, the one tectonic plate slipped beneath another, thus placing a large volume of water. today's earthquake was lateral, to play its rubbing against each other violently. but less likely to form huge waves. nevertheless, experts say that the decision to issue an alert was justified. >> when they get one, they have no idea what kind of earthquake victims. we found this out quite recently. when you analyze the data arriving all over the world, you can find out what kind of earthquake it was, what the mechanism was. but when the warnings go out, we have no idea of that. >> no room for complacency. just help for those who could not help themselves, increasingly urgent warning, a desperate prayer, and this time tragedy avoided. >> the u.s. government is suing the apple and a number of book publishers over

tourists and people on the island of phuket, thailand also felt it. >> everything was shaky, some windowsthing like that. a little shaky. just came out of the house, everybody. everybody in the street was out there. kind of like a busy scene. >> experts say today's quake was a lateral quake, which reduce the possibility of a destructive tsunami. >>> decision 2012. even though the calendar says april, the fall campaign son right now. mitt romney is now going after president obama, and the topic is women. for the second straight day, romney campaigned at a female-owned work site and denounced democrats for saying his party is wage aguiar on women. romney's own polls show he is not campaigning strongly with women voters. president obama's campaign is capitalizing on that with a web ad. >> do i believe supreme court should overturn roe v. wade? >> planned parenthood. we're going to get rid of that. >> 92.3% of all the jobs lost during the obama years have been lost by women. 92.3%. >> and speaking of that statistic, the bureau of labor statistics disagrees with governor romney, saying it's ab

phuket airport is shut according to what we hear. along with some of the other countries around the region all the way down to australia. remains to be seen whether the tremors will be felt as far as way as alaska or even hawaii. which was the case in 2004 again. a couple of seismologists, tsunami experts have said they had seen seemed to suggest that the seismic movement were horizontal and the depth was not as shallow as what we had thought. the depth here is quite interesting. based on my understanding, the analogy is sort of similar. if you have a rock and drop it in a bucket of water, if it's shall yeo, you see a lot of movement. the deeper it is, in fact, there is less damage. but according to what some of the experts have told us, 33 kilometers is actually hi not that shallow, and the fact that we saw hor zone tall movements instead of vertical movement probably means there might be less damage. that said, we did hear from various local authorities that they saw about 17 inches of waves moving toward banda aceh. it's uncertain

also tremors being reported off the resort island of phuket in thailand.more aftershocks being reported. in fact, to the scale of 6.5. the original tremor registered lower, slightly scaled down to 8.7 from the original estimate of 8.9. what we do know is rescue teams are being dispatched to banda aceh. and so far banda aceh ports remain open and no damage after the quake, but we don't have any idea, assessment, of whether there are casualties or deaths from this interest e more measuring 8.7 in indonesia. seems to be pretty much regionwide if the entire indian ocean. we'll continue to watch this breaking news story and company you updated. remember, no market impact given that indonesian markets had already shot by the time this news developed. currently the capital of the country, it is about 4:42. elsewhere around asia we're approaching early evening hours, so we'll continue to watch this. currently it could have sizeable impact on the equity markets especially around places like indones indonesia, thailand, as well. guys, let me send it back over to you

and thailand -- thailand where it forced doctors, nurses, and patients to evacuate a hospital in phuketthe u.s. pacific warning center cancelled the tsunami watch hours later saying the readings indicated the threat diminished. david piper, fox news. >>> we're following breaking news out of poolesville, maryland and those are live pictures now where can you see a tanker truck is on the side and that is blocking part of route 28, near ferry's road. you will need to find other way to get around. can you see the tanker truck is spilled over and looks like it was carrying a liquid that may be there on the roadway and that is blocking both lanes of traffic there and we're not sure how far away it is from white's ferry. again, this is white's ferry road at darns town road. we're going to stay on top of this and bring you the latest information. no word on any injuries or how this accident happened. we'll have more information when we come back. come back. . >>> a johnson & johnson subsid areay is facing a $1 million fine. should the risk associateed with taking a certain antipsychotic drug, w

tourists and people on the island of phuket, thailand, also felt it. >> everything was shaky. some windows, shaky. just came out of the house, everybody. everybody was out there. and kind of like a dizzy feeling. >> experts say today's quake was a lateral quake, which reduced the chance of a destructive tsunami. >>> still ahead at 6:00, a robot showcase that doubles as a job fair. if you're looking for work, this could be your future. >>> and using chips to fight cancer. silicon technology making its way into health care. >>> and in the last few minutes, we've been watching some hail around alamo and danville. and now in the south bay we're watching a cel moving away from the santa cruz mountains, now on the approach to willow glen, perhaps dropping some hail as well. speaking of the forecast tonight, look for increasing rain approaching tomorrow morning's commute, and a chance for more afternoon thundershowers. we'll talk about it in your full forecast, coming up. [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar, on december 21st polar shifts will reverse the earth's grav

now, aceh was the most badly affected, and this is phuket, which is a tourist area, of course, in thailandhe indian ocean area in that part of the ocean in 700 years. >> what has changed since then? >> a lot has changed. you've got -- the biggest change let's talk about is the early warning system that's now being put in. when this happened in 2004, the first people knew about it was when the waters went out and that precipitated the wave coming in. millions and millions and millions of dollars have been spent putting in new infrastructure in aceh, new roads, new buildings. indonesia, unlike some of the other countries, opened up the doors to international aid, and that has really helped. the place has not just been rebuilt. people seem happier there now than they were before. one of the reasons for that is that there had been a 30-year civil war going on there. and this basically when this all happened in aceh, everyone just lost the will to fight. eight months later they did a peace deal. there's now peace there. aceh has really come back. there's tourism. the locals there who lived a ba

tourists in places like phuket and other places in thailand and sri lanka are allowed to go back to beaches and enjoy their vacation. >> i hope it remains there are no serious injuries. thank you, rob. >>> to the world of politics now. consider this addition by subtraction. republican front runner mitt romney inches closer to the nomination with rick santorum's decision to quit the race. >> i know a lot of folks will write and maybe those at the white house game over but this game is long, long, long way from over. >> santorum's departure may not be a game changer. he was already a very distant second behind romney but it may be romney's last obstacle. in the gop horse race republican confidence is weaker for the two remaining challengers. newt gingrich and ron paul. together their numbers barely pass santorum's. paul steinhauser is in washington to talk about what's next for mitt romney. of course romney's focus is on obama and november. and the gloves are off. i do find it actually we're going to play this sound bite from romney surrogate chris christie. >> we're turning into an entitleme

the airport in phuket, that big holiday island, has been closed. people have been advised to move to higher ground. sirens have been heard all along that coast. now the 8.7 quake was felt right across the region. tall buildings shaking here in bangkok, singapore, malaysia, 3:38 p.m. it was local time. the epicenter was 300 miles from banda aceh. that's the capital of aceh so devastated by that 2004 quake and was at a depth of 20 miles. now the good news is that experts are telling us it was a lateral quake. not a vertical quake. which means that the shaking went sideways, and means there's probably less danger of a tsunami. but, no one is taking any chances. memories here, of course, affected by that 2004 quake, a 9.1, which killed a quarter of a million people across the region. there are no immediate reports of casualties. there was panic in the streets of banda aceh when the quake happened. it was a huge quake. the indonesian president said he has no reports of casualties or damage yet. but these are early days. and he is sending an emergency te