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Pacific Nations Brace for Potential Tsunamis After 8.8 Magnitude Quake; Third Round of China-U.S. Negotiations Results in No Deal; India Overtakes China as No. 1 Smartphone Exporter to U.S.; U.S. to Sit Out COP30 Summit in Brazil. Aired 12-1a ET

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And we begin with nations around the Pacific bracing for potential tsunami waves after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia's far eastern coast a short time ago.

Tsunami warnings and advisories have been issued for countries including Japan. Russia, the Philippines and Indonesia, along with the entire U.S. West Coast and Hawaii. The 8.8 magnitude quake is the strongest since 2011, and it is tied for the six most powerful on record.

The first tsunami waves have already reached Alaska's western shores, though there is no word yet on their size or what impact they've had. Officials, meanwhile, in Santa Monica, in Southern California, they are closing the beaches and urging people to stay out of the water. Tsunami waves are expected to reach parts of the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii in the next hour or two.

Now this was the scene just a short time ago in Honolulu, Hawaii, as beachgoers there began to evacuate. Hawaii's governor says tsunami waves will, quote, "wrap around the islands," unquote, and that they will cause flooding. And he also urged the residents there to leave coastal zones right away and to expect flooding.

Our CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar is tracking developments. She joins us now.

And, Allison, a lot of people are concerned and watching right now. Just how destructive, how widespread will these tsunami waves be?

OK. Unfortunately, we are going to work on that communication link with Allison Chinchar. Apologies for the audio not working there.

Also standing by is CNN's Ivan Watson, who joins us from the studio here in Hong Kong, who has been monitoring the tsunami alerts that have been in effect for a while now.

And Ivan, again, the quake that triggered this, 8.8 magnitude, that was a major quake. So what kind of waves, what kind of tsunamis did it trigger?

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, yes. Very powerful earthquake off of Russia's eastern Kamchatka. That's a sparsely populated region, but it's dealing with both damage, anecdotal so far, from the actual powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake which toppled some buildings and did some damage. But then the subsequent tsunami. So we have seen that, for instance, there were waves that have flooded some of the coastal regions of Kamchatka and the state news agency described a three tsunami waves hitting an area of Severo-Kurilsk, and that the last one actually ripped some ships from their moorings and carried them out into the sea.

As for other parts of the Pacific Rim that are on alert right now, Japan has been ordering evacuations, for example, from its Hokkaido prefecture for some time. There have been sirens, tsunami sirens echoing, and we've seen images in one instance of people taking shelter on a rooftop. The authorities there not taking any chances right now, calling for evacuations of some coastal areas.

So far, the waves that have hit have been measured at a height of only around 30 centimeters, so no reports of major damage there. But again, the advisories and the alerts go much further than Japan and the authorities in Japan are saying there could be further waves that people have to be careful about. So that there are advisories and alerts in the U.S. territory, the island of Guam and the Mariana Islands.

Hawaii calling for evacuations of coastal areas. The governor of Hawaii recently gave a press conference, and he said, you do need to expect that there will be flooding on the islands and it will be imminent after the wave hits. It will not hit one beach, it will wrap around the islands. Important to note that the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center is issuing a warning that there could be one to three meter waves that could hit Chile, Costa Rica, Guam, Hawaii and Japan.

And we have alerts and advisories in Alaska, in the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. Northern California beaches are closed and some parts of California already preemptively as well.

We don't know what exactly is going to happen, but look back to 2011.

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That's when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake sent a tsunami into parts of Japan that killed more than 22,000 people and led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. And that is part of why authorities all around the Pacific Rim are taking the aftermath of this 8.8 magnitude earthquake so seriously -- Kristie.

STOUT: Yes. I wanted to ask you more about that because this event is indeed triggering memories of the 2011 earthquake that triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster. You know, this region, even Russia's far east, Japan, the entire Pacific Rim, it's the ring of fire after all, no stranger to earthquakes.

Just how prepared are people here, especially people along the coast, to respond to, and to, you know, react appropriately to tsunami warnings when they're issued?

WATSON: Right. Well, you know, when you travel around this region, you'll see, for instance, in different countries, signs, shelters for the threat of potential tsunami. So in the instance of the governor of Hawaii, he's saying, listen, don't panic, be calm. We are prepared for this. And in the cases of places like Hawaii and Guam, the west coast of North America and Central and South America, you have the advantage of hours to prepare for the possible tsunami. We're still, in some cases, hours away from the estimated arrival time of possible waves.

So that gives people time to prepare, time to move to higher ground. But it also, I think, highlights how seriously, again, the authorities take this risk. You had a historically powerful earthquake which can lead to unpredictable consequences as far away as an ocean away. And that's why everybody is taking this so, so seriously right now.

STOUT: Yes, everyone on alert right now.

Ivan Watson, monitoring the story for us. Thank you so much, Ivan.

Harold Tobin is the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. He's also the Paris endowed chair in seismology and geohazards at the University of Washington's Department of Earth and Space Sciences. He joins us now live from Seattle, Washington.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us here at this hour on CNN. Now this was a significant earthquake. It triggered widespread tsunami warnings.

What's your take right now? How potentially damaging is this event?

HAROLD TOBIN, DIRECTOR, PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEISMIC NETWORK: Yes. Well, the widespread warnings I think were certainly warranted. The size of the earthquake, as we just heard, is historic. It's certainly seems to be one of the 10 largest magnitude earthquakes that we've ever had on the planet. And it was a it was a what we call a subduction zone earthquake in a shallow position offshore. That means a tsunami is very likely.

We've seen some early reports that maybe it's not as bad as might be feared. And that's great. That should scale, meaning the size will also not be as bad in the other places that still haven't seen it yet. But having everybody on it, on advisory and on alert, is exactly the appropriate response.

STOUT: Yes, this was an 8.8 magnitude earthquake as you pointed out. It was a shallow earthquake. It took place in Russia's far east. 250 kilometers or 160 miles away from Hokkaido in Japan.

Just how much damage can just the quake do to this area?

TOBIN: Yes. So fortunately it's not a heavily populated region, but a quake of that magnitude is similar in scope to, you know, Japan's earthquake in 2011. It's a little bit smaller. That's good. The shaking to nearby regions would be very strong and very protracted. Strong shaking for minutes, potentially, in order to generate an earthquake of this size.

STOUT: Yes.

TOBIN: So that's not to be, you know, discounted at all. But the tsunami is probably the real major hazard from an event like this.

STOUT: Yes. Let's talk more, and dig in deeper in the tsunami in just a moment. But I just want to confirm one more point. Preliminary reports out of Russia say little to no damage caused by the quake.

Does that sound right to you? Does that track?

TOBIN: Yes. If so, that's excellent news. These offshore earthquakes sometimes have a characteristic of kind of directing their energy outward towards the ocean as opposed to back towards the nearby land. If that proves to be true for this event, then that will be a real win for everyone.

STOUT: OK. And now let's turn our focus to the tsunami waves, that the alerts are in effect. Hawaii is expecting the first wave readings to come in at the top of the hour.

You know, it's still very early, but just how widespread could the damage from these tsunami waves be?

TOBIN: I think what we see in Hawaii will be a test of what we might expect around the rest of the Pacific Rim, reaching Hawaii, obviously, as you said, sooner.

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You know, it could scale anywhere from really not any significant damage at all at long distances to significant damage in areas that are right at coastal levels. I mean, it's important to emphasize people don't need to panic if they're, you know, far away from the shoreline or more than, you know, a few meters above sea level for most distant regions. But right at the shoreline in harbors, marinas, coastal towns, that's where the hazard lies.

STOUT: And there is that really worrying comparison between this magnitude 8.8 earthquake and that massive earthquake in 2011, the one that triggered Fukushima.

How do these two seismic events compare, especially as we await this tsunami fallout?

TOBIN: Yes, it's early to know, but the characteristic, the earthquake type was very similar. The position relative to the shoreline and the depth was very similar. I think this one, the epicenter is at about 20 kilometers. An earthquake this big spreads over a large area of faults. So it really doesn't have just one depth. But that's similar to the Fukushima event. The magnitude is smaller. 8.8 doesn't sound much smaller than 9.0, but remember it's a logarithmic scale.

And what that means is it's only about half as big an earthquake in terms of the amplitude of them, the shaking strength of the waves. But that's still a very, very large earthquake. So I hope and of course the region is less, you know, much more sparsely populated, which is all good news from the point of view of what we can expect from the earthquake.

STOUT: Harold Tobin, we appreciate your insights here at this hour. Thank you so much. And take care.

You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. We're coming to you live from Hong Kong. And up next with those historic tariffs looming, the U.S. and China once again fail to reach a deal on trade. And we're going to talk about the impact on the global economy and the likelihood of another extension.

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STOUT: Welcome back.

Now tsunami warnings and advisories have been issued throughout the Pacific, including parts of Japan, Russia and the United States after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off of Russia's far east coast. The Japanese island of Hokkaido has reported smaller than expected waves. But experts are warning there could be more to come.

The first tsunami waves are already arriving in Alaska's Western Aleutian Islands, and Hawaii is expecting waves in the hour ahead. In fact, Hawaii's governor has been urging people to stay away from coastal areas, saying that flooding will wrap around the islands no matter which direction they face.

Now we have reconnected with our meteorologist, Allison Chinchar. She has been tracking developments. She joins us now.

And Allison, tell us just how destructive, how widespread could these tsunami waves be?

ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Right. So it's going to vary depending on where you live. And a lot of that has to do with the context of the earthquake itself.

Now, tsunamis primarily push water out in one direction, but that is based off of the type of fault that it has and the fault, how it displaces that water. So that's why you'll see some people are under advisories, some people are under warnings. It's going to be a little bit different. So you've got the Western Aleutian Islands as well as Hawaii are under the tsunami warning. We anticipate those areas specifically are going to have higher waves than the areas that you see here in yellow, which are just under the tsunami advisory.

Now you will notice there is a tiny little section here of orange right there in the Northern California coastline that is actually a warning. And the reason for that, because I can understand people may say that doesn't make any sense, why would it be there, it has to do entirely with the bathymetry of the coastline that is there. It is different type of coastline and how it juts out there compared to some of the surrounding areas.

So that's why that particular portion of Northern California has been upgraded to the warning, as opposed to the surrounding advisory areas. And here's what we talk about. So that initial quake right here, that red dot that you see on the map, once it happens, the tsunami will begin to propagate out, sending all of that water again in the same direction that we talked about.

But some of the areas that are off on the very fringes may not necessarily have as high of those waves as the ones directly in the path. And that's what's the biggest concern for Hawaii because that's where Hawaii is located, really in the funnel of that direction in which the water is expected to displace and continue to push forward. Same thing for some of these other areas. It's just going to be a little bit later.

So now we talk about the timeline for a lot of these, because that is really going to be key. When you take a look at Kodiak, Alaska, the arrival time around 12:20 Eastern Time. So really, truly, in about in the next minute, maybe up to three to five minutes from now, they will begin to see their arrival time. Southeastern Alaska, a little bit later, likely in about the next 20 to 45 minutes. They will start to see some of their tsunami waves.

Hawaii going to be a little bit later, likely, maybe just under an hour from now at around 1:15 a.m. Eastern Time, Washington and Oregon between 2:35 and 2:55 a.m. Eastern Time. And California, now the northern coast of California, going to be closer to say about that 2:50 to maybe 3:15 a.m. Eastern Time, and then Southern California would be slightly later closer towards around 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

So again, you've got a lot of factors here that are taking place, but a lot of it comes back to the fact that this is where the center of the earthquake was.

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You have those waves that will start to propagate outward, especially because of the type of fault that this was, the thrust fault, but also the fact that it was very shallow. And I know, Kristie, people think, you know, you may see, you know, 13 miles thinking that is incredibly deep. It's not when it comes to earthquakes and tsunamis. That is actually considered extremely shallow for an earthquake.

STOUT: Allison, really appreciating the information you're giving us. You're showing us the timeline and the map showing us quite clearly what these waves could look like.

Allison Chinchar, reporting live. Thank you.

Now the third time, it was not a charm for the latest round of trade talks between the world's two largest economies, China and the U.S. They wrapped up talks in Stockholm on Tuesday without reaching a deal just two weeks before soaring tariffs are scheduled to kick back in.

Now both sides they sounded a note of optimism about a possible extension to the 90-day pause that's currently in effect, but there's been no decision on that yet.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I just had a phone call from Scott Bessent, and they had a very good meeting with China and it seems that, I mean, they're going to brief me tomorrow. We'll either approve it or not. But he felt very good about the meeting. Better -- better than he felt yesterday. Yesterday I said, oh, here we go again. Here we go again. But today it worked out.

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STOUT: All right. The U.S. Treasury secretary, meanwhile, added that just because the latest talks ended without an agreement, it doesn't mean that a deal cannot be reached before the August 12th deadline.

I'm joined now by Inu Manak, a fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Inu, thank you so much for joining us here on the program. First, let's talk about what came out of Sweden. U.S.-China trade talks, still no deal. Also no clarity on an extension.

What's your read on what came out of Stockholm?

INU MANAK, FELLOW FOR TRADE POLICY, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Well, it seems like there really isn't much of a deal at all. And many folks had anticipated that there would be a nonevent after two days of talks. It is difficult to secure a deal with China. This we knew going into the discussions. But there is still time. The deadline for the truce is August 12th.

Tomorrow Secretary Bessent and Ambassador Jameson Greer are going to go meet with President Trump and talk about what they discussed. And maybe we may have an extension of the truce, but I don't think we'll have more than just an extension of that truce.

STOUT: Got it. I mean, there's still time. Officials said that they will continue talks, but there are some pretty big speed bumps ahead. You know, from overcapacity concerns to rare earths to the fate and future of TikTok.

Do you see a bigger confrontation ahead?

MANAK: It doesn't seem like any of those major issues seem to have been discussed at this meeting or actually addressed significantly. So it seems we're still sort of tied up on the basic issue of the level of the tariffs themselves. And tariffs right now are very high against China. The average tariffs are about 51 percent.

So I think at this stage what the Chinese are really interested in is reducing those tariffs to a level that they can live with before they get to these bigger discussions. So I think that there's a long road ahead for any future talks. STOUT: Now let's widen it out beyond China, because U.S. President

Donald Trump promised 90 deals in 90 days. We are not there. Yes, there are deals with the U.K., with Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the E.U.

But you know, overall, what's your take here? How has the president's trade approach worked?

MANAK: Well, I don't think it's actually worked to what he promised it would do. So he said 90 days, 90 deals. We only have a handful of deals and only one of them do we have an actual text of what an agreement might look like. For the others we've had handshake deals, some idea of what might be in them other than small tariff reductions. There's a high level of tariffs that are going to be maintained, potentially some investment commitments.

But overall this is not really sort of the earth-shattering big deals that were promised. So I think that what we're likely to see is maybe some additional tariff increases on other countries and not much else. So these aren't really big deals that I think are going to deliver huge benefits to the United States. Rather it's going to maintain the high tariff levels that President Trump has favored.

STOUT: Yes. So what will be the overall impact from this? You know, as you point out, only six deals so far. There were 90 countries on that chart on liberation day. You know, deadlines are going to be moved again. We're still waiting for clarity from China. So what real-world impact will all this have on global trade and the global economy?

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MANAK: I think everyone is waiting for the August 1st deadline to happen, so that we can figure out what the actual tariff rate is going to be from now on out on most of U.S. trading partners, and we just don't know yet. So until those announcements are made, companies just can't have any certainty and they can't adjust.

But once those numbers are clear, then we're going to start to see some shifts in the market. And that's going to mean shifting supply chains. That's going to mean higher prices for some consumers, as companies then shift those costs onto producers and to other businesses. And then we're going to see a bigger impact on the economy down the line. But those shifts take time, so we're likely to wait several months before that ripples throughout the entire economy.

STOUT: Yes, but more uncertainty in the forecast, that is for certain.

Inu Manak, thank you so much for joining us. Inu is a fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

MANAK: Thanks for having me.

STOUT: And now to an ominous alert from a U.N.-backed food security initiative that the, quote, "worst-case scenario of famine" is currently unfolding in Gaza. The group says access to food and other essentials has plummeted to unprecedented levels, and that mounting evidence shows widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease are driving a rise in hunger related deaths. A separate statement from U.N. experts accuses Israel of, quote, "using thirst as a weapon to kill Palestinians." It says Israel is deliberately withholding access to safe drinking water.

Now this crisis has prompted the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, to announce that he will recognize a Palestinian state if Israel does not act.

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KEIR STARMER, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: The U.K. will recognize the state of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, agree to a ceasefire and commit to a long-term sustainable peace, reviving the prospect of a two-state solution. And this includes allowing the U.N. to restart the supply of aid and making clear that there will be no annexations in the West Bank.

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STOUT: The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, blasted the decision, saying on social media that it rewards Hamas's monstrous terrorism. U.S. president Donald Trump says he has no plans to follow Starmer's ultimatum, although he and First Lady Melania Trump have been deeply affected by the images coming out of Gaza.

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TRUMP: I think everybody, unless they're pretty cold-hearted or worse than that, nuts, there's nothing you can say other than it's terrible when you see the kids. And those are kids, you know, whether they talk starvation or not, those are kids that are starving.

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STOUT: Our top story this hour, a powerful earthquake has triggered tsunami alerts and evacuations across the Pacific Ocean. And we'll bring you the latest developments as they happen. Stay with us.

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STOUT: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. And let's take a look at today's top stories.

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Nations around the Pacific are bracing for potential tsunami waves after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia's far Eastern coast.

Tsunami advisories have been issued for Japan, Russia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, the U.S. and Canada. The governor of Hawaii has urged people to evacuate coastal areas and to expect flooding. Now, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, says he will recognize

a Palestinian state if Israel doesn't take, quote, "steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza."

Starmer is demanding Israel agree to a ceasefire and commit to a long- term sustainable peace. Israel says the move would reward Hamas.

India could soon face higher U.S. tariffs. President Trump has now threatened to raise them up to 25 percent if there is no trade agreement. It is not entirely clear what the sticking points are.

India's commerce minister recently sounded optimistic about striking a deal before the U.S. self-imposed August 1st deadline.

OK, more on our top story this hour. Several countries around the Pacific Ocean are bracing for potential tsunamis after a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off of Russia's East Coast.

Evacuations are already underway in Hawaii, where authorities warn that the first tsunami wave could arrive within the hour. The governor of Hawaii is urging residents to stay far away from coastal areas as a potential tsunami could, quote, "wrap around the islands."

We go now live to Honolulu, Hawaii, where I'm joined now by Helen Janiszewski. She's the assistant professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

And thank you, Professor, for joining us here on the program. Again, Hawaii's first wave update is set to come in at 1:10 a.m. Eastern Time. That's just at the top of the hour, 40 minutes from now.

What kind of waves are you expecting? And as a scientist, what will you be looking out for when the waves come in?

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HELEN JANISZEWSKI, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA: Yes. So, a tsunami wave is extremely different than your typical ocean wave that you see when you go down to the beach.

It's a very long wavelength, long period wave. So, when this wave does arrive, it will take quite a while for it to finish its coming onto shore and then receding. And there may be several episodes of it.

So, that is part of why a tsunami wave is so dangerous; is it's very much just like a torrent of floodwater coming at you at the coastline, compared to the typical waves that you see down at the beach.

STOUT: Yes, we heard from the governor of Hawaii who said, first of all, residents get away from the coast. Go upcountry, go to higher ground.

But he also said that this potential tsunami could, quote, "wrap around the islands." Is that what we're expecting here? That the tsunami waves will wrap around the islands in these sort of concentric circles and come in and out for a period of time?

JANISZEWSKI: So, when a tsunami wave is propagating over the open ocean, there's not many barriers for it to hit. So, it propagates outwards.

As it approaches these coastal areas, you have a lot of really complex geometry, not only along the coastline, but in what we call the bathymetry or the topography of the sea floor.

And all of those things can have really significant impacts on how the wave comes up to the coastline, where it might amplify. And so, that's some of what they're talking about, to be aware of. That it's not just the coastlines that are facing the direction that the wave is coming from; that there may actually be very complicated patterns as it arrives here.

STOUT: So, when these waves do come up to Hawaii's coastline, which is expected in just over half an hour from now, what kind of damage could they incur?

JANISZEWSKI: So, like I said, it can be more like flooding --

STOUT: Yes.

JANISZEWSKI: -- than your typical ocean wave. And so, those are the kinds of impacts that one might be worried about in terms of infrastructure in coastal and low-lying areas.

That is also why it is so important for people to evacuate the areas. Right? Water moving quickly can really knock a person down quite easily. You don't need a lot of it.

And so, it's very, very dangerous. This will also be happening pretty close to high tide here, which will potentially amplify the impacts, as well.

STOUT: OK. Now, professor, you're an expert in Earth sciences there at the University of Hawaii. You're also a resident of Hawaii.

Could you give us a sense of just the mood on the ground? What kind of alerts have gone out there? How prepared are residents for the waves when they start coming in?

JANISZEWSKI: Yes, so I've been getting alerts since around 2 p.m. Or so local time, kind of losing track at this point. But definitely, I've been getting alerts regularly on my mobile phone; through emails earlier in the day. All state employees were ordered to go home.

Fortunately, I live in an area that's not an evacuation zone. And so, in that case, you're advised to, you know, go at home and stay off the roads as much as possible.

I've heard that there's been traffic and congestion for people that are trying to get out of the low-lying areas. So again, that's why it has been so important to get these messages out early so that we can evacuate those areas by the time the waves do arrive. But in general, over the last several hours, it's been a lot of alerts

and news traveling around to -- to people here.

STOUT: And -- and quickly, Hawaii, where there's limited land mass and a lot of coast, where do people go to evacuate?

JANISZEWSKI: Yes. So fortunately, Hawaii has a lot of topography. So, unlike some other locations that are very flat, we do actually have places where you can get to high elevations fairly quickly. And so, there's very well-published evacuation maps. And so, the priority is really to get to higher ground.

STOUT: All right. Professor Janiszewski, thank you so much for joining us. Get to higher ground. Be safe to you, all your colleagues, and your friends and family, as well. Take care and thank you for your insights.

JANISZEWSKI: Thank you.

STOUT: OK. Another story we're monitoring this hour. And up next, China has been dethroned as the No. 1 exporter of smartphones to the U.S., and it is largely thanks to one tech company trying to keep up with Donald Trump's shifting trade policies. We've got this story after the break.

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STOUT: Welcome back.

Now, tsunami forecasters say waves up to three meters could hit coastal areas in several countries around the Pacific after a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Eastern coast of Russia. It was the strongest quake since 2011, when a 9.0 tremor hit Northeast Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami. So far, reported waves have been slightly smaller than predicted, but

people on the coast of California and Hawaii are being told to stay away from the shoreline.

Now, for the first time, India has overtaken China as the No. 1 exporter of smartphones to the U.S.

Now, the surge in exports is due largely to tech giant Apple shifting its manufacturing away from China in favor of India. Given the uncertainty with the U.S. Trade policy.

We've got more details now from CNN's Clare Duffy.

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CLARE DUFFY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: India's smartphone making industry has gotten a huge boost, mainly from Apple --

DUFFY (voice-over): -- shifting production of its iPhones there and away from China. This is a trend that's been happening for the past few years but has

really accelerated this year because of the higher cost of tariffs on goods imported from China.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said back in May that the majority of iPhones sold in the United States would now be coming from India.

And this new report from the market research firm Canalys really underscores the effects of that shift. It finds that Indian-made devices now account for 44 percent of smartphones that were imported into the United States during the second quarter. That's up from just 13 percent in the same period in the prior year.

And meanwhile, devices assembled in China account for 25 percent of the smartphones that were sold in the United States. So, about half of India's share.

I will say, though, that Apple is still deeply dependent on China for many of the components that are going into its iPhones, even if they're being assembled in India.

DUFFY: And I also think this is interesting. You're seeing how Trump's tariff policies are starting to play out. While the president may be hoping that tech companies will bring their manufacturing back to the United States, in many cases, we're just seeing them shift their manufacturing to other countries.

I will say, too, that while Apple may be now avoiding tariffs on goods imported from China, it might not be out of the woods yet.

DUFFY (voice-over): President Trump said on Tuesday that he is considering a tariff up to 25 percent on goods imported from India if the two countries --

DUFFY: -- cannot reach a trade agreement.

Clare Duffy, CNN, New York.

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STOUT: Breaking news: Hawaii and parts of Alaska and California are under tsunami warnings right now after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. This is the most powerful earthquake anywhere in the world since 2011 in Japan.

Video from the Russian far East shows water inundating low-lying areas. Now, the region has been hit by a series of strong aftershocks.

A regional governor says that residents have evacuated to higher ground until the threat of additional waves is lifted.

Now, COP30 is the most important climate summit in a decade. In November, dozens of nations will send specialists and climate negotiators to Brazil to set the global climate agenda. But the U.S. will not be there.

The Trump administration has fired the country's last negotiators and now has no one to send. Bill Weir explains why this creates a dangerous vacuum.

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BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT: However, it turns out, COP30 in Brazil --

WEIR (voice-over): -- will go down in the history books as a key moment in human civilization, because as planet Earth overheats at a staggering rate and we see the angrier floods and fires and storms and droughts as a result of that, as humanity gets ever thirstier by the day for new energy, this COP --

WEIR: -- this meeting of nations from around the world could determine the next ten years in terms of climate policy.

But the big news today is the United States probably won't have anyone there at all.

We asked the State Department after they closed the Office of Global Change, will anyone represent the U.S. at COP30? They would not answer.

But China will be there. And most analysts and experts tell us that country is set to reap enormous benefits from the American vacuum now.

Trump pulling out, of course, gives European countries license to be less ambitious in their goals. It gives developing countries more reason to be skeptical of the whole treaty process, but especially gives China the advantage in the post-carbon economy.

They're already dominating solar, wind, battery production, and exportation around the world. And now, without the Americans there to call them on their coal use, they have the best of both worlds.

They can get away with using the dirty stuff longer while owning the new stuff more.

At the same time, in the U.S. yesterday, news --

WEIR (voice-over): -- broke that Lee Zeldin, the EPA commissioner, seems like he's going to make good on his threat to try to get rid of the main finding that underpins all climate regulation in this country.

It's called the endangerment finding. It is just the simple scientific finding that burning a lot of fossil fuels makes people sicker, makes the atmosphere warmer, changes weather patterns. But they want to undo that entirely, which would remove pretty much all environmental regulation around smokestacks and tailpipes and climate change.

There's -- they're in for a fight. This will go to the courts, Democrats and there's public comment period.

WEIR: That's in the way before any of this actually takes place.

But what a moment in history. Here we are. When the evidence is out there scientifically and empirically. But the United States, they want to deny the very existence of climate change.

Bill Weir, CNN, New York.

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STOUT: Now, the heads of NASA, they're meeting with the head of the Russian space agency for the first time since 2018.

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Roscosmos said its chief, Dmitri Bakanov, has traveled to the U.S. to meet interim NASA boss Sean Duffy. The two are set to discuss the future of the International Space Station, as well as the program that allows U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts to fly on each other's spacecrafts.

Now, despite rising tensions between the U.S. and Russia over the war in Ukraine, the two space agencies have continued to work together.

And a big surprise for thousands of young Catholics as Pope Leo passed through Saint Peter's Square in the Popemobile before going on to say mass for Catholic influencers and digital missionaries at Saint Peter's Basilica.

The mass marked the start of the church's Jubilee of Youth. Over 500,000 young Catholics are expected to be in Rome for the celebrations, which is part of the 2025 holy year or jubilee.

It's one of the church's most important events.

And thank you for watching. This is CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, and I will be back with more news after this short break. Keep it here.

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