5 swept out to sea, 1 killed as tsunami hits Crescent City, Cal.

Five People Have Been Swept Out to Sea on the tsunami-created waves of up to eight-foot high crashed onto the shore of Crescent City, California, a small fishing village near the Oregon border.The tsunami Also Destroyed the harbor in Crescent City and several Other Coastal Towns in Northern California and Oregon.

"There has Been a Major Damage to our harbor," Crescent City Councilman Richard Enea Told CBS News.

"At Least 35 boats by count, So Far Have Been Damaged or Destroyed by the surges and the tsunamis. Our docks Have Been Destroyed."

Although four people were rescued from the ocean off the coast backwaters IOF Southern Oregon, at a least one person is missing and feared dead in the Crescent City.

Officials Reported waves of 6.5 feet in the Crescent City and 6 feet in Morro Bay [near San Luis Obispo], said Caltech scientist Lucy Jones, According to the Los Angeles Times.