welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm natalie allen. thanks for being with us. and we're following breaking news out of southern california of a magnitude 7.1 earthquake one day after a 6.4 hit the same area. it has been followed by dozens of aftershocks. the quake struck in the mojave desert near the town of ridgecrest, about 150 miles north of los angeles. damage we are told is significant, but no deaths have

been reported. we are happy to say. this is what it looked like from inside someone's home in ridgecrest. >> [ bleep ] oh, my god. oh, my gosh, oh, my god. >> that was a bad one. >> the front door came open. >> it is okay. just hold on. hold on. oh, my god. this is bad, brian. oh, my god. >> so many experienced something very much like that. the office of california's governor says they have activated the state operations center to provide further assistance to everyone. they have also requested additional support from u.s. president donald trump. >> at the state operations center, we are fully activated at the highest level. earlier tonight, governor

newsome did talk to the white house and requested a presidential emergency declaration to assume osupport operations and provide what we call direct federal assistance in support of all of the mutual aid assets that we are currently providing to mostly kern county and some of san bernardino county. governor newsome activated the state operations center at its highest level and provided really right now a signature amount of fire and rescue, mutual aid from the los angeles riverside, san bernardino and fresno county areas to include urban search and rescue teams, fire strike teams, firefighters, hazardous materials response units, emergency medical services, ambulance strike teams and personnel.

in fact roughly over 100 mutual aid personnel have been dispatched in support of these various fires and the support of both trota and the town of ridgecrest. >> and we have many reporters following this. let's go to alex field in ridgecrest. it is 1:00 a.m. there but i imagine people will get little sleep there tonight. >> reporter: yeah, i don't imagine many people are sleeping at all. one of the things that we heard from the mayor of ridgecrest earlier tonight is the fact that she is well aware that many people will be choosing to sleep outside their homes tonight, sleeping in their yards, sleeping even near the street. and that is why she was urging so much caution as people navigate and try to assess the damage and try to locate friends or family member. and really be careful there, people who are too afraid to go

inside their homes and they are choosing to sleep outside. you certainly can't fault them for that. in the last 24 hours or so, there have been hundreds and hundreds of these aftershocks. and since the 7.1 hit, we have felt inciden doz felt dozens. so this is a reality and every time you feel the ground move, it does crontribute to the frayd nerves and that sense of anxiety that so many are feeling after what they experienced thursday and then again tonight. the key part here is that the emergency response is in full force. we had seen a fire, we had seen heavy smoke near where we were, we had smelled gas. those are issues of major and critical concern of course. those are being prioritized right now. we have seen a few emergency vehicles go by in the last half an hour or so, but it does seem that some of the emergency calls are subsiding which would indicate that they are getting their arms around the situation.

but basically we've been operating in the dark all night. the power was out until just a few minutesing a go ago in the we're in which means that you won't be able to see the extent of the damage until the morning. >> and sleeping outside, that is disconcerting without having any light around you for those in neighborhoods where there is no power. and we've been in breaking news coverage no several hours. you experienced is ththis and y said it was terrifying. >> reporter: it was truly terrifying. and i think some of the initial shock has worn off and i still feel that way. i've experienced smaller earthquakes before. this was a profound experience for me. it felt prolonged. i'm hearing now it lasted maybe about 20 seconds. i couldn't tell you how long it lasted because it just felt like it was relentless. but i was with a couple of our colleagues. we quickly got under a table, we

held on to it and just heard the glasses smashing overheard, heard the other people around u. and everyone scrambling to get out of that restaurant once the shaking stopped because you weren't sure if there was going to be another aftershock. it was truly unlike anything i ever experienced. >> and where are you right now, is is t pretty quiet around whe you are? i saw one live picture, there were a lot of cars on the road. >> reporter: yeah. so we are outside of the regional hospital. this is a hospital that was actually partially closed because of the earthquake on thursday. but they have set up what appears to be like a triage center perhaps in the front yard here. and this was at least a stagie ground it seemed at first for a lot of the emergency responders in the direct aftermath of this. in the first few minutes, we were hearing just the nonstop

blair of sirens, fire trucks racing, ambulances racing, police cars racing. they were being flooded with calls for help. we took a quick walk into a neighborhood that we considered to be vulnerable because it was a place that we had spent time earlier in the day, a lot of trailer homes and mobile homes and people were inside crying out asking for help saying that they were stuck inside. one of our colleagues was able to help a couple people out. but we also tried to call 911nd t and the calls weren't going through probably because of the connectivity issues and the volume of calls. so we where not sare not seeinge of emergency response right now, but about half an hour ago, we did hear more sirens and i expect those kinds of calls will continue through the night as they try to make sure that we're not dealing with fires, gas leaks being a primary concern. >> it will be a long night. we hope that it will be

relatively quiet. we know you're still dealing with the aftershocks. thank you for staying with us for so many hours. scientists say friday's 7.1 quake happened on the same fault as thursday's 6.4 quake, but now the recent series of shakes is making that miles long fault even longer. >> the epicenter of the 7.1 is at the northwest end of the fault that moved in the 6.4. now, the 5.4 aftershock this morning extended that fault what we saw from the main shock, from the 6.4, the 5.4 extended it a bit to the northwest and the 7.1 seems to have extended it even farther to the northwest. so the fault is growing. we ruptured a piece in the first earthquake. we ruptured a bit more in the 5.5 5.5 5.4 this morning.

magnitude 7 usually has aftershocks that last for years. >> so expectations is that it will continue on. >> karen maginnis is joining us now. and when you hear lucy jones say there that these aftershocks could last for year, you can imagine what that means to people dealing with this right now. and your maps have been showing us and revealing to us just the numerous -- the aftershocks, so many you can't even count them. >> you're absolutely right. one by one and then there is another shock and we've been counting how many 4.0 plus, 5.0 plus. the 5s you can feel. 6s you can definitely feel. the fourth of july earthquake was about 5 miles deep. the 7.1, we're getting varying reports. was it 10 miles deep or was it at the surface. but certainly we're seeing

surface erupt chtures. and this is eight times more powerful than the 6.4, but 11 times more energy if you can imagine that. it radiates out. it is so much more powerful, it is exponential. it is not just linear. here is the seismic activity around ridgecrest, trona, they are saying no power, a lot of disruption in the trona area. but you can see this particular fault line, they were talking about how the seismic activity is radiating further north towards that naval weapons station facility near china lake. so the fault here is about 25 miles long. and this is a shorter fault and yes they are perpendicular. and we see this a lot in this region. this is not associated with the san andreas fault. is san andreas fault is essentiy

a huge plate tectonic. but we have different areas here intersecting. so we get that magnitude and the energy radiates out and in los angeles, they are saying with the july 4th earthquake that it felt like it was rumbling or shaking for about 30 seconds. well, the initial quake was only five seconds. but because it is bumping into these mountains and different densities of material through the ground, that is why it is shaking as it goes along until eventually it slows down. so it probably really did feel like 30 seconds. this particular main shock lasted between 20 and 25 seconds. that tells you just how much more powerful and we haven't seen an earthquake like this for 20 years. prior to that, over the previous 10 years, there were eight at 7

magnitude. but over 20 years did we see anything like this? no. the last one, the hector mine was nowhere. the northridge, that was a 6.7 magnitude, 1994, but that was in a highly populated area. here are all the little faults that i was telling you about. dibd kind of scooched up near ridgecrest. and this fire is in a mobile home park. we've heard about sporadic fires. but we've also heard about these ground fissures that have opened up. not have every earthquake do you see the ground opening up. it is the internal rumbling below the earth's surface that eventually everything gives way and you start to see that cracking take place. so we're going to see this going he over the next several days as people evaluate what has happened. >> and we are all certainly learning about california's fault system, of which is vast.

karen, thanks so much. we'll see you again. from roadways to supermarkets, friday's earthquake caused damage across much of southern california. next, more on the aftermath. ♪ love them, hate their laundry, protection. lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria. detergent alone can't. lysol. what it takes to protect. ® when i had my brother take me places, it was always like, we had to get there early so i could smoke a cigarette before we go inside. we always had to stop for cigarettes... it's true... i decided i needed to find an alternative... so i started looking and then juul came up. i did both for a while. and eventually i just switched over, it's very quick. i remember recently you asking me like did you want to smoke before we go in? and i was like no, i don't need to.

a backyard swimming pool in ridgecrest, california look at that at the 7.1 earthquake rolled through late friday. the community was already on edge after a 6.4 quake hit the same area the day before. we're happy to say there have been no deaths or serious injuries reported, but quake experts warn strong aftershocks will continue. >> the mayor of ridgecrest is asking the community to be patient as the city deals with the ongoing recovery. she told reporters earlier some residents are sleeping outside for safety. >> i would like to say a few words to our own citizens. many of them have experienced something that is very traumatic, somewhat unknown to most of them and many of them

are sleeping outside tonight. i know that it is a difficult situation, but they are fearful to be in their homes and we are offering any services as noted earlier, we have places for people to shelter here. but many are choosing to just be with their neighbors both in their sidewalks and their driveways and some of them are in the streets. we're asking everyone to drive safely, be careful, watch for these people and understand that we are doing the very best we can. it is not an impossible task to take care of all this, but it is going to be a longer task than we thought the other day. >> ridgecrest, a small community, but you've got to feel for the people that -- latest we hear from talking with many people there, they are all pulling together.

earlier a veteran reporter in the region has felt his share of earthquakes. >> reporter: i've covered a lot of earthquakes in california and i roughered the northridge earthquake. 6.7. but in an urban center. so i can remember, i had transferred from the new york bureau, i was living in temporary housing. the twig went hurdling across the room, glass shattered everywhere, but safe and sound so went into reporting mode. and northridge was marked immediately by what we saw a little bit of tonight and that is those gas fires. you get a gas main in that case that ruptured, and all of ventura boulevard it seemed like in some parts of los angeles on fire. massive damage. garage collapses, building collapses. 57 officially dead. almost 9,000 wounded. now let's take a deep breath here. this was absolutely nerve-racking as you pointed

out, the 7.1. it was stronger in a way in this instance i was outside, we were in our car, we went to the middle of the street, trying to avoid power lines. instinctively to our driver's credit, he drove to the middle of the street. >> and now that you've taken a look around, is the damage that you're seeing, does it meet what you would have expected? >> no, i feel this tremendous sense of relief. this is of no solace to somebody who might have lost their home, but we did not see mass casualties as we drove through the checker board of light if you will. this sits in a high desert valley. we did not see something that we witnessed in other earthquakes where you have unreinforced brick masonry buildings and you see a lot of that tumbling down. of course california has been

extremely aggressive in its quest to have buildings retrofit. so because of a lot of these new buildings seem to be newer, more flat, no high rises, we didn't see anything that would happen for example in urban center where you might have people injured from glass falling from a 10th the story. that just didn't exist here in ridgecrest. i think the population here is about 278,0,000. what we did see, we saw an immense fire not far from here, black smoke going up. we actually were just wrapping up so we went over and firefighters hasn't ev s hadn' arrived. and we call it a one-two punch. somewhere near the water heater in a garage perhaps, we saw this yesterday, you get a rupture and a gas related fire starts. >> our reporter there paul vercammen. earlier cyril vanier spoke with a couple who own a super 8 hotel

in ridgecrest and they describe the moment they started to feel the shaking. >> i was checking a customer in and we had this little shake. so we stepped out, we went back in and right after that, what we saw was madness. i mean it was the first time i experienced something. i felt like the whole building was going to collapse. we just ran out on the road. i could hear the sounds of earthquake, the rattling, shaking, the whole building was like shaking to a point i felt that the whole roof was going to fall down. and yeah, it was bad. it was really bad from what we experienced yesterday. i just started crying. i felt whether we will survive this or no. and like every moment i was

feeling that's it, it would stop. and re just rushwe just held ea tight and we were just praying for the shake to stop. >> i had gone through the groceries and i was in the parking lot and i felt it. so i just got out of the car, closed my car and my car was literally like jumping, you know, up and down like front and back. and i felt like that i would hit the car in front of my car. and it was crazy. i've never seen something like this in my life. it was scary. >> so that is how bad the roads were, the roads were shaking so much that you couldn't control your car? >> i was out of the car. the car was moving and like i was not able to keep high balance on the ground, you know.

>> it was very bad. i kind of rushed to the roads and i was scared that the cars might hit me. so i just went to the property next door. it was so shaky, we weren't able to maintain our balance. >> did you look for a place to hide or was there no place available near you? >> well, right outside the office is the main road and the cars were just moving, you know. so it wasn't safe for me to go with the customer on the road. so i was just holding her. she was an old lady, so i just held her tight and we were supporting each other. we walked to the super 8 sign, we felt that that was something which we could hold on because there was nothing else that would just collapse down. so that is where we felt was the safest place at that moment because right across that was the road and that was not safe for us. all the guests were out in the parking lot.

>> and tell me more about the guests. how were they reacting? >> everyone was panicked. fortunately we have the usgs team staying with us at our location. so they did warn us that we were going to get some shocks later on. and that is the reason like we were all prepared. we requested all our guests to be alert. and enjuveryone just rushed out their rooms. we have a few accessibility guests and they were in the wheelchair. so basically at that time all the guests were already out and we just requested that they stay out for a bit. and we had a team from the ulca and usc staying here who are actually kind of, you know, reporting the quake. so they were right there. and they just -- they were really helpful. they kept everyone calm. and we all were out here. so they were scared.

>> also we've been showing you videos of fires there in the area. of course those fires caused by ruptures of gas lines when the earthquake hit. right now we want to show you dramatic video right after the earthquake hit ridgecrest, employees at an albertson's supermarket are making sure that everyone is okay. >> everybody okay? >> everybody out please. >> did you get hurt? >> i'm so scared. >> is everybody okay? >> we need to evacuate please. >> i'm trying to see if anybody is hurt. the air is really thick.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen. southern california went 20 years without a major earthquake. now it has had two in two days. late friday, a 7.1 quake rocked

the high desert north of los angeles near the town of ridgecrest. that is the same place hit by a 6.4 tremor the day before. damage is more significant this time, but no deaths have been reported. more than 3,000 customers are without power across the quake zone. of course fires have been sparked by ruptured gas lines as well. to deal with the crisis, california's governor has activated the state's emergency operations to the highest level. we have cnn correspondents covering it from all angles. alex field has been with us for some time. she went through the 7.1. she is in ridgecrest. what is the latest situation there, alex? >> reporter: you touched on it there, there is an outpouring of resources being made available to this area. and what we're hearing more and more is the fact that they had had the major earthquake just a day ago go meant that an emergency declaration was already in place and that helps to speed resources, that helps

to help services to those who need it. and probably helped significantly with the quick response that we have seen in this area tonight. look, people were prepared foafs aftershocks. many were not anticipating that the aftershock would actually be stronger than the initial earthquake itself. it has certainly caused anxiety for people here and there were terrifying moments for so many. right now the focus is trying to understand how bad the damage is and what the extent of injuries could be. again, no reported fatalities at this point. we don't have any estimate on how many could be injured. we also have not hearing any reports of flattened buildings at this point, but we do know that they will have to do a lot of work surveying the structure of buildings. that of course is easier when you have daylight. this quake happened just before night fall here and then you had the added problem of massive

power outage. really making this effort to get people to safe places and to see how bad the damage really was a little bit more difficult. >> and how often have you been feeling aftershocks, alex? >> reporter: dozens. there have been dozens since that -- natalie, we are actually just feeling one as you say is that right now. so that gives you an idea of the frequency. that was a relatively small tremor compared to some that we have felt tonight. they vary in size. all of them set off your nerves a little bit after you feel what we felt earlier. but they are certainly sxhcommo and we know that re wiwe will f many more in the coming days. >> extremely unsettling. alex, thank you for your courage staying with us. we appreciate it and we'll talk with you again. los angeles tv stations were

in the middle of the newscast when the earthquake struck friday evening. the newsanchors calmly explained what was going on and then head he had fed for safely. >> we are experiencing a bit of shafrk i shaking. >> and it is going for quite a bit, everybody. it continues to -- >> this is a very strong earthquake. 8:21 on the air, we're experiencing very strong shaking. i think we need to get under the desk. >> we'll go to break and we'll be right back. wow. >> didn't blame them a bit. we continue our coverage of the second quake that rattled california. we'll have the latest on the damage caused. >> the front door came open. we call it the mother standard of care.

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we continue to bring you the latest, magnitude 7.1 earthquake

hit just after 8:00 p.m. there, that is one day after a 6.4 hit the same area. and it has been followed by dozens of aftershocks. the quake struck in the mojave desert near the town of ridgecrest north of los angeles. damage is significant. but no deaths have been reported. we'll turn now to other news that we're following. u.s. president donald trump believes that he still has a way of adding a controversial question to the 2020 census. that question, are you a u.s. citizen. critics say it may intimidate immigrants into not responding and make the population count inaccurate especially in democratic districts. every ten years each household is expected to fill out the questionnaire. the results used to determine representation in congress and allocation of federal funds.

abby phillip has mr. trump's reaction. >> reporter: president signaling that he may use an executive order to force the citizenship question on to the 2020 census. >> we have four or five ways we could do it. >> reporter: having lost in the supreme court and as the forms are being printed without the question, trump seems undaunted. >> so we can start the printing now and maybe do an addendum after we get a positive decision. >> reporter: arguing history is on his side. >> if you look at the history of our country, it is almost always been asked. you need it for congress, is for for districting. >> reporter: but both claims are false. the question has not been asked since 1950 and districts are drawn based on the total number of people, not citizens in a particular area. sources tell cnn that trump is frustrated with commerce secretary wilbur ross for caving and announcing publicly that the administration was abandoning the effort.

but trump said -- >> wilbur is a good man. >> reporter: and with the positive jobs report out, trump again use position ting the str to attack another official he appointed. the february dhderal reserve ch. >> the fed didn't know what they are doing. >> reporter: meantime watchdog groups describe dirty and overcrowded conditions at border detention facilities, trump says he didn't see a problem. >> they are run beautifully. they are clean. they are good. >> reporter: the president seemingly more concerned with his 2020 rival former vice president joe biden. >> you look at what joe biden has done with china. biden didn't know what the hell he was doing. biden doesn't know about that. >> reporter: and at a hearing today justice department lawyers told a young that they are looking at ways to include the citizenship question in the 2020 census, but they made no mention of a potential executive on order and in fact they told a

judge that no decision had yet been made about how to proceed. abby phillip, cnn, the white house. iran is threatening retaliation after the united kingdom seized one of its oil tankers off the coast of gibraltar. a source tells cnn the uk detained the grace 1 because it believed the vessel had weapons bound for syria. iran calls the seizure piracy and warns it could detain a british tanker if theirs isn't released. nic robertson has more about this. >> reporter: with the iranian authorities demanding the immediate release of the super tanker grace 1, they are calling it detention by the authorities in gibraltar as an act of piracy, they are saying that britain and gibraltar had no right to implement either their own sanctions or eu sanctions in what the iranians describe as an extra territorial manner. nevertheless, the supreme court in gibraltar has ruled that the

authorities there can detain the vessel for an additional 14 days over and above the original 72 hours that it has under international law. meanwhile the crew of the vessel are being questioned not as criminals but as witnesses to where the vessel was going and what it was doing. it is known that it took 2 1/2 months to get from the persian gulf round the horn of africa all the way around the african coast to get to gi bral take, th gill brbralta gibraltar, and that at times it set off its tracking system. and in late may it was deregistered because they were concerned that the vessel had links to financing terrorism. we've also learned that the spanish acting foreign minister and the iranian authorities are both accusing gibraltar and

britain for acting at the request of the united states. now, the authorities in gibraltar deny that, they are saying this was not a political decision, that they were not asking at the request of another country. but the tensions continue to rise. former revolutionary guard commander in iran says that british vessel should be snatch muched a snatched and held by the iranian authorities until grace 1 is released. so tensions continue to rise. nic robertson, cnn, citizens in celebrating after a power sharing agreement was reached. thousands took to the streets chanting and waving flags because they believe their revolution has won after much blood shed in the streets during their protests. the military council and the country's pro democracy movement have agreed to form a rotating joints council that will rule

for at least three years before transitioning to a civilian government. just a few hours from now, the newest british royal will be christened in a private ceremony at windsor castle. it comes exactly two months after baby archie was born. but the news media is not invited. and that has caused a bit of a ruckus in the uk. cnn's max foster has our story. ♪ >> reporter: so far we've had limited sightings of baby archie. so royal fans are holding out for a clear shot of his face this weekend. >> we have had a few little glimpses of him, but even wants -- everyone wants to see how he is growing. >> reporter: the couple have organized a small private ceremony. no media allowed. though they will have a personal photographer there and will release pictures after the

event. this lack of media access has sparked criticism amongst some british newspapers and politicians calling out the couple for refusing to allow public access to the christening when $3 million of taxpayer money has been used to renovate their private family home. >> when you're taking millions of pounds worth of public money, money that could be spent on schools and hospitals to up grade and refurbish luxury palaces, you have to ask yourself what are the public getting in return. >> reporter: but there is a counter backlash from the army of meghan and harry fans nine as the sussex squad. >> i don't see any kind of contradiction between there being taxpayer or public funding and the royals asking for privacy. >> reporter: this professor describe bes himselv himself as and claims meghan faces unfair scrutiny because of her back ground. >> the default when it comes to

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ridgecrest, california now has a special notoriety, two major earthquakes in two days. a large 7.1 hit the town late friday, that is just one day after a 6.4 tremor shook the area. it's been followed by dozens of aftershocks, some of them significant. authorities are waiting until day break to continue assessing the damage, but so far no deaths or serious injuries have been reported. here is how some residents in california describe what it was like to be in their homes when the violent shaking

started. >> i experienced it i was at my dad's house and next thing i know, everything is starting to shape. i was under a structure and so my only option was to get out away from where there are no gas lines or anything else like that. and everything started rattling. started flinging me around and i had to grab something to help keep even. but it was still shaking really bad. >> we were in the trailing when it hit and i kind of had a picture frame and stuff fall on me and stuff and shatter my whole entire jaw. and i had got cut. i was bleeding and stuff and after the aftershock, i was like no, we're getting out. my whole trailer was literally rocking. i thought it was going to tip over. >> and soonly people that

experience that had a experienced that are sleeping outside. it was felt in las vegas where the back games were taking place for the summer league. cyril vanier spoke with jared greenberg who was announcing a game at the time. >> about 16 hours before the earthquake struck, i was awake in my hotel room on the strip in las vegas and felt at about 4:10 local time the swaying feeling. i had never experienced that before. so once it happened in the first quarter of our game, it was the orlando magic and san antonio spurs, we felt at the broadcast location we had at mid court just the swaying as if someone was taking our platform and moving us left to right. and it flashed me back 16 hours earlier when for the first time i experienced my first ever earthquake. and what was interesting about it, the way the setup is for

summer league, it is on campus of unlv and we have two simultaneous games going on separated by with 50 yards. and our gym that we were in for the san antonio game is considerably smaller. it holds less than 3,000 people and there was a lot less than that because the really headliner of the entire week that we're out here for was taking place across the hall which seats around 18,000 fans and they were sold out tonight. so that venue right away canceled their game. meanwhile during our game, the player and referees on the court expressed to me during the next time out they didn't even feel it. but clearly us at our broadcast location and the fans, everyone was feeling it. we had light fixtures shake a bit. but i tell you, it was a wild surreal feeling to me to have this for the first time in my

life twice in that span. >> and pictures right now, it is clear people are leaving the stands. especially in the back rows. people are getting up and they are leaving. and that was right around the time when the game was flat out interrupted. >> right. and again what you are looking at is the thomas mack center which is again separated by a hallway from where i was. and that arena seats between 17,000 and 18,000 fans. and tonight was capacity because zion williamson, the much anticipated pro debut of the number one pick in the draft was playing tonight against rj barrett and the new york knicks. where we were just down the hall, again, much more intimate feel with less than 3,000 fans because so many people were in there. there was way shy of capacity of 3,000 fans with us. >> was your game interrupted? did your game -- was it suspended? >> so what happened was ours happened at the end of the first quarter. they continued play because

players and referees and coaches didn't even recognize it was happening. just the spectators and media recognized it. they continued playing through halftime, they recognized there was a small issue with the court and both teams agreed that it wasn't a safety issue. but at the end of the third quarter, the nba deemed that it would be best for everyone to kaufl the game and just cancel it after the third quarter. >> and what was the reaction of the people -- and i know you said that it was a lot more subdue in your gym. i understand that. but did you leave the arena at any point during this process? >> i didn't. and just to again paint the picture here, what you're looking at, the reason why i believe fans in the bigger venue were -- had much more of a reaction because the big scoreboard that is suspended above mid court was advisably shaking. and my television crew that we were working with kept on taking

live shots of that and we were shocked that it felt as if we were almost in two different cities having two different totally different reactions because that arena was -- they were seeing this monstrous scoreboard and video board advisably shaking. in our arena, we don't have a scoreboard that is suspended over mid court. so we didn't have that. we just had light fixtures that our camera crew was catching that were shaking. but that didn't -- it paled in comparison to what you are seeing here in the mack center where there were a lot more effects felt from the earthquake. >> so many people experienced this one. thank you for watching this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm natalie allen. i'll be back with at hour and we'll have the latest on the quake and the aftermath. super emma just about sleeps in her cape. but when we realized she was battling sensitive skin,

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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello. and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. we appreciate you joining us, i'm natalie allen. two large earthquakes in two days in ridgecrest, california, was right in the middle of both. a 7.1 quake hit the town late friday, just one day after it experienced a 6.4. no deaths or serious injuries have been reported. but damage has been significant. including house fires, rock slides and broken gas lines. power was knocked out to more than 3,000 customers. many sleeping in the dark on this night in california. the c