we respond to your questions, keep the dialogue going, we're back here next sunday, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. we begin with a fox news alert. northern california is rocked by a powerful 6.0 earthquake. >> the worst quake to hit the bay area since 1989, causing widespread damage to buildings, jolting people out of their beds and injuring at least 87 people so far. hello, everyone.

welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm laura ingalls. >> i'm eric shaun. the quake hit the early morning darkness. and in the words of the the u.s. geological survey, the disaster is potentially widespread. the epicenter reports say a 3.6 after shock struck two hours later. water and gas lines have been damaged. now there's reports of multiple fires, and downed power lines leaving tens of thousands without electricity this hour. we're now waiting for a news conference, but first let's go to claudia who felt the earthquakes early this morning with the very latest. >> reporter: i did. it was quite a stunning event to just ride it out as it struck about 3:20 this morning a long rumbling earthquake, laura and eric, we're getting more

details, we heard that a child had to be air lifted to a local hospital. dozens and dozens of other injuries as well. mostly minor, most cuts and bruises, but what a mess at places like this market here in napa, the owner estimating up to $75,000 in damage and lost merchandise, he says none of it insured and about a mile away from here, some people lost everything when fire broke out at the napa valley mobile home park destroying four homes and damaging others. first responders went door to door to make sure everyone got out safely. they say they had to let that fire burn itself out because they didn't have enough water on account of broken water mains. listen. >> the trucks were able to siphon water from the pools, come back to the homes and attempt to extinguish the flames. >> on arrival, it was pretty much our first option.

and trying to count for the people that were in the unit. at this time we have no injuries, no fatalities. >> but take a look at risk downtown napa, a number of buildings there suffering a lot of damage, bricks, shattered glass just litter the street. and as residents inspect their property, crews are out inspected roads and bridges. we are hearing now from the california highway patrol that all the major roads are open for now. all of this happening, really during the peak of the very busy wine country tourist season, the economic impact from this event will be significant, at markets like this, and through theory ju june. the u.s. geological saying we can expect between 30 and 70 after shocks from this earth quake in the days ahead. so it may not be over yet. back to you. >> as bad as it was, it potentially could have been much

worse. and we're now awaiting a news conference about this earth quake in napa valley, authorities are about to deliver some details. there's the podium at napa city hall. when the officials step up to the podium, we will of course bring you that news conference live. >> morning news anchor at kgo radio, jennifer jones lee is on the phone now, jennifer used to work together as radio reporters in sacramento. jennifer, welcome, and you live in american canyon, it's one thing to have a story break in your hometown, but it's another to have it happen while you're in your own home. tell us what happened while you slept. >> it's incredible, we just celebrated our one-year anniversary in this house in american canyon and this, i guess, was our celebration if you will. we were asleep in the middle of the night, we had just been to my cousin's wedding in sonoma, my grandmother was staying with us, we had cousins stay with us.

all of a sudden the house started to shake. we rode it out as best as we could. as soon as it was done, we ran downstairs. we were able to look around the house right away, but the house definitely shook. i'm just so glad that everybody was in bed and not where that stuff could have fallen on them. >> i remember back in the earthquake in 1989, i remember feeling car sick, it's a disconcerning feeling when you're on the ground. but what did it feel like when you were in bed. >> it's kind of a swaying or a rolling, this was so much more violent. it was as though somebody just picked up our bed, shook it as hard as they could and drop it back down. it lasted a good 15, 20 seconds,

it felt like an eternity, of course. you get up, your body is tense almost like you've been in a car wreck. it's hard to come down from that. i think there's still a little bit of anxiety in me right now. >> what's happening with the neighborhood where you are, the fires, gas leaks, what did you think about? >> earlier this morning, it did appear that a part of the highway bubble. >> let's now take a look at the news conference in napa, napa city hall. let's listen to officials. >> and effective at 7:59, we declared a local emergency. the county has taken a similar

action. we have brought in all available forces in the workforce to come in to assess damage, provides services. the work is under way. we're busy now surveying all of the various complaints that we have received and establishing priorities. we have brought a number of resources in this morning to talk to you, why don't i introduce john callahan who's with the fire department who's also handling the operations this morning. he can complain what we're doing in terms of response. >> what is the emergency deck ala ration mean to you. >> the declaration states that we have an emergency, it means that we have exhausted our local resources, we need more help

than we can ---from the outside, we're asking the governor, both the county and the city are asking the governor to declare a state emergency so we can access services through the state office of emergency services. it's simply a declaration to determine that we need help and it's serious. we will be submitting in that declaration, an itemized list of damages. >> we just made the declaration about an hour ago. john? >> good morning, john callahan, obviously as the fire chief pointed out, the earthquake occurred, we had multiple structure fires that we have been dealing with, a total of about six, in one of those

incidents, four of the six are completely damaged, the other two have -- we're in the phase of evaluating the buildings out there, we have a total of four strike teams from local government, from the area that are in here helping us out as was mentioned by the city manager, our resources are exhausted as far as quantity of on duty personnel, so in these situations as happens state and nationally, we call in outside resources for that help. we have had in the neighborhood of -- we have right about probably 100-plus gas leaks, power lines downs, medical calls are in the neighborhood of about 80 plus at this time. the queen of the valley hospital has been inundated with patients, all related to the trauma related incidences after

the earthquake, one more incident of a fireplace calling on a child a young person, is in critical condition, has been flown out for a neurocenter. our crews, we're still trying to catch up with the calls, we have additional backlog of calls, we also have resources from the california office of emergency services. local fire agencies with rescue crews, urban search and rescue crews are in route here, plus some that are physically in town now. that's about all i have, the public works directly comes up and talks about the infrastructure issues. and we'll go from there. [ inaudible ] >> i do not, i'm sorry. i know it was a pediatric, and i do not know the age. [ inaudible ] >> i'm the operations chief of the napa fire department.

>> is that the only serious injuries? >> there were two critical, and i don't know the nation of them. i'm going to assume that these are all trauma related injuries from falling debris, et cetera. we have no reports of anybody missing at this time. [ inaudible ]. >> can you repeat that? >> have you identified all the gas leaks and power lines down in the city? >> no, i believe we are still getting calls of that nature, pg&e is being very aggressive, working close with us to identify any known leaks, but as people get up and get home we're starting to get more calls about this. we haven't seen any aftershocks of any significance. we have had two of them in the 3

3-point-something range. but they're up in the range of 5 plus for after shocks. >> people who are looking in the buildings downtown, where there's rubble, is there any danger getting too close? >> please stay away, we have done our bis and we're still working on isolating those areas and taping them off. we have tried to close down downtown and those buildings that are obviously damaged. we have teams of building inspectors, which again the public works director will get to that are going to go out and evaluate those items. but it's the common sense side, please stay away from the buildings that look like they're lean ageing at this point. there's a shelter in place in napa now. generally if you don't smell gas, you're probably safe. >> can you give us any estimate

of when power will be restored, or for pg&e to get a sense of just how long this could take? >> i do not have an idea of that. >> would the building officials have a better idea of how many overall structures? >> i'm going to let the public works director come up and speak to that and the status of the buildings. >> could you talk a little bit more about the mobile homes? >> a total of six, four completely destroyed, two others damaged. that's one incident. and another incident, another structure fire at a mobile home where the home is destroyed as well. >> separate mobile homes? >> separate mobile homes and separate mobile home parks. >> hello, jack la rochelle, public works director, first up, i do want to say that the

reports on the gas leaks that we have gotten, there's been a lot of reports, but pg&e is actually chasing those down. we don't know the actual number, my understanding is that they have crews working on that as dill jen dill jenltly as possible. it's been reports of about 30 water main leaks or breaks. a lot of them in the browns valley area, which is west of town. and that's to be expected, that's a gee logic area that's more susceptible to some damage. we have our crews out there assessing all of those locations, what we're trying to do is isolate those leaks, shut off the water to those areas as quickly as possible. now to provide water flow and volume, we have opened up our other water plants up at

hennessy, so we have two feeds, one from the south, one from the north, our water plants are fine, they were not damaged. that's the good news, the up side, so we are feeding water, the tank levels did start going down right after the earth quake, so those have been stabilized and starting to come back up when we were able to get our other plant in operation. what we're doing now is -- so the first issue is just getting the water back on as quickly as possible. the water is safe to drink. i would like to stay that. and what we're doing avenfterwa, after we do that part of the work, then we have to set out a set of assessment teams to go out and assess the damage. my understanding so far is that there's some road buckling issues but nothing as far as any

catastrophic failure of any bridges, which is good news. at least in the papping area. we have a team of folks that are going to go out, some inspectors that will get some structural experts to go through and assess properties. we're doing that right now, we don't know how many there are, what the extent of the damages is, but when we find something that is problematic, we will red tag it, tell folks not to be arrange the building for safety purposes and then we'll got from there. but we don't know yet. >> it feels more likely that you're going to have 100 or 200 structures damaged than dozens. can you tell us how many have

been red tagged? >> that's speculation, you can see some of the damage downtown, unre-enforced main street buildings, but we just don't know yet. >> were they retrofitted and still failed? i know it's early, but anything along those lines? >> i can't tell you, rick, if you want to talk about that, rick, rick tucker is in charge of planning. >> right, it's tooker. with regard to the structures, jack is right, we're out asse assessing, we don't have numbers to tell you at this point in time. what we're really trying to do is make certain you get people on the street identifying these buildings as quickly as we can. we're starting from the center outword where some of our older

structures are. with regard to our most of the buildings in the downtown area have been re-enforced. whether those are the ones that are connected to work that has been done or not, we're not able to say at this point in time, we need to collect information and get it out to you correctly, rather than make some assumptions. [ inaudible ] >> they varied. of the urms that we have had. there's been improvements made to the building over time,

there's been some completed as recently as the last 18 months and others have been done several years ago. so it really just varies. >> is ill a rooifrlt? >> it is a environment. >> the deadline has come and gone so as a result those very few that have not completed their re-enforcement, we have been automaticively pursuing that by working with them. but like i say, i don't want to draw a conclusion to any of those structures relative to any damage that's out there now, we just don't have enough data to tell you about. >> i'm the community development director. >> steve potter. from the police department, i'm the operations captain there. and i would just like to say that our 911 system and all law enforcement public safety systems are operating as normal, but enhanced because of this event. i think we have relative calm in the community, because of the i

think a lot of that had to deal with the overwhelming response that we had from our 911 staff, our firefighters and our police officers who live here in town who came in without having too e called in. so we are working with some of the downtown area shopping centers, we will have over the next few days a high police presence, and that's to provide assistance to the citizens of town as well as the business owners. right now we have some street closures downtown. from third street to main, a lot of that is due to the broken glass that's downtown, the damage to the buildings, the potential for further damage to take place. the napa sheriff's department has taken care of security at the courthouses, the administrative buildings and at the department of corrections. we are very thankful for the

community, we have already received a lot of donations as far as lumber to board up windows, so that makes our job easier. we have been responding to a lot of alarm calls. when those buildings are secured, it makes it that much easier for us, it helps us provide other service to the community. so any questions? >> how many 911 calls have you received? >> i have no idea, but the system was maxed out for a short time. which is typical. several years ago we had an earth quake about 5.2, i believe at that point, we went through that. it wakes people up and they call. >> what was the chief emergency? reporting an earthquake? >> there were some emergencies, there were some gas leak issues, there were fires, a whole host of things people were calling about that were brought on by this natural disaster. >> any concern about downtown a lot of the windows and doors have actually fallen out.

any concern about people going in and stealing things or anything like that? >> we have had relative calm for this magnitude of an earthquake and those donations we have received, they have already -- we're assisting the business owners to secure their businesses as quickly as possible. [ inaudible ] >> come on up and have a good time. i would check on your reservations at any restaurants or wineries. but, you know, up in the valley and downtown, business will be as normal. we just ask that they stay out of the dangerous areas where there's broken glass, brick and mortar on the ground, where they might get hurt. no other questions?

i will turn it back over to the city manager. >> just point of clarification before we close, when we say that there have been 100 gas leaks, those are calls we have received from people that were worried about gas, that doesn't necessarily mean that we have verified that the pipelines are leaking or that there's a hazard. any time we receive that kind of call, we go out and check it out. but i want to make it clear those are calls we received not verified leaks. we know that the conditions are evolving quickly, so if it would be helpful, we'll do these kind of briefings, every few hours, and we should have more information and be able to verify, and give you more details in terms of the numbers and what's happening out there. in the meantime for people to receive more information, they can -- anybody can take a look

at our web page, at city of napa.org, we have the whole front page dedicated to providing data and details about what's happening. and also the city's public information officer, barry martin can be contacted at 258-7804, extension 7817. 258 -- >> someone is writing this in.

258-7817. >> we have been listening to authorities talking about the damages in this earthquake this morning. earthquake protection measures have taken -- -- no reports of any deaths, 80 or so injured, two critical, including that toddler we're told at a fireplace falling on that child. certainly our thoughts and prayers are with all the victims. and napa trying to deal with the after math of this earth quake and more aftershocks, as you know, after living in that area. of course when you see the damage, the timing of this in the middle of night there is going to be key for the amount of people that were damaged, or the amount of structures that were damaged and the injuries. >> a northern california survey -- after this powerful earthquake strikes in the wine country. we're going to go to janice dean

now in our weather center. >> well, laura, of course, folks in and around the california area are definitely quaking after this earthquake this morning and i guess a lot of folks are wondering is it going to happen again in this area? of course you have lived out in this region and you know what it's like to experience these tremors, there is a chance of another earthquake 5.0 or greater within the next couple of days, so we're going to continue to monitor that, but the usgs says the chance of the aftershocks is about 54%, so 30 to 70 after shocks are expected. 64% say a big after shock of 5 or greater is possible and they also say that 5.0 or greater could cause some significant damage. so we're continuing to monitor the situation, they're expecting more aftershocks, we have certainly gotten reports of 3.0

or higher in that area. of course that's the last that people need to know. back to you, laura. >> we have got more continuing coverage of this massive earthquake, house call, though, will be up next. ♪ [ male announcer ] imagine the cars we drive... being able to see so clearly... to respond so intelligently and so quickly, they can help protect us from a world of unseen danger. it's the stuff of science fiction... minus the fiction. and it is mercedes-benz... today. see your authorized dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone who gave him a fresh perspective on his portfolio.

and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade.

time for sunday house call. >> welcome and joining us is the chairman of professor of urology. >> and the author of "unlocking the code of sickness and health." >> we want to talk about earthquake preparedness, it's something that really all of us should know about. what are some of the tips you can share with