eric thomas is at the cypress freeway. kate thomas is here. we'll start with laura anthony who has a look at a quake warning system. >> reporter: hi. it's called the my shake. i've downloaded it on my phone. state and local officials are urging everyone to do that. i'm at pleasant hill near the epicenter of the 4.5 earthquake. that happens to be the minimum threshold for the my shake app to send out an alert. >> it is appropriate that we are here in this region on this day. >> gavin newsom used this day, the 30th anniversary of the low ma pre ate a earth yak to launch the my shake app to give californians a few seconds to prepare when the next big one hits. >> 99.7% chance of the next 30 years we would experience an earthquake greater than 6.7. >> the app is -- a primitive

version was actually used in 1989 to warn search and rescue teams trying to free people from the cypress structure. >> the usgs scientists set up a system to set up radio alerts whenever there's a significant aftershock that might shake the nimitz. >> drop cover, hold on. shaking expected. >> developed at uc berkeley. my shake can provide up to 20 seconds of warning before the ground starts to shake from a nearby quake. enough time to take some kind of protective action. >> when the earthquake begins, ground motion sensors detect and gather information rapidly. and allow the system to estimate the potential size of the earthquake. >> you may receive the alerts before, during or after the shaking. however, whether you get an alert or whether you feel shaking, the reaction is the same. drop, cover and hold on. >> while local and state officials urge everyone to download the app, they also say it should be considered part of

a larger emergency plan. >> the price of admission to live here is preparation. >> reporter: to give you a real life example here in pleasant hill was that monday night that 4.5 earthquake, those in this area may have gotten the most warning. the closer you are to the epicenter, they may have gotten 20 seconds. in san francisco, they may get five second or the warning may come after the shaking stops as the governor said today. it's not a perfect app. it's a work in progress. certainly, better than nothing. in pleasant hill, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> that could be life-saving for some people. it's been 30 years since the quake that killed 63 people, more than 3700 injured and the damage added up to more than $6 billion. one of the most memorable was the damage done to the bay bridge and the cypress freeway. 42 people died and dozens trapped when the cypress

collapsed. eric thomas live in oakland with a look at how the city remembered the collapse of the cypress freeway. er er eric. >> reporter: the freeway was about a mile and a half long section of the nimitz. it was elevated and double decker. if you moved here after 1989 like i did, you never saw it. because 30 years ago today, it crumbled. tuesday, october 17, 1989, the violent shaking it over. and in west oakland, this is what's left behind. the double decker cypress freeway collapsed section by section. the upper deck crushing cars on the lower deck. >> the fact that right here where we are standing 42 people perished in the cypress collapse. >> mayor libby schaaf led ceremonies today honoring the first responders and citizens who helped in rescues, reflecting on the lives lost and preparing for the next quake. >> things started to shake and we went to work. >> among those honored, retired

deputy fire chief mark hoffman. he was a lieutenant at the time, felt the shaking and knew there would be trouble. his crew was first to arrive at the deadly cypress scene. >> i felt my best role was to bird dog and go from collapsed section to collapsed section and get an assessment of how many bodies needed to be rescued. >> wilford harvey was in the cypress mandela neighborhood checked on neighbors and turned off natural gas to prevent fires. he regrets the loss of life and the cost but like many in the area, he prefers the replacement section of the nimitz that skirts around the neighborhood instead of the elevated eyesore that made folks feel isolated. >> we couldn't see the tribune tower or the city hall. we didn't know where we were living on this side of the freeway. >> reporter: he also remembers there was a maximum effort among people who lived in the neighborhood back in the '50s to keep the cypress freeway from being built at all.

they knew it was going to be an eyesore. so when it came time to rebuild, they made sure that there was no reappearance of that double decker elevated freeway that was built around so that they could feel more a part of oakland. live in oakland, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> thank you, eric. the bay area has changed a lot in the 30 years since the earthquake. the old cantilever side of the bay bridge was determined to be unsafe for the next big one. because of the quake this half of the bridge was replaced with the single anchor suspension bridge that we have today. along the san francisco waterfront, the quake rendered the old embarcadero freeway unsafe. that was interstate 480, if you remember that. when it was torn down, city planners transformed the embarcadero into the space you see today. other cities like seattle have used our waterfront for the way theirs should look. >> this is mandela parkway. trees, a washing path and

memorials sit in the center median where interstate 880 once stood. >> it's been a frightening scene here. as you can see below me is where this crack in the bay bridge occurred. a 50-foot section. you see down there below the two cars, two cars that were on the upper deck when the bridge collapsed. >> abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley was the first reporter on the scene when the section of the bay bridge collapsed. she was headed towards the cypress freeway when it hit. >> she's here to talk about her experience. leslie, that is frightening to even see. we were talking upstairs. i was saying, weren't you scared of an aftershock coming. you didn't grow up here. that's not like top of mind? >> i had moved here a little over a year before that. i had never experienced an earthquake. our intuition was to go to the break in the bridge and the rest is us standing there and showing the rest of the world what had happened here. that broken bay bridge 'em

bollized, i think how hurt the bay area was by that quake. >> how close was your vehicle to the part of the bridge that collapsed? >> we were actually on the lower deck, larry, heading towards the oakland side when the shaking started. it felt like the van, our news van was on a tram poe line shaking around up and down back an forth. we were probably 30 seconds, if we had been a little -- running a little later, we might have been where that section collapsed. we were on the way to the cypress structure. fortuitously missed being there by a minute or two. >> wow. >> when the news breaks, for lack of a better word, we just jump into action and want to get there and find out what happened. i'm sure that is what you did. but now looking back at it, seeing yourself there and when you had a chance to decompress and realized what had happened, what was that like? >> it took a while. we drilled in, reported on the

news. the bay bridge was out for a month. the bay area was kind of in a fractured state of being. when it finally reopened again, to me, it allowed me to feel the emotion, feel the aftershocks, if you will, from surviving that quake and being in such a precarious approximatipart of tn between the disaster zones. >> when i look at that video and see you there, it had to be surreal at that moment. nobody had seen anything like that. you're only a few feet away from where it collapsed. >> i was a foot away from where the break of the bridge was. like i was on the edge of a precipice. in the distance, i could see a fire in san francisco. the marina district. i could see a fire in berkeley. i had to -- we got a cal trans crew to take us to the break in the bridge and realized wow, we've got to get this out to the world and go live. when i walked back across that empty span of the bridge to get the truck, drove it up there and

off we went. you have to remember, at that time much of the bay area couldn't see what we were broadcasting. >> didn't have power. >> didn't have power. >> it was going out to the rest of the country and the world. my husband found out i was okay by phone calls he got from all across the country with people saying, she's on the bridge. she's reporting live on the bridge. he was stunned. we had no way to communicate. >> you have a piece of the bridge? >> i do. he was on the bridge the whole month it was closed. they were trying to get it back up and going. this was a piece of the bolt that sheared off. the bolt shifted two inches north from what i understand. five inches to east. these bolts gave way and the new bridge is, we're going to be talking about in a special coming up later is a remarkable bit of engineering feat to not have this happen again. >> wow. did a great job that day and

thank your insight. rk for us. >> appreciate it. breaking news from city college of san francisco. police areearching fof a threat was phoned in to the college. buildings are being evacuated. sky 7 as you can see in the live pictures over the scene. people are being told to stay away from the college while officers from san francisco police as well as city college police look for anything that may be dajer dangerous. police dogs have been called in. they'll be helping with the sear search. we'll bring you details as soon as we learn them. our 30th anniversary continues with more remembrances and what you can do to prepare for the next big one. free speech, will it be enough? happy divorce. sounds strange but one couple says they made it work and work well. i'm spencer christian. it's turning breezy and gusty around the area

we're looking back at the past and into the future in the abc 7 originals documentary, the earthquake effect. it can be seen anywhere including amazon fire tv and the abc 7 news app. a special 30 minute commercial-free broadcast tonight at 6:30. i'm with jahneil ma fay, chief mitigation officer with the quake authority. thanks for coming in for the 30th anniversary. >> thank you for having me. >> you were here as well. >> of course, new quickly that my life is going to change.

>> dozens of homes and buildings. they were damaged or destroyed in that earth quake. there has been a push over the years, decades, too, to improve the seismic risk. have we been successful, we haven't had that huge test. i want to knock on every piece of what i can find. have we done well enough? >> we've done well enough. i think what you said is important. when you look at all of that damage, you said that was the test. but we know it wasn't. that was a 90-mile away earthquake. so very bad structures, particularly bad structures on soft soil were really damaged. but it wasn't the test for a lot of our buildings. particularly the privately owned buildings. so we've seen the multifamily soft story ordinance in a lot of cities in the bay area and the speem are starting to realize that older homes need to be retrofitted. there's still a lot we need to do. >> what can we do to move it along? >> we need to understand the

vulnerabilities in your homes. do you live in multifamily. in a soft story. you want to make sure that you have somebody paying attention to that. if you live in your own home or rented home, particularly older homes need to be bolted to their foundation and homes with crawl space homes need to have plywood put in them. to protect your finances, it really is a new day for earthquake insurance. there was a time when everyone was worried about the deductible and the cost. it is a new day. there are choices in deductible and the selection of the product and you really can find something affordable these days. >> i think it's about understanding where you live, i assume and what your house is built on. what's underneath you. >> yes. i mentioned soft soil. we saw amplification of ground motions in the earthquake from an earthquake 90 miles away. people need to remember, if you're on bedrock, when the earthquake is in your backyard,

you will see significant ground shaking. it's going to shake your ground apart and do -- some of the things that people say, i went through loma pre ate a, or i'm on bedrock. that doesn't matter when it it's in your backyard. does it need to be bolted and braced. there's lots of information on our website and other websites to help you make that decision and find people to help do you that work. >> there are people out there. got to be prepared. thank you for coming in. we appreciate everything you have brought us in terms of information and we can help you get prepared for the next big earthquake, as prepared as we can be or any natural disaster. click on the prepare nor cal. you can get tips on preparing for the next quake. because of the 30-year anniversary of quake, a lot of people are reminiscing today about that terrifying day and exactly where they were when the

shaking began. abc 7 news reporter kate larsen caught up with some of those people today. kate? >> reporter: that's right, larry. there's certainly a lot of people who remember exactly where they were and what they were doing 30 years ago today. this is the beginning of the city's official commemorative ceremony that we're going to bring to you at 5:00 live. but it's interesting because i got an opportunity to talk to some of our colleagues in the abc 7 newsroom about how loma prieta changed their lives. >> we see crumble. concrete from up above is starting to fall and it's filtering down to our seats. the stadium goes silent imt. >> at 5:04 p.m., october 17th, 1989, 5:00 producer, deb at candlestick park for the giants world series. >> all of a sudden someone's tv set, the size of a toaster, not like the ones today. there's a picture of the bay bridge and it's collapsed and it

dawns on us, this is a major quake. that's when we start to leave. everyone times out. >> it took tdeb and her husband four hours to drive home. >> i knew that i was okay. i felt like, this is not the big one. frankly, i'm still waiting for it. >> transmission operator brian jones makes sure all our live shots make air. but 30 years ago, he worked at kaiser on gear i boulevard. >> when the earthquake happened, a lot of people were standing out in front of the hospital. i think people were trying to figure out where to go and what to do. >> so brian decided to help three co-workers who he met on the sidewalk and invited him to stay at his san francisco apartment since they couldn't get home to the east bay. two years later, he married one of those co-workers. >> it's a great memory. it really is. without loma prieta, i probably would never met my wife.

>> or had your kids. >> or had my kids. >> i was here at julius con park. i was a little girl playing with my younger sister and we were walking home when we felt the earth shake. i remember looking up and seeing the power lines above me just swinging back and forth. >> reporter: and once we got home and my mom made it off the freeway and my dad got back from candlestick. we got together with our neighbors and had a candlelight dinner over our camping stove since there was no electricity. of course, loma prieta was no doubt a tragedy, it's important to remember it was a really important day that brought a lot of people in the bay area together. i'm kate larsen, abc 7 news. if you lived through that shaking that day, you won't ever forget it. >> nope. >> we'll get to the weather in a moment. you were here for gma, weren't you? >> i was with "good morning america" then. i was sent out here to do world

series features. having covered the first two games and knew about traffic congestion. i decided to wait until the third inning to head to the ballpark thinking i would avoid traffic. i was in the 19th floor of the st. francis hotel. the most terrifying experience of my life. the building felt like it was going to fall over. i thought i was going to die right there. then, of course i was here for ten days with post earthquake covera. think the first interview with the mayor. recovery from the earthquake. yeah. and the resumption of the world series. let's talk about what's moving. everything is moving right now. it's breezy and gusty out there. under mainly sunny skies. we have wind gusts right now at the surface ranging from oh, about 25 miles per hour to nearly 40 miles per hour. 39 miles per hour gusts right now in san francisco. it's pretty breezy. as a result of that a high surf advisory. we've got strong winds over the ocean waters generating a

northwest swell that resulted in elevated wave heights. this high surf advisory in effect until 9:00 tomorrow night. the possibility of dangerous rip current and beach erosion. on we go to a view to san francisco under the sutro tower camera. 62 degrees in the city. 61 at half moon bay and upper 60s at oakland. redwood city, san jose and gilroy. a view in the east bay hills from the emeryville camera looking toward the golden gate under mainly clear skies. 71 degrees right now in santa rosa. 64 san rafael. 69 in petaluma. low 70s at concord and livermore. the view of breezy conditions on the embarcadero looking out from our rooftop camera at abc 7. these are the forecast features. mostly clear tonight. breeds i to gusty tns continue. there will be a couple of fronts passing through. there's a chance of north bay showers early saturday morning. otherwise, though, saturday will

be a bright day. overnight low, mainly clear skies. high clouds develop overnight. overnight lows in the mid to upper 40s. about 50 degrees in the bay shoreline. on we go to the forecast animation starting at 11:00 tonight. notice the advance of the high clouds in the early morning hours. they'll pass on through. a bright day tomorrow. going into friday night into early saturday morning. we'll see more clouds passing over bringing more moisture with them. a chance of early morning showers in the north bay on saturday before we finally have sunny skies in the afternoon. sunny skies tomorrow will bring us high temperatures from the low 60s at the coast to upper 60s along the bay shoreline. we'll have about the same temperature range on saturday. minor warming occurs on sunday. highs approaching 80 degrees inland. after that a bigger warmup on monday. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. looking at monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next week, it will be almost

summer-like. high temperatures inland in the mid to upper 80s. 80 degrees in the bay shoreline and 70 degrees on the coast. before we get to the warmup, a cool to mild weekend coming our way. all right. it's coming, larry.

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mrs. doubtfire head today broadway. it's being adapted into a musical called mrs. doubtfire. she's a new musical deary. rob mcclure will take on the work of the divorcee who disguises himself as a female nanny to spend more time with his kids. the san francisco home that was the setting is a big tourist attraction. the musical will make the world premiere in seattle before going to broadway in april. a mural featuring the aging face of robin williams, the

star of mrs. doubtfire will soon disappear between 6th and 7th streets. abc 7 news found the humural wa fenced off. the mural was painted in august of 2018 right around the fourth anniversary of hisdeath. san francisco-based company open table revealed the 50 best restaurants for a date in america. none in the bay area made the list. arrowhead grill in phoenix number one. california tied with arizona, florida and arizona with three restaurants each. washington, d.c., illinois, nevada and texas tied for top states with six each. the list was generated from diner reviews. >> i'm questioning their list. there's a scientific reason for craving freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. >> beyond the smell? >> the smell is great. research suggests the ingredients not only create a harmonious flavor, they create the perfectly addictive treat.

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a controlled burn that turned into a 15-acre grassfire along highway -- the chp shut down all lanes of highway 37 while crews worked to contain the fire, they released a traffic advisory because of all the heavy smoke in the area. all lanes were reopened around 3:00 p.m. the company that operated the crockett tank farm that burned on tuesday says all the black smoke put into the air, the air samples found contaminants to be below detectable levels. that's one of the -- its engineers are inspecting other tanks that did not burn for their mechanical integrity. operations at the site have been

suspended indefinitely. the cause of the fire has not yet been dernld. authorities are still trying to figure out whether an earthquake the night before contributed in any way. stay up to date on the new w star fire on abc7news.com. > tributes are pouring in for elijah cummings. >> the flags lowered at half-staff in honor of the pioneering civil rights leader. abc news reporter elizabeth hur has a look back at his career. >> maryland congressman elijah coupleummings served as the cha of the oversight committee. he was the renowned civil rights leader, he played a key role in multiple investigations

including the impeachment probe of president trump. a lifelong less dent of baltimore. he fiercely defended his hometown when president trump blasted baltimore in july calling it a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess. cummings did not mince words responding to trump's attacks on four minority congresswomen. >> do you believe president trump is a racist? >> i believe he is -- yes. no doubt about it. i tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. >> back in 2017, cummings underwent an aortic valve replacement. >> i'm here at johns hopkins hospital. i had to get a tuneup. >> in september he had an unspecified medical procedure. his last roll call vote was more than a month ago. he's survived by his wife and three children. elizabeth hur, abc news. new york. vice president mike pence says turkey has agreed to a cease-fire with the u.s. and

syria, but critics of the administration say that agreement is really a win for ankara. the cease-fire gives syrian kurds five days to leave a 20-mile safe zone area in northern syria. turkish forces are under no obligation to withdraw troops. the u.s. will not implement a round of sanctions on turkey. british prime minister boris johnson is confident that parliament will pass a new brexit deal in a rare saturday session. that deal was hammered out after a two-day meeting with johnson. all eu member nations, the council says it avoids a lot of the chaos. governor newsom banned -- activists are urging i.c.e. to free immigrant detainees. abc 7 news was at the immigration office as two people detained at for profit facilities spoke about

overcrowded conditions. >> we want to ensure they don't transfer the people from the detention centers that they're closing but they should release them like they have the power to do. a lot of the people detained are only detained because they can't afford bond. >> immigration department spokesperson says i.c.e. would likely transfer detainees to centers outside of california. facebook is establishing an independent oversight board for people to appeal content decisions across all of its services. that's what founder and ceo mark zuckerberg said today during his free expression speech at georgetown university in washington, d.c. how it handles political speech allowing politicians to lie in campaign ads on hits platforms. >> we're going to appoint members to the board with a diversity of views and backgrounds. but we each hold free expression as a paramount value. i want to ensure that these

values of voice and free expression are enshrined deeply governed. congress called on zuckerberg to testify about the role facebook played in the 2016 election meddling scandal. san francisco-based e-cigarette company juul labs will voluntarily stop selling fruit and dessert flavored nicotine products. this is after backlash -- hooking a generation of teenagers. the company pulled the flavors off store shelves in november and exclusively sold them online. they will continue to sell mt and menthol. new numbers out from the cdc show the reaent rash of vaping deaths continues to rise. there have been 33 vaping-related deaths nationwide, three in california. nearly 1500 people have suffered lung injuries in connection with e-cigarettes and vaping. the sicknesses occurred in 49 states, alaska is the only u.s. state that hasn't reported an illness. the u.s. coast guard seized

about 6800 pounds of cocaine from vessels in the pacific ocean off the coast of mexico, central and south america. the drugs with an estimated value of $92 million were off loaded today in san diego. three different cutters were involved in this operation which went from july to october. expect a warmer winter across the united states this year because of climate change. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration released the 2019 winter outlook. the agency predicts milder and drier than normal conditions from san francisco to the oregon border. it does expect out breaks in the ohio valley and -- the artists who want to do more than hear your earthquake story. plus, a happy divorce? sounds too good to be true. one couple says it can be done. i'm spencer christian looking from mt. tam. we have a high surf advisory. the wave heights are elevated.

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have been? >> because you decided not to stay together. >> right. the divorce itself, we've been divorced for 12 years. it didn't start off as happy. the marriage wasn't happy. the ending -- >> we've got a beautiful child. >> it evolved into a happy divorce. >> is it accurate to say that your love for your child is what brought you back together in a write a book which had to be to challenging? >> 100%. we always went back to what's best for asher with our son. if it wasn't best for him, it didn't matter if it was best for us. it had to be what's best for him. >> take me back 12 years. could you have ever -- she's saying, really? that wasn't part of the script of questions as i recall. no. at that point, could you have imagined that you would be collaborate to go write this

book and go on a tour to promote the book. >> together, no. >> you're pretty much like everybody else. >> at that point -- in the beginning, it was touch and go. much less touch. or much less touch and go. it was not easy. we struggled. the same thing every divorce goes through. that's because there's so much emotion and raw resentment, anger, fear, guilt. but eventually, we got to a place where we decided that we shouldn't burden our son with our choices. and so decided every decision was for asher. we wanted to be able to be in the same room without killing each other. then it evolved into what we have today. >> right. >> what prompted you to write the book? >> so many people on instagram, facebook were like how do you do it? why dew point you write a book.

first of all, we had no idea how to write a book. it took us four years to write this thing. >> once you start today collaborate. obviousl, you're dealing with asher, you have to work things out. >> it had to be okay with him. >> how old is he? >> he's 16 now. >> has he read the book? >> he has a chapter. >> the last chapter in the book was actually his essay that he wrote going into his high school exams about somebody he admired. it wasn't provoked by nick i and myself. he wrote it on his own about us. >> what advice can you give about going through the difficult times and can't imagine. 12 years later we'll sit down and go on a book tour? >> for me, i'd say forgive yourself first. put your ego aside. >> yeah. forgiveness was a huge part of the foundation that we built it on. we both didn't fingers at each other. in the book, that's why it's kind of short.

we don't go through the gory details of the divoe. we don't bring up what happened. we came to a point where that didn't matter. what mattered was that we moved forward and built it on amends and forgiveness. and put the past behind us and move forward. it evolved like i said. it's important to said. our happy divorce is 12 years in the making. we worked through some tough times. >> last question here. any thoughts about getting back together? >> no. we're both remarried. >> that would comate it. >> no. >> definition of insanity. doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. we know we are meant to be on this earth to create a beautiful child first and foremost and second be best friends. >> ben and nicki. >> how about the niners 5-0. >> doing wonderful. >> happy divorce. >> thank you. >> your accuweather forecast. spencer christian. we have breezy and gusty conditions across the bay area right now.

the result is that we have elevated wave heights and a high surf advisory until 9:00 tomorrow night. there is the possibility of dangerous rip current and beach erosion with conditions like this. on we go to overnight conditions, mainly clear skies. high clouds passing through in the overnight hours. high temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. 50 degrees or 51 around the bay shoreline. tomorrow, after some early morning high clouds, we'll get bright, mostly sunny afternoon. highs range from low 60s at the coast to upper 60s around the bay to low 70s inland. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. not much change on saturday. gradual warming or minor warming on sunday. bigger warming on sunday. inland highs in the mid-80s. 80 degrees on the shoreline. up to 70 at the coast. >> thank you, spencer. get ready to get creeped out. nothing to do with spencer.

the haunted house scaring seasoned fright fans. i'm michael finney. a popular video app is caught in

barney's new york could soon be closing all locations. the luxury department store filed for bankruptcy protection in august. yesterday it reached a deal to sell assets. barney's initially announce td would close 15 stores and leave seven, including the san francisco store open. but according to the court documents, if this new deal is approved, the stores could close now. saks fifth avenue it would allow sacks to feature barney's in its own stores. the latest data on robo calls in the do not call registry. michael finney is here. good news not reflected on the number of calls i'm getting. >> it is quite the headline. good news. about robo calls. you don't hear that very often, do you? >> complaints about fellow marketers have decreased substantially from fiscal 2018 to 5.4 million in 2019.

the hitch, the decrease could be due to the government shutdown when complaints weren't counted. do you think? do you think? okay. 4 million more of us have been added to the do not call registry. that's a good thing. the popular video downloading app snap tube was caught running invisible advertisements in the background of users' phones without their knowledge. snap tube was developed in china. 40 million users. google banned it because it allows users to download videos from major sites like youtube and facebook. upstream released a report showing the free app would load invisible ads that would generate fake clicks in the background at the expense of the user's mobile data plan and battery power. samsung confirmed a major security fall with the in-screen fingerprint in the galaxy s-10 and s-10 plus smartphones.

the flaw was discovered by someone who put a screen protector-his phone. after that any fingerprint would unlock his device. it would create an air pocket that interfered with the fingerprint scanner. all users should switch to pass code unlock and other security features while they investigate how to fix the bug. oops. >> oops, yeah. thanks, michael. halloween is a time to get your scare on. >> and a multisensory halloween experience in los angeles will give you the creeps for a good cause. take a look. >> creep l.a. is redefining the halloween genre. there are disturbing things, things that made my skin crawl. things that made me think. very creepy. >> you as a audiene are placed into a world, into environments where you get to interact and

engage and explore and discover and also be the one who sort of creeps in the dark kind of world. >> i've gone to a bunch of haunted houses in l.a. it blows everything out of the water. awesome. >> our goal and hope for creep l.a. was to take the traditional haunted house experience and just extend it and allow people to not feel like they're pushed and rushed through the rooms and environments. rather they can step into these rooms and environments and get the jump scared and then get the store that i follows all those. >> welcome ever >> creep is a multisensory experience and this year for creep l.a. we're producing a show called house of creep. guests could find themselves, you know, hiding in the dark spaces, you know, being put on time-out, sitting down with a

creepy clown, sitting down and watching a really nasty adult puppet show. i mean, really have all the fixings. >> it's like walking into a whole another world. >> the actors and the characters, they come to you and they tell you stuff and then you go into another room and you're disturbed by what you see there and you maybe watch things. maybe i should run the other way because i'm really freaking scared right now. this person is going to follow me or i don't know what's going to happen next. >> the biggest thing i say to anyone who comes into our doors, literally come in, lose your mind, get lost and just play. >> creep l.a. is surreal. horrific. and disturbing on wonderful levels. >> ultimately wanted people to be able to come into these spaces, have a full night out and then also be able to breathe. no one is going to have the same

experience and ultimately we want you all to choose what you wish. whatever fortune favors the bold. it's up to you to make this experience what you want it. >> creepy. >> there's something about that clown. >> i know. no thanks. >> that clown is coming to kill me. i just know t. >> you can check out the localish.com on facebook and instagram. for great halloween events in the bay area, go to ashs 7 news.com and search halloween. where were you when the loma prieta earthquake hit 30 years ago today? one artist translated the unforgettable memories into portraits at the chinese cultural center of fran. dan is here with a look ahead. new at 5:00, the man who carjacked and kidnapped a ups driver in his truck. new video of the 14-minute chase with the district attorney

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murder. followed by abc 7 news at 11:00. we've been focusing on the loma prieta earthquake. this was before cell phones and social media. we've been trying to bring them to life. liz kruts has the story. whether outside of mervyns or in the stands at the world series, we want to know your story where you were and what you were doing when loma prieta hit. i felt a simple website and started soliciting stories from people, just asking them in 300 or 400 words, keeping it concise, tell their personal account where they were at the moment of the quake, what was the aftermath for them. i figure out how to illustrate them. one was a woman who was very young, the quake was scary sure. but because she was a kid, she was worried about the fish tank overflowing and the crackers.

and him throwing a bologna sandwich across the room. she's been illustrating them for five years. her work on display at the chinese culture center. memories from 1989. >> the tennis square incident. the loma prieta earthquake. what's interesting in that moment in 1989, there are both physical and psychological shifts in the city and in the world. >> this idea of sharing memories has so much to do with how the bay area has changed since the quake. i like this idea of having a place to hold that in a valid way. >> one moment, one year. it changed so much for so many. in san francisco, liz -- >> we continues to share people's work online. >> you can see her illustrations on her website or at the chinese cultural center of san francisco and it runs through the ends of

the year. >> this does it for abc 7 news at 4:00. thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. i'm larry beil. abc 7 news at 5:00 starts now. earthquake, drop, cover, hold on. >> state launches the country's first statewide earthquake alert system. how much time do you get to prepare? >> the epicenter of loma prieta, like phoenix, how santa cruz rose from the devastation. >> when time stopped. we're moments away from remembering a memorable moment. you'll see it as it happens. >> also ahead, new images from a police shooting in san jose. the new developments tonight from the d.a. a week after the power shut off, the bay area's biggest city looks at getting rid of pg&e. prepare yourself! shut off the gas! shut off electricity! >> 30 years ago today, the world watched as the loma prieta

earthquake practically shut down the bay area. >> i understand that we're looking at a live picture of the damage to the bay bridge. an entire section of the bay bridge has been lost. >> the quake's epicenter was 70 miles from the bay bridge, all the way in the santa cruz mountains. >> really the ground zero. i got a handy camera that i attached to a light stand withgt it in the crack about eight feet. >> the 6.9 magnitude earthquake killed 63 people. injured more than -- cost more than $6 billion in damage. scientists cannot yet predict the next earthquake. but at least now we have a bit of a warning for it. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm kristen sze. a new quake appncheau today. if it were available 30 years ago, the marina district would have had 20 seconds warning. >> candlestick point would have had