morning. state officials are assessing the damage some homes in rio dell and the eel river valley reportedly suffered broken water lines and cracked foundations. >> del norte, humboldt and mendocino counties remain under a state of emergency. there have been no reports, though, thankfully, of any significant injuries. >> the 7.0 quake struck yesterday morning 11 miles southwest of scotia. a tsunami warning was issued for 500 miles of coastline, including the bay area, but was canceled about one hour later, and the cleanup continues in many stores that had a lot of their merchandise knocked down and shattered on as reporter cornell barnard visited businesses in humboldt county that took on some losses. >> well, 24 hours after that, 7.0 quake rocked the north coast. a lot of damage is now coming to light like this large crack which opened up here onge blue slide road in the community of rio del. crews are working to fix it. lots of other. cleanup

is happening around here too. the largest quake to strike northern california in decades, hitting residents with dozens of aftershocks. cabinets jolting open, pools overflowing and roads cracking. this public works crew in rio del were trying to fix this crack, which opened on blue slide road. it's about 20ft long, caused by the big shaker and i was stalking these pumpkin pies. >> and i had a cart right here, and i thought somebody was messing with me. and shaking the cooler. >> april ness says the quake was no joke. she works at toby's market in scotia, where employees were told to evacuate when the rocking started. >> and then my boss came through and she was like, everybody outside, everybody outside. so i'm literally like, tiptoeing, trying to walk this way because the floor is going up and down. i've never i'm from kentucky. i know tornadoes. i do not know earthquakes. >> april sharing pictures of the huge mess left behind. she says

about 30% of all grocery stock was destroyed. >> but our main priority was getting the floors cleaned up enough to where we could bring people in so people could eat and get food and get groceries, get whatever they needed. >> a sign at the dollar general store in rio del. says, closed until further notice, and for good reason. we saw lots of items scattered on the floor and in the aisles. workers at city hall took cover when the quake hit. city manager kyle knopp was there, too. >> significant shaking. this is definitely like the rolling, you know, unwelcome roller coaster type of earthquake. >> knopp says his staff is still looking for damage, but not finding anything major compared to a quake in 2022, which left homes redtagged. >> well, i think we got tremendously lucky. you know, this this earthquake could have been much more damaging, much more significant. >> officials in humboldt county urge home and business owners who had quake damage to report it, but everyone agrees the area

was spared this time from thatea quake. no major damage or injuries. in humboldt county, cornell bernard abc seven news. >> the tsunami warning which resulted from the earthquake came across as an alert on most cell phones. how far do you have to be from the coast to be safe? abc seven news reporter luz pena went looking for answers, and she joins us now with what she found. luz. >> yeah, we're surrounded by water here in the bay area, so a tsunami is a potential.rea, so a yesterday was a clear reminder to always be ready and have a plan. it was a warning that tested response time, urgency and evacuation plans across the bay area. the tsunami warning left many wondering, do you know what to do next time? >> all cities around the water line in the bay area may potentially be affected. >> we rounded up san francisco's executive director of the department of emergency management, a first responder and a scientist to explain. >> this is a good kind of trial

run for what would happen if we got, let's say, a magnitude eight earthquake up there. then the whole northern california coast would really be in play, including the bay area, although because of the golden gate, the waves that would come through would be pointed more or less toward emeryville. >> the california geological survey created a map of places across the state that are in the greatest risk of a tsunami impact in the bay area. areas in green are not likely to be impacted. everything in yellow is at higher risk, with multiple places in san francisco along the water. when we zoom in into the bay, almost the entire island of alameda, parts of west oakland and richmond, along with low lying areas in san rafael and larkspur, could see flooding. here's what you should do if you are near water. >> if you live by the coast, or you live by the water, you get this alert. you're not sure or you hear it is real. we really

recommend people just taking a walk, if you can, to just get a little bit to higher ground. not to evacuate your whole house or anything, but to move farther away from the area of danger. >> moving to higher ground could simply be going up to a higher floor inside a building. >> in the 2011 tsunami, there was a middle school 3 or 4 stories high. everybody was evacuated to the roof. the bottom two stories were destroyed. everybody came out fine. >> after getting this alert, many people opted to drive out of the city. this scientist doesn't recommend that approach. >> you need to get ten feet up. you're much better off just to do it by walking or running, not getting in your car and running the risk that you'll be trapped in a traffic jam. as occurred in the 2011 tsunami in japan. >> and this is one of those problematic areas in the bay. in case of a tsunami. san francisco's fire department recommends to go 100ft above sea

level to be safe. in emeryville, luz pena, abc7 news. >> great tips luis. thank you. we jumped on the air yesterday within minutes of the earthquake, and we stayed on air for hours to cover the tsunami warning and impact here in the bay area. so when breaking news happens, you'll find us on tv on abc seven news.com and on the abc seven bay area app. wherever you stream. >> california's state capitol was evacuated this morning after an emailed bomb threat. workers were told to leave the capitol building and two other legislative offices, while police investigated. the state capitol was reopened this afternoon after a search of the premises. nothing suspicious was found. the impact on elected officials was actually fairly minimal. governor newsom was in southern california at the time, and state lawmakers were in their districts today. >> new at four, a coalition that advocates for incarcerated women, has reached an historic settlement with the federal bureau of prisons. the case stems from allegations of abuse and retaliation against inmates

at the dublin women's prison,es and several jail officials were jailed, actually, for sexually abusing female inmates as part of the settlement. a monitor will oversee the treatment of 500 women who joined a class action lawsuit over the abuse. they were transferred to other prisons. yesterday, federal officials announced they were closing the dublin prison permanently. >> most of the charges were dismissed today against the 26 people arrested for protesting on the golden gate bridge back in april. a san francisco judge has so far dropped 32 of the 44 charges against the pro-palestinian activists. efforts continue to get the entire case dismissed. >> one person has been dismissed outright from the case for lack of evidence, meaning they should have never been arrested in the first place and the charges the, you know, 40 or so charges that were originally filed are now down to about ten, and we expect those to drop be dropped even further in the coming weeks. and we're going to continue fighting this case. but also we want the

focus to be on the genocide in gaza and arguing for pushing for a cease fire there. >> the judge is signaling openness to reducing felony charges against eight protesters, two misdemeanors, the existing misdemeanor group will be in court next week, and more will be decided at the next hearing, which is on january 6th. >> another delay to start the dungeness crab season. the california department of fish and wildlife says the risk of whale entanglement remains high. that means crab season off the entire california coast won't begin for at least two more weeks. when the next assessment is made. commercial dungeness crab season is usually starting in mid november. the san francisco zoo is showing off an updated design for the giant pandas. the designs were obtained by our media partner, the san francisco standard. to save money, the zoo plans to repurpose the lions exhibit into a panda exhibit. the remodel will cost about $8 million, less than half of the original proposal that doesn't include a rental fee of $1 million per

year for each panda, or the cost of food or panda care. in 1984, the zoo used the lion pen to briefly house two visiting pandas. >> a new clinical study being done at ucsf could change the way doctors treat patients with traumatic brain injuries. for years, this area of medicine has gone underfunded and under-researched. but as abc seven news reporter tim johns explains, doctors believe that this study could change that. >> for matt fan, living with the traumatic brain injury has become a part of his life. he never thought possible. back in 2020, van, who is a firefighter with the san francisco fire department, suffered severe injuries after he was involved in an incident with a city bus and a fire hose. >> i was walking by and the hose snapped and took my legs out from behind me, which caused me to land on the back of my head. >> van had to undergo multiple surgeries and at one point even had a part of his skull removed. now, four years later, he says he's still recovering. a journey

that's impacted not just his everyday life, but also that of his family. >> things are definitely more challenging, you know, different kind of symptoms that come along with it, whether it be, you know, headaches or you know, short term memory issues and different kind of cognitive issues that come with this. >> but that recovery could get easier in the years ahead. that's thanks in large part to van's neurosurgeon, doctor jeff manly. manly is leading a revolutionary clinical study out of ucsf, looking specifically at new drug treatments for people who suffer from traumatic brain injuries or tbis. >> we're not just doing one drug versus a placebo. we're doing what's called an adaptive platform trial. and this trial actually is looking at three drugs at the same time. >> doctor manly says for years, scientific research around tbis has gone underfunded and unstudied. he's hoping this new trial will change that and finally give people real solutions. >> there's about 4.8 million people a year that seek care for

traumatic brain injury. and yet we have no specific drug treatments for this injury. >> while van isn't participating in the study himself, researchers say it's patients like him who are set to benefit. van tells me he's excited to see what results the study uncovers, and hopes doctors will be able to find new medications to help not just him, but others with similar injuries, too. >> every day, you know there's new people obviously getting injured and living with these tbis and they yeah, they change your life forever. >> in san francisco, tim johns, abc seven news. >> coming up next on abc7 news at four, we dig into san francisco's emergency sirens. will the city ever get them working again? >> plus, see the timeline for budget cuts in oakland, including the impact to police and fire departments. >> also, all of the very different ways to get into the holiday spirit in san francisco. >> i'm spencer christian. our current dry weather pattern will last through the weekend, but next week may bring some

changes. i'll have the accuweather forecast and the golden state valkyries roster takes shape today with the wnba expansion draft, and we'll bring you a special version of toyota after the draft right here on abc seven. >> abc seven news sports director larry beil will be joined by valkyries head coach natalie nakase around 830 tonight. follow following the afc championship game, but you'll get a sneak peek at the valkyrie's draft pick coming up but do they really? do they see all that you are? at kaiser permanente all of us work together to care for all that is you.

i7 is overhead. firefighters are still on the scene, but as you can see, the flames are pretty much out. the fire burned a home on stowe avenue and also spread to another house on heather place. this isn't far from alum rock avenue and south king road. one person was reportedly hurt. the san jose fire department says this started at about 3 p.m, but again, it is mostly out within the last few minutes. >> so that's one thing we did not hear yesterday during the tsunami warning period. san francisco's emergency siren system has been offline for five years because it needed hardware and security infrastructure repairs. a project that would cost $20 million. that's roughly $168,000 per siren. >> now it's something that abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez looked into very

closely. she is here now. five years without the siren. that's a i miss them, right. >> remember tuesdays at noon? at noon. the question is. >> and a lot of money to fix them. but this is a major city. do we have the money to fix these things? >> well, the city says it doesn't have the money. but let me tell you why they were taken offline. just to give you some perspective. now, the city argued that there was a potential security threat, even though the system had not been hacked. but they referred to a case in dallas, texas, where the system was hacked. and actually the sirens went off for about 40 minutes. can you imagine? at night. so people were confused and they were really scared. so san francisco said, we have to update our system, but you've heard the phrase, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? so san francisco took them offline. all 119 of them, only to realiz, gee, we don't have the money to upgrade the system to have this new state of the art siren

system. so shortly after the fires in maui, right in sometime in august 2023, the city officials reconvened and said, okay, what are we going to do? right? what are we going to do about the system? so the office of emergency management promised, and i quote, i think we expect in the next six months that the project will be well on its way. and here we are now, the president of the board of supervisors, aaron peskin, said. hey guys, folks, we need this, right? we need to find the money. but again, the city said it's not a priority because we don't have the money. that's what they're saying. >> so the question is, do we actually really still need this? right. because now we can't get those alerts on our phones, which people did yesterday. so how does that factor in. >> right. right. so let me tell you about alert sf. and i am a huge fan of alert sf. so here's the problem. about 195,000 people have alert sf right. they

have they receive these text messages which are very useful. but do the math. there are more than 800,000 people living in the city of san francisco who don't subscribe. okay, so not all right. exactly. so what do you do about that? you know, you also have people for example, who come to san francisco to travel. they don't have the system right. so we need something. and also, what if i decide to go to the embarcadero and leave my phone behind in the office? right. >> i don't have that system. like you said, millions of people come visit here as well, right? >> right. and they how are they going to know they don't have the sirens and they don't have alert sf you know, it seems like the five years without the sirens seems like might be a bigger risk than the risk of somebody hacking the system to do without it for this long, right? that's the argument. >> are we prepared for a major event in terms of being able to

warn people? >> well, i think we're prepared as long as the city is prepared or the city is prepared, as long as san franciscans are prepared. right. it's a cooperation factor. now, the city has a lot has retrofitted a lot of buildings. to their credit. but you have to remember, the last earthquake we had was in 1989. that was a long time ago. back then we had the sirens and we also had those little red boxes, emergency boxes. remember that they are both obsolete. we had to have fix this and update both of them and we haven't. one last thing that i want to say. a fire chief told me a long time ago, leon, san francisco needs redundancy, right? and right now, without sirens and without those boxes that need to be upgraded, we don't have redundancy. you have to have backup, right? correct. >> all right, well, keep us posted on when this gets going again. thanks. thank you. >> sure. all right, let's turn to the weather forecast. another gorgeous day. >> yeah. you got a mild weekend for us.

>> well, the weather has redundancy. day after day. it's dry and mild and calm. here's a look at the map you can see on the satellite radar image. a disturbance up to our north in the pacific northwest. but it's not having any bearing on our weather right now. some of these high clouds might swing through overnight, but basically, our dry pattern, our mild pattern is going to continue looking out over san francisco right now from sutro tower, 63 degrees here in the city, mid to upper 60s at oakland and hayward, low 70s at san jose and redwood city, 57 at half moon bay. blue sky, mainly over the golden gate. other temperature readings right now 69 at santa rosa, but mid 60s at petaluma, napa, fairfield, concord and livermore. and as we look out over the bay toward they bridge from our exploratorium camera, these are the forecast headlines tonight. a few high clouds will move through the bay area. it will be cooler than last night. this weekend will bring up patchy fog in the morning hours, especially tomorrow. but then sunny skies in the afternoon hours and then late next week we have chances for rain. they'll be increasing those chances and that may end the

redundancy overnight. look for low temperatures under mainly clear skies, with the exception of a few high clouds ranging from low to mid 40s for most locations, but down to 37 degrees at fairfield. that will be one of our chilliest spots tomorrow. mainly sunny in the afternoon. highs ranging from 60 at half moon bay to 63 in san francisco up to about 6566 around the bay shoreline. a wider range inland. low to mid 60s in the inland east bay, mainly mid 60s up north and upper 60s to near 70 in the south bay. and here is the accuweather seven day forecast. and it's going to be a dry pattern through tuesday of next week, although we'll see a little bit of a cool down on monday and tuesday. temperatures dropping off just a few degrees and clouds will increase on wednesday, and we have slight chances of rain thursday and friday. a little too early right now to pinpoint just how great the chance is, or whether it will be a lot of rain, or ja little bit. it isn't looking like a lot right now. >> we've been quite a dry

pattern here. >> yeah, yeah, a long time. >> thanks, spencer. >> okay. coming up,

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