down sides of historic buildings and buckled roads across napa. we continue our right now 16 buildings in downtown napa have been declared

unsafe and blocked off. that includes the courthouse. that includes the post office. red tagged. these buildings in downtown napa unsafe and blocked off. also red tagged, about 100 homes in the napa area. those people have been flushed out of their homes. many businesses weren't actually damaged at all. there was a lot of isolated damage. others put up signs. other businesses saying that they're open and they will be open tomorrow and other businesses just simply cleaning up. this earthquake sent water po pouring into local streets. there were more than 80 reports -- more than 100 reports of gas line damage and of course pg&e has been responding in a large fashion. now, gas lines were broken in this. dozens of calls pouring in. pg&e crews continue to stay onsite. right now 17,000 people are without electricity in the napa area. >> the city's director of public works says it could take a week to get everything restored. that's just a very conservative

estimate at this point. we don't know. they are assessing damage right now not only to city buildings but also to homes along the way as well. want to keep showing you video right now as pg&e crews continue to try to work to put that line back on for people. about 21,000 people at this point without power. we have no estimate as to when that power may be back up. we've had teams of reporters throughout all of that area since this first broke at 3:20 in the morning. they have been gathering information and talking to people. multiple reports for you this evening. we begin with jodi hernandez in american canyon dealing with some of the damage there that's been happening to people's homes. >> reporter: that's right. we've been in american canyon all day, all morning. and the best piece of news out of this city is take a look at this within the last 40 minutes, we got power back here.

that is great news for the folks who have been dealing with today's heat. we're going to take you to a bedroom here. unfortunately the damage remains. i'm going to show you a little bit of the damage here in this home in the master bedroom. this fan came right off. it's hanging by just a wire while the mom, the mom was in bed easily this fan could have fallen on her. that would have been an awful situation. the fan was actually moving when the earthquake hit. we'll take you to another room. even more shocking. 5-year-old byron is here and his little brother. you can see the damage. look at this huge, heavy tv that came off of the shelf here. toys are strewn about. fortunately the kids were in their bed. one was in the crib next door and he was up in his bunk bed. fortunately he slept through the

whole thing and doesn't remember a thing. we'll hear from his mom and his aunt. >> i was surprised by 5 year old was asleep. he didn't remember anything. he woke up to us panicking and the power was out. the baby was up. he was literally pushed all of the way back in his crib trembling with fear. he didn't know what was going on. it was very scary. i've never felt anything -- i'm in my late 20s. i never felt anything like this before. >> it's devastating. it's crazy. this is the third or so earthquake within two months. we had a small one in american canyon a little while ago. another one in napa and now this one and within the next seven days or something there may be another earthquake. that could be just as big as this one. >> reporter: how do you feel about that? >> it's scary. >> reporter: very frightening for this family. little byron is here. what do you think of what happened here in your room? >> i think the tv fell off the

shelf. >> reporter: how did it make you feel? >> scared. >> reporter: scared. fortunately your mommy and your aunt were here to keep you safe and they'll continue to do that. i'll tell you very frightening for parents. i live not too far from here. my first thought was to run to my 6-year-old's room and i scooped him out of bed. a lot of damage. the good news is that everybody seems to be okay here in american canyon. reporting live, i'm jodi hernandez, we'll go back to you in the studio. >> thank you. our reaction also all of us with young kids are glad to see that family is okay. another part of the damage in napa is at the airport. for a little while now we had pictures of the air traffic control center there at the napa airport that was blown out. all of the windows. we'll show you this video from nbc chopper. this is air traffic control center at the small napa airport. it was blown out. all of the windows here.

it is not usable. let's bring in ian. can you tell us what's happening at the napa airport? >> most windows were blown out. it could take several weeks to get new windows manufactured and installed. for the time being, the airport will operate as it does when the control tower is closed at night and we're working to set up a temporary tower at napa which controllers could use until the permanent tower is repaired. >> the napa airport as we reported and want to clarify with you remains open as of right now even though this air traffic control center has been shut down. >> i spoke to the manager earlier this morning and operations appear to be pretty normal. >> what concern might you have here? you want to bring in temporary air traffic control center. is that safe? i'm guessing that is if you are

moving forward with this. >> absolutely. the way it's operating right now is exactly as it operates when the control tower is closed at night. that's not as efficient an operation as when we have controllers there. we periodically use temporary towers which are small cabs on top of trailers at certain air shows and while helping out with wildfire fighting operations and at the general aviation airport in napa that are unusable. >> what is the protocol for the airport at night then? how do you do the work then? >> a pilot gets clearance from a remote air traffic facility. oakland center which handles higher altitude traffic. they get clearance from that facility. as they approach the airport, they communicate with each other. pilots communicate with each other on a uniform radio

frequency to broadcast positions and intentions. it's a common way of operating. less efficient when when air traffic controllers are directing traffic at the airport. >> this tower was not operational at the time of the earthquake and you were working on the remote system? >> you're correct. the tower is closed at 3:20. >> so you already were operating under that remote system when this was happening if there were planes coming in or out of the napa airport. >> i don't know if there was traffic at that hour of the day honestly. >> ian, we dealt with you last year and at sfo with the crash. this is a smaller airport. what kind of traffic goes in and out and what type of planes? >> napa serves everything from

little cessnas, two to four-seat scessnas to corporate jets. >> we appreciate that update. as we've been reporting, napa airport remains open despite what you saw damage to air traffic control center. thank you, ian. >> updates now on the school situation. you're seeing a lot of damage in downtown napa and damage throughout people's homes. we're talking about 90 plus homes being red tagged at this point. we've been getting updates from napa unified school district all day long letting us know that there will be no school tomorrow. napa unified has 20 elementary schools. six middle schools. five high schools throughout that area which includes charter schools and so those are the public schools that provide before and after care usually until 6:00 p.m. in the evening, that will not be happening tomorrow. all public schools are closed tomorrow as the district sends in structural engineers and even

teachers to look at their classrooms to figure out what the extent of the damage is in those schools. there will be no school tomorrow. there will be no child care before or after school if you are in after-school program. there are 19 private schools throughout napa. the situation for those is you'll have to contact those private schools yourself if your child attends one of those to find out the situation. they don't full under the public school district. we don't know if those will be open. we can tell you that any and all public schools in napa unified are closed tomorrow. at 1:00, the superintendent says they'll issue a statement if school will move forward on tuesday. >> they want to be safe with all of those schools. a quick programming note for you. we've been on since 4:00 or 5:00 this morning and we've been doing live nonstop. we also want to tell you if you're tuning in now for "nightly news" you can watch it

on comcast. a place that's been damaged the most is napa. bob redell has been with us throughout the day at the mobile home park throughout the day where homes were destroyed. i remember starting this morning -- i can't recall. 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning is where we saw you with flames and smoke. >> reporter: you had those four homes that caught fire because of a natural gas rupture but don't forget these are mobile homes. many suffered serious structural damage. this home shifted to the left. the homeowner waiting to be red tagged and told he can't live here. he won't try any way but he has wanted to go in and out to get his stuff and homes right next door that didn't sustain any damage. what you can't see is what's inside. we've been inside a couple homes. they look like they've been ransacked. that's not a big surprise when

you have an earthquake of that magnitude. we were in george alvarez's home earlier today, most everything fell off the walls and shelves but in his living room were two urns which contained the ashes of his mother and father and for whatever reason they didn't fall down. lieutenant governor gavin newsom came here to visit the area where homes burned to offer support to the victims and also to report back to sacramento as far as what he's seeing on the ground giving them a firsthand look and so he could report back and find out what the state can do in terms of providing logistics and funding and of course this also brought up frustration that earthquake early warning system that we have technology for has not been up and running yet and frustration being the fact that

legislators have not funded this and wonders if it will take a 6.0 in napa for that to be wake-up call. >> we got to fund it. we had a ten-second warning. we can get up to 60 seconds most experts believe. cal tech and berkeley perfected this technology you have seen in taiwan and china and japan. why we're not funding it is beyond me. we passed a bill. i'm not calling on the governor in some news headline here but i would like to see the governor's office take that seriously. we have the technology. we could provide a little bit of warning. $80 plus million was the last estimate. it's high time to consider that. >> he's making news in his call for funding for the early warning system. fortunately people here in this mobile home park, napa valley mobile home park, that warning game in the form of a jolt.

that wake-up got them out of their homes in time so no one here was hurt. no one was killed. there were two fires. a couple just a couple blocks away. fire department believes a natural gas line rupture. i want to show you some video. this was a massive challenge for the fire department not because it was just a naturally gas line fed fire. because that's what greeted them when they came into the park. you are looking at a water line that ruptured underneath the pavement. it was gurgling up this brown water only shut off a couple hours ago. they knew coming in they would have little to no water pressure. so they only had about 300 gallons on him. that's a typical engine carries. they had to be limited in the use of that water and focused on exterior homes to call in mutual aid for the county. the county showed up 20 to 30 minutes later with water tenders. they had 6,000 gallons.

that gave them a better shot at handling this fire. again, three structures destroyed. they credit the fact there was little wind last night from keeping this from spreading to many more because if you have been in a mobile home park they are close together and they are flammable structures. that's not flames. that's just heat. a good 20 feet away from that structure. you can see the damage it did. >> on the subject of water, thank you, bob, let's talk about water. water is one of the things people are going to need over the next couple of days if some of these water mains are broken and you don't have access or if water is disrupted at your house. there's a water station that will be set up at napa high starting at 4:30 this afternoon. they are asking the public to

bring your own containers and they'll give you water that is safe drinking water for you to use in your home for yourself. typically you're supposed to have up to a gallon of water per person a day for drinking water. napa high will distribute water for people that will need it. >> more than 100 homes have been red tagged. they can't go into their homes until they've been cleared and that may come as early as tomorrow or even further in. we'll show you some of the damage. we showed bob redell at the mobile home park but the roads also with a lot of damage. some surface roads and highways. thankfully this happened at 3:20 in morning so not a lot of traffic. hardly any on our local roadways. you can see surface streets and highways with considerable damage but you can see cars continue to go and traffic has been fairly smooth. now, throughout the day we've been joined by daniel hill from the california highway patrol.

daniel, are you with us and can we get an update on our traffic and i know that there's thousands of people leaving sonoma with the big race event there this afternoon. >> that's correct. we don't anticipate any problems. so far we've done pretty good throughout the region. it's been our goal to keep all of the roadways open as much as possible. the only thing we've been doing in the work zones with caltrans is slowing down traffic and not stopping it. there's always been a path through even in the most heavily damaged areas. our goal is to keep the roadways moving as much as possible so people get in and out of that region when they need to. >> let's run through this as we go through a checklist. highway 29 through napa. how's that and also highway 121? can you give us reports here? >> the intersection experienced some damage. that one still hasn't been repaired all of the way. 121 at cuttings wharf has been repaired with a temporary fix by caltrans and they're going to

install a permanent fix at a later time but that area is fixed up and done with. there's still some work going on on old sonoma highway between congress valley. that will continue as they try to repair that roadway. that's one of the minor roads in that area. major ones are open and flowing nicely. >> that's great news that major arteries are open. did you mention highway 12 cutting across there? >> highway 12 is near sonoma. that one is pretty much filled in doing pretty good but work will continue for quite a while on that. one thing i want to point out is that caltrans has also finished its survey of all of the bay area bridges. i told you earlier that chp had gone over those bridges several times and done visual inspections to confirm there's no damage. caltrans engineers confirmed that all bridges are safe and not affected by this quake and are good to go for the commute

tomorrow as are bay area freeways. that's good news as we approach the end of sunday and beginning of the workweek. >> that's good news. officer hill, we appreciate time. we see live pictures now. you saw golden gate bridge and now san mateo bridge and now dumbarton bridge so major bridges and roadways according to officer hill have been cleared. they've been checked first and then cleared. all of the bridges here. and major stadiums also. this is much like 1989 where national spotlight here for athletic events. race in sonoma on national tv. they'll be talking about it. the a's game starts at the coliseum at 5:00. this is a nationally televised game. coliseum has been checked out okay. all things going on as scheduled. a's and angels and then 49ers game just wrapping up down in santa clara at levi stadium and levi stadium had the structure checked and everything was cleared. they saw 50,000 fans there. three national tv events related to sports and it's the day we have an earthquake like we did

with the world series in 1989. >> all right. we want to -- thank you for being with us. let's turn things over to cheryl hurd in downtown napa. at napa high school they'll have a water station starting at 4:30 where people can get water. after disasters, you see state officials and community officials and local officials start to set up water stations or food distribution stations. have you heard of some of these things happening? >> reporter: i haven't. i did see lieutenant governor gavin newsom come here. i know he talked to bob redell about an hour ago. i just saw him here. he's making his rounds here at third and brown to see much of the devastation here. i also see a lot of officials coming through here, cal, osha, taking a look at the damage and taking pictures. i've been talking to a lot of people here. with me now is judy and jerry

nunn who live in a home built in 1906. tell me about your damage? >> the fireplace is out of the wall and you can see in the backyard straight through to the living room. the chimney is down. it's demolished. >> reporter: it must have sounded like an explosion. >> well, not quite an explosion like the last one we had but this one was more of a rolling shaking where we were going from north to south. >> reporter: how long will it take you to clean up? >> it will be a little bit. it's going to be a little bit. this one was more of a shaking and long. it was long. >> reporter: thank goodness that you are okay. >> we're fine. thank god. >> reporter: thank you for being with us. also who arrived moments ago is guardian angels and shaun rogers is here. you just arrived a couple hours ago. where did you come from and how long do you plan to be here and what do you plan to do? >> we have angels here from stockton, california, and sacramento. we're here assisting the police

department on putting up some caution tape and keeping the citizens safe and also we're going to be here patrolling tonight looking out for businesses to make sure there's no looting that's going to go on tonight. >> reporter: have you seen devastation like this before? >> i was here in 1989. i have seen similar destruction like this before. >> reporter: so you guys are going to be here. how many of you are here? >> we have eight of us. >> reporter: all right. you'll be here all night long. thank you very much. here live at third and brown street and you talked about the red tags. they are all here. all of the buildings here that you see all have red tags and which means you can't go in and no one can come out. on the corner is that famous wine tasting area. that's demolished. it seems like the wind is picking up a little bit. not strong but picking up just enough to be a little worried about that toppling down. you see the roof there kind of teetering. if the wind kicks up more, folks around there are concerned that

roof down there could come tumbling down. in the area you see live trucks from all over the country descending on napa to see what's going on here. just to your left you see that old justice building. we've been here all morning long. a drone paid a visit to that whole area today and going in taking pictures probably coming out to let folks know what the structural damage is here today. this is a wake-up call to a lot of folks out there. certainly a wake up call to me as far as are you prepared? i know i'm not prepared. i don't have the water. i don't have the 72 hours worth of food. my sister does around the corner. i don't have it certainly. and shoes by the bed are not placed there. believe you me, when i get home, i will put all of those things in place. i'm wondering, raj and jess, are

you prepared? >> jessica is diligent. i'm partially prepared. i think you speak for a lot of people. get our tail ends in gear and get everything going. we haven't seen something like this in 25 years. cheryl, you've been there since 4:00 this morning. you were in vallejo. you felt it waking up. you are now in napa. you saw people coming through. you mentioned the business owners. have you talked to any of them and what they've been told? >> reporter: i didn't. i haven't been able to go down there and mingle around. i did talk to some business owners on main street and they're just taking it in stride. they are cleaning up. they may not be open today but they certainly probably will be open tomorrow. if you can just pan over here and see this car. we've been looking at it. i'm interested to know who owns that car. nobody has gone up to. i'm really concerned and

wondering who that car belongs to but we haven't seen the owner of that car yet. >> sometimes it takes time to settle in before you realize the extent of the damage not only to your business but neighboring businesses and how that will affect the economy of that area and affect the tourism and how many of the tourists that you see down there, if you have talked to some of them, are they packing up and leaving saying i'm going some place else or what is basically the attitude that they have? >> reporter: napa is a funny town. you get some people here from the bay area just here for the weekend to enjoy their birthday. they are going to wait it out and enjoy what they can and make it on home. i also talked to some people from new york city, pennsylvania, even from texas. i said, well, i guess you wanted to go wine tasting today and they said, oh, they're not open? i think they planned to continue their vacation. i don't think they're going to pack up and leave. i do get a sense they're going to take this whole thing in

stride and wait it out and continue their vacation. >> overwhelming majority of the wineries that we've talked to remains open for business and they encourage people to stay with your plans and continue to visit right there to napa and sonoma. we're also talking about that courthouse built in the 1870s. you said there was a drone that went in to check out structural integrity of it. what happens tomorrow with all of the court cases and lawyers and judges and staff that works there? >> reporter: that was interesting to me that drone. when i looked up, it flew away. somebody got a picture of it. it was a small white airplane looking thing. i'm interested to see what they'll use it for and what information they got. meanwhile, this building, i don't see a red tag on it. i'm sure it certainly is. earlier today i saw folks go in there with hard hats and they came out rolling out computers and files and they rolled them behind me over at the new

courthouse, if you will. i'm assuming that they're going to try to get some business done tomorrow with the criminal court system and i'm sure this building will not be open tomorrow. so business as usual. not quite but i think they're going to try to get some kind of work done over at the courthouse across the way. >> can you just go over again what the role of those angels is and what they're planning to do over the next 12 hours. >> reporter: they came in from stockton. he tells me that there are about eight of them here. they're gone here. they were actually standing here because i wanted to talk to them and see what they were going to do. they got here about two hours ago. they have some yellow tape. they are assisting the sheriff's department. i saw them talking with them. they're going to go around the city and see if they can do some footwork. he says, there are just not enough police officers and sheriff's deputies to get the job done. they're here to assist them to make sure that the tape is up where it needs to be up.

they are also concerned about looting. some folks may get an idea to come in here and say, hey, this home is empty. maybe i could go inside and do that. they're going to fan out throughout the city and try to help the people protect their homes and also to protect businesses here downtown. this is kind of a new and old situation here downtown napa. you have the old downtown here where you see a lot of the damage to these buildings. and right over there -- i don't want to give you whiplash, dave, it says river front there, those are a lot of new businesses. i think they set up there about ten years ago. don't see a lot of structure damage there. it's been there about ten years. you have the old over here and you've got the new over there. and the community is coming together to help one another out here. >> 1995 and on where things have been retrofitted or not really is the dividing kind of line in seismic safety, buildings built

in the late 1990s that have been seismically constructed. that's where you run risk of having masonry that falls apart or not having a structure or foundation that's strong enough to withstand 6.0 earthquake like we saw today. we have continuing coverage. we begin again now at 4:30. i looked outside there and saw that there was flames out there. we said let's get the hell out of here. >> it just hit me. this is not good. fortunately i haven't heard of anybody getting injured. this is not good. we'll be fine. >> reporter: fear and sadness. historic buildings brought down. mobile homes destroyed. up in flames.

we continue our breaking news coverage of the south napa earthquake for you this afternoon. good evening. i'm jessica aguirre. >> i'm raj mathai. we've been coming to you live since 4:00 a.m. the quake happened at 3:20. this was centered between napa and american canyon. it was west of both cities a few miles from napa county airport. we should add that napa county airport is open tonight despite the severe damage to the air control traffic tower. now, downtown napa saw the most significant damage. we just checked in with cheryl hurd. you saw the jolt that blew out windows of stores and businesses. at this hour, 16 buildings have been declared unsafe. red tagged. also a church right there. that methodist church in downtown napa, severe damage as well. it's not just buildings in downtown but so many homes. 100 homes have been red tagged. all of those homeowners and residents flushed out to friends, family and local hotels. now, four mobile s