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the bay area in a quarter century. the six-point- now at 6:00, the coverage continues on the biggest earthquake to hit the bay area in a quarter of a century. the napa area certainly took the hardest hit. good evening, i'm alan martin in the kpix5 studios. i'm elizabeth cook in downtown nap a. several city blocks, wreu am right now. can show, indeed, what can happen in a 6.0 earthquake. this is what we know right now. tonight, all of southern napa couldn't seunder -- county is under a state of emergency.
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we have an update on the number of those injured. we are hearing 172 people were treated in the hospital. three people, including a child were listed in critical condition. the damage to the property is coming in. we do know 90 to 100 buildings have been red tagged. that means unlivable after this morning's earthquake. we have a team of reporters covering the quake and the aftermath starting with juliette goodrich. >> liz as we know, the quake happened in the middle of the night. imagine in the middle of the they with all of the tourists. things like this big boulders like on the sidewalk and the street, along the sidewalk here, you can see just all around the napa valley, fortunately, nobody along the street here was hurt. if you look at this law office you can see that it was red tagged unsafe. and, that is the case for a lot of these businesses along this
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main stretch. and, we pan out you can see the damage done to this building. and, if you go to the video earlier we can see what happened in the middle of the night. there were fires, extensive damage done. as people were jolted out of bed at 3:20 this morning. i experienced it. i experience today. i felt a long rolling motion, i can tell you a lot of people here in napa they felt a jolt. they were jolted out of bed. and, as they came down here at first light to assess the damage they saw primarily a lot of damage done to the courthouse. take a listen to what the jury instructor told me for tomorrow's juriy is service. >> were you surprised of the damage that you saw? to the exterior of the damage? there is damage to the courthouse. >> yes. the last earthquake that we had most of the damage was contained within. because it is an old building and everything is plaster. all of the courtrooms and the original courtrooms are plaster. so, there was not a lot of
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significant damage to the exterior last time, this was a big surprise. >> reporter: so, obviously there will be no court in session tomorrow. and anyone who had jury service tomorrow had to call in to find a later date. i want to walk you around the town quickly. if you pan out and come out live. this was a quiet senter this morning, all of a sudden it became the national spot light. television crews, nationwide here, had converged on the sensors here in napa. covering this 6.0 magnitude earthquake, liz and just from being here all day long, it really has been quiet. and neighbors helping neighbors and a lot of community out here. a lot of the businesses are shutdown, there is not a lot of service in the area and everyone is pitching in to help one another. back to you. >> it has been great to see. especially it is high season for napa with the holiday weekend coming up. nice to see people pitching in
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to help their neighbor. all right, thank you very much for your coverage. >> now, joe has been keeping track of the injured. he is live at the valley center. >> reporter: we got updated numbers, 175 people injured. three were staff members, two critical, one here and one at children's. he was hurt when a chimney fell on him. most of the rest of the injuries are less serious. >> bruises, scrapes, cuts. >> reporter: the doctors say the overwhelming majority of the injuries here are minor. >> it was scary. it was the scariest thing i have ever been through. >> bill, he does not know what hit him. he was asleep when the quake struck. then he jumped out of bed. >> that was amazing. i could not get balanced enough to get out of there i kept falling down.
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the last time i fell down something hit me right there. i don't know what hit me. we were trying to figure out what it was. we could not figure it out. >> something fell off of the wall? >> yes. >> reporter: cheryl says her 41-year-old daughter was awakened when a large mirror fell and trapped her. >> she has a floor to ceiling mirror t fell over to the bed on to her and she could not get out from underneath it or move it. her dad brought her to the emergency room and they did x- rays and things and turns out she has a fractured hip. amid the injury and chaos, there is a bright spot here. a baby boy born just a few minutes before the quake. when the hospital started violently shaking the doctor and the nurses quickly dove on the bed and shielded the baby who was in his mother's harm arms. >> they told me the hospital was a mess. the computers fell. one of the nurses got injured because the computer fell on her. and, then, they were just telling me they want to name
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the kid after some earthquake- related name. there is a lot oaf we are really into our culture so there is an aztec god, that is a earthquake god. >> so the nurses are calling him the earthquake baby. the parents have not quite figured out what to call him, liz they are leaning towards the greek god of the sea but the god of earthquake, too. they have not made the final decision on the name. >> very unusual. but very strong. all right, thank you very much. now, andrea is live, now, people with property really got hit. >> reporter: yes, we have been showing the four burned homes inside of the mobile home park, but every home, 300 inside here, suffered damage. if it was interior or exterior. they are all cleaning up the damage today. you are taking a look at the
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kitchen. cabinets all popped open at once. things toppled over. glass broke, mirrors broke, you name it. it fell off, it broke, shattered all over the floor. there is a mess to clean up for days here. >> opened it up, everything came out. so, everying is broken all over. i am waiting to get the courage to clean it. >> reporter: many homes were knocked off of their foundation. some of the older homes that were balanced on the blocks when they took that initial first jolt of the earthquake at 320 this morning. they toppled over. in some cases, the jolt was so hard, stairs separated from the building when people went to get out and evacuate their homes, they slipped between the building and the stairs. there were two injuries at this complex, both leg veries from that problem. coming out here live, we want to show you what it looks like when one of the older homes
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topples off of the blocks. now, as you can see right there it is sitting on the ground right there. there is nowhere else for it to go. took one hit, fell, it is done. a lot of gabbage here. they will clean up for days -fpts i spoke to the owner of the property, he has emergency owners coming out. gas people, too, the main problem out here, water. the city is working on the water main break out in front of the complex that caused them with a fire earlier, liz? >> all right, thank you. well, as have been seeing all evening long, damage from this earthquake is widespread. some of it, obviously, worse than others as we have been seeing, tonight, even people who are used to earthquakes, this one stands out. i have been in every earthquake in california since the 70s. the '89 and so on and so forth.
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that was something that i never felt. it hit like an impact. >> the shaking had barely stopped before she was on the streets. broom in hand. >> i thought i would come out and check on people and make sure everyone is okay. i seen these guys and i figured i would give them a hand. >> this is the first time i have seen something to this magnitude happen to a city like this. >> reporter: steven, immediately fixing glass, too. it is his job. he can barely keep up with the phone calls. we are coming up on our 1 year anniversary here. >> here, they have fond memories of the 2000 quake. i lost paint, this time around? a few hundred gallons of paint.
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last time, three or four gallons. >> the cleanup started at four clock. it has been an all day job. >> it is, a couple days until we get it cleaned up. >> reporter: here, at this olive oil store, enough items to cover the store. and at the billiards, the shaking was enough to bring down a pool table. everyone here knows the job will take time. but, after this morning, the task of cleaning up comes with plenty of perspective. all of our families are safe, we are okay. >> i feel lucky that we just have so much support and people to help us. >> reporter: all right, let's take a look at the roads right now. parts of 12 and 121 were damaged. pavement buckled up to two feet in a couple of places, other sections of asphalt cracked. they say it is minor and the crews finished temporary repaired by this afternoon. bridges and overpasses,
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caltrans says no damage to report. we just heard from pg&e, a little more than 7,000 customers are without power after the earthquake hit. that number was closer to 70,000. they expect to have everyone's electricity book by the end of the night. the quake knocked out gas service in 20 locations, they say that it has received more than 400 calls from people saying they can smell gas. it is checking all of those calls out. definitely quite a shaker in napa here, alan, a lot of damage. crews are making progress. it sin credible what they have been able to accomplish. >> they will be at it for days, all right, thank you, elizabeth cook. >> i know i felt it. it woke me up. brian, you did not feel it. it is interesting. you are not that far from me. >> yes. >> the doing did not bark. >> they are looking at which fault triggered the earthquake. a team of geologist in napa
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before midday today to try to track down which one of the faults sprung. they confirmed they found a surface rupture that found a lateral offset. one of the important ones, their owing down the quake. the thinking was it was the west napa fault. now they don't know for sure. this part of the bay area it is complicated. spiral faults. another it was not a threat of the quake this morning. the concord, green valley fault, capable of springing a much stronger quake than the one that we got this morning. as for the shaking, look at map. comparing this morning, now, on the left, today's shake map. the brighter the colors, the stronger the shaking. on the right, loma you had to have been within 10 miles of
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>> early this morning there was a message that went out saying there was a 54% chance of a large earthquake occurring. that is correct for the first hour on that. it rapidly diminishes in the probabilities of there being a large earthquake and we feel unlikely now that there will be a large follow up earthquake to it this one. >> still 1-3 chance, you know where we lucked out? 3:20 a.m. when you see, that is how people were killed 11 years ago in and the boy that had to be airlifted. bricks hit him from a fireplace. >> can you imagine if it happened during the middle of the day. >> all of the tourists and everything. >> yes. >> okay. thank you, brian. all right, coming up right after the break, this warning system, listen to it. beep, beep, earthquake, light shaking expected in three seconds. beep, beep, beep. >> they had three sections.
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welcome back. a landmark here in downtown napa is facing an uncertain future right now. take a look at it. this a wall of this church is in danger of collapse. part of the steeple was damaged and stain glass windows are possibly going to get blown out. >> you can see this, we got the call out. you can see it right here. it is so high we can not shore it up or anything like that.
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-- stained glass windows are possibly going to get blown out. >> you can see this, we got the call out here this morning and you can see it right here. it is so high we can not shore it up. we have a crew coming out that has the tools. >> it is great it happened early that the church was empty. >> >> reporter: back to you. >> thank you, liz. the a small group of test subjects actually got a warning 10 seconds before the quake hit. glen is in the news room with what could be an early warning system for the rest of us in cal cal, glen? >> reporter: that is right. pwaát is testing out the early earthquake warning system. no trains were running at the too b.a.r.t is testing out the early earthquake warning system. no trains were running at the
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time but they are testing it. now, moments before the napa quake, the first earthquake warning sounded like this at the berkeley seismology lab. [beep] >> last night it detected the beginning of the earthquake. pushed out an alert. we got 10 seconds of warning here at the lab. >> reporter: the sensors located all around the bay area picked up the earthquake's nondestructive prewaves and relayed a warning before the s- waves hit the ground. california is behind mexico ask and japan where similar systems are in use. it it is not public in california. 150 test users got the warning. the important thing is that it worked and some day it could save lives. >> we turn it into a public system everyone can get it on their cell phones so they can duck, cover, hold on and reduce the damage or injuries that occur during a earthquake. state senator authored a bill that was passed last year that authorized the creation of an early earthquake warning system. but, no funding mechanism for
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the system. california legislatures are still looking for the funds to get this built. but, make ting it a cost. $80 million as we know here in california. finding the funding like this it is very difficult. >> absolutely. yes. >> i get the idea for b.a.r.t and the others, especially b.a.r.t they can stop the train something. >> the thinking is they can stop the trains or going to go into a tunnel or under the bay to top the train before it gets there, and that wow -- bay to stop the train before it gets there and that way it will not be in a situation of a collapse. it gives a warning and intensity. if the hayward fault, was going, it would get a big warning to stop. but if it is a lesser or farther away fault, it might be okay to proceed. so, there is a lot of things at work here. a public/private partnership, the state would fund the technology to get it going but other agencies app makers and
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stuff like that would be reresponsibilityible for pushing it out to all of the people. >> i would love to get it on my phone. i am sure millions would. all right, thank you very much. much more ahead, an apartment complex, a carport, no match for this quake. we will take out a tour of the damage. and residential road that buckled so badly that kids are turning it into a miniskate park. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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from chopper 5 you can see many of the windows are shattered. it will take weeks to get them fixed. the faa says the airport will stay open. it will operate like it does at night. pilots working with one another to take off and land. and, from the air and on the ground as you can see, as we have been showing you the damage is everywhere. mark kelly shows us a carport that collapsed at an apartment complex. >> some of the serious damage here in napa it is right here at the charter oaks apartment complex. >> reporter: come on, let's take a look. we will see what they dealt with moments after the quake. this wood right here, this was once their carport for two dozen vehicles. this is what it looked like minutes after the quake. residents say that the carport collapsed and the sound of that crash was just as loud as the earthquake itself. >> describe how loud it was? >> the loudest thunderstorm you
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can imagine, that is how loud it stphaofs for me not to have a car, i don't have transportation to the doctor -- loud it was. >> for me, not to have a car, i don't have transportation to the doctor or anything. >> reporter: now, many can not get back in their units, not until tomorrow will a demolition crew come out here to remove it so people can get a look at how bad the damage is to their vehicle. >> when you saw that carport, what did you think? [ laughter ] >> you know. i don't know who is going to clean that mess up. who is going to clean it up. you are thinking not me. >> >> i am hoping not me. >> reporter: now, who is fitting the bill for this damage? >> folks here in downtown napa, alan, brian, still cleaning up. as with you can see, bricks, downed trees, broken glass in the area. obviously still a lot of cleaning up to do in this area. back to you guys.
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>> all right, days and days of cleanup ahead and repairs, getting the power lack on, the powerback on, fort 93ly, no weather, winds, rain. >> yes, and mentioned, you know, nobody has earthquake insurance. your regular policy does not cover it. and 5% of people in napa have it. >> yes. >> yes. >> they do now. >> i bet they do. now, a little bit late. as we have a look outside right now. mostly sunny skies around the bay area but for right at the shoreline. even the golden gate bridge, uncharacteristically has sunshine. that is cloudy lately. oakland, 70, 70 in the city. 66 degrees, 75 in san jose. high pressure is off shore. cloudy, going to begin to nudge towards the west coast. we will be back in the low 90s by wednesday and thursday. a little next weekend, midweek it looks like it is warm in the
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bay area. out the door tomorrow morning, we get drizzle around the shoreline, around the bay is 60 degrees, inland, hitting 62. with mostly sunny skies. then we have a look at the future cast to show us all of the low clouds will pack in. by sunrise tomorrow, waking up to a mostly overcast day on the peninsula and rapidly breaking it up. by noon, in the afternoon hours, mostly sunny day in the bay area. so, sunshine tomorrow, more than we had today. to sum it all up, we will look at a mild monday, coastal fog. warming trend begins on tuesday and we papeak wednesday, thursday, beginning to cool it off on friday. we will be in the low 90s inland on wednesday. heading out of the bay area. the temperatures in the upper 80s to middle 90s around fresno, 95 degrees tomorrow. now, up to 88. redding, 93 degrees, lake tahoe, 74, 69 for yosemite and for the bay area tomorrow, a warm one.
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about where we should be, 82 degrees at livermore. 81 for san ramone. 74 degrees in santa rose a. nap a hitting 76. fairfield, 85 degrees. 75 at navato. extended forecast. slow warming trend, the temperatures reaching the low 80s. back in the low 90s by wednesday, thursday, friday. next weekend back in the 80s again. expect, well, what has been for the past month, a warm up. but, weather will not -- it will help. >> it will help. >> yes. the quake way insurance, it costs for most people, i think, they will take the risk. >> it is not cheap. you know the last time we had a quake in the bay area was loma, yes, so, people, you know, people who went through that said bring it on i can go through it. but it was not a big number. >> the numbers you had earlier, wow. yes, napa neighborhoods dealing with more than just
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