was introduced as the 18th head coach of the san francisco 49ers. the new gm balky called it a new generation. harbaugh says this job is a competitive opportunity, the greatest he could imagine. now jim harbaugh of course was introduced officially at 3:37 at the palace hotel. you can see he's still on the podium right now. this was a situation where he was a former stanford and 49er head coach bill walsh. he says he's not quite ready to be bill walsh quite yet. harbaugh inherented a team that was 6-11 and just finished a 12 win san in stanford history. he's been called an nfl coach, not exactly sure what that means but he did quarterback for 15 years in the nfl. and now he's ready to go back

to the pros. >> it was a process, you know this week from the time we landed you know coming back from the orange bowl and you know after talking to trent and to jed on wednesday, you know we six or seven or eight hour meeting. it was just natural, just talking ball. i feel i knew then that was the direction i wanted to go. and so all along the process i was making my mind up i think. >> reporter: we are going to have a live report right now. they're telling me i'm talking too loud here, but we're going to have a live report with jim

harbaugh a bit later. and harbaugh led the stanford team to their winningest season ever. >> reporter: we didn't find anyone who was upset of jim harbaugh leaving. because as you see here, luck is staying, so it softens the blow. >> somebody ran by me in the hall saying that the ninest just signed harbaugh i was excited to hear that. hopefully his winning ways and methods are able to transfer to the san francisco organization. >> reporter: for some fans harbaugh's departure is sudden. >> that's news for me. >> my reaction is, i'm a little

sad i would love for stanford to have another great year. not that they can't have it with the new coach. >> reporter: that was the feeling throughout, sanford can have another great season. >> we've seen a lot of coaches and a lot of coaches changing. that's historically a lot of our very successful coaches have moved on to the professional ranks. >> i am happy for jim. he's obviously doing what he wants to do. and i wish him the very best. >> reporter: the stanford athletic department declined to comment officially but said it would issue a statement after jim harbaugh's press conference is over but many said they wish him well. >> and jim harbaugh is speaking

now in san francisco, let's take a listen. >> that was never indoubt to me, and you know it really, you know it really comes down to you know this is the level i wanted to be on. and this the -- you know the shot and the organization that i wanted to do it with. and it's the perfect competitive opportunity and i willingly accept it. >> in two other follow up questions jim, have you had a chance to talk to andrew luck since he's made his decision to come back and when do you intend to talk to the stanford players about your decision? >> right, i've been in touch with andrew and some of the other players through text. definitely going to meet with them and they'll -- i want them to know that you know i'm going to be right down the road and

that there's, this is not a relationship that's going to end. hopefully we're going to be in each other's lives. and they know it's like family from here on out. it doesn't change. >> well, that was jim harbaugh talking live about becoming the new coach for the 49ers. jim harbaugh's brother is the coach of the ravens. and wouldn't you know it. next year the ravens will play the 49ers. >> and we're going to have an interview with jim harbaugh. our fred inglis will have that at about 4:40 this afternoon. a gunman held up a bank in south san francisco. that led the s.w.a.t. team and the fbi being called in. rob roth is live at the the

scene with what happened and what witnesses are telling us, rob. >> reporter: we're at the westboro square shopping center in south san francisco and police have just removed the crime scene tape here at the bank of the west. now police say two or three armed suspects held up the bank this morning and are still at large. s.w.a.t. team units were poised at the front and back doors while dozenss of others in and around the bank. >> they were hiding in several locations inside of the bank. >> reporter: police went inside the bank and brought out the tellers and customers. >> we just looked out our window and we were in shock. we saw police going this direction, that direction.

high power looking weapons and i looked the door right away. >> police officers that told us to get out from the laundry mat because there's something going on in here. >> reporter: one woman we spoke with said she was at the very same bank several months ago when two men robbed it. >> i won't bring my grand kids with me and i won't bring my mother with me. it's more of, i guess more for them i would be worried about them. >> reporter: a police source tell us that the customers and employees duck and hid and we'll know more about what went on here once they study the surveillance video inside the bank. rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. we will not know who will become san francisco's district attorney until sunday. sources tell ktvu that mayor newsom, gavin newsom is still

deading deciding who he will pick from a short list. that news came after board of supervisors favorite david chu removed his name. well this is the last day of business for san francisco's current board of supervisors and they're taking a key vote. at issue who will be named interim mayor to finish the final year of mayor newsom's term. david stevenson is in the city now with late details. >> reporter: this special meeting began just about an hour ago behind me in city hall. and i just came from it, the decision has been made to vote in ed lee as the new san francisco mayor. dozens of cities asians came out to find out if lee would be

voted in. chris daley this afternoon moved to reopen nominations for that position. that motion failed by a vote of 6-5. daley told us he had become increasingly resigned to lee winning the nomination. >> there's some buttons being pushed but you know it seems as if progressives as i define it and that's those who want to challenge corporate power actually aren't a majority of the board of supervisors. so with you know five votes, you know i'm not sure what we can do. >> i would be surprised if there were any surprises this afternoon. i think and hope that there is significant consensus growing around ed lee based on his depth and breath of experience. >> i think there will be some effort made by the regressives to find somebody else. but i don't think that there's any legs to such an effort. >> reporter: now supervisor

daley also tried to regenerate the candidacy of harold. lee has about 10 votes from the 11 supervisors needed to win the nomination today. the incoming board of supervisors will vote on lee's nomination if he secures it on tuesday. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. in oakland, a small group is beginning to gather to mourn a teenager who was killed on new year's eve. i want to show you a picture where a candlelight vigil will take place about 7:30 tonight. friends of christopher jones said they are speaking out to try to stop the street violence in oakland. jones was shot when he helped his baby sister strap her

daughter into a car. the murder was especially tragic because jones was quote a good kid who wanted to attend college. investigators believe that his murder may have been a case of mistaken identity. governor jerry brown has been set to unveil his new budget plan on monday and it's expected to include a host of new cuts. the cuts are aimed at bridging an estimated $28 million budget deficit. governor brown is already trimming parts of the budget starting off with his own staff. according to the sacramento bee, brown today eliminated the offices of cabinet secretary, deputy cabinet secretary, office of education and the office of the first lady. brown's wife and gus brown will be a special unpaid advisor to the governor. he plans to shut field officers

in fresno and river side. and according to the marin independent journal, a 17-year- old student attends redwood high school, his name has not been released because he is a minor. twin cities police say the teen had a loaded glock handgun and two machetes on the campus marking lot. police say the boy's mother bought him the weapon while on hunting trips and he had no intention of using it on campus. and we are getting breaking news. there has just been an earth quake, we felt it here in the

studio. it lasted for about two seconds. we will bring you more coming up. authorities evacuated -- the parcel was addressed to homeland security secretary janet napolitano it was similar to two suspicious packages that caught fire yesterday in maryland. two workers singed their fingers as they opened the packages. those packages are now being examined at the forensics lab. the government reports of big increase in jobs, but is it big enough? i'm tom vacar, the evidence, the numbers just ahead. we're speaking about the dense valley fog, i'll see you back here in just a moment.

there is a glimmer of hope today for the nation's jobless workers, the unemployment rate has fallen to it's lowest point

in 20 months. president obama says that is welcomed news. >> we know these numbers can bounce around from month to month. the trend is clear, we saw 12 straight months of private- sector job growth. >> reporter: the jobless rate fell to 9.4% in december, a drop of .4%. it's the lowest rate since may of 2009. but employs added just 103,000 jobs which is lower than analysts expected. president obama admitted the nation still has a long way to go toward recovery. >> you still have a whole bunch of folks who are still looking. still struggling. we have a big hole that we have to dig out of. so our mission has to be to accelerate growth. >> reporter: the president made his remarks while touring a window manufacturing plant in maryland. president obama told the factory's workers that his small business tack tax cuts

will help business like theirs expand. and we have a look at the unemployment picture a little closer to home, tom vacar. >> reporter: from the trenches, even good news about hiring does not end the recession. >> i think the nation is starting to turn around but at a very snail pace. >> i have to be hopeful, being that i just got a job, i have to be worried. >> the temp agencies that used to call me every day, my phone would be ringing off the hook.

>> they don't call anymore do they? >> no. >> the federal reserve says that the unemployment rate is still four to five years away. california's unemployment rate will still rise. >> and certainly looking at what may be happening up in sacramento and the upcoming budget cycle. >> i think california is in sad shape. i really do. it's-- if i could afford to move, i would try some where else. >> reporter: the pool of those needing jobs is sure to grow as more people come into and return to the work force, example -- >> they are bringing home the troops so where are their jobs? >> reporter: for now job seekers say it's tough enough. california's latest unemployment rates will be announced in just two months. tom vacar, ktvu news.

jobs report translated into a down day on wall street. investors started selling after the labor department released the unemployment news. more bad news on wall street included a ruling against several banks in a foreclosure rate. the dow dropped 2.5 points the nasdaq closed close to seven. >> back now to the breaking news. an earthquake that happened just about 10 minutes ago from what we understand was centered 11 miles north of morgan hills in the south bay. we just got an indication that the earthquake was 4.4 magnitude quake which is considered a light earthquake. three minutes after that earthquake there was an aftershock that registered 2.6. we're trying to figure out if there was damage. get some quotes from people who may have felt it. we felt it here in the studio but it was one of those earthquakes that it was so

slight in here, you could not quite sure, did i just feel that or not. 4.4 centered about 11 miles from morgan hill. let's go now to our chief meteorologist bill martin. you felt it as well. almost was it an earthquake or not. >> yeah, set up. i was around during the san francisco quake. julie and i were looking at each other. it had that roll feel to it. it almost felt like it was going to grow. this was that sort of gentle rolling. this is well north of the epicenter. 11miles north. we gets lots of threes and lots of two. 4.4 that's not a bad sized quake. that's where we are right now. we'll get you more information

if there's any issues in the area. we'll keep an eye on anything that develops there. we'll come in just a little closer to see what you're looking at. i'm going to dig up what faults are down there and what kind of earthquake it could have been. there's the satellite imagine. look at that fog. that is some serious serious fog. when i was back in school, climbtology and meteorologist classes at cal you would take a picture like that you would put it in a textbook. because what you're looking at here is some serious fog that is basically in the central valley. all the way down to bakers field. this fog will have a huge impact on your driving late nights and early morning. the fog formed up in the north bay as well. we saw the fog blowing through the cardenas. it's spontaneously forming in the north bay valleys and east bay valleys. san jose you got a serious amount of fog that lasted almost all day. really just in the upper 40s,

mid-40s, very cool up there. that's how the weekend goes. there'll be sunshine but that fog. if it's not raining this time of year and you get a stable pattern like this, that is the deal. areas of very dense fog, very cool. and there is no rain in the forecast until early next week. and even then it's a weak weather system. you know the system, may not be enough to scour the fog out of the valley completely. so what we're going to do is we'll keep track of it for you. the temperatures tonight are going to be cold again. there have been tracks of black ice. over 17 on the way to santa cruz late nights and early mornings. i will tell you if you have business in the valley, try to drive later. wait till 9:00 or 10:00 until the visibility comes up. we're going to dig up some more on that earthquake and we'll have the five day forecast, see you back here. speaking of that earthquake, we got a bit of new information. our producers have been making

phone calls in the newsroom. officially it came in 4.4 magnitude, we just learned that to a 4.1. has now been it occurred about 4:12 this afternoon. we're still trying to get more information. >> this is turning into a big news day. we not only have that earthquake but we have jim harbaugh. supervisors have just voted on their choice for a new interim mayor and david stevenson will have that in just a moment. plus we know now what did it. what got people sick inside a san francisco hotel last night.

we want to take you back to san francisco now. more developing news, that's where the current board of supervisors just voted for an interim mayor. david stevenson is live with the vote. >> reporter: and by a vote of 10-1 the board of supervisorred voted to confirm ed lee as the new interim mayor. of course this vote will have to be ratified by the incoming board next tuesday. but it is a sign that they were able to turn around the candidacy of ed lee. it was a nomination that came on tuesday to move the city manager to become the mayor. that angered a number of the board's progressive supervisors who felt they had been taken by

surprise by this nomination. the favorite candidate going into tuesday's meeting was michael hennessey. today the board voted on his candidacy 9-2 with a number of supervisors who had supported that candidacy deciding not to do so. today the board did vote 10-1 to support ed lee as san francisco's new interim mayor. he will finish newsom's term. this was an event attended by at least three dozen people visiting from the chinese community just north of city hall. they came in on buses to show their support for ed lee. he is not here today. there were rumors that he would be in to talk to the board. he is expected in town this weekend. and for now, many are hailing this as a success. oakland has a new chinese american mayor. right now there's a bit of

celebration going on in the second floor of city hall. we'll bring you a complete wrap up of this vote today coming up later tonight on the ktvu channel 2 news at 10 clock. for now reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. police in one east bay city are trying to get restaurants to stop extremely dangerous holiday practice.

back now to the breaking news that we're covering. a light earthquake that hit at 4:10 this afternoon it measured 4.1 in magnitude. and it happened between morgan hill and san jose. about 11 miles north of morgan hill. here at the ktvu news studio we did feel it.

it was a slight rolling if you will. almost hard to tell whether it was an earthquake because it was so slight. but we are probably about 50 to 60 miles or so from the epicenter. joining us now on the phone is epinhimer from the geological center. what can you tell us about this earthquake. >> the earthquake happened in the calav era s fault. it's a very active section of the fault. it's pretty close to where the morgan hill earthquake of april 24, 1984 occurred. that was a magnitude 8.6 earthquake. it's a fault that has a combination of stuck patches that fail in big earthquakes like the 1984 earthquake and there was one more recently back october 31st 2007. and then there are these little patches on the fault that creep and with smaller stuck patches holding up the motion and they

occasionally pop up in magnitudes threes and fours. >> i'm sorry, i was wondering is a 4.1 enough to cause any damage? >> no, not at this depth. if it was right underneath your feet and pretty shallow, we did see some that caused damage from magnitude four but it's really unusual. at this death i -- this depth, at this point i would be surprised if there was any damage. >> everybody who lives in the bay area has heard growing up that we're going to get the big one. what does this show in that picture. >> this happened near the 1984 earthquake: we don't think that portion of the fault has accumulated enough stress to rerupture until probably the year 2025.

that's our best estimate. so in terms of could this trigger an earthquake on the hayward fault which i think is more concern to most people that's extremely unlikely. we have magnitude four earthquakes several times in the bay area, and history shows the amount of shaking from those earthquakes is not enough to trigger a magnitude seven earthquake: i don't want to flynnish the possibility that there could be large earthquakes -- i don't want to diminish the possibility that there could be large earth earthquakes in the bay area, but i don't think that will trigger a large earthquake. >> 11 miles north of morgan hill, you heard mr. epinhimer say 4.1 in all likelihood did not cause any damage. but any time there's an

earthquake here in the bay area it does rattle some nerves. >> we did feel it here in the studio. we have lights over head and we saw those swinging. we felt the roll. and we're going to go to chief meteorologist bill -- and we're going to go to tom vacar, he's been making phone calls to see what people had noticed. tom-- >> we checked with vta, they stopped their track for a very short period of time. that will almost certainly mean caltrain probably had no problems they are still checking. that is the current situation on that 4.1 which hit at about 4:10 this afternoon. >> tom, thank you very much for checking. right now we want to take you to richmond. richmond police took action against those responsible for

new years eve gunfire. officers went door to door hoping to educate the community on what could be a deadly celebratory tradition. john sasaki is now in richmond with more on this story. >> reporter: look around richmond and you can see countless homes that could be targets. targets for bullets that have no aim because the shooter just fired into the air. that's the sound of just one of the 56 56 incidents that the shot spotter picked up on new year's eve. >> what goes up has to come down. it does sometimes strike a person. it often strikes some piece of property causing damage. and this is a big concern for us. >> reporter: in each case, police know where the shots originated. so today officers visited those neighbors. >> we're doing just a follow up to our shots fire program. >> reporter: it took no time to find someone who heard gunfire

on new year's eve. >> i do every year. >> you do every year. >> what's that like? >> it's a little disconcerting but normal. >> reporter: but this woman says she didn't hear any at all because her new year's eve plan always involve going some where else. >> we have children around so we just leave the area. >> why? >> because of that specifically. because it gets too rowdy. we have heard them before. >> there's a real educational component here that we're trying to capitalize on this opportunity to educate our community. >> reporter: officers didn't arrest anyone, they gave residents these fires that explain the dangers of celebratory gunfire. and a judge delayed ruling on a key issue in the case. today's court hearing focused on the attorney for gang

members who are fighting that so called gang injunction. the city argued the attorneys have a conflict of interest because they work for a firm that represents major gene quan and that employs a city council member. the defense refuted that claim. >> there is no conflict of interest. we have the appropriate ethical walls in place to make sure that any communication with jane bruner is not conveyed to us. >> a decision on today's hearing is due next month. coming up in just a couple of minute, a live interview with the 49ers new head coach jim harbaugh. also ahead a white house summit right here in the bay area. what the meeting of minds was all about.

we have more now on our breaking news. magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck this afternoon in the south bay. we want to look quickly on our ktvu facebook page. this is where people have been writing in. here is our facebook page right now. the epicenter was 11 miles north of morgan hill. this afternoon's quake which is considered light hit at 4:10 this afternoon.

there was also a 2.6 aftershock at 4:13. all this activity happening near the calav era s fault. we will continue to cover this earthquake. but right now what we want to do is go to san francisco, fred inglis is with the new head coach of the san francisco 49ers. >> reporter: and we are here live with the 18th head coach of the 49ers jim harbaugh. there was a will the of music, video and circumstance, how was it like for you. >> this was a great day. like churchill said these are great days. this was a great day for me because it's an opportunity of a lifetime and one that i willingly accept. >> there was a lot of talk about where you were going, where you were staying. but i'm guessing family had a lot to influence in your decision. i know you have your wife, your children here, you have a

father who was a long time football coach and your brother john with the ravens. were they all intergal parts in this decision? >> they were, and you know i don't do too many things without talking to them, to god, and my wife. and what i felt in my heart, this was the perfect competitive challenge and platform and you know be around these profootball players and the best in the world at what they do is to be in the national football league. the greatest sport that's ever been invented and to be able to do it for this organization, the san francisco 49ers,

legendary. i'm going to move on with a humble hard, but it's hard to hide my enthusiasm that's coursing through my vains right now. >> you're not everyone going to have to move. >> no just go to work. that's one thing that's very exciting. we'll be able to reduce a lot of drag when it comes to moving the family and you know looking for a place to stay and things like that. so we'll be able to cut some drag and get right to work. >> coaching in the nfl and coaching in college is different. i hear people, observers, i won't call them experts but observers that call you a football guy. what does that mean? >> i love football, i love coaching, and you know people might underestimate me because i'm a college football coach and i hope they do. and you know because that will be a competitive advantage. >> you're talking about bringing in the west coast offense. this is where the west coast offense is instituted. so you're bringing it back. what are the dynamics of that

that is so intriguing and what does it have that you know about it so well. >> the terminology for one, it's a proven system. it's a winning system, it's won super bowls, it's won championships. you know it's been trouble shot, it's been combed through. and it can encompass about everything that you could want to do in an offensive attack. so therefor it has the ability to incorporate players talents and their abilities and maximize them and have the opportunity to do it. >> and people say you a quarter away from getting a quarterback. what are you going to do? >> get a quarterback. we're going to call them.

there's the draft, free agency, there's enues but you know first and formost i want to recruit the guys we y. >> coach, the 18th coach for the 49ers. >> and i love how he says he's going to cut the drag and get right to work. >> and two brothers now coaching in the nfl. >> we'll be right back with more right after this.

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we have more now on the breaking news that light earthquake that we are following, light earthquake hit at 4:10 this afternoon. it was centered about 11 miles north of morgan hill in the south bay. a magnitude 4.1 earthquake we talked a little bit earlier that in general a 4.1 earthquake would not be large enough to cause any significant damage. and we haven't heard any reports to this point of any significant damage. our chief meteorologist bill martin has been following developments now. we want to go to see to see what he's been tracking. >> in thing looks like it's on the calaveras fault. it runs to san ramon, it runs right alongside of those east

bay hills. the earthquake as we mentioned, initially came out as a 4.4 but they downgraded to a 4.1. i have an interesting map. i like this next map i'm going to show you. it's basically called the shake map. there we go. there's the specifics on the area. you see picture that fault line the fault running from morgan hill north toward san ramon and up toward the walnut creek area. this is a pretty good sized fault. here is what i want to show you. this is called the shake map. let's look closely. just as this thing happened people call up and say, this is what i felt. purple would be weak, blue would be light, and you can see here that the areas of heaviest shaking, really look at santa cruz. they had a fairly significant shake for being over the hill of this thing. some light shaking. no greens, no yellows.

so basically it was a very mild earthquake. this is exactly -- this is what people really actually felt. so a 4.1. that's where it stands. calaveras fault, and there could be an unnamed fault that could be found later. you can see this earthquake pop in here at the 4.1 down by san jose. that gives you a big aerial picture of it. you can see the fault that's hanging out right in the inland bay valley it's basically going to be there right through your bay area weekend: here are the forecast overnight lows, fog is an issue. you can see it in the valleys. dense fog advisory will go into effect again in the central valley. here we go, weekend the dense fog hangs. here's the deal, if you have

travel plans and you're traveling through the central valley. late night early morning is not the best time to do that. check out offshore here, weak weather system brushes in, slight chance of rain. but the hopeful bit with this would be that this would mix out that inversion and allow that fog to go away. i hope you come back on our 10:00 news and 7:00 news on kicu36. because this is the weather story right now, on top of that because of the fog it's cold out there isn't it. here's the computer model. giving you an idea of what the pog fog is doing. it is just hanging out there. freezing fog in the mid- elevations as you go up. partly sunny on sunday. look at those 48 in fairfield, 49 in concord. those are daytime highs for your saturday. warmer in san jose. check out santa cruz. here's what i would do if i were you. i would head out to the coast if i were you because that's

where the weather will be the warmest. we're still updating this story just south of san jose. if we get any new details we'll certainly bring them to you. i'll see you tonight at 10:00. we wanted to know whether any of the areas airports or transportation services, agencies have been affected by the quake. tom vacar joins us now. he's been in the newsroom doing some checking. >> san jose airport says they checked everything seems to be okay. vta the light rail down there checked everything is okay. caltrain says everything is normal. generally speaking they are not interested to any great degree to put any special inspections or anything like that unless they hit a 5.0. that is nine times greater than what they felt in their particular system: and caltrain says because they're

retrofitting they don't worry about anything until it gets to 5.5. and bottom line is transportation agencies and places where you might be congregating in large numbers seem to be a-okay if we learn anything else we will let you know. back to you. >> very good, thank you tom. once again here just to recap. a 4.1 earth quake hit 11 miles north of morgan hill at 4:10 this afternoon considered a light earthquake. at this point we have not received any reports of damage. we're going to continue to follow this. take a short break right now. when we come back we'll talk with someone over at us -- actually we're not going to take a break. but but in a moment we're going to talk to someone from the usgs to get more on this. and skyrocketing health insurance premium, new bay area research shows a new way of

prescribing is putting health care at risk. >> reporter: it's called off label prescribing and it's perfectly legal. but if your doctor prescribed one of these medicines for say sleep or anxiety problems it's likely experts say it's the wrong prescription. >> use of these drugs got way out ahead of the evidence. >> reporter: randall stafford says prescriptions for these drugs are flimsy or not warranted and can cause diabetes obesity, even heart attacks. >> the benefits are not that

great and the risks are relatively high. >> reporter: why do doctors prescribe them? >> some drugs are used simply because they are the latest drug on the market. >> reporter: sometimes ads convince patients who demand them. >> there's some legal markets that goes on that may oversell the drug. >> reporter: andy says there's illegal marketing as well. the use of these drugs has skyrocketed he says and the costs now of unnecessary prescriptions over $5 billion a year plus billions more settling lawsuits. doctors stafford and lofmore urge patients to talk to your doctor if you take any of these prescriptions. back to the breaking news, that 4.1 earthquake that hit in the south bay at 4:10 this

afternoon. robert handa is live at the usgs now in minlow park. robert. >> reporter: we know you've been giving a lot of information about this earthquake. we're going to give you the latest up to date information as well as confirm the statistics given out. joining me is tom broker, he is the head of the usgs earthquake science center: tom thanks for joining us in such short notice. did you feel the earthquake and what did it feel like to you? >> i did feel it. it's been the strongest earthquake that i've felt in this area since the latest earthquake which was three years ago. the day before halloween, it was a magnitude 5.0 and this was a 4.1. the last earthquake i was at home. >> how did this feel to you? >> this is one of those earthquakes where you would say, that's an earthquake and it kept going on which caught my attention. >> does that tell you about what kind of earthquake it is?

>> not so much but it could tell you that it could potentially be a big earthquake. and it was a bigger earthquake far away. >> can use show us a little bit about what we've been talking about as well, as what's interesting to seismologists about what's happened? >> as we all know the bay area is really slice and dice by all kinds of earthquake faults. this earthquake happened on the calaveras fault. it's not shown on this map but we know believe that there's a connection between the calavera s fault and the hayward fault. the last time we had a big earthquake on the hayward fault was in 1968.

what's interesting to us, on average they've been 125 years apart. we're now on the 145th year. so we're expecting one. >> there's a seismograph here that we sometimes use to try to show the intensity of the quake. but right here they are saying that a 4.1 really doesn't show up. it's obscured by things even like traffic noise. so that givers you a perspective of the kind of quake we had. >> different perspective of how we felt it here in the studio. and 4.1 earthquake in the south bay, we're going to have much more coverage on that earthquake and what it means for the bay area coming up on our news at 10:00. >> right now we want to bring you live coverage of the cotton bowl. lsu taking on a & m. we'll see you tonight everyone. >> have a good night.