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tonight dozens of buildings being deemed too dangerous to enter. one person still listed in critical condition and dozens more with quite a story to tell. welcome back to our extended coverage of the napa earthquake. i'm julie haener. >> we'll be with you for the next 30 minutes here. when you live in the bay area you know at some point there's going to be an earthquake. this was the largest earthquake
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since the loma prieta earthquake. it caused fires and caused aftershocks. one person remains in critical condition. 7,300 people are still without power and hundreds more are without water. and here's a map now to show you the exact location of the earthquake. the u.s. geological survey says the epicenter was five miles northwest ofamerican canyon but the quake was felt from lake tahoe to mendecino and south to monterey county. >> between 90 and 100 buildings have been red tagged on meyer island the so called officers row was completely red tagged because of falling chimneys there. many apartments were trashed, food on the floor, furniture tipped over. dishes and glasses shattered. and cracks are clearly evident in the walls. michelle kidwell says she won't
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spend the night inside. >> my place don't look as bad as some of the others, so i don't know. they have to come in and see. we have some structure cracks inside. >> reporter: napa officials say while some of the buildings that have been deemed unsafe or older made with unreinformed masonry. some had recently been retrofitted. >> ken wayne has been live in napa all day long. there's been a lot of damage. really fortunate the quake hit in the middle of the night when no one was out there on the street. >> reporter: that's exactly what i've been hearing from emergency responders in napa. nobody on the street at 3:20 in the morning. but can you imagine what would have happened if the earthquake hit in the middle of day when this sidewalk would have been full of pedestrians and cars on the street. if you look at this buildings there's still massive cracks on the side of the wall. part of the wall completely
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collapsed. if there was a major aftershock, a five or six this building lookses so fragile. looks like the entire thing came tumbling down. some unreenforced masonry buildings in the down toby area suffered visible damage -- in the downtown area suffered visible damage. carrie cassler was in the bathroom when the quake hit. >> the mirror was breaking up and flying. >> reporter: she snapped this picture before being taken to the hospital for cuts on her feet. city officials say building inspectors from the state office of emergency services will join teams tomorrow to evaluate the remaining structures in napa. of course there are some structures that won't need to be inspected because they have
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been destroyed. ktvu's debora villalon is live at the mobile home park in napa where some residents lost their homes, debora. >> reporter: it's one of the worse things a quake can bring. a gas fed fire. and when lines rupture to four mobile homes this morning they were lost almost before crews could get there. >> all i could think is how many homes are going to burn. it was very scary to see the fire. >> reporter: the managers of 28 years had a few hundred residents to worry about. >> i was concerned, i was scared because i thought they're not going to get out. >> reporter: everyone did get out. but six mobile homes were damaged by fire and dozens more are structurally damaged. and too unfit to live in. >> my house is trashed. i don't know they might condemn it. >> i have a friend who lost
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everything. everything. >> reporter: at a time fire crews needed all the water pressure they could get to fight the fire. water was pouring down the street. a line broken by the quake right outside the senior complex. considering that obstacle and how much more this fire might spread, residents are feeling fortunate tonight. >> relieved that we're well and sad for these homeowners here but it's all good. it's all good. >> i think i'm just so happy that we're alive. that the rest of this doesn't matter. >> reporter: the davis' had been taking some teasing. they just had their retirement party, the theme, rock & roll. now they might stick around for a while. >> these people have treated us so good. there's no way you can walk away. there's no way. >> you came out and fell in
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between. >> debora villalon telling us about the situation at the mobile home park where some homes were lost. imagine if you had some warning that an earthquake was coming even 10 seconds or 30 seconds or ao minute. i caught up with the lieutenant governor gavin newsom here at this corner earlier today. he says it's time for california to get with the program that's in place in other countries such as japan and taiwan to get people notice and have them be alerted when an earthquake is approaching. he says this quake is a wake up call and it's time for state lawmakers to get that early warning system in place in california. >> inconceivable to me we didn't fund it already. i understand the economic challenges in the state and budget tear challenges better than anybody. you're looking at 80, $100 million rage. it works. paoáepl -- people might think this is science fiction, it works.
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>> reporter: if you had that time even 10 seconds to know that an earthquake particularly one this large was about to hit you would have just enough time to try to find a safer place to be where you couldn't get hit by falling debris. you could protect yourself and be prepared for that earthquake that is about to come. of course, some people didn't know. all of us didn't know this earthquake was coming and there were a lot of injuries. ktvu's cristina rendon is at queen of the valley hospital with more on the injury report there. >> reporter: this has been quite the unusual day for the hospital but this is what they train for and they put that plan into action when that earthquake hit early this morning. tonight as you take a look behind me, there's a tent set up at the triage center. but there's not many people being serviced at this hour. since 3:20 this morning they have seen 208 people come into the emergency room and that
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number is growing. of those 17 people have been admitted, injuries ranging from broken hips to respiratory issues. one person remains in critical condition. the 14-year-old boy who left here in critical condition has been upgraded to serious condition at uc davis medical center. he was injured by debris from a collapsing chimney. as this date has progressed the number of initial injuries has decreased and the number of clean up injuries has started to rise. so please be careful when you're cleaning up any damaged areas whether that be from sharp items or glass material, but again as i said there was only one triage tent left and the people who were in those tents being treated said it was a tremendous service to them because they didn't have to wait in the er. >> they were very fast, very efficient. they did a great job. i'm tkphrad -- glad they have the tents set up.
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>> reporter: the majority of injuries hospital staff saw today were very minor. we're talking about cuts and bruises on the head and neck. they were glad nobody was seriously injured but we do have the one person in critical condition. the hospital expects to be running back to -- a lot of these injuries were people with broken glass on the floor. and cut their feet. so you can imagine when this quake shakes your house the power goes out. you get out of bed you can't see. it can be very easy for you to cut your feet tryings to get out of the house. one thing you might want to think about is get a flashlight
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close to your friend and have some slippers near by. if the power is out and you're trying to get out. turn on the toául, take a picture and maybe you can see him here. the question i had for you ken that i was curious about. you've been up there all day now for about 10 or 12 hours. what has it been like? >> well, we've seen a lot of people coming together. there's a lot of caring right now in napa. people looking out for each other which is something that you like to see after a big disaster such as this. the curious part is where we go from here. because you look at this building here behind me. what's going to happen to the people who have this building?
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how are they going to recover from this? that's something lieutenant governor new san was talking about. he wants to try to stream hype the process so that when people are trying to get help and get some loan money in trying to regain their businesses. let's make this fast. so that's the long haul. i mean we're here fresh a few hours after this happened but we have a long way ahead for a lot of these people who are trying to get their businesses back on their feet. trying to get their homes rebuilt. this is going to be a long journey for a lot of people. >> i just saw something. you're in the heart of downtown napa. tomorrow the workweek begins is that whole section right there blocked off so people can't access it or is it open with some businesses opened, some closed. >> well the businesses that are red tagged people cannot go in.
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because they're simply unsafe. the buildings could collapse. there is some access but there's a heavy prince presence if you look down the street there. that's plain street where that stoplight is and the napa river has just passed that yellow tape. the yellow tape is strung on the streets where there were the most serious danger. people can't get there for now. as the recovery process moves forward, you're going to have authorities allowing people to come in so they can get the equipment in they need. people need to get plywood on the buildings that are broken. you can try to rebuild these strictures. there had to be a lot of cooperation, especially for
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seven -- a lot of cooperation. and napa closed classes. teachers still have to report to work. the district says it will make a decision about reopening on tuesday by 1:00 tomorrow afternoon. sonoma state university's website says it will be open for classes tomorrow. we've seen a whole lot of pictures of damage. we have a couple of more that we want to show you right now. this was sent to us by someone talking about the great quake of 2014. the quake was going for 20, 30 seconds. you can see here all of the wine barrels that's a result of the serious shaking. we have one more. this is from napa nail salon on seventh and franklin. it's a little tough to see the picture here but you see this building as they say is just trashed. a lot of damage.
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as we've been talking about just a lot of people hurting tonight. a lot of people affected by this earthquake today. >> so far there's been dozens of aftershocks following today's earthquake. bill martin is here now to tell us how much more shaking we can expect. >> we're seeing an aftershock. they're small ones but one every hour or so certainly in the bay area. it's orders of magnitude different between a strong and major. probably 10 times difference as you look at the napa. the strongest we've seen today in this area was 5:57 a.m. a 3.6. some other ones 2.5, 2.8 almost 8:00. the aftershocks have been very
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small. i've seen literally two. as we go into next week. because things are damaged. because things are compromised we have a five to 10 chance, five to 10% chance of a magnitude 6.0 or larger. any magnitude of that size could cause a little challenge. you have a 32 panthers have been tracking our trail. the further we get away from it the less channel of an aftershock. you're going to see we're down covering. thank you bill. it wasn't just napa that was damaged. millions of the dollars in damage was done in vallejo as well. we'll go live there and hear from business owner who
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together to clean up this mess. city officials say at least 40 buildings sustained damage in vallejo. an early damage report stands at $10 million. some streets and buildings are still off limits tonight. noelle has the story tr-rp there's a building that's been red tagged. part of the roof fell through the roof of a may -- roof of a major business. everywhere we went we saw chimneys in ruin. sunday is meant to be a day of rest. but at the bernardi home there's that rest. >> and no, earthquake insurance. 80-year-old brick and mortar. >> look at that it just
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crumbled. >> is no match. >> i think everybody injury in the block did not come home. and they aren't waiting for that to happen. i fission yours i should take it down before if the. >> reporter: on this block of quaint old homes. >> the street, the sidewalk is lifted a little higher than before. >> reporter: everyone where with a fireplace. >> my fireplace has fulled away from the house. >> has damage. you rocked and ruled up this morning. it was a wake up call. >> reporter: many are grateful to here a sunday quiet financial. and drilling singing. >> no one is really ready for an earthquake. there's so much board up to do tonight we next you can so the
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stuff that fell down from the pictures roof. >> hopefully make dinner and get it ready for tomorrow. he's digging in. >> it looks like i'm going to be here all day and night. >> all the se romics glass shared, they are in quake. >> that's what i did with it. when my chilly exploded. >> we're going to go to, you get take off. everyone i talked to today said they were just grateful to be okay. that everything that was broken can be replaced as long as they have their families around. reporting live in vallejo.
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a 98-year-old church in napa in the center of fifth and randall street. you can see the facade has actually separated from the roof line we're also told there was a lot of damage inside inside as well. napa is in the heart of california's multi million dollars job industry. are ktvu's katie utehs is live with more. including a way at how yontville faired. >> damage to these historic buildings in downtown napa. it's quite -- how it crumbled. i want to take you to another popular wine country destination. the streets of yotville they were eerie quiet today on a beautiful sunday it would
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normally be packed. a few wanted to stay open for tourists who made long journeys to wine country. others lost reserved wine. saying that human life is what's truly priceless. >> considering the magnitude and the damage around our town. we're all lucky. the napa county vitner's organization is still trying to contact their members. many wine owners do not have quake insurance. some are estimating the damage
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to be in the million dollar range. the fall harvest has not been completed. much of the wine has not been processed. labor day weekend is traditionally a major business boom for this area. many of these wineries trying to clean up in time for that. some of them will be able to. others will not. in these comes days we'll get a better idea of just the monetary amount of damage here in napa valley. live in downtown napa, katie utehs. cometting up we'll wrap up of coverage with the fault line that the earthquake was believed to be on.
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today's earthquake happened in a fault that we don't know much about. >> this is what we're looking at west napa fault where the earthquake occurred today. a 6.0. and that fault is only 30 miles long or so. the san andreas is 800 miles long. when that 800-mile long fault hits, it gives you a bigger jolt. it's a shorter fault as faults go. >> a lot of people felt it. thank you for joining us tonight. unfortunately this is a story
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we're just beginning to report. i speak for all of us when i say our thoughts are with all of you who have been affected by this. because a lot of people have been affected. you can find continuous coverage on ktvu.com. the morning news will start at 4:30 in the morning. >> they will be following all breaking news and road closures that could impact the morning commute. our thoughts are with anyone who may have suffered injury or damage in this quake. good night. it makes me happy to go on the computer. i like feeling smart. internet essentials from comcast has brought low-cost internet access
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