tv KTVU 6 O Clock News FOX August 25, 2014 6:00pm-6:31pm PDT
6:00 pm
and a deadline to make sure thousands of buildings are safe. good evening everyone. we are live here in downtown napa. at brown and third street. this is one of the streets that is closed because of the damage. several buildings have been red tagged. there are a lot of roads in downtown napa that are closed, a lot of buildings are damaged. you go down another block and everything is fine. there is a restaurant, they were open for business today. talked to the guy, he told me spent 7 hours cleaning up but they opened up this morning and business has been good. >> they are in recovery process. we want to give you updated numbers. here is the latest right now following yesterday's 6.0 earthquake. napa valley school district
6:01 pm
will be closed again tomorrow. closed tomorrow. also we have 90 water main breaks. still a lot of people without water and it could take several more days before the water is back on. >> a number of buildings have been red tagged. 49 buildings in napa. including the buildings behind us. 7 red tagged in vallejo. the buildings you cannot go back in to the buildings. doesn't mean they will be torn down but they are probably in need of expensive repairs. depending on whether the owner could afford that. >> 200 people injured following the earthquake. among them a 13-year-old who was injured when a chemny fell on him -- chimney fell on him. ktvu's debora villalon joins us with his story. >> reporter: looking at the house and the chimney from the outside, there is no evidence
6:02 pm
of the ordeal this family went through that put a 7th grader in the helmet in serious condition. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: she tears up describing how she heard the screams of her grandson in her living room. >> she came with her husband and they saw the magnitude of the situation. that the whole wall was over his back. >> reporter: the fire place separated in the earthquake and fell in one place on to him, crashing him from the -- crushing him from the waist down. his friend was on the couch along side him and wasn't hurt. he dragged his mattress from his bedroom for the sleep over, and that is why he was under the fire place. he was conscious but crying in
6:03 pm
pain waiting for parms to arrive. -- paramedics to arrive. >> she was trying to calm down him. [ speaking foreign language ] >> holding his arm. and telling him help is coming. don't worry. just pray and have faith. >> reporter: he was rushed to the hospital. and then transferred to uc davis. his grandmother is keeping close tabs from napa on his recovery. [ speaking foreign language ] >> she said that she is praying a lot and the whole family is praying and her worry he will be okay. >> because that brick and tile caught him on his back he needed surgeries for fractures but given what he has been through she glad he is in stable condition.
6:04 pm
debora villalon, ktvu channel 2 news. well, there is a lot of clean up that still needs to be done because of all the damage from the earthquake. i am not sure -- there is a helicopter up above. looks like a national guard helicopter. circling the area. i am not sure why. as we mentioned there is a lot of clean up and cristina rendon is going around napa talking to people about the clean up, and how they are doing with that. >> reporter: what we want to let you know, within the past hour we received updated numbers from officials. they are saying the number of red tagged buildings have gone up to 70 from 49 and now we are looking at 200 building that have yellow tags. that is a significant difference from what we reported an hour ago. officials were just able to calculate the numbers. they did say they have made some head way in terms of
6:05 pm
restoring water and gas but again all of this is still a work in progress. >> reporter: yellow and red tags are dotted around napa. dozens of buildings are off limits and 100 have minor damage putting people's lives and businesses on hold. >> hurry up and wait situation. >> reporter: the library is a historic building that couldn't with stand sunday's 6.0 earthquake. art galleries are boarded up. >> response was quick. organized. that will help everybody get back going. >> reporter: officials say electricity has been restored but 600 properties are without water till mid-week. >> we went and got water from them. >> reporter: she walked the streets surveying the damage but says it is too soon to calculate the cost. >> a lot of the inspections are
6:06 pm
still going on. some of the damages are cosmetic and some are structural. >> the number of injured are just at 200. as the recovery begins people are taking pictures of history knowing one day it will be just a memory. >> we always bounce back. we will be fine. >> reporter: and if you look behind us you can see there are still inspections going on. that will continue throughout the night and we are told once tomorrow comes officials hope to have a estimate on the total of damages and once they do they can see if they will qualify for a federal declaration of emergency and that will bring aid. cristina rendon, ktvu channel 2 news. many napa valley wineries spent the day cleaning up and grateful things weren't much worse. you can see the mess that was
6:07 pm
created. the wine makers estimate their losses at $100,000. but there was a silver lining for this winery and many others. >> two, three weeks before harvest and a lot of the tanks were empty. >> wine makers say they will be busy getting cleaned up. it is too soon to estimate damage but 80% of wineries were effected by the quake. >> we have been focusing on napa because they suffered most of the damage but not all of the damage. vallejo was also hit hard. 7 buildings red tags and one of the problem areas is a church in danger of collapsing. allie rasmus has more on that. >> reporter: from falling bricks to shattered glass, 15 inspectors and engineers are
6:08 pm
working to assess the damage, a process they could take two weeks. >> residents and businesses are continuing to call us with issues as they discover them. particularly this morning. as people came back to their business places and recognized something wasn't right. >> reporter: that is what happened at the first baptist church. no one noticed the bell tower was in danger of collapsing. >> we are just pastors. we are not experts. next thing we knew it was closed off and they are putting red tags on the building. >> the process of cleaning up and patching up is underway. like tear open the roof of a building in downtown. >> there is a pile of brick and lumber and a big hole in the ceiling. >> caution tape lined a block
6:09 pm
of walnut street. yellow tagged 7 mansions. >> we are back live right now in downtown napa. we have the mayor of napa joining us. right now, what is the most thing you want people to know about your city following yesterday's earthquake? >> well, one, we are grateful for the support we got. there was aid for the public safety after the event. and the people that have come to town to help us clean up. we had a crew from home depot that put smiles on faces as they came in and swept up the glass and got rid of the stuff that had been broken. that was a really nice thing. when you are going through a disaster like this it is the little things. our homes are just a mess and we are grateful when we get pg&e back and when we get gas so we can have hot water.
6:10 pm
we are slowly coming back together. the neighborhoods are cleaning up. and downtown, you know, everything time i go downtown a new restaurant is cleaned up and they open for business. so they are working hard to get open and to be welcoming. we have dawn job putting up barriers where you shouldn't go downtown. so people by the weekend will be able to know where they can and can't go downtown and the businesses will be here to welcome them. >> i imagine you heard a lot of stories. is there a story that sticks out in your mind? >> you know, the story, when i walk around and they look at the buildings, that building looks so bad and they see the bricks that fell, i know the person that owns the building and the people that are working hard to have retail in the building, those are the sad stories, the people that invested so much in the properties that are now going to have to dig deep in order to
6:11 pm
bring them back. >> how bad is the damage over all -- [ talking at the same time ] >> there are -- [ talking at the same time ] >> there are lot of buildings that weren't effected. how bad is the damage? >> there is buildings that are effected. we need to keep people safe so that is what we are focusing on. it is very spotty. a building could be damaged and the one next door is not damaged. it is not like the whole downtown. the historic buildings are the ones that are in danger of having debris come off of them. >> if there is one lessened learned what is it? >> have lots of practice before hand with your emergency response team. i am proud of the city and the response team and how quickly they got out and how calmly the community reacted to just getting in there and getting us put back together. i love napa and it is the people that make it special.
6:12 pm
>> we wish you the best. looks like the recovery work is underway and things are moving along. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you. we will take a break. we have a lot more to come here. we will be back after this. coming up, more on a home that came out of the napa quake without damage, how the structure and others like it were able to with stand the big jolt. >> warm up is around the corner. i will have the specifics. we will see you back here.
6:13 pm
hey can you fix this? you bet! that's our new interactive speaker wall. 'sup? thinks it's a speak-ing wall. this can even dim your lights. your 3-d--printed girlfriend will love that. real mature. there you go. a laser drone for cats. i wish i had lasers. i don't. pew pew pew... the new radioshack is finally here. the store of your past is now the store of your future. come see one of our remodeled stores and save 50 percent off skullcandy headphones. or get a 20-dollar gift card with air raid speaker purchase.
6:15 pm
downtown napa on brown street which is closed because of buildings that have been red tagged. look at this. this is what fell from the building. >> larger than -- i mean -- 10 times the size. >> we have been talking about how no one was killed in the earthquake and only one person is in critical condition. guven what happened, that is remarkable. -- given what happened that is remarkable. something like this falls on your head during the day you are going to the hospital. >> this is a busy area. a lot of activity. where we are the road is closed. on third street, traffic, tourists, people taking pictures because behind us here is a visible sign of the earthquake. all the rubble still on the
6:16 pm
ground. cracked buildings. just like time is -- [ indiscernible ] >> retro fitting. does it work? how did it work in this case? did it work as planned? tom vacar has been looking into that. tom is here now with this report. >> reporter: she proud of her napa home. >> the shower door exploded. >> reporter: things inside got tossed around and broken. but the house build before the great san francisco earthquake still stands tall without structural damage. >> didn't have reinforcements in the walls or anything. >> reporter: but she strengthened her home to resist earthquakes. not far away her decision is reflected in reality. >> that is major. >> reporter: almost all homes
6:17 pm
in the hardest hit region avoided collapse. because earthquake codes do work. >> i am surprised there is not more houses after their foundations. >> i always get a lot of calls. has it years go by it is less and less and less. i haven't had calls for two years. >> reporter: one earthquake engineer we met viewing the damage says they still have a major flaw. >> we are doing a good job with life safety but we are not there in terms of protection of occupancy and functionality and that is where the challenge is. protecting not the buildings only but the contents and the infrastructure to make it functional. >> this came down. there is more cracks. >> reporter: how can people remain in their houses, have their jobs and have everything
6:18 pm
working as before the quake? that issue is far from resolved. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. yesterday's earthquake is renewing the focus in san francisco on keeping that city safe in the next big earthquake. ktvu's david stevenson looked to upgrade a specific type of building. the clock is counting down for owners. >> reporter: yeah. san francisco city officials estimate 1-4 of the soft story buildings will collapse without retrofitting and the earthquake is adding new urgency before a deadline a few weeks ago. >> reporter: a burst of calls for the companies doing work on the san francisco apartment complex. >> saying people that are getting nervous and starting starting to do the research on what would be required. >> reporter: in san francisco the focus is on soft story buildings. ones with multiple floors atop a garage that are vulnerable to
6:19 pm
a collapse after quake. a new law last year mandates they prove they retrofitted or are preparing. the deadline is september 15. >> we knew this tracking process was going to be slow. most people wait till the last minute to fill out the forms but they have been receiving notifications every month. >> with wood frames, rising 3 orfore stories. the fix involves shoring up entry ways, new support walls or a new foundation. the cost ages $100,000. it cut its fees by 7% for the next six months. >> i think people whenever there is an earthquake people are more worry and they want to do more. >> reporter: building owners who reviews to comply could
6:20 pm
face a penalty. the city is offering financing to encourage owners to get the job done. reporting live in san francisco, david s, ktvu channel 2 news -- david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. and we want to let you know we will remain up here in napa. we have a half hour special coming up focusing on the earthquake. much more to come. >> all right. thank you very much. the napa earthquake, so many know about earthquakes, so what is happening in napa everyone is interested in. now to chief meteorologist bill martin. interesting weather but a warm up is on the way? >> yeah. shared experience. like weather. people watch weather because woo all experience weather and -- we all experience weather and earthquakes more so. >> interesting how different places, how different people felt it. even the south bay, my brother felt it. >> it has a lot to do with the
6:21 pm
soils and where you are. the usgs came out with a report today and they are talking about how the soils impacted the quake. we will have that coming up. temperatures today, they were not that warm. thunderstorms as we talked about earlier in the mountains. they are dying down now. there is fog at the coast. it has broken up a bit but it will be back in into the next couple hours to the tonight. when the fog gets here you will notice it. temperatures in the 50s. currently we are 76 antioch. 72 livermore. this is the forb cast tomorrow morning -- forecast tomorrow morning, here comes the fog. this morning high clouds too, that fog was massive. it was cloudy and temperatures were not that warm. warmer tomorrow. because there will be more sun. subtle warmer. the forecast through time will be -- that low will leave. that brings the thunderstorms
6:22 pm
to lake tahoe now, cooled us off, high comes in, temperatures go up. the high 86 pittsburg. 86 livermore. santa clara 88. morgan hill. 89 gilroy and along the coast upper 60s and mid-60s with foggy condition. the five-day forecast with your bay area weekend in view. there you go. weather is a shared experience. that is why people watch weather. earthquakes are just that times a thousand. really are. a shared experience like none other. >> no matter where you live in the bay area it could happen to you. [ talking at the same time ] >> all right. thank you. the giants are back home tonight. playing the rockies at at&t park and the a's are battling the astros. mark is up next with sports.
6:25 pm
6:26 pm
of now of the starting rotation. tim lincecum out of the rotation while the a's try to get back in to first place. the fans turning out to see them in action in houston, texas. so far it is going oakland's way. clutch hit. shot down the left field line with two outs. scoring a run in the third inning. a 1-0 lead. adding to it. josh redick with a cheap seat special. two run shot. they lead 3-0 in the 4th. mean time san francisco 49ers with a less than overwhelming victory against san diego yesterday. their first of the pre-season. they will take it but there were plenty of problems. colin kaepernick two fumbles. blind sided once. they need boon back on the
6:27 pm
offensive line. a trickle down effect weakening mike. he is still talking like he is not concerned about protecting the quarterback and the 49ers so far troubled offensive line. >> pre-season, but it is football. you know, you are going against someone else and you don't want to have that happen. especially a sack. but, you know, it is easy fix. what it is. >> got to get better than that for the san francisco 49ers. one more pre-season game and they open the regular season in dallas, texas. that is the sporting life for right now. please stay with us for extended coverage live from napa. all the earthquake news you need coming up right here on ktvu channel 2 news, stay with us for our extensed coverage --
6:30 pm
82 Views
IN COLLECTIONS
KTVU (FOX) Television Archive Television Archive News Search ServiceUploaded by TV Archive on