since the loma prieta earthquake we have made great strides. we rebuilt the city stronger, and great strides in retro fits especially on the bay bridge and new buildings. and the catastrophic plan under nancy's leadership and the partnership with fema, we've enhanced some warnings and made a concerted effort to focus on personal preparedness and get message out residents really need to help take care of themselves and others. so i am pleased to be part of the legacy and want to thank all of you for your hard work, time and effort to help others. so thank you. [applause] >> a little transition work here. jim? >> thank you. thank you mike for joining us today to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. i'd also like to thank our community partners and those supporting our event. kqed served the people of north erin california and offer many different experiences and viewpoints, promote inclusiveness and respect human dignity. we are proud to have them as a partner today and in the preparedness. that the time i'd like to ask

loma prieta means dark mountain. and we would always say during the earthquake we were kind of on the dark side of the mountain. san francisco did an incredible job but to give you a little bit of background to the city. i think this experience also brought me to city government. i had worked in the non-profit field for over 25 years. the city of watsonville was not prepared to communicate with the 60% spanish-speaking community. the city was in a political conflict with its mexican-american leadership ruling by the supreme court to go from citywide elections to city elections that were to occur three weeks after the earthquake with the hope of its electing their first latino councilmember in years. neither the county nor city had a strong relationship with the spanish-community organization and after the hospital and the foundation was damaged, our county health department headquarters was about 14 miles away and we quickly knew that we were on our own. and our clinic staff right after the earthquake continued to pr

from loma prieta. we have a lot prepared for you and i want to welcome our two chiefs up. joanne, would you like to start with a few words and then chief greg sir after that? >> thank you, anne, for the kind introductions. it was amazing 22 years ago this city in the bay area region experienced the loma prieta earthquake. i was not yet in the fire department. it was about five months before i joined and like anne alluded to, if anyone lived here, they remember where they were. >> i was at a high school when it happened and all of us remember the frightening moments and the aftermath of loma prieta. and it's always fitting when we celebrate an anniversary to take a minute not only to commemorate that but to next on the importance of how the community needs to step up and assist the paid professionals, if you will. the san francisco fire departments, our respective departments are adequately resourced for any given day for emergencies here in san francisco. as you know, though, that all goes out the window for a large-scale disaster be it man made or not. that's why we alway

here in the bay area to address the a lot of deficiencies and issues that became apparent after loma prieta. also i think it's important to acknowledge a lot of our community partners and having worked down here in the bay area for a couple years as part of the bay initiative. we have emily white and greg smith here from red cross who are part of our advisory team. alyssa domo who carries the flag forward being executive director and working with a lot of nonprofits in san francisco and even extending elsewhere now. now a lot of the work that's being done is being done throughout the state. also here hodge who is a huge partner from the faith community here in the bay area representing hunters point bayview area and just did a tremendous job in boosting awareness and preparing that community for a lot of different hazards that could strike them. also yokilly recommendo. another intermediary group that works with nonprofits. once again, the bay area is just an incubator, just so important in terms of this whole concept. i also wanted to mention a lot of the work that's done in the private se

as loma prieta engaged with the city to address emergency preparedness headon. let's welcome mayor bates to the podium. [applause] >> thank you, paul. thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be at this beautiful building and i was reflecting back and i was at the baseball game 22 years ago. how many of you were at the baseball game? i am the only one. two of us. i was sitting underneath the -- canned really stick park underneath second deck when the earthquake happened. the whole deck was like moving over us. i was thinking, that close from being killed because if it came down it would have been a disaster. the trick was trying to get back to berkeley. i come on public transportation and a friend of mine had a tv. as you can imagine one of these portable tv's. we realized that it wasn't running and the bridge was down. so it was quite an adventure getting back. what actually happened, i was able to get a bus that was headed down the peninsula and i asked them if they would give me a ride to the airport. i walked to the airport and rented a car and ended up going

after the loma prieta earthquake, charlie was a project manager of the santa cruz downtown recovery plan and he also played a key role in helping watsonville in addressing recovery issues. he's lectured and consulted internationally. most recently in new zealand after the earthquake and written extensively about planning and disaster management. charlie will discuss the extraordinary efforts that will taken to rebuild and restore the business community in santa cruz after the earthquake. and, charlie. [applause] >> well, i guess in keeping with the confessionals on where were you on october 17, 1989, i have to confess, i was at home. i left work a little early that day. you can guess why. so my wife and i were there and the earthquake hit and we got up and stood under the hallway, archway and, you know, i remember it shook for that 17, 14 seconds, whatever it was. and we were actually in pretty good shape. our house is up on a ledge. hard rock. so the waves pass right through. everything rocked and rolled but it was pretty ok. my wife's frame of references was the 1972 north ridge earthq

kevin will look back how the loma prieta earthquake affected the important commercial and residential area around the fisherman wharf's area to form the community benefit district serving the neighborhood to this date. >> good morning. 22 years ago i was working in hayward, california, and i thought i was prepared. when the earthquake hit, growing up in california i learned to dive under my desk, which i did, and walker in the parking lot and didn't know what to do next when people were telling us what happened and we were trying to figure out what to do. i had $1.25 in my pocket and i had about a gallon of gas in my car and i sat for seven hours at the san mateo bridge before i realized it wasn't going to happen and i turned around to find a place to stay that night. i am talking about a business district and the work we do to prepare because so many of us will be at our place of work when disaster strikes. the fisherman wharf's community in 1989, i wasn't working on the wharf but i talked to some of the people that were. again, people ran out in the streets. they didn't necessarily

homes that we insure, for the number of homes we insure we could handle another northridge and loma prieta. financial security and strength is not a problem. it's the problem that most people so far have not elected to purchase it. that's the work we have. >> you guys are rolling out a mitigation program now, right? >> we have a terrific mitigation program. getting ready to launch. we have $22 million to provide cash incentives for people to mitigate their homes. so we got a lot of things going on. thank you. >> before you start, one thing i wanted to mention, i have a former colleague, lori johnson, not to put you on the spot. lori has done a lot of research on cobay and also on new orleans. i just want to know, if there's anything specific you have that could add to this discussion. you don't have to. i know i'm putting you on the spot. given the opportunity. all right. [laughter] ok. >> good morning. this question is a two-part question. probably would be best directed to barbara. one of the things is, as being an administrator of a church in the bay area, a vulnerable community, being

advierten que en menos de 30 aÑos podra ocurrir un terremoto de casi 7 grados de magnitud, como el de loma prietavivi el terremoto del grande y sí fue bien fuerte y lo vivi y tengo esa experiencia que cuando pasa esto no me deja de poner nerviosa siempre". ---a pesar de esto, algunos residentes dicen que no saben que hacer en caso de una emergencia mayor.. "a veces trato de prepararme pero no creo que este del 100 por ciento preparado". ---aunque el dia de hoy no se reportaron daÑos ni heridos, bart suspendio el servicio por varios minutos para inspeccionar las vias del tren. mayra tostado. telemundo. cu ---miles de estudiantes de todo el estado se congregaron hoy en sacramento para exigir a los legisladores a restaurar los fondos educativos. nat sound --- wait for cue :05 secs ---estas imgenes muestra como decenas de alumnos, entraron y ocuparon la rotonda del capitolio y amenazaron con quedarse ahi, hasta que cumplan con sus exigencias. ---esta otra imagen muestra como la polica anti-motines tuvo que ser llamada en la entrada del edificio. ---los organizadore s calculan que mas de 2 mil alumnos

i have felt the one in '55, the loma prieta one, when i worked in berkeley, but this one was like rightour condo. i had just gotten up. my wife had just gotten up. and i had just gotten up. and i had gone back to bed. it was straight up and down, band back and forth. the cats were going bananas. >> isn't it amazing the animals react a few seconds before the earthquake hits and a live picture from chopper 5 above the country club in richmond. the mira vista country club. that's basically where the epicenter was or nearby, thereabouts, and obviously, i'm sure those people there have a lot of stories just like you. all right, ken, thanks so much for calling in. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we hope you have a better rest of the day. >> so do i. >> and as we had mentioned, they had the 4.0 at 5:33. and then an after shock at 6:03. at the usgs, they say it was a 2.0. and lawrence is telling me that the usgs is reporting a third aftershock that happened at 6:29. but much smaller. just a 1.1. so probably not felt by most people. but it has been three separate earthquakes just this morning

since the loma prieta earthquake, the city has struggled to reclaim its waterfront. i think san francisco it deserves and is one of the world-class waterfronts, and the presence of parking lots and tennis courts surrounded by a chain-link fence and feels to me like a terribly inappropriate use for this great waterfront. and that the introduction of housing, the introduction of ground-floor retail, and other uses that will help activate the street, open spaces that connect back to the neighborhood, to meet bring what is most appropriate to activating this waterfront, and to continuing some of the development that started to occur and has been such a struggle to maintain a sense the embarcadero if -- since the embarcadero freeway came down. i think it is and available to the city and the port at a time when resources are very constrained, where there is a struggle to maintain a property taxes, where redevelopment has completely gone away which helps drive the creation of new affordable housing in the city. i think that it really is a civic priority to help restore and

transamerica pyramid, i think it was instrumented and i keep reading that it drifted a foot in the loma prieta earthquake. doesn't seem like much to me. how do these buildings perform in seismic events? >> historically no modern high-rise building has ever collapsed in a major event except for one building in mexico city where it was designed as an office building and the government converted it to a book warehouse. and they filled the floors up this high with paper. which effectivelily mad effectie building three times heavier than it should be. as a class, these buildings are probably some of the best buildings you could be in. >> but there was an interesting anomaly that came up as a result of the northridge earthquake in los angeles in the '90s. that was the welded steel joints which we up to that point thought were absolutely terrific, allowed a lot of movement, turned out to not just fail but to be weaker than we thought, to crack. there was an enormous effort coming forward, to figure out how this happened, how to prevent that in the future. >> part of the problem with those, the city h

. >> many of us remember the loma prieta quake in 1989. today's 7.4 quake more than five times stronger. now, also, the president's daughter was in mexico today enjoying spring break with classmates. the white house said she was never in danger. >> thank you very much that mexico quake hit just six minutes after a quake in indonesia centered in papua region, western half of the island of new guinea. >> still coming up tonight the drive by data police are stockpiling by scanning your license plate. tonight an attempt to stop that practice. >> there is a band of occupy protestors refuses to give up the fight. >> i'm spencer christian. there is a hint of what may be coming our way. details in the forecast coming up. >> a rebate could be a big incentive to buy but will you >>> a lawmaker wants to reign in a high-tech surveillance tool use bid law enforcement to direct photos of license plates, california watch broke this story today. abc 7's mark matthews is here with detail autos most californians probably have no idea their plates have been

so an earthquake like the loma prieta earthquake in 1989 didn't really trigger any tsunamis around here but a big subduction earthquake in the seattle reaming, if that -- in the seattle region, watch out if that happens because it could affect here. >>> the tsunami in japan from the pacific was 25 feet high laying waste to everything in its path. 779 people died. the structure was so massive that japan spent the last year mostly cleaning up along 400 miles of japan's northeast coast. the scar from the tsunami is still raw. 100,000 people still live in temporary housing. the saltwater has left more than 58,000 acres of farmlands and rice patties unusable. the only thing growing in the mountains is the mountain of rubble. more than 22 million tons. >>> a flight attendant's screaming rant to passengers created panic and a flight delay in dallas. [ woman screaming at the top of her lungs ] >> get out of the plane! ! >> american airlines passengers say that the flight attendant began yelling during the preflight announcement for 15 minutes. she warned that the plane was going to crash and ra