In the financial district, it was like a scene out of a movie. People literally in the street, holding one another, people physically shaking, crying and some places. Kpix 5 news starts right now with a look back at the loma prieta earthquake that was 30 years ago tonight. Good evening, im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. The quake killed 60 people and injured hundreds more. It caused damage to property in private homes and businesses. All of these years later, Wilson Walker spoke with people who remember it like it was yesterday. Day to ask that timeless question, where the oakland as me and my 3 sons and husband were all in the upper deck, all of a sudden we started feeling the tremor. We looked up and we saw parts of the candlestick start to shake. 30 years later in the bay area landscape it no longer include some locations that served as the main stages for lifeanddeath drama that evening. I had just driven through this intersection right where the separate Structure Collapse about 10 minutes after i drove through. Reporter for kim perry, the cyprus disaster unfolded right outside his workplace and went on for weeks. In fact, dan rather came and wanted to get up on top of the roof to take pictures and the boss hold told him, sorry, no, cant get up there. I came in 1989 from jordan. Everything came down and everybody was screaming and my friend and everybody was scared. Everybody from jordan said come back, come back. Its like no, im okay. The stairs. This anniversary is day for everybody to detail stories from october 89 and then there are those who live and work right next to reminders every day of the year. You ever think about it when you come back through here and you see the park and . Yes i do, i think i was lucky i got through when i did. In San Francisco, Wilson Walker, kpix 5. A lot of lucky people that day. It is no coincidence that the state chose today to roll out a new earlymorning app developed at uc berkeley called the myshake app that uses a network of ground motions sensors to detect . Before humans canfe them but it takes a magnitude 4. 5 to trigger the system and the further away the more warning you will get. As much as 20 seconds of early warning. 20 seconds, that is not an insignificant amount of time to make sure we shut down or slow down the bard, to take care of the most acute facilities whether it is an old refinery, natural gas facility, popular . At last check, the app was nearly half 1 million downloads. We have posted a tutorial on the myshake app and how to set it up. You can had to kpix. Com for details. About an hour ago, San Francisco tested its own Emergency Alert system. Lots of cell phones in the newsroom were going off. Earthquake damages not included in most Homeowners Insurance policies so the state created the California Earthquake Authority to offer coverage for those who want it but we discovered that not many do. In a state of more than 39 million people, there are just over 1 million policyholders. The main turnoff . Cost. It can be a few hundred dollars per month. If you would like an estimate, we have posted a link to the earthquake authorities calculator tool on kpix. Com. Also up on the website tonight, a special section looking back on loma prieta that includes reflections from kpix photographers in the field that day. Just head to kpix. Com loma prieta. The company that runs the Contra Costa CountyEnergy Facility where fuel tanks exploded this week says it is working with state regulators on the investigation. Nustar energy says vacuum trucks are working to remove firefighting water and foam from the site in crockett and engineering teams are working with Inspection Companies to check adjacent tanks, pipes and equipment for damage picked Nustar Energy says air quality tests have come back below detectable levels so far. This for potential contaminants but more assessment is needed. The company is also working on a repair plan but does not know when it will resume operations at the site. Dramatic video of the moment a gunman carjacked a u. P. S. Driver in san jose. The Delivery Driver who was still behind the wheel drove over spike strips on purpose and asked as the truck limped off the freeway, the suspect, Mark Murawski said they were trapped. He also said he was a 3 striker and would rather die than go back to prison. Eventually he made a run for it while carrying a shotgun. A police man filed a single shot, killing him. Tonight, the d. A. Said the Police Officer reasonably believe that he needed to use deadly force to protect himself and others. Tonight, neighbors upset over play noise over their homes. Andria borba is at the airport and residents have been complaining for years about this. What is new . A few years ago, the faa implemented the new nexgen fligtoroom for planes and drones and all life. Now there is a portal where people can take a look at exactly what planes are causing the noise and there is a place where they can file complaints. Reporter the skies above the bay area are not just bright blue. Often they are filled with planes headed for San FranciscoInternational Airport and the Noise Associated with them. Sfo has fielded thousands of questions and complaints from neighbors about what flights are roaring overhead. Airport managers have released an app on the sfo website to answer some of the questions. Our hope really is that this allows residents who have those types of concerns to be looking at the same exact information that we are looking at. The app is fed data about specific planes and the power of 29 decibel monitors up and down the peninsula. They continually get data on noise in the region. All of the information essentially paints a picture of what communities are being impacted by noise. Reporter it also has a complaint feature. Jim herriot says he is all too familiar with Noise Pollution from sfo and can point specific flights and plane models out from his yard. The airbus like the 320, 321, they have a hole in the bottom of the wing as part of the mechanics of the wing but it is a whistle. Its like blowing over a coke bottle. Sometimes jet freighters come in from korea at 5 am. You get the noise from those. L. A. Traffic, and that can easily been sent over the bay. He wants complaints looked at and addressed with a plan. It is a deep structural problem. You cant just put in a nap and have it report stuff and throw it in the trash . The app launched just within the last month here at San FranciscoInternational Airport. They hope people use it and have a good source for all the data they need and perhaps file a complaint or just know what drveat s fo. Juul has suspended sales of fruit flavored ecigarettes. Juul will continue to sell mint, mental and tobacco flavors. This is the government considers banning all flavored ecigarettes. When the next big earthquake hits the bay area, what apple sf general and the new lucas museum all have in common. It is an engineering marvel. Also coming up, how oakland is making its city more accessible to People Living in their cars. And now facebook is helping bay area teachers afford to live closer to their schools. Now that the sun is going down, so will the wind. We are about to start coming things down right here but then we wi t other small chance of rain for the north bay coming up on saturday. I want to highlight that in the forecast, next. There are those who will say that youre too fat. Too skinny. Too hard. Too soft. Too old. Too much. Too unexpected. Too limited. And to them we say too bad. Because at kaiser permanente, we believe that everyone deserves the right to thrive. At this time, 30 years ago tonight, we are just beginning to see the scope of the damage from the loma prieta earthquake. In the end, more than 27,000 structures were impacted. Property damage ran into the billions of course and ass , lomarieta d to a Seismic Shift in how to protect our buildings. Reporter the bay areas skyline is full of colossal new structures. We are packed with people but the big question, are we ready for the at uc santa cruz, 30 years ago, the quite quake hit late in the day. Watch what happens to the lights. At candlestick park, the 1989 world series. The stadium was rolling like a wave. 15 seconds. That is all it took. How are we going to get them out . The loma prieta quake collapsed a freeway in oakland. Two kids are really hurt. Reporter and buckled the bay bridge opening a huge crack to view the water below. In this building which was a threestory apartment building. Reporter the Marina District sustained major damage, gas and water pipes broke, Historic Buildings fell and yes, trend one kpix felt the. Ck reporter but this was not the big one. For that you need a magnitude 8 or greater along the San Andreas Fault and we are long overdue. Just ask a structural engineerh earthquakes are real problem. We know that. We cant sugarcoat the risks we face in california reporter inside his former naval structure in vallejo, an Innovative Technology is shaking things up. Today we are building buildings all over the world that are not damaged by earthquakes and can remain functioning after earthquakes. Reporter victor zeiss is a structural seismic engineer. We developed this triple pendulum isolated. He invented a system that helps critical structures write out massive earthquakes anaf ua systems, and electric power l bowls, they are friction pendulum isolators that act like very sophisticated shock absorbers. It absorbs the movements of the ground during an earthquake. Reporter each one is tested using this powerful custommade device. It will simulate a magnitude nine point earthquake. We will see the ground shaking movements here, moving back and forth plus or minus 4 feet. Reporter the technician through a switch. And the ground lurched into action. The device has different pendulums that begin to swing. The motions lesson that . Energy from getting transferred to the structure and thus damaging it. Reporter there is no limit to how strong an earthquake this can take. This new structure is resting on top of 700 massive blue saucers. Steve johnson himself demanded them. It is also what you said 4 new bay area hospitals including San Francisco general. Only a small number of buildings in the u. S. Uses the technology picky ships most of his products to earthquake prone countries like ecuador. 3 years ago, a 7. 8 quake hit the south american country, causing widespread damage. The bridge, using his technology, continued to function. That bridge save many lives by being able to evacuate all of the injured people from the city. Reporter as for mr. Reese, he is cofounder for the u. S. Brazilian resiliency counsel, a mission to design buildings to better withstand . He remembers being at the 89 world series. It couldve been much worse. Reporter what is at stake . A lot. A recent federal study found a quarter of all buildings throughout the bay area would suffer significant damage after a magnitude 7 earthquake. In San Francisco, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. For more on how you can percent protect yourself and your property in an earthquake, head to kpix. Com. You will also find more photos and videos from loma prieta. In the bay area, housing crisis is playing out on our city streets every night. Tonight we learned that today, oakland is seeing a sharp spike in the number of People Living in their cars and their rvs. City Officials Say the number of vehicle dwellers is more than doubled in the past two years from about 600 as best they can come to over 1000 people now. Many have a job but say they just dont make enough money to afford the skyhigh bay area rents. I was robbed out of permanent housing but all i really want to have is a home to go home to. Once you are in this position you find that it is like you are in quicksand. And you know that you have done better and can do better but nonetheless, while you are here, it holds on to you. Now to tackle the problem, two more city run rv parking sites will be added in the next few months and critics say it is not enough because cars and vans are not allowed there. Karen peck has been watching the forecast and you can start the feel the winds whipping. There was a 35 mile per hour gus at sfo. I was just checking the numbers. We peaked at about a 40 Miles Per Hour guest about two hours ago. It is Getting Better but still windy out there. Let me show you the view from the top of the Salesforce Tower you can detect a little bit of a shakeup there. Look at the numbers. See where it says sfo, w 25 right there . That is telling you the sustained winds coming out of the west at 25 Miles Per Hour. Gusting up to 35. We can take a look across the rest of the bay area. That will be no one of the strongest numbers but no doubt probably still windy in your corner of the bay area where ever you are. Even if it is better where it was, it is still windy and we are right at the verge were things will calm down. Watch the break colors, the strong wind, i will take us from now and players into the rest of the evening and things start to quiet down for us over the next few hours. Is going to get better. It is just still windy out there right now. Daytime highs today, ranged from the mid 60s in San Francisco at 63 to 74 in concord and now we are going to go through the next few hours with not a lot of change. It will be cold in the morning, average anywhere from 4 to 7 degrees colder tomorrow morning then this morning was. That means santa rosa, youre going down to the upper 30s and meanwhile only 52 in oakland but a chilly start to the day. Well warm back up right back to where we were for daytime highs meaning mid 60s to mid 70s thursday and friday but with less wind. It will feel beev though therlook the same. It will feel better in general. If you are planning on being anywhere near the coast or you know someone who is between no and 9 00 tomorrow or friday, maybe you have a beach bum in the family who plans to surf tomorrow, high surf advisory. The waves are going to move much further up the beach than we are used to seeing, rip tides are going to be going and the water is still cold. Is not going to be a good situation so be careful and safe around the edge of the coastline tomorrow. As far as the chance for rain, on saturday, this is 7 am saturday and just at this point, look what shows up. A few light showers, centered on Sonoma County maybe a little around the edges for napa county but not a lot there. Between sunrise and 1 am 1 pm, to prove my point, there are the accumulated totals. Ukiah winds out with maybe about 1 10 inch and hillsboro picks up about 7 100 rain. In the north bay, that is samething to keep in mind for thher thwe keep r e highs by the wups time we get to the first and middle half of the week. It will feel like latesummer around here, just not right now with the wind and not tomorrow but early next week, it will. Back over to you. Looking forward to that. Thank you. Shocking comments from the president s acting chief of staff. Tonight, what he says he really meant to say. Plus, one of the bay areas Biggest Tech Companies working to help local teachers afford housing. Homecoming wont be the same tonight at 11 00, the stadium light fight that just ignited at san marin high school. Hey there, california residents on medicare. It may come as a surprise. But medicare doesnt pay for everything. So help bridge the gap with a medigap insurance plan, like an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Medigap plans help pay some of what medicare doesnt, reducing your outofpocket costs. There are also zero networks and zero referrals needed. Call or click now to connect with unitedhealthcare insurance company. 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Nick mulvaney told reporters the administration would help military aid to ukraine in order to further president trumps political interests but tonight, he says there was no connection. Mr. Trump now plans to hold a g7 summit at one of his own resorts. It what happened next june and a trump resort in miami. Critics say it is a glaring example of self dealings made by the president. Tonight, longtime civil rights champion, maryland congressman Elijah Cummings being remembered. The congressman died this morning from longstanding Health Complications vicki first won his seat in congress in 1996 and rose through the ranks to become chairman of the House Oversight committee. Recently was a key figure in the impeachment inquiry. Tonight, police are investigating a report of a Sexual Assault at uc berkeley. It allegedly happening at Campus Housing on sunday between 1 am and 4 am. Police say the victim knew the suspect. Is stepping into address the bay area teacher shortage. The company says it will donate 25 million to build 120 apartment for school staff. Officials are looking at a loft on grant avenue in palo alto for the project. A san jose student is proving football is not just a boys game. Coming up, the touchdown that is going down in school history. The van gogh. To harrison, the wine collection. To craig, this rock. I leave these things to my heirs, all 39 million of you, on one condition. That you do everything to preserve and protect them. With love, california. A recent touchdown put barriers that itself a high school. Take a look at this. 17yearold arial arona is the first girl to throw a touchdown pass instorof s Eek High School in san jose. She is a lefty, too and not bad. And she is not even the quarterback. The name of that trick play . The little mermaid. Oh she plays varsity football and says even as the only girl on team, it is hard to tell her from other players in practice. I should be treated like everyone else. Would you tackle them . Yes i will. Well tackle them hard . Yes. Traced chase your dreams. Never tell a child they cant play something. Reporter she hasnt decided yet if she will play football after high school. Good for her. That is awesome. Thanks so much for watching the news at 7 00. We will be back here at 11 00 for new news and weather. You can always go to kpix. Com where we have another of pieces and interviews from loma prieta. Be sure to catch that, too. Announcer its time to play family feud give it up for steve harvey [captioning made possible by fremantle media] [cheering and applause] steve i appreciate that. Thank yall. I appreciate it. I appreciate that. Well, welcome to family feud, everybody. Im your mansteve harvey. [cheering and applause] got a good one for you today. Returning for their third day, from santa maria, california, its the lewis family. 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