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State of emergency, resources sent to napa, sonoma counties. Area hospital reporting an update of 172 people queen Valley Hospital Medical Center had 152 people come through the emergency room after that earthquake hit this morning with injuries. At least 120 injuries but the updated figure 172. Abc 7 News Reporter live from queen valley Medical Center with more from there. Reporter were continuing to see more and more patients arrive at the hospital, many of them in ambulances. They are wheeled to the area youre looking at now where triage is set up to deal with the influx of patients. First off i want to show you video of damage that happened right near the hospital. These are some windows of physicians clinics that broke in the earthquake. Again we are here at queen of the Valley Hospital in napa. This is the parking garage at the street a spokeswoman told me some staff were injured and hit by fallen debris. They were treated by minor injury but chose to stay to help out. The latest numbers, 172 people have been treated here. Most of those just cuts and bruises and things of that nature. A couple of people came in with heart attacks and broken bones. One person is still in critical condition. A 13yearold boy hit by part of a fire plate, airlifted to uc davis Medical Center. We have no update on his condition. The ceo just spoke with us and said they train for this type of thing. The bulk of our patients, do the math, have been treated and released. As i reported at the earlier meeting, those were lacerations, bruises, cuts, things of that nature that could be treated an released. Hospital staff said things are starting to slow down here. They are still seeing patients coin. They were able to take down one of the tents. So far no earthquake related deaths. Alisa harrington, abc 7 news. Thank you. Here is a look at the control tower at the napa airport. Look at the pictures. You can see glass is broken. The airport closed for a time but back open. Inspected and determined to runway damage they just cant use the control power. They tell us the airport is operating without the tower. Pilots are communicating with each other to facilitate landing and takeoff. There will be time before windows are repaired and open for business. Another remarkable picture of damage to share. This is First United Methodist Church on randolph street in napa. There is concern the facade of the 100yearold church may actually collapse. Abc 7 news photographers are bringing us some extraordinary video. Really, so much of it. Earthquake more than likely caused water main break on white cliff drive in napa. Theres been Something Like 60 water main breaks. The water flowed into a crack on the street. On twin oaks, dramatic evidence of the power of the quake. Segments of the sidewalk were propped against each other. Inside a home on twin oak, the force of the quake buckled hardwood floors, left a crack in the garage. Then through the c then threw the contents of the pantry on the floor. Look at the cat helping himself to water. A News Conference in napa at this moment, well try to switch over live for you because we want to hear what the city officials are saying. Here we are, this the city manager. Weve had a productive and busy, very busy afternoon. A lot has been accomplished. A lot is changing. We have a group of people to bring you up to speed on where we stand the aftermath of the earthquake that took place at 3 20 this morning. Let me bring up the people who represent the disciplines have been working on this issue and let you know where we stand. Then well be happy to answer questions you might have when were done. Why dont i first bring up rick, our Community Development director. For those of you asking questions about the status of buildings that are red tagged and yellow tagged weve handed out a list of addresses and the names of buildings with specific information on that so we can answer questions on those, should you have any. Rick. Thanks, mike. Community development director. As mike mentioned, a lest on the red tags city issued to date. Theres approximately 33 red tags. These are red tags that are because of partial collapse of materials on the facade. These are buildings unsafe to occupy. Split between commercial and residential buildings. Weve issued quite a number of yellow tags. These are warnings that the business owners, Property Owners or residents should be going into only to clean up premises to remove glass, remove materials, won those properties are removed of materials they are safe to occupy. The rest of the buildings that arent red or yellow tagged so far, there could be a presumption those are accessible. We ask people to be smart about it. Look at these buildings. If they question something they see, they should contact us. Weve put up a number you can find on the website, cityofnapa. Org, its constant, dynamic and changing. Tomorrow well meet a group of city inspectors and engineers working to go out and inspect remaining areas of the city we have not seen in detail. We hope tomorrow we have done a canvas of the entirety of the city residential and nonresidential buildings. Thats a summary of the building related issues. What percent have you done . Its hard to know, we worked in the center and outward. Weve gone to the edge. Just to hazard a broad guess, i would say weve done about 35 of the city. Characterize types of damage seeing especially in the building red tagged. What type of damage are you seeing . The list here, ill show you in the righthand column, the range goes from materials falling off. You see some of those in the downtown where ribbons are back to the parking area. We suggest people stay back from those. If we do have another tremblor, that material can fall off. Broken windows, those kind of things. Others are full collapse where youve seen a carpet drop to below. Staircase separated from the building so you cant get into the building. Weve had some structural fires as well. The range is pretty broad. Does the age of the buildings construction play out. It hasnt been the case. Weve seen buildings constructed more recently, as an example the Hotel Downtown built in 2006 had materials fall from it, from the facade. Then of course there are older buildings that have fallen off their foundation which are several decades old. In terms of retrofit, how does that play out the same way . Retrofitted buildings survive better or not necessarily . Urm, unreinforced main street buildings, i think there are 18 unreinforced main street buildings over the last years weve identified. Twelve of those have been reinforced, six of them havent. We are working pro absentively with Property Owners of three of those actually. Three of them we werent. Those were the ones on brown street we saw pretty substantial damage. Its as i mentioned before, some of the buildings retrofitted didnt fare as well as you might expect. What about the location, what sort of factor . Certain location primarily . The location of where the buildings have had problems is really varied. They have been downtown. They have been out to the edge of town. Weve seen fireplaces away from the buildings and into the roofs of the buildings. There hasnt been a pattern, per se, of where the damage has been. That said, the more visual damage, the larger buildings downtown have been receiving a lot of the press. Is it possible the buildings very severely damaged, some of them not able to salvage. Its far too early to tell whether or not these buildings that are damaged are going to be salvaged or not. The first cut is to do the triage, structural triage to get out there and see whats properly tagged and make sure certain people can get in their buildings if necessary and clean up is necessary and stay away if necessary. But it isnt until we get engineers after weve settled here a little bit before we can determine the reasoning some of these buildings have had their problems and what to do with them from there. Your plan for tomorrow with all building inspectors right here in napa, bringing in from elsewhere . Its a combination of both. Oes is providing us with inspectors, between 10 and 20 inspectors and then we have our internal crews as well. Both the building inspectors and others who will help guide onno, sir unfamiliar with the city to do technical inspections. 2007 [ inaudible ] anything done since that earthquake to private owners to reinforce chimneys in the historic area. Its a broad question. I cant say what specifically has been done. As homes remodel, those improvements are made. But in terms of a comprehensive program from start to finish of all the chimneys in town here i cant say thats been done. Can you speak to the courthouse. Thats something that got everybodys attention. The courthouse, which is a county building, the courthouse has two sides to it that have damage. The east side has been red tagged. The west side has not. The west side has been yellow tagged, which means that folks can get in there to do cleanup. The intent is to get in quickly and get out quickly. Its an interesting building that goes one end to the other that really has two different circumstances associated with tagging and damage. [ inaudible ] i dont have that level of detail in terms of the damage. Ive been so focused in my responsibilities on the properties in the building. I havent connected those to the fault line. Maybe you can introduce the next person. One point id like to make is not only with the support on the inspection efforts but also with the work were doing with utility work, theres been tremendous amount of cooperation from adjoining and regional communities and the state. Stepping up and coming into the city and assisting. So were really pleased. Were going to be able to move much faster than we thought we were, restore Services Much faster than we thought we would be able to do. I think our public works director can give you insight specifically. We told you this afternoon were looking at potential 600 water customers for some period of time. Well talk about the progress and when we make that address. Meanwhile coming up, talk about the power. We also talked about 16 to 20,000 customers of power. Now 11 to 15,000. Weve received word from pg e they are working incredibly hard and we should have full power restored in the community hopefully tonight and at the latest by 1 00 tomorrow. So thats 1 00 a. M. Or p. M. . 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow they should have the entire city back up and running with power. Thats a lot of progress thats been made in one day. Good afternoon. Public works director 600 properties have issues with water being turned off. Just to let you know, we have five crews starting this evening to begin repairs of those 600. Theres about 60 locations. Half of those have been isolated. They have been turned off, you still see water spewing out through the streets, leaking out to the streets. Systematically. Five crews made up of two of our own crews and three crews from other agencies. Mutual aid id like to say im so impressed with the folks in this area and region who have stepped up, offered to help and are willing to do that. These are going to be actual city other agency crews that do water break repairs on a regular basis. They will come with their own equipment, their own repair kits, if you will. They will not need to be supervised. They will just do the work. Well assign them the jobs and they will start going. Thats tonight. Tomorrow well have additional well have ten crews, additional five crews. Five crews tonight. Tomorrow ten crews. As a result of that, we feel that well have all 60 repairs done by wednesday, thursday of this week, which i think is pretty good. For those folks who need water, we have set up two water stations. One on freeway drive. Its the location near the outlet mall. Its the same location you would pick up your sandbags. Then we have a second water station we set up at the napa high school. This is basically a man fold that weve hooked onto fire hydrant with spigots on it. Bring your own containers, jugs, anything you can and you can get wat water. With respect to roads, bridges, the like, we have inspected every single one of our bridges. The good news, all of our bridges have responded very well to the earthquake. If there is an issue, its the approaches, roadway approaches that settled next to them. My understanding from my crews is that none of them have rendered the street impassable. So pretty much all streets are open. All right. You are listening to various officials in nasa describe whats transpiring today and what they have been trying to accomplish. They have been very, very busy dealing with all sorts of issues and problems as an emergency response. So thats a News Conference detailing what has happened and what they need going forward. For a look at the latest our Cornell Bernard out there in downtown napa. Cornell, whats the latest . Reporter several buildings in the downtown area have been red tagged. This is one of them, the alexandria square building, built in the gold rush. You can see the top left building is completely gone, blown out during the earthquake early this morning. Now, this is what youre looking at now. It was vacant at the time, obviously, no one was there. The roof cap is perched precariously at the top. A lot of building in spenters are concerned that could come down at one point. Now, we want to show you across the street some video we shot earlier, damage to napas old courthouse is extensive. The Southwest Corner of the building completely crumbled in the quake leaving bricks crumbled in the building. Large cracks have formed in the building. Windows are smashed, too. The owner of the Office Building across the street is just thankful no one was hurt. It could happen any time between 6 00 and 10 00. There have definitely been injuries. Around the block pretty devastated, too. It could have been bad. Buildings are fixable. People arent. Reporter now, on 3rd street people are cleaning up a huge mess. An Olive Oil Company had most of its bottled smashed during the quake. Pretty of broken as well. Napa Historical Museum suffered big damage to the outside of its structure. It was built during the gold rush era. Back live with a shot of the alexandria square, really the most extensive damage weve seen in the downtown area. On the bottom floor, carpe diem, restaurant, popular lunch and nightspot, it is closed for the time being. All of the streetlights continue to be, in fact, that streetlight just came on. Lights are onslowly come back to the downtown area. You cannot drive through any of the downtown area. Its too dangerous. Roads have been cordoned off. Lots of police tape. People asked to stay on the other side of the tape and not get too close to damage like this. Live in downtown napa, cornell, bernard, abc 7 news. We did get updated numbers. 7600 without power in napa county but all the power restored in sonoma county. Good news. Red cross set up shelters for two residents that cant go home. Crosswalk Community Church on 1st street in napa. The other at the florence and Douglas Center in vallejo. One other note Napa Valley Unified School district will be closed. District superintendent said faculty and staff will meet at their schools and distribute will decide at 1 00 which, if any, schools will remain on tuesday. Napa Valley College says it will open on monday. Now, the quake buckled some major roads including highway 121 in napa. Thats where we find abc News Reporter with a live look there and traffic flowing behind him. Wayne. Swirling this morning at 5 30, 6 00 this morning. Traffic on 1 21 moving slowly. Let me show you video from about 12 hours ago. Youre going to see pavement. Im hoping youll see it now, pavement, 18 inches of it buckled. Waynes auto there, seeing where the road buckled on 121. Part of the road rose 18 inches. As can you see. Look at this picture here. I have to say, the crews did a pretty good job of keeping one lane open as they made some repairs to keep traffic moving. This is going to need a more extensive fix going forward. They are keeping an eye on the road problems, cracks in the road weve been seeing all day. Scientists at uc berkeley showing an earthquake Early Warning system that sent an alert before the quake hit. Take a look at this. This is the alert that went out 10 seconds before the quake. California its working on a statewide system which could be unveiled in the next few years. The hope is to be able to give us as much as maybe a 45 second to one minute alert. It may not sound like a lot but really it will be enough time for elevators to stop at a door, open doors, fire stations open garage doors. The gentleman we were speaking to earlier about it, if someone is in surgery, get the scalpel away from the eye. Very good point. There have been so many enduring images were seeing building the business where cornell was was one of them. Also a Mobile Home Park in napa, which suffered terrible damage. We saw a lot of flames this morning. They were just letting it burn because they were trying to conserve water. Not sure what will happen. Laura anthony has been there all morning long with the latest. A look at the devastation behind you, laura. It does look like a war zone. This is ground zero for this horrible event for folks who lost everything. Really in a matter of minutes after the earthquake, they say gas lines broke and this Mobile Home Park, these three, went up in flames rather quickly. Add to that firefighters with no water, no water pressure. Show you what it looked like when we arrived very early this morning. Ive been to a lot of fires in my career, somewhat troubling to see firefighters really couldnt do much. They were just able to really try to do what they could in terms of some of the homes, warning people to get out. They had no water pressure for 15 to 20 minutes they told me. Really all they could do is try to defend some of the other places. In fact they told me had they had water like they normally would, they certainly would have been able to save at least one of these three homes in this immediate area. Now, of course, the most dramatic words weve heard all day came from the residents. Lets listen to them now, including some of those who did lose their homes. Started to get out of bed, there was a huge wham, just like that. Literally like a truck hi the house. It flipped me out on my face on the floor. After that everything was black. I tried to get up. When i crawled to the door i heard people asking for help. I ran outside in my boxers and bare feet. Some said fire, fire. I didnt think it was an earthquake. As i told you earlier, i thought it was a plane crash. It was so hard and so loud, i jumped out of bed and noticed this place was already up, notice this place was on fire. I got out the door on my own and saw everybody else was out here. Did you know your place was on fire . The one in back of me was on fire. Mine wasnt on fire yet. Until we lost everything. We lost everything. Now, lets show you some images a little later in the morning as the sun was starting to come up. The Fire Department able to get water tenders in here and at least start to put water on fires. Tenders were actually here before they started using water on the fire. They wanted to make sure the fire didnt spread and they didnt want to use all water unless they needed it in case the fire spread. The other factor that work to the benefit of firefighters and residents here, at the time of the fire this morning, there was no wind. As you can see right now, the wind starting to pick up. The fire captain told us had it been windy this morning without water, this could have been much worse. It sounds cliche but it certainly could have. There are hundreds of residents, elderly folks, many of them living here. As were standing here now again, Fire Insurance adjusters have been here for some of these folks. The hope for the plan is to rebuild. No one injured here. In napa, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Thats a good thing to hear. Thank you, laura. Everyone has a story about how they felt when the quake hit. A lot of people turned to social media to share the experience. In the newsroom with more. What weve been seeing on twitter and facebook. All day long, napa earthquake and napa quake have been trending. If you take a look at my twitter feed, some of the images popular, broken wine barrels. First one, one of our photographers here, he shows the damage at the bouchon winery. Barrels just tumbled down. East of those barrels estimated as a 15,000 loss. The cost of the barrel and the wine inside. The next picture, this one from silver oak winery from the owner there. You can see hundreds and hundreds of wine bottles strewn all over the floor. That image has been retweeted more than 5,000 times. Also today, we have been the best of all the images taken throughout. Weve compiled those. If we can pull that screen up right now, here it is. The first one, theres Wayne Freedman with his hand in a crack. He said his arm is about 36 inches long and he couldnt even reach the bottom of it. That gives you an example of the earthquakes effect on a vineyard in napa. The top middle one shows you water main breaks weve been hearing about in napa. More than 60 reported. This is a tweet from laura anthony. The last image i want to leave you with, this guy on the bottom righthand corner, hes making the best of the situation turning that sidewalk buckle into a skateboard ramp. Thank you. Watching the weather closely, following the earthquake activity all day long. The latest. The thing were noticing right after the earthquake, fires that started in napa, relatively contained. Take a look, weather conditions as laura mentioned, live report, wind was calm and relative humidity high meaning a lot of moisture in the air early in the morning. That really helped to prevent any of those fires spreading across much of napa. Show you accuweather sevenday forecast relatively quickly. Tomorrow a warm day, 86 as we head inland. The coast 66. Were in for a midweek warmup. Inland locations going to the mid90s, even the coast warm up mid70s under lots of sunshine. Okay . Thanks very much. Obviously our coverage of the napa earthquake changed our regular sunday skechlt nbc world news is next at 5 30. Stay tuned for that followed by abc 7 news at 6 00. Well be back with that. The latest coverage on this earthquake in napa today. At 9 00 well be here as well. Abc 7 news on coffee tv 20. Then followed by two hours of abc 7 news beginning at 10 00. Tomorrow morning be sure to join eric thomas, kristen sze and mike nicco for early coverage of the nap ark earthquake at 4 00 achlt peop a. M. People going back to work tomorrow. It will be interesting to see with buckling roads. What were trying to tell you is stay tuned. Were going to be here for you big time to make sure this story is covered fully and completely. Again, as bad as the damage is, and its pretty bad from 6. 0 eart, one person in critical condition, thankfully no fatalities. If were off the air you can find us, abc7news. Com, check out our app, tweetok us pictures a videos, show us the damage. Follow us on twitter on nbc news bay area. World news coming up, t welcome to world news. Tonight, state of emergency in california. A powerful earthquake hits napa valley in the dead of night. Buildings rocked, some on fire, homes in shambles. Dozens of people hurt and now worries about aftershocks in the heart of americas wine country and the odds of an even bigger quake on the way. Freed. An american held captive for two years in syria suddenly released on the day of a memorial for james foley brutally murdered in iraq. The shooting in a swanky nightclub at a party hosted by hiphop bad boy chris brown. A major music mogul wounded. 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