Now federal officials on the administrations response to Hurricane Ian. This is about half an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Im the associate administrator for the office of response and recovery at fema. Thank you for joining us here today. And for your continued attention to florida as well as South Carolina and all the people impacted by Hurricane Ian. I also want to thank the dedicated leaders standing up with me here today. The partnerships across the federal family enable our Effective Response to this disaster and ensures floridians and south carolinians get the help they need during these unimaginably difficult times. Our hearts are with floridians as they endeavor on this long and difficult recovery. And our resolve has never been stronger. Together we will rebuild from this tragedy and we will be there until the work is done. This morning administrator chriswell traveled to florida to meet with Governor Desantis to survey the damage and assess what other assistance may be ne
Operations to the highest level. Cnn correspondents join us from Southern California with the latest. Lets start with alex field in ridgecrest. Alex . Cyril, it is going to be a long night for people here in ridgecrest. The power is out. It is dark. There is not a clear handle right now on how much damage was done, but certainly the people throughout this community lived through a terrifying number of seconds as that second tremor struck. It was, of course, as you say much more powerful than the first one. We felt it alongside the rest of the community here, people taking cover, people screaming, people concerned about injuries. Some people briefly it seemed trapped in their homes. Then we witnessed a fire and immediate onslaught of emergency vehicles quickly responding. But certainly a little bit of difficulty getting through to 911 in the immediate moments following that quake. This is a night that people in this community will not soon forget. Of course, what is most important right
Activated the safe Emergency Operations to the highest level. And appealed to washington for federal disaster aid. This is what it looked like from inside someones home. The table [ bleep ]. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh [ bleep ]. Oh, the front door came open. Thats okay. Thats okay. Just hold on, hold on. Oh, my god. This is bad, brian. Oh. Oh, my god. The entire house shaking there. The office of californias governor says they have activated the state Operations Center to provide further assistance. Theyve also requested Additional Support from the u. S. President. At the state Operations Center, we are fully activated at the highest level. Earlier tonight, Governor Newsom did talk to the white house and requested a president ial Emergency Declaration. The support our operations in the state and to provide federal assets will be called direct federal assistance in support of all of the mutual aid assets that we are currently providing to most ly kern county and San Bernardi
Been reported. We are happy to say. This is what it looked like from inside someones home in ridgecrest. [ bleep ] oh, my god. Oh, my gosh, oh, my god. That was a bad one. The front door came open. It is okay. Just hold on. Hold on. Oh, my god. This is bad, brian. Oh, my god. So many experienced something very much like that. The office of californias governor says they have activated the state Operations Center to provide further assistance to everyone. They have also requested Additional Support from u. S. President donald trump. At the state Operations Center, we are fully activated at the highest level. Earlier tonight, governor newsome did talk to the white house and requested a president ial Emergency Declaration to assume osupport operations and provide what we call direct federal assistance in support of all of the mutual aid assets that we are currently providing to mostly kern county and some of San Bernardino county. Governor newsome activated the state Operations Center at
This is again, the casino ou towards the palm springs area actually a little further east than that. You can see massive swaying there. Those fixtures looking almost more like swings at the playground. Rocking backandforth from house high those ceilings are, would say those are swinging probably four or 5 feet in each direction. That is massive shaking going o there. You can see the waiters they are quickly making their way down the stairs to get off the second floor and tried to try t get out of there. They know that this is definitely get a nightmare situation for folks in Southern California as aftershocks continue. We will go back into this press conference from caltech and usgs , lets listen in. Because it cannot be predicted, they are working on that, theyre working on that system and that is something sh will likely touch on tonight they hope to have more federal funding for that, but now to doctor lucy jones bird can get bit of a summary on tonights earthquake, we had to magnit