that ll come out along with the possibility of injuries based on the population and where that shaking was taking place. in a few more minutes we should have much more information right now. but i ve never seen the usgs site get crammed like this in eight years. we certainly are. i will tell you twitter is alight with people there in california reporting what they felt. i want to get back to sarah schneider, what can you tell us? reporter: there was a hotel in rich crest we were able to talk to. they had some damage, saw the floors rippling. so we re starting to hear some of what is happening where this earthquake was epicentered.
magnitude earthquake there in the ridgeview area 150 miles or so from here in los angeles. sara, stick with me, if you will, as you keep appear eye on this. i want to bring in our meteorologist tom sater in our weather center. this is in ridgecrest, the epicenter. correct. tell us a little about this, what you re looking at with the 6.4 and what some of the different factors are that could either give more or less damage in a situation like this. well, to be quite honest with you, brianna, we cover earthquakes it seems like every week on our sister network, cnn international. this is the very first time i can remember in about eight years where after an earthquake, you can t get the information from the usgs. really? their website is clogged. so we have little data. we will get it, it s just been slow and they have reamped and redid their website. what we know is pretty much between las vegas and bakersfie bakersfield. this is very close to death valley national park.
that should be considered when we address the issue, which is a very current issue as well as a past issue, of desegregation in america s schools. so i think of busing as being in the toolbox of what is available and what can be used for the goal of desegregating america s schools. i believe that any tool that is in the toolbox should be considered by a school district. reporter: well, that launched a twitter back-and-forth between the campaigns. from the biden camp i want to read you this tweet. quote, it s disappointing that senator harris chose to distort vice president biden s position on busing, particularly now that she is tying herself in knots trying not to answer the very question she poed sed to him. and then a snap back from the harris campaign. vice president biden said who the hell do we think we are that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white choeld.
and well, it s unclear exactly what stone planned to do in iran since women are not allowed to perform solo concerts. she had explained her mission to immigration officials, to bring good feeling with what i have to give and show those who want to look the positives of our globe. from deportation to provocation. in a matter of days iran says it will start enriching uranium at levels above the agreed amount. president trump responded on twitter. he said iran has just issued a new warning. rouhani says they will enrich uranium to any amount they want. be careful with the threats, iran, they can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before. we have samantha here, a former senior advisor to the national security council during the obama administration. what do you think about this? it s not particularly unexpected after the u.s. pulled out of the
just how political this traditionally apolitical event will get and just how much this will end up costing taxpayers like you. we re going to be taking all of this live. for days now we ve been covering this newsworthy controversy surrounding this event so we want to ensure that you get to see it. you can make up your own mind as to whether the president politicized the event as some military chiefs, cnn has learned, are concerned he may do. or whether he used taxpayer dollars to celebrate america in a nonpartisan way. we have cnn national security reporter kylie atwood on the national mall for us. this is the site of president trump s event. cnn has learned up until last night staffers are still scrambling. they have free tickets they have been trying to give away to this show. part of this is they want to make sure that the national mall is full because they re concerned about having another inauguration crowd size disaster that the president would surely frown upon. how s it looking