News, l. A. Abc News Reporter leann mendes is leave francisco. Leann i know this has got to be a tough time. Reporter it is, its like a onetwo punch for mexico, carolin, nearly two weeks ago that c wryntas devastated by eahqua 9. 1 madrigal constitute earthquake. Today this one was much closer to mexico city with a Larger Population and close tiesar t theo e vidtheo is terrifying, a building collapses as onlookers yell for the people inside to get out. I showed the video to several people waiting outside the consulate in mexico of mexico city. Weve been trying to contact friends and family in mexico city, as well as the state of guerrero through facebook. So far we have not heard news yet. Well see. Reporter the quake was felt in mexico city which is only 75 miles from the epi center in the state of morel loes. Neighboring cities near the capital helped to remove rubble and free engine trapped. This man who lives in mexico says everyone he knows is safe but is very frightened. People i
Moore. Tonight kron4s Ella Sogomonian is live at sfo where a flight has just arrived from mexico city. She talked with the local consulate about the quake damage. steve but first. Thirty two years to the day after thousands died in the 1985 mexico city earthquake, disaster struck again. Just two hours after the sirens sounded for a practice quake alert, the real thing sent buildings tumbling to the ground. Natmexicos foro television was broadcasting live when the quake hit. Cameras jittered and jumped wildly as the earth shook. Studio lights swayed with the force of the tremor. Natnot many people stayed inside to watch the broadcast. People started to run, people started to cry, yell, scream everythign was shaking. We didnt know what was going on. We were on the fifth floorthe resident of this apartment took a moment to record the furniture shaking. And alarms going off. In the citys famous floating gardens, tour boats rocked wildly. Oh my gosh. Streets filled with panicked crowds. Vid
But the fuels are as dry as they get right now. We are expecting cal fire to hit this fire again aggressively this morning using a combination of hand crews, heavy equipment and air support as the sun comes up. Keep in mind this could be a relatively stubborn fire because of the steep terrain out here. Already five firefighters have injured themselves battling the bear fire. No word about overnight injuries and about those conditions. But thats one of the reasons why these firefighters may have injured themselves. They were telling me the conditionings are so steep they could have misstepped and start tumbling down an hour. Were going to have an update at 7 00 on the progress we are expecting that as the sun comes up. Theyre going to do that aerial survey. That will give them a sense of how the fire has developed overnight, where they need to con straight their resources and how to focus on getting the bear fire under control. Back to you guys. Thank you, christien. They were trying to
Arsons to about a dozen. That is including the seven this week and at least five others from 2016. The first five this week happened overnight in a driveway. The two this morning were parked on the streeet. Fire officials believe the same person or people are responsible for all of them. They say there are some commonalities among them. Much of which they wont share in order not to compromise the investigation. I spoke with residents nearby in walnut creek. And they say this is part of a trend in increase in crime here in recent years. One man told me that hes lived here since the nineties without incident up until the last year. His car was stolen twice. So now he says hes taking a different approach to prevent Something Like this from happening to himself or his neighbors. Tim mcconnell neighbori think its one of the things weve kind of decided that with this kind of going on and now the vehicle fires. If people are driving through your neighbhorhood i dont think theres a real proble
Didnt know how we were going to make it. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today, the nations top Law Enforcement officer, attorney general jeff sessions, refuted what he called appalling and detestable lies. Sessions asked for todays hearing before the Senate Intelligence committees investigation of russian tampering in the president ial election. This was the administrations first sworn rebuttal of former f. B. I. Director james comey, who testified last week that the president pressured him to drop the investigation of former National Security adviser michael flynn. President trump called comey a coward and a nut job. Today, the attorney general was more measured, even though he declined to answer some of the most revealing questions. We have a team of correspondents covering, beginning with nancy cordes on capitol hill. I mean, what is this . Reporter under oath, the attorney general said he is being smeared by suggestions that he ha