Good morning. Murderers who refuse to reveal the location of a victims body could be forced to spend longer in prison. Thejustice secretary david gauke has announced plans to introduce whats known as helens law. It follows a campaign by the mother of helen mccourt, who was murdered in 1988. Helens body was never found. Ben ando reports. For 31 years, Marie Mccourt has been fighting for helens law, named after her daughter who was just 22 when she was abducted and murdered in 1988. Her killer, pub landlord ian simms. He has never revealed the whereabouts of helens body. To take a life is horrendous, but then to take the lives of the family of that loved one and not let them know where their loved ones body is, there is no torture worse than that. I could say ive had a dripping tap on my head for the last 31 years. Its far worse than that. Its a pain in your heart that will never go. Marie led a campaign demanding that murderers who refused to disclose the whereabouts of a victims remain
Very shallow. They felt this all the way down to mexico. They have felt this in las vegas. You would feel a 7. 1 magnitude and everyone is heightened alert. And to say that these aftershocks are going to occur for years is very unnerving to people who wont even sleep in their own homes. Karen joining us from the cnn weather center. Well speak again very soon. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We continue our live coverage of the tremor that was felt about two, 2 1 2 hours ago in california. A followup to thursdays tremor which we now know was a fore shock. Thursday was a 6. 4 earthquake in ridgecrest, california. Friday saw a 7. 1 earthquake. That is five times bigger than what we saw on thursday. Were getting all reactions from our teams on the ground, from sarah sidner, our metrologist. I want to speak to the owners of a Super 8 Motel in ridgecrest. Thank you for joining us. What did you experience . Caller i was checking a customer and i was at the front desk. And we had this lit
Oh, the front door came open. Thats okay. Its okay. Just hold on. Hold on. Oh, my god. This is a big one. This is bad, brian. Oh, my god. This major quake knocked out power and sparked several fires as well. It also rattled items off the shelves and cracked roads in some places adding jitters to an already nervous region dealing with more than 2,000 aftershocks since the first quake hit on thursday. So more than 700 in just the last several hours. Everybody okay . Evacuate the store, please. Did you get hurt . Im just scared. Is everybody okay . The air is really thick, dusty. This is a bad one. Its shaking. Shaking again. So far there have been no reports of deaths or serious injuries. The epicenter of the quake missed the major cities nearby as you see right there. Ridgecrest kind of sandwiched in between las vegas and los angeles. Cnns sara sidner is in ridgecrest for us, so sara, what are you seeing . What are you hearing, and what are people feeling right now . Reporter there are
Are you closer to a trade deal . President trump i think so, we had a very good meeting. He wantsar to make a deal and i want to make a deal. We got along very well, hes going to start buying a lot of Farm Products which is great for farmers while we negotiate and im going to not increase tariffs which i could do. Re i have a lot we could do. And we will have to put our teams together and continue the great negotiation. I think we can do something thae will be historic, but we will see. Im in no rush. We have a situation that works very well for us and im sure he is happy. What we are going to do is, they are going to buy a lot of farm product or increase tariffs at this moment and see what happens with thed negotiation. Do you think the political opponents are on your side in this negotiation . President trump i think they are. , and i dont think i even have to say that anymore. Neither did in all fairness, president obama. Nobody did. We had last year 156 billion. He would almost say
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