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
raids and bombs. it wasn t safe for the kid here. we decided the kid kneadsless stress so it wasn t an argument for her to leave. this is why. how did you-all get out of kharkiv? we left with our car, so in the first hours after the bombs fell, we kind of had backup plan so in case something starts, we just jump into the car and go west and then see what happens. you know, you have small kids is the most important thing. it wasn t any thinking or anything. take him, go and then see what s next. you know, i m sure it was very difficult to get out of the country. the country has banned men ages 18 to 60 from leaving so they can stay and fight but my team tells me that you could have snuck out and you decided to stay. this is really important to you.
is an earthquake that devastated the whole south of the country and shut down many parts of the country, which is a political turmoil and violence in haiti due to the assassination of their president. haiti before evens the president was assassinated, before even the earthquake, the biden administration designated haiti for temporary protected status, which meant they didn t see fit, it wasn t safe, to return haitians who had arrived in the united states before july 29th. there s no way that it is safe for these haitians that are now in del rio to be deported to haiti. the government cannot process them. their families, many of them, have been affected by the earthquake. there s no home for them to go to. there are still loved ones that need to be buried, and there are kidnappings, particularly in the
14. let s take a look. stephanie, the other thing. look at that water. that s muddy, brown water. this is widespread throughout new jersey, new york, pennsylvania. these areas weren t under evacuation orders. i know we don t know for sure. can we assume a lot of the homes are filled with people. i would say most of them. it wasn t safe to go on the roads and drive around, you have a better chance of surviving staying in your home than driving through the car through flood waters like this. this isn t everywhere. right now, all of philadelphia and pennsylvania and new jersey doesn t look like this. all of the small streams and rivers filled up and dumped into the big rivers. the flooding you re looking at is the big rivers.
still howling. it wasn t safe. some of these are special forces they are not afraid of anything. we couldn t have it on our conscience to send them a situation we knew could be potentially deadly. we will get people as soon as we can we know those crawls coming and just know that your fellow louisianans and the united cajun navy network all around the country is responding and we are on the way. ainsley: brian, with the help from other states you cannot get i know this is probably not your area of expertise, but can you get the electricity back up? you said 30 days possibly. no, we don t have any experts. [lost audio] experts in recharging all the hubs around here. that s going to be up to enter guy which is the main company which controls movies the electric power down here in southern louisiana. they had already deployed a lot of linemen in bucket trucks and