apple tv, and online. we re going to get to the 9ers in just a minute, but team coverage on the layoffs at google. we ll talk with scott mcgrew with a look at the big picture, and some possible silver lining for tech employees losing their jobs. first, let s head to nbc bay area s bob redell live outside of google offices in sunnyvale. bob, how much of the company s workforce are we talking about here? reporter: good morning to you marcus and kri google is laying off 12,000 employees worldwide, which amounts to 6% of its workforce. sundar pichai is the ceo of alphabet, the parent company of google. he announced the layoffs this morning. he wrote over the past two years we ve seen periods of dramatic growth. to match that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today. while he said the company was bound to go through different economic cycles, he felt confident about the huge opportunity in front of us, thanks to the strength of our mission
wave of aftershocks. here is a look at the seismograph. this is what we saw as the quake happened this morning, around 2:30 this morning. of course a lot of shaking going on. this is centered in the ferndale area of humboldt count near eureka. no tsunami alerts were issued after the quake. at least two people have been confirmed with injuries. one person with a hip injury, the other suffering from a head injury. both expected to be okay. at least 71,000 customers are still without power this midday and pg&e has activated its emergency response plan. also, the quake closed several schools for the day in the surrounding area. this is new daylight video showing the damage that happened outside a home in ferndale. you can see several pots were knocked over on the patio. also video from inside that same home. many items toppled, the homeowner there tells us that was her coffee bar on the gr dam.e is minor, but here is what she told us this morning. the things that have fallen