this is from the county fire department where the boat is on fire. blayne alexander is following the story from our l.a. bureau. what can you tell us? reporter: we re now getting our first look at how massive the fire is. those pictures that we re now just getting into our newsroom. you see the 75-foot boat is fully engulfed in flames. we do know we re getting new numbers about the rescue efforts. we know that five crew members were able to make it off. they have been rescued. one of them reportedly has minor injuries. that is according to the u.s. coast guard. but there are still 34 people, chris, who are unaccounted for this morning. so we are talking about an active rescue scene, active rescue operation right now. coast guard officials. multiple units have been dispatched trying to get nearly three dozen people off of that boat. this is the santa cruz islands just off the coast of santa barbara. of course we re talking about a busy labor day weekend. certainly a primetime for boat
hopefully with more cameras, it well, he s no longer with the department. will be a deterrent right there last week the report set off a massive manhunt in lancaster, and people will be less inclined california, about an hour north of downtown los angeles. to denefarious things. anita vogel has more from our i think that was persuasive. l.a. bureau. it s an interesting argument. reporter: not too much of a it s similar to the big signs surprise within the last hour, the l.a. county sheriff s that people put up, this neighborhood is protected department announcing it has dana: nobody believed it. fired deputy angel reynosa after but now you can. now you literally are being watched all the time. they say he falsely admitted we re all being watched wherever reporting he had been shot we go. there s hd cameras everywhere. outside the lancaster station. he said he had been shot on the the quality is so good that they can see not just who is standing way to his car in the nation s
festival marketed as one of the country s largest food festivals. according to local news reports quoting witnesses, there are people hurt, and a law enforcement official tells us that the atf is responding. this tweeted a short time ago from the police department. it says the hearts of gilroy pd and entire community go out to the victims of today s shooting at the garlic festival. the scene is still active. we are closely following the developments from the breaking news. cnn is monitoring the story from our l.a. bureau. also with us, cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz. thank you both. i know you re working sources on this story. paul, first to you. what do we know about what happened? do we have information about whether this shooter has been apprehended? no information of that nature yet, natalie.
kristina coleman from la bureau, kristina. arthel, we learned that just moments ago california governor arrived in ridgecrest, people shopping at local wal-mart got up close look at at the mess that the quake caused. this is the wal-mart in ridgecrest, town 10 miles southwest of epicenter of last night s 7.1 quake, hit 8:19 local time, jugs of water and food scattered on the floor making total mess on the aisles, more than 100 aftershocks sin thursday s earthquakes and more could come, check out albertson s, employees, customers walking on piles as aftershocks continue to rattle the entire store, this ridgecrest family got under the table, listen to frantic moments when all of this was going on.
she is at our l.a. bureau. tell us about this. could you feel this? absolutely we could feel it. the building that we re in is about 15 floors. the entire building was shaking. you could look down on the streets and see that the light poles were moving back and forth. this was a pretty strong one, one that we haven t felt in some time here in the los angeles area. i can give you a little bit of information of where it was centered. it was centered in ridgeview, about 150 miles northeast of los angeles, to give you some idea of how far away it is and the impact. we certainly felt it here. we are located in hollywood. i also want to give you some sense of how big it is. they re saying the magnitude of this is 6.6. so a moderately strong earthquake certainly felt here in ridgeview. there s a population of about 27,000 people but obviously it has rippled out across this area. certainly they felt it northeast of here in, for example,