That particular branch. Been a different bridge, that partially collapsed during the 1999 earthquake. It was a 6. 9 earthquake, 5 oh 4 pm. As a world series was about to start. He said that world series maybe save lives. Yes it happened around 5 04 and everyone went home to watch the giants play in game three. Subsequently that cypress structure which went down, where most of the deaths where a lot of people were off the freeway. Yes, the bay bridge failed, we so many fires pop up in the Marina District, four people in the marina alone died, a lot of people were forced out of the ballpark or they were at the ball park and they were watching it when it was interrupted at 5 04. A lot of people froze in that moment of what is going on . I was at home in livermore and i did not do any of that duck, cover business. What did you do . I walked around the house and noticed it was shaking, it felt like it was three minutes long it was like 1520 seconds so i did not do what you should have done,
Oakland where the governor and other state leaders unveiled that new program. Reporter they had a public unveiling and a News Conference where they talked about the new earthquake Early Warning system via that my shake app. The media still here, about to leave the pier where we are. The app called, my shake, is free to download and was developed by uc berkeleys seismologists and also from around the west coast. University of washington and oregon as well. It will not be able to predict . But the app can alert users to take cover and prepare seconds before shaking, the shaking of a major quake reaches them. The system uses sensors buried in the ground across the state and it detects the start of earthquake, calculates the location and intensity and send a warning to your phone if youre in an area where shaking is likely to happen. It works similar to the amber alert system using the same wireless notification system to send out those warnings. At the unveiling and this News Conference,
Shock over what they found. Reporter it is beautiful out here just like all weekend but there is a dark close over what is going on with the statue. You could see the red paint at the base of the statue and then when you look up you could still see the red paint, the remnants of it on the Christopher Columbus statue. We got video of the native americans celebrating Indigenous People day by alcatraz and some came up to show disdain for the Christopher Columbus statue. Workers spent the day taking the paint off and at the base including all of the words, destroy all monuments of genocide. A dispute whether columbus was a spanish or italian explorer but many locals are upset with the show of protest. The colonization of the United States, i guess, initiated the pride of the indians here which is a shame so there is something to be said about that. I dont know if this is the way to express that. They probably dont want it there but it is part of the history of our nation and also a monumen
Top diplomatic crane testifies behind closed doors. Turkeys president to ones in the russian port city of sochi for talks with lot of the a putin has repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters in the north east and syria the leaders are expected to discuss the cease fire that was brokered by the u. S. Which is due to expire in a matter of hours the Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces a pull out of some areas along the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the troops before heading to sochi is what mr cohen had to say. Vladimir putin and i will discuss all the steps to be taken in order to maintain the territorial integrity of syria and to cleanse the northern parts of syria from terrorists and terrorist organizations we will also be revisiting the efforts made for drafting a new constitution and we will also discuss it live and the significance attached to this area including a ceasefire we want a lasting peace in syria i hope our meeting
Crucial bills that will determine whether the u. K. Leaves the e. U. At the end of the month Prime Minister pars johnson is threatening to call an election if his plan does not get approval. It could be the most crucial testimony yet in the impeachment inquiry into donald trump the u. S. Top diplomat in ukraine testifies behind closed doors in sport its a huge guards around madrid in the Champions League the 14 tare winners on the verge of being knocked out of the group stages for the 1st time in their history. President says the deals been reached with russia for kurdish fighters to move out of Syrian Border areas within 150 hours or chip thai berta one made the announcement at a joint News Conference with the russian president Vladimir Putin in the port city of. Moscow says it will help secure safe zones while ankara says it will help Syrian Refugees return home. We will repatriate 1000000 syrians and after that another 1000000 will move back hopefully with the support of Internation