A state with seemingly boundless diversity a land of plenty that was california. A place for dreamers, a refuge for relics there always seems to be room for all types here. Mans hand has greatly changed california. Concrete rivers, monster cities, and endless valleys of grass that are today, only crops. Persecution and changes nearly stripped the state of the greatest biological treasures and some disappeared completely. The state flag itself holds the image of the extinct california grizzly. There are miracles of survival too. Many of the most compelling stories can be found along the picturesque coastline. One of the best places to observe the unique life here is one of my Favorite Places on the planet, point lobos state reserve. Thats a cute little guy isnt it . Thats a harbor seal. Its really one of the most common and widespread seals in north america. Matter of fact, that is the seal that most people have seen, if youve seen a seal on the east coast of the us, but theyre also com
Happening in Southern California here for the next couple hours. Theres still reports of damage coming in. Julie banderas has that and all of the days news as we take a live look at washington d. C. Ahead of the big celebration. We begin with breaking news. An earthquake rattling Southern California and parts of nevada this afternoon. Im Julie Banderas in for shepard smith. Happy fourth to you. Emergency crews saying theyre getting dozens of calls ranging from reports of injuries to fires. Officials with the national Gee Logic Survey say it lasted about 60 seconds. Listen. I can feel it shaking. It was intense. Take a look at this video
from a liquor store in ridge crest. This is the first of many videos youll see pouring in today. This is near the epicenter. You can see the broken bottles on the floor. The shelves there rattled inten intensely. Anita vogel is reporting live with more. Julie, thats right, the earthquake struck at 10 33 local time in los angeles near the city of ridge c
Operations to the highest level. Cnn correspondents join us from Southern California with the latest. Lets start with alex field in ridgecrest. Alex . Cyril, it is going to be a long night for people here in ridgecrest. The power is out. It is dark. There is not a clear handle right now on how much damage was done, but certainly the people throughout this community lived through a terrifying number of seconds as that second tremor struck. It was, of course, as you say much more powerful than the first one. We felt it alongside the rest of the community here, people taking cover, people screaming, people concerned about injuries. Some people briefly it seemed trapped in their homes. Then we witnessed a fire and immediate onslaught of emergency vehicles quickly responding. But certainly a little bit of difficulty getting through to 911 in the immediate moments following that quake. This is a night that people in this community will not soon forget. Of course, what is most important right
Begun to be opened up to the public, just ahead of the salute to america, which is the flyover and the aerial demonstrations that comes a little later today. Arthel we are going to go to ellison barber, shes live at the nationals all the details. Hi, ellison. A, arthel. Theres a lot of excitement here. Also a lot of criticism. Democrats and some other critics say that the president has turned an event, a day that is meant for all americans, into something partisan. More of a Campaign Political rally. There is a vip section down at the Lincoln Memorial. Republican party donors reportedly received tickets to sit in that area. Democrats are pointing to that as proof that President Trump in their view is using the fourth of july on the salute to america event for partisan purposes. The white house says there is not a political bone in the president s speech paid some protesters are here today. Weve seen some walk by carrying baby trump balloons, made famous in places like london and protes
This is again, the casino ou towards the palm springs area actually a little further east than that. You can see massive swaying there. Those fixtures looking almost more like swings at the playground. Rocking backandforth from house high those ceilings are, would say those are swinging probably four or 5 feet in each direction. That is massive shaking going o there. You can see the waiters they are quickly making their way down the stairs to get off the second floor and tried to try t get out of there. They know that this is definitely get a nightmare situation for folks in Southern California as aftershocks continue. We will go back into this press conference from caltech and usgs , lets listen in. Because it cannot be predicted, they are working on that, theyre working on that system and that is something sh will likely touch on tonight they hope to have more federal funding for that, but now to doctor lucy jones bird can get bit of a summary on tonights earthquake, we had to magnit