Jolts since thursday. As people clean up, they are bracing for the next big one. The quake is blamed for causing at least three fires, likely due to gas line breaks. The Ridgecrest Police chief says dispatch lost communication during the quake but its now back up and running, just under 160 people are staying in temporary shelters, and the China Lake Naval air station was closed to assess the damage. Donya baucus begins with the latest look at the impact. Reporter yes, and fridays earthquake was longer and stronger than the one before. Experts say thereve already been more than 4500 aftershocks, leaving many to fear that the shaking isnt over yet. Evacuate reporter the magnitude 7. 1 earthquake rocking southern california. This has been a traumatic experience for this, not only me but for this entire area here that weve experienced of never experienced anything like this before. Reporter the violent shaking sending chandeliers swinging, throwing water out of pools, sparking fires and c
Today on this july 7th, i am willie geist, i hope you enjoyed a good long weekend. If you lived in california, it would have been an eventful weekend. The state covers with thousands of after shocks. We are live from the epicenter to assess the damage and the potential for something bigger just hours from now, the u. S. National soccer team takes on netherlands with the World Cup Finals Team usa is ready to finish the job and bring home the cup later the debut of seinfield, we revisit Jerry Seinfield later the later the debut of seinfield, we revisit Jerry Seinfield talking about his long career as a stand up and the moment only recently when he realize the impact of his iconic show. I thought thats what you are doing for people. They cant see that but you can reach them through tv and it talking about his long career as a stand up and the moment only recently when he realize the impact of his iconic show i thought thats what you are doing for people they cant see that but you can with
49 towers needed to be replaced entirely. The journal says a 2017 internal presentation by pg e, estimated their transmission towers were 68 years old with the oldest towers being 108 years old. The Life Expectancy was 65 years. Pg e neglected and failed to make up grades. Since the campfire in the past year, pg e worked to intensify the inspections on transmission lines in the last year, pg e inspected 222 substations, 50,000 transmission structures, 30,500 miles of power lines and 700,000 distribution poles. We brought in more than 2000 qualified linemen outside of california to help us with all of the inspection work in terms of doing the inspection as well as being able to do the repair. The journal says detailed inspections include workers physically climbing the towers to inspect them. It hasnt been done in decades. We are waiting on a response, we reached out to them this morning as of air time, nothing has come in to our newsroom. We will keep you posted when it does. To san pa
Beverly hills . Youre also seeing different places in Southern California, theyre saying please dont call 911. You can see the chandelier there shaking in one of those photos there. He was talking about he was ow side. He felt something very gentle. Looked around and looked to see if anything is moving. I was not sure it was an earthquake either. So all in all, it is something that if youre really attune, can you feel that is about 130 miles from here. Thats a holong way to feel an earthquake. We are 130 plus miles away. And we want to remind you, too. What youre seeing here is did you feel it . Were about where you actually felt it. We also want to remind you, were doing an extensive live breaking coverage of our nbc 411 4, 11 00 a. M. News. Its about 160 miles northeast of los angeles. This is a map of less than an hour ago. Map, point out a couple of things whether this. Notice what youre seeing, a little closer to the extreme shaking, thats where the earthquake was, as you get clos
The quake hit on july 4th. One day later a 7. 1. First the positive news. There have been no deaths. Only minor injuries reported. There is considerable concern because aftershocks continue to rattle the region. We have the update. Reporter when thursdays quake hit, the red cross said several dozen people came to the shelter they set up. But when fridays 7. 1 hit, about 150 people came to the shelter. Many of them are choosing to sleep outside because of the continuing after shocks. During the briefing today, city Officials Say they are making Good Progress in inspecting a lot of the damage across ridge crest. But their big concern is they just dont know when the Regional Hospital is going to fully reopen. Meanwhile, there is lots of people in ridge crest trying to get back to normal. We are an isolated community. Reporter this Community Church pastor started his sunday Church Service with a big thank you. Thank you to the people who showed up. Reporter he showed pictures of the damage