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,
To get to a point where its ratcheted down significantly. I think it will be better every year. I think everybody gets better every year and every event. We learn a lot from each other but the risk is significant. Reporter a tenyear plan so more blackouts to come. The ceo and other officials apologized but defended them saying there were no catastrophic wildfires started. They work swiftly to cover wires in high fire threat areas, to underground wires, to trim back trees and strengthen the website to handle the immense traffic these blackouts brought. The website went down several times. They also addressed that lavish party last week, pg e holding a party for its gas customers. Two days of wine tasting. It was on the anniversary of the north bay fires in 2017 that killed so many people and destroyed so many homes. Pg e said that wont happen again and ratepayers will not pay the bill for that party. Coming up at 11 00, i took a closer look at how we got to the blackouts and whats being
Oakland and out to fairfield. 40s and 50s on the temps with a blustery day on the peninsula and mid50s for everybody. Woodside 51 and 57 over to fremont with mostly sunny skies and breezy to windy at times with a cooler pattern the next couple of days and we will see temperatures holding where they are today into friday and then by the weekend we will see warmer patterns. 60s and low 70s. Sal is here and what do you focus on first . The east bay commute. We went on the air at 4 00 a. M. And it was wet in some areas but now it has dried off in some spots. As steve said, the wet weather has moved out and it may be damp but it did kind of miss the morning commute and that is good for us. If you are driving on the east bay commute, 580 at the tracy triangle is very, very slow because of earlier crashes and we also had slow traffic on vasco road because of an earlier grass fire near Camino Diablo with the fire out now but it did damage with traffic on 280 and san jose slow. Its better than
Finally get the new suspensions been built following decades of political infighting and design disputes. This used to be a double decker freeway right here and now it is almost like a park. Everything is gone. All the freeway is gone. Within just this past hour, at Abbott Square in santa cruz, moments of silence right at 5 00. Santa cruz suffered major damage with the downtown section destroyed. It was only 20 miles from the quakes epicenter. Lets Flash Forward to moay a 4. 5 shaker strucklet hill and this morning, another 3. 7 struck in San Benito County not far from tuesday 4. 7 near hollister. Aside from the physical danger, earthquakes can also take a huge financial toll. Why are so few people willing to protect themselves from that . We sent kpix 5s john ramos to find out. If there was ever a place where a threat of major earthquake should fill reallys here in the bay area. It happened at the turn of the last century and then again 83 years later. Each time, people clean up the m
In the financial district, it was like a scene out of a movie. People literally in the street, holding one another, people physically shaking, crying and some places. Kpix 5 news starts right now with a look back at the loma prieta earthquake that was 30 years ago tonight. Good evening, im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. The quake killed 60 people and injured hundreds more. It caused damage to property in private homes and businesses. All of these years later, Wilson Walker spoke with people who remember it like it was yesterday. Day to ask that timeless question, where the oakland as me and my 3 sons and husband were all in the upper deck, all of a sudden we started feeling the tremor. We looked up and we saw parts of the candlestick start to shake. 30 years later in the bay area landscape it no longer include some locations that served as the main stages for lifeanddeath drama that evening. I had just driven through this intersection right where the separate Structure Collapse a