hazards from volcanic eruptions are pyroclastic at speeds like a jetliner. man: [speaking spanish] jess phoenix: it will obliterate trees. it will take out people. it can even reshape the geology of the area. nobody can outrun a pyroclastic flow. if you are faced with one, you are dead. welcome to violent earth. i m liev schreiber. more than 80% of the earth s surface was forged by volcanoes. they helped create fertile soil for agriculture, and volcanic gases helped form our atmosphere. without volcanoes, we would not have life on earth as we know it. all around the world, every single day, there are 40 to 50 volcanoes erupting under sea, on land, sometimes even under ice. our earth is a living, changing planet. but when a volcano erupts, it also has the power to destroy, like it did in 2018 at mount fuego in guatemala, when a massive eruption buried the surrounding towns in over 6 feet of volcanic ash in a matter of minutes. [music playing] george kourounis: mount fuego in g
major hazards? from volcanic eruptions are pyroclastic flows the rock fragments, and gases are moving at speeds like a jetliner it will it can even reshape the geology of the area. nobody can outrun a pyroclastic flow. if you are faced with one, you are dead. welcome to violent earth. i m liev schreiber. more than 80% of the earth s surface was forged by volcanoes. they helped create fertile soil for agriculture, and volcanic gases helped form our atmosphere. without volcanoes, we would not have life on earth as we know it. all around the world, every single day, there are 40 to 50 volcanoes erupting under sea, on land, sometimes even under ice. our earth is a living, changing planet. but when a volcano erupts, it also has the power to destroy, like it did in 2018 at mount fuego in guatemala, when a massive eruption buried the surrounding towns in over 6 feet of volcanic ash in a matter of minutes. [music playing] george kourounis: mount fuego in guatemala is your stereotyp
Weather alert. Our cameras showed the rain drenching the bay area for the past 24 hours. The roads are slick. Lets start with jeff ranieri tracking the storm. Its not done yet . I think we have another four to five hours left of this widespread consistent rainfall. Its moving from the south to the north. Its the moisture thats been feeding in all day long with a tremendous amount of rainfall, just in the past 24 hours alone our top toe talt in the santa cruise mountains 4. 75 inches. In kent field, 4. 5 3. Well track our number one flood threat, in marine, napa and sonoma county. We have heavier rainfall on the way to those areas into sonoma by 11 33 tonight. San francisco has been getting slammed the past couple of hours and more heavy rainfall headed to downtown by 11 31 tonight. Oakland by 11 3 and berkeley at 11 43. Down to the south bay we have rainfall through the santa cruz mountains, and to the san jose by 11 26. Were tracking when this finally gets out of here and well have mo
Were believe in fremont where firefighters are watching hot spots from yesterdays factory fire. We will tell you how employees and the company are planning to move forward. A lot of cloud cover but not much rain. Just hours ago a strong quake struck off the coast of Southern California. Why there was confusion behind the initial reports. We are live in vallejo where police are warning shoppers about a potential scam. We will tell you how they were able to make ipads look like the real thing. That when the news starts right now. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu mornings on 2. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im dave clark. Its friday, december 14th. A strong quake hit off the coast of Southern California overnight. The 6. 3 quake happened around 2 30 this morning. It was southwest of avalon california. Two quakes with in seconds of each other were first reported but the usgs says now there was just one main quake. There was a 4. 7 after shock and tha
Mornings on 2 starts now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. The roads slick. Pack some patients before you head out the door. This is a live look at conditions in martinez. Alex savage is live with details on another problem scattered outages around the bay area. That could cause problems for a lot of people. Good morning. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve, you dont think we need to take an umbrella, right . I dont think so. Not right now. Everything was last night. There could still be some drizzle or very, very light rain. Fog is a bigger issue. Rainfall is not too bad. Danville twothirds of an inch. That fell 10 30 last night in ten minutes. Sausalito 58. Socal had a halfinch of rain. And antonio just sent me a message on facebook. Daily city this 3. 35. Thank you for the information. A lot of cloud cover over us. There are a few breaks in the clouds but a mostly cloudy morning. Mild. Maybe a few light showers left, but not a lot. A few 40s. 50s. 56 livermore. Also in