announcer: from abc news, this week with george stephanopoulos begins now. and we come on the air this morning to breaking news. an earthquake measuring 6.0 near san francisco, the largest tremor there since 1989. ryan owens is tracking the damage. good morning, ryan. reporter: good morning, george. this was a sizable quake. it jolted people out of bed at 3:30 this morning. the epicenter in napa, california. wine country, north of the san francisco bay area. no reports of deaths or serious injuries at this point. there is plenty of damage. witnesses report a whole lot of broken glass. they say in downtown napa, you see some of that video there. a lot of store fronts broken. things like that. among the most significant damage is a fire at a mobile home park. the quake caused a water main break, so firefighters don t have the water they need to battle that blaze. about 15,000 people right now without power. as you mentioned, this is the strongest quake to hit the bay ar
and we come on the air this morning to breaking news. an earthquake measuring 6.0 near san francisco, the largest tremor there since 1989. ryan owens is tracking the damage. good morning, ryan. reporter: good morning, george. this was a sizable quake. it jolted people out of bed at 3:30 this morning. the epicenter in napa, california. wine country, north of the san francisco bay area. no reports of deaths or serious injuries at this point. there is plenty of damage. witnesses report a whole lot of broken glass. they say in downtown napa, you see some of that video there. a lot of store fronts broken. things like that. among the most significant damage is a fire at a mobile home park. the quake caused a water main break, so firefighters don t have the water they need to battle that blaze. about 15,000 people right now without power. as you mentioned, this is the strongest quake to hit the bay area since the loma prieto quake in 1989. and that one, george, killed 63 and injur
states. it was a the kind of building block we look for in an economic and security commons. just as when we in san francisco see not only what the military can bring to the party and help us with, not only how we can interact with the military, but also we say to ourselves, it s also up to us to do everything we can for ourselves. we re not kind of an outfit, it s easier for them to collaborate with us. so, all of these things are important to us as we have these exercises. so, i say this is a very worthwhile enterprise that will keep going. i tip my hat to my friend mike who really has been leading us in these efforts. and now i say as also the slogan, i guess you call it this morning, maybe it s what the navy says. i think it s a very good phrase. a global force for good. that s what we ve been practicing, a global force for good. thank you. (applause) thank you, sir. thank you. thank you very much, sir. (applause) and for all of you, tomorrow we re going to have the f
i ll use that word a little bit more loosely and say competent. you must be able to do things. so, if you take that image and you have objectives on the one talon and capability on the other, and you marry them together, that s what we in the united states have been doing, particularly since the end of world war ii. then there we were having propelled the three worlds to victory. the other of us having seen we had an aggressive adversary on our hands and looking back what a horrible last century or so, we had to do better. and we did it by this iteration of objectives and capabilities. and we put together what has amounted to a global economic and security commons from which we all have benefited and continue to benefit. [speaker not understood]. so, we have to keep working at it. and i think the things that have been talked about here are very much in the line of keeping [speaker not understood]. niche a was mentioned this morning. that was a fantastic piece of work by the n
had an aggressive adversary on our hands and looking back what a horrible last century or so, we had to do better. and we did it by this iteration of objectives and capabilities. and we put together what has amounted to a global economic and security commons from which we all have benefited and continue to benefit. [speaker not understood]. so, we have to keep working at it. and i think the things that have been talked about here are very much in the line of keeping [speaker not understood]. niche a was mentioned this morning. that was a fantastic piece of work by the navy. it turned around the attitudes of niche a toward the united states. it was a the kind of building block we look for in an economic and security commons. just as when we in san francisco see not only what the military can bring to the party and help us with, not only how we can interact with the military, but also we say to ourselves, it s also up to us to do everything we can for ourselves. we re not kind