Morning. The epicenter was about three miles northwest of American Canyon. It is the largest quake to hit the bay area since the 6. 9 loma prieta earthquake nearly 25 years ago in 1989. Four homes were destroyed at this napa valley mobile home park. Firefighters had to bring in water because a hydrant went dry after a water main broke. Three buildings had major damage. 33 buildings have been red tagged as unsafe to inhabit. Our abc 7 News Reporters are on the scene tonight to bring you the very latest. Abc News Reporter vic lee is live with residents who cannot return home tonight. Vic . Reporter well, there are at the moment 64 families here at the Crossroads Community church. In all, 214 people, and this is one of two shelters. The other one isvallejo. There are a few people here at the shelter, were told some may come back to spend the night but most are staying tonight with family and friends. Most of those who came here to the shelter wanted food for their families. Their homes, t
Spot. It also ripples throughout my district. And down in valero has had some damage and Tennessee River and the mir island is down and tagged the mansions, oftens mansions are red tagged and they lost the chimneys. And theres a relatively new building that had a major water break. There will be 300 employees that wont have a place to show up. And the reports are coming in. And its bad. And could have been a heck of a lot wos. Very, very soon. We already have businesses open already. We encourage people to come out. There is going to be safety concerns by the end of the day. Napa is still going to be a safe place. You guys are familiar with what napa looks like downtown at 3 00 in the afternoon on a sunday. How bad as it was how fortunate do you feel this happened at 3 00 in the morning . Is you walk downtown napa and you see it in the condition it is. You are a little taken aback of some of the damage you are seeing, we might lose some buildings. But the charm of napa is going to stil
Close look at everything. It is interesting, too. For the most part of the morning coming up in seven hours here we have been talking about napa and sonoma county. They usually like to call this an abundance of caution but without power and no one going forward. It is a little quiet there at the port this morning. That information coming in with the International Longshoreman and theyre looking out for theerl folks out there until everyone can be assure that everyone is safe. Lets check in with rosemary right now following this earthquake this morning. Good morning to you. Count less numbers this morning. This is from cara hanson, the qe ripped through this neighborhood and leading to this. A lot of this going on and especially a picture we dont see everyday. This one is coming from new eastern span n the earthquake. You can see someones car devastated here. You are not going to be able too the drivers seat. The side of the building came tg down and perhaps made that car not drivable a
Quake out ward american that was where you had the most intense shaking. Slees one thing i noticed this morning when it woke me up was just how long it lasted. Just around 10, 15 even 20 seconds as well. But that Long Duration of the earthquake. Well continue to keep an eye on the aftershock consequence. All right thank you very much. Welcome to our breaking News Coverage of the earthquake here. And the north bay. 6. 0. Struck at 3 20 this morning. Live pictures right now over a Mobile Home Park in the city of napa. We have confirmed that four mobile homes were destroyed because of the fire that happened because of the earthquake. Also there have been reports of multiple damage in the downtown napa area. Rasmussen reporting. Power outages throughout and napa county. Daniel, whats the latest . We have all of our roadways that were previously closed now reopened. No closure throughout the bay area but were still dealing with the roadway damage in the napa area. 121, state route 29 at 121
Cooler and breezy. Inland a lot of 70s or very low 80s. Here is sal. All right. And just looking at the list here, right now the roads in sonoma and napa county are open. We will put up a map of the area. It looks like business as usual. They are all open. There are streets that are closed in downtown napa but those are just local streets and that is because of damage to buildings on those streets. But again 29, 37, 121 and of course interstate 80 are all open for business if if you are driving in the area right now the morning commute looks pretty typical. There are slow downs here and there. Lets go to this live picture now. Westbound bay bridge that traffic looks good coming into San Francisco. And if you are driving on 237 westbound, that is a light commute on the way out. 5 01 lets go back to the desk. We are still following the latest developments on that magnitude 6. 0 earthquake. The quake was centered near American Canyon. A lot of damage reported. Work crews have been keeping