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Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. This is K. P. I. X. Eyewitness news at six. Good evening you're looking for at the view from chopper five at the epicenter of the earthquake that shook the Bay Area last night. Now almost 25 hours ago killing more than 250 people. The

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force of the quake has now been officially estimated at 6.9 on the Richter scale. The worst single disaster is seen in the bay area is the collapse of the cypress section of 80 in Oakland. Rescue efforts have been going on all day. Doug Murphy standing by

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live with the latest Doug. Well Dave the very good news came just a few moments ago. Carolina Wilson appeared here and we were told that the police had found someone alive in the 2500 block of Cyprus on the deck that was crushed. They found the person

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alive by touch. The information other than that is very sketchy. They don't know if it is an adult, a child, a man or a woman but they have confirmed that somebody is alive since the dogs went in and they were saying nobody was that's that's the

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moment. That's the good news that we have been waiting for. We have congressman Ron Dellums who is going to be joining us here in a minute. If we could. Mayor Wilson today did ask for some things from the people. He asked requested pillows and blankets, pillows

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and blankets to be used in some of the shelters around here. They have also asked or the mayor did if there was for a 16-18-foot refrigerated truck, a refrigerated truck to try and keep some of the food safe that is being donated to the city kind

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of want to update what's going on. The confirmed death toll in this right now still stands at 10. Although we do understand that they were getting a few more bodies from the other side. There were 86 people missing. As we told you last night, 50 people

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were rescued. The number that keeps floating. The number that really fluctuates the number of cars. It runs somewhere from 100 to 251 is the police. Number one is the fire number congressman, Ron Dellums is with me now, congressman, you came in today when you saw the

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East Bay when you saw the Bay Area. What did you think? What went through your mind and this is devastating. And just to stand here knowing that I'm probably a few feet from a number of grave sites is an incredible tragedy. And I was born in

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California. I lived through a number of earthquakes, but never in my wildest imagination would I ever consider the bridge collapsing or overpasses collapsing, you always wonder will the building you're staying in handle the shop. But when the integrity of our bridge system and the integrity of

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our freeway system is now being seriously questioned. That's a very frightening proposition. What do you foresee then? We have heard some questions today. Was this section of I 80 reinforced enough. Do you foresee congressional investigations? What? I think there's no question there's going to be an

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investigation. I think the investigation will be at both the state and the federal level and I think that that's wholly appropriate and proper and I think it needs to happen for two reasons. Number one, we have to, we have to determine responsibility in this situation. And

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number three. How do you prevent it until you, unless you find out how this happened now. The state government said that in their retrofitting program that in their three phase approach, they retrofitted part of the of this overpass based upon the history of earthquakes in this

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area. But they didn't retrofit the part of the pillars that seemed to have crumbled in this regard, that apparently was to take place later. So we need to determine how this happened. Apparently this has never happened before. And I said when you've got tens of thousands

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of people using the freeway system in this area alone every single day, then you've got to preserve the integrity of our system Whatever millions of dollars are required from both the federal and the state government. The reinforcement occurred after the 71 quake in southern California. But

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there are going to be a lot of questions statewide, maybe anywhere that an earthquake has potential because this is inspected every three years and we are told by Caltrans it has passed. I agree with you totally. And I said there are incredible questions that need to

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be raised. Why did this thing collapsed? That's going to be in the minds of many people far beyond today. And I think that we have to spend whatever resources necessary aid to answer that question and be to resolve the problem. There are too many cars and

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too many human beings in California who use our system on a daily basis, major artery for traffic. What can we look for? It's going to take a lot of money to put this all back in order. What can we look for from the federal government? I

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think that as I as I read both the president and the Congress at this point, I think that whatever resources are necessary will be made available to the president. As I said, started off with a $275 million dollar commitment that's only going to handle the immediate

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emergencies. But the long term, it seems to me you're going to go into the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. And I think given this travesty and given the potential for death and destruction, if you don't solve the problem, I think the dollars are

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going to be there in the tens of millions of dollars have to be one wonderful moment that we just heard those somebody found alive and there and I know you hope, I know we all hope for more. Absolutely. Because one person dying is too many. And

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when you talk about Scores of human beings dying, it's an incredible tragedy and for me 1989 has been just one tragedy after another and then to come home and know that scores of human beings have died and have been injured as a result of this situation

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is a very depressing and uh devastating fielding congressman, thank you very much. Ron Dellums joining us here, congressman coming back into the city tonight and seeing this as he said, many investigations will come and we've discussed this through the day was the reinforcement proper. That's something

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that will be discussed tonight tomorrow and on and on for weeks to come. But the good news just for the moment, the one small thing someone has been found alive, 2500 block of Cyprus in the area where the upper deck collapsed. In fact, that's, that's the

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news we have all waited for throughout the day. This is some of the video we're seeing right now was from earlier in the day, they were lifting some of the cranes, some of the devices that they will take on top to try and dig into the

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concrete, dig down to the cars. What they do is, I guess the best way to say it is they make the concrete into marbles, they liquefy and they cut it up into small pieces and that way it'll just move to one side or another, then they

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can reach in and grab those cars out of that crane you saw going up there that was putting one of the hose, the remote blades, If you will up on the top deck that will need to be cut away. Thank you very much. Doug a moment

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of hope in a mile and a half long trail of death. Looking at the ruins of highway 8 80 you have to be amazed by the fact that anyone got out alive. We talked to one lucky survivor earlier today, chris Mitchell told us what it was

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like to be on the bottom of the cypress structure when the earthquake hit, that was in the lower half of the cypress structure and I felt my front end of my car vibrate so I thought I had a flat tire so I slowed down and the

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freeway started toppling down and it just came down and I just happened to be in between two cross members and there was enough space for me to live. So I, I um, hit the lotto or whatever again. That was a man who survived the collapse of

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the freeway in West Oakland, tens of thousands of commuters have been affected by the bay bridge collapsed, eyewitness news reporter Dave bryan spent the day on the bridge and he joins us now with the latest on that situation dB Wendy. Unfortunately the news on the bridge

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went from bad to worse today, late in the day, Caltrans now acknowledges the damage to the bridge is worse than they had originally thought. That means it may now take more than a month to fix it and for the first time today there's now talk of

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possibly putting up a temporary bridge across the bay to help ease congestion while Caltrans scurries to try to repair the damage. Yeah, symbols of a critically wounded san Francisco bay transportation system. The bay bridge so badly cracked, battered and buckled that you can see the bay

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below through the holes in the roadway on the top deck and eerie silence. A ghost bridge in complete emptiness. At the height of this morning's rush hour down below, a lieutenant governor climbs over the side for a personal inspection And at the water the red and

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white fleet begins regular ferry service between San Francisco and Oakland for the first time in 32 years. Watch out have a nice day now at the bridge, the CHP and military police turned away all traffic except emergency personnel for Treasure Island. Meanwhile, on the lower deck,

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highway patrol officers gawked and Caltrans, workers crawled to the edge of the collapsed roadway on their hands and knees hanging on with fingertips where the bridge falls off to only water below, Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy emerged from his surprise, climbed down the side of the crippled

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bridge to describe the structural damage. The tower that anchors this side of this major section of the upper deck was pushed, pushed off its shoe. You can see where, where the paint is uncovered here, it's moved that much. McCarthy told me repairs could take weeks. It'll

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be easier they think to take the lower deck section, put it on a barge and take it into repair like you would repair a ship. So the upper deck section doesn't appear to be the big problem. It's the lower deck section. They're probably going to have

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to rebuild that section from scratch that could take up to three weeks. But late today Caltrans said new damage has now been located on the bay bridge. The section that failed. It looks like it's worse than we had thought that the adjacent section has also been

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severely damaged and in fact, it has separated from the supporting columns and piers. Caltrans now says the estimate of three weeks might be on the optimistic side. It could take four weeks, five weeks, maybe up to two months to fix the bridge. And some thought is

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even being given to building a temporary bridge across the bay. It's a possibility it's still there and depending on what we find out and that would be to bring in a temporary span, a bailey bridge where you just build it and they would handle a couple

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of names of traffic, maybe three. You mean an entire bridge would be brought in. It would be brought in. We've used them up on the Sonoma coast where we had to slip out, we bring it in. You can start from one end and just span across

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one motorist who is not surprised at the damages. This man, he says he was about 15 cars from the spot of the collapse. Yesterday the bridge started doing some very crazy things that as you looked along the bridge straight down the bridge the road would undulate

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up and down and at the same time the bridge was swinging left and right and a lot of the car's number, the cars had crashed into the side. We're crashing into each other with the prospect of no bay bridge for who knows how long today? For

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the first time since 1957 regular daily ferry service resumed between san Francisco and Oakland commuters now trying to get across the bay are left with three choices for the time being. Find another bridge, take the ferry or take Bart. As far as the ferries go, The

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red and white fleet and the blue and gold fleet are both putting boats into ferry service between Oakland and san Francisco at full steam. They say they could put eight boats in the water including four that they're trying to bring up from southern California. They say

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they could carry several 1000 commuters and could make runs every 15 minutes or so. But even the most optimistic don't think that will come anywhere close to meeting the demand. It doesn't look good Wendy. We've got a couple of questions here for you. Dave first of

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all, when is they weren't going to begin on the bay bridge. And when will we get worried about this idea about the temporary structure? Whether they would actually do that or not? I'm not sure when we'll get word. Although they say this is hard to believe.

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They say they could put a bridge up in three days. I mean that's a temporary bridge. A temporary bridge. Now, he mentioned the Sonoma Coast. I mean that's fine, but a temporary bridge across san Francisco Bay has got to be a project, I would say in

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a whole different magnitude than putting something up along the Sonoma coast and one that would handle thousands of commuters as well. What about the work on the bridge itself? Well, they were hoping Leo McCarthy told me this morning, they were hoping to bring a huge crane

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in and to lift the top deck that collapsed top deck off and floated away. They were hoping to do that this afternoon. That did not happen. And Caltrans now says they're pushing for maybe tomorrow morning. Okay, thanks a lot. Dave Bryant as Caltrans picks up the

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pieces literally on the bay bridge. People in san Francisco's marina district are picking up the pieces of their lives reed Galen standing by, live in the marina with that story. What you see behind me is a couple of hours worth of work for machinery, completing what

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nature started in 15 seconds. People who lived in what was this apartment building, 25 or 30 apartments. I have been sitting here all afternoon watching their life's belongings reduced to splinters in this pile of rubble is believed to be a couple to victims of this earthquake

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on the corner of Cervantes and Bay Street here in this apartment building. As far as we know, five people totally have died in the marina, there could be more. It's also possible that there could be less right now, authorities just don't know. They're still going through

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the grim task of going into buildings, clearing them out, taking the dogs through and making sure just how many people have perished in the earthquake in the marina. It's been a very interesting day here all the way around. Mm hmm. Dawn in the marina district. Not

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a Wednesday, but simply the day after worst fears confirmed. I just can't believe it. I just can't believe I just lost everything. But mary Ellen, she knows what happened to her, but she has no idea what happened to her apartment building neighbors. I understand there's fatalities.

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I don't know. I hope there's the elderly people got out of there. We have live wires that are bubbler heads and we're a little concerned that if something comes down, it's going to affect you. The smell of gas. The look in people's eyes, it was obvious

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to everyone that this might not be the end of it. There were no nervous jokes, no bravado. As people returned, I'm scared to death of them. And I always thought, you know, someday it's going to happen, but it's not going to happen to me. But it

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did for some perhaps hundreds. It was instantly apparent that home would never be that again. The third floor just slid down onto Northpoint ST here and just opened up my roof. I was on the second floor and I dropped down when it came to I got

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over to the window. I was down on the first floor. There was no first floor. I just walked out, but many others face a less certain situation damage. But how much what should you do when you can't trust the ground you walk on. I doubt that

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I'll live in san Francisco anymore. I'm a native California too and I never was afraid of earthquakes, but this is just too much. It's too much watching the sidewalk open up and the house fall down next to you. By mid morning rescue crews were gingerly testing

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the rubble with dogs looking for victims or perhaps even survivors, crowds gathered silent crowds, hungry for information At the Marina Middle School. The Red Cross evacuation center where 400 spent last night people stood in long lines for a bite to eat or a cup of coffee

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here. There are two long lists being kept one for the many people who have come to volunteer their services and an equally long list of people whose whereabouts remain unknown here again. We found mary Ellen Cheshire. We haven't found anything. We don't know who died is

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alive and we just haven't found anyone. The only thing clear on the day after is that the marina district will be a very long time recovering back live now. Dave and Wendy, I have to describe what's happening here now as a rather McCobb scene. A crowd

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of Spectators, a huge cadre of press people. Emergency workers are all waiting presumably for two bodies to be carried out of this rubble should happen within a few minutes. As for the more immediate situation, let's talk about utilities for a second here. I just found out

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from SDG and E that the gas has finally been turned off all around the marina district. It'll be off for some time. Could be 234 weeks before it's turned on. It will be a lot of people who are mightily inconvenienced over that electricity, however, probably going

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to be back on within a day or two. All right, thank you. Read the gas has been restored. However, in two thirds of san Francisco where it's safe to do so we go now to the emergency command post in SAN Francisco and tomas roman. The update

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Tomas Mac. We've been talking about the 15 seconds, everything that happened within the 15 seconds of this earthquake. Mayor Agnos held a news conference just a few minutes ago and told us how expensive that 15 seconds actually was $2 billion. That's $2 billion in damage in

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san Francisco alone. The mayor told us that that was an estimate arrived after a lot of study and a lot of investigation. He joined all the press here waiting for a word about the status of the city today along with several supervisors and congresswoman Pelosi to

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tell us what was going on in the city and what was available for the city. In terms of help, The Marina will be without power for some time. Worst case 15 to 16 weeks in the worst case because of the tremendous disruption that has occurred in

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the fire-related kinds of things such as gas, that is the dominant issue in hooking up power not only in the marina but also in the downtown area And an estimated cost of the damage of this earthquake and all related incidences is $2 billion San Francisco. There

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is an estimated 60 buildings at this time that will have to be demolished. We're also urging the public to be careful in the downtown area, especially employers who have high rise buildings, Check out the fire extinguishing equipment, especially their sprinklers with water pressure to make sure

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the pumps are working before bringing people back to work. There will be about 14 disaster assistance centers set up in the afflicted area entirety of Greater Bay area in northern California, I don't know how many will be in san Francisco, but one should be opening by

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the end of the day. I believe Here at least one now we're told that uh, that the latest figures again are about 1000 people are out of their homes in the marina district. And we're told those people will be able to start today qualifying or at

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least filling out forms rather for that disaster relief aid that's coming from the federal government and from the state. So they'll be as congresswoman Pelosi said, They'll be about 14 disaster relief centers throughout the bay area. There will be several here in Francisco Francisco where they're

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located and what time they're going to open. We're not sure yet. That'll be information that we're going to be getting a little later on now. The mayor also had some other news for us. He asked people to just stay away from the marina. We just got

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a report from Reed Galen as two people standing around watching not only the the news press but also gawkers Spectators, mayor says to for those people to just stay away. They're getting in the way and they're not actually aiding any, any of the operation that's going

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on there. And he's also asking people who are in that area who are living in that area and who are without power not to use candles if they do to be extremely careful about open flames again. He spoke about the idea of gas now, Reed Galen

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told us that just few minutes ago that the PG and E had said, but they had just shut off gas in that area. I was there at four or five o'clock in the morning and you can smell, you could smell gas throughout the entire marina. Well

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the mayor says to be sure there aren't gonna be any more fires to please not use any kind of combustible material candles light any fires to use battery operated lanterns whenever possible. One more thing, the mayor actually a couple of more things he said for people

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to stay away from the embarcadero seawall. Now apparently that wall sustained some damage, he's not sure exactly how much he wants people to stay away from that open area, that walkway along the bay because as a matter of fact it may be weakened, it may have

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been weakened by the quake. So that's one place for people to stay away from another is to stay away from freeway overpasses. Now the embarcadero freeway itself, I was driving on my way to work today and saw fractures in it. So again, it's a place to

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stay away from $2 billion dollars in damage. The mayor says that if the federal and state governments don't come up with the money, he is going to be extremely, extremely aggressive in being able to get that help for san Francisco reporting live at the command post.

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I'm tomas roman, thanks a lot Tomas for all of that information that you have another update here on the series. If you just joined us, the decision has been made as we try to get lives back to normal game three of the world series will be

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played Tuesday at candlestick coming up more earthquake coverage including hank Plante. Look, we'll look at the morning after and how people in san Francisco coped overnight and here at the White House will tell you how the president plans to help. I'm Andy Field, we'll have a

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live report from Washington santa Cruz, just eight miles south of the epicenter of this earthquake tonight. It is still virtually cut off by landslides, cracked highways. However, Emmanuel Ramos did make it through going on the back roads, got into santa cruz and now has this live

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report Manny Well Dave right now, they are still looking for Robin Ortiz here in santa cruz. She was working here in pacific garden mall when the quake hit. They haven't seen her since they fear she's underneath the ruins of a coffee house. Three of the county's

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five confirmed dead were killed here. Countywide $350 million in damaged more than 40 buildings and ruins the devastation around here is incredible. You can see the glass and broken bricks all over the place, firefighters have been breaking out the glass and the hanging brick before an

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aftershock brings them down, they feared that somebody could get hurt in Los Gatos just over the summit, but just as close to the epicenter, it was just as hard hit to more than 30 houses in Los Gatos had been damaged, some were knocked right off the

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foundations, three of the houses destroyed. Several buildings in the downtown area collapsed. They were more than 100 years old. They survived the 19 oh six earthquake, but this time their owners were lucky to survive. The business area has been heavily patrolled by police because of looting.

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The chief of police there says the looting has quickly stopped. I was told by many of those who had lost property that they did not have earthquake insurance, luckily no one lost their life in Los Gatos, 25 people were injured. Water and power in that small

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town had been out most of the day. Water and power is still out here in Santa Cruz and here in santa cruz. They still do not have an exact number of dead reporting live in santa cruz. I manual ramos, let me ask you quickly many, why

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is the rescue operation there in santa cruz? Taking as long it has to do with safety at this point, so many of the buildings are still really precarious getting ready to fall down. Firefighters are afraid of going in there and moving a lot of things with

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things falling down on them. At this point, officials believe that anybody who is in there may be dead. They just don't want to risk any more lives. Very fragile operation. Thank you very much, man, you for that report. We're going to take a break. We'll be

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right back as our earthquake coverage continues the whole country. The whole world, of course concerned about the disaster we have suffered here in the Bay Area in Washington, D. C. The president ordered immediate emergency help for the quake victims. Channel five's Washington correspondent, Andy Field, standing

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by at the White House with the latest on the federal effort. Handy Wendy. The president got up very early this morning here at the White House and said to his government get moving. Many people have criticized Washington for moving too slowly to help the victims during

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hurricane Hugo. Well, George Bush is determined not to let that happen again this time in the Bay Area relief workers taking years. Didn't get a break today. That's just the way the president wanted it. Mr. Bush raced from agency to agency. He personally called Bay Area

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relief workers to make sure they had everything they needed. How is it doing out there? What are you getting a lot of requests for emergency medical service. But what about the money? The president had already approved more than a billion dollars to help hurricane Hugo victims.

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Many people still haven't received that aid two months after the storm. How quickly can the federal money get to the homeless and the people who need it immediately. You can get there quite quickly while the quite catastrophe kept every agency jumping most of California's congressional delegation

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flew home in a government jet to see how they could help. Senator Cranston wanted to know why the interstate roads collapsed so easily. I don't know when all of them were built, but some of those freeways are fairly new so there will have to be an

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investigation of whether contracts were fulfilled honorably and whether we need higher standards At the Red Cross, anguished workers desperately tried to reach their bay area families. It took nearly 24 hours for Mary Jo power to get through. Okay. And then I'm really relieved and the federal

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emergency management agency scrambled to get uncle Sam's helping money into the quake victims hands. But nearly 300,000 people have already asked for help from Hurricane Hugo and no one is sure where the quake victims money will come from 60 miles and getting that federal relief back

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from the White House all the way to san Francisco is easier said than done. Even with all the red tape being cut through by the White House, the federal government still has to set up hotlines and they still have to find buildings to put disaster relief

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centers into and that may take another week. Okay, thank you very much. Andy field in the Washington D. C. With that report, the world's financial centers are always sensitive to major disasters in Wall Street. Certainly felt the tremors that rumbled around the bay. Our money reporter

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Craig Miller spent the morning at the pacific Stock Exchange Craig. What's the reaction from the financial community Now? We'll talk briefly about that before my new report. The financial community reacted really with somewhat of a shrug. We talked about the dow being up about five points

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today. The pacific Stock Exchange itself was not trading, but this did not exactly register on the international financial Richter scale at all. But we were talking about where the money was going to come from to fix the damage done by this earthquake. That as we've already

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had a hint of from Andy Field is a subject to negotiation, you might say. And those negotiations have already started. State officials are hoping for a 75 25 split with the federal government paying the bigger piece of that. But you can bet the insurance industry will

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take a big hit too. The final tab won't be known for a long time. Weeks at least guesstimates on the damage from quake and fire and other insured risks run the gamut from about a billion dollars to perhaps two or three billion authorities in Santa Cruz

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County alone are floating a figure of $350 million dollars for damage there. But insurers say the money will be there. We are there, we were there at six a.m. In Oakland settling claims. We intend to say we expect, I personally expect will pay out over $200

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million Hurricane Hugo, which hit the east coast just weeks ago. Our best guess at this point is this maybe half of that. Of course, that's a very, very serious event. Putting these two events back to back is really a very strange thing to have happened to

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the insurance industry. But at best one in four homeowners have earthquake insurance in the bay area. That means people will have to lean heavily on the state and federal government to get them over the hump. Lieutenant governor Leo McCarthy says that money will be there too.

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I know this Lieutenant governor is going to push very hard to get that money into the hands of people who need it right now. Otherwise. Emergency funds have no meaning. Well, as we've seen, it does take some time for that to filter through. In most cases,

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we hope this is an exception. But in the meantime, what do you do? You need some cash for emergency supplies or whatever. Here are some cash connections. We can look at the Bank of America. First of all, I want you to know that about 100 and

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50 of its a tms. It's automatic teller machines were still down as of early this evening. They are making low cost loans available. We understand more than more than one bank maybe doing this. That is to say they'll lend you money for what they pay with

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no fees to get you over the hump until you can get some kind of disaster relief. And their customer service lines are open. Look at some other banks as well. Wells Fargo says about 25% of their ATM system is still down in northern California. They do

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have customer service lines open. However also and security pacific 15% of their A. T. M's reported still down as of early this evening. They're making low cost loans available to and they have a customer service line. We also heard that California Federal for example is saying

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if you're gonna be able to make your mortgage payment with them this month because you're in a bind after this earthquake. Call them up. They have a special hotline set up for that and they'll work it out with you. So even if you're not sure what

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your bank is doing or if you're not sure how to get a hold of some money, call your bank, find out what they've got going, chances are there's something you haven't heard about yet. Alright, so the milk of human kindness is alive and well in our

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financial institutions to well you know the legend with a PG and any in bank of America is him standing out there with a couple of barrels with a board across lending money on the street after the earthquake of 19 oh six And apparently they're trying to

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keep that spirit alive. Alright thank you craig. Speaking of the milk of human kindness, we want to remind you that KPI X and our network of close to 100 take the time for kids sake stations around the country have established heart of the Bay earthquake relief

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fund through the american red cross. Your contributions are greatly needed right now to assist your friends and your neighbors. You can send those checks in any amount to the heart of the Bay earthquake relief fund post office box 26555. That's here at K. P. I. X.

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In san Francisco The ZIP code 941-6. Please make your check payable to the American Red Cross again. It needs a lot of money right now because it's still also dealing with the Hurricane Hugo. Um Kpi X has kicked off that one with a $10,000 contribution. I

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sure would appreciate some more contributions right now to help the good people here in the bay area. Thank you Most of the major roads here in the Bay Area are open at this hour according to the CHP here are some of the roads

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we're going to show you that remain closed at this hour. To take a look at the screen of course the san Francisco Bay Bridge closed Highway 4 80 the 2 80 extension to 80 south at Magdalena 101 south north of whipple. Um if we can progress

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the graphic in the East Bay, all of the Bay bridge approaches are down 6 80 south. The marina vista off ramp is closed to 42 north to highway for west In the South Bay Highway 17 from Highway 9 to summit road portions of Highway 152 also

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down and Highway 29 in Watson Villas is closed. Here is a phone number that you can call for more information Caltrans information. That number is 5573755. Once again, uh, if you have questions about road closures. Uh 5573755 is the number to call Bart trains are not

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running from SAn Francisco to Richmond right now because of a power problem with the Montgomery station in san Francisco PG and E. Cut power to that station earlier this evening to check out a gas leak in that area. Bart is now using its own generator but

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that is not providing enough power. So the result is about a 30 minute delay for commuters. We have new information now on which schools in the Bay area will be closed tomorrow. This list was put together by the state Department of Education. If you have questions

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about a school that's not on this list, you should call the school office directly. Some of the individual school buildings were still being checked for damage late this afternoon. The decision on whether to hold classes tomorrow may have been made after this list was put together.

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We're continuing here on your screen with the names of the school districts that are going to be closed tomorrow. Contra Costa County santa Cruz County, all of them except Live Oak Elementary are going to be closed At 7:30. We're going to repeat that information for you

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and we'll continue to give you other advisories as well. We have some phone numbers now that we wanted to give. If we get them up on the screen here where we can read them. Red Cross Bay Area 15 50 Sutter street san Francisco the number to

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the address to send your donations to Red Cross disaster relief and be sure to mark your envelope for disaster relief if you wish to call them and contact them directly. Area code 4157761 500 or 1 800. If you're outside of this area code 453 9000. The

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Bay Area Number San Francisco 776 1 500 In Oakland and the East Bay. The number you can call there with questions or to offer help. 553 23 21 North and Napa area code 707 their 257 2900. And we are urging you to contact your nearest chapter

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the red cross the money that goes directly to your area. As for missing persons the this these numbers that you see on your screen now have to for people who specifically have questions about missing persons connected with the 8 80 um collapse of the freeway in

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West Oakland. The two numbers are 2733352. they want to hear from you if you have questions but also um, if you want to report somebody missing so they can get a handle on the scope of the situation. The other number is 27333 53 still to come

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brian's five day forecast. Some rain could hamper the relief efforts and the space shuttle, it finally made it into orbit. We'll have that story for you. The space shuttle Atlantis finally lifted off today and it was picture perfect. We have a go for main engine start

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six 54 three 21. We have ignition and liftoff of Atlantis and the Galileo spacecraft bound for jupiter concerns over the safety of the nuclear powered Galileo space probe aboard vanished as the shuttle streaked into the sky, adding nuclear protesters who had hoped to get the launch

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scrubbed were nowhere in sight. Late this afternoon. The five astronauts sent Galileo on its six year journey to jupiter Atlantis is scheduled to return to earth on monday one footnote to this earthquake. Universal Studios in Hollywood suspended its earthquake ride today as a mark of respect

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for the earthquake victims. Of course, late in the day here as these numbers began to turn into names and faces and a lot of strong emotions coming forward. Um let's move that we all we are pleased to hear about In the past 26 hours we've seen

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dozens of scenes of horror tragedy that just gets compounded. Although one bright note a moment ago We saw it live here on Channel five when the Oakland Police Department announced they had found someone alive in the wreckage of interstate 80. There have been a lot of

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heroics involved around the Bay Area. We've put together some of the words and pictures that show the people in the bay area and how they've come together to survive this tragedy here. No ladies and gentlemen your attention please. Yeah. The first thing you try and

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do is just account for your family and sort of gather them all together and we can only pray that nobody has been injured by this. It's been an experience. That's terrible. It's the lower deck section, they're probably going to have to rebuild that section from scratch

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that could take up to three weeks. Firefighters call this type of brick building a type three building and with the earthquake, it shattered from the inside and went straight out burying pedestrians. The only electricity in Hollister comes from a generator at the supermarket customers lined up

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to buy supplies while employees work clean up, the lights started to flicker, then I felt the building role and then the lights went out and everything came down on top of me. You pulled one person out of here. Do you believe there are still more in

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one that they pulled out alive and apparently, well, I don't know if there are any more in there or not, you know, building, Look at that. All right. It is really hard to believe that just a little bit more than 24 hours ago now, this wrecked

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piece of highway behind us was a main thoroughfare, main artery time. It was the worst thing I've ever seen. I've been in this business for 15 years and I haven't seen anything that even comes close. There were civilians everywhere with radios and trucks and forklifts taking

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people down and it was amazing. We leave you with what is perhaps the most lasting impression of San Francisco after the earthquake of 89. A city without lights, we may have been powerless but never helpless. A city that still knows how to reach out to one

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another. Let's go back over some of the numbers that the state has provided us with. Dave 272 is the death toll of the last official death toll that we were given most of those deaths. 253 of them were at that stretch of 8 80 where the

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freeway collapsed at cypress and West Oakland. Um the last number we had about the number of injured, It was 1400, but it probably is higher than that, most of those injuries minor. Um, the damage estimate started at a billion. Now we're talking two billion in San

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Francisco alone. And of course Craig Miller had talked with an insurance expert who had been talking about perhaps $2 billion in claims insurance claims for the damaged bay area wide. So we're talking about a lot of money Fireman's fund already at six o'clock this morning out

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there writing checks. The figure I believe was $220 million so far that they have paid out to earthquake victims. The note of hope, in case you're just joining us, many people just joining us now, we've been mentioning this ever since it happened on interstate 80. What

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we had all hoped for that. Somewhere in that wreckage, somewhere in the 200 cars, Lionel Wilson, the mayor of Oakland says are trapped sandwiched between the two layers of the deck. At 1500 Cyprus. The Oakland police have confirmed that there is a person alive in that

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wreckage and they have now directed all rescue efforts to that scene at the same time, that that is going on again. They are pulling looking for victims in the marina in san Francisco in the rubble there, Continuing to look for victims at that stretch of age

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80 in West Oakland in Santa Cruz. Word that they believe that they they have found the body of the woman who was in that coffee mill plant in santa cruz. So unfortunately the flip side of that is that we're beginning to we're continuing to pull more

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victims out and we're now beginning to talk to relatives of some of these victims, a lot of strong feelings, a great deal of sadness in many parts of the Bay Area. Alien. We left him just a short time ago on the scene in the marina where

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they are about to remove two bodies from one of the buildings that has been destroyed there. As you mentioned. R. Wayne walker who lives in that area has been evacuated along with everybody else in the marina. And we'll be following that story tonight. CBS Evening news

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is next, we will be back at 7 30 we'll see you then.