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just don't get it. Yeah, So my impression, Yes. Giving us this warm weather Temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above normal around California forecast high for the Bay Area in the mid seventies to the mid eighties. October 17th, 1989 started out like any other day in Northern

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California. By mid afternoon, it was hot and hazy, the kind of balmy day the old timers call earthquake weather. But even if it was unseasonably warm, no one was thinking about the weather. All we were talking about was baseball. We were a divided community that Tuesday

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afternoon taking sides for Our Battle of the Bay, the first World Series ever played between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A's. There were a few tickets available for the game earlier this morning. 21 to be exact. The biggest news story that afternoon was how

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to get your hands on some tickets for that night's game three by five o'clock. If you weren't at Candlestick, you were watching it on television by 50 to over 30 million people tuned in at 503 we were watching highlights from game to about to see the

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replay of Dave Parker's run scoring double off the right field wall at the Coliseum at 504 the World Series was the furthest thing from our minds. Parker at second base. So the Oakland A's take Take my God, We're having an earthquake. Wait a minute. Hold on.

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Hold. Can you feel that? There go the lights. Yeah. You put it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Serious damage on the bay Bridge, part of the upper deck East Side collapsing on the deck below. Something like this. In all my life, we actually could see, uh, I

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could look through the rear view mirror and see the bridge giving about a quarter of a mile behind me. Getting out of the Nimitz that is completely collapsed. That's the upper section collapsing into the lower section of the Cyprus. Uh, okay. Good night. Except the private

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door. And he doesn't try to joke. Move up. Right. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah, I know. He's alive. He's alive. He's alive. Trapped in there. You're in your car. And you heard me into the frontal side. Man. It's always around its way around. Down. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah.

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Freeway was rolling and jumping and jumping and the cars were falling down. The dust is like your dust was going all over. Rocks were flying people, right? Yeah. Yeah. The cars were like ping pong balls. They were bad, you know? And then I knew it was

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going to track it. Just It's terrible. It's terrible. There's a lot of people under. There is pent. Uhh, most of them. We got most of them out, but there's quite a few. That's it's just just no help. Yeah, Mhm. Okay, the building approximately four stories. High

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brick building is type three that collapsed because of the earthquake. There are right now 85 cars that are that are covered with debris. Very possible that there are pickups under here because at the time, this is kind of people. When it hit to get off work,

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six and Townsend were bricks from a structure fell onto three cars of five people inside. None of the five people you can find somehow once you go down five to no one. Thank you. Yeah, this is I'm Megan, in downtown San Francisco and the Union Square

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area. It was the only downtown building. It looks like we have five patients that we're gonna end up transporting five patients and we should be able to handle all of them. Okay. Okay. Yeah, Yeah. Will be scared, At least is in there with you. All right.

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Right. I don't care. Yeah. Now we have a major burning in San Francisco's Marina District Sergeant at the northeast corner of Beach and to visit there, on the streets are building their collapsed and burst into flames as another building across the way from it on the

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northeast corner of beaches. Visit Arrow also collapsed. That was a three story building has collapsed into about three quarters of the story. Yeah, Yeah. Mhm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just And we saw this go, and it just quietly collapsed. It was so bizarre. It's just like a

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quiet crunch. It just punched down. There's a gas leak. Let's go. Yeah. Please keep this area clear. This is only for injured. Oh, there are about 4 to 500 people at the shelter. At least 4 to 500 people. When I left the shelter a little while

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ago, all from the marina district Lawyer. We need food. We need water. We don't have any Toilet facilities are our lines are down. We don't have a thing. You just don't have a day thing. Yeah, just tell them where. Bare bones. Here there aren't any lights

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on in the marina district. In fact, there aren't any lights on anywhere in the city to drive back. We had to go through stoplights which aren't working. In some cases, people are out there directing traffic. It's just the way we feel about city. It's ours. It

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is darkness, in fact, so dark that we have a couple of police helicopters that are working the neighbourhoods of West Oakland, apparently concerned about looting. Yeah, party's over. See you later. Bye. Mhm that there's anyone arrested tonight for burglary or looting. Tomorrow morning, we're going to

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go into court and demand that there be no bail. Anyone engaged in that kind of conduct can expect maximum sentences at that time. 53 dead, as many as 400 injured. A little bit. After that, we heard the Office of Emergency Services shoot that figure up to

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100 possibly as many as 250. They have apparently found a victim alive in that Cyprus structure and how they want to do is trapped underneath the car. The car was a big size pickup truck and the truck was down to about 2.5 ft, 3 ft. Still

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a lot of screaming and just begging us to get him out. We tried everything. Santa Cruz is virtually blacked out tonight. It was the epicenter of the earthquake. I think the possibility of six dead here in the Santa Cruz area is the number could be. Things

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were just falling this crashing down. And it's like I went. I ran out in the middle Street so nothing would hit me. It was just It was just horrible. People are just running, not knowing what to do. Yeah, no, Until daybreak comes, we won't know how

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many more injured and dead get inside. I think probably everybody is going to have to wait until they have daylight here before they can start to try to find whether there are people. Yeah, you know, Jewel of Santa Cruz's downtown. He was devastated by the earthquake

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brick walls. Old brick historic walls crumble that we're finding out now just how bad the damage is himself. Not too long putting a certain San Fernando walls fell down the building Got a bad one here We've got a tree down A man trapped under it fell

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down and cut a man We ran out the door fell out the door Really We both felt that the ground couldn't walk Honda Prelude was bouncing across the driveway coming at us We turned around and looked We were screaming for our son because he was upstairs

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in the second story asleep. We looked at the house and jumped straight up off the foundation about six inches we could see under the house, just went over the hill and just slowly sank down like it was in quicksand just disintegrated. And our son was in

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there. We hollered and screamed, and from way down there in the distance, you hear him say I'm okay And he said it twice and he'd come walking up through the middle of the stuff and he was out. He just got a bloody and scratched up, but

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unbelievable. Right? At that point in time, we didn't even think about the house. We didn't think about anything. Always thought about was our son was alive because when we laid there, we both knew he was dead, the way the house collapsed together. That's the good old

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house payment arrived after the earthquake. I guess they still want their money. Oh, what? Friends chanted her name all night long as they camped out by the rubble of what was once the coffee bar where Robin Ortiz work. It was as if they were said to

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be back here at 7. 21 minutes after seven. And they're still pulling their thumbs and walking around like it's a pardon. Well, what do you mean? What are they supposed to be doing? What? They're supposed to be in there digging, trying to get robbing out. She's

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still she's still in there. They got her out. We should have had the rest Could continue throughout tonight. If they won't continue that we at least want to keep her alive if she's possibly alive. Oh, boy. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here this morning and at least

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3 to 400 people are going to be homeless because some 20 to 30 buildings there is an estimated 60 buildings at this time that will have to be demolished. We have been told that search dogs have now gone into that building. There is one person still

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unaccounted for it. Um, in this particular area, they think this person may be in this building. They're hoping it's a It's a survivor. One another. And the estimated cost of the damage of this earthquake and all related incidences is $2 billion to San Francisco. We've been

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waiting for the vice president and his wife to be here all morning to take a look at the scene here. Um, just walking through here and seeing the loss of property, knowing that the loss of life, it hits you right here in the heart. And that's

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the reason I'm here. The president will be coming on coming out here later on this week. We are dedicated to helping the people of the Bay Area and this unfortunate tragedy that has occurred. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ruin your come here. Yeah. These tourists are storm. It

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appears to be about 90% people that do not live here bicycle as tourists. It has kind of almost a holiday atmosphere. The only thing missing is selling somebody selling popcorn and balloons. So we are in the process of moving those people out of the area No,

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Another area don't have. Right. Hi, you are Go back there. They're back there in the background. Marina, The city has been stupendous in responding to this crisis. The one area we need more cooperation in is in sight. Seeing and going through the marina. It is causing

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a serious problem for Cal grants. We got the news. People go up on the bridge left here. Okay, area. The biggest problem by far, the shutdown of the Bay Bridge because the collapse of the cantilevered section one section of that kind of puts it in perspective,

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doesn't it? To see exactly how large a section of freeway has dropped when you see people standing there in that big game, Yeah, the Bay Bridge is we estimate closure About 20 days. We have a barge crane moving in right now. That's going to attempt to

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pick up the fallen slab and put it into a barge on the water, looking at anywhere between a quarter and a half million dollars. Compare. That's when we're really going to feel the crunch on our freeway systems and we'll be missing this bridge desperately. I hope

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that they will be able to get it repaired some potatoes, mothers and fathers, husbands looking for lost the previous. They're going to cross this bridge, so I'm sure there and there. I mean, if they're somewhere else, they're gonna call me, let me know where they are.

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But I'm sure they are still in there. And our friend was behind us. We think he's still on this bridge because he was behind us. I've called the various hospitals and he's not there. So we came out here with the hope that we could join the

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rescue and look for him. Also don't have a firm fix on the number of injured, But we think far more people were brought out of here as survivors than we first thought through the heroic efforts of passers by and civilians who joined the rescue efforts to

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get them out with. We went in and kind of pride. A couple doors open. You pulled how many people out? 21 all together. It was the most incredible thunderous roar. It all crashed down on us. And then you were in this mess of groaning and screaming

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people and dust. I'm happy I'm alive. I was pregnant. I lost my baby But other than that, I'm just have him alive. Yeah, they don't stop digging is what I thought they were saying. Friends of Robin Ortiz cross police lines and got arrested trying to convince

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the firefighters to go in and work all night long. Firefighters were saying, This is very dangerous to work inside. Yeah, yeah, Okay. We have been trying to get information from the South Bay since the quake struck. Now that was in the hallway, and I said, Let's

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get out of here And my wife said, No, let's stay here. Let's go out, Let's get out. And I was gonna go out the front door when my wife had me change my mind. And if I go out the front door and I have been a

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big hole, I might have to kill. Really? So I just got slammed up against the wall and John got thrown into the piano. So but we picked ourselves back up only to be thrown again against the wall That kept recurring Stop when we get up and

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throw us down again and all the furniture was flying through the air and here I thought the roof was falling in That was my first thought. It was just just just like everybody else. We just stood and looked at it to me. It was almost like

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looking at the Grand Canyon for the first time because I didn't expect that in my front yard, not allowed them. Aftershocks continue to rattle the South Bay, further weakening buildings and sending even more people into the shelters. Red process. We knew there were a lot of

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damaged homes in Watsonville, but this is really something. There's an awful lot of people, some of them with large families, of Children who are living in fields. They're staying right here until they can get home. The last I heard from the, uh, fire department chief here

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in the Watsonville was that they'll probably be here, maybe three months. No, no, no, a man. They go in and get my dear, you're not going to go in there. Why not? Why walking were frustrating. Everybody's angry tempers are short. A 36 block area has been

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declared a disaster area. That means nobody is allowed to go in or out of this area, and it's making it very frustrating. Everybody, Inspector and yesterday, who said the building was fine, Hard to find that he came by and we followed him around. He looked at

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it, he said. Yeah, this building sounded would survive another Earth, he said. It was a preliminary thing, so you are accurate. We were at our building all day yesterday in our apartment. We had everything and we left to go out to go to dinner October at

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a friend's house. When we came back, we couldn't get back in that. People are so angry besides being displaced, scared, hungry, some of them without sleep. It's not knowing who to talk to, to find out what is happening. We don't need politicians right now keeping us

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here for four hours waiting. We don't have a whole that's difficult, pal. That's very difficult. What the hell is he doing? It's so important giving interviews with the government, looking for press opportunities, keeping out here for 3.5 hours. There's no excuse for this. This is the

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most troubled part of the city. Where the hell is the mayor? Some We will be hearing in a few minutes from the mayor himself to see exactly what the game plan is going to be really First of all you that we have been working night and

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day every hour to try and deal with all of the needs that you have. I know. I know how hard it is to be trying to figure out what it is that you need to know at the marina at the Marina Middle school. What you will

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find out when you go there, status building that you live in, that's in this area. It will have three status one. Okay. And it's all right to go back to under certain circumstances. Second one Limited. Access me. Go back in there and get things for status.

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No access because it is dangerous to you, Mayor. Our tenants are asking if they can go through the rubble and even along the sides, they can see their stuff. Have to talk to the engineers and stuff. It's all the way down on the side, on the

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sides. They won't even let us near the wood on the side, not to climb on It. Problem is that there are buildings right next to it that have been affected. That could come over while you're moving stuff. We try to move the car. Having to ask

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is if the one I read please come to the front. Identify yourself as someone who was on the demolition list. Police office. First address. 37 29 to visit Arrow 21. No. One. He free 30 stuff, right? Maybe some news. But it may not be very good

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news here at the north end of the Pacific Garden Mall earlier, a human chain gang was set up to take debris out of one of the collapsed stores. Now that work has stopped. And there is some word from police that we are going to get some

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news very sharply about Robin Ortiz. They have talked with some of the members of her family and they members of her family did not look happy at this point. The Santa Cruz mayor has been recovered from the mall body in the coffee roasting company. It is

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the body of 22 year old Robin 40. She did not suck. You need to know them. She would have been killed. Instant. Martinez held. Come on. Shit! Had optimistically hoped to reopen the Bay Bridge in about three weeks. I'm afraid that everybody agrees now that is

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probably way too optimistic. Nobody knows. How long will this whole process takes to get it secure? No idea you want to bet on whether it'll all be done in three weeks. The hardest part is trying to get it ready without hurting anyone. It's very dangerous. Very,

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very dangerous. But it won't be three weeks. Commuters hang on. You'll have to use alternate routes for a long, long time on the bridge. The main question, of course, is Why did this structure fail? Why did it fail to meet the earthquake standards set so many

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years back, working in the fervent hope that there will be someone alive in there? We talked to one Bodies have been recovered. Another individual has been positively identified in the 30 seconds and Cyprus area. The body cannot be removed due to the severe hazards that exist

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in that area. The structure all Acura Integra, was uncovered in a mangled condition. That is the remains of that vehicle. Inside, there was an occupant, a counter pillar operator, almost with tears in his eyes, expressing his horror at having to dig this car out and looked

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like he was, yeah, mhm back only kiss his arms and hold, that's all. Never seen anything like this. Never before in my life. It's just surprising. Look like if he had had about three more seconds, he would have made it out there now, saying that they

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have 217 missing persons reports. 50 of those people have been accounted for. They either made it home or their bodies have been recovered. That leaves 167 missing people. The Red Cross estimates that at least 10,000 people have been displaced in Watsonville. The National Guard is setting

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up another large tent next to the armory because the shelter population has doubled just since last night. Many people they do again have hundreds, and some people say, maybe more than 1000 people who just have nowhere to go and are sleeping outside tonight. Definitely warm shelter

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is what the people really do need, and it will definitely prevent a lot of the illnesses. Bill Hollister, you folks should worry about Saturday night into Sunday because while you may see some rain on Saturday, it'll be Saturday night where we see significant rain. I mean,

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yeah, you will be issued to pass. If it is safe, we feel they can go in for 15 minutes. We'll let them go in. They have to go in. Don't get a lot of things. Get out to obtain these passes in the morning Magazine to pass.

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All right, That would be following this cordon that we set up here and you'll be directed to the lines where that will be arranged and you'll have an escort them to go to your property. We're just going to get something. I'm sorry. Unless you have someone

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else come out here now. They told me there will be no ma'am. I'm sorry. I'm sure if you want to wait and inspectors are coming back and forth, you can try to pick one out to go with the engineers coming in from every place. We can

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get them to go out and escort with people to come in the marina. Little defined for folks back into their home, and they got it out any way they could. They knew many of these homes would be demolished. Those that were going to be the owners

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are given 15 minutes to grab what they could. 50 homes now estimated are going to happen. Mm. Ironic. Fully equipped. I sat in a closet for three days, mhm to earth, break kids to equipments. Two weeks supply for two people. Lot of good it did me.

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I tried not to think about the destruction I saw around me, but to grab whatever I could in the short amount of period that I had. And there were several kind people who helped to drag things out the door. And you work on adrenaline and what

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you see in front of you and what immediately comes to mind. Instagram. These are the refugees of the marina, clutching possessions and memories in garbage bags, evacuating expensive the spirit of the folks that will be used to help. It's absolutely great. It's really an inspiration, right,

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fellas? Yeah. A lot of these people that I'm helping. I don't know their names, and I probably will never see them again, but it's still it's important for me that I'm making a difference here, no matter how big or small. I think they're probably, the million

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volunteers are working around the Bay Area. There is a way to put them all to use. The genie is telling us that approximately one million customers in the Bay Area were affected by a power outage shortly after that flavor. About two dozen or so schools and

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Children care centers in San Francisco that were closed simply because the Fire Department had not been able to check out they are apply some people to take buses and to carpool and to stagger their work hours as much as possible. The we've used a number of

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different met this to determine whether we have any possibility of light vehicles sensing devices, the rescue dogs, the sonic devices, the infrared devices and the optics. There's no chance, they now say there is only a one and one million chance that any of the people are

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still alive inside, so they're they're very depressed and, uh, fighting the fatigue. But still, it's the job's gonna get even tougher now because it's also gonna be rained. The next thing is even worse ongoing. There's no question we're going to maintain our rescue operations 24 hours

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a day and keep on going till we drop, and we just hope that the rain is not in sufficient volume, that it's going to adversely impact on the weight and the integrity of the structure itself. I mean, it's so weak right now. I don't want to

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push it. I don't even know. Lean on it. President arrived less than two hours ago, and he stayed for less than an hour. He took a look at the Cyprus structure up close and what the president saw clearly shocked. This human dimension is brought home much

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more clearly by by coming here. The president is now on his way to Santa Cruz that is one of the towns hardest hit by the earthquake. He's scheduled to tour the center of the town, including that historic some chilling news. People today are telling me that

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there are still people in the Santa Cruz Mountains living in areas that are so remote that they haven't been found yet. In fact, rescuers may not even know they're there where we'll drive vehicles are now needed to just working there. It's just nothing said to my

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wife. There's nothing here. We got up here and there it is, just scattered all down the hillside. What was it like to be inside? Oh, being on a rollercoaster. I'm not saying what's going on s braced myself over here in this wall, held onto his piano.

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Where are you going to do that? I mean, we were able to get out. OK? Yeah. Walked up the stairs here and came out over there. Jump to this deck here. About two weeks ago, I got I was going to get the insurance for my house

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earthquake insurance, and I laughed at and through the Lakers. 111 a month. How do you feel about it now? I wish I did it. You wake up and you think this didn't really happen until you go out and look at it again? This is a little

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precarious here. You just have to find a good foothold. Mm. Mhm. This is the kitchen. Oh, actually, this looks pretty good believing her. We've been working on this for two days. I really didn't realize how badly buckled and how slanty everything was. At that time. I

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was. I mean, I knew that was a mess in here, but I didn't really realize how badly damaged everything was. This is a new edition that we put on the house here within the last five years, and it just separated. That's just down into the downstairs.

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You see there, this used to be my closet. It's really frightening, you know, it does make me cry because some of the things because I think of how hard we've worked to do some of this. And it was a nice house. And to do, you know,

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I walk in and I look at how hard I worked on the wallpaper in the kitchen and how hard it was to put up and I think help. Mm. Yeah, You could just forget you know me something. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. There have been more than 3000

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aftershocks following Tuesday's quake. 80 of them have registered. A more about Marina, bro, that for my grandma, everything found everything. My waterbed. They're so strong and broken on the dining room. My hutch, everything broke on. My dish is broken. I'm scared to stay because you know,

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something else happens. I'm scared. And But I guess everything's final, right. And I think we could stay here tonight. But the damage to the quaint now that people are afraid to go back into any building, even a shelter encampments like this one have sprung up all

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over Watsonville. They seem largely populated by Hispanic families who are now struggling over limited supplies of food. It's just a situation that it's bad for All of us were not used to this. We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know if we're gonna be

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able to go back through. And people have prepared for yet more damage shoring up their homes and preparing for heavy rain. Take me tonight with a dry, and I don't know that we will. But even if we do, it'll be raining when you wake up in

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the morning and we'll have been for several hours and you can. You can feel the out here billion dollars, on top of everything else here and how you guys doing in here pretty good. It's okay. It's better than staying outside. We have a shelter. We had

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hot food for the kids, and I mean, it's warm in here for that. They asked me last night to go into the fairgrounds that you don't want to because I was scared the building might collapse on this or something. I think it's really certain sinking and

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the reality of it, you know, like you say, to a certain extent, there was some adventure to it at first, and now the facts are sinking and it's raining and they don't have a place to go. Yes, I feel funny that that's my property, their record.

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I don't No one's asked me if they can do it, and I think that's a bit of a liberty. Frankly, they just tear it apart, Magno said. Taking down a couple of buildings that we've gone through the process that I describe from the very beginning that

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would assure people that they would have a chance to consent to any demolition or anyone else hasn't talked to me. So I feel a bit funny about, you know, if I was living in the country and someone comes back my house there, I'll probably shoot it,

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you know, here, it's I don't know if I stand here on the yellow line is what you have. Caltrans worker was looking by a like early this morning and saw something move. No, we have been in a rescue operation that started shortly after six o'clock this

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morning. It was one of the most unstable parts of the whole structure that we've been in all weekend and we stabilize that area. I made my way around to the other side of the vehicle, the driver's side, where the man was still alive, Still in there.

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And I made contact. He could talk and would respond to my questions. Come back. The door is open. She calls on. Got that. It's good. The doors open. So they got access to the guy. All right, But you see, tolerant audition right now is just going

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to go slow is proceeding. Well, uh, right. I'm not sure how much talk but contact with the person in the car. And we have a license number of the process of processing that you do have an individual. The 57 year old male by the name of

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Buck. You seek a first name? Last name. Helms HDL. What's the status report I got from Jim is the fact that is it. It's a fact. He's on the board, is out of the vehicle. He's on the board. He's going to his folks being last, right?

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Yeah. He said the fact that his car windows were up and had not been shattered may have hindered the search. They could not hear him. Even the a special audio equipment. If he was making a three broken ribs, a concussion, a slight fracture of his skull.

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The main problems, though, is dehydration. And as a result of I don't know yeah, just right. And give me a 3 ft circle. Mhm. Right. Thanks. Go this way, city Because fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. The greatest rescue ever been involved in man. Fabulous. Absolutely. They brought a

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man out alive. He waved his arms. We saw him waving his arms as he was being brought out. And after he had been lowered to the ground. Just an incredible and a wonderful sight to see to see this man come out after it from 89 hours

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and to come out and be alive. And to be able as he was to wave his arms, how he was pinned in there. He wasn't. He was sitting. His legs are free to take a stand. Well, lifted it right off. This lab was talking. He's moaning,

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moaning, and his wife, Laureen, just arrived. She was airlifted from Weaverville, a small town. And it wasn't for all the help that we've had, we probably wouldn't be as strong as we are right now, But we've had people in Trinity County pulling for us. People here

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in Oakland pulling for us and probably people all over the world pulling for us. And we just want to give you all Are things been riding this emotional roller coaster for all of us since Tuesday's birthplace? I think he indeed is a symbol of hope. And

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also an indication that in a disaster like this, you never give up counties in Highland Hospital in Oakland. The news there is quite good. He is responding to treatment. The odds are apparently in his favor. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm,

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right? Mm mm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Uh huh. Mm hmm. Yeah, Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm.