Moore. Tonight kron4s Ella Sogomonian is live at sfo where a flight has just arrived from mexico city. She talked with the local consulate about the quake damage. steve but first. Thirty two years to the day after thousands died in the 1985 mexico city earthquake, disaster struck again. Just two hours after the sirens sounded for a practice quake alert, the real thing sent buildings tumbling to the ground. Natmexicos foro television was broadcasting live when the quake hit. Cameras jittered and jumped wildly as the earth shook. Studio lights swayed with the force of the tremor. Natnot many people stayed inside to watch the broadcast. People started to run, people started to cry, yell, scream everythign was shaking. We didnt know what was going on. We were on the fifth floorthe resident of this apartment took a moment to record the furniture shaking. And alarms going off. In the citys famous floating gardens, tour boats rocked wildly. Oh my gosh. Streets filled with panicked crowds. Vid
Of opportunity, better than if you were to leave at 7 00. This is the bay bridge and the traffic is going to be moderate. Slow at the toll plaza but that delay is only ten minutes. 880, you have some slow traffic going northward into downtown. Here at the oracle arena, its good. 6 01, back to the desk. We are following breaking news in the city of oakland. This fire claimed the life of at least one person. This fire started at 4 00, on the fourth floor of an Apartment Building near lake merritt on fairmont avenue. Firefighters were able to keep the fire contained that that apartment unit. One person has died in that fire. This is the 400 block of fairmont. Officials have not given us much information on who that victim is or how this fire started. But, again, we are on this story. This is near lake merritt. Well bring you a live report on this coming up later in this hour. Firefighters in San Francisco rescued man whose house was on fire. They got the call just before 2 00 about a fire
Nieto has declared three days of mourning. 30 children and eight adults remain unaccounted for in a school building. Desperate family members arrived at the school. Earlier, we saw crews trying to get to one the survivors trapped inside. Reporter it was chaos. I arrived just outside of the quake. My kid goes to school on the next street. When i sought school, i pannished and i ran and i ran for my children. The priority at this moment is to keep rescuing people who are still trapped and to give medical attention to the injured people. Earlier today, President Trump called president nieto to offer his condolences. We are also hearing first hand account people who experienced the earth quick. Allie rasmus is live after talking to them, allie . Reporter yes, people who just got the flight described a very scary experience. Jose ferdinand and his family were glad to be back in san jose a day after an earth quick struck central mexico, killing hundreds of people and causing widespread damag
vicki another big story we are tracking for you tonight. A car slams into a home in fremont as it was being pursued by police. grant police say the car was flying. As fast as 70 miles per hour. When it crashed. Kron fours dan kerman joins us live now from the scene with a look at the damage. Dan . Sot steven sayle neighbor 0006 i heard the car racing down here, probably didnt realize this was a court and there was no breaking sound at all, steven sayle is recalling what happened seconds before this blue hyundai slammed into his neighbors isherwood place home. You can see the skid marks on the streetsot Geneva Bosques Fremont Police 1923 weve been told high rate of speed maybe 70 80 miles per hourFremont Police say the vehicle was wanted in connection with a series of residential burglaries that have occurred within the last 48 hours. Police say the vehicle refused to stop when officers spotted it this morning, that led to brief chase, and ended in this culdesac when the vehicle crashed
Flare gun to the face obviously quite dangerous. justine this attack happened in late june,but it took until now for police to get a sketch of the suspect, because the victim was in the hospital recovering from being shot with a flare gun in the face. There are two clues to the person who shot a man in the face with a flare gunthis just released sketch of the suspect, and the bike he left behind. Sot it was significant facial traumalt nick gartner with the Concord Police Department Tells me the victim. Had his upper lip almost blown off. And needed surgery. Nat carsalong the 680 interchange by willow pass road the victim spotted a man on a bike pointing a flare gun, like this one, at cars. So the victim stopped to check it out. Sot highly suspicious behavior for someone to be standing on the side of the road waving a flare gun who knows what the flare gun could be misinterpreted aspolice tell me the victim wanted to take a picture of the suspect. But before he could snap a shot the sus