structure fires as well as several outside fires and hazardous conditions. reporter: this grocery store right near the epicenter losing power as customers and employees step over broken glass to escape. the air is really thick. reporter: one employee helping a startled woman out of the store. aisle by aisle the floor disappearing under fallen merchandise. brayden, get over here! brayden! reporter: this woman rushing to grab her 2-year-old son as the trailer just feet away swayed back and forth. there s a rockslide down here at the canyon. reporter: nearby rockslides shutting off this highway. scientists surveying the damage right next to the fault line. we met this family looking at the damage in their own homes. you could hear things? we could hear things. you could hear things breaking. you could hear all that. you could hear it being thrashed. reporter: the epicenter of friday s quake, 11 miles from thursday s 6.4 tremor. that was already california s strongest
rafael teenager. he s got a rare form of leukemia. the team hopes the story will inspire fans to step up to the plate and tonight the breaking news as we come on. a massive explosion at a shopping center. more than 20 people injured. shock waves felt a mile away. gas shut off to the entire area. firefighters digging through mounds of debris for survivors and the cause of the blast. also breaking, more quakes. a 7.1 rocking southern california. get under the table. [ bleep ]. oh, my god. anxiety spiking. 4,800 aftershocks. fires and rockslides. the new warning tonight. in politics, biden on defense. for the first time the democratic front runner apologizing about his comments on segregationists as president trump sharpens his attack on the former vice president.
candidate tries to stay in the center. we re going to start with the breaking news and the new images coming in just in the last few hours. a 7.1 magnitude earthquake striking southern california. the quake rocked the town of ridgecrest, the same area hit on independence day. but it also hit communities of trona and little lake. the tremors were felt miles away, toppling items from supermarket shelves. roads were closed during rockslides. you see the supermarket shelves. and we re told people as far north as sacramento and east as las vegas, felt all of this. fires broke out after gas leaks erupted in southern california. electricity and water outages remain in san bernadino county at this hour.
power outages. no reports of major building collapses. they admit they were assessing the situation. and a lot of checking to do. wefr heard reports and seen mobile home parks heavily impacted by what happened. fires have been taking place and roads cracked heavily. rock slides are taking place. one of the major highways the state route 178 has been closed in some areas because of rock slides. we want to talk about the probability of what might happen next. yesterday we experienced the 6.4 which the a the type was the strongest we had seen here in southern california in 20 years. we were told there s a one in 20 chance, 5% chance there could be an earthquake stronger than
happens. i don t know what to say. anyway. listen to me. it s been something. yeah, it s something else. i remember those from when i lived in colorado. we would feel the ones coming all the way from california we d feel them in colorado. i don t know if it was the same ones or we just felt them. it s a really weird thing to feel. be safe out there. it s something that you get used to. i was with my daughter on the fourth of july in the morning and i looked at her and said we re having an earthquake. and she not being from california, really? orvetio oh, yeah, this is not a truck, it s an earthquake. we re going to have lots of chatting about that and i look forward to seeing you again soon. a have good day see you soon. bye-bye. from afl offhere from the broke caul news center in los angeles. it s high noon in the east, early 9:00 a.m. on the west. tremors, fires, rock slides, how crews are assessing the damage from the strongest earthquake to hit southern california in