cleaning the convenience store till about 2:30 this morning. went home and slept and woke up and you know. i just described what it was like waking up to a 7.1 quake. what was yours experience waking up with the violent shaking. > i didn t wake up. you slept through that 5.4 this morning. i was tired. you were tired. i would not have slept through that you 5.4 this morning. that are a scary quake. we felt aftershocks all today. the 7.1. talk to me about your experience as soon as it starred shaking. > first thing i was with a group of friends. i had four people around me freaking out. i said stop. stop, don t move. keep your eyes open. worst thing is run to a building, run around. just stop. we were outside. we were fine. and then that s when we said let s go. we knew what to do. make sure your neighbors are okay, your house is okay. yeah, i checked on my house and it was gone. so i lost my house today. i don t know if i can even save it. so it sucks.
the alarm in the hotel went off. my crew was on the third. i was on the first floor. the crew knocked out of bed. a really vinyl shaking. violent shaking. furniture and clothing. everything off desks. i got out so quickly i didn t run into any personnel. there was someone going door to door on the third floor. outside the hotel reran into families being confused. not sure what to do or do. outside we spoke with a bunch of people. local residents are going door to doo and making sure people are okay. that s so important. you see how dark it is. it s almost midnight here. there s no way emergency personnel can get to all 28,000 people. i hear there are about 1,800 power outages have you seen trucks driving around trying to get it back online? i m looking at the video you have.
violent shaking. debris falls from the ceiling. terrified people dive under desks. it s okay. you re okay. this video from a tv reporter inside a sixth floor office of the courthouse in downtown anchorage shows the earthquake lasted several seconds. inside this home, a horrified mother grabs her children. she heads toward the door, then hugs them. a passenger in this vehicle took this video of an off-ramp that collapsed, an suv stuck in the middle of the damage. the earthquake, which measured 7.0, struck at about 8:30 a.m. local time, and caused significant damage to homes, buildings and other infrastructure across anchorage. widespread power outages are reported. in this security video, you can see what appear to be several transformers blowing up in the background. fedex, go around! at ted stevens international airport, planes were directed not to land. a ground stop was ordered. a control tower was temporarily
and then he was court-martialed and as a result of that court-martial, he was sentenced to continfinement and a bad cont discharge. explain the fractures, what he did to this little boy, this stepson. how old was the stepson? how violent were the assaults and how permanent the damage? well, any time you have a subdural hematoma, which is a bleeding between the skull and the brain, that s considered very dangerous and can lead to death. that typically comes from violent shaking, which is what he was charged with doing. fractures often occurred with that as well as you have someone who was violently shook. and from what mr. kelley said at the time, he also admitted to out of anger pushing his son down and injuring him that way as well. what did he do to his wife? well, i don t know all the
chad meyers is here. what do we know they might be seeing later today? we have seen three big aftershocks, and the latest was a 5.7. there is australia. we know all about that, and the wiggles live there and all of that. here is new zealand down here, all part of this pacific ring of fire. the entire ring of fire in most spots the reason why some of these islands and valleys and places exist in the first place. let s take to you what we re talking about. here s the city here of christchurch and right there, the earthquake only about three miles down into the crust of the earth. very shallow, so whatever shook got all of the way to the surface, violent shaking. six months ago, there was a 6.0, 7.0 quake. about 40 miles to the west, and far enough to the way there wasn t the violent shakes like we had last night.