Oakland where the governor and other state leaders unveiled that new program. Reporter they had a public unveiling and a News Conference where they talked about the new earthquake Early Warning system via that my shake app. The media still here, about to leave the pier where we are. The app called, my shake, is free to download and was developed by uc berkeleys seismologists and also from around the west coast. University of washington and oregon as well. It will not be able to predict . But the app can alert users to take cover and prepare seconds before shaking, the shaking of a major quake reaches them. The system uses sensors buried in the ground across the state and it detects the start of earthquake, calculates the location and intensity and send a warning to your phone if youre in an area where shaking is likely to happen. It works similar to the amber alert system using the same wireless notification system to send out those warnings. At the unveiling and this News Conference, adjacent to the new bay bridge, California Emergency Services leaders and state leaders and the governor and the head of the uc berkeley Seismology Department announced the app is still in its prototype early stages and is not perfect but after millions of dollars and more than a decade in development, they believe its reached a point where it can be used to save lives in the event of an earthquake. When an earthquake starts we rapidly detect it and push out a warning ahead of the shaking minute you may have a few seconds, perhaps 10 or 20 seconds, worth of warning time. Not an insignificant amount of time to make sure we shut down our slowdown the bart. Make sure we slowdown or shutdown an elevator. Make sure we open an elevator door or open emergency doors or fire station garage doors. Reporter the launch of this new earthquake Early Warning alert system is meant to coincide with a 30th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. That quake on october 17, 1989 claimed 63 lives and enter 3800 and as we know caused widespread damage and San Francisco, oakland, santa cruz and other parts of the area. The earthquake Early Warning system, japan and mexico already have an alert system much like this. Southern california has had Something Like this for the past couple of years but that was regional to the los angeles area. This is the first time this system is for the entire state of california. Anyone who downloads the free my shake apps will be able to get those alerts anytime there is a 4. 5 earthquake or stronger in their area. Allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2 news. October 17, 1989 at 5 04 pm. A moment many will never forget. Thats the data loma prieta earthquake struck creating chaos and it left the bay area forever changed. Greg liggins went to many events going on today were experts are trying to get people prepared for the next quake. Second base and the oakland as we are having an earthquake. Reporter 30 years ago on this date a sudden powerful earthquake jolted the bay area. A moment those who went through it will never forget. It was a little bit frightening. We did not know when it would stop. That was the difficulty. I was picking up my husbands birthday present in a class and china shop. Down off of the new 280. And it happened. And you could hear all the glass and all the plates and everything falling. Reporter 30 years later the experts are still trying to get people prepared for the next big one. At San Franciscos civic center plaza, Emergency Preparedness experts dispense advice on how best to prepare for the next one. Including suggestions to fortify an older home. The idea is to under the house into the crawlspace, put an anchor bolt and anchor it to the foundation and if you have the short so balls around the crawlspace, put plywood on those because in an earthquake without that plywood the house will either slide or tumble off of its foundation. Reporter many have never experienced a 6. 9 quake like loma prieta earthquake simulator on site reminder this reporter how powerful a jolt could be. In the years since the quake, much has been done in San Francisco to better prepare for and withstand the damage a major quake can bring. It depends on the infrastructure itself. San francisco is made 20 billion in investments since the earthquake so that is protecting critical lifelines like waterways, pipelines, our transportation lines and utilities. Public safety facilities, firefighters, hospitals. Reporter 30 years later the way to react to a quake has changed. Now its drop, cover and hold on to something as demonstrated by the experts. Whether its purchasing supplies or shoring up your home, experts say the only defense against mother natures sudden shift in the earth is being prepared. 30 years later after loma prieta some earthquake veterans readily admit they are not ready for the next one and they say they know its time to change. 30 years later are you better prepared for one . Not much. But i will be the. Reporter even before buying an emergency kit experts say the best thing you can do is find out who in your neighborhood can help out and he made need help in the case of a next disaster. And San Francisco, greg liggins, ktvu fox 2 news. Millions across the state took part in the california great shakeout earthquake drills today. In San Francisco the mayor london breed and the police chief and other city officials were at the rosa parks elementary to take part in that event. Students and staff demonstrated the drop, r and hold on drill and evacuation of the school building. The drill took place at 10 17. Its in remembrance of the day the earthquake happened. The superintendent said he hopes that the students take the lessons they have learned about the earthquake safety home and in turn teach their families about disaster preparedness. I have three children. Then pushing messages to me spurred me into action and thats the same thing we want for our parents to make sure they are prepared and students are ambassadors for what you need to do if an earthquake hits. City leaders also shared stories with the children of their experiences going through the 1989 loma prieta quake to bring home the message about safety. The Mayors Office said since 1989 San Francisco has invested 20 billion to prepare for the next large earthquake. This afternoon the 30th anniversary loma prieta commemoration fair will take place on the marina green. Oakland city leaders gather this morning to mark the anniversary of the earthquake and honor those who died. They say they want everyone in oakland to honor, reflect and prepare for the next quake. One of the worst disasters of the eight an earthquake was the collapse of the cyprus freeway structure in west oakland where a 42 people were killed. The oakland mayor libby schaaf said shes proud of the way her Community Came together after that disaster. I will never forget the shock of getting home to my lake merritt apartment with every window shattered and a crack in the wall so big i could see lake merritt through it. As news rolled in of the devastating loss of life, the fact that right here where we are standing, 42 people perished in the cyprus collapse. That recognition was so sobering , so saddening reporter she said the anniversary should serve as a perm reminder to prepare for the next disaster by having a plan for yourself and your family. Being trained in first aid and having emergency supplies ready to go. We do hope you will join us tonight for a ktvu earthquake special called, quake country, preparing for the next big one. You can watch it here on ktvu after the thursday night football sportswrap. Some developing news at this hour after a visit from Vice President mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo. The present of turkey has agreed to a shortterm cease fire in northern syria. Under the new agreement turkey bowl paws military operations for 120 hours to allow the u. S. Backed kurds to withdraw from affected areas in the region. After that pence said turkey has agreed to a permanent cease fire. Now we will Work Together to implement this agreement. As i said, our team is already working with ypg personnel in the safe zone for an orderly withdrawal outside the 20 mile mark and we are going to go Forward Together to bring peace and security to this region. Im very confident of that. Turkish Officials Say a permanent ceasefire depends on all their demands being met and if that happens President Trumps has agreed to withdraw all sanctions against turkey. Now to the investigation into the fire at the nustar pretoria Storage Facility in crockett. We have video taken today of investigators as they review Surveillance Video and digital files to determine a cause since tuesdays fire and explosion. Cleanup trucks remain on the site vacuuming the safety phone that was dumped on two tanks that caught fire. The shutdown order for the facility will be lifted when it can demonstrate it safe to do so. The investigation into what happened is expected to continue as long as six months. Cal osha will interview employees and check safety and minutes records. It may include sending some of the materials, pipes, etc. , to specialists for information on exactly what occurred. Investigators are looking into whether the fire is connected to mondays 4. 5 quake near pleasant hill. Authorities do not expect a jump in gas prices. They say the facility stores feel but does not produce it. Longtime baltimore congressman and civil rights leader Elijah Cummings has died. Maryland representative died overnight from complications concerning longstanding health challenges. House democrats has been absent from the chamber since undergoing an undisclosed medical procedure in september. Since his election to the house in 1996, cummings gained the respect of his colleagues as well as National Attention for his principled stance on important issues. He served as the House Oversight and Reform Committee chair and became a prominent figure in the impeachment inquiry into the president. He was 68 years old. East bay representative mourning the loss of his colleague on twitter and congress and the community. This is from eric swalwell. Elijah cummings was a thunderous force for a quality accountability and moral character, clarity and because he knew the importance of working with people from all backgrounds and parties come he got things done. America has lost a leader. Rest in peace chairman. We will have much more on the life and career of the representative coming up later in the show. Today nancy pelosi announced she is renaming a bill to lower Prescription Drug prices to honor representative cummings. Hr three will now be called the Elijah Cummings low drug cost now legislation. The bill was part of the for the people agenda. The speaker said the legislation would save the Budget Office and taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and will be reviewed this week by the house ways and means committee. Exporters of President Trump holding an anti impeachment rally today in front of the u. S. Capitol. This as the u. S. Ambassador to the eu appears before congress. We will have the latest on the impeachment inquiry straight ahead. Mark zuckerberg speaking out today about free speech on the internet. What he is calling the major threats to Free Expression around the world. And the clouds are clearing out this afternoon. That shower thread has moved out and now we are tracking a major warmup in the five day forecast. We will have that coming up after the break. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is speaking about his views on free speech of the lipid he spoke at the Georgetown Institute of politics and Public Service in washington and gave what he called his most comprehensive take on the subject of speech freedom of speech and expression. He said facebook was founded to give people a voice and the critics who at a seal the company for doing so were setting a dangerous example. And i understand the concerns that people have about how tech platforms have centralized power. But i actually believe theres a much bigger story and its how these platforms have decentralized power by putting it directly into peoples hands. Its part of this amazing expansion of voice that we have experienced through law and culture and our technology as well. In the speech zuckerberg said he considered banning political ads from facebook but said political advertising could be considered part of speech. Salesforce your marc benioff is criticizing facebook and he said the social media giant has grown so big its time for the company to be broken up. In an interview with cnn benioff called facebook and e cigarettes because its so addictive and accused facebook of going after children were running political ads that are not true and he is also concerned about how facebook is collecting data and influencing users. A wee bit of rain this morning but it gave way to blue skies today. The weekend is approaching. Lets check in with mark and find out whats going on. The weekend is getting closer to the bay area. The weather, we have a warmer day heading our way on sunday. As we head toward saturday theres the weak system that could impact Northern California and the bay area. Clear skies. Excellent visibility for your thursday afternoon. Hard to believe we were tracking a shower chance eight or 12 hours ago and were not expecting much but you have to look hard for these totals. You can see mendocino had nearly a quarter inch of rain. Booneville,. 06. Pacifica,. 04. Barely measurable in berkeley and in the santa rosa area. Heres whats happening with temperatures. Not much change over the next couple of days but the day you will notice the change will be on sunday and that will lead to a warm to hot day into early next week for monday and tuesday. We are talking about mid 80s. The warmest locations of the bay area. Mid 80s into early next week. Even out toward the coast we are taking in some 70s. Here is the satellite. You can see the storm developing but by the time the storms get here to the bay area they really fizzle out. The bulk of the act to be over the past day has been to our north around eureka and cape mendocino. We will continue to pick up some high clouds as we head to the afternoon and into friday. Maybe some extra clouds by saturday. Temperatures right now in San Francisco 61. Walnut creek, 65. Fairfield, 73. Throughout the afternoon the windspeed will be picking up. We are talking about went around 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Especially near the coast and if youre heading to the coastline later today, a High Surf Advisory just kicked in. Thats in place until 9 pm friday. We could have breakers topping 10 feet and a few isolated spots. Mavericks could maybe be approaching 23. The swell will continue to move in today and into the first half of friday. Heres the forecast model. Throughout the day we see sunshine but the wind will be up. Over 2025 Miles Per Hour. As we put this in motion, still looking okay. Friday, partly cloudy, especially in the north bay. This is friday afternoon and into saturday this system is approaching so maybe from ukiah to the north we have the possibility of a few scattered showers and that we definitely pick up some extra clouds as we approach our head into saturday afternoon. The forecast highs this afternoon, we are thinking 60s and 70s. It will be windy in pacifica and Half Moon Bay this afternoon. San jose, 72. Lower 70s toward livermore and pleasanton and heres a look at the five day forecast. This is typically the time of year we could be talking about rain chances in the bay area. We have a slight chance on saturday. The bulk of the action what little there is will be to the north but beyond saturday think beach weather. Back up into the 70s into next week. The warmest location will be inland and even around the bay, in the low to mid 80s. The november election is just weeks away. Right now state assessor and other elected city officials are holding an event in front of San Francisco city hall to get people to register before the deadline. This monday, october 21 is the last day to register to vote for next months elections. Coming up. The spooky october discovery for scientists in the monterey bay as researcher stumble upon a whale skeleton thats become a feast for octopi and other marine life. Not the big move we saw yesterday but lots of green on the market. The stock market moving higher after some companies deliver good results. The dow jones is up 50 points after a blip beneath the sea level side early in the session. The s p follows that same pattern and is slightly up. The nasdaq is also up. Markets are happy in europe because a draft deal has been reached on brexit. The uk Prime MinisterBoris Johnson said he has reached a new deal with the eu negotiators and is urging parliament to approve it this week. The british crowd rallying on the news. Significantly higher than it was before hopes of a deal suddenly rose a week ago. There are some sticking points as we saw with theresa may. They said they cant support the proposal so it looks like there will be more negotiations taking place in order to have something on the table. The british pound spiked as much as 1. 2 . Stock markets across europe rallied on that news. Climate activists were seen on top of the train during rush hour in london t