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i'm ted koppel there has been a rather

strong earthquake in northern california

so strong in fact that it has among

other things knocked out all the power

or much of the power at candlestick park

where the third game of the world series

was being played but in the overall

scheme of things that may be the very

least of things that has happened today

you can see some video there i gather

that's live video of candlestick park

we are feeling a shock right now

and that shaking in your picture is

being amplified by the

tremor that has just gone through the

top of the stadium and we are live

they're taking the bases off uh 8 41

eastern 5 1 41 and we just felt it out

here we're at ground level

this is a live shot from our affiliate

our own and operated station in san

francisco kgo and you can see that there

are at least

two major fires that seem to be in

progress there let me just explain to

you that uh what we're doing here is we

are listening in on the broadcast of our

affiliate in san francisco kgo because a

great deal of the information that is

coming is more readily accessible to

them than it is to us uh and they have

reporters

reporting live from around the entire

bay area region whatever they can to

stop the fire but part of the problem

obviously is uh is gas

storm water prepare for aftershocks

prepare for three days and those

services you got 90 minutes of light

left you better make use of your time

instead of hurrying doing nothing i have

leslie brinkley standing by live right

now leslie go ahead it's looking bad

over here in oakland the electricity is

out in much of the city and we have a

bad freeway collapse it's that ramp of

the nimitz freeway that goes from

cypress street on up to the bay bridge

about a six or seven block stretch of it

collapsed during the earthquake they are

pulling bodies out from underneath this

lower ramp there were just some injuries

on the upper ramp but those on the lower

ramp there are a lot of fatalities the

epicenter of this earthquake is about

100 miles to the south in the santa cruz

mountains along the san andreas fault we

have had very difficult time getting any

information out of that area tonight now

our own tony russomano is live in santa

cruz now to give us uh some notion of

what's happened this is our first report

from there tony

pete this town of 40 000 is about 10

miles from the epicenter of the

earthquake you would expect the damage

to be severe here and it is the downtown

section of santa cruz is basically gone

all the old uh brick unreinforced

buildings have collapsed this is a

department store called ford's it

collapsed the second store the second

story came down for the end of the first

floor trapping several people inside at

least three people are known to have

died here on the mall perhaps 12 to 14

total in santa cruz authorities do not

have a final fatality figure many many

other people are injured power has been

out for several hours

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