10-17-1989 San Francisco Earthquake - First Minutes (KGO TV)

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  • The first part of this video begins with ABC Sports coverage of the beginning of Game 3 of the World Series which was interrupted by the quake.
    The second part features 43 minutes of coverage from KGO TV.
    Video Courtesy of ABC Sports and KGO TV.

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  • @bikerider4326
    @bikerider4326 ปีที่แล้ว +783

    I was working at Yosemite National Park in the valley when it happened, and when I ran outside of the building (which was shaking violently, I had a clear view of the valley floor and witnessed the ground ROLLING LIKE WAVES! That was something I will always remember.

    • @yvonne2965
      @yvonne2965 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      I witnessed a pool rolling during an earth quake in Mexico once .. I felt so small & at the mercy of the power of Nature

    • @merriemisfit8406
      @merriemisfit8406 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Different quake, October 1990 -- I was in Bridgeport when an earthquake epicentered down the road north of Lee Vining happened. The paneling in the room popped and squeaked as the floor yanked one way (the "P-wave" coming through), then perpendicular to that (the "S-wave") ... and then the floor started rolling waves. I was by chance right in the doorway between two rooms, so I just braced myself and watched the room bounce in front of me. Right time, right place .. and very cool to see.

    • @sarahs.9678
      @sarahs.9678 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That is WILD. I can only imagine how weird that must have been.

    • @SterlingEvo
      @SterlingEvo ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That would be terrifying, but amazing!

    • @natt408
      @natt408 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Did you feel it at the Yosemite National Park ?

  • @apollozed7827
    @apollozed7827 4 ปีที่แล้ว +894

    "I'll tell you what, we're having an earth--", and then static. Haunting.

    • @cheezeman123456xbox
      @cheezeman123456xbox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      terrariachest are you positive it’s not a Jupiter?

    • @akonymous8567
      @akonymous8567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@stereotypedmoped8081 Any possibility that it could be a Neptune?

    • @robyaksich1944
      @robyaksich1944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I was watching the game in my dorm room in Albuquerque when this happened. Will never forget that exact moment and hearing Al Michaels say "earthqua...." then silence.

    • @Strengthandconditioning60
      @Strengthandconditioning60 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was watching that game when it happened and I looked at my wife and said they just had a bad earthquake

    • @cpol4391
      @cpol4391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude yes! I was thinking the same thing

  • @luke_darga
    @luke_darga ปีที่แล้ว +135

    “I tell ya what, we’re having an earth-“ is one of the wildest lines in TV history.

    • @thegroovyhead
      @thegroovyhead 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agree, noticed it also...

    • @brownie3454
      @brownie3454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Having an earth? What does it mean Johnson?

    • @Leon_arto
      @Leon_arto 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@brownie3454they were saying “earthquake” but it got cut off in the footage bc of it

    • @mattmayo3539
      @mattmayo3539 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Screen writers dream of producing such an opening scene.

    • @tooldog5062
      @tooldog5062 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      my sone had just been born when my EX and i were watching the game, when we saw the quake hit, people didnt have a chance to react on that overpass as in collapsed, on people driving on the lower level

  • @stephenbrown4211
    @stephenbrown4211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    I met a lady in San Francisco in 1994 and she was telling me her life story. She said, "I remember the Earthquake you know". Being British I said, "Well it was only five years ago".
    "No, she replied, The one in 1906"!

    • @caras2004
      @caras2004 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      There's footage on TH-cam of side-by-side film going down the road before the earthquake and after the earthquake in 1906

    • @stephenbrown4211
      @stephenbrown4211 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@caras2004 yes I have seen that one👍

    • @peppercat8718
      @peppercat8718 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow! That's amazing :)

    • @eligebrown8998
      @eligebrown8998 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow

    • @anh7807
      @anh7807 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's amazing! I did a book report in HS on the 1906 quake. It was such a tragedy and will happen again.

  • @ThekiBoran
    @ThekiBoran 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3825

    I was sitting on a toilet on the second floor of Pier 41. Yes, as a matter of fact it scared the shit out of me.

  • @EpicLolBlox
    @EpicLolBlox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1240

    The static when the earthquake hits is like something out of an apocalypse movie

    • @joshlanders
      @joshlanders 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Well I guess we know how they came up with the imagery...

    • @DT-Wise
      @DT-Wise 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      2020......

    • @vanessahenry7238
      @vanessahenry7238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The static and the like from THIS quake is from tv stations from THIS quake - this was the first broadcasted Quake in the united states - last major one was in Alaska 1964 - and not much of footage of that as it happened existed, least not televised. So yes MikeyBoi and Josh Landers - you are right!

    • @dwightstewart7181
      @dwightstewart7181 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Personally, I was kind of hoping the entire west/left coast (from Eureka to Tijuana) would fall into the ocean. Sadly, god (if you believe in him) moves in strange ways and that was not to be. Lol.

    • @lightingbolt8148
      @lightingbolt8148 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      With 2020 having this wouldn’t surprise me lol

  • @markpimlott2879
    @markpimlott2879 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    'Not only very professional and largely unfazed by the situation but Cheryl also was incredibly articulate and delivered important messages extremely effectively.
    'Remember that she was working entirely without prepared notes and certainly wasn't using a teleprompter!
    Bravo Ladies and Gentlemen of KGO (?) San Francisco!!

    • @billyconnelly3568
      @billyconnelly3568 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Ana Chavez did a good job as well

    • @gohawks3571
      @gohawks3571 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And they just stopped making phone books! I only say that because I was just starting to get frustrated with trying to get info in my new city, and what was once an annoyance is now only online....

  • @amydavis4945
    @amydavis4945 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    These reporters were so incredibly calm and professional, considering they were hit by the quake too. Just incrediblly good reporting of information so quickly after the main shock. Who then would have guessed we'd be watching them 34 years later.

    • @smadaf
      @smadaf ปีที่แล้ว +18

      This was the norm in television news from the beginning and into the early 2000s. I was born in 1980, have been paying attention since the mid '80s, and have watched plenty of coverage recorded before my lifetime. Something changed in the 21st century, certainly by the 2010s: American television and radio news has been sucking, hard, for more than ten years now. (Today is 27 May 2023.) It's really discouraging.

    • @AyeCarumba221
      @AyeCarumba221 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      34 years…

    • @CadgerChristmasLightShow
      @CadgerChristmasLightShow 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm sorry to inform you it's been 34 years since 1989. 1999 would be 24.

    • @amydavis4945
      @amydavis4945 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CadgerChristmasLightShow It was a typo, I meant 34.

    • @denimadept
      @denimadept หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CadgerChristmasLightShow There's no telling how long this video, and maybe these comments, will be available. We could be truly ancient comments on an even older video in 100 or 1000 years.

  • @tomo0086
    @tomo0086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3957

    Little do these people realise that their coverage is still being watched decades later in 2021.

    • @nathanos42
      @nathanos42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Look at that social Distancing

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Because CoViD-19 cancelled the 2020 World Series

    • @peachxtaehyung
      @peachxtaehyung 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Copenhagen why do you say that?

    • @mariahpaigebrewer5187
      @mariahpaigebrewer5187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Oh no, there will still be a World Series in 2020!

    • @ashleydurden7179
      @ashleydurden7179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@nathanos42 there is not a speckle of social distancing in that crowd.

  • @joannepiatte4026
    @joannepiatte4026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1880

    I was pregnant and was with my husband at the world series. My son is 29 now.

    • @CB41510
      @CB41510 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      My mom jus had my brother on Valentine s day. She was on Geneva n Mission. My brother 30 now. I wasnt even born yet

    • @priscillabarcenas8416
      @priscillabarcenas8416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      My mother in-law was there with my husband when he was a year old maybe a year and a half . My husband is now 31

    • @exoplanet11
      @exoplanet11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      My hat's off to you. My mother survived an Earthquake in Manila in 1968 while pregnant with me. Scary. 30 years ago today I was in the undergrad library at UC Berkeley when the building started to twist, then jolt.

    • @Michiganian8
      @Michiganian8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was 1 1/2.

    • @tomsheets6399
      @tomsheets6399 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Joanne Piatte - I was in the middle of making my wife pregnant...that earthquake jolt helped my “reach my mountain top”.

  • @khaotictrash
    @khaotictrash 2 ปีที่แล้ว +305

    My stepfather was 16 when it happened. He was at the gas station with his mom getting soda while she was in the car, he described it like ocean waves rippling under the blacktop when he looked out the window. His sister was asleep at home at the time, she had gotten up because the cat was meowing and going absolutely bonkers and she had to pee. When she came back from the bathroom, the earthquake had toppled a huge bookshelf she had in her room with dozens of heavy textbooks, it crushed her bed right where she had just been laying down. Their cat basically saved her life.

    • @itsTheo_0
      @itsTheo_0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Shout 2 da 😸

    • @leechjim8023
      @leechjim8023 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Animals can feel earthquakes before people do.

    • @el_polloloco6247
      @el_polloloco6247 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@leechjim8023 true

    • @el_polloloco6247
      @el_polloloco6247 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Made the cats urge to pee even more

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta.
      It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out.
      Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear.
      There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten.
      Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.

  • @mattmayo3539
    @mattmayo3539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    “I tell you what we’re havin’ an earth-“
    Television goes static.
    Movie writers dream of coming up with such a chilling opening scene.

    • @Mini17
      @Mini17 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      the screaming/cheering a bit later definitely adds to it

  • @theVHSvlog
    @theVHSvlog 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3510

    "Well I'll tell ya what we're having an earth-"
    signal cuts. gives me chills. couldn't script a movie as well as that

    • @rossm.80
      @rossm.80 6 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Yeah, Classic

    • @clothesdestroyer15
      @clothesdestroyer15 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      LOL I had the EXACT same reaction and said the same thing myself!

    • @taragragg400
      @taragragg400 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      theVHSvlog I was studying epicenters that day layed out my books flipped on the tv. Didn't need to study.

    • @dinoman1129
      @dinoman1129 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Challenge accepted

    • @jayskicksnfits9372
      @jayskicksnfits9372 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tara Gragg *LAID

  • @Ingens_Scherz
    @Ingens_Scherz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3248

    Ah, the 80s. A massive earthquake shakes an entire city, but the hairspray and the shoulder pads are unmoved. Total professionals.

    • @darthXreven
      @darthXreven 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      right, they shoulda went on with limp hair and shuffled shoulder pads to make it look authentic right LMAO
      wait a minute, this doesn't look like an emergency, look at the hair bwahahahahaaa!!!
      someone needed some fake blood to simulate a cut for sure.....lolz
      if you couldn't tell I;m being a smartass to the N'th degree lol

    • @mikebtrfld1705
      @mikebtrfld1705 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Not the fatties of your generation.

    • @darthXreven
      @darthXreven 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@mikebtrfld1705 ehhh, the fatties didn't come in until the 2000's but at least for me every school lunchroom I saw always had fatties in the kitchen
      but if you wanna get technical every generation has had fatties......we just hid em better in the past LMFAO

    • @christinagaynelle9991
      @christinagaynelle9991 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      😂😂😂 that’s hilarious

    • @munky123jw
      @munky123jw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      When the next earthquake happens, if water rushes in to the streets the quake will be called "The Great Flush of Shit Francisco".

  • @CoraJean19
    @CoraJean19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +416

    I miss the days when news reporting was real, true, and compassionate.

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      AND THE 80S ANCHORS WERE BABESWITH POOFY HAIR SHLDER PADS AND HIRSPRAY...SCHWWWWIIIINNNG!

    • @evilmonkeyspeaks7801
      @evilmonkeyspeaks7801 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      CNN and company would be telling us that Donald Trump planned the whole thing.

    • @irishgrl
      @irishgrl ปีที่แล้ว

      There’s nothing wrong with Mainstream news. The REAL problem is the fringe with their conspiracies & Fox “news” lies & Trump poisoning people’s minds.

    • @juliam.mallen9019
      @juliam.mallen9019 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Absolutely

    • @whitetigergrowl
      @whitetigergrowl ปีที่แล้ว

      The problem is these days everyone with internet access thinks they are an expert and only believe what they want to believe no matter how wrong they are.
      No matter how good or honest the news reporting is, people don't care. That only care about what they want to believe.
      If this happened today the conspiracy theorists would be going crazy.

  • @Xavier-Denis
    @Xavier-Denis ปีที่แล้ว +99

    This woman is remarkably professional. Working in such an intense climate of stress requires courage, especially if she has children, she too would like to know what is going on with her family and loved ones, but it is her job above all.

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's how it was done.

    • @michael-hw1uv
      @michael-hw1uv 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@-oiiio-3993 The professional reporting brought tears. I miss real news.

  • @steveharrison4157
    @steveharrison4157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +742

    it is 2020 and I am amazed how calm the TV announcer was during all of this chaos. A real pro

    • @AkronJosh
      @AkronJosh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      This is how MOST pro reporters handled things like this anytime before say 2005. It's like around 05 the bosses said do the opposite and TRY to panic the audience

    • @CoasterMan13Official
      @CoasterMan13Official 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@AkronJosh this is another example out of many examples of the slow dumbing down of America.

    • @uncomfortabletruth1548
      @uncomfortabletruth1548 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      This was tv BEFORE todays BS tv

    • @MCO18
      @MCO18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Al Michaels is a legend

    • @aeotsuka
      @aeotsuka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@AkronJosh Timing seems to coincide with when the news media business model shifted to online clicks, page views and related advertiser revenue...

  • @Zoomer30
    @Zoomer30 8 ปีที่แล้ว +537

    Al Michaels gets the best lines:
    "I tell ya what, I think we're having an earth-".

    • @williamsheets9105
      @williamsheets9105 8 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      I liked "I'm not sure if we're on the air and frankly I'm not sure I care."

    • @jfreezyyy247
      @jfreezyyy247 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      LOL now a days everyone will start swearing cause we're all fake as fuck

    • @natsirt69
      @natsirt69 8 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      "Well folks, that was the greatest open in the history of television, bar none."
      Damn, I'd say so.

    • @MarzzettiA
      @MarzzettiA 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +jfreezyyy247 dam u really said sum deep shit, the truth suppose to hurt..... it takes a humble n noble man to admit this.. salute u bro.

    • @xmazix9304
      @xmazix9304 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      its a gamequake...😆

  • @nancysmith3400
    @nancysmith3400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Had lunch at the marina, headed back home. Crossed the bridge, the highway, traveled the route of the quake. Got home turned on the TV to watch the game..................looked up and saw the Chandalier swaying, headed out the door to the street where neighbors were gathering. Looked back at our building swaying as the earth trembled under us. Left for the east coast the following week. Shook to the core................🌎💝saw the best in humanity arise to the need of their fellow humans. Volunteers were asked to stay home because their were more than needed. Hearts opened with compassionate actions that led the way to healing🙌💝

  • @iamtimfoley
    @iamtimfoley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I was in San Jose when the earthquake hit. I was 14 miles Northeast of the epicenter. We got hit real real hard. Our power was out until about 10:00 p.m. There were constant aftershocks. Right after the main quake, there were several large aftershocks. I remember the aftershocks kept coming about every 90 seconds to 2 minutes. It wasn't until about 11:00 p.m. that the aftershocks were not able to be felt. The constant aftershocks were so nerve-wracking. Especially when you are riding them out in complete darkness. I remember the San Jose police department going around on their loudspeaker telling everybody not to burn candles. This was due to the possibility of gas leaks in the area. So, we had no light at all until about 10 pm when the lights came back on. All we had was a battery operated radio to listen to. KGO radio was off the air because their Tower collapsed. So we were listening to KCBS radio. I will never forget that night as long as I live.

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta.
      It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out.
      Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear.
      There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten.
      Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.

    • @charlesbartlett9334
      @charlesbartlett9334 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was living in Mountain View at the time getting ready to watch the World Series. And then watching the dining room ceiling light swinging back and forth and running out into the yard watching the lawn rolling. That was a scary moment.

    • @samanthagomez7074
      @samanthagomez7074 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow really

  • @jayh.7686
    @jayh.7686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3228

    I’m here in the wake of the coronavirus. This professionalism in the news then would be very useful for news coverage today. The media now is scaring the shit out of people.

    • @ajstevenson1905
      @ajstevenson1905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      it's not the wake it's still going on

    • @jayh.7686
      @jayh.7686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      AJ Stevenson yes but I had posted that before lockdown had taken place

    • @jayh.7686
      @jayh.7686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      AJ Stevenson things became more and more serious every day that passed

    • @ajstevenson1905
      @ajstevenson1905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jayh.7686 true, but it's no longer hysteria.

    • @kirkmcgraw735
      @kirkmcgraw735 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Timothy Petitpas I disagree, I don’t particularly trust msm , but I for sure don’t trust Trump .

  • @jcampton1
    @jcampton1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +379

    6:15 - Notice anchorwoman Anna Chavez running through the newsroom to get to Cheryl Jennings making sure vital information was communicated to the viewers watching and then afterwards you see her running back to grab any new details from the story. This was the sign of true journalism in the late 80s, This was a continuously-breaking story so every second counted on giving possibly life-saving information to the viewers and that definitely shined in this video.

    • @Shelsight
      @Shelsight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      As opposed to 2019-20 when our President scribbles on a hurricane map with a Sharpie and presents it on TV, providing dangerous disinformation, rather than admitting he was wrong...

    • @Mexicanboyjake
      @Mexicanboyjake 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Cherly and Anna where battling it out to be number 1. Anna was trying one up Cherly every chance she could. Cherly was ready to get her off the air as fast as she could. I clicked on the video for the earthquake and stayed for the epic showdown between these 2 reporters.

    • @monke3776
      @monke3776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Shelsight happier now?

    • @monke3776
      @monke3776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Shelsight wasn’t disinformation, your just watching crappy news

    • @Shelsight
      @Shelsight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@monke3776 get a grip. Trump lied about the hurricane & presented that Sharpie map in an official Oval Office briefing. It was on every TV channel and every channel (including Fox) followed up by saying his info was incorrect & the hurricanewouldn't hit Alabama. Sorry you've been so brainwashed by your false idol...

  • @hlalakar4156
    @hlalakar4156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I was 10 at the time. I will never forget running out of the house and seeing the streets rolling and heaving like waves on the ocean. Feeling the ground underneath me moving in a steady rhythm up and down. I'm not glad it happened, but since it did I'm glad I was able to experience what I did that day.

    • @samanthagomez7074
      @samanthagomez7074 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow really

    • @brownie3454
      @brownie3454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@samanthagomez7074no they’re exaggerating. earthquakes are just a little earth turbulence that’s all

    • @Devils_Advocate423
      @Devils_Advocate423 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@samanthagomez7074yes...the ground looks like waves. It's so bizarre

    • @Devils_Advocate423
      @Devils_Advocate423 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brownie3454some are. Most are in fact. I've seen multiple quakes where the ground appears to be rolling. And with this particular earthquake it was much more than tremors. I was there...if you weren't you should shut up instead of calling people liars. If you were there, you must have fried your brain on drugs and cant remember what it was like.

  • @Grandma7T7
    @Grandma7T7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Our family was watching the World Series on TV when the earthquake happened. Our son was busy building a Lego tower, and when the earthquake happened, the tower collapsed. We are in Pittsburgh PA!!! We were praying for everyone who was affected!

  • @billglaser
    @billglaser 4 ปีที่แล้ว +449

    7:00 “Grab your phone book!” Funny to hear today lol

    • @joannespinn2159
      @joannespinn2159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      I don't know why phone books went away. I think that they still serve a purpose. If your internet is down at least you would still have info to fall back on.

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Cell towers are the first to go

    • @jebstewart666
      @jebstewart666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Smiled @ that too. Thought if we lost power my internet would go. But living in a small rural county with a phone co-op we still get a phone book in 2020, which, thankfully, has all sorts of what to do emergency information.

    • @harleyowen91
      @harleyowen91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I heard "grab your phonebook" and it made me a bit nostalgic.

    • @EricCVoice
      @EricCVoice 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah you could use the phone books for lots of things! I was born and raised in California and my sister used to drive us on the freeway that collapsed. I used to "joke" with her about how nervous I was to be underneath the top section and talked about what would happen if an earthquake made the freeway collapse. We had a lot of unsafe roads and bridges back then!

  • @Agent-ff7nt
    @Agent-ff7nt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +646

    shhh don't give 2020 more ideas

    • @dxwn2386
      @dxwn2386 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Coolhusky - roblox LOOL frfr

    • @kiptimeanimations4947
      @kiptimeanimations4947 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i swear simpsons now is not the time

    • @robertdrowning6717
      @robertdrowning6717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There was a major earthquake in Salt Lake City just as more national American quarentine started. I flew put just a day before, lol

    • @laprincesa9803
      @laprincesa9803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s going to happen eventually 🧚🏽the fault like passes literally beneath me

    • @lisadarcelwicks
      @lisadarcelwicks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      IKR!

  • @YosemiteLee
    @YosemiteLee 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    At the moment of this earthquake my Dad was at the VA hospital getting an angiogram. The nurses threw their bodies over my Dad and held onto the swaying instruments and the doctor ran out. Thanks to all hidden heroes!

  • @Lotmeister
    @Lotmeister ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My late uncle was a traveling engineer for a company that built equipment used in factories all over the country; when the machines broke down, my uncle was dispatched to fix them. (He amassed more frequent flier miles than I could ever dream of having.) He was in San Francisco during this quake and claimed that, had he not gotten held up for a few extra minutes with whatever he was doing, he may well have been driving on the Bay Bridge when it collapsed.

  • @katydid1600
    @katydid1600 5 ปีที่แล้ว +977

    The '80's might be funny in some ways, but news reporting was wonderful. Professional.
    Aahh, to have real news reporters again

    • @carlacolon1464
      @carlacolon1464 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I KNOW!

    • @the3prankskateers704
      @the3prankskateers704 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Better than CNN!!

    • @qwipperty
      @qwipperty 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@the3prankskateers704 actually, CNN is pretty much what you saw in that clip...only with much better graphics.

    • @the3prankskateers704
      @the3prankskateers704 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      qwipperty no I mean they’re actually talking about news, or instead of trying to find new ways to impeach the president

    • @djamo1969
      @djamo1969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The 3 Prankskateers He does that all by himself. Why is that so hard to understand? He’s been a white collar criminal his whole life. Do you realize he’s told over 12,000 lies in two and a half years as PUSA? That’s far worse than any politician in history- and that’s saying something.

  • @LMacNeill
    @LMacNeill 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1040

    I wonder how many lives were saved by that World Series game. The fact that Candlestick park *didn't* collapse, and the fact that those 60,000 people weren't in traffic or elsewhere where they could've been in grave danger, almost certainly saved many lives that day.

    • @elainemarie9470
      @elainemarie9470 7 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      So true.
      It saved my father's life. As a retiree, he was at home. He had been on the roof doing some repair work, and came down early to watch the game. He lived in a suburb just south of San Francisco. He was in his recliner and said the quake caused such movement, he couldn't get out of his chair. He said it was like being on a boat. He also thought it was the "big one" and death was imminent.
      I was living in Sacramento and we felt it there. Most of my family still lived on the peninsula and I couldn't reach anyone for 24 hours because the phone lines were down. The news made it seem like everything had collapsed and was on fire.

    • @SIMKINETICS
      @SIMKINETICS 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      +Elaine Marie I was sitting in my office, at home in Los Gatos (the zip code for the epicenter) when I got popped across the room! Knowing that my sister in Auburn would be frightened about her 4 Bay Area siblings, I immediately called her & got through! Then, the phone system went down after I told her we were likely OK! I watched the 60 foot Redwood tree in my neighbors yard whip back & forth enough that its top almost touched the ground with the aftershock! I could also watch the wave of power poles down the street swaying almost 45 degrees! I and many of my neighbors ended up at the nearby liquor store only to see a 2 inch deep broken glass and booze cocktail across the floor! Although it sounded & felt like a large truck had slammed into my house at 40 mph, the only property damage was to my stereo system and the bookcase that supported it. It was actually kinda fun!
      I was also in the process of buying another house in the mountains about 4 miles from the epicenter; the builder was slightly behind schedule finishing, so he'd just extended the escrow! But that's a whole other story!

    • @emiy.m5909
      @emiy.m5909 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      LMacNeill my two aunts and grandpa were there when it happened

    • @PafMedic
      @PafMedic 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      SIMKINETICS ...I Was a 20 Y/O EMT Living In Alameda,My Husband Was Stationed at NAS Alameda,and I Worked At North Shore Hospital

    • @DrunkenSlob
      @DrunkenSlob 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMacNeill 8/11/2019 it’s happening again

  • @lisagillette-martin2247
    @lisagillette-martin2247 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I was working in downtown SF, and a lot of people had left work early to go to the game. I was still at the office when the quake hit, and it was so much bigger than any I’d ever felt as a CA native. No one in SF saw the coverage that the rest of the country saw because the TV stations got knocked off the air. Such a scary day.

    • @user-pp5no4xb7l
      @user-pp5no4xb7l 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was working in downtown SF, and a lot of people had left work early to go to the game. I was still at the office when the quake hit, and it was so much bigger than any I’d ever felt as a CA native. No one in SF saw the coverage that the rest of the country saw because the TV stations got knocked off the air. Such a scary day.

  • @1981cvalentine
    @1981cvalentine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I was a little kid living in the Bay Area when this happened. It was terrifying! And despite living in California nearly my entire life and experiencing many earthquakes, to this day,the Loma Prieta quake is still the strongest I’ve ever felt. It was violent. And even thought it wasn’t exactly a long quake, it seemed like it went on forever

    • @kabuti2839
      @kabuti2839 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      time is relative

    • @tooldog5062
      @tooldog5062 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      if you ever get a chance watch the 70s movie earthquake, the movie setting resembles that day minus buildings crumbling to the ground, there was a few movies back then one was about a fire in a high rise building with partiers trapped in the middle of the building, it was before sprinkler systems were on every floor!

  • @knightshousegames
    @knightshousegames 7 ปีที่แล้ว +618

    This is a pretty amazing time capsule. And you've gotta give props to that anchor, even though the aftershocks and people running around behind her and such, she was able to keep it straight and professional.

    • @johnaddeo2251
      @johnaddeo2251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yes, she was cool and coherent throughout. Easy on the eyes as well. An earthquake is about as unique an event as can happen, let alone be reported on as it is happening. Unpredictable and potentially life threatening in so many ways, as collapses, gas explosions, water main breaks with downed electrical lines with countless other dangers, as aftershocks ensue after the initial jolt. She was remarkable. I lived here in NY (about 6 miles from the World Trade Center, in Brooklyn) during the 9-11 attacks and I'm certain the Loma Pietra quake would have freaked me out a lot more, because of the blanket effect of a quake. I never felt that I was in any imminent danger as I might have in this quake, because of the unpredictability and potentially massive force of the aftershocks.

    • @oliveradams8711
      @oliveradams8711 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yes, she was the ultimate professional. Can you imagine today's newsreaders being this good? No way.

    • @opwave79
      @opwave79 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Cheryl Jennings is much loved here in the Bay Area. She only recently stepped away from anchor duties after a long career at the desk.

    • @mattmayo3539
      @mattmayo3539 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She won an award for this. Either a Peabody or Emmy

    • @markrichards6863
      @markrichards6863 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, it was and she was awarded an EMI for her composure and more importantly her direction, getting information in from the field and out to the viewers. Unfortunately we didn't see any of this due to the loss off power. We had a transistor radio, which was even more scary, because the mind tends to create very dramatic images.

  • @patavalttia
    @patavalttia 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1026

    Those two female tv reporters there...(Cheryl Jennings and Anna Chavez)...I have never seen better reporting! True professionals!

    • @anonz975
      @anonz975 6 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      back when reporters were hired for their brains and ability to speak.

    • @searchlight18
      @searchlight18 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +Anon Z Yes. Class, true professionals.

    • @Werrf1
      @Werrf1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Times like this they really earn their money. Great job by all involved.

    • @monicacardenas9300
      @monicacardenas9300 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I love how we see the people in the back hella working to get updates.

    • @douglasrowland9986
      @douglasrowland9986 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Jeff Goodman Are you triggered? What is the matter? Can't find your pacifier?

  • @BelieverInChristJesus4ever
    @BelieverInChristJesus4ever ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I remember this so well. I was worried about my Grandma in San Francisco but I finally got to speak to her and she says she was alright that they got under a doorway. She was happy to hear from me and sounded so calm. She was about 89 to 90 years old. I always worried about her being in California. I remember people were buried under the Rubble of their apartment buildings and seeing those ppl stuck under the bridge 🌉 scary.

    • @samanthagomez7074
      @samanthagomez7074 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow really cuz it's was a scary shit for real

    • @ricardoreporter-kd9zc
      @ricardoreporter-kd9zc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I remember this so well. I was worried about my Grandma in San Francisco but I finally got to speak to her and she says she was alright that they got under a doorway. She was happy to hear from me and sounded so calm. She was about 89 to 90 years old. I always worried about her being in California. I remember people were buried under the Rubble of their apartment buildings and seeing those ppl stuck under the bridge 🌉 scary?

  • @cameronfinley2002
    @cameronfinley2002 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I was 9 years old living in San Jose at the time, and my buddy and I were heading out to have a catch before the game. I remember every moment up to seconds before, during, and the days after. For those of us who lived through it, this truly was one of those events and moments that stays with you forever.

    • @bayareanewman1566
      @bayareanewman1566 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yup. I’m right there with you. I was 12 in Gilroy. About to watch the bash brothers…. Jose Canseco, and Mark McGuire. Do a number on the Giants. And holy shit!!!!! All fucking night aftershocks hit. A lot of people don’t ever talk about that. Some were HUGE!!! We slept in the front yard on sleeping bags!!!

  • @KindCountsDeb3773
    @KindCountsDeb3773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +315

    The worst was the "pancaking" of the double deck interstate. So many cars crushed, so many lives lost. And heros emerged to help, even with the danger. RIP

    • @hlalakar4156
      @hlalakar4156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Yeah, and some survivors where trapped by just a limb, and they had to do on site amputations to free them.

    • @JackF99
      @JackF99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Clearly at that point the newscasters did not understand what they were looking at.

    • @JJJRRRJJJ
      @JJJRRRJJJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@JackF99 I kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the full scope of that Nimitz Freeway footage to suddenly dawn on those reporters…. but that moment of realization never came.

    • @ThekiBoran
      @ThekiBoran 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      There's still a section of double deck freeway where 101 and 280 intersect. I don't mind driving on the southbound/upper section, but driving the northbound/lower section makes me nervous.

    • @davidmaupin2513
      @davidmaupin2513 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes I WAS LIVING IN MOUNTAIN VIEW WHEN THE QUAKE HAPPENED

  • @paulhammerich9244
    @paulhammerich9244 3 ปีที่แล้ว +655

    One of the most terrifying times in my life. I was driving truck at the time and I was heading to Berkeley from Walnut Creek I was on the transition ramp from 780 to 80 in bumper to bumper traffic when I witnessed the road and vehicles in front of me rolling in a waving motion when I heard a load crash and explosion and I turned to my left and I witnessed the Oakland overpass falling down upon itself it was as if a person pushed the top down on the lower half with smoke and flames issuing from it. I will never forget that day

    • @dawnwelch6579
      @dawnwelch6579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Oh man! I cannot even begin to imagine what you were feeling!
      I live up here in the Lynnwood/Edmonds area of Washington state...had just come home from work a few minutes before 5 before my other roommates did, turned on the TV for the game while I pulled out some Halloween decorations to play around with - and then I heard the weird static! This was the channel I was watching, so I remember everything! I was like, “What the HELL??”

    • @Cam56373
      @Cam56373 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@dawnwelch6579 I'm in Olympia and I worry about the next big one hitting here in Wa. My 1st earthquake was the one in 2001. I had just moved here from Arizona and I've wanted to move back ever since that day, but I'm still here. I will say this though, I'd take an earthquake over Inslee being elected any day 😁

    • @dawnwelch6579
      @dawnwelch6579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Cam56373 Inslee has nothing to do with what I was/am talking about.

    • @Cam56373
      @Cam56373 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@dawnwelch6579 I was just throwing in a little humor Dawn. Here in Washington state nobody cares for Inslee... or maybe Iam wrong. Lighten up

    • @Roger__Wilco
      @Roger__Wilco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Cam56373pfft more like not being able to help injecting politics into just about anything

  • @ASSEENBYSB
    @ASSEENBYSB ปีที่แล้ว +12

    wow this coverage is incredible.. as someone who also works in television i can't imagine how crazy the control room was kudos to this crew

    • @michael-hw1uv
      @michael-hw1uv 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The professional reporting brought tears. I miss real news. Franklin WOKE Smither's, Ohio.

  • @PRNOBTCH
    @PRNOBTCH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I had just turned 14 when the earthquake of 1989 hit. At that point I was living in San Francisco it was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life I cannot explain the feeling of that jolt the panic of seeing my entire neighborhood tear apart seeing Windows shattering and seeing streets just completely buckled up and open right in front of where I lived immediately after seeing houses across the street completely falling apart some of them with the living rooms in the street because they completely fell into the street I cannot explain to you how terrifying it was to live through that moment

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta.
      It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out.
      Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear.
      There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten.
      Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.

    • @samanthagomez7074
      @samanthagomez7074 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow really

  • @mattmayo3539
    @mattmayo3539 3 ปีที่แล้ว +550

    I believe Cheryl Jennings won an Emmy for her reporting on this event. World class. Amazing how they covered this with such little technology.

    • @pvtmikeyjr1963
      @pvtmikeyjr1963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Brandon Taylor - Cheryl was not related to the ABC anchor from New York.

    • @pvtmikeyjr1963
      @pvtmikeyjr1963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      KGO-TV won a Peabody award for its comprehensive news coverage on this event.

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      THEY WERE SET P TO DO THE 5PM ACTION NEWS THEREFORE THEY COULD DO BASIC GUERILLA STYLE SEAT OF PANTS O THE FLY BROADCASTS MINI CAN CREWS WERE AVAILABLE WITH THE VANS IN FIELD AND PROBLEMS WERE GETTING SIGNAL OUT TO THE SATTS FOR NATIONAL NETWORK FEEDS

    • @krystalwillcutt6569
      @krystalwillcutt6569 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Cheryl did an excellent job! Everyone from the newsroom to Al Michaels did a phenomenal job of keeping their composure.

    • @markrichards6863
      @markrichards6863 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      And we mostly didn't get to see any if the coverage in SF. Many of us were without power for days.

  • @elsief6923
    @elsief6923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +436

    4:54
    Reporter: "Well Cheryl, obviously people are terribly nervous here..." 🙁😯😥😟
    People in background: "Hey! I'm on tv! Whooo! Hi!" 😄😝🙋🏻‍♂️🤗👋🏼 🥳

  • @lindalewis5066
    @lindalewis5066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Fate spared my husband & I that day. We both should've been on the Cypress structure. Where many people died horribly. 🌉 Even though we were 25 miles east, we still felt the earthquake STRONGLY. Condolences to the families that lost someone. 🙏🕊️

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This reporter, Cheryl Jennings, did a magnificent job on this day. She stays so calm and professional. My commute bus crossed the Golden Gate Bridge between 5:10 to 5:15, it was open and traffic was flowing normally. We were holding our breath! The driver did sort-of ask us whether to attempt a crossing first, but unfortunately Go and No sound an awful lot alike, he only heard Go! The bridge also performed magnificently, my house in Marin had minor and structural (porch) damage, but the worst thing was my poor terrorized cat. She jumped straight into my arms at every aftershock and couldn’t really relax for months.

  • @Diggerdog2nd
    @Diggerdog2nd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    You can hear the crowd get louder as it's starting to hit.

    • @Moose6340
      @Moose6340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And then cheering and whooping it up afterward when Al Michaels gets back on the phone line from the Stick. Sounded like the crowd was having a pretty good time once the shaking stopped. Can't blame 'em really. I doubt anybody there knew in the immediate aftermath just how bad it was.

    • @pauliewalnuts7088
      @pauliewalnuts7088 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very excited🤣

    • @linguineboy69
      @linguineboy69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They were probably singing we will rock you by queen

    • @pauliewalnuts7088
      @pauliewalnuts7088 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@linguineboy69 🤣🤣🤣

  • @adventuroushero1229
    @adventuroushero1229 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2336

    News was so serious, cautious, and accurate back then. Now it's nothing more than a scripted reality show that tries to appease viewers by generating drama with exaggerated or even falsified information.
    Watching this clip makes me realize again that news in the US really has fallen from the source of information in the past to the mere source of entertainment today.

    • @baruchben-david4196
      @baruchben-david4196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Shufei Well, they cater to their audience. If we demand entertainment, that's what we'll get.

    • @victoriaaldrich8952
      @victoriaaldrich8952 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      That's an exaggeration. Lots of local newscasts are producing quality work. Quit watching Fox!

    • @VanessaHolguin
      @VanessaHolguin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@victoriaaldrich8952 "Quit watching Fox" - well that's ironic, when talking about fake news.

    • @quentincampbell612
      @quentincampbell612 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@victoriaaldrich8952 Local news majority wise is still very well reported. The problem is BOTH Fox News and CNN have successfully sold to us viewers that their after 7 political opinion shows are news shows. Before 7,both networks have some true good news reporting. It's just, Tucker,Hannity,Lemon do oftentimes give more slanted political opinions and are rude to their guests. Really shouldn't be like that!

    • @GovernorRiffRaff
      @GovernorRiffRaff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      victoria aldrich local news like the bottom of the barrel when it comes to televised news lmao. You’re a dope if you watch that junk

  • @mynewyork165
    @mynewyork165 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow. The first few minutes are eerie!

  • @randallbargar348
    @randallbargar348 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Amazing calm coverage and quick updates. Outstanding team reporting.

  • @lilwolfgirlx_x7466
    @lilwolfgirlx_x7466 5 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    At around 18:50, when she realizes what she's looking at and that the bridge collapsed, you can almost hear a hint of dread - like in that moment, despite saying that she hopes no one was injured, she realized without a doubt how many people were now trapped and dying in such a horrible situation. And still, she carried on without missing a beat. Cheryl is completely professional and admirable in how she handled and covered this

    • @pvtmikeyjr1963
      @pvtmikeyjr1963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      At 18:50 in the video is the serious part. Cheryl thought it was a fire in Berkeley but it was the Cypress Freeway (880) in north Oakland. The Bay Bridge was a big deal also as they sort out the damage from the Loma Prieta quake.

    • @mattmayo3539
      @mattmayo3539 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      She won an Emmy for this reporting. World class.

  • @Swampzoid
    @Swampzoid 7 ปีที่แล้ว +547

    This news woman is very professional.

    • @sambaker7703
      @sambaker7703 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      swampzoid cheryl jennings can get this D

    • @davidca96
      @davidca96 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Thats how the news was in the 80s, it was quite professional and more about important things for people, as we didnt have internet back then. It was actually a much better time in a lot of ways to be honest, I miss it a lot.

    • @brideofsnape2046
      @brideofsnape2046 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      You can hear the horror in her voice when she sees the Cypress Freeway and realizes that there are fatalities there for sure, but she totally kept her cool. THAT is professionalism.

    • @nakyer
      @nakyer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *swampzoid*'
      They knew the people needed them and they provided the information everyone had to have.

    •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's because the bullshit politics weren't in it yet.

  • @eppsislike
    @eppsislike 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    News had integrity, America was united, and life had so much substance, it was almost tangible.

  • @tquist61
    @tquist61 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I lived in Alameda at the time of this awful earthquake (Bay Farm Island). It was the strongest earthquake I ever felt by far (I also was in Southern California for the 1971 Sylmar quake). I routinely drove across the Bay Bridge and Cypress Structure for work, but that day I thankfully was home early and getting ready to watch the game. I did drive the upper section of the Cypress Structure a few hours before the earthquake. We had no damage at our home, and never lost power. We were able to watch this news coverage live. It amazed me at the time that they didn't seem to realize that the big story was the collapse of the Cypress Structure freeway in Oakland. Watching this news coverage 32 years after the fact is still an emotional experience.

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was 10 years old and in the family home in Van Nuys on Feb. 09, 1971.
      On October 17, 1989 I was in a glass atrium / staircase of a computer hard drive manufacturer (SCO) in Santa Cruz, rather closer to the epicenter at Loma Prieta.
      It started as a 'slow roller', people joking that they should grab a handrail, then the abrupt and violent actions occurred. All bets were off as the priority became getting everyone out of the building. "Is it safe?" called secretaries huddled under their desks at the ground floor. "Hell no, get out now!" said I as I ran behind them and pulled / pushed them out.
      Once on the street outside, waves could be seen going through concrete sidewalks as each phone pole kicked as the wave went by. There was a pall of brick dust rising from the Pacific Garden Mall and hearts sank as the meaning of such was clear.
      There was damage, there was death. The beloved Cooper House was soon to be a memory. A stand of eighty year old redwoods at Loma Prieta had broken at mid height like toothpicks. Highway overpasses dropped through their pilings onto the roadway below. Hollister and Watsonville were severely beaten.
      Soon people of divergent backgrounds, ideologies, attitudes were neighbors working together for a common cause. The spirit of gadugi prevailed for a period of weeks / months before humans settled into their former petty differences.

    • @robbiemarcum8878
      @robbiemarcum8878 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was in the Sylmar earthquake in 1971 also. We had to evacuate as they thought the Van Norman Dam was about to collapse. We were right in the path if it did collapse.

    • @tquist61
      @tquist61 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@robbiemarcum8878 my grandparents lived in Sylmar at the time. Their home suffered no substantial damage but a lot of their belongings were ruined when they fell to the floor. Their home was just up the hill (on Harding St.) from the 210 freeway - that freeway was severely buckled from the earthquake and unusable. I lived in southern Orange County at the time, and while there was no damage down that way, the shaking was quite frightening to me as an 8 year old boy - and it went on for over a minute…

    • @robbiemarcum8878
      @robbiemarcum8878 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @-oiiio-3993 Oh how sad and scary.

    • @robbiemarcum8878
      @robbiemarcum8878 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @tquist61 That is sad they lost things like that. My Dad had built his house. Our bedroom at the back of the house had wooden framed windows that opened sideways. It used to be a screened in riloom so there were many windows. Each window opened a few inches. When he built thongs they were done right. He had a long brick fence. He put rebar in the holes and poured cement in also. He had one brick fall off the top. I would rather be in an earthquake than a tornado though.

  • @Guroth
    @Guroth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    When news was presented with some degree of professionalism.

    • @dwightstewart7181
      @dwightstewart7181 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nonsense. The news was just as fake back then. They were just better at concealing the leftist propaganda and rhetoric. For example, all the networks ignored the looting and violence throughout the city afterwards.

    • @dbroyawner5543
      @dbroyawner5543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dwight Stewart how tf do you fake an earthquake

    • @dwightstewart7181
      @dwightstewart7181 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dbroyawner5543 .. My comment explains itself. I said nothing about faking an earthquake.

    • @mikeking1948
      @mikeking1948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dwightstewart7181 "fake news "
      The battle cry of the idiots on the right

    • @dwightstewart7181
      @dwightstewart7181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mikeking1948 .. And disclaiming that, despite overwhelming evidence, is the battle cry of the idiots on the left. If CNN told you children are born in trees, you'd go out to try to abort it.

  • @somerandomyoutubechannel5816
    @somerandomyoutubechannel5816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +478

    This station did such a phenomenal job reporting this as it was unfolding.

    • @mikepants35
      @mikepants35 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's too bad none of us in the bay area saw it until way later because power was out for days.

    • @AstiJay
      @AstiJay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep, they had no rehearsals before it happened like those reporting 911 did.

    • @pvtmikeyjr1963
      @pvtmikeyjr1963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      KGO and to add KCBS (radio) did an awesome job of covering the quake. Both stations won a Peabody award for its coverage.

    • @mattmayo3539
      @mattmayo3539 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think they also won an Emmy.

  • @darylehunterjr
    @darylehunterjr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was nine years old when this happened. Me and my older brother was in our room to watch the game and we were in Illinois when this happened. We saw the ABC News World Series Screen come up and we just looked at each other like, "What the hell??" Silence followed that just felt so creepy. Minutes later we saw this and just sat in awe wordless. Many years later I find this footage and I still feel those same emotions.

    • @JT_8283
      @JT_8283 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was 7 and also live in Illinois

  • @TheFrogfeeder
    @TheFrogfeeder 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My aunt was at candlestick, my dad was a cop in sf, and my mom was on a train back down to San Mateo, I was 10 years old and at home after school with my sister… the house was swaying over the car in the driveway

  • @wadebaker2910
    @wadebaker2910 8 ปีที่แล้ว +691

    04:55 Reporter: "Well obviously people are terribly nervous here" *people in background waving on TV

    • @MaestroDawg65
      @MaestroDawg65 8 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      And one guy holding up Jose Canseco's mugshot. WTF? LOL

    • @TheBeLuvdTRex
      @TheBeLuvdTRex 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      LMAO

    • @ShitNice
      @ShitNice 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I was born in the bay area and go to the san Francisco bay all the time my 80 yr old grandparents where much younger then survived this and are still alive today

    • @ambersalcove
      @ambersalcove 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was a baby the year this happened

    • @richiebee1984
      @richiebee1984 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was 5 back then

  • @lakeside4485
    @lakeside4485 4 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    Why can’t news be like this now?

    • @evanames1871
      @evanames1871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mostly because it is an election year this will all come to an end shortly

    • @jebstewart666
      @jebstewart666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We do. If there is a 'as it happening event' like this our different forms of media will (& do) provide us with the best information they can. It is what they do to the best of their technologically available resources. And it is a requirement by FCC rules.
      Even simulcasts will be happening, meaning different forms of the media will share information, i.e., tv reports going out on/over radio. Nothing has changed, I will bet high dollar on that.

    • @adammillwood2709
      @adammillwood2709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      News today just sucks! It is because of politics. I am a Democrat you typically hear Republicans say that, but they need to focus more on news and things happening then politics. I think politics is very important however they don’t talk about news like they anymore. Like all of these important news things that are going on International like in Nigeria and Yemen need to be reported on.

    • @lakeside4485
      @lakeside4485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @rkm isacunt I’m in my mid-thirties and smack dab in the middle of the millennial generation. No offense meant to you specifically, but I get so sick of people constantly using millennials as scapegoats for the problems of this world. It’s a shame because I happen to think we bring a lot of good to the world. Are you aware that the very youngest of the millennials are now in their late twenties? I do find a lot of people also simply don’t realize that millennials are as old as we are now. The oldest are bumping forty. We are invested in our communities, and a good number are hard-working, mortgage and taxing-paying citizens just like you. The “kids” in college and just a bit older still sponging off their parents right now aren’t millennials.

    • @adammillwood2709
      @adammillwood2709 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @rkm isacunt How did Millennials kill this kind of news?

  • @freakspeely
    @freakspeely ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was 10 years old when this happened and remember my dad watching the World Series and saying there was an earthquake. I remember thinking it was so wild to see it happen live on TV, and the collapsed roadways and bridges. This footage is great, '89 was a crazy year.

  • @garylagstrom3864
    @garylagstrom3864 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was there in San Francisco in July of 89 my first time visiting The City. It was hard to imagine anything happening to the most beautiful and breathtaking area in the entire country! I went back East for my sophomore year in undergraduate school and a girl I dated at the time ran into the college library were I was working and told me about the quake from watching the World Series! I couldn’t reach my friend who lived in Sacramento for like 2 weeks! Many mixed emotions as I watch this video and the profound sadness I felt about that marvelous city! But also encouraged by the bravery shown by all citizens to help out! God bless San Francisco!

  • @reduxkai9100
    @reduxkai9100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +351

    Imagine people watching it live and then it just cuts out while they are saying "We are having an earthq-". Gives me chills!

    • @CrociatoAzzurro
      @CrociatoAzzurro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Me!
      I watched it on the ABC affiliate in Buffalo, NY. (I live in Toronto).

    • @shandrabrooks6431
      @shandrabrooks6431 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was watching with my dad. It was surreal.

    • @RecklessOne11
      @RecklessOne11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was 12 years old about the watch the World Series when it struck. I live on the other side of the country, in Massachusetts.

    • @CrociatoAzzurro
      @CrociatoAzzurro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @FollTrace
      I do remember hearing the "we are having an earthquake", so yeah.
      But I do remember that the video I saw was a little different. (again, I saw it from the ABC affiliate in Buffalo whereas this was video is from the Bay Area affiliate). From what I remember when they restored power they were back in the stadium. I remember the stadium lights were off but they had the dim emergency lighting On. Players from both teams were in the Infield just wondering what to do next. Camera was panning to the crowd and they filing out of the stadium. No panic, no stampede though. Then they cut to the news reports for the rest of the night.

    • @wendyc7730
      @wendyc7730 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right here! Watching from Fairfield County Connecticut with family LIVE.

  • @johnmcclintock8004
    @johnmcclintock8004 6 ปีที่แล้ว +331

    Hats off to this anchor-woman,(Cheryl Jennings). What a superb job concisely explaining all pertinent info as it was happening.

    • @postersm7141
      @postersm7141 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      JOHN MCCLINTOCK News wasn’t used back then and not another form of ratings and sensationalism

    • @thevincentgonzalesplan
      @thevincentgonzalesplan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Cheryl Jennings is in The House! She's GOT This.

    • @Anthony-nv7gd
      @Anthony-nv7gd 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      JOHN MCCLINTOCK Yes super hard to read from a piece of paper. The bar for human beings is really set high. You people act like her building was crumbling around her.

    • @chukwudiilozue9171
      @chukwudiilozue9171 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Anthony-nv7gd She wasn't reading from a paper. She was getting it in her ear and trying to formulate it live. That's incredibly difficult to do for half an hour after monitors just fell around you.

    • @borinakoune1803
      @borinakoune1803 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      She looks like the Growing Pains mom:)

  • @ianrotten4453
    @ianrotten4453 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I watched this exact broadcast as it happened and felt the quake 200 miles away. Darn I'm getting old.

  • @kami_koi3787
    @kami_koi3787 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My grandpa was at the World Series game when the earthquake happened…. My whole family was separated and took over 10 hours for my whole family to reunite.

    • @209euro2
      @209euro2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Scary, wonder why YT is recommending this to us?? Noticing a lot of comments from locals including myself…

  • @gianski3306
    @gianski3306 5 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    It’s cool how the news anchors stay professional even if a lot of their equipment isn’t working and even all unexpected events

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      THEY WERE SET UP TO DO 5 PM NEWS AND THIS WAS DONE ON THE FLY

  • @BBayjay
    @BBayjay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +439

    Cheryl Jennings is a legend (Woman in the blue). She handled this like a boss.

    • @luxurycarkey7207
      @luxurycarkey7207 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      She is awsome did a great job

    • @VeN0m88
      @VeN0m88 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She was a beast did u ever see her under the boards ? No 1 can get a rebound

    • @edwardfights4900
      @edwardfights4900 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      10:00 shes so relaxed and sexy 😍😍

    • @robingardella299
      @robingardella299 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      She is amazing!!

    • @clydebear6914
      @clydebear6914 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ultra professional. Calm, controlled, measured.

  • @ksw4942
    @ksw4942 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    How normal people seem back then - even in the midst and aftermath of an earthquake!

  • @keepitupbro
    @keepitupbro 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is really incredible footage, great work by the reporters and everyone in the KGO newsroom!

  • @mktarrant
    @mktarrant 5 ปีที่แล้ว +417

    They sure don't make journalists like this any longer...

    • @goatsmiserable555
      @goatsmiserable555 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      mktarrant if this happened today they would just have it scrolling on the bottom of the screen while they continued to bash trump.

    • @kathyduby8150
      @kathyduby8150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@goatsmiserable555 they would have Twitter reactions scrolling too..

    • @ahero4094
      @ahero4094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bash Trump???? You idiot.

    • @YokaiGotha
      @YokaiGotha 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ones who report on earthquakes?

    • @mmendozagomez
      @mmendozagomez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Donald J. Trump boo boo your idol gets some hate. Get over it snowflake.

  • @JustCalMeBozeman
    @JustCalMeBozeman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    That opening is like a movie, very eerie. The way the pictures cuts in and out, the sound of static, the announcer stating, "I'll tell ya what, we're having an earth-" and it all goes silent.

    • @jenniferbeatty7545
      @jenniferbeatty7545 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      John Marston It is a movie. You live in the 'Truman Show'...

    • @DrunkenSlob
      @DrunkenSlob 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      John Marston 8/11/2019 it’s happening again

  • @SideGigGuy
    @SideGigGuy ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fascinating to watch the competence of these reporters and how quickly they did report this breaking news. Seems better than the coverage of breaking news we get today. Everyone just reports what Twitter says.

  • @phssthpok5075
    @phssthpok5075 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was 19. Came to see the footage, and I'm amazed by these talking heads! Switching to not only pro, but calm, top tier reporting.

  • @danielmorse6597
    @danielmorse6597 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Total professionalism. Live and I remember this. This is what TV was supposed to be about. Public service and in a way, leadership. Excellent job. Miss this kind of tv.

    • @firenze5555
      @firenze5555 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I miss TV like this, too; reporting the facts and not trying to be some entertainment show.

  • @Thephillips-dj1po
    @Thephillips-dj1po 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1939

    My uncle told me he was constipated that day........ *Was*

    • @spybro3264
      @spybro3264 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      This made my day lol

    • @calidrip628
      @calidrip628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      lmfaooo Dude!🤣🤣😂😆😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @calidrip628
      @calidrip628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Singapore Pearl lmfaoooo

    • @debbieschultz2224
      @debbieschultz2224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hilarious!! Thank you for that

    • @kxngcorrupt5524
      @kxngcorrupt5524 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂

  • @Steve.Cutler
    @Steve.Cutler ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was in my house in Antioch CA sitting waiting for that game to start...went outside and watched the ground look like waves...I'll never forget that feeling.

  • @JJSeattle
    @JJSeattle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember this earthquake - so strange to 'relive' it 30+ years later. TH-cam has a heck of an algorithm - it was posted 8 years ago and would have never thought to have search for it.

  • @Alanoffer
    @Alanoffer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +633

    She kept that together really well considering they had no monitors

    •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They didn't have ANY monitors.

    • @linmcc8342
      @linmcc8342 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Don't people in the stands ever sit down? It's like an ant farm.

    • @kp9894
      @kp9894 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      reffoelcnu alouncelal who’s she?

    • @carlacolon1464
      @carlacolon1464 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kp9894 THE WOMAN ANCHOR!

    • @Fortaz107
      @Fortaz107 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Back in the days when they didn't immediately know where the earthquake was centered or how strong it really was.

  • @lancer.5603
    @lancer.5603 5 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    Weird things you don't hear anyone say in the year 2019.
    7:03 "Grab your phonebook".

    • @AceartஐPro
      @AceartஐPro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Next thing you know in like 15+ years or so people will be grabbing some new technology device or something new that replace Google and even phone books 😆

    • @KindCountsDeb3773
      @KindCountsDeb3773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm faster with a phone book than online. Hmmm. Not sure what that says !

    • @LucasIsHereYT
      @LucasIsHereYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @todd long Shut the fuck up boomer.

    • @ismaellopez3963
      @ismaellopez3963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@LucasIsHereYT why be so rude?

    • @lindab3339
      @lindab3339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ismaellopez3963 because he is a little snowflake and the whole world revolves around them you didn't know that

  • @melanin_monroe1897
    @melanin_monroe1897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I was almost 4 when this happened and I still remember laying on the floor and feeling it shake and my mom grabbing me and standing in the corner while the shaking continued. She was crying and I didn’t understand why! Because I thought it was fun! 🤣I’m now 35.

  • @IsaacH03
    @IsaacH03 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I was at home in Millbrae, Ca which is about a Hour south of San Francisco when this happened. I remember feeling the room roll it felt like the apartment I was in was on a wave, I looked out my window and saw the chain link fence and a telephone pole across the street swaying violently. Having being born and raised in San Francisco we are some what used to earthquakes even though we know the damage they can cause so panic didn't set in, but fear did when I realized just what happened and then worry and concern set in as I wondered what was the condition of my family and friends. Thank God I was off that day because the stretch of the Hwy 80 the Nimitz freeway that collapsed was one I used to go back and forth on a daily basis to work. I Remember the shock and awe I felt as the News was coming in as to the extent of the damages and lives lost. Being/feeling/living through an earthquake is something words can't describe. The News reporting was unmatched and professional.

    • @TheFrogfeeder
      @TheFrogfeeder 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lol when this happened, milbrae was only 20 minutes south of SF, now a days I’m sure it takes an hour and a half in stop and go traffic…

  • @BrandtAbsolu
    @BrandtAbsolu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    Cheryl saying "this is a very frightening situation" as she smiles and remains the calmest person in the world.

    • @shellyweiers121
      @shellyweiers121 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brandt cheryl is a class act you don't see reporting like this anymore

  • @TheUtuber999
    @TheUtuber999 8 ปีที่แล้ว +811

    The opening scene almost looks like the start of an episode from Full House.

    • @SecondEvilEx
      @SecondEvilEx 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      the episode "Aftershocks"?

    • @gridlore
      @gridlore 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      The Painted Ladies (those lovely houses) are a tourist attraction and a pretty standard stock shot for anything happening in San Francisco.

    • @dner75-xh9le
      @dner75-xh9le 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      wuddeva happintoo dictabillitee?

    • @illa9190
      @illa9190 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dner75
      you put it in your pocket, everybody saw you
      champ!!!

    • @chestosneakoinc
      @chestosneakoinc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      The earthquake was like "Waaake Up San Francisco!!!"

  • @MissCracker
    @MissCracker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Being in a giant stadium with thousands of people during an event like this must be horrifying, the immediate realization that you’re not the main character and don’t have plot armor. :(

  • @tomsayen9295
    @tomsayen9295 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love the 1989 style PC monitors. This was just before widespread use of internet, before cell phones, before personal email, before text messages.

  • @jodiburgett6980
    @jodiburgett6980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    My husband was in the Army and stationed in California when this happened and he said that the sidewalk was moving up and down in a huge rollercoaster type motion and he said it was very scary!!! I'm glad he made it out safe because he's the best thing that's ever happened to me!!!!

    • @cynthiacler9284
      @cynthiacler9284 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Your husband is 100% right. The first few seconds of the quake felt like someone lifted up a blanket and fluffed it in the air because of the way it rolled like the blanket would roll. I was standing in a doorway looking onto a street and literally saw the pavement rolling like 4 feet in the air. It was scary shit

    • @BarryChapman
      @BarryChapman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      thats the shockwaves moving through the ground

    • @marqb936
      @marqb936 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      My husband said he was driving, and he was driving. He thought he had a flat tire and the radio went out, and he noticed everyone pulled on the side of the road... he said it was very odd, and everyone knew something bad had happened, like the end of the world ?

    • @martinez.partnership
      @martinez.partnership 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ok relax now Jodi

    • @dimitrisprint7256
      @dimitrisprint7256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Puke

  • @rafie281
    @rafie281 5 ปีที่แล้ว +699

    I love how Cheryl Jennings handled this whole situation. Media these days are all dramatic, want emotion, or want that shock value, not her. She was calm and very informative, despite having very limited resources.
    Take notes mainstream media!

    • @andrewdiaz5852
      @andrewdiaz5852 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      What exactly is “mainstream media” mean?? I know a lot of republicans use that term when referring to cnn and msnbc but is foxnews also considered mainstream media?

    • @rafie281
      @rafie281 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Andrew Diaz any news source you see on Tv. Like ABC, CNN, CBS, and Fox News. Those are mainstream, and let’s not before this gets any more political than what it should be.

    • @Zankaru
      @Zankaru 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@andrewdiaz5852 MSM is any news that does not agree with Dear Leader.

    • @sandijohnson4630
      @sandijohnson4630 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like you only watch one channel. All newscasters I've seen after an event handle it with professionalism.

    • @Steena84
      @Steena84 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      She remained calm. I can't believe how well she handled it. Great news reporter

  • @jenniferp7497
    @jenniferp7497 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We lived in Vacaville. I was 8 years old, standing in the kitchen, and I looked out back to see the water sloshing out the sides of the pool. In the family room, records were flying off my grandpa's record stand. My grandparents' house and my parents' house still have cracks from that day, and the patio still remains warped out back. I've lived in CA all my life, but I've only felt one quake since then, and it was very minor in comparison.

  • @kennethwilliams7183
    @kennethwilliams7183 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazingly calm and extremely professional coverage of this event.

  • @AlikaSEOULROK
    @AlikaSEOULROK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +762

    I'm still laughing at the fact someone got hit on the head by a brick and called it into the news to let them know.

    • @ebmvideoproductions
      @ebmvideoproductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Alii Kalani hahaha me too!

    • @rosedowner7529
      @rosedowner7529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Alii Kalani I was there you idiot

    • @rosedowner7529
      @rosedowner7529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Alii Kalani A lot of people died, you dumn fuck

    • @AlikaSEOULROK
      @AlikaSEOULROK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      ​@@rosedowner7529 alright you out of context boomer. First off, you being there doesn't correlate to anything related to my intelligence. Nice rebuttal. I'm not saying that people dying is a funny thing to witness. I'm saying the context of the event is amusing. You wanna grief over everyone's pain on an America's Funniest Home Video? I'm sure not all those events were enjoyable.

    • @YellowRubberDuckie
      @YellowRubberDuckie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@rosedowner7529 calm down. Time+tragedy=comedy. We must joke about those things or we will lose it.

  • @08prema
    @08prema 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    We dressed well back then. I so miss the 80's, and everything about it.

    • @artventurejunior
      @artventurejunior 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      If you want to go back to the 80's that says enough about what times we live in now. We won't have it back. Ever.

    • @nibbax7772
      @nibbax7772 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@artventurejunior yup what’s is the past stays in the past

    • @WhitefolksT
      @WhitefolksT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's your world, make it what you want.

    • @sheilamarie6897
      @sheilamarie6897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You're right. The boys and girls cared about how we looked before we left the house. Never seen anyone at the store in their pajamas and slippers with messy hair back then.

    • @Mrsjam96
      @Mrsjam96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Me toooo Kath!!!! Totally! My 13 year old daughter wishes she could have been a teenager in the 80’s! She LOVES every outfit she has seen me in in pictures! She love bold bright clothes!!! She gets a little taste every year at school when they have a dress like your favorite decade day! She ALWAYS picks the 80’s!

  • @lynnallen1242
    @lynnallen1242 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My daughter was 18 months at the time, we lived in San Jose then. My husband had just got home..we had the game on the TV when our house started shaking. My husband grabbed me and our daughter, put us in the bedroom doorway and hovered over us to protect us from the window glass. I looked up once and literally saw our backyard fence "rolling" out the window. TV, microwave went off thier stands. Worse part was my husband worked for the utility company there...he had to leave immediately and was at work for the next 10 days in the epicenter of the quake area in the Santa Cruz range. Clearly remember this day still!!😢

  • @dsmith9626
    @dsmith9626 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I was watching the World Series pre-game as it happened. That was surreal to say the least. I was way over in Monroe, Louisiana but the immediacy of it was palpable even long-distance. Insane.

    • @jennyames6532
      @jennyames6532 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was in West Monroe Louisiana when this happened, and yes, the Intensity was insane. Sad for the families loses.

  • @annika547
    @annika547 4 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    2:07 is what your looking for 😌

    • @mssha1980
      @mssha1980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Thank you

    • @johnrosario4280
      @johnrosario4280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Wow, the footage cutting in and out as the announcers are trying to tell everyone that an earthquake is happening is horrifying.

    • @babayaga1767
      @babayaga1767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      thanks, scrolled down looking for this

    • @pedropistolero9230
      @pedropistolero9230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly

    • @juanjosedelpinorivas7099
      @juanjosedelpinorivas7099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@johnrosario4280 We have an earth...and people screaming. Dude, the entire stadium could have collapsed and stampedes would have made things 1000 times worse.

  • @omars.8073
    @omars.8073 6 ปีที่แล้ว +255

    What a wonderful group of professional journalists. Informative, measured, reassuring, and overall just excellent.

    • @jefferysmoot2498
      @jefferysmoot2498 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "Journalists" being the key word there. Today we have a few of those left, but most have changed their job description to sensationalist.

  • @juliam.mallen9019
    @juliam.mallen9019 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a wonderful team of pros at this network no visibility yet they are calming accurately giving a phenomenal report. Maintaining total calmness throughout the chaos this video should be shown in classrooms of future journalist and first responders very impressive.

  • @Hayyden
    @Hayyden 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Just felt the 5.0 in So Cal while watching this.
    Very strange.

  • @davegbp
    @davegbp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    these gals did a fantastic job relaying information....

  • @AlexS-oj8qf
    @AlexS-oj8qf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    Thank God for proper engineering, that the stadium didn't collapse and created an even bigger catastrophe than it already is.

    • @kenh3757
      @kenh3757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You talking about the earthquake or candlestick ?

  • @maries2443
    @maries2443 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was 9 at the time and at home with mom at the time. It feels like it was just yesterday. We will never forget it

  • @cancergirl2006
    @cancergirl2006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember being 9 years old and had just gotten home from school and laying on the floor about to start my homework. My grandma (RIP) had finished watching General Hospital and the news was about to start. I felt the ground slightly moving underneath me and the dining room chandelier swaying a little. I lived in Southern California in the San Fernando Valley and felt a little bit of the shaking there.