Earthquakes rattles NYC

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Episode Transcript

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I wish you all could see Markdance. And I didn't even know you
had those moves. Brothers. Ohyeah, oh yeah, I'm telling you
what man. Yeah, Travolta wasafter me for Saturday Night Lot or Saturday
Night Live, Saturday Night Fever.He was trying to enlist my services for
dancing lessons and so on. Butyeah, I didn't have time to mess
you were too busy. Yeah yeah, oh and I was seven. I

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was seven years older. There's thatJohn Travolta. You know, we talked
about this yesterday. John Travolta lookslike he has age pretty damn good as
well. Yeah, you know,he's bald, as you know. But
for the longest time, I didn'trealize that most of his career he's been
in wigs, in wigs and hairpieces and so that pulp fiction that that

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that long hair is Vincent Vega.Yeah, yeah, that was definitely that
was definitely a hair piece. Yes, yeah, absolutely. Chief media relogist
Marshall McPeek, a guy who youhave made it past the dangers on Marshall,
You'll never be bald. You cantell by you know, just your
hairline and so on. So luckyyou because is there a line for that?

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Is that how that works? Uh? Well, I think you yeah,
No, I mean it either thator his buddies with John Travoltz's whig
guy, and we will never know. Well, no, I can tell
atl well as a guy who youknow, that kind of stuff is on
my radar simply because of the waymy hair is or is barely, I
should say, I can I lookat that and one day Marshall now is

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gonna be like, guess what Ihave a secret to tell you. Blazer,
You wrong, buddy, this isfake. You know. I gotta
say I worked with an anchor atone point that we were all absolutely positively
convinced that that was not his realhair. Right, And sure enough,
one afternoon we're walking down the stairs. We're behind him walking down the stairs
to the studio. I'm like,there's a bald spot back there. Holy

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crap, that's his real hair.Yeah, who knew? That's great,
man. So it turns out youguys were wrong on that. But you
know that's okay. Swinging a miss, Swinging a miss, as they say,
Ah so will it be a swinginga miss for the people here in
the Central Ohio area. On Monday, is what everybody's asking. Marshall.

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Here's what I'm gonna go with,cautiously optimistic. I'm seeing some better numbers
in the last say twelve hours.So there is a big system that gets
organized in the middle of the country, and we're gonna get some some rain
on Sunday late afternoon and evening.Most of that's gonna taper off by Monday
morning. Now here's the thing.We're gonna do some clearing during the day

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on Monday. In the morning,you're gonna think, oh, oh,
this is no this is bad,this is gonna be terrib this is gonna
suck, and then it'll start clearingduring the day. The models I'm seeing
right now are suggesting Toledo might evenbe dead clear, just like really spectacular,

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and then a little bit more cloudcovered down this way, but still
enough that we get a really goodview. So we're still four days out,
so we've still got time for allof this to adjust. Here's what
I'm hoping. The timing on Sunday'srain may yet still move a little earlier,
and if it does, that bodeswell for us on Monday. So

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it's really about this system in themiddle of the country, and how it
moves some of the rain through ourpart of the country, and what it's
going to do with the cloud cover. Still some questions in this. We're
not locking it in just yet,but I would say cautiously optimistic for Monday
and the eclipse. In the meantime, freeze warning for tonight. Temperatures are

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going to drop to freezing end below. If you've got some new plants out
there, they may need a littleprotection. Tulips and daffodils are fine,
they can handle this kind of cold, but some of those new early plants
might end up needing a little protection. Give them a cover. Thirty one
for the overnight low in the city. You'll be in the twenties outside out
of the outer belt. Fifty foryour day on Saturday, aiming for some

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mowing on Saturday. Fifty eight onSunday, with a chance for rain in
the late afternoon and evening. AndMonday going for a high here seventy one
and partly cloudy. Marshall, thankyou very much. Forty four right now,
thank you for listening. It's smartBlazer over there. That's Josh Cease

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and let's bring in from ABC NewsMorning Drive anchor Sherry Preston and Sherry,
you know I have. There's beena lot of natural kind of I don't
know if I want to quantify himas a disaster, but different types of
events. I've experienced the low thesefifty five years I've been on this planet,
one of which is not any kindof an earthquake or anything like that.

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You felt this in real time thismorning. It had to be terrifying.
Yeah, I wouldn't say terrifying,but it was unusual. It was
certainly unusual. It wasn't you know, it wasn't a a major earthquake.
It was four point eight magnitude.It was centered in a place, a
little tiny place called White House Station, which is kind of close to Trent.

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I'm currently in glen Ridge, NewJersey, which is Essex County,
think county that Newark is in,and we're about thirty miles away from there.
So I was working this morning fromhome and was just all of a
sudden just heard this like and Iwas like, well, what the heck
is that? We've had trees fallhere before, and you know, you
know that rumbling noise when a treefalls down. I thought, yeah,

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but it just kept going and Iwent upstairs and I said to my husband,
I said, did you feel that? And he goes, I think
we just had an earthquake. Andsure enough, you know, I emailed
the desk and before literally within thirtyseconds, everyone feels the need to reply
all. I felt it in Younger, I felt it in Brooklyn, I
felt it in Montclair, New Jersey. So it was like, okay,

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you know, but anyway it was. It was a real shock because you
know, it was not something thatany of us expected. But believe it
or not, when you do alittle research, there actually is a fault
line that runs under New Jersey.It's called the Ramapo fault, and there's
a town in New Jersey called Ramapo, but it runs from southern New York
straight through New Jersey down to throughthe eastern side of Pennsylvania. And it

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actually has has become one of themost active seismic regions east of the Mississippi.
But it's just they're just not verystrong earthquakes. They had a couple
back here in New York and atlate eighteen hundreds, of late seventeen hundreds
that were about a five point twothat was stronger than this one, which
was a four point eight, butyou certainly could feel it today. I

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think I just what we just recentlythere was a news report with Taiwan and
they had something. Obviously it wasstronger than what was, you know,
being reported happening today. But man, to watch footage of that cherry,
there's just an unsettling uh oh,we lost her? Are you there?

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Hello? Uh oh? And therewe go. Oh I hope it wasn't
an after shot. Yeah, ohmy gosh. No. But I so
what I kind of think about isclearly that being reported not too long ago,
and then seeing this now there area lot of news people reporting on
this. I think I heard Clayand Buck talking about it even earlier.
Is Clay and new I think hewas in New York or Buck is in

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the I can't remember exactly. Bucksat Miami, Clayson, Tennessee. Oh,
I could have swore he was talkingabout how well Buck is from New
York. That's where it goes isadopted home. Oh okay, okay,
So yeah, they're talking about shakingbuildings from Philly to Jersey to New York
City to Connecticut to Westchester, NewYork. It is. I don't care

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how you stack it. I meanshe's down playing it, which tells me
maybe she's someone who's been through oneof these. I think I would lose
my mind if you started to feelbecause the uncertainty is you don't know if
this is just ramping up. Isthis the when you look back and maybe
it was a four point seven Youlook back and go, okay, you

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know whatever. But during real timeyou might be thinking, oh, where
are we headed here? And Idon't know, I don't care how you
stack it. That's really under imagine. Yeah, you were just in the
middle of Times Square and all ofa sudden you okay, here would be
my biggest fear. We know,in Tokyo and San Francisco and Seattle and

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places along the Pacific Rim, youhave to have very specific earthquake building codes,
right these buildings are You've got thousandfoot building tall buildings that are built
to withstand an earthquake. Yeah,they're rated for yeah whatever. Tokyo's got
the greatest infrastructure in the world.My best friend in the world lives there

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and he talks about it all thetime because he works for Amazon. And
New York City doesn't have any earthquakebuilding code provisions. The way that those
cities do. Why because it's NewYork City and they don't get earthquakes up
there except for once in a bluemoon. So what you're kind of hinting

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at here is those buildings can comedown much easier with much less happening.
Dude, A four to eight couldbe enough to take a building down in
New York I get what. Apparentlyhopefully than god it didn't. Well here's
the thing, but if it wasany stronger, if that was like a
six or above, I guarantee stuffwould have been coming down all over New
York City. Well with what thisis rated, it could have done damage

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that might not show itself for awhile. Now, look, I'm not
a wishing or what. I hopethat that's not the case. But to
your point, they are not builtto withstand really any kind of earthquake type
activity. So with that, youwonder, Okay, has has the foundation?
Better get the engineers in on thisstuff and make sure. But think

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about how many buildings or in NewYork City. Oh my, oh my
gosh, it's ridiculous. So there'sno way they're going to be able to
examine all of them. But boy, would I want I would want if
I was I was working in anyof those buildings now and so on.
I mean they're built it with standyou know, some stuff, but yeah,

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you understand what I'm saying, Likeit could have now. Now,
those buildings are built incredibly. Ifyou remember, the first attack on the
World Trade Center happened in nineteen ninetythree, members somebody drove a fertilizer truck
into like the basement the underground parkinggarage and tried to bring down the World
Trade Center. All right, thatwas the first time we saw that radical

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Islamic terrorists we're trying to do that. It was remarkable what that building was
stood and explained how they have thebasically the World Trade Center was built on
these giant, for lack of abetter term, coils, and when that
bomb went off, like the buildingkind of moved and shift, but those

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coils stabilized it. Like that's justbuilding it on their own. So I
can only imagine what other kind oftricks they have, and that what the
original World Trade Sign was built inwhat the sixties, late sixties, early
seventies. So yeah, I betI bet they have techniques and that it

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would be harder than you think actuallyto bring down the building, but a
lot easier than it would be.And like I said, San Francisco or
Tokyo, not exactly sure what happenedwith Sherry Preston there, but she it
was disconnected and then that was it. I'm like, oh, should I
have not brought up Taiwan? LikeI didn't? You know, I'm like,
I swear there was a wasn't that'swhere the earthquake was recently, right

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the seven to five? Yeah?Yeah, that was yeah, yeah,
and then they started there was tsunamiwarnings and then nothing materialized, thank god
with that. But I saw someof that footage and it was a restaurant
or a bar. It's like theyalways show footage from inside of her.
Of course that's probably because they alwayshave footage of inside like the you know,

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whatever, the footage to show andthe whole thing's like shaking, and
you're seeing these glasses like falling off, and I'm just like, oh lord,
if I'm I can't even begin toimagine going through something like that.
It's it's you never get used tothat. You can't there's no way,
you know, I have to behonest, I kind of if I was
outside like just say I was inthe middle of like no, there's nothing

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that's gonna happen, Like I'm justout in the middle of like you know,
a field. I would be Iwould be really fascinated and interested to
feel what an earthquake actually does,Like what does the I want to kind
of look what what what my bodyexperience? What would that feeling of,
like the ground moving underneath you golay down, get you a massage,
That's what you would do. Feelit's going off, You're like like,

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oh yeah, man, Deshaun Watson'sgoing to the nearest earthquake zone now