now, a lot of people look across canyon land, say, in southeast utah where this picture is, and it's not really clear how you get around, how you get from place to place. but if you know this place well enough you know right over this lip of white sandstone, if you go right over the ledge and hang your foot over this side, you can't see it but you can feel it with the tip of your foot, there's a little toe hold down there, then if you get on that toe hold you drop your other foot down and there's another toe hold. it happens a thousand years ago somebody carved just a series of toe holds down this rock face. and you climb down those and they lead to a ledge and the ledge wraps around underneath here and it drops down into another spot that you go through a saddle and around to the other side and through another saddle and down and around. it's this circuitous route that's constantly carrying you down deeper and deeper and this is the landscape is just covered with these. i don't take maps out there any more out into this place because it's all memory. this place is the map. i went do

>> well, it's a very rocky high desert canyon land. it's about 5,700 feet in elevation.n the humboldt national forest in northeastern nevada right near the border with idaho. it's kind of near idaho or yemen, nevada. and they've had the snowiest winter that they've hab sid 1979. and the u.s. forest service says no one goes there in winter. rita was lucky because two people did go in there on an atv and found her, and they had to travel nine miles on the atv to get actual cell service so they could call for help. so it's really a desolate area. she's very, very lucky that she was found. but she did -- she did a lot of things right. she stayed by the van. she kept warm. she kept herself hydrated. there was a lot of snow around there. she melted snow and kept herself hydrated. she didn't have a lot to eat. she lost about 20 or 30 pounds. >> i'll tell you. they're certainly glad to have their mom home this mother's day. lynne terry, thanks so much for the details of this story. we appreciate them. >> you're welcome. >>> the mississippi river continues to rie s ts to rise. we

canyon in his custom made jet suit. he was a born for over eight minutes before landing on the canyon floor. >>> just before sunrise, take a look at the morning sky. you may be able to see mercury, venus, mars and jupiter all clustered together. the planets will dance around in different configurations throughout the month. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,760, the nasdaq rose 28. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei was up 45 points but in hong kong, the hang seng dropped 44. after last week's giant commodities sell-off, china eased wall street's fears about global growth tuesday while paving the way for more american business. china not only posted an april trade surplus nearly four times better than expected, it agreed to open up its government contracts for more u.s. companies and let u.s. banks sell mutual funds there. >>> microsoft's mega deal to buy skype for $8.5 million fueled trade, but not microsoft. on the other hand, shares of ebay, which owns a large stake in skype, rose 2.5%. >>> a surprise departure by the ceo of

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i mean you might as well talk about you know selling off the grand canyon as he would be talking about signing off pristine public lands and utah which the state's always been known for and when the congressman first made his comments i mean we reported about it we just thought it was absurd we're going to utah would require. one this local reporter asked the governor i mean i was just shocked to see him start to make the case that privatization might actually be better he said things like oh maybe indian burial grounds will be better in private hands or maybe you know the sort of the. sure yeah yeah exactly he then i mean this is a man and i mean this is this is what we're seeing all over the country right now and it's a trend across sectors were saying republicans want to privatizing medicare we're seeing unfortunately a bipartisan consensus on education it's a huge part of keeping education we're seeing public universities there to. which is go up and be privatized and we're seeing privatization across the board what we're really saying are you know the day is an assault on democracy because with them obviously mean

land of the free is and free. so - he was working and she was sort of keeping us from collapsing into the canyon of doom but i thought i don't know what i want to do yet, but the least i can do is bring some dough into the household and i had always heard people die, you got and deliver tips, you've got which twenties in your pocket, right on. so i went to apply for a job as a pizza guy and it turned out to don't apply for a job as a pizza guy, you sign up for a job as a pizza died and they told me go over to the training and then come back. i came home with $100 a night, that would keep you floating for a bid, and what occurred was it became very evident to me quickly that a pizza guide delivers pizza so they can buy gas so they can deliver more pizza so they can buy gas and deliver more pizza. it didn't take me that long to figure that out. i thought there was something going on here because the pizza guys i was delivering with they were all great dudes, but the math wasn't working out with them, and it became very apparent to me very quickly and i thought to myself that must be because of this sort of good bit of

land, yes. >> reporter: or horse. >> reporter: investigators say 7 people were in the pickup truck when it somehow tumbled off the side of the road to, rolling over several times down a canyon. it's not known where the passengers were sitting in the truck when the accident happened. there are 60,000 acres of open space in this district between highway 280 and the coast in san mateo county. nearby, department of correction inmates were working to clear brush. >> it is routine work. we do a lot of restoration of our lands. it's part of our basic mission to restore the land. >> reporter: they are not releasing the names of the dead and injured nor are they telling us the name of the private contractor they hired. tonight the highway patrol is investigating how this accident happened. >> linda, you know, from the helicopter video, that pickup truck didn't look like a standard cab. looked like it had a back seat but they are not telling you whether everybody was in the cab, are they? >> reporter: no. they are not saying too much. in fact, because communication are so bad in that remote area, they can't even get a confirmed number until late this afternoon. so all those kinds of

landing shopping area were among those left in the dark. >>> we are on storm watch tonight with scattered showers still in the area. this is a look at the snow at blue canyon. ktvu's chief meteorologist bill martin says the higher elevations have seen more than a foot of snow in the last 24 hour. he says another 6-inches could fall by morning. >>> here is more evidence of the wet spring we're having. you are looking at thousands of cubic feet of water spreading over party dam. the reservoir is along the calav eras. the water is caught in reservoirs downstream. >>> it's been a couple of wet days out there. some areas as much as a half inch. right now it's raining in concord, it's raining in moraga and lafayette. we have showers in antioch. we'll back out a little bit and head toward the south bay. we have more showers in san jose downtown. showers have been moderate to heavy at times. when i come back i'm going to show you the computer model. we'll time out the remnants and give you the long range forecast. >>> crews returned to work today them away from the job site yesterday and sunday. caltrans showed us these photos of snow covered equipment. the recent

land, yes. >> investigators say seven people were in the pickup truck when it somehow tumbled off the side of the road rolling over several times down a canyon. it is not known where the passengers were sitting in the truck when the accident happened. there are 60,000 acres of open space in this district between highway 280 and the coast in san mateo county. nearby department of correction inmates were working to clear brush. >> it is routine work. we do a lot of restoration of our lands. it is part of our basic mission to restore the land. >> reporter: they are not releasing the names or identifying the dead person or the injured but tonight the district did tell me that this crew they hired has done the work here in this area before so they are familiar with this remote site. tonight, dana, the highway patrol is investigating. >> seven people in the truck. it is a big truck. they were all inside the cab, correct? >> reporter: they were probably all in the cab when it rolled over. but we are not getting any of those specific details yet. >> linda yee, thank you. >>> friends of a teenager sholt and killed in oakland vow that he will not be f

landing shopping area were among those left in the dark. >>> we are on storm watch tonight with scattered showers still in the area. this is a look at the snow at blue canyongist bill martin says the higher elevations have seen more than a foot of snow in the last 24 hour. he says another 6-inches could fall by morning. >>> here is more evidence of the wet spring we're having. you are looking at thousands of cubic feet of water spreading over party dam. the reservoir is along the calav eras. the water is caught in reservoirs downstream. >>> it's been a couple of wet days out there. some areas as much as a half inch. right now it's raining in concord, it's raining in moraga and lafayette. we have showers in antioch. we'll back out a little bit and head toward the south bay. we have more showers in san jose downtown. showers have been moderate to heavy at times. when i come back i'm going to show you the computer model. we'll time out the remnants and give you the long range forecast. >>> crews returned to work today after snow kept them away from the job site yesterday and sunday. caltrans showed us these photos of snow covered equipment. the recent storm d

man in the grand cany canyon, the swiss adventurer yves rossy dropped almost 200 mile an hour in the jet suit. he zoomed around eight minutes before parachuting to a safe landing over to marysol castro. >> good morning, everyone at home. as we show you the national picture. heat and precipitation. we have a little rain in the northwest, a little rain in the northeast. take a look at the nation's mid section. we are contending with severe storms in the midwest. those storms bringing gusty winds to the midland. that same storm is responsible for gusty winds in and around >>> this weather report sponsored by preen, preen stops weeds before they start. visit preen.com. >> thanks so much. >> thanks so much, that's your latest weather. now back to the nation's capitol to check in with erica. >> hundreds of schools competed in the obama's administration race to the top challenge. the big prize here, a commencement address from the president himself. the winner was announced on tuesday. it is booker t. washington high in memphis, tennessee. it has been dramatically lowering its dropout rate, all the while preparing its students for the future. we're joined by the prin