i saw that -- what i thought was a white chimney.nd stop, that will arrest my forward motion. i'll stop when i hit the chimney and land on the roof. i thought, well, this is it. and it's over. and it was -- no flashbacks. i'm dead, and that's it. i woke up in the ambulance. >> mowry reports to the tower seconds before crashing that his tail rotor isn't working. an investigation concludes that a drive belt failed, causing the helicopter to lose all hydraulic power. >> that is the absolute worst thing to happen. that is a nightmare for pilots. and i knew it was going to be really, really ugly. i just knew that we were not going to come out of it. >> mowry does a superhuman job to control crash the aircraft saving his life, his passengers' and innocent bystanders on the ground. >>> jerusalem, israel, may 24th, 2001. a city that's seen its share of tragedy is about to experience another devastating blow. it begins with the most joyous of celebrations, a wedding. nothing is too good for jaime yusef, who rents one of jerusalem's finest wed

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every chimney is different. every door is colorful. and then there is a tolerance -- people smile at you on the street, and they are always apologizing even if you bump into them. >> he is one of thousands of poles who have come to make a living from repairing colorful but damp british houses. he used to work as a painter, but the pay is better in london. >> working here is great. the english are not as demanding as the poles or the germans where everything has to be perfect. >> his english boss is happy, too. polish labor is cheaper, and he says polish labors are more precise, more sorrow, more reliable. >> they have a better work ethic, i think, in my view, in my experience. >> nevertheless, many poles working here have noticed a change in mood since the british economy has begun to slide. >> in the beginning, we were welcomed with open arms, but that has changed now. especially when more poles can than they had expected. it was not just a few thousand, but half a million right at the start, and that is just the figure -- official fi

every chimney is different. every door is colorful. and then there is a tolerance -- people smile at you on the street, and they are always apologizing even if you bump into them. >> he is one of thousands of poles who have come to make a living from repairing colorful but damp british houses. he used to work as a painter, but the pay is better in london. >> working here is great. the english are not as demanding as the poles or the germans where everything has to be perfect. >> his english boss is happy, too. polish labor is cheaper, and he says polish labors are more precise, more sorrow, more reliable. >> they have a better work ethic, i think, in my view, in my experience. >> nevertheless, many poles working here have noticed a change in mood since the british economy has begun to slide. >> in the beginning, we were welcomed with open arms, but that has changed now. especially when more poles can than they had expected. it was not just a few thousand, but half a million right at the start, and that is just the figure -- official fi

you see one of the chimneys damaged, the blocks from that chimney fell off and damaged the roof. blocks not only fell, they flew up to 50 feet away. nobody has been hurt yet. the shaking has yet to stop. >> it happens at like -- >> reporter: surveillance video at every green market shows the manager sweeping up when the shelves start to shake, bottles and cans fall and smash and the plights flash and flicker. >> i ran in the back room looking for my coworker. we got under a door jam and waited it out. >> reporter: three miles from the epicenter of the earthquake, before they felt the shaking they heard what first sounded like explosions. >> we'd hear a boom boom boom. you'd start shaking. >> reporter: the pipe coming out of a water lank at the lake almanor resort cracked and gushed. >> that's the strongest i've ever felt up here. usually it's small, little, you can feel the jolt once in a while. that was unique for our area. >> reporter: cups and dishes are shattered in some homes. pictures and mirrors fell off the walls. at least 4 fireplace chimneys on the lake almanor peninsul

. >> elsewhere chimney fell and at least four homes -- 300 homes. but it does -- >> it is just one of volatile volcanos in national park. 30 miles of vault connected to last night magnitude of 5. 7. >> this is the largest earthquakes that we have ever recorded in this area. >> sign scientists are asking rainers right now to keep an eye on hot springs and pools. >> it can stablize them. >> ash c visible for 150 miles. >> we have alarms if we start seeing increase levels of -- >> a line of poorly understood vault run from north tahoes and then onto lesson. scientists have not identified the exact vault, they're swamped with so many after shock. >> it will take us a few days trying to coming up with a better image of what vault it is on >> the region is riddled with unnamed and unknown earthquake vault. ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we have new information on a brushfire of contra kosta county. started about 11 :45 this morning near the intersection of highway freud. the fire burn all the way up to the backyard of four houses damaging fences and forcing peo

. >> some say the quake cracked plaster and toppled their chimneys. the quake is a good reminder for all of us to get prepared. just look at the top of our home page. >> the principal of the oklahoma school where seven children died says her teachers did everything they could to save lives. plaza towers principal amy simpson fought back tears addressing the media firefighter first time since the deadly twister hit describing the scene as the massive tornado passed over the school. >> in the bathroom people were quiet. people were screaming. and at that point i believe that is the only time that i yelled and i said in god's name, go away. >> police are working to stop another problem in the tornado zone, looters have made several arrests in the last couple days on the whole officials and residents say things are going very well saying clean up operations are proceeding faster than expected. >> memorial day weekend is here with a warning. dry conditions means an increased threat of wildfire. firefighters responded to a grass fire which damaged three hom

the chimney is gone but i believe that's the dryer right there.the dryer seems to be doing just fine. amazingly. things like chimneys, things like washers and dryers, they can be replaced. lives cannot. what people here care about the most is their loved ones. sons and daughters. brothers and sisters. mothers and fathers. and some of the most painful experiences over the last 24 hours have been at the schools that were affected and were in the path of this tornado. one of the schools was the briarwood school. this is a good story we have to tell you about right now with some amazing pictures, some hopeful pictures that will lift your spirits. this is of the reunions just after the storm, just after that tornado hit near the briarwood school. look at the teachers with the kids. look at parents with their kids after they found them. let's watch this video. >> all fifth graders right here! >> step over here. fifth grade! fifth graders! >> thank you. thank you. >> he was so brave. he was so brave. he was so brave. he was so brave. he was so brave. >>

take a look at some of the most dramatic damage, chimneys like this. the bricks fell on the ground and some of them are quite heavy and some of them were thrown some 50 feet away in the middle of the street. fortunately, so far, there's been no word of anybody hurt. surveillance video at the evergreen market shows the manager sweeping up for the night when the shelves start to shake, bottles and cans fall and smash. >> i ran to the back room looking for my coworker and we got under a door jamb and waited it out. >> reporter: three miles from the epicenter of the quake, people said before they felt the shake, they heard like explosion sounds. >> we heard bike a boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: the pipe coming out of a water tank at a lake almanor resort broke. >> you could feel a jolt once in a while. that was unique for your our you after-- for our area for sure. >> reporter: cups and dishes are shattered in some homes. pictures and mirrors fell off the walls. walls. >> i jumped up screaming. we hugged each other in the middle of the room. he almost got

structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is non-structural and your chimney and water tank. >> let's talk about what the structural things might be. >> and he is exactly right. you don't want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. there are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the building department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a building permit and hire a contractor. but you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i don't have to worry about going to a government shelter. >> that is the main focus that

chimney, yeah, fireplace. be aware of the fact that just because it's a wood building and the event caused some sort of compromise of the structure of the building and th

and as we can see the changes next door it will block the chimneys and so there are a lot of ways in which it does not comply with the development guidelines and you will also be hearing about the site planner or. we don't know why, of course, but for some reason, the sight plan used for the basis of the 2003 addition was eronious and it changed the relationship of the homes on either side, for example, the house with the turits was in fact put on a site plan as if it was almost four sfaoet further for award than it was that allowed them to put this new construction further, or closer to the street than it was really allowed and we don't expect this house is coming down and it does not effect the considerations and it also effects the planning commission and will be previous here because i would like him to speak and basically the planning commission, they found that the view coming down the street of the house on the corner, 601, was going to be obscured by this addition and it should be set back so that the view was not obscured. because they looked at the wrong site plan and said

you have a chimney build up. >> one of the things to point out they're using normal combustibles to start fire which is wood and straw. in the year 2006 in people's home the normal combustible is not a class a material it is class c, which is the polystyrenes and foam materials. so the natural produced on the interior of the building is greater than what you see here today. >> if we fill this with sofa and couches. >> computers, kid furniture, teddy bears. >> okay. what is happening with the one with fireproof paint. i am amazed it is reflecting the heat. put your hand on the side and it is deflecting it away. >> there is afl inside. >> can we put our hand up there. >> at your own risk. >> i can. sure i can. not gonna catch fire. so the paint reflects the heat and also i understand it foams up and makes a protective foam layer as well. it is amazing stuff. >> we will be here quite a while. >> the fire is still burning inside strongly. the first building that they had the same materials, same construction, lit them at the same time. that one is nothing left. >> yeah. >> this has yet to ign

. >> the plumas county sheriff says there is some damage to foundations, chimneys and some propane tanks and the usgs says there's a chance of a stronger quake sometime soon. >> it is possible that this could be a foreshock and sometimes we see a section of the fault break and it loads the next section slightly and the next section breaks and a similar sized earthquake or bigger or smaller. so, you know, we just have to watch. >> the strong overs aftershock so far is 4.9. >>> a powerful earthquake has also struck eastern russia today. the epicenter was in the sea of ocosk which is east of the russian coast and north of japan. russian officials say the earthquake registered 8.0 on the richter scale. usgs is reporting a magnitude of 8.2. shaking was felt almost 4,000 miles away and so far, no reports of any major damage or injuries. >>> some terrifying moments for passengers aboard a british airways in london. the plane had smoke coming from its engine that could be seen from the ground. there are speculations that the engine was struck by a bird. the passenger jet was forced to make an em

the earthquake toppled chimneys, broke desks, porches and even windows and decks. homes have flooding and water damage. the quake ruptured a tank that supplies drinking water to the area. >>> the police chief of the east palo alto holds a town meeting tonight to talk about recent violence problems. last week the chief declared a crime emergency. since then 27 arrests have been made and the crackdown focused on the nortenos street gang. there will be a meeting at 7 p.m. tonight. >>> san jose homicide detectives are looking into whether gangs played a role in the weekend killings of two teens. a 15-year-old and 16-year-old were shot to death sunday evening on reinhardt drive. police say they plan to increase patrols as part of an antigang program called the safe summer initiative. >>> a search under way for a suspect in a postal truck robbery in the east bay. it was stopped at 36th and market in oakland. feds said the thief took that as an opportunity to stash as much mail as he could in his clothes. this happened on may 13th. postal service wants this mail thief off

chimney, yeah, fireplace. be aware of the fact that just because it's a wood building and the event caused some sort of compromise of the structure of the building and the building is still standing doesn't necessarily mean there's not a danger there. so what could you as nert's do to make that situati better or at least keep it he same so no one else gets hurt? keep it off, yeah. keep people away. perfect. take out some of that yellow tape that you have, that yellow caution tape, and string it around around keep people back. in this particular case, what could you do to make that situation better? turn off the gas. where would you turn the gas off at? at the street, okay. that's a good place to do it. but you always want to do it at the safest location. so if the street is the safest location, that's where you would do it at. this house here fell over. doesn't have something called a sheer wall. so it's just a platform or a platform or a balloon, nothing that keeps the wall from racking, they call it. so you

building to the building at 615, as you can see, when the addition goes up, it is going to block those chimney and in fact it always touches. eves of that building. mr. dean who has been involved in this process who is one of the owners of that building is not here tonight and that is because, because of this proposed project he has sold his home and the new owners asked not to participate in this matter. so, that is why they are not here tonight. i would like to emphasize what happened ten years ago. i don't know and pam shields also could not be here and a few other neighbors as well. none of the adjacent neighbors support the project they all support this appeal. and as you know from john, pam's submital to you last week they were part of the negotiations of the four discretionary review applications ten years ago and they confirmed that they made an agreement to take away the proposed extra story, and that is now being proposed again, they feel that it is a violation of good faith, the appellants had just purchased their property in 2002, and so they were very aware of the negotiations as

steep terrain like this acts like a chimney. that house is in real jeopardy. fisher sprayed down his house in an effort to save it from the flames. >> i've invested a lot in this house and a lot of time and memories, and i don't want to lose it. >> reporter: 4,000 homes are currently under threat. 15 of them have been damaged. but astonishingly, none of them destroyed. and firefighters here are doing everything they can to keep it that way, david. >> extraordinary work there on the front lines from the firefighters. david wright, thank you. >>> fire in the west, but across the heartland tonight, snow, as we showed you a moment ago. a winter wonderland in may. here's abc meteorologist ginger zee tonight. >> this is -- this is unbelievable. >> reporter: unbelievable and unprecedented. at least in recorded history. arkansas has never had snow in may until today. >> it snowed last night. i can't believe it. it's may 3rd. >> the game has been postponed. >> reporter: and in kansas city, they were snowed out. two baseball games, royally interrupted. records from okla

chimneys cracked. houses ripped apart. the outside of the homes completely leveled.ghborhood is not standing anymore. it's completely gone. >> waiting for dawn, hoping against hope for more survivors in moore, oklahoma. >> 2 1/2 hours until daybreak. we'll get a much clearer sense when the lights come out. >> thank you for joining us through the late evening and the early morning hours. i'm suzanne malveaux. our colleagues from early start are on the ground and they'll have that next. >>> at this hour, search teams are looking for signs of life among this debris. >> a direct hit. one elementary school in the path of the enormous twister completely flattened. and this morning, seven young students confirmed dead. and there is a desperate search for survivors. it is continuing. >> everything is gone.

human beings all over the world human beings all over the world if you drop drones down people's chimneys if you destroy their infrastructure if you cause them to not be able to get any medical supplies as well as the u.k. u.s. led coalition sanctions throughout the one thousand nine hundred in iraq that people are going to be angry people are going to be upset if you blow people up if you destroy their lives destroy their families destroy their cities destroy their infrastructure they're going to be angry so this is just a natural thing if you go around poking fun at cessna around the world you're going to get stung in a very terrible way and until we understand that we really are not going to have any success in quality these miners and of course the army what if what the army the engineers their capital they don't build malls they they break things and blow up people how on earth could they possibly rebuild something is like asking a wrecking ball to be an architect right i mean of war you get terror i mean war is terror so it's just an absurd concept to be fighting a war on a tactic t

three homes sustained moderate damage including cracked plaster and collapsed chimneys. usgs says it doesn't know what the fault line was on. that determination the might never be made. we asked are you prepared for an emergency? you can get the list on abc 7 news.com. >> the city of san francisco has agreed to set aside $4 million to pay for damage claims related to a february water maybe break. 25 homes and several cars were damaged in the neighborhood. city work crews dug up a nearby street several times before the main fail. erosion. does have a history officials are investigating whether the work damaged the pipe before it burst. so far, 27 damaged claims have been filed against the city. >> cal fire issuing a warning. warm, dry windy weather increased the fire danger in this area. a three-acre brush fire raced up the hill. >> i've been here five and a half years and never had problems. >> your house is stand something. >> yes. it's a good thing. >> if when water warms up not to have barbecues and just have situational awareness at all times. >> cal fire reports the

the quake knocked things off of shelves, brought pictures down even wrecked some chimneys. fortunately no one was hurt. >>> fortunately at 10:45, keep on the look out. why scientists are asking park rangers near where that earthquake struck to keep their eyes open especially during the holiday weekend. >>> now to our continuing coverage of that bridge collapse along i5 up in washington state. tonight the investigation is focused on a key piece of video showing a truck slowed bumping against the frame work of the bridge moments before it plunged into the river. reporter lee stoner joining us now with reports from that video. >> reporter: 24 hours after this happened nothing has changed at the scene here. behind me this mangled mess. investigators spent every moment of daylight trying to figure out how to get this mess out of the river. surveillance video shows the collision was so powerful the bridge buckled in a matter of seconds. >> we shared it with the bridge patrol. and we were here until midnight allowing them to view the video. >> reporter: trapping two cars and three

broken and toppled chimneys were the most common problem. there were also broken decks and windows.as actually lifted off of its foundation. >>> tracking moisture into the bay area right now. may see wet weather for the early morning hours. pointing out showers moving in. mostly to the north bay. look at this stuff in portland that's really coming up. radar is picking up a little something here. i have had reports of showers out toward the cardenas stray. i think we have a shot of light scattered sprinkles. tomorrow morning a little bit of wet weather. not a big deal but enough to may be slow you down especially on the golden gate bridge and areas north up by san rafael. here's the system i'm tracking it's weak but changes things around. as we get to 10:00, these temperatures just start to rise. here's your computer model as we head into tomorrow morning. here we are 5:00 a.m., you can almost see the tail end of the front and you see the moisture here. 5:00a.m., 4:00 a.m. that's your best chance for a few sprinkles. sal and mark will get here at around 4:00 in the morning. 8:00a.m.

the quake knocked things off of shelves, brought pictures down even wrecked some chimneys. fortunately no one was hurt. >>> fortunately at 10:45, keep on the look out. why scientists are asking park rangers near where that earthquake struck to keep their eyes open especially during the holiday weekend. >>> now to our continuing coverage of that bridge collapse along i5 up in washington state. tonight the investigation is focused on a key piece of video showing a truck slowed bumping against the frame work of the bridge moments before it plunged into the river. reporter lee stoner joining us now with reports from that video. >> reporter: 24 hours after this happened nothing has changed at the scene here. behind me this mangled mess. investigators spent every moment of daylight trying to figure out how to get this mess out of the river. surveillance video shows the collision was so powerful the bridge buckled in a matter of seconds. >> we shared it with the bridge patrol. and we were here until midnight allowing them to view the video. >> reporter: trapping two cars and three

broken and toppled chimneys were the most common problem. there were also broken decks and windows. one house was actually lifted off of its foundation. >>> tracking moisture into the bay area right now. may see wet weather for the early morning hours. pointing out showers moving in. mostly to the north bay. look at this stuff in portland that's really coming up. radar is picking up a little something here. i have had reports of showers out toward the cardenas stray. i think we have a shot of light scattered sprinkles. tomorrow morning a little bit of wet weather. not a big deal but enough to may be slow you down especially on the golden gate bridge and areas north up by san rafael. here's the system i'm tracking it's weak but changes things around. as we get to 10:00, these temperatures just start to rise. here's your computer model as we head into tomorrow morning. here we are 5:00 a.m., you can almost see the tail end of the front and you see the moisture here. 5:00a.m., 4:00 a.m. that's your best chance for a few sprinkles. sal and mark will get here at around 4:00 in the mornin

. >> the same water that was pooling around the chimney seeks to have conducted the lightning into his bike. >> i'm just glad i wasn't hit by the bolt itself. that was -- that was some pretty scary stuff. >> james feels like himself again only after a few minutes, but the experience leaves him shaken. >> it has been a long time since i've been scared that bad. >> every time i hear a thundercloud, even one in the distance, i can remember the feeling of being in that moment. >> few people know what it feels like to come in conduct with lightning. but another person who can relate is sam hall. >> to get hit by lightning, the feeling is -- it's pretty much undescribable because it happened so fast. you just feel the rush, the current travel through your body. i was worried that i would be paralyzed. >> barker, new york, for sam and his girlfriend, kim, october 3, 2008, began as an ordinary day. they were unphased by the darkening skies above. >> we get a lot of rain around here, so you really don't think much about the skies. >> we had some errands to do, so jumped into the truck and came

steep terrain acts like chimney. the house is in real jeopardy. >> sprayed down his house in an effort to save it from the flames. >> invest a lot in this house. don't want to lose it. >> 4000 homes are currently under threat. 15 have been damaged but amazingly none of them destroyed. firefighters here are doing everything they cap to keep it that way. david wright abc news along the pacific coast highway in california. >> back up here in northern california in hillsboro major fire has damaged 2 homes one of them pretty seriously. flames burst out of one house open black mountain road late today. the fire reached the attic and torched nearby trees. san bruno firefighters laid down several streams of water in order to beat back the flames. as you can imagine the owner was just stunned. >> my wife called me. i ran. i was down if burling game. i flew up and popped over the if if he says. i saw my back unit burning up and then flames coming through. fichlt garden hose to help put out the pfeiffer fire. >> fire spread dam

you know, there was a lot of areas that was nothing but flat land and a chimney or the front steps. it became kind of a moon scape after awhile. >> as i finally went back home, of course, all of the power is out so it's very dark and kind of eerie and quiet. all you see is just the flowing embers from the sky. i don't think a lot of people slept that night. >> reporter: the explosion and fire ultimately take eight lives and destroy 38 homes. yet many believe an even greater tragedy was averted. >> what amazed me in seeing the fireball at the time and that huge explosion, you thought there would be so many more people who would have died and i think the only saving grace is people were still on their way home and they waern in bed at the time when the explosion happened. >> but credit is also due to a dedicated group of firefighters who faced the danger head-on. >> you just do what you're trained to do and what your experience tells you to do and, you know, i can proudly say that the first initial engine companies made a stance. we made a decision to stop this fire and not let it go

. >> the plumas county sheriff says there is some damage to foundations, chimneys and some propane tanksnd the usgs says there's a chance of a stronger quake sometime soon. >> it is possible that this could be a foreshock and sometimes we see a section of the fault break and it loads the next section slightly and the next section breaks and a similar sized earthquake or bigger or smaller. so, you know, we just have to watch. >> there have been more than 40 aftershocks, the strongest 4.9. >>> a powerful earthquake has also struck eastern russia today. the epicenter was in the sea of okhosk which is east off the russian coast. shaking was felt almost 4,000 miles away. no reports of damage or injuries. but mother nature is kind of shaking things up today. >> a little bit. >> doesn't that give you a nice easy feeling when they say they don't know if there's something bigger coming? >> yeah, sure. [ laughter ] >> i know. that's scary. >> makes me nervous. >> we have to be aware of that here in the bay area because earthquakes are part of our lives. >>> outside it's a quiet beginning to the mo