. >>> leaving the fertile plains of the punjab behind, i'm headed out towards the himalayas.n the last hundred years. [ moo ] all aboard. ♪ this is going to be suboptimal seating. i don't think this reclines. thank god they have relaxed attitudes towards prescription drugs. before you enter the gateway to the himalayas, you better self-medicate. ♪ meanwhile, i have been like 24 hours without a bite of food. i arrive, it's like oh, there's snacks on the way. great. get a bag of peanuts. >> truth be told, i'm an angry bitter man when i board. i'm guessing there ain't a p.f. chang on the way. kind of cute. a little train. it's so little. the universal tourist. go on the king kong ride. while my stomach growls, i become the kind of traveller i warn against. gripy, self-absorbed, immune to my surroundings. but as my brightly colored little train heads up into the hills from kalka station, known as the gateway to the himalayas, my world view starts to improve. the naturally bright colors of india start to pleasurably saturate my brain. the views from the window of ridiculously deep

. >>> leaving the fertile plains of the punjab behind, i'm headed out towards the himalayas.moo ] all aboard. ♪ this is going to be suboptimal seating. i don't think this reclines. thank god they have relaxed attitudes towards prescription drugs. before you enter the gateway to the himalayas, you better self-medicate. ♪ meanwhile, i have been like 24 hours without a bite of food. i arrive, it's like oh, there's snacks on the way. great. get a bag of peanuts. >> truth be told, i'm an angry bitter man when i board. i'm guessing there ain't a p.f. chang on the way. kind of cute. a little train. it's so little. the universal tourist. go on the king kong ride. while my stomach growls, i become the kind of traveller i warn against. gripy, self-absorbed, immune to my surroundings. but as my brightly colored little train heads up into the hills from kalka station, known as the gateway to the himalayas, my world view starts to improve. the naturally bright colors of india start to pleasurably saturate my brain. the views from the window of ridiculously deep valleys, hundred-year-old b

if you're at the top of the himalayas, you can see the development of industry in india. you can see when lead was put into gasoline. you can see when legislation was passed to remove it. anything that's in the air gets recorded. and perhaps, with the ice cores, probably the thing that really makes them unique is that they record the history of the earth's atmosphere. and you can see how the earth's atmosphere has changed through time. and our limitations is just interpreting how that recorder is working. when i came to ohio state university, i was prettyonvinced i was going to become a coal geologist. because, having grown up in west virginia, i could see -- one of the reasons of going to college was to get a job. and i could see the application there. in my first quarter here, i got a little note in my mailbox that said, "how would you like to work for a research program "in the institute of polar studies, looking at ice cores?" and so i took this position. it took me about a year, year and a half, to really start to realize what was archived in those ice cores, or the

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weather brought to you by >>> an american researcher exploring the himalayas is thankful to be alived far from help. >> a small patch of sky was his guiding light and inch by inch he pulled himself out documenting the whole ordeal the all along. >> reporter: this is a survival selfie. >> this arm i can't use. >> reporter: this man from kentucky is in the middle of the himalayas and in a whole world of trouble, leading a research team and hiking alone on a relatively flat snow field. the experienced climber has just fallen 70 feet into a crevasse, a deep crack in the ice, landing on a ledge three feet wide. with a broken arm and ribs, that thin wedge of blue sky is his only way out. >> i was getting hypothermic five minutes of being in there. the only thing that was going to save me is fighting to get out. before it got dark. >> reporter: the decisions he will make could mean life or death. >> i can't go that way at all. >> my reaction when i looked at it is can this be real? >> it was far too unpleasant a place to be to get to to try to fake for sure. >> reporter: these stories of su

he was mountaineering in the himalayas. john is an associate professor of geography and geology at western kentucky university, doing some research, taking some snow samples and he fell 70 feet and the crevasse doesn't stop there. it goes down to what looks like some sort of abyss. >> trapped here on this ledge. my arm, i can't use. >> he's able to sort of latch on to a ledge. >> somehow climb out that way. >> oh. is he alone? >> he's by himself, yeah. his arms are messed up. his ribs are messed up. >> i can't go that way at all. >> that's like certain death. >> you can see how he was kind of wedged here was kind of wedged here watch him. >> i fell from this ledge. oh. >> you can see, you c hear the agonizg pai he trying to move his articles and legs. >> how the [ bleep ] do i get back up there, though? >> somehow john was about to get to the top by himself and make it back to his tent. he was eventually airlifted to a hospital in nepal. after all this, we've been able to actually track john down from nepal. he's joining us

license plate man wanted to raise awareness of the himalayas he's adorable and active i want to thank united airlines and the red ferry fleet. next we've got a monk can he the greyhounds of the primate family the fastest monkey in the world up to 35 mile-per-hour that's been years since the san francisco zoo has a monkey so i urge you to find the he or she pr moving to our spanish language map as we reach out to others and varies you part of our community that was a pro bono project and they took the map and translated all the items and local always in spanish weeping we'll be working think 0 a man doctrine and chinese one over the memorial day's we'll be host a temporary exhibit this was sponsored by a unanimous demeanor and those are made from the debris of the lasting ocean this jelly fish is made from debris and this features the zoo view open is patrick ocean and lastly our fundraiser on june 6th the zoo is open for the night and had families this is available on the website. that concludes my report. >> any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed commi

he was mountaineering in the himalayas. he's a professor doing some research, taking some snow samples and he fell 70 feet. and it doesn't stop there. it goes down to what looks like some sort of abyss. he's able to sort of latch on to a ledge. >> climb out that way. >> is he alone? >> he's by himself, yeah. his arms are messed up. his ribs are messed up. >> can't go that way at all. >> that's like certain death. >> you can see how he was kind of wedged here. watch. >> oh. >> you can see -- you can hear the agonizing pain he's in as he's trying to move his arms and legs. i got to get back up there, though. >> somehow john was able to get to the top by himself and make it back to his tent. he was eventually airlifted to a hospital in nepal. >> oh. >> after all this, we have been able to actually track john down from nepal. he's joining us "right this minute." john, first, tell us how did this happen. how did you fall down in the hole there and how long were you there? ain and came across a the crevasse. i caught on the ledge

. >> john all fell 70 feet through this crevasse in the himalayas. >> thankfully i didn't keep falling. >> doing some research. he's a professor at western kentucky university. >> i got to get back up there though. >> john has posted some additional videos from his crazy climb. >> my right arm i can't use it anymore. >>. i can't talk because i have a broken rib or my chest is filled with blood or something. i fell all the way down there. i crawled out. >> you can see in this video, even this crazy moment he's crazy injured he can mark out his path. >> i have to crawl through there, try to climb up through this thing. >> in a number of times through these videos he says -- >> i'm so close. >> he's climbing out of his grave. >> you look up and see light. >> all the way up over up over. [ bleep ] close. [ bleep ] i just got to go a little further. i can do it. >> despite his insane amount of injuries he got out of the crevasse. we had john on our show and talking to him about how he got us. >> i knew if i fell any time or tired four or five hours, i would fall to the bottom of the crevass

he turned to technology and facebook when he got stuck and eight crevasse in the himalayas. >> 21 metersnside the himalayan crevasse. alone, a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder and broken ribs. the aspects were dire. i have to somehow climb out that way. >> using his uninjured legs, that is what he did. with only [indiscernible] and the rest of his team asleep he turned to a platform he knew would get global attention. facebook. his messages read called -- please call will bull rescue. butng inside feels bitter so cold. longest night ever. >> i could not move my right arm. i was in piercing agony. my ribs were hurting badly. it was difficult to breathe. i know i was going to die. there was no way to get out of a crevasse like this. people who fall in do not live. >> john was part of a scientific team looking at the climb -- climate effect on mountain areas. his team left him in what he described as a safe zone. >> i had looked over the edge ito the abyss and i die -- knew that is not where i wanted to be. i can appreciate living and being with my friends and family. nepal.s in >> tomo

they are an endangered species, native to the eastern himalayas and southwestern china.ere's less than 10,000 left in the wild. the san francisco zoo board member and philanthropist barry lithin and his wife marie won the naming rights with the $31,000 pledge to the zoo. >> we have chosen the name tenst en. -- denzen. >> he was named after the famed sherpa who scaled mount everest in 1953. red pandas grow to the size of a house cat not counting its small bushy tail >>> our chief meteorologist bill martin sat down with president obama to talk one-on-one about california's drought. we asked if the president agrees with the governor's plan to loosen environmental standards to protect our water supply and what solutions the president thinks will work. bill is the only bay area meteorologist to talk about the president. that interview tonight at 5:00. >>> thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. we're always on, on ktvu.com. follow us on twitter and facebook. thank you for watching. >> the following program contains actual video of real animal emergencies and is suitab

on monday in the himalayas, he fell into a crevasse in a mountain ice sheet.s injured and bleeding. the only way out was a climb of about seven stories. after some five hours of struggle, not only did he make it, he brought this incredible video with him. i'll be speaking with him later tonight 8:00 p.m. eastern when i fill in for anderson cooper. >>> also i want to remind you about a special show coming up soon on cnn, a new series from executive producers tom hanks and gary gutsman, "the '60s." set premier for next tuesday night only here on cnn. that's it for me. see you in one hour. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> next, nightmare in the sky. two united airlines flights full of passengers come within seconds of a mid-air collision. >>> plus, ten years after she vanished, a woman reappears. she says she was kidnapped. but some who know her don't buy it. >>> and another nba owner under fire for comments about race. it is because he you used the word "hoodie"? let's go "outfront." >> good evening, i'm brianna keilar in for erin

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incredible survival story from a kentucky college professor who fell 70 feet into a icy crevasse in the himalayas. john all landed on a narrow ledge where he could see just a thin slice of blue sky above. he suffered a broken arm and ribs but still managed to climb his way out, capturing the whole thing on camera. >> i was getting hypothermic within five minutes of being there. and the only thing that was going to keep me alive was constantly moving and fighting my way out before it got dark. >> it took about six hours to make it out. he had to crawl to his tent to call for some help. he had to wait for another day for the rescuers to arrive. >>> portions of a major interstate in southern alabama are closed this morning after a major fire. two tractor-trailers collided on a bridge in the mobile area and burst into flames. one of those drivers was killed. the trucks were reportedly hauling oil and grease which leaked into the river. >>> it's hard to believe from this video, but the driver of the car right there, is actually okay. the woman was just learning to drive a stick shift, when the car she

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. >>> a brush with death for a climber in the himalayas and it was all caught on his cell phone camera[ indiscernible ] hole -- [ heavy breathing. >> thankfully i didn't keep falling. >> yeah. 44-year-old geology professor john all was gathering snow samples on mount himlung in nepal. the ground beneath him gave way but thankfully, he caught a ledge on the way down and with a broken arm, four broken ribs, he used his iceaxe to climb nearly 80 feet back to the top. >> i thought, you know, well, do i want to die? it was just no, i don't want to die. >> poor weather delayed a helicopter rescue until the next day. he spent the night in icu at a local hospital and eventually left the hospital early against doctor's orders. all says that he is already preparing for his next adventure in peru. >> wow. not to be denied. >> got to have an iceaxe when you need it. >> never know when you need it. >>> we don't need an ice pick where paul deanno is tonight. he is in danville with mobile weather. he is on the patio the brass rail checking out the restaurant. >> reporter: it is a lively scene because

this is native to the himalayas. you can see him saturday. >> he is going to be one popular resident. >> he is adorable. >> cute. >> i love that tail. >>> a junk drawer danger. old batteries could be a touch away from burning your house down. but the simple storage tips that could save lives. ,, batteries, and you've got a cipe for disaster. >>> every home has a junk drawer in the kitchen, right? toss in a couple of nine volt batteries and you have a recipe for disaster! on the consumerwatch, julie watts hears from one homeowner who learned that near fatal lesson. >> i have a fire! i need the fire department here. >> inside your house? >> yes, inside my house. >> reporter: dave miller never forget the day his house burned down. the culprit? something that was supposed to protect his family from fire. >> i had just recently changed the batteries in my smoke detectors. >> reporter: but shortly after he tossed the nine volt batteries into a paper bag for recycling. >> two batteries touched together and burned down my ho

. >> a college professor from kentucky is alive after a 70- foot fall in the himalayas. despite broken ribs and a prone arm he was able to climb back up the wall of snow to get to the tent. it took him five years. he was doing climate research. once he recovers he's heading to peru to continue his work. >>> pope francis has arrived in jordan on a throw day visit to the middle east. he arrived in jordan and accompanied by a clerk from his home country. the pope thanked jordan for welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the civil war in syria and he called for greater protections for christians across the middle east. >>> e-bay is telling everyone to change their website. they access the personal addresses, they were able to get the passwords of all e-bay users. e-bay has asked people to change their passwords. >>> california chrome has nerves of steel. he ran by a cat sized possum on the track. he is going to try to win the triple crown coming up on june 7th. >>> people were hoping to catch the glimpse of a meteor shower. fogs and clouds obscured the view in s

. >> reporter: john all from kentucky is in the middle of the himalayas and in a whole world of troubleely flat snow field the experienced climber had just fallen 70 feet into a crevasse a deep crack in the ice landing on a ledge just three feet wide. with a broken arm and ribs that thin wedge of blue sky you see is his only way out. >> i was getting hypothermic within five minutes of being there and the only thing that was going to keep me alive was constantly moving and fighting my way up before it got dark. >> reporter: he records the decisions he must make. they could mean life or death. >> oh, i can't go that way at all. >> my reaction when i looked at it was can this be real. >> it was far too unpleasant to be and to get to try and fake for sure. >> reporter: these stories of survival are the stuff of blockbusters into the void gave us a glimpse of plunging to almost certain death. >> this marks 24 hours of being stuck. >> reporter: in 127 hours we saw the determination and grit needed to get out. it took six hours to climb out of there another day for help to arrive. once upon a

compliment. >> it's a big compliment. >> and sherpas are presumed dead after an avalanche in the himalayas while stranded in a hole alone thinking he was going to die. clarissa ward has more on this video. this is amazing. >> reporter: it is. john likes to live life on the edge but earlier this week he discovered just how dangerous that can be. >> i fell through the hole. thankfully i didn't keep falling. >> reporter: this is where 44-year-old john all fond himself on monday, 70 feet below the surface of the himalayan mountains, alone, still breathing and with a cell phone camera in hand. >> i got trapped here. this ledge, my army can't use. >> reporter: that ledge saved his life below him another 300 feet. the western kentucky university geology professor was studying the effects of climate change gathering snow samples on the 23,000 foot mountain in north central nepal when the ground beneath him gave way. with a broken arm, four broken ribs and two dislocated shoulders, he used what strength he had left to crawl toward the sunlight. >> i thought, do i want to die? no, i don't want to di

following a dangerous 70-foot fall in the himalayas.is own escape from what he thought was certain death. katy tur has the story behind this dramatic video. >> reporter: john all is an experienced climber, but during his trek up the snowy himalayas, that's when it took a turn for the worse. that's when he took out his phone and started recording. >> [ bleep ]. i fell through the hole. >> reporter: it's about as close as you can come to death. >> thankfully i didn't keep falling that way. >> reporter: scientist john all fell 70 feet. >> trapped here instead. on this ledge. my arm, i can't use. >> reporter: into a crevasse while climbing in the himalayas. >> somehow climb out that way. >> reporter: his body repeatedly climbing into walls of ice, he broke his arm, five ribs and dislocated his shoulder. looking around, option weren't good. climbing out seemed nearly impossible. he may have survived the fall, but living to tell the tale looked unlikely. >> got to stop on this ledge. >> reporter: after six agonizing hour, all says he managed

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meet the red panda named after the sherpa who conducted sir edmund hillary to the top of the himalayas. his debut will be featured on animal planet's treehouse masters next month. a new habitat was constructed for him. isn't he cute? >> looks like he's enjoying his digs. >>> i don't think i've ever seen anything like that. >> adorable. >> some of you probably aren't going to want to see what we have coming for tomorrow. it's a big-time change after today. after sunny skies and 70s. >>> i'm gerard moncure. the giants and a's face tight ball games today. and with the dust settling on mark jackson's firing, a report on the top contender to replace him. >>> south bay drivers are used to seeing heavy traffic on parkways and highways. the area is one of the worse in the country for congestion. one of the reasons why? more people are living and working in the south bay. and despite more cars on the road, city officials say san jose has never been safer for driving. in tonight's reality check, sam brock goes behind the numbers to fact check that claim. >> it sounds counter intuitive. san jose

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. >> while conducting climate research, always hiking alone on a mountain in the himalayas and landedeet wide. his face bloody. he suffered several broken ribs and a fractured arm from the terrifying fall. the professor made a life-saving decision to climb out his camera in tow. >> i hurt bad, but i got to get out. funny the amount of damage the body can take and still function pretty well. the pain was wonderful, let's put it that way because i was at least alive to feel the pain. >> it took around five agonizing hours to reach the top with an axe, where the professor was later rescued. all's family still want believe he made it out life life. >> he could have been a goner for sure, if you look at the video he could have just kept on going down. and i don't see how you get out of that. i mean, if you look at the sky i don't know how you get up there if you don't have one of your arms functioning. >> jason carroll, cnn, new york. >> he is now recovering in kathmandu in nepal. i spoke to him earlier by skype. >> hey, john, i understand against the advice of your doctors you left the ho

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every year hundreds of people head to the himalayas hoping to make the trek above 29,000 feet. then patch last month an avalanche killed more than a dozen sherpa the deadliest disaster in the mountain's recorded history. hundreds of sher's a are now refusing to work and a lot of climbers have headed home. the but the first american reached the roof of the world 51 years ago today. >> i'm john scott in for shepard smith. "your world" is coming up next. thank you for joining us today. [bell ringing] ♪ >>> you remember that? "call me" by blondie. i'm the only one here who remembers it. i it was at the top of the billboard charts, father a faucet was a hot star, dallas was number one and j.r. eulogy was captivating the nation, and ronald reagan would capture the white house and would be name the "time magazine" map -- man of the year, and i was just graduating from college. i was 40 years

an american professor hiking in the himalayas survived after plummeting 70 feet into an ice crevasse.ling that way. i got trapped here instead. this ledge. my arm, i can't use. i'm going to have to somehow climb out that way. >> that fall left him a bloodied broken mess, bloodied face, broken arm. he still managed to crawl out. even had broken ribs. he was able to video the entire ordeal. apparently it took him something like four or five hours to get out and it was another 16 hours before a rescue helicopter came to get him. he is fine. some bruises and breaks. >> the whole thing in focus. that's a guy who knows how to shoot video, amazing stuff. >>> a quick programming note. coming to cnn, a new series from executive producers tom hanks. the '60s. a decade that reached american's lives in ways still felt today. next thursday night, 9:00 eastern and pacific on cnn. you can tell me about those days. >> i'll harken back ton my favorite moments of the 1960s like when i was a zigote. we'd like to say thank you to all the men and women who serve. have a great time. >> "legal view" with as

professor john all capturing his time plummeting in the ice, after climbing seven stories in the himalayasup here, instead, my ledge. my arm, i can't use. >> reporter: hiking alone on a relatively flat snowfield, all had just fallen 70 feet into a crevasse, landing on a ledge. the blue sky high above. no easy way out, with a broken arm, ribs and other injuries. all said he was convinced he was going to die. >> i was getting hypothermic of five minutes of being there. and the only thing that was going to keep me alive, was constantly moving and finding my way out before it got dark. >> reporter: life or death decisions captured on camera. >> i'm going to somehow climb out that way. >> i can't go that way at all. >> reporter: it took all six hours to climb out. slowly moving sideways and up. sideways and up until he found enough hard snow into which he could dig his ax and pull himself out of that hole. it took another day for help to arrive in the form of a helicopter. despite his injuries, all plans to be on a climbing expedition in peru next month. for "good morning america," john muller,

i guess i'll never be climbing the himalayas, right? not. >> if he had fallen again, he probably would have missed that tiny little ledge. >> reporter: here is another thing, carol. he's 6'5", 240 pounds. i said maybe because of your size, you acted like a stopper -- if it would have been someone like me, i'm much thinner, maybe i would have gone all the way to the bottom. he says he feels as though his size helped him. the bigger you are, he's found in his experience in all these years climbing, you have more body fat, more muscle mass and you can fight off hypothermia a lot easier than smaller people. >> one amazing guy. jason carroll, thank you for bringing us his story. >>> still to come, the always outspoken mark cuban in the headlines and in the hot seat after admitting his own prejudice in a very public way. could cuban's words spark the important conversation we should be having? we'll talk about that next. [ laughter ] smoke? nah, i'm good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time rele

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i am a writer, and i'm writing a story about landing in the highest airfield in the world in the himalayas, and i'm having difficulty in describing a c-130 plane -- [inaudible] going over one of the highest peaks and then dropping into the valley. and the mountains on either side and the pilot has to land by doing a spiral force and then stall it in time to touch down without overshooting the runway. i'm having difficulties how much a reader will get interested in it. how do you do it in a way that it will balance the -- [inaudible] can you advise something? >> well, you know, that's a very good question, is establishing -- and this is the job of the writer, you know, to kind of figure out who you're writing, what your audience is. i was writing for anybody who wanted to pick up the book. so i often end up reminding people about things that some people know about and some people don't. so you have to give the right amount of information, in my estimation. not too much, but enough to let you understand what was involved with that very, very, you know, nerve-wracking in terms of what are the