motorist jason hayes stopped to help him despite the fact that jason says he's afraid of heights. >>on as i locked eyes with the gentleman, i knew i had to push that aside. >> reporter: chopper 4 flew beside the bay bridge as the drama unfolded this morning. the man climbed over the railing on the eastbound span. lieutenant kevin brenner was his way to work. >> i was able to radio into our dispatch center that we needed additional units. >> reporter: they both teamed up and talked to the man for 45 minutes until help arrived. the fire rescue squad used rope and rigging to lower a rescuer down to the man below. the rescuer gave him a big hug and they were both pulled to safety. >> it's great when you can help somebody and know that we had a positive outcome and we were able to successfully rescue the individual and get him back onto the bridge deck and get him to the hospital. >> reporter: jason hayes who now works at a pizza parlor says today's incident may change his life too. >> maybe i'll go into some type of fire or ems profession. >> reporter: we have more information on suicide

a driver jason hayes stopped to help him despite the fact that he is afraid of heights. >> as soon as i locked eyes with the gentlemans, i knew that i had to push that aside and that i would be there for him. >> both hayes and lieutenant kevin brener talked to the man for about 45 minutes up tentil arrived. >> so let's say that you had a million dollars to spay spare, you could buy a nice home in d.c. or an entire town in west virginia. want to show you a look at sugar grove stationn s's a form it's a former u.s. n business and it's up for auction. >> $1 million is the starting bid. you got 122 acres, 80 home, bowling alley. >> fire station. here in the district you may get like two small homes. >>> stay with us. "news 4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m. >>> from the highways to the skyways, a lot of you are getting ready to head out for the holiday weekend. >> and you can be sure to expect some company. news 4 "today" at 5:00 starts now. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm erica rodriguez. let's get a check of your weather. >>> the weather having a low impa

now coming up at 6:00, we'll hear how jason hayes, who stopped to help the man on the bridge, says thisncident may change his life too. wendy, that's the latest from the bay bridge. back to you. >> i'm glad it ended well. >>> we are following a developing story. it's near the outer banks where two military fighter jets based in virginia beach collided. the crash was about 25 miles off the coast of cape hatteris. a commerci f helicopter plucked all four airmen out of the ocean and brought them to a hospital in norfolk. >> it was a textbook rescue in a matter of speaking. we're really grateful. this kind of shows the inner service cooperation between the navy and the coast guard. >> the nay vy says a safety revw is under way. >>> d.c. officials are trying to improve some of the most dangerous intersections in the district. the top five include busy intersections in pet worth, columbia heights, and adams morgan along with two busy travel arteries in southeast and northeast. district officials gathered at 14 and columbia, which has the highest number of bicycle-rel e bicycle-relatbicycle-re

driver jason hayes along with lieutenant kevin brenner talked to that man for 45 minutes until help arrived>> able to radio into our dispatch center that we needed additional units for a i can't this needed help because he was threatening suicide. >> believe it or not, hayes is actually afraid of heights and now he says he wants to become an emt to continue helping people. >>> the man accused of stabbing a pregnant woman to death in takoma park faces a hearing this morning. maria was a montgomery coun investigators charged the suspect with murder. takoma park police have not said how the suspect knew the victim. >>> a flower delivery turned into a robbery when the driver decided to let himself into a woman's house. anthony reeves now facing several charges. according to montgomery county police, this is him in a surveillance video trying to deliver those flowers to a home in ken zecsington on the day be easter. he cased the house and went in and took cash, debit card and ipad. police tell us reeves may have used his position as a delivery driver to commit more crimes and they're looking for

joining us now american coal council associate director jason hayes for his take what has been responsible the fall of coal but i have to ask about hillary, first of all, has she done anything to undo the damage? >> well the american coal council likes stay studiously apolitical in these areas so -- david: when she says she wants to kill coal mining jobs, you're not in favor of that, are you? >> obviously not. we're not in favor of any elected official killing coal jobs. that is pretty clear-cut. david: well, here's just put a fine point on it because there have been 29,000hundred coal mining -- 29,000hundred coal mining jobs lost. some are down 100% or close to 100 percent without going bankrupt. what can be done to turn this around? clearly it is overregulation that is causing these problems, no? >> yeah, absolutely it is overregulation. the that is the biggest problems, we hear a lot of times people will say that the coal, it is basically market forces causing coal industry to go into a fall. the coal industry has competed free energy markets for centuries. the coal industry's challenge

the past year at the request of the hayes valley association transportation and planning committee we modified the design to get as many two bedrooms as possible and jason and others from the h m a wrote the letters that we were able to achieve the revised design. >> hallmark of 3 buildings design a facade of vertical sun shades that are sun sensitive and which means they'll automatically close when the sun couples but individually controlled so on the screen i can see the building being mostly closed and partially open and then fully open another hallmark is the transparency of the second layer of the facade with a large degree of openness between the facade and the street they have been questions from planning department staff about the materials and per rationed we're looking for a company that as north america subsidy those are did he plowed in europe amend and the per rationed - we agreed to work to continue to work with planning department staff on this issue i also brought at the request of carli a sample of the drawings the facade that was drawn not painted in broejz color will age over time and a few more comments as evidence as our commitment