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john donvan, abc news. >> good luck and some good timing there. thank you for watching. vega. we'll see you right back here tomorrow night. have a great saturday evening. >>> that's my heart -- >> on abc 7 news, a father shares his heart break as crewed search for his hissing daughter at an east bay creek. >>> and customers in a south bay restaurant fight back against an armed robber and it is all caught on camera. >>> and we're live with the warriors as they prepare to take on the clippers, team announced steph curry's at the us mome-- status moments ago. >>> hundreds of people are rallying at airports today including sfo to protest the president's refugee ban. with reports coming of in refugees being detained at airports nationwide. i'm matt keller in for eric thomas with this early edition of abc news due to the warriors game. let's get right to protests happening now against president

john donvan, abc news. >> go daliyah. thanks for watching. i'm cecilia vega. great saturday night. watching. i'm cecilia vega. have a great saturday night. >>> tonight at 6:00, the family of a san francisco woman is concerned about the public safety after she was found dead on a muni bus. >>> the boycott grows. a list of lawmaker planning to skip donald trump's inauguration continues to gain steam after he attacked a civil rights icon. >>> and show me the movie. going inside of the california video store with just one film on the shelves. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts now. >>> good evening. im eric thomas. thanks for joining us. today donald trump went on the attack against john lewis who has promised to skip the inauguration with several bay area lawmakers. the president-elect's latest tweet was this evening saying congressman john lewis should finally focus ons burning and crime infested inner cities of the u.s. i could use all of the help i can get. it prompted a rpoe from michigan republican justin amash who tweeted, dude, just stop. sergio quintana is live in

john donvan, abc news. >> good luck and some good timing there. >>> thank you for watching.vega. we'll see you right back here tomorrow night. have a great saturday evening. tomorrow evening. have a great saturday evening. from sony pictures studios, it's america's game. wheel... of... fortune! ladies and gentlemen, here are the stars of our show, pat sajak and vanna white. okay, good. i'm glad you're here. hey, that was jim thornton. thank you, jim. thanks, everybody. thank you. wrapping up teacher's week -- our first week of our 33rd season. hi. see y'all. might as well get right to it. we have money burning holes in our pockets here. our first "toss up" is worth $1,000, and the category is "characters."

here is abc's john donvan. >> hey, al, betty, what is going on today?reporter: at the sky dive temple in the texas hill country -- >> ready to jump. >> reporter: they never had a first time jumper like al blashki. >> 100. >> reporter: yes, al was born 100 januarys ago. spent more than half his life married to eleanor. but after she died in 2010, al first grieved and then set out to do things he had never done before like dog sledding and taking a spin in a lamborghini. setting goals like that is what keeps him going. but the sky diving he saved for the day he hit 100. and here he goes. and you can see it in his face. the wind and all he's feeling. a 40-second free fall and then a five-minute float. >> oh, wow. wonderful. >> reporter: happy birthday, al. >> there we go, good job! >> and keep on floating. john donvan, abc news. >> we all wish al and fantastic birthday. thanks so much for watching. gma in the morning. david muir here tomorrow night. i'm tom llamas in new york. have a great evening. good night. in wild weather rescues and cross the bay area

john donvan, abc news. >> go daliyah. thanks for watching. i'm cecilia vega. great saturday night. news. >> go daliyah. thanks for watching. i'm cecilia vega. have a great saturday night. from sony pictures studios, it's america's game! wheel... of... fortune! ladies and gentlemen, here are the stars of our show -- pat sajak and vanna white! [ cheers and applause ] whoa! thank you very much. thank you, jim. [ smooches ] thank you all. goodbye. hey, how you doing?! you're here! we've been waiting for you. get ready for your first "toss up." it's a $1,000 puzzle, and the category is the ever-popular "food & drink." ♪ [ bell chimes ] hans. homemade waffles. no. still time. [ bell chimes ] everybody else? christine. homemade waffles. still not that. michelle, you might as well wait for a little while

abc's john donvan explains. >> 3, 2, 1!reporter: it's the sphere for the year, the ball dropping ritual in new york's times square. >> i've been coming out to see the ball drop for close to 20 years. >> reporter: the globe, now a global affair, seen by one billion people around the world, but originally conceived more than a century ago as a stunt by the "new york times." our symbol of the new year getting more sophisticated over the decades, then going national. televised across america which brings us the welcome 2017 ball. this thing weighs almost six tons, is made of 2,688 triangle shaped panels of waterford crystal, and 32,000 l.e.d. lights, together creating more than 16 million colors. and when that ball drops tonight floating through the sky will be not just any confetti. >> 3,000 pounds of confetti are thousands and thousands of people's wishes. >> reporter: they refer to it as wish-fett, carrying the aspirations of ordinary folks, who this year are wishing -- >> for 2017 i wish that people would gain common sense

john donvan, abc news. >> they sure are cute.s for watching on this first monday of the new year. i'm cecilia vega. for david and all of us here, have a great night. >>> 49ers owner jed york responds to calls that he step down after the search for a new head coach. [ bleep ]. >>> mid-flight meltdown. what led to a flight face-off that forced an unexpected landing. >>> scattered rain right now. we're in for a wet week. find out exactly when you'll need those umbrellas. >>> this is abc 7 news. >>> i own this football team. >> you don't dismiss owners. no, you don't. 49ers owner jed york on the defensive after announcing the dismissal of the team's coach and gm following one of the worst seasons in niners mystery. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >>> i'm ama daetz. both teams facing troubled times. >> we have more on the raiders comeback woes and the search for new leadership. >> wayne friedman is live at team headquarters. owners, wayne, do not get dismissed. >> reporter: good afternoon, larry. we hear the word culture. culture, 16 ti

john donvan, abc news. >> we absolute salute jim and luis for being strong. see you here tomorrow. have a great evening. >>> tonight as 6:00, an urgent search as a woman crash into a creek. what's slowing down rescue cruise. >>> showers through the evening, and we're getting details of an airliner outage that could affect your travel plans. >>> abc 7 news at 6:00 starts now. >>> a sovereign effort has been closed of a pounding waves of a normally docile creek. it shows the rough conditions as they look for a woman who may have been killed in a crash. good evening, i'm eric thomas. thanks so much for joining us. right now conditions are too dangerous for crews to search the water. s investigators say she lost control at niles canyon and slid into the creek in castro valley. sergio has more about the effort tonight. sergio? >> reporter: an al media county sheriff's crews basically staged about two miles up niles canyon road. that's because, as you can see, the rapids here in the creek are actually -- they're pretty powerful here, but even more powerful up where

news reporter john donvan has the story. >> reporter: last year's new year's card from the family, oneries which began 37 years ago in a story told by "the wall street journal" when the family was just a 3-year-old named leaney and her single dad dan who took them out to a highway for this photo because of the sign. >> when i saw the intersection of 79 and 8, i realized that was the perfect place. >> reporter: a year later similar thing, different sign because 1981, a card that found its way to a woman named kathy whom dad had a crush on. >> it's the end of december. >> third year, there's kathy. she liked the card. > the card was an impetus to call back. >> reporter: she ended up marrying dan and on it went as more kids came along and crowded into the frame and then in later years, as the kids started to disburse. >> this is life. children grow up. >> reporter: so they showed up in insertses. >> looking at these pictures the record has brought back the moments in time. >> reporter: so from an all grown up now family, their card for 2017 from the side of a road from the side of lots of

abc news reporter john donvan responds. >> reporter: he plays cello, he gets up at dawn to run cross-countryns up for honors courses, ten of them. and then timothy park a senior at trinity christian school in virginia, applies to four of the toughest schools to get into. not just the u.s. military academy at west point but also the naval academy at annapolis, the air force academy in colorado, and the coast guard academy in connecticut. he got four answers -- yes, yes, yes, and yes. >> i am feeling just absolutely amazing right now. >> reporter: well, he should. given his family's own story. his dad is a lieutenant colonel in the army reserves. but it goes back farther than that. because timothy's grandfather eugene, born in korea, lived through the korean war and then forged a special relationship with u.s. vets of that war once he became a doctor in america, always treating those vets for free. >> what he described is he had a debt of honor that he wanted to repay. >> reporter: which school will timothy choose? >> my number one at this point is west point. but i'm still keeping my options

here's abc's john donvan. >> reporter: when bill emroll started running the key west half marathon thet around the bend from the coincidence of his life, although he didn't know that yet. only feet away, a guy named robbie was there, cheering on his wife and friends. a woman named lisa was also running in the race. also running, a woman named amy. when suddenly yards from the finish line, bill went down. >> i blacked out. i don't remember anything until being lifted into the ambulance. >> reporter: including the three strangers who kept his heart beating, because that was the issue. bill has a heart condition. desperate to find them and say thank you, bill posted this on facebook. >> i'm hoping you can help me find the person or people that saved my life this past weekend. >> reporter: within 24 hours, they all heard the word. amy smith, who happens to be a cardiac nurse. >> i could not believe how good he looked. >> reporter: and lisa, another nurse. >> it fills my heart with joy that he's doing okay. >> reporter: and then there's robbie, a nurse anesthetist. just this afternoon he an

abc news reporter john donvan has the story. >> hey, al, betty, what is going on today?porter: at the skydive temple in the texas hill country. >> ready to jump. ready to jump. >> reporter: he never had a first-time jumper like al blashke. >> 100th birthday. 100. >> reporter: yes, al was born 100 januarys ago, spent more than half his life married to eleanor, but after she died back in 2010 al first grieved and then set out to do things he had never done before, like dog sledding and take a spin in a lomb bore ginni, setting goals like those al tells everyone is what keeps him going. but the skydiving he saved for the day he hit 100. >> hey. >> reporter: and here he goes. and you can see it in his face. the wind and all he's feeling. a 40-second freefall and then a five-minute float. >> oh, wow. wonderful. >> reporter: happy birthday, al. >> whoo. there we go. good job. >> reporter: and keep on floating. john donvan, abc news. >> good job. >> good for him. >> yeah, i'm about half that age and i'm still not ready for the skydiving. especially in today's weather. let's fin

6. >> reporter: john donvan, abc news.d sign for the year >> so, in case you didn't follow along, they stand in front of a road sign for the year that they're celebrating. >> right. there 2016. get it, folks? otherwise, it would be kind of like, why are you just standing there? >> exactly. this is so cool, david, one of the sons, was my neighbor. i saw this, i'm like, i know this guy! >> amazing! >> small world. happy new year, everybody. >> happy new year. >>> this morning >>> this morning on" world news now," terror manhunt in turkey. the gunman on the loose and now the target of an international search. and we now know more about an american who was wounded in the violence. >>> and donald trump questioning the government's evidence about russia's alleged hacking during the election. the president-elect's now back at his new york home getting set to receive an important intelligence briefing this week. he also had some advice about keeping information secure. >>> then, mariah carey's new year's eve meltdown on stage in t

john donvan, abc news. >> thank you for watching on this last night of the year. i'm cecilia vega.nd before we go, one final look at times square. you can see the ball drop right here on abc with ryan seacrest starting at 8:00 p.m. from all of us here at abc, have a happy and safe new year's. good night.

here's abc reporter john donvan. >> reporter: when bill emroll started running the key west half marathonhe other day, he was just around the bend from the coincidence of his life, although he didn't know that yet. only feet away, a guy named robbie was there cheering on his wife and friends. a woman named lisa was also running in the race. also running, a woman named amy. when suddenly, yards from the finish line, bill went down. >> i blacked out. don't remember anything, until being lifted into the ambulance. >> including the three strangers who kept his heart beating, because that was the issue. bill has a heart condition. desperate to find them and say thank you, bill posted this on facebook. >> i'm hoping you can help me find the person or people that saved my life this past weekend. >> reporter: within 24 hours, they all heard the word. amy smith, who happens to be a cardiac nurse. >> i could not believe how good he looked. >> reporter: and lisa, another nurse. >> fills my heart with joy that he's doing okay. >> reporter: and then there's robbie, a nurse anesthetist. just this after