mr. lovell his life back, because if they did not stop and take action that day, mr. vell certainly would have burned to death. their actions went beyond those of any good samaritan. they were heroic. >> you're hereby commended for yourselfless act -- >> reporter: heroic actions made all the more stunning by the fact that alfonso himself has apparellized right arm. today, he and his son received a special commendation from the chp. he talks regularly with lovell about what happened that day. >> he told me that he owed me a bunch of things and i assured him that he owed me nothing. it wasn't for my compensation why i did that. i just said that him as a fellow citizen, was, you know, needed help and i used that window of opportunity that was open to save him. >> reporter: alfonso says he has received many thanks from lovell's family and friends. he says he and his son just did what any good citizen would do. in san francisco, jennifer mistrow, cbs 5. >> the burn victim, anthony lovell, has had more than 20 operations and faces another surgery next week. he says he doesn'

mr. lovell his life back. because if they didn't stop and helped, mr. ovell would have certainly died. >> reporter: today he said the father and son are heros. >> much more grateful for a lot of things. and definitely looking at life a lot different now, another 30 seconds and we wouldn't be having this conversation. >> reporter: the senior rodriguez said even though he has no emergency training, he wouldn't hesitate to do it all over again if he needed to. and he wishes more people would get involved when they see someone struggling. >>> clean up is under way as wild weather causes flooding. that area is also dealing with power outages after high winds knocked down power lines. the storms also caused a mud slide closing a section of the highway. there were reports of thunderstorms, large hail and lightning. most of the weather has now passed through that area and is heading east. >>> on to our weather up here. no rain but temperatures are coming down. >> they are dropping off, more clouds moving in this weekend, live storm tracker 2. i'll show you what