a semitruck fell off the guardrail and rolled down the bank.all shoppers gathered around and used their phones to take pictures of the accident. >> my name is officer adams and you are not allowed to take pictures on this property. >> you need to ask nicely. >> someone told her you are not allowed to take video on mall property. it usually goes for media. this is painting with a broad brush. >> watch, it gets worse. >> you have ten seconds. two, three -- >> i'm so nervous to see what happens when she gets to ten. >> i'm pressing charges. >> do it. >> no one is leaving. no one is putting cameras away. >> i'm telng you sothing! they s they are down on the ground. this woman in the tank top is throwing punches on the security guard whose feet are flailing up in the air. she got her on the ground quickly. >> the security officer gave the upper hand. boots in the face. then a dude from the parking lot, he comes to try to help. >> this girl jumped on me. >> she came over here, she's belligerent. >> over here. >> the security officer pulls out handcuf

as if being a new driver wasn't scary enough, these are students learning how to drive a 70 foot semitruck. granted, they are probably not new drivers, but look what they encountered. suddenly they are caught in a storm, a stark cloud over, tons of rain. then it gets really dark. >> you can barely see the car in front. >> they say they were caught in a tornado. they are in shreveport, louisiana, and the national weather service confirms that there was a tornado in the shreveport area. we don't know if this is that tornado. >> that's not an easy vehicle to operate when there are heavy, high winds. >> they seem to be quite entertained by it. the guy is applauding a tornado. >> you even see hail hitting the windshield, a ton of debris and super dark. >> they keep driving and everything does clear up. >> that's a heck of a training session. >> you can drive through a tornado, i think you'll be fine when it's a sunny day on the highway. >> on your resume it will look good. i can drive a semi through a tornado. >> when you leave a nightclub, you don't want to get into a fight. you want to get in

. >> we have a semitruck that was southbound on interstate 5 in what we call lane one, the right lanethe size of the load that he was carrying appeared to create a problem, striking him -- causing him to strike the bridge. >> we have work to do on our bridges whether or not this accident happened. we have some discussions in olympia to making sure that we make investments in bridges to prevent this thing from happening. >> of course, washington like so many states, has a very, very tight budget situation. and something has got to give. investments that need to be made perhaps were not. >> we mention that this bridge was rated functionally obsolete. that is a very specific term that means something specific. can you explain it to us? >> reporter: that's right, john. it sounds bad. functioning obsolete. what it does mean that the bridge is structurally deficient, merely the design is outdated. perhaps it's narrower than it might be if it were more modern, a lower clearance. this bridge is very old. it was build in 1955. still uncertain at this hour whether it will be able to be repaired

news 4s, darcy spencer says it is what leaked out of the semitruck that made clean-up so difficult. >> authorities tell me that driver was driving here on route 29 at 5:00 this morning. when he feel asleep. now he smashed right into the front of this office building. fortunately, no one was here at the time. va vap state police say the driver of the rig lost control of the truck. he drove 25 feet off the road and hit the building. it houses a construction company. the driver walked away unharmed. the speed limit is 45 miles per hour here. that building stands alone in a rural area. an archery business is next door. >> had any one been in the building it would have been a different story. with it being a sunday and the building close ford nd for norm business. >> the impact caused the 80 gallon fuel tank to rupture, spilling diesel in front of the property. crews were out here for several hours cleaning up the fuel spill. the building has been condemned. virginia state police have identified that driver as 22-year-old christopher hoff, he lives in south carolina. police handed him a ci

you can see the oversized semitruck pulling on to the bridge and then bouncing off the overhead beams. the deck immediately lurches tore ward and collapses. the video cuts off mid collapse. that's because the power lines supplying the camera ran across the bridge so when it collapsed, power to the camera ended. >>> doctors at ucla recently performed a mind-blowing medical procedure to commemorate the center's 500th brain operation. cbs reporter amy johnson tells us about the deep brain stimulation on a patient who was awake during the whole thing. >> why would i kill melinda? she was one of our best players. >> brad carter has made quite a name for himgs in hollywood appearing in countless commercials and television shows including this shootout with actor gary on csi new york in last year's season finale. >> nypd freeze! . >> but this may now be his biggest starring role, playing guitar while undergoing a deep brain stimulation procedure at ronald reagan ucla medical center. the hospital provided this visited owe. >> hopefully this is going to help. >> carter spoke just before the su

. >>> a dramatic new video show it is explosion today after a freight train collided with a semitruckore, maryland. that blast damaged several buildings and rattled homes in the area. big black smoke could be seen from downtown baltimore, almost 15 miles away. the train was hauling tanker cars, a volatile chemicals, but authorities say no toxic inhalants were burning. the driver of the truck suffered serious injure ris. there are no reports of other injure ris. go to ktvu.com to view unedited video of the derailment. >>> daly city police are look for an armed robber who stole an iphone from a passenger last friday morning. police say this man used a knife to threaten the victim on evergreen avenue. the victim had just gotten off 14-line san francisco muni bus a few block ace way. investigators say the robber drag it had man and took the phone from his pocket. >>> a valuable painting disappears from a san francisco office. tonight david stevenson explains why the owner believes it was no ordinary thief who walked away with the artwork. >> managing director usually makes investment bank

emergency crews are out in force in shawnee, oklahoma overturned semitrucks litter the highway and several homes been leveled including an entire mobile home park. >> it is unbelievable how the hail was coming straight sideways. >> i am glad everybody is safe and nobody was hurt. that's the main thing. >> coming up later, how many tornadoes touched down and the preparations under way as more severe weather closes in. >>> yahoo! is expected to make a major move with a huge acquisition. but will it payoff? lilian kim has more. lilian? >> they have been in talks since last week. but now it appears to be a done deal which means yahoo! gets a whole new audience just about everyone is after. >> she had to put up or shut up. >> it was her biggest move as yahoo! ceo. 10 months that the job and she is leading the way for an acquisition of tumbler. >> yahoo! is buying a social media power house. if you can't build it, buy it. they are getting 100 million bloggers. a lot of young people like tumbler. >> tumbler is a blogging site where they post stories and essays and other digital content. industry

emergency crews are out in force in shawnee, oklahoma overturned semitrucks litter the highway and several homes have been leveled including an entire mobile home park. >> it is unbelievable how the hail was coming straight sideways. >> i am glad everybody is safe and nobody was hurt. that's the main thing. >> coming up later, how many tornadoes touched down and the preparations under way as more severe weather closes in. >>> yahoo! is expected to make a major move with a huge acquisition. but will it payoff? lilian kim has more. lilian? >> they have been in talks since last week. but now it appears to be a done deal which means yahoo! gets a whole new audience just about everyone is after. >> she had to put up or shut up. >> it was her biggest move as yahoo! ceo. 10 months that the job and she is leading the way for an acquisition of tumbler. >> yahoo! is buying a social media power house. if you can't build it, buy it. they are getting 100 million bloggers. a lot of young people like tumbler. >> tumbler is a blogging site where they post stories and essays and other digital content. indu

this is an 8,000-gallon semitruck you see on the freeway.pane. >> it's only a matter of time until the truck explodes. >> it's a huge bomb. we needed to, number one, get away from the back of that propane tank. if that thing was going to blow, we were dead right there. 200 feet away. >> the noise from the pressure building inside the tanker is deafening. >> there was the hissing of the fire, just kind of started building and building and building. >> firefighters back away from the flaming tanker. >> all units evacuate to at least 10,000 feet. 10,000 feet evacuation for engine two. imminent explosion. >> we got about 200 feet of it out, and unbelievably, it got louder. it got so loud. >> before firefighters were able to get to a safe distance, the propane truck erupts into the biggest explosion many have ever seen. >> whoa! holy smokes. i hope everybody's okay. >> i thought to myself, i'm going to die today. the second thing right after that was, did i kiss my boys this morning? >> oh, my god! >> it made me feel like my whole chest just got

overturning semitrucks and causing several accidents, so far no official word of fatalities. update you on the situation as it warrants. >> hold on, stace. he's calling right now. >> hello? >> yeah, yeah. there's a green thing over the back door. >> he's coming around. >> yeah, just come on inside. right inside the door is a laundry room. i'm going to find the cat. just strip in there and i'll be in with the cat. all right? whatever you want. i got totally naked, because that was the deal, right? >> this guy's chat was really, really bad. and the decoy was a little bit playful. and he made this request involving a cat and cool whip and a sex act with the girl. and she sort of said, well, i'll consider that if you'll walk into the house naked. >> all right. he's walking into the living room. emily, call out. >> hey, take a seat at the table. i'll be right there. i'm getting ready with my cat. >> where are you? >> well, just take a seat. have a cookie. i made them. they'll go with the cool whip. i have a little surprise. >> the decoy said i'll be in. she am cans into the room w

so you're seeing actually slow but smooth traffic of a whole lot of semitrucks over another bridge that is not much farther away from me than the mangled one you see behind. so it is an inconvenience. and it could go on for weeks. it will take them that long certainly to even affect temporary repairs probably, wolf. >> it's a major interstate. interat a time 5. you don't often see an interstate bridge like that simply collapsing. kathrine, thank you. the collapse already stirring up heated debate over the country's crumbling infrastructure. some are calling it a matter of national security. just ahead we'll have much more on this part of the story. there's other news we're following including jodi arias who's sitting in an arizona jail cell still not knowing whether she will be put to death for murdering her boyfriend, travis alexander. a jury in phoenix announced it could not reach an agreement on whether to sentence her to death. the jury foreman spoke out today about what the panel had to weigh when considering sending arias to death row. listen to this. >> i'm very sure in my own mi

we have two semitrucks -- >> and we'll stay here with john. the signal will come back. this is 177. that's the cross over there it looks like and i-40. okay. you're back. it will come back. we'll stay with this. but this is the significant damage over by the fire lake casino and just on the northwestern side of shawnee on the large barrel tornado that emily was showing you and reid was showing you when it was crossing i-40 there on i-77 and i-40. let's go back to emily sutton here with a live update zblsh. >> caller: we're heading east on i-40. we're about five miles west of highway 377. we're driving through very heavy rain. we have the challenge of out dated radar but we're going this way north of i-40. we have not seen any debris. we're going through very heavy rain right now. >> appreciate that. more debris falling from the sky. two south of bristow. so the debris is being carried up to near tulsa. it's in the jet stream aloft and there's debris now all the way up to bristow falling out of the sky from these tornadoes, probably the one that's still on the ground northwest and no

but the tornadoes that were powerful that came through yesterday actually lifted up semitrucks.ertainly lifted up homes. and we just saw lots of devastation out this morning as we were touring around the various communities, talking to our businesses and talking to the people out in these areas. >> and what advice are you giving to parents whose children are in effect right at this moment in their schools? i mean, should the parents drive to the school? should they remain at home? what advice are you givie ining parents? >> well, that's a very difficult piece of advice to give people, bought basically i know the local schools will be taking action to make sure the children are safe. if there are some in some schools, themselves. i know the local law enforcement people have been going up and down the highways telling people to get off the highways. telling them to get out of the shopping centers. the media's done a great job advising people exactly where the storm path is. so they can get to the businesses and warn them. but i know i'm visiting with some of the law enforcement to

. >> for reasons unknown at this point in time, the semitruck struck the overhead of the bridge causing the collapse. >> a british airways jet made afternoon emergency landing. >> it landed shortly after a takeoff. all crews and passengers were evacuated safely. >>> in moore, oklahoma, teachers and students have been reunited after the school was completely destroyed in monday's twister. >> i was glad to see my friends and that they were alive. >>> two more arrests in the london terror attack after a soldier was hacked in broad daylight. >>> the tornado was a magnitude 5.7. >> i thought a car hit our house. >> flash flooding. also damaging winds. >> starting on new year's day the boy scouts will accept openly gay scouts. the change in rules does not affect adult leaders. >> watch that. >> you are commander in chief. you can close began tan mow day. >> and all that matters. >> the pope has rewritten the historically harsh attitude among nonbelievers. >> acolding to john paul xvi mississippi has its privileges. >> in his high school yearbook he sign add girl's book and called her sweet an

. >> for reasoning unknown at this point in time, the semitruck struck the overhead of the bridge and caused a collapse. >> authorities are determining what happened. they say the bridge was inspected twice last year, and they say it was in need of repair. this survivor says he is grateful to be alive. >> i'm surprised to be here this evening and glad. >> and many around the state are glad and relieved that this was not worse. some 70,000 cars pass this bridge each and every day. i drove across it myself just monday of this week. so it's remarkable that only two cars went in in this collapse and three people escaped with relatively minor injuries. but there will be questions why this failed so spectacularly. >> we're so glad there were no fatalities. imine plunging into that icy water. >> amazing that everyone survived. overnight, breaking news, jodi arias' murder trial is becoming a obsession, and it's not going away. it was determined a mistrial in the penalty faze when the juror tried to decide life or death for jodi arias. casey wiam is following the developments, good morning. >>

and about that same time another semitruck came up on the left side and it almost looked like he pinned that truck over to where he couldn't swerve to get over. >> that bridge is 60 miles north of seattle. just south of the canadian border. it has been rated as, quote/unquote, obsolete, clearly, by the federal highway administration. >>> also today, a flight from pakistan to england was diverted earlier this morning after two men threatened to blow up the plane. police say the men had some kind of altercation with the flight attendant and made a threat to blow up this plane. this was a boeing 777, which was carrying 297 passengers. the pilot did notify air traffic control and a fighter jet was scrambled to escort this plane. it was diverted to an airport near london where the two men were then arrested. but at the end of the day, no explosive devices were found. >>> coming up next, a teenager found dead in his school gymnasium. wrapped up in a cheerleading mat. police said no, no foul play. but his parents, after seeing an incredibly gruesome picture of their son, are demanding answers.

a semitruck with oversized load struck the bridge's beams and possibly causing the collapse.e bridge was built in 1955 and listed as structurally obsolete by the national bridge inventory and doing it right to whoever the congress or senators are. >> if that isn't enough of an example. how bridges are obsolete that people are driving over? >> how many times is this going to happen. i know you do because you were a reporter there in connecticut. the bridge collapsed there. >> right. yeah. here are some of the pictures coming in of this situation here. we are going to go to "usa today." national oceanic and atmospheric administration predicts as many as 11 hurricanes this season with three to six of those likely to be major hurricanes. long-term atmosphere climate patterns and warmer than average water temperatures are contributing factors to this year's predicted above average hurricane activity. >> from "the cleveland plain dealer," charles ramsey the hero who helped assist the escape of four kidnapping victims in cleveland is getting an unlikely reward to his heroism. here h