over the weekend. 25-year-old clung to a rock after being over powered by the swift warter of the south yuba river. a die trying to cool off turned into a fight to stay alive. >> i thought i could swim apart what appeared to be the calmer part of the river. the feeling that the current had on me was like the start of a roller coaster. i'm 6'4". i never felt so small in my life. >> he says he is grateful to the highway patrol officers and firefighters who saved him on saturday. he plans to volunteer with the search and rescue group near his home. piper park is due to reopen to visitors on friday. the park was kept closed for the past 11 months due to fires. visitors can use the shuttle. the bridge is being rebuilt and is due to open in september. >>> cal trans faces a costly question. how does it want to fix a misspelled highway sign near monterey. take a look at the brand-new, yet incorrect sign that directs drivers to delray oaks but someone put an a where the e should be in the word ray. swapping one vowel for another will cost hundreds of dollars. replacing the sign, thousands. >> startin

over the weekend. 25-year-old clung to a rock after being over powered by the swift warter of the south yuba river. a die trying to cool off turned into a fight to stay alive. >> i thought i could swim apart what appeared to be the calmer part of the river. the feeling that the current had on me was like the start of a roller coaster. i'm 6'4". i never felt so small in my life. >> he says he is grateful to the highway patrol officers and firefighters who saved him on saturday. he plans to volunteer with the search and rescue group near his home. piper park is due to reopen to visitors on friday. the park was kept closed for the past 11 months due to fires. visitors can use the shuttle. the bridge is being rebuilt and is due to open in september. >>> cal trans faces a costly question. how does it want to fix a misspelled highway sign near monterey. take a look at the brand-new, yet incorrect sign that directs drivers to delray oaks but someone put an a where the e should be in the word ray. swapping one vowel for another will cost hundreds of dollars. replacing the sign, thousands. >> startin

. >>> clinging to a rock, a 25-year-old gets swept down the south yuba river this weekend. luckily a chp helicopter was able to lower a basket and rescue him before the water could carry him off. he recalled the terrifying moment he knew he was in trouble. >> i thought i could swim across what appeared to be the calmer part of the river. the feeling that the current had on me was like the start of a roller coaster. i'm 6'4". i've never felt so small in my life. >> the man's gouf got stranded on the ledge and was also -- man's girlfriend gauze stranded on the ledge and was also rescued by helicopter. >>> kpix 5 veronica de la cruz is here to break it down for us. >> the congressional budget office says the senate measure would put a significant dent in the budget deficit but today's report said it would also cause millions of people to lose their health insurance. 22 million americans will lose their health insurance under the new senate healthcare plan according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office. the report shows the healthcare bill will reduce the budget defic

." >>> in nevada county chp crews rescued a 25-year-old from the south yuba river using a helicopter to lower a bass schedule and grab him from a rock. >> i thought i could swim across the calmer part of the river the feeling that the current had on me was like the start of a roller coaster. i'm 6'4." i have never felt so small in my life. >> his girlfriend was stranded on a ledge and was also rescued by helicopter. they are both expected to be okay. >>> we are getting a rare sight at a blue whale in monterey county. some photographers captured it this weekend with a drone in the monterey county. they were on a whale watch boat near moss landing when this happened. you can see the animal come up and then dip underneath several times. wow. blue whales are the largest animals on earth and get as long as 100 feet. amazing video. >> that is wonderful video. time now 4:34. let's check weather with roberta gonzales. >> it's socked in. i don't want to put up black for you or gray. so i was just playing around with my camera shots and i think i have one for us. good morning, this is a look a

the south yuba river. >> a lot of snow melting. our temperatures have started cooling down. nothing like the heat we saw last week. we are talking about 80s and 90s making a comeback. misty skies approaching midnight there? san francisco. pleasanton coolest day of the week. san jose close to 70 degrees. wind speeds gusty especially inland. 18 miles per hour in livermore. as we head towards the morning. so this time of year we call it stratus quo. then evening and overnight we see the low clouds spilling in. and notice like we saw this morning there is a chance of measurable light rain or drizzle or mist at times. parts of the east bay can see that early in the morning. so repeat performance of what we saw today. areas of low cloud. maybe just patchy low clouds to start. take that marine air and compress it down below 2,000 feet. morning temperatures in the mid-50s thanks to the cloud conch. mainly 70s around san jose and chance of 80s downtown. peninsula temperature still cool. out of the west 17th maybe up to 25 miles per hour time. so here is the reason why the seven-day f

was caught on video. 25-year-old kalani tuiono was stranded on a rock in the middle of turbulent south yuba river rapids. the california highway patrol captured this dramatic video of a rescue technician from truckee fire ... descending into the canyon. in the helicopter, a c-h-p officer maneuvers the basket carefully down to tuiono. finally, the rescue fireman grabs him into the basket and he is flown to safety. experts say.. this incident should serve as a reminder ... to be careful around the frigid and fast- moving waterways . (pam)let's take a live look outside... this is s-f-o ..( steve) chief meterologist brittney shipp is here with the forecast for the week. seasonably cool temperatures through midweek then slight warming as a ridge builds thursday and friday. slight cooling back towards normal over the weekend as another weak trough passes over the region. dry weather the next 7 days with night and morning coastal clouds followed by sunny afternoons. new ahead at 8. when cash changes hands --- you're getting more than just a dollar. you might be shocked by what's found that money i

25-year-old kalani tuiono waves to rescue crews, stranded on a rock in the middle of turbulent south yubaapids. he recalls those terrifying moments, talking to us by phone from nevada.voice of: kalani tuiono/ rescued from river:"i honestly don't know how i made it on that rock, but i think if i didn't, i probably wouldn't be talking to you right now."the california highway patrol captured this dramatic video of a rescue technician from truckee fire descending into the canyon.in the helicopter, a chp officer maneuvers the basket carefully down to kalani. voice of: kalani tuiono/ rescued from river:"i could feel the wind from the helicopter and it was getting difficult to balance on the rock, it was difficult to breathe."finally, the rescue fireman grabs kalani into the basket and he's flown to safety.voice of: kalani tuiono/ rescued from river:"i really will be forever appreciative. my appreciation is through the sky right now." matt calcutt/ chp flight officer:"he's a very lucky individual to have survived." tucked away in the basket, kalani flies over the rapids that tossed him around.th

was caught on video. 25-year-old kalani tuiono was stranded on a rock in the middle of turbulent south yubaiver rapids. the california highway patrol captured this dramatic video of a rescue technician from truckee fire ... descending into the canyon. in the helicopter, a c-h-p officer maneuvers the basket carefully down to tuiono. finally, the rescue fireman grabs him into the basket and he is flown to safety. experts say.. this incident should serve as a reminder ... to be careful around the frigid and fast- moving waterways . ( james ) that was lonnie wong reporting for us this morning. experts say this incident should serve as a reminder to be careful around the frigid and fast moving waterways. ( james ) bay area basketball. draymond green has won the n-b-a's defensive player of the year award. after being runner-up for the past two years, the dubs forward finally has the gold. he accepted the award last night at the first ever n-b-a awards show. he becomes the only player in warriors history to win the award. green was among the top players in the league this past season in both steal

this is south of the yuba river in nevada county this weekend. the turbulent water and current took them into the rapids. >>> major step forward today in a plan to save the state's water system. u.s. wildlife agencies just gave the first green light to governor brown's tunnels project. two massive tunnels would be used to ship water from the sacramento river to southern california. today the federal agency said the plan would not jeopardize endangered species but it still needs a series of other states and federal approvals. >>> flood waters starting to recede in fresno waters. happened after california huge snow pack started to melt more rapidly in the high temperatures. the breaches flooded the golf course and about a dozen homes. right now they still can't get home. walker is live with a look at the larger risk from all that run off. wilson. >> reporter: we're standing on the levee that officially marks the edge of reclamation district. this is an area where they noticed a little problem. in this case some steepage. they shored up the levee to