. >> november 7th, 1940, tacoma, washington.t's a blustery day in puget sound, located in the northwest section of the evergreen state. winds are gusting a little more than 40 miles per hour, causing the tacoma narrow's bridge to really sway. surprising as it looks, the movement doesn't stop cars and pedestrians from crossing it. ever since the bridge's opening four months earlier, residents affectionately call her galluping gertie. because of the way she dances and snakes in the wind. bridges are designed to move a little, but geruty's movements seem a bit extreme. for some residents, crossing her is lake an adventure. >> it was a thrill. it was like a carnival ride. almost a roller coaster. >> historian and author richard hobbs writes about the tacoma narrows bridge in his book, "catastrophe to triumph." >> people would come out on a windy day when there was extra bounce in the bridge and walk across. the motion could be fairly dramatic. >> but some find that wave like motion harrowing. >> as you drove across the bridge you co

and that-- it's the tacoma narrow bridge in the state of washington. well, look at the size of those girders. very strong steel. and here we are on opening day. what were you guys doing in 1940? and here we have dignitaries coming across the bridge, opening day. look at the strength of that bridge. big steel girdles, concrete pavement, a mighty bridge, a very strong bridge. but one thing, very elastic. and here you see some of the evidence of that elasticity. turns out the bridge undulated. we called it galloping gertie. especially in the wind, it would kind of a move around a little bit. look at these vibrations, evidence of the elasticity of steel and even the concrete pavement. people coming over the bridge, some were reluctant to do that and they took alternate routes. galloping gertie. whoop, let's look at this. look at this. in a slight gale one day-- whoop, i shouldn't say gale. when the cat was released on this bridge one day, look what happens here. there is an evidence of resonance. see those bushes moving around a little bit? a little bit of

they are looking for the driver of the cadillac escalate tacoma pick up and was hit by the oncoming escalatewitnesses say he stopped got out of the car and he stopped once he saw the driver was dead. >>> and it was raining in lafayette and a camera caught two carlsbadly damaged in the middle lanes and there are reports that a third car that caused the crash a caused them to take them to the hospital with minor injuries. this is an important reminder to slow down. >>> here is a live look outside right now and we are getting a mention of sunshine still coming down in part of the bay area and it left pretty good puddles and standing water. a delay program is in effect until 2:00 this afternoon and the arrival time shows they are almost an hour behind schedule. oakland and san jose are not reporting any weather reported delays. >>> well, the system last week finally decided to move through and when it did, it went froth to north. some of the heavier amounts up over the weekend were towards the rushing river area back towards vallejo, american canyon and there was a big downpour 6:00 in fairfield

they are looking for the driver of the cadillac escalate tacoma pick up and was hit by the oncoming escalate. witnesses say he stopped got out of the car and he stopped once he saw the driver was dead. >>> and it was raining in lafayette and a camera caught two carlsbadly damaged in the middle lanes and there are reports that a third car that caused the crash a caused them to take them to the hospital with minor injuries. this is an important reminder to slow down. >>> here is a live look outside right now and we are getting a mention of sunshine still coming down in part of the bay area and it left pretty good puddles and standing water. a delay program is in effect until 2:00 this afternoon and the arrival time shows they are almost an hour behind schedule. oakland and san jose are not reporting any weather reported delays. >>> well, the system last week finally decided to move through and when it did, it went froth to north. some of the heavier amounts up over the weekend were towards the rushing river area back towards vallejo, american canyon and there was a big downpour 6:00 in fairfie

and her mother were delivering newspapers when lapd hired a a hundred rounds at their blue toyota tacoma. one was shot in the back and the other injured by broken glass. the women received $40,000 for a new truck. >>> coming up next, the twitter hoax that really rocked wall street. >> and the tiers bay area city to order mandatory rather restrictions. what thousands of people are being asked to do. >> big mystery at the giants ballpark. who took a flag dedicated to one of the team's most famous players? >> and the incredited only -- incredible sight captured by hikers. how everyone managed to escape this avalanche. all of that is coming up and then late other jimmy kimmle live,. >> we have music from pain and gain, anthony mackie is here and from the movie "42" harrison ford is with us. i don't know if i told you, but i once hit a homerun in a softball game on espn. >>> after one of the driest winters on record in the bay area, the city of santa cruz is taking drastic action. abc7 news reporter lisa amin gulezian explains what a water shortage alert means for residents. >> the water leve

and her mother were delivering newspapers when lapd hired a a hundred rounds at their blue toyota tacoma. one was shot in the back and the other injured by broken glass. the women received $40,000 for a new truck. >>> coming up next, the twitter hoax that really rocked wall street. >> and the tiers bay area city to order mandatory rather restrictions. what thousands of people are being asked to do. >> big mystery at the giants ballpark. who took a flag dedicated to one of the team's most famous players? >> and the incredited only -- incredible sight captured by hikers. how everyone managed to escape this avalanche. all of that is coming up and then late other jimmy kimmle live,. >> we have music from pain and gain, anthony mackie is here and from the movie "42" harrison ford is with us. i don't know if i told you, but i once hit a homerun in a softball game on espn. >> good for you. >> it was >>> after one of the driest winters on record in the bay area, the city of santa cruz is taking drastic action. abc7 news reporter lisa amin gulezian explains what a water shortage alert means for r

and her mother were delivering newspapers when lapd hired a a hundred rounds at their blue toyota tacoma. one was shot in the back and the other injured by broken glass. the women received $40,000 for a new truck. >>> coming up next, the twitter hoax that really rocked wall street. >> and the tiers bay area city to order mandatory rather restrictions. what thousands of people are being asked to do. >> big mystery at the giants ballpark. who took a flag dedicated to one of the team's most famous players? >> and the incredited only -- incredible sight captured by hikers. how everyone managed to escape this avalanche. all of that is coming up and then late other jimmy kimmle live,. >> we have music from pain and gain, anthony heres here and from the movie "42" harrison ford is with us. i don't know if i told you, but i once hit a homerun in a softball game on espn. >> good for you. >>> after one of the driest winters on record in the bay area, the city of santa cruz is taking drastic action. abc7 news reporter lisa amin gulezian explains what a water shortage alert means for residents. >> t

. >> i'm don from tacoma, washington. >> are you for or against same-sex marriage. >> jimmy: don? we say for. for same-sex marriage. >> personally, i would be against same-sex marriage. >> and if you had to, would you marry bradley cooper or leonardo dicaprio? >> neither. >> you have to pick one of them. >> okay. >> jimmy: which one will he pick? bradley cooper or leonardo dicaprio. let's find out. >> leonardo dicaprio. he's cute. he's a cute kid. >> jimmy: he's coming around. let's keep going. carmen from wisconsin. >> are you for or against same-sex marriage? >> jimmy: is carmen for or against? we have a pretty even split. >> for. i'm for same-sex marriage. >> what do you like about it? >> i have a lot of good friends who are in same-sex relationships and i think they deserve the same equal rights that we have. >> would you rather be married to scarlet johansson or megan fox? >> jimmy: i don't know how we can guess this, but let's find out. >> scarlet johansson. bigger boobs. >> kelly cook, oregon. >> are you for or against same-sex marriage? >> jimmy: for? most people say for.

we plant launched a college ministry in tacoma area. god got ahold of me then.s that are calling you in college. >> jeff, i can understand how it touches people who are college and younger people. but is it provocative to the point people are mad and criticize you because of what you say? >> yes, there is staunch criticism. where decoit come from. religious people? >> i have to take the critism and say what am i getting crit for . jesus said the same thing and what am i getting criticism for because i am an idio. >> that is tough to sit in prayer, hey, jesus because i am representing you or can i get better and learn to grow here. >> what is your long-term goal? 22 million hits puts you in the strat fear. >> go with rebecca black and all of that stuff. >> your message is better than the rebecca black song is going to be. obviously you have struck a nerve with people. tell me what you hope to achieve long-term. >> i have a huge heart for discipleship. get people to raise their hand for jesus and make cool videos. i want to impact the college demographic and get t

witnesses say he got out of his car, saw the man in the tacoma was dead and disappeared.r the military west exit. a 51-year-old man lost control of the rain and slammed into a guardrail. a toyota then came and hit that car and the two were facing head on in the fast lane. the toyota driver got out of the car and that's when he was struck by the cadillac escalade within about one minute. >> the esescalade driver took off. the chp says he's between 25 and 35 years old. they believe he's the registered owner of the suv out of vallejo. he may be facing felony hit and run charges. back here live, benicia and vallejo police have set up a perimeter here in the benicia state park scouring the area for the suspects. we checked in with the chp a moment ago but so far they've not located that individual. again, things are looking a little bit sluggish, right as soon as you get off 8 on onto 780, you might want to use highway 4 for the next half- hour or so until things get back to normal. live from benicia, back to you. >> thank you. >>> 8:31. in vallejo, the chp investigating a fir

witnesses say he got out of his car, saw the man in the tacoma was dead and disappeared.round 5:40 near the military west exit. a 51-year-old man lost control of the rain and slammed into a guardrail. a toyota then came and hit that car and the two were facing head on in the fast lane. the toyota driver got out of the car and that's when he was struck by the cadillac escalade within about one minute. >> the esescalade driver took off. the chp says he's between 25 and 35 years old. they believe he's the registered owner of the suv out of vallejo. he may be facing felony hit and run charges. back here live, benicia and vallejo police have set up a perimeter here in the benicia state park scouring the area for the suspects. we checked in with the chp a moment ago but so far they've not located that individual. again, things are looking a little bit sluggish, right as soon as you get off 8 on onto 780, you might want to use highway 4 for the next half- hour or so until things get back to normal. live from benicia, back to you. >> thank you. >>> 8:31. in vallejo, the chp inves

security has invest ed in the ports of ls angeles, long beach, san francisco, oakland, seattle, and tacoma combined, upon which a bulk of the u.s. economy relies. we must strengthen recovery in the event of a biological attack, which is still the most worrying threat out there. we need to make sure that the public understands the nature of these threats and how it can help identify and respond to them. above all, it needs to understand how not to respond to them. when bad things happen, it's easy to react out of fear, emotion and anger. let's hope that in boston this week we begin to chart a different course. for more on this, you can read my column in a special edition of "time" magazine on the tragedy in boston. let's get started. >>> joining me now the man who runs the biggest police force in america and one of the country's best intelligence divisions, ray kelly, the commissioner of new york. what do you have to tell us in the aftermath of this? is there a heightened sense of danger? are you seeing threats proliferate? >> no, we haven't seen an increase in threats, but our operating as

so there were a number of cities that were fighting to the gateway to alaska, portland, tacoma, san francisco which was in the lead but seattle had a secret weapon and the secret weapon was a man named arrest this brainerd. he was a marketing and public relations genius and he felt that this would be incredibly important turning point for seattle. he was doing everything he could to ensure that seattle appeared to be the gateway to alaska. one of the things he did was reach out to all the business people that he could and the employees to have them write to their hometown newspapers to say we have got everything going on here about alaska. and they did and this was all paid media. it was part of what provision to alaska so very well but then by the time the klondike strike is really maturing, let's say 1897 or so, when the first big steamers come into seattle with tons of old, by then seattle had plowed a tremendous amount of money back into infrastructure to build railroads and offices that would truly make seattle a center for alaska. when you got off the boat, you saw the fruits. seattle w

poetry is not my full-time job bee launched a ministry in the tacoma area, and god kind of got a holdme then and i want to go to the campuses and he's awesome and better things that call to you in college. >> mike: and i can see how it would touch college and younger people. has it been provocative to the point of people criticizing you because of what you've said. >> totally. there's been staunch criticism. >> mike: where does it come from, religious people. >> it comes from everywhere and the hard time i have to take the criticism, what am i getting criticism for because i'm a christian and jesus said the same thing? and what am i getting criticism for because i'm an idiot and saying something stupid. and that's tough to sit in prayer and say, hey, jesus, is this because i'm mt representing are or can i get better, learn and grow here? >> what's your long-term goal? 22 million hits puts you in the stratosphere, it does. >> i'm up there with rebecca black and-- >> your message is much better than rebecca black's song was ever going to be. obviously, you struck a nerve with people. an

and that-- it's the tacoma narrow bridge in the state of washington. well, look at the size of those girders. very strong steel. and here we are on opening day. what were you guys doing in 1940? and here we have dignitaries coming across the bridge, opening day. look at the strength of that bridge. big steel girdles, concrete pavement, a mighty bridge, a very strong bridge. but one thing, very elastic. and here you see some of the evidence of that elasticity. turns out the bridge undulated. we called it galloping gertie. especially in the wind, it would kind of a move around a little bit. look at these vibrations, evidence of the elasticity of steel and even the concrete pavement. people coming over the bridge, some were reluctant to do that and they took alternate routes. galloping gertie. whoop, let's look at this. look at this. in a slight gale one day-- whoop, i shouldn't say gale. when the cat was released on this bridge one day, look what happens here. there is an evidence of resonance. see those bushes moving around a little bit? a little bit of

also today in american military court at mccord south of tacoma, washington, today the worst fratricide incident of the whole iraq war resulted in a guilty plea. john russell plead guilty to shooting and killing five fellow servicemen, one navy commander and four fellow army soldiers. he was at a combat stress clinic in baghdad in may 2009 when he opened fire. it's the worst incident of americans killing other americans from the whole iraq war. he plead guilty today. also today in canada, the royal canadian mounted police held a press conference to announce the arrest of two men want one in toronto and one in montreal. they were allegedly part of a plot to derail a passenger train inside canada. police say the attack was not eminent. it was in the planning stages. 2 two men were getting direction and guidance from al qaeda members abroad. also today, this news clear plant in eastern tennessee, the watts-barr nuclear power plant returned to normal status this afternoon following what the tennessee valley authority called an unusual event late saturday night. the unusual event was a shoot

tacoma 36 mi. an hour and oakland to.ys three is expected until 9:00 tonight. >> pam: as we continue to follow developments in the boston following the marathon bombings kron4's dan carmen is in the news room >> you know pam we've heard about ball bearings to the bombs have they did talk about a couple of things. they've talked about other explosive ideas. and they've used the word tear >> it is a criminal investigation that has the potential to be terrorist investigation >> there is no suspect at the hospital. they're people we're talking to but there is no suspect at hospital. >> we are in the process of going through all of the abandoned property that was discarded at those places. we've pretty much clear that the street where the bombing occurred. they're no. we are getting reports from various places about suspicious packages. that's perfectly understandable and the situation. i'm not prepared to say that we are at ease at this point in time. we're still actively pursuing every lead that we have. >> again those are t

he's gone up to coach his girl's soccer team in tacoma. he had all kinds of interests and all kinds of concerns about kids, and he was willing to put everything he had into it both in the office and out of the office. now, some of his most important work, in my view, and what shows his real character and why i feel bad today, is that when he left the governor's mansion, he was in fairly good shape as far as we knew, went off to geneva to work for the gatt trade organization, and while he was over there the diagnosis was made of parkinson's. parksonism is a very, very difficult disease to cope with. your mind is active. everything is active. your body just won't cooperate. and booth had this disease and struggled with it for 20 years, as you heard. now, death is a frightening thing for all of us to think about. none of us want to think about death. it's not something that's usual table conversation or much of a conversation out here on the floor. but booth was willing to look at it straight on. and he was willing to talk about it in a way t

tacoma, washington, they pulled over some one for traffic stop. they found marijuana.. >> clayton: bring in arthur, legal analyst. what is interesting here, this should be open and shut, you would think. because of the new state laws in oregon, under the medical marijuana provision this belongs to him. he is demanding he gets it back. under the law, being a lawyer, and a judge who is a lawyer, he is entitled to it back. if they pulled you over and took a pocket knife from you over four inches. they had a vote and say now you can carry a pocket knife for four inches. it's your life. now legal. >> the law is the law. >> the law is the law. if you want to live in the state of washington. go to colorado now. >> alisyn: just to be clear, does it have to be medical marijuana or any marijuana? >> in that state it has to be medical marijuana. state of colorado it can be any marijuana. so he showed the prescription, the judge said he has got it. it's his right. all of the "t"s are crossed and the "i"s are dotted, the police officer give it back. the cop is say nothing, judge, w

. >> host: next call comes from fred in tacoma park, maryland. hi, fremed. >> caller: hi.i just wanted to say that i stopped eating flour and sugar in 1990 and have lost 67 and a half pounds. i weigh and measure, but when i go to the store and we shop in supermarkets, we read the labels, and we avoid anything with a glucose, fructose, and, you know, there's a -- it's doable. it's not hard. we're not suffering. we eat very well. thank you. >> host: thank you. >> guest: yeah, no, that's good to hear. the one thing that i do hear from nutritionists is that they caution people is to try to avoid sort of focus on one of these elements, salt, sugar, fat, too much. because it really is about a balanced diet. and in some ways it sometimes plays into the hands of the processed food industry. the '80s were especially big for concerns about sugar. and so they would come up with low-sugar products that would still be loaded with fats and salt, and the '90s were sort of more about trans fats, and they got rid of trans fats and replaced them with saturated fats which are a concern now.