he blows up. >> yeager had gotten his first kill. but the very next day in a wild dogfight over france, it's yeager who's on the losing end. a first of german shells takes him down. >> the prop game off my airplane, part of the left wing, the canopy. so i just -- you know, me and my airplane partner, it's that simple. >> one minute you're up there head to head with a german pilot. the next minute you're -- >> coming down. i came out of the airplane, i don't know, probably around 18,000 feet, free fell because you don't open your parachute because it had been rumored that maybe the germans get you in your parachute so i free fell until the ground starts rushing and pulled a d ring. swung by the top of a tree and let myself down. >> in those days there was very, very primitive understanding of what to do, how to survive when you're shot down. >> yeager's upbringing as a west virginia farm boy paid big dividends as soon as he hit the ground in enemy-occupied france. >> well, there's not a german in the world that can catch a west virgin

. >> after escaping occupied france, chuck yeager shouldn't have flown again over europe. to protect the french resistance, downed pilots weren't allowed to go back into combat over europe for fear if they were captured, they might divulge the underground secrets. >> i said bs, i'm not going home. that's when i met general eisenhower. he said i normally don't see you guys but i've got people shooting themselves in the foot to go home. why don't you want to go home? i said i haven't done my job yet, general. >> by october 12th, 1944, yeager and his laser sharp 20/10 vision were back in the hunt. >> i saw 16190s. we came up within 200 yards. man, this is a piece of cake. i opened up on the tail. he broke, ran into his leader and they exploded. then all hell broke loose. there's airplanes going every way. and i remember this one guy started to turn. he had a wingman. and i was in pretty close to him. i led him, like you have to for deflection shooting, and he blew up. and then this wingman had cut his power back trying to get behind me. and so when he did that, i cut the powe

karlt area played in memphis for current kings head coach dave yeager.will be carter's 20th season in the nba. this abc 7 sports report is brought to you by river rock casino. 40 years old and still has that desire to lace up the high tops every day. >> wow. >> not just that, but he still jumps out of the gym. he is a physical freak. >> certainly is, and has been doing it for coming up on 20 years. >> 20 seasons, i do remember. thank you very much. anthony. >> "abc 7 news" continues now online, on twitter, facebook and on all of your mobile devices with our "abc 7 news"

current kings head coach dave yeager. it will be carter's 20th season in the nba. this abc 7 sports report is brought to you by river rock casino. 40 years old and still has that desire to lace up the high tops every day. >> wow. >> not just that, but he still jumps out of the gym. he is a physical freak. >> certainly is, and has been doing it for coming up on 20 years. >> 20 seasons, i do remember. thank you very much. anthony. >> "abc 7 news" continues now online, on twitter, facebook and on all of your mobile devices with our "abc 7 news" when i have an asthma attack... i feel scared. sometimes my parents have to take me to the hospital. i feel like a fish with no water. you know how to react to their asthma attacks. here's how to prevent them. call... visit... or call your doctor. because... . >>> thanks for joining us. i'm eric thomas in for dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. for anthony, sandhya, thanks for joining us. >> good night, everybody. >>> new viral videos on an all new show, "right this minute." >> i love taking videos of you when you're in the city. >>

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yeager's attempt to make sense of this social i don't logically is to break off the '60s counterculture. anyone says it was a definite, it was the '60s. it was a term applied historically to other fe non-non-like this, so it is important to differentiate between the version that comes along in the '60s and other variations on counterculture. he makes the point that a counterculture is a -- breaks out of a mainstream culture, creates an objective space in which it can critique the mainstream culture. it then engages in a kind of low intensity warfare with the aspiration to utterly transform root and branch the dominant culture. if it succeeds it becomes the culture, and maybe spins off its own countercultures. you could make the arguments that christianity in its roman catacomb phase was an example of a counterculture with great aspirations and was ridiculed at the time and then ended up sweeping its world and transforming norms and values of its own era. my colleague peter bronstein and i attempted to use this set of theories and invite authors including david harvard to contribute to t

for his play "buried child" and four years later was nominated for an oscar for his role as chuck yeager right stuff." his family says he died at home in kentucky from complications of a.l.s. or lou gehrig's disease. sam shepard was 73 years old. >>> for nearly 14 years cubs fans blamed steve bartman for killing their world series dreams with that infamous moments in the 2003 playoffs when he tipped a foul ball from the stands before it could be caught. now that the cubs have broken their 108-year world series drought, all appears to be forgiven. and to prove it, the cubs gave bartman, who received death threats and became reclusive after the incident, his very own world series ring. bartman says he doesn't consider himself worthy of the honor but is, quote, sincerely grateful. >>> as expected, the olympics are coming back to america. los angeles has reached a deal to host the 2028 summer games under an unusual agreement which also paves the way for paris to host in 2024. los angeles has hosted the games twice before, in 1932 and 1984. >>> when we come back, [000:23:58;00] of bravery tha

something like a yeager bomb.roof cocktail of yeager meister and an energy drink. >> there's so many unknowns and mystery around what happened to these two kids. that it really begs for a thorough investigation. >> reporter: mexican officials ruled this an accidental drowning but that's not enough for the family. mexican bliss, they say, refuse to investigate further but past guests reported blacking out after drinking at the resort's bar. one woman writing online, i remember thinking i must be dying. another guest writing his wife blacked out, ill. the resort telling the family there's no surveillance video. the state department telling abc news it is aware of this case. and abc news has reached out to the resort for comment but we've not heard back. the family intends to keep investigating. they're sure there's more to the story. >> there's so many questions here, gio. i mean, robbery, kidnapping, attempt. there's got to be something. >> looking at that but then they say this happened in the middle of the day. >

. >> reporter: his portrayal of chuck yeager in the right stuff earned him an oscar nomination in 1983he also penned 44 place in several books of short stories. in 1978, he won a pulitzer prize for his play, barry child . >> the writing takes care of itself. i think the reason, this flurry of activity has to do with aging. >> reporter: his acting credits include the notebook, still magnolias, and the netflix series bloodlines. >> i like to say a few words about my kids. >> reporter: sam sheppard was 73 years old. and hollywood, jonathan hunt, fox news. >>> new evidence of the housing crunch here in the bay area. a new study shows just how is getting for the middle class. we will talk with a real estate expert about that when we come right back. >>> i am checking the weather out there. it will be hot in the inland valleys. we will talk about the specifics as we move into the week ahead. i will never never wash my hair again now, i fuel it pantene is the first shampoo and conditioner system with active pro-v nutrient blends that fuel 100% stronger hair. because strong is beautiful. this

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and was nominated as astronaut chuck yeager in the movie, "the right stuff."ree children. >>> oil coming off the biggest weekly gain in a year. check that out. up 1%, 50 bucks. jeff flock, live at the cme with more. jeff, does this mean my gas prices are going back up? i have labor day plans. reporter: this big rally at the end, the last half hour of the session, lauren, oil had been down the entire session. people taking profits from last week's big run-up, about 8 1/2% last week. but we closed now above $50. so, an interesting trend for oil. and it is completely opposite to the trend in gas prices, to answer your question. take a look where gas prices have been. as we said last week, oil has really had a nice run to above $50. gas prices going the other way. we're $2.32 for the average gallon of regular. a year ago or i should say a week ago we were 2.28. a month ago we were four cents cheaper than that. a a year ago, 2.14. the trend on gas prices up. despite the fact we got reports out of opec that the opec nations are not living up to those price, to those

bob yeager, he used to share this with me. of those. >> and joe, wishing his daughter a happy birthday went viral. here's the picture of his daughter and a sea lion. happy 21st birthday to my beautiful daughter, left, raelyn. she's on the left. >> when this went viral. i said, what do you mean by viral? >> 10,000 likes in 4 hours. >> i think it's because it's corny but people can relate to the fact it's a dad joke. does your husband do dad jokes? >> my father. >> when does it happen? >> it starts about 10, 12 years >> we 10, 12 years old, your kids are annoyed by it. >> and the humiliation factor is high. >> they think everything you say is funny. they laugh. about 10, 12 years old, you get the eye roll. or they walk away. >> my dad's form of joke humiliation. he would say things once. we did the local television thing in there's dallas. and my phone rung. and he said, who is that, eric? and eric just dumped me. i was like, dad. he loves it. he loves to humiliate me. that's not cool. >> his heart was in the right place. he was