Good morning. Im melissa rayehberger. It is the video everyone is talking about. A pro surfer comes headtohead with a shark on live television. Kelly koeb ya ya has more. The worlds surfing final is getting under way. Threetime champion mick fanning was waiting for a wave, and then this. A little splash. Oh, [ bleep ] reporter a shark knocked fanning off his board and pulling him under. Competitive Julian Wilson frantically paddles toward him and then fanning emerges and swims for his life. Within seconds, both men are safely out of the water. I was swimming and ah did you get a couple of punches in . I punched it in the back. Reporter back on shore. I saw it just taking my board out and cracking it reporter relief and shock over their narrow escape. Like hes going under im like, i felt like i couldnt get there quick enough yeah. Just kicking in. Sorry, man, tripping out. Reporter the surfers didnt get back in the water. Instead, sharing first place. Two champions and one very close ca
And unbelievable encounter, a pro surfer attacked by a shark during a competition on live tv. Fanning in the rankings. Holy. [ beep ] what hes saying about that frightening ordeal and his plans to surf again today, monday, july 20th, 2015. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 15 in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Cast back together for the first time in a while. Can we just put that footage up again . That shark attack. We talked about shark attacks on this show so many times. But to see it happen and know it was happening on live tv is unbelievable. He goes under for a couple of seconds. You dont know what happens. When that wave comes up and you cant see him. Even more amazing is the competitor in the watter who swam to try to save him. Incredible storey. Well have more on it in a bit. We certainly will. Lets get to our top story this morning. A major interstate in Southern California close
Dublin from 580 and 680 meet. Slowgoing traffic all morning long the traffic map thats updated, you can see red tic tacs and that means no one is going far. Bob redell has the reason for that backup. Its going to linger into the afternoon commute . Reporter dan and kris the trivalley has been a terrible mess with the traffic nap shows is sp very accurate. Normally by this time this time of backup is nonexistened but you pan to our left, looking east towards livermore and tracy, this backup goes as far as the eye can see. This is the view from the chopper, showing the problem. An afat paver that broke down around 4 00 this morning. This is on southbound 680 just south of the 580 interchange where we are at right now. This put the cal tran road crew behind schedule forcing them to keep at least one lane shut down and its still shut down. Were looking at the far left lane just south of 580. We just got word from chp that the new equipment has yet to arrive. So once that equipment arrives,
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Much hotter than the thermometer will read. But it is reading pretty hi, lets be honest, nearly 10 degrees above seasonal average whether it comes to the actual air temperature that will be here today. It will feel obvious a lot hotter than that, it is summer, it is what happens right . We havent had too much experience with that, however specially this month but really for the entire season yet. Lets start things off by getting you outside things. Skycam 3, man, it is mild outside. It is still feeling very, very warm even despite the fact the suns not even up yet here in center city overlooking the ben franklin bridge, from our campbells field camera. When we go next to storm scan3, see hint of moisture out, there not really verifying as far as any precipitation goes but we are going to see little hint of precipitation here today. See some of the moisture as it continues to sort of fizzle over the alleghenys there but some that far will survive. Weakening cold front headed our way. Me