And i was kind of scared. Reporter firefighters and paramedics rescued the man his burnt clothing lay strewn across the sidewalk. Investigators spent much of the morning on the scene looking for clues including Surveillance Video from homes along the block. I believe they have cameras down here so i hopefully they caught everything. Reporter the victim was taken to Temple University hospital with second and third degree burns over about 50 percent of his body. Police are expected to provide some new information and just about a half an hour we will be there and we will have a live report coming up on action news at 6 oclock. Live at the special victims units in hunting park im Sarah Bloomquist channel6 action news. Back to you. Sarah thank you. A camden firefighter injured on the job was released from the hospital today. The action cam was there at his home as captain Robert Eckert was greeted by the mayor and fellow firefighters. He spent much of the last two weeks at cooper Universit
Womens Basketball Team get a gold medal. Matt lauer grills ryan lochte over the scandal in rio. Tucsons own bernard dagat going for gold at the age of 41. Simone biles getting another honor. The contrasts between the game in sochi and here in rio. Monsoon 2016 blowing back into the valley with dust and rain. Exclusive video of a murder suspect in court. The hunt for the serial his victims want the shooter caught. 12news at 10 00 starts right now. Good evening from rio everybody. What a memorable night here tonight. Team usa an Womens Basketball clinches the gold medal. And two of its brightest stars brittany and diana part of the Phoenix Mercury coming home to the valley with some major bling. I got a chance to speak with diana exclusively tonight. In Womens Basketball. So, about putting on the usa jersey that makes you kneel like you have a lot of people behind you. I have been lucky to do it four olympics. Four gold medals. I have been really lucky. You are farther of a very select g
I cant believe they are back. They were there for emotional support everyday. It was tough. Reporter one day, grayson will learn about his parents quest to have a baby and their journey to bring him home. A journey that started in tabasco mexico with a surrogate. A wonderful experience until the couple was denied a birth certificate to bring grayson home after he was born. The couple spent weeks stuck in mexico. We just want to get home. Reporter we first met the couple when they were skypeing from their hotel room in mexico city. Our story brought attention to the familys desperate plea for help. I was apprehensive about seeing them there. I truly, truly, thought they were going to be stuck there longer than this. And im so glad. I am probably happier that they are home than they are and you made all the difference in the world. Reporter surrogacy is legal in tabasco, but a change in administration put a halt to birth certificate for surrogate babies like grayson. They showed us grays
Coming down here. You can see the toll plazas all say closed so we dont have any cars going down the san mateo bridge at this point. Now that the bridge is closed the work will continue nonstop and continue through early monday morning. At 7 00 tonight. The closure began starting with a single lane east and west over the span. But this project started long before today. We actually started this back in february. Reporter caltrans spokesperson William Morris says the prep work began in february with limited lane closures, the resurfacing of the elevated span begins the entire bridge to be shut down. For the past six weeks, roadsides have been warning drivers. I live in hayward so it will affect my commute. Reporter dora crossing the bridge almost every day. A bridge in need of some work. Some of the lanes are really shaky. So it does need some work. Reporter kind of a shaky road. A bumpy road home. Reporter dating back to 1967, it will take two weekends to rip it up and replace it. That
The general contractor is always on schedule so thats good news. You can see the intersection here at geary and van ness and its a little bit tricky for cars to navigate the turn on to van ness, however traffic appears to be flowing as good as can be expected and thats because of the 70 or so people who are directing drivers around the closure. Buses, ped yaps and First Responders are allowed through the blockade but a drivers have go toe go around the closure from post street to geary. In order to bore a thumb the crews closed vans me. The first of the schedule closures to construct a Pedestrian Access and connecting the Medical Center with medical offices. The goal is installing treasure structural walls. Those walls will be part of the temporary structure that will allow to us continue work all summer long underneath van ness and install a permanent tunnel structure. Reporter a block of one of the busiest stretches of roadway seems like a lot of space to work but its not for the con