In the background. As soon as i turned on the tv the news pop up and i see his truck, you know, driving along the street and i hear him talking on the phone to us and saying how much he loves us and saying, you know, im trying to do the right thing and, um, the sergeant is talking on the phone saying, hey, you know, my guy is out there. Reporter as the standoff on i80 unfolded he heard a lot of commotion and then the phone went dead. The family has questions about what happened that day. But they are certain about one thing. We just want everyone to know that this was not the type of guy that you guys seen on that freeway. Thats not him. Thats not him. He is a great guy. Reporter jt and his sister says he is intelligent family man hard worker. He was a father of four. He was a husband. He was a brother. He was a son. He just really cared for his family. He cared for each and every one of us of his kids and he always pushed us with our education to finish. There was no blank moment wher
You know, its still a mystery really. Well be looking into that. Reporter and finding tell tale signs of a potential rock fall is often impossible. Things are happening within the rock. They are usually not visible to us. And so after the rock fall occurs, we can see a lot better what was going on in there after the fact. Reporter with 150 deaths from 2006 to 2016, yosemite was the nations second most deadly National Park second only to lake meads 254. People falling or Natural Causes such as heart attacks while hiking are the most common reasons. Rock falls are very few and far between. We have a rock fall of the size that we saw yesterday every few years. The past 150 years there have been 1,000 major rock falls. Thats about 7 a year for the last 150 years. But few have ever claimed any lives. Even counting smaller falls, there are only about 80 significant yosemite rock falls a year. Thats enough to report. There are thousands and thousands too small and spread out over the parks al