Live from the kgotv broadcast center, this is abc7 news. The ground gave and he slid down. The father of the 4yearold who plummeted more than 200 feet down a cliff describes watching his son go over the edge. Tonight in an exclusive interview, what that dad was willing to do to save his boy. Good evening. 4yearold Sebastian Johnson is in a medically enduced coma after the fall near bodega bay. Rescuers had to repel down 225 feet. Alyssa harrington spoke with the boys father in a story you will only so on abc7 news. That incident was my worst nightmare. Darrell johnson was still shaking when we talked to him at his santa rosa home. His son sebastian survived a terrifying fall near bodega bay on monday evening. The boy was hiking with his parents and sister and he was reaching for a rock when he lost his footing. Sebastian tumbled down the cliff and landing at the bottom on the beach. Guy i threw everything off, my backpack and ran and jumped down myself to get him. I did everything i co
There are thousands of robots doing much of the grunt work. Thanks largely to these guys, your cyber monday orders can travel from your desk top to your doorstep in as little as half a day. It could be picked and on the truck in as little as 15 minutes. Reporter its called kivas, amazon has hundreds of these floor hug gers on hand in this building the size of 29 football fields. The robots basically pick up and hand off products to human workers who take it from there. Their job is to bring inventory that customers have purchased over to these pickers so they can pick them and send them outbound for the holiday. Reporter on this day, the busiest Cyber Shopping day of the year, amazon expects to fill as many as 700,000 orders at this center alone, one of 50 the company has in the united states. Cyber monday last year was our busiest day all year. We were seeing orders at the rate of 426 items per second, and we think this day is going to be even bigger. Reporter while the rebots do much
Night on the streets, though. Abc News Reporter Marcy Gonzalez with more from ferguson, missouri. Reporter today, more protests. Demonstrators trying to charge into st. Louis city hall. Police arresting at least three people. This crowd is a little edgy. Thats fine. They are right to be. But its also the Police Officers, its our Police Departments responsibility to keep everybody safe. Reporter across the country the anger over a grand jurys decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown is loud and clear. In an exclusive interview with abcs george stephanopoulos, wilson defended his actions. I just did my job. I followed my training. Reporter and shared his message for Michael Browns parents. Im sorry that their son lost his life. It wasnt the intention of that day. So yes, there is remorse. Reporter browns mother called wilsons explanation of the shooting insulting and disrespectful. They were taken back looking at the interview because they felt that he had n
During lunchtime in San Franciscos north beach. Other folks took cover under umbrellas as they went about their day. Lots of wipers and headlights turned on during the morning commute. The Highway Patrol tells us there has been a slight increase in the number of accidents along bay area freeways and heres a live look at our emeryville camera. Hopefully we can get that for you. Lets go outside to Spencer Christian with more on todays rain totals and whats to come. We still have some wet spots out there and slippery roadways. Exercise caution if youre driving. As you can see, we still have areas of light rain and showers. Heres live doppler 7 hd. The heaviest of the rain activity has ended pretty much and moved out of the bay area but we still have areas of light spotty shower activity and some light rainfall, mainly pushing through areas south of the golden gate right now into the peninsula and over to the east and south bay. But again, it is winding down. Rainfall totals, for most of t
Theyre killing us. Theyre killing us. Power to the people. Power to the people. Power to the people. Power to the people. Thousands of people take to the streets in the bay area and across the u. S. To protest police shoots. It wasnt all peaceful. In oakland, the protests turned violent tonight. And the police cracked down, arresting dozens of people. We have Team Coverage tonight. Lisa is in San Francisco. We begin live in oakland. Tonight, this demonstration here in oakland wrapped up around 9 30. Police moved in and they made lots of arrests. Police telling us, dozens of people were taken into custody. The first group was at 29th and telegraph. We saw a group of people encircled by officers in riot gear. A second group was surrounded at 17th and franklin. Police tell us, some may be cited and released. Others may be booked. Some charged with unlawful assembly. Others may include destruction of property. A group of a few hundred continued marching in the streets, when officers declar