Incredibly dangerous. A Good Samaritan risks her life to race into a burning home and rescue a victim trapped inside. And i dropped my phone right here, and i just i just went in. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im eric thomas. And im dion lim. It certainly took a lot of courage and some brute strength to get the man out before he was overcome by smoke and flames. Abc 7 reporter with the story. Reporter firefighters wear protective gear to clear this burned antioch apartment on peppertree way but moments earlier samantha saved a mans life with her bare hands. Samantha and her family stepped outside around 11 00 to head to the park and thats when she saw smoke. She looked around to see if anybody was responding and when she realized she was the only one there to help she ran across the street. The fires roaring and everything. And then she said i cant, shes crying at me, i cant, my roommate, hes paralyzed. He cant get out, i cant get him out, you have to help me. Samantha ran pa
They were hoping for 6 pm but the has been pushed back. We dont know whether its going to open any time soon in either direction . They had said 6 pm for one direction. But now they are not giving any time at all next they were hoping for 6 pm for the southbound lanes. Right now we dont know when they will open those backup. When they do, it will be the southbound direction as the northbound lanes will still be under investigation. They will be looking at the crime scene. There is no good alternate route around highway 17 between san jose and santa cruz. Exactly. They were mentioning highway 9 and highway 35, they are both shut down because of the weather and mudslides. Anyone that needs to take highway 17, dont, because youre going to encounter this mess. Thank you. Today President Trump reached out to Congressional Republicans to support his agenda on immigration and building a wall on the border with mexico. The white house floated the idea of a 20 percent import tax to help pay for
Party at an artist warehouse. Somewhere between 50 and 100 people, the estimates vary. I dont want to commit to hundreds, but they were believed to be inside the building at 31st avenue and international boulevard at the fruitvale neighborhood. Lets go to vic. Reporter this is the 3100 block of east 12th street. Behind me is the building. A little while ago you could see during the last live shot a lot of the dump trucks here staging. Now its ceased. Take a closer look. This is where the dump trucks have been coming in and out. It was, if you will, a staging area for the cleanup. We have seen some pretty strange things coming out. The most unusual, if you will, was workers taking out what was definitely missile heads. Thats right. The ones that you fire off. Two missile heads they were taking off, in fact, taking out, in fact, in an hour. Now, this building is an artists colony. A lot of a vaunt guard work here. Missiles are strange. The crews are moving out. They were taking out debri
Art space. And theres a staircase in the middle just made out of no structure whatsoever. Its just piled different stuff up to reach to the top floor. Alameda county officials have called the warehouse kind of like a maze inside. Theres a map of where everything kind of was. The bay area news posted this. The floor plan here. You can see the first floor is mostly an open area and then in the corner, what theyre calling a makeshift kitchen and thats near the main entrance. When you get to the second floor, and thats where a lot of the bodies have been recovered were, it looks like there were four rooms. From all the photos weve seen, the entire warehouse is full of a lot of wooden items, a lot of pieces of art, so you can imagine what it would be like to try to get out of there when there is a hot fire and there are people running in all directions. Officials tell us there was an exit on the second floor but at some point after the fire broke out the exit got blocked. And there are pict
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