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,
Well. Caltrans says the damaged section will stay closed indefinitely. Kpix 5s lisa chan joins us in the newsroom with more on that. Good morning. Reporter good morning, well this interstate is a main route between california and arizona. And engineers will assess the damage to the bridge this morning. The collapse is being blamed on heavy rains and flooding that shut down the freeway. The bridge 50 miles west of the Arizona State line washed away. Traffic headed toward arizona was forced to turn around. One driver was injured. The Riverside County Fire Department had to extract that driver who crashed in the collapse. Rain, thunder and lightning fell over Southern California in a rare summer storm system. This caused power outages, downed trees, water rescues, and beach closures. Firefighters worked to keep mud out of half a dozen homes. Theres firefighters out there as well as a lot of heavy Equipment Operators that are trying to get that mud and debris up. Were working as quick as w
Right there, burning up to the edge of the building. Chopper 5 spotted a helicopter water drop on to a home. Hoping to prevent further damage. At one point, we even spotted an animal running through the blackened hillside, trying to escape the flames. The fire burned for more than an hour and a half. White smoke filling the sky. Red retar dant can be seen on the hillside there. No word on how it all got started. A live look now, this is chopper 5 overhead. The fire was contained in the last half hour. The flames completely knocked down. But a lot of scarred territory down there. Still some hot spots. A little bit of smoke pouring from some of the charred grass. Firefighters were able to save a whole community, just right over the hillside there, by working very quickly, this morning, and putting those flames out. And another brush fire, lit the night sky early today. Three acres burned along highway 4, and at Contra Costa County fire department, saying that it is the third fire in the
Triple crown winner american pharaoh got the Royal Treatment arriving in new jersey. Racings biggest star did the version, the horse version, of the red carpet for reporters. Then he was loaded into a deck. There you go. And the van you see, its decked out and escorted by new jersey troopers to the racetrack. American pharaoh is running on sunday in the 1. 75 million haskell invitational. Kansas city chiefs safety eric berry back on the practice field, just eight months after getting the shocking news that he had cancer. Berry says that he felt chest pain. This is after a game in november. Turns out, he had hodgkins lymphoma. The 26yearold pro bowler says he was pushed to the physical limit after months of undergoing physical therapy, but it paid off, because in june, he was declared cancerfree. Now to the nfls deflategate controversy, the Players Union making good on their promise to file a lawsuit in federal court. That lawsuit seeks to have tom bradys fourgame suspension thrown out.