here s her story. as soon as i duck and i move, a big tree came by the window i just moved from and just missed it. and my roof start lifting. i run inside the bathroom for cover in the tub because they say it always a safe haven and that s what saved me. i was scared literally. i can t think i was going to make it. and, you know, i was scared. and jermaine smith is still sleeping in that bath tub every night. she s not wearing tleaving the . she s not leaving. she is part of the group feeding people and she wants to be a part of that. a 14-year-old s family was being evacuated. there wasn t enough room on one
- this is unbelievable. they re like huge buildings. reporter: the park s main attraction reveals itself. i m surprised there aren t more accidents on this road from people just like looking up. reporter: groves of some of somlargest living things on earth, giant sequoia trees, stretching hundreds of feet into the sky. giant sequoias have been described as being living relics of an ancient forest. reporter: daniel blankenship al sequoia national park s interpretive ranger. he s one of many caretakers of hiis forest, which is home to ams most famous resident, general sherman, the planet s largest tree. it s not the world s tallest. it s not the world s widest tree either. it s the world s largest by volume, 103 feet in 6.rcumference at the base, 36.5 feet in diameter. it stands over 275 feet tall. one, two, three. rm reporter: general sherman is estimated to be 2,200 years old, tive during the height of the roman empire. when settlers first arrived here
in the 1800s and found these giants, they tried to tell others about their discovery, but the world didn t believe them. it s what s known as the california hoax, and all of these years later, you can enderstand why, these towering trees defy gravity. the last few years have been esme of sequoia national park s fsiest with travelers around foe world flooding through its gates for an opportunity to get a glimpse of these prehistoric giants. ilr now, social media posts will need to wait. cellular service here is nearly non-existent, but that s about to change. t, a new cell phone tower first, of its kind, has been approved dor the park. reporter: so an ancient forest gets a small, modern upgrade. yeah. reporter: an upgrad of millions of years in the making. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, sequoia national park, california. quijano: up next on the cbs weekend news, trouble at the palace. what s causing the queen s guards to fall down? to fall down?
i ve been seeing a lot of them around town. that s it for us. we ll see you back here at 6:00 for a full hour of news. begnaud: it s happened again. seven people are dead here in texas, and it all came to an end right behind me. [gunfire] get down, get down, get down! begnaud: 24 others are wounded in another mass shooting. i didn t get to tell her how much i loved her. begnaud: also tonight, hurricane dorian roars into the bahamas. it is a monster, category 5 hurricane. will it be catastrophic for the united states? we re not even in the worst of it. begnaud: general james mattis speaks out on his resignation and president trump. this is a blunt letter. i was honest and forthright with him about where it was that i was parting ways. begnaud: and an ancient california forest gets a modern upgrade for the masses. and as the temperature goes up, the guards are going down.
week, brad ryan and his grandmother joy admire the spectacular view of the valley far below. oh, they re so pretty. i love butter flies. reporter: it s one over29 national parks the two have visited over the past four years from the red wood forest of california to the gulf stream waters of florida. don t get too close you will be algrate lunch. reporter: their goal is to visit all 61 national parks. we re in the bad lands. reporter: the extraordinary journey began after joy, then 85, told brad she regretted she had never seen an ocean or a mountain. i never climbed one but he fixed that. reporter: so you climbed a mountain once. you don t have a burning desire to climb another mountain. no, i think that will be sufficient. oh, yeah, ie they didn t stop there. two years later, they set out on a 28-day camping trip. we stayed in a tent every night. we had our routine down. the moment we pulled into the camp site, she s assembling the tent stakes. reporter: brad s