An avalanche for days she never gave up. Snow rescues straight ahead on a second look. Good evening and welcome to a second look. Im julie haener. Winter is a time for skiing and adventures in the snow. But it can also bring treacherous adventures trapping people miles from the help. Tonight stories of survival. We begin with a story of survival. Pria david first brought us the story in 2007. Reporter their harrowing experience started on sunday when the family set out to cut down a christmas tree. They drove to the snowy wilderness about 25 miles northeast of chico an area so remote cell phones dont work there. So easy to get turned around, we got the tree. Cut it down and started climbing down. And soon we realized we dont know which way to go. Reporter lisa sams the childrens mother and dominguez exwife reported them missing. Search crews started looking for the family. The bay area rescue team joined the effort and struggled through sleet and ice and snow drift up a 5foot wall. The
It. Decorated war hero and black panther leader pratt on being incourse rated while his children grew up. Ive been through pain. All ahead on a second look. Good evening and welcome to a second look. Im julie haener. Tonight wrongful convictions how men who were accused tried and convicted of a crime did time behind bars in many cases for many years. According to a 2012uc berkeley study since january 1989, 214 californians have been exonerated or had their convictions overturned or dismissed. Those 214 former inmates had spent a total of 1,113 years behind bars. Tonight we start with a story of one man, a victim of mistaken identity. His coworkers rallied around him after he was accused of a crime they said he could have never committed. Bob mackenzie first brought us their story in 1992. James jones walked out of a martinez jail in afternoon a free man. A some what hurt and bewildered man. He had been arrested on drug sales. They were going to let me out that night. That next followin
When an earthquake ripped through china town. My father had to carry my mother out. The neighbor had to carry me out. Reporter the impact of the quake on San Franciscos Chinese Community was not recognized for many years. All those stories straight ahead on a second look. Hello everyone and welcome to a second look. Im frank somerville. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants mostly from asian were held and processed on angel island in San Francisco bay in the decades before world war ii. Many were denied entry to the United States due to a race based exclusion law. But 50 years ago, president Lindon Johnson signed an immigration act of 1965. He said the new law would address the unamerican National Origins quota system which allowed three countries to supply 70 of all of the immigrants accepted into the United States. Instead, the new law granted access to peoples skill sets. Reporter San Franciscos china town has always been the heart and soul. The home away from home for the chinese men
Sunken submarine. And more maritime secrets revealed. I never imagined youre walking on top of an ancient vessel. Reporter and some call her the titanic of the golden gate. Now Scientists Say they know where she is. All straight ahead on a second look. Hello everyone im Frank Somerville and welcome to a second look. The waters off the bay area are littered with the remains of sunken ships at least 200 according to the National Park service. Many relics of history are also moored on shore and one of those floating museums is at Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco. As George Watson reported back in 2001, the submarine uss pompenito served during world war ii and during the war its crew accidentally made a horrible mistake. There she lays the uss pompenito the relish of war some 60 years gone. Today shes the fisherman wharfs tourist attractions. Still preserved in a cocoon. But there will always be a mystery, men who take her down to wage war beneath the oceans wave. We had to do a little c
Passengers shivering for days. A look inside the carolands estate. All that and more straight ahead on a second look. Hello everyone im Frank Somerville and welcome to a second look. Sp trains crossed the country and came to dominate development in the golden west over the next century. In 2001, George Watson took a look at southern pacific and how it changed the bay area. Oakland incorporated as a city in 1864 but would remain a sleepy city until 1869 when the train came. The side of sps western terminus. The Steam Locomotive would forever alter the concept of time and distance. Now the power of steel and steam forcing over track late across endless prairie through seemingly impossible would altar the course of a nation. Here in california, especially in the bay area, by the beginning of the 20th century, the Southern Pacific Railroad was at the top of the pyramid. The rest of america came here on steel rails of the sp. It was said at the time in the 1890s and early 1900s that the cap