Snow. An unexpectedblizzard stranded three groups of hikers. Four of the lost hikers were from socal in santa cruz county. When they emerged for a joyous reaction with the family, sarah sidner was there. We dropped off. We drove up. Oh my god. Oh my god. Reporter with one declared ascendant from the sheriff, erupted with emotion. Her four family members had been found, alive. Thank you god, thank you. This is the best day of my life. Reporter she could not stop screaming and crying and calling out to family members too far away to know what was happening. Mary, mary. Theyre okay. Mary theyre okay. Theyre fine mary. All of them theyre all fine mary. Mary theyre okay. Reporter schneider and half dozen members of her family had been waiting in the sierra praying and crying, losing hope then gaining it back again since monday. Two father and son teams came out to hike sunday and suddenly a blinding blizzard arrived burying the mountains in about 4 feet of snow. The largetos were the last f
Anniversary of the worse mass murder and suicide in american history. The deaths of 913 people at jones town gayana. Jim jones started his peoples temple in San Francisco and eventually moved it to gayana. But scandals led most of his followers to gayana in 1978. Congressman leo ryan led a small delegation to gayana to investigate complaints. His constituents said some of their family members were being held against their will. The congressman and four other people died as they attempted to board jet planes to leave. Reporter november 17, 1978 congressman leo ryan and a group of journalist arrive at a tiny airstrip in jones town. They have brought with them some bay area people who fear that their family members are being held against their will in this remote place. Some of these visitors will die here. A 40 minute truck ride brings them to jones town where jim jones has told his followers they must make a good impression. I got off the jet and i thought this is a viable community. Th
Worlds most populous nation to demand democracy. The death toll remains under debate, from hundreds to thousands. Randy shandobil brought us this report. Reporter the people asked for the peoples republic of china to finally stand up for its name. The communist ideal is that everyone shares in responsibility and shares in the wealth there are charges of corruption. Charges that the families of the powered elite get preference. Partly because you can only get Raw Materials and produce if you go through the back door. And the more connections you have, the more people you know, the better off you are economically. Reporter Robert Scalapino is director of uc berkeley asian studies. He says for the first time in memory Young Students are winning the support of some of china ease workers. Because not only is there corruption in china theres also a 35 annual inflation rate. And extremely low wages. Scalapino says that in the past when china was a more closed society the people may have been
Propaganda films rallying the nation to the war effort. In others they put their lives at risk documenting the combat itself. One of those was john ford. Assigned to the Pacific Island of midway. They stood at the pacific filming the battle. Ford himself was knocked off that roof and received shrapnel wound. He produced a documentary called the battle of midway. And in 2000, ktvus Bob Mackenzie found a former american sailor who was not part of fords film and whos heroism went unrecognized for half a century. Reporter for more than 50 years nobody knew that art lewis was a hero. That he had risked his own life to save other peoples lives in world war ii. Thats because lewis never talked about what he had done and because the men who hand out medals and write military history had overlooked him. Its time we told his story. Reporter on june 4, 1942 a naval battle that changed the course of history began near the Pacific Island of midway. An outnumbered and outgunned task force faced mili
30th anniversary in San Francisco. It was in june of 1984 that the citys cable car system reopened after being shut down for nearly two years. During that time, munni rebuilt 69 city blocks of tracks and restored, repaired or rebuilt 38 cable cars. In 2000, ktvus ross mcgowen gave us this brief history of cable cars in the city by the bay. In the city where tony bennett left his car the cable car is part of the legend. But the lines are but a mere shadow of the cable car system that once connected the citys neighborhoods. The cable car was the way to go. There were virtually no electric streetcars but after the earthquake that changed. Only eight cable cars remainedded. Over the next 30 years three of those would stop operating the castro line, and the sacramento play line. In 1987, mayor lapa tried to shut down the cable cars all over. The citys committee saved the remaining five lines. Over the next decade more lines would disappear. Major Dianne Feinstein saw the rebuilding of the r