Page 840 - Cable Stayed Bridge News Today

Gay people, hate is hate. there were people in the muslim community that have been here throughout this whole tragedy supporting this community. and i think its important to say that. theres a hole in our hearts that our hearts will heal if we work together. >> patty yushgs wonderful. terry, youre wonderful as well. is this los angeles or new york where were going now? los angeles. there is a march now. i think lady gaga is reading the names of the victims as we speak. well go to break on. that ...

The lowest taxes in decades, and new infrastructure for a new generation attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. like in rochester, with world-class botox. and in buffalo, where medicine meets the future. let us help grow your companys tomorrow -

Around the bay area... and in right now at 5:30 a warm day around the bay area and in some areas theres a serious concern about fire danger. >> meteorologist here with a look at the condition. right now what were finding is across the interior valleys we saw the largest warm up today with 17 degrees warmer in

Individuals on it. if the boom hit the water from over 100 feet, it would not have been a good situation. >> kim brooks is one of the people clinging to life in that basket. shes a department of transportation intern. earlier that morning she arrived, excited to inspect her first big bridge. >> the bridge had been recently constructed, so we were checking for stress cracks. when we had to go underneath the bridge and over the water, some anxiety. >> but kim is out with a group of veterans. a sen...

An accident high atop mt. hood. >> i saw his wedding ring, and that really made me upset, knowing that he had someone that had no idea that he might not make it off that mountain. >> but choppers are on the way. >> this is a kind of tricky flying when youre that close to the edge of the mountain. >> at a higher altitude the air is thinner, so the helicopter has to work harder to maintain a hover. and -- >> i was saying to myself, got to hit the building because if the ladder came all the way d...

The suspender cables that went from the bridge deck to the main suspension cable itself began to snap. >> and then the unimaginable happens. the massive steel structure bends, whips and contorts so violently that it collapses into the rushing water below. both make it off the bridge alive, but not tubby. hes still in the backseat when the structure gives way. the bridge failure makes news all across the world. >> the tacoma narrows bridge dedicated in 1940 was the pride of the northwest. four mo...

Training that i knew would make the rescue more safe, both for the individuals we were rescuing, but also for our own rescuers. >> firefighters record the action with their own video cameras. theyre hoping to catch this rare high-angle rescue on camera to be used in training video one day. minutes pass. theyre prepping captain fulford. but down in the bucket, kim is starting to wonder if theyll ever be saved. >> just dangling there, i wasnt sure what they were doing. were they figuring out how t...

>> another person trying to escape from the bridge that day is professor bert farquharson. >> professor bert farquharson was a professor of engineering at the university of washington and he was an authority on bridge structures. so when eldridge and lacey murrow became concerned about how much this bridge might move, they hired bert farquharson to conduct some studies. >> as part of his study, dr. farquharson sets up film cameras a few weeks after the bridge opens to capture its movements. seve...

As a comedian ive made a living finding humor in the parts of america i dont understand. and now im challenging myself to dig deeper. im on a mission to reach out and experience all of the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is "united shades of america." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ >> ah, the san francisco bay area, my home. when the producers told me we were shooting our next episode in the bay, i couldnt wait. so many stories to be told here. the tech...

Its a blustery day in puget sound, located in the northwest section of the evergreen state. winds are gusting a little more than 40 miles per hour, causing the tacoma narrows bridge to really sway. surprising as it looks, the movement doesnt stop cars and pedestrians from crossing it. ever since the bridges opening four months earlier, residents affectionately call her galloping gertie because of the way she dances and snakes in the wind. bridges are designed to move a little, but gerties moveme...