We start with breaking news in La Jolla.
A dramatic rescue is underway right now
as a car with at least one passenger
inside hangs halfway into the ocean.
Thank you for joining us. I'm Kirsten Holt.
And I'm Steve Price, CBS.
It's Ariana Cohen live at La
Jolla Cove with a witness who
actually saw what led up to
this incredible rescue. Ariana.
Yes, Steven Kirsten.
As you can see right now we're
at 1219 Coast Blvd. in La Jolla.
And what police tell me what could
have happened is that the male
driver was trying to park when he
slid off and you could see his white
vehicle SUV is halfway off the Cliff.
Fire crews are trying to
extricate the man right now.
They're still trying to
save him at this point.
I heard he's injured.
He's still OK, but they have the ropes
dangling down and they are still
working on getting him to safety.
At this time,
and I just met this couple,
Corinne and Elaine,
and they were here just to look at the
big waves and you saw everything happen.
Tell me what you saw.
Yeah. So we were just walking
around and heard a loud scraping
noise and turned around and saw
this car just going down the Cliff.
You said you heard a big noise, right? It's
big scraping noise.
Yes, it was unbelievable and
we couldn't see our eyes.
And then you called 911.
Yeah, he did call 911.
And it's pretty amazing.
And the car didn't go into the ocean,
and that is still hanging over
the the ocean on the rocks.
I mean, it's just unbelievable.
The guy was ever so lucky, I think.
Very lucky. And. And what is
it like to see something like
this? I couldn't believe my eyes
and I got really scared because I
just pictured the car crashing down
in the ocean and the person died.
It was just terrible.
Thank you for calling 911 and thanks
for your comment. And again, guys,
we're at 9 or 1219 Coast Blvd.
In La Jolla. There's plenty of spectators.
There's about 20 people with their
umbrellas just watching down.
Fire crews are still here.
San Diego police. And you could see
the man is right now on a stretcher.
They brought him out of his car. Finally.
This has taken about over an hour.
This happened around 5:30,
we believe, and you can see the
car halfway over the Cliff.
Waves are crashing up, but.
The man is expected to be OK,
so firefighters will bring him up to
safety and it's just good news that
he's OK just a very scary situation.
Go
ahead and stay with this picture for
just a a quick moment here because
I want folks to be able to see,
you can see all of the ropes that they
have put in place here to tie that car off
so that it wouldn't go over the Cliff.
So they first thing they had to do was
stabilize that car to make sure it didn't
go over because as we saw earlier,
two wheels at the front of the car,
that SUV were actually over the Cliff.
We saw the waves coming up and hitting it.
So you can imagine what a precarious
situation that these fire crews were in
trying to get that person out of the car.
The car half hanging over,
even though they have tied it,
it is still extremely dangerous conditions,
very wet out there as well, very slippery.
So we are so thankful that they
were able to get that person out.
Hopefully that person will be OK and
obviously need to find out a little
more information about what happened,
what led to that car.
We heard those witnesses kind of
described the situation out there,
but obviously is,
as Sean will tell us in a minute,
it has been raining extremely hard in parts
of the county today and you can understand.
How somebody could get a little confused,
maybe not be able to see exactly
where the parking spot ended,
went a little too far,
but we can see that that person
is on the Gurney and they seem to
be moving around a little bit,
which is also a very good sign.
Very good sign indeed.
If you're just now joining us,
this is live from La Jolla shores,
a dramatic rescue underway right now.
A man inside of a car.
You can see it actually
hanging over the Cliff.
This is a live picture of that
rescue right now as you see the
waves crashing onto the shoreline.
Really incredible.
They do such amazing work, these
rescue crews so thankful they were
there and able to get to him in time.