enforcement in his 60s. plus the source of the blaze that sent an ominous black cloud over the bay this afternoon. why the smoke lingered long after the fire was out. >> the whole thing is a pure adrenaline rush. >> diving into danger. meet the teen that's from the most daring of wildfire frontlines. the fitting sendoff for a local civil right legend who often compared his life to a jazz song. live from the cbs studios in san francisco, i'm brian hackney. i'm andrea nakano. the santa clara sheriff's department is swearing in a new reserve deputy tomorrow morning, but he's a little bit older than your average recruit. >> da lin talks to the former marketing executive turned peace officer about why. in his mid-60s, he's beginning a career in law enforcement. >> reporter: on most days you'll find this man on the move, working on something even

though he retired four years ago. >> i was marketing executive for over 35 years. >> reporter: bob yee is about to come out of retirement and do something quite different from his previous career. he will join the reserve ute on monday, serving as a part-time deputy for santa clara county. >> finishing my business career. he first volunteered as a safety ambassador. and during the pandemic. he then organized the workshop to train people on how to use pepper spray to defend themselves. he also attended events to support crime victims. >> this journey with helping the community out, add evocating for violent crimes have been much more fulfilling for me and i want to continue this journey. >> reporter: at 66 years old, bob is the oldest in his police academy. his youngest colleague

was 23 years old. his good shape and physical health helped him get through the economy. >> the techniques that we learned about vehicle operations. we learned about shooting. >> reporter: after monday, he'll begin months of field training and chances of bob will not be doing felony search warrants or sprinting full speed to chase after bad guys. he would like to do more community policing where he could use his life experience to engage with the community and businesses. he also wants to incorporate more technology to prevent and solve crime. >> and they are taking a lot of the business skills that they have had in my career and apply them towards law enforcement. >> reporter: his wife says she has seen bob's transformation and that he's much happier in this new career. >> i actually thought he would have a retirement career or hobby that was building things. i didn't think he would be building community. so i was pleased to hear that. i think it is a noble thing to be

doing. >> reporter: his entire family supports his work. bob says he's excited to serve the community. >> i'm committed to the second career. in fact i'm awaiting anxiously of the pinning of the badge by my wife. >> reporter: bob turns 67 next month. he says don't let age limit what you could do. if you put in the work, it is never too late to go after your dreams. now to the east bay that you may have seen the dark cloud of smoke that's coming from the port of oakland earlier this afternoon. several of our cameras spotted the fires burning around 3:00 this afternoon. and take a look at the video as you can see they are not too far from the dark smoke. the fire caught the attention of people driving on the bay bridge. the fire is also visible across the bay in san francisco. and here is what

it looked like during the giants game at oracle park. the fire was put out just before 4:00 this afternoon. our roof camera shows that the smoke was still lingering around afterwards, creating an unusual flat cloud of smoke. let's go to darren peck with more on how the smoke spread out throughout the bay area. >> that would have caught a lot of people's attentions today. we want to talk about why it lingers and what it meant for air quality. if you take a look at the view out our window now, it is finally gone. but the time lapse from that plume of smoke, which we were looking at from the video we just showed you, we will show you how it behaves. goes up and hits that ceiling. that's the marine layer. no clouds in it, so you can't see it. but the very definition of the marine layer is that cap of relatively cooler air down here near the surface of the bay because of the opening statements think of it as high pressure right above it, which is a lid. let me show you another time lapse of this. this is one from oakland. you can see how that stuff just sat

there and hit the top of the marine layer. high pressure will hold it right there and they had nowhere to go and they just kind of drifted around with the marine layer and the same cloud that's filling in at virtually the same level. it's like putting another kind of dye into the stream, so you could see it. the good news is the air quality never got too far out of control with this and they pretty much stayed moderate throughout that part of the bay throughout the day. now all of the centers are reading good air quality for right now. if we will go to that part of the bay, which will help clear out the air a little bit more through the golden gate. we're getting into that time of the year now where they are getting that breeze coming through. that fire is coming out right from here and near the port of oakland. they did not really spread too far. they got trapped in that marine layer and got pushed off towards the east just a little bit and they started to dissipate as you could watch that happen as we would go into the afternoon. you'll see the wind speeds pick up here through the golden gate. it gave us good air quality. so is also cooling us down. when you look at the complete forecast in a few

minutes. i'll show you how the temperatures are also benefiting from this onshore flow. we'll see you in a few minutes. >> thank you. move over valentine's day and new year's. mother's day is now the busiest weekend for restaurants all year long. they say nearly 60% of people celebrating mother's day are going to be going out to eat. when you add up the flowers and the food, americans are expected to spend $33 billion today. that's down though from last year and they spent $36 billion. a special mother's day celebration in san jose with a college of adaptive arts. they are celebrating moms with the low rider car show. it is also the college's 15th anniversary. >> the 15th anniversary, we made it. it is so beautiful. i'm so happy. then to all the moms and my mom over there, happy mother's day to all the moms in the world. >> we saw a lot of families enjoying mother's day in san

jose. perfect weather for being outdoors. some moms spent the day getting pampered. we would talk to a mother and daughter getting manicures. >> they were the only two moms in the family, so we escaped for the morning and it has been beautiful. >> i'm treating my mom. my mother-in-law and my mom help take care of the kids at home. there is no one i would rather spend the day with and they decided to do something more low key and relaxing for this mother's day. you can't go wrong with flowers. today, the san francisco rose society held their rose show. they had a chance to showcase their final days. they also had a chance to learn from the gardeners about what it will take to grow the flowers. a memorial service today honored the life of the

reverend, the pastor, the community leader, the activist was the cofounder of the glide memorial church. >> when the saints go marching in. >> they took over the struggling church in 1963 and brought music to the tenderloin and the message of compassion. both the preacher and a respected civil rights leader. >> and they always stood on the front lines against occupation and against war. they always stood for love. >> his life was and still is a profound and powerful demonstration of living one's purpose and truth with conviction and commitment. >> when they took over his

legacy will live on as they community to serve the community. >> everybody is focused on themselves, yes, but when you come up out of that, that means you must be a heck of a guy and that i believe that we have seen many people from around the world. >> he retired as pastor of the glide memorial church in 2000, but given the title of minister of liberations, so he could continue to serve the church and the community. still ahead, here at 6:00, how the south bay is celebrating south asian culture during aapi heritage month. >> people are aware of the presence of the community, but not really engaging with these communities at a level in which they could get to know these communities. and later they serve their time. the state says they are ready for a second chance. but what happens to sexually violent predators with no place

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welcome back. all month long, celebrating asian american and pacific islander heritage month. in the south bay, there is a new exhibit celebrating south asian art, music, history. >> len ramirez spoke to some of the people trying to keep their cultures alive for the next generation. for this traditional indian instrument, it makes sounds that are soothing and sentimental. >> this music really reminds people of home, especially if they have immigrated to this country. but if they have grown

up here, they might have heard it growing up at home. >> reporter: he's the second generation of indian american and the physician at ucsf and one of the top players. he's drawn to the music for creativity and relaxation. >> you don't have to necessarily be indian to appreciate that it will have a certain touching quality. the kind of thing that some people would say meditative or sometimes mesmerizing quality that really puts you in the zone. a good zone of peaceful thoughts and feelings. >> reporter: it's been played for century. but soon it might be discovered by new audiences in the first of its kind cultural side at south asians in silicon valley. >> almost 20% of santa clara county is it. >> reporter: and the lead curator of the exhibit, which

will focus on the people, the music, the food, and many contributions of the south asian community. >> and by south asian, i mean seven countries. that is afghanistan, pakistan, sri lanka. so that is all these countries that they will live in this area, contributing to several sectors. they are well known, of course. >> reporter: rory came to the u.s. as a young graduate student. earned her ph.d. and taught at the university level before joining the king library. she designed the exhibit to promote understanding and chip away at long standing biases. >> there is a stereotype of silicon valley. who does really well, and then there are those blue collared job areas, you know, for example the gas stations, like the taxi services, right? the grocery stores. and so our attempt at this library will be to capture all tease various aspects of the south asian experience.

>> reporter: the exhibit covers the hate crimes that will target six. the community's rising political presence as well as popular past times like cricket. >> people are aware of the presence of the community, but not really engaging with these communities in a level to know these communities. the less biases will persist. >> reporter: in august the exhibit will feature the sounds of south asia, a half day of musical performances, which they are organizing. he wants to keep this musical tradition alive. for him, that even starts at home. his 17-year-old son often accompanies him on the violin and soon plans to take up the instrument. >> i think keeping this integral part of our family and ethnic history is something really important. this music was played by my ancestors. >> reporter: played by his ancestors and perhaps some day

by his descendents. all part of sharing the culture of south asia and keeping traditions alive. >> and we will be bringing you stories like this all month long. you can find them on kpix.com. be sure to tune in to our aapi heritage month special, roots and resilience, which airs on friday, may 24. now let's go over to first alert meteorologist darren peck with a look at many things. >> and yeah, we will focus exclusively on the weather here. the aurora borealis, coming up in the next half hour because a lot of people have been captivated by that. it won't be as good as friday was, but still a small chance. more coming up in the next half hour. the start of an important season for us here. may gray. this morning was probably the first real good example of that what will look like and the

marine layer has started building in a pretty healthy way. each morning, they did it today and filling in the entire bay that it is about to do that again as we would get in tomorrow with that flow coming back. let's take a look at what we're talking about. that's what it looks like now. the same perspective on the virtual map here. when you use the rapid information to fill in what happens tonight, i'm going slow because there is so much detail on here that they have gotten so accurate in terms of their ability to visualize and depict what the maureen layer is going to do better than what we could do in the previous five years to this. so watch what happens tonight and tomorrow morning. you'll likely have too many clouds in the immediate bay. also too many city lights any way in the city and the immediate bay. but here is where we get to our extend tomorrow morning at 7:30. look

at the north bay valleys. then look at the bay itself. you have the petaluma gap up there and the golden gate here. each morning now, marine layer is going to fill that in pretty healthy. it took until 10:00 in the morning before the stuff melted back. here is your monday morning. by the time we've gotten towards the later morning hours, 10:00 a.m. a patch hanging out over the immediate city. and this has a pretty big impact on temperatures. thursday, friday, saturday in the low 80s in the city. let's go back to the virtual map now with a chat earn that will show up in these numbers. but i want to pick out in particular one transit across the bay. you will go from that number right there, 56 at half moon bay. i'll step out this way but a we can go

back to antioch. you've got temperatures that are getting well into the 80s for inland valleys. as you get into may, june, july, august, september, it will be like this all summer. may is when it makes its season known. you won't get much of a summer in regards to sunny and warm. but you do very clearly have a distinct summer pattern even if it is not the classic idea of summer. that summer pattern really took into full effect today. your daytime highs, low 60s, you can still there until october pretty much. actually there will likely be more ups and spikes. it is entirely likely that it happens multiple times. thanks to the maureen layer. >> let's show you what this would look like over the next seven. we've got of those low

80s today and tomorrow. but you don't really change a whole lot here. we are now locked in. a high talking about those as we have seen the last season of those. your summer for the bay, yeah all right, mr. peck. straight ahead in sports, you'll hear from 49ers great, john taylor. what's up with the state of new jersey? and the

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all right, baseball up top, but the giants, did you know before today's game, the giants were 11-0 this season with scoring five or more runs.

and they hosted the reds. san francisco played conforto in the game. this fielding may. caused the team another. center fielder with a bug on the windshield, shoulder injury. giants down 3-1 in the 5th. hey, lamont wade jr. cracked the two-run shot. tied the game. three batters later with two outs. singled, wilmer flores and gave san francisco the lead. the starter. yeah, they loved that. 5-4. hit the game tieing solo blast that it was 5-5. game went to extras. called up on friday. drove an 0-2 pitch to left center for a walk-off ground-rule double. giants won it 6-5 and they took the series. they are now 12-0 this season with scoring five

or more runs. san francisco, record of 19-23 host the dodgers on monday. blake snell made a rehab start in san jose this afternoon, and he threw e like he was ready to go in the first period. snell retired all 12 batters he faced. good chance he's back with the big plug. on mother's day back in 2010. logical it's just a couple of innings where they beat a's 7-4. oakland, a record of 19-23. head to houston tomorrow. nba, warriors will not have a first round pick in next month's league draft. that's a result of finishing 14th in today's lottery. that pick will go to portland as part of a trade from 2019. the atlanta

hawks will have the number one pick for the first time since 1975. nba, did you know pacers coach rick carlisle and i were classmates at uvt, did they put it back down to 30 before half time. you it will be topping, as they say don't be stopping. they blew out the knicks 120-89. even that series at two. game five is in new york. rose zhang won her first lpga tournament in new jersey. today in the garden state, returned, and won her second title. this time the and forcing the birdies to earn that trophy. moms, moms, more moms. in

charlotte, north carolina, for the pga wells fargo championships. let's watch rory mcilroy put for eagle. a two-shot lead. and then at 15 from the cat box, how do you extend a five-shot lead? like this. he shot 8 under par. mcilroy won this tournament for the fourth time for the pga championships. in the meantime at the sports hall of fame induction. five more made the 2024 class. the sharks legend and the olympic swimmer from stanford. chris wandeloswki, brian sabian, and john taylor here. how did j.t. react when he got the call. >> it was the day i got

drafted. i was upstairs and asheep because you weren't thinking about getting drafted. my rookie year when i came out here in 86, walking back and forth through the airport. you see this display. i'm just walking by, i'm looking, i'm looking. now when i come through the airport, i have to look myself, right? >> john taylor is a good guy who held court for 20 minutes it would be interesting to hear. thanks, vern. coming up in the next half hour, they are known as the navy seals to belong to this elite swath. plus still leaning are wash out road is turning a simple ere ran into a major ordeal. it's getting hearter to.

but with a spike in traditors that are set to be released across the state. there is growing concerns about the

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east palo alto when a convicted rapist no longer deemed a threat by the state was allowed to move into a neighborhood. >> now there is a southern spike in sexually violent predators, set to be released across the state. julie watts shows us the fight at the state capitol over about what to do where one of them has no place to go. >> do you still feel an attraction to children? >> i think there is always going to be an attraction. >> reporter: you're watching a 2006 interview with sexually violent predator, timothy boggs. >> some people will say you have a sickness that cannot be cured from? >> i'd say that's 100% true. the worst thing a sex offender can say is i'm cured. you don't want somebody to say there is no attraction because it leads to high-risk thinking. >> reporter: we got glimpse into the mind of a sexually violent predator, known as svp.

someone convicted of sexually violent crimes have been diagnosed with a mental disorder, likely making them suspected to violent history behavior. that condition release back into the community where it is the state's job to give them a supervision. and they were taking too long to find them somewhere to live and bob was the first released on the transient status, meaning without a permanent address. >> i don't feel safe in my own neighborhood. >> and certainly wasn't the last. as more svps are being released across the state. it's becoming increasingly difficult for the state to find them homes. >> they would like this sex predator to be released elsewhere. >> reporter: it was rare for sexually violent predators to be released. there were roughly

20 last year. but a sudden spike, potentially doubling with 42 sexually the release and a cost to taxpayers with over $0,000 rehousing if they could find a house at all. >> they should not be allowed to be in our neighborhood or families. >> i know one with plenty of state money for housing, but no place to go. >> stevenson has already failed. >> reporter: triggering action by lawmakers. court records reveal stevenson has a long history of treatment and reoffense dating back to the 80s. after serving about half of his 31-year sentence, followed by more treatment of the state psychiatric hospital in 2014. doctors determined it was safe to conditionally release stevenson into this northern california neighborhood. >> with a view right into my home, right into my backyard to watch my children play. >> reporter: where he was arrested again when officers found child pornography on his

computer and sent back to have build in the future. stevenson was well enough for a release. this time the contractor can't find anywhere to put him. >> he was preferred transient status release this time. >> reporter: when his lawyer asked for transient, they acknowledged svps have a 50% failure rate. stevenson testified he personally knows all the men who failed so far. most were placed in hotels where they were attempts. if lawmakers felt transient release was unsafe? >> they could have put that language into the law and they have chosen not to. ladies and gentlemen, it's unsafe, so let's fix it now. >> reporter: in response to the original reporting, brian jones made multiple attempts to amend state law. >> there should be a law and so

did joe patterson. >> stevenson pointed out the gap of the law where i don't think they felt like they need to clarify that you can't put people out on the transient status, but we'll clarify that. >> or at least they're trying. the republican lawmakers introduced at least seven different svp bills this session. most died in the democrat led public safety committees, including one of patterson's bills that would have presented them from being housed in motels. >> that's not working. >> reporter: which died when every democrat on the public safety committee. >> mccarty, not voting. >> reporter: abstained from voting, automatically killing the bill without anyone voting against it on the record. meanwhile the senate public committee did pass senator jones' amended bills, requiring the director of state hospital to ensure public safety is the primary considering the community. >> the the point of her

underscoring the ridiculousness of the whole issue in the first place that we have to say that. >> reporter: the opponents like public offenders argue that they will make it harder to find housing, which could lead to more transient releases. >> it is more difficult supervision. >> reporter: placer county d.a. explains that there are still weekly drug screenings, polygraph tests, 24/7 gps monitoring, which is easier and cheaper in any permanent phones. but he acknowledges if the state can't find a home that at some point, transient release will become the only option under the current law. >> there are rights that the predator has. >> reporter: court records indicate boggs who is now dead was never rearrested after his re-release. he volunteered to be castrated and said he understood why people still didn't trust him. >> how can i look at somebody in the community and say you're right. we don't need to be looked up. i paid for my crime, and i have done everything and

more, i think to show the community that i deserve a chance. >> reporter: now the judge has issued a final rule on transient release for stevenson. but two bills are still making their way through. meanwhile they have not analyzed the reason for the hospital stay is about 12 years. so the longer it exhibits, the more they will be released. >> reporter: for more on the investigation or see similar stories that hold the powerful accountable, head to kpix.com and scroll down to cbs news california investigates. well happening tomorrow, donald trump's former attorney, michael cohen is expected to testify in the former president's hush money trial. cohen is at the heart of the prosecution's case against the former president. prosecutors claim trump falsified business records to cover up a payment of $130,000. cohen made to adult film star, stormy daniels. they argue that

money was used to silence her from publicizing her affair with trump. and cohen will likely be the final key witness with his testimony, spanning several days. turning now to the middle east. israel has warned residents in the city of rafah that they plan to operate with great force and to evacuate the area. with massive encampments, forming right on the beach. the secretary of state, antony blinken was on face the nation this morning. he says as the administration has said for months with no affect that the u.s. will not support a major military operation without a plan to keep civilians safe. >> most of the population from gaza is displaced to the north. from central gaza, they have gone with about 1.4 million people there. >> the white house has paused the shipment of 3,500 bombs. including 2,000 pounds of area

weapons over concerns about the impact that they could have in dense urban settings. well still ahead here at 6:00, we will tag along with some of the most daring firefighters in the country. how california smoke jumpers played a pivotal role

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for much of the past week it has felt like they are still stuck dealing with the aftermath of the winter storms. >> that is especially true for people living here along mountain charlie road in the sap that clara mountains, a landslide that cut them in half, requiring hiking across the active landslide or driving miles and miles out of the way.

we checked in with folks who are living there about how they are adapting. >> we never had this kind of issue and it is out of nowhere. >> reporter: one of the 13 people who live in the half dozen homes directly above the slide on mountain charlie road. >> going in and out and it has been a challenging understatement. it's hard to really express how this is affecting every single part of our lives. >> reporter: amanda says they began to fail in late february. first beginning with the spiders web of the cracks in the pavement and the whole hillside that's saturated that fan to slush off and slide down. they estimate that they dropped 11.5 feet since march. enough to swallow an average one-story home. >> and we estimate that it will take one to three years for us to repair the road and that

road is still moving. it is moving a little over one foot horizontally and vertically a week. >> reporter: they say until the slide stops moving, they can't really come up with the plan or start repairs. and that is not the only challenge. the county frankly doesn't know where the money would come from to make the repairs. >> there is a lot of uncertainty with the future of mount charlie road, given the timeline and the finances, still in the works. >> reporter: that's not the news they want to hear where they will grow worse by the day and so too does their inconvenience and impatience. they fear that they are running out of time and options. >> there is no way to get out. that we would have to carry everything or leave it. nobody is going to rent the place. nobody is going to buy the place. i mean, we're all stuck, all of us on both sides of this disaster.

>> wow. the county is actively trying to get money from the state or the feds. they have no plan to fix it if you can't pay for it. let's go over to first alert meteorologist, darren peck. i did hear you say there is no rain in sight. >> no, we are kind of transitioning away from that now, getting into the classic may, gray pattern. let me show you what they will do and more than anything else that we could safely say it is time to start getting geared up for summer patterns to really take hold here. it is very unlikely at this point that we will see more of those systems come out of the gulf of alaska. before i get into the local story, i just want to point out something, that will bring home a lot of, i think local awareness for us, considering what we know our vulnerability is in this state to the wildfire and from that personal standpoint from all of us here in the bay, breathing in the smoke from the wildfire. this is from today and we're watching sunset, so you can see the line will go across as we

transition. but what's valuable for that as they will get low, something appears in this imagery that will be coming out of canada and maybe you have seen it. keep your eye right there and just watch that a few more times. the rest of these are clouds where you will be able to see a pretty large plume of smoke and that is coming from wildfires burning in british columbia, about four of them, which have started in the middle of may. and the wildfires if british columbia have taken off and they are so big that they are throwing a plume of smoke across the upper midwest, which is now being read by air quality sensors today and several of them in the purple, which is where you'll go into that real extreme hazardous air quality where none of these are impacting the major city and they have been spared to minneapolis today where they had good air quality today. but just extreme that you're getting into the hazardous levels. fires from last year where we would have a pretty good winter where they were

drier and warmer a lot than normal in british columbia over the winter. but the smoke from the fires are being caused by what are known as zombie fires. and in other words, these are the leftover fires from last fire season, which is historic up there. now in the spring with warmer conditions and windy conditions out there, those fires, they have reignited. now we are only into early may and we are seeing smoke inundations here from the lower extreme wildfire conditions in canada with a little bit of smoke here today and we talked ant this over oakland until this afternoon. and it finally dissipated where it got trapped and the high pressure up here capping it in the marine layer down here drifting off to the east and that is a part of our story today. thankfully they turned on as you could watch the winds here. those winds, they are also going to be driving the

marine layer on shore for us in a significant way over the next few days. so just like today, cloudy in the morning, cloudy at night. sunny in the afternoon. you know the drill with the marine layer. in terms of your ability to see the aurora borealis, that was friday. and that red will show you with a high degree of being able to see it and that is last night and here is tonight. so the odds are really going down on this and the intensity of the energy that's entering the atmosphere is decreasing each night, so you don't really have super high odds of seeing it tonight and it is still possible. now the seven-day forecast will show us what's coming our way. they will get a nice cool down here and you will stay right around that 80-degree mark for the next seven days. when we would look at the numbers for the bay itself, those numbers are going to stay above average where we have gotten ourselves locked in to the mid-may pattern here and in the bay and afternoon sunshine and temperatures are right about where they should be for this time of the year.

all right, back to you. coming up next, firefighters are taking a leap of faith to fight flames. up next, meet

when fires burn in the dense forest and the other areas that crews can't reach, they will call in a special team as they rode along with the smoke jumpers.

>> reporter: when 33-year-old cole skinner said he'll be dropping by his workplace, he means it, literally. >> the whole thing is a pure adrenaline rush. >> reporter: for the last four years, this has been his commute. at 3,000-foot dive with views that are hard to beat. >> they read it and connected it. >> reporter: he's a part of an elite group of firefighters that have been operating in places where roads don't exist. >> lower ourselves. >> reporter: it's called smoke jumpers, where they will parachute directly into the flames, when the sirens sound, spoke jumpers will pack on their gear and load onto a short c23 sherpa plane. >> once they blow, they will have two minutes to get on and then we're boarded on to the planes in less than ten

minutes. it isn't for the faint of heart and they are expected to be in top physical shape and they will have some fire fighting experience. it is why they bring everything with them and their gear. wearing it all in the middle of summer isn't exactly a breeze. >> it could be well over 110, 120 degrees. it doesn't breathe. >> reporter: smoke jumping will date back to 1939 when the forest service realized they needed to stop remote fires before they became too big to handle. their job has become more in demand. >> i would experience stuff

that i've never seen before. >> reporter: he's the manager and a smoke jumper for 25 years. he says these days, they are getting longer and longer. >> and we were working until december. we were starting earlier where they would not start until june and now they are starting until the end of april. >> reporter: the daily grind could be both dangerous and physically demanding. that is exactly why he says that the moment he heard about the program, he jumped at the chance to join. >> no one else gets to parachute to fight fire and that is what we do here. it was a dream. when they came true, it was everything that it was suppose to be. >> reporter: and now that he's landed the perfect job, the sky is no longer the limit. >> appreciate you watching. "60

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