Angela Hernandez describes days stranded on beach — Transcript

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1. 0:00the Monterey County Sheriff's Office
2. 0:01they just finished their update on the
3. 0:03rescue of Angela Hernandez as you know
4. 0:05she was found at the bottom of a cliff
5. 0:07after a car crash more than 200 feet the
6. 0:09sheriff's office says it's difficult
7. 0:11even for a fit person to handle the
8. 0:12rocky shoreline of the area and that's
9. 0:14the sound bite you just heard right and
10. 0:16we want to talk now with Elise Haase
11. 0:18who's been following this story this
12. 0:20really miraculous story that we've seen
13. 0:22yeah it really is and it caught the
14. 0:23attention of the nation hello ken and
15. 0:27Jenny the Portland woman went on the
16. 0:28road trip and she vanished without a
17. 0:30trace leaving so many questions for the
18. 0:32investigators and the family but a week
19. 0:34after she disappeared it was actually a
20. 0:37couple that found her stranded I saw a
21. 0:40bumper first and we were like oh there's
22. 0:43a bumper that's weird
23. 0:44Chad and Chelsea Moore say they were
24. 0:46looking for places to fish Friday night
25. 0:48near Big Sur when they stumbled upon a
26. 0:50wrecked Jeep that crashed off the
27. 0:52200-foot cliff above I think that's when
28. 0:54I noticed like the car is new it looked
29. 0:56like it just landed there I started
30. 0:58walking back towards the campground and
31. 1:00we decided to go the long way back
32. 1:03instead of the way we came
33. 1:04the long way led them to 23 year old
34. 1:07Angela Hernandez Angela is right there
35. 1:09in the rocks just look like hell and
36. 1:17Angela was stranded after suffering a
37. 1:20concussion numerous broken bones and
38. 1:23ribs in a severe sunburn at that point
39. 1:25we just kind of like panicked with
40. 1:28adrenaline like oh my god you were in
41. 1:30that car we just saw and you're alive
42. 1:32Angela was moving from Portland to
43. 1:34Southern California telling the couple
44. 1:36she'd been there for several days
45. 1:37Hernandez says she swerved to avoid
46. 1:39hitting a rabbit and then crashed off
47. 1:41the cliff she describes her days of
48. 1:43survival as a blur saying I'd walk up
49. 1:46and down the beach looking for new high
50. 1:48ground screaming help at the top of my
51. 1:50lungs and collecting water falling from
52. 1:52the top of the cliffs in her statement
53. 1:54she went on to say she knew if only one
54. 1:56person could hear or see her that's all
55. 1:58it would take to make it back home she's
56. 2:01now recovering in the hospital happy to
57. 2:03be reunited with family and grateful to
58. 2:05her rescuers saying I've met the most
59. 2:07beautiful human beings that I think I'll
60. 2:09ever meet in my entire life I've
61. 2:11experienced something so
62. 2:12unique and terrifying to me that I can't
63. 2:14imagine that there isn't a bigger
64. 2:16purpose for me in this life despite all
65. 2:19of the suffering she's endured this past
66. 2:21week Angela says life is incredible and
67. 2:27for a closer look at the timeline of the
68. 2:28details events at the Monterey County
69. 2:30Sheriff or lens day Police hops I am
70. 2:34calm
71. 2:34Kenan Jenny