WATCH LIVE: Official: "The car was on its wheels, and had a lot of damage. People don't normally survive plunges like that, she is very lucky." https://t.co/sdX7ZRXStO pic.twitter.com/WQypyZr6Op — ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) July 16, 2018 EMBED >More News Videos A couple describes the moment they discovered missing Oregon woman Angela Hernandez alive near Big Sur. SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- During a press conference on Monday, officials said a missing Oregon woman who was found at the bottom of a cliff near Big Sur survived only on water for seven days and added that Angela Hernandez "is one amazing fighter. "Hernandez says she was stuck at the bottom of a cliff near Big Sur after her car veered off the roadway and that she kept herself hydrated by using a radiator hose from her car to tap water from a local stream.A couple who found Hernandez along the Monterey County Coast said they were shocked to see a person down there.Monterey County Sheriff's deputies shared pictures Hernandez being rescued from rocks Friday night.Chelsea and Chad Moore described finding Hernandez's wrecked Jeep near Highway 1. "We saw a bumper first and we were like, 'there's a bumper, that's weird.' And then came around another bend and we saw the car," said camper Chelsea. "Angela was right there in the rocks, just looked like hell," said Chad.Hernandez told deputies her Jeep went off the roadway when she swerved to avoid a rabbit.Officials said Hernandez is now recovering at a hospital and that her family is excited to have her back.During the press conference, an official said Hernandez told them that she looked up into the sky on her last night and saw the Big Dipper, thinking only positive thoughts.<doc-sep>SALINAS (CBS SF) — A missing Oregon woman’s seven-day survival after her jeep plunged 250 feet off a Highway 1 cliff in Monterey County has left her rescuers in awe and amazement. A massive search for Angela Hernandez, a 23-year-old Portland woman who went missing while traveling to Southern California, focused on Monterey County last Wednesday after her phone was tracked to Carmel Highlands. An image of her white jeep was also captured on a video camera at a gas station in Big Sur. But weather limited the search until hikers discovered her on a remote Pacific Ocean beach near the wreckage of her vehicle late Friday. “Angela is an amazing, amazing young woman,” Monterey County Sheriff Steve Bernal told reporters Monday. “If you go out and look at the scene and if you could see pictures of the scene. Number one, to survive a 250-foot plunge with a car to the ocean, to the rocky bottom of the ocean there, to keep your wits about you, she had water coming into her car.” “She knew that she had to get out of the car, she found a multi-purpose tool in the car. She was able to break out a window and got out onto the beach. From what I understand she blacked out. She slept for a little while.” “When she woke up, she realized what had happened to her,” Bernal continued. “She was able to walk around and see if there was any civilization, any living bodies in the area. She wasn’t able to locate anything. This is a beach that is not heavily traveled. People don’t go down there very often.” On her Facebook page, Hernandez posted her story of survival. “The only thing I really remember after that (the crash) was waking up,” she wrote. “I was still in my car and I could feel water rising over my knees. My head hurt and when I touched it, I found blood on my hands. My car’s power was off by now and every window was closed. Everything kind of happens fast here. I took off my seatbelt and found a multi-tool I kept near my front seat. I started hitting the driver-side window with it. Every bone in my body hurt.” Hernandez was also dealing with surviving ‘life-threatening’ injuries. \ Angela Hernandez, Facebook “She had a brain hemorrhage,” Bernal said. “She had some broken ribs. A shoulder injury, a broken collarbone. She had multiple injuries.” Hernandez ability to attract help was limited by her injuries and the rocky coastline. “If you have even been down to Big Sur, the rocky coast of Big Sur and tried to walk around down there, even for a healthy person it is difficult,” Bernal said. “For her to survive for seven days on the coast with waves crashing over her at times, with the injuries that she had, is amazing.” “She’s a fighter,” he added. “She had the will to survive.” Angela Hernandez Injuries Facebook Photo To keep of her strength, Hernandez relied on fresh water from a nearby spring. “She found a radiator hose (in the wreckage),” Bernal said. “She found a natural spring coming out of the cliff. She noticed some mossy green vegetation and some water dipping off of that. She used that radiator hose to collect the water from that natural spring in the cliff…That’s what she survived on for seven days.” On her Facebook page, Hernandez posted photos of her injuries and described her daily ritual on the beach. “Every day, this became my ritual,” she posted. “I’d walk up and down the beach looking for new high grounds, screaming ‘help’ at the top of my lungs, and collecting water falling from the top of the cliffs. Every night, I’d find the highest point I could climb up to and find somewhere to fall asleep before the tide would rise. Every morning, I’d wake up soaked in sea mist and watch the sun rise.” Bernal said Hernandez verved off Highway 1 to avoid striking an animal. “From what I got from her sister, she said some kind of animal ran out into the road from the cliff area and she swerved to miss that and that’s when she lost control of the vehicle.” Bernal said Hernandez had a good feeling when she arose on the seventh day. “When she woke up Friday morning, she felt like it was gonna be a good day,” said Bernal. Chad and Chelsea Moore, a married couple hiking in the area on Friday, were looking for places to fish along the beach Friday evening when they saw something strange. “We saw a bumper first and we were like, ‘Hmm, there’s a bumper. That’s weird.’ And then came around another bend and saw the car,” said Chelsea. The couple said after they found the Jeep at the bottom of this cliff, they walked back to their campsite about a mile or two from the car along the beach. That is when they found Hernandez. “We turned around and Angela was right there in the rocks, just looked like hell. She was happy at the same time! She was really happy to see us,” said Chad. “At that point we just panicked with adrenaline like, ‘Oh my God! You were in that car we just saw and you’re alive and you must need help,’” said Chelsea. They said Hernandez seemed OK and responsive, and they got help right after. Chelsea brought back food and blankets as they waited for rescuers to arrive. Hernandez was recovering from her injuries at a local hospital Monday. “She’s in great spirits and anxious to get out of the hospital,” Bernal said. “She’s going to have a long recovery.” Hernandez was last seen south of Half Moon Bay on July 6. Family members said she had been driving from Portland to her sister’s home in Lancaster in Southern California. “I just want to thank everybody, everybody. Sorry I’m just in shock. Everybody that … helped us through the whole thing and Angela will be OK. I’m so happy,” Angela’s sister Isabel Hernandez said in a video posted to Facebook. RELATED ARTICLE: Search for Missing Oregon Woman Expands to Monterey County © Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.<doc-sep>We are following up on a lead for the #findAngelaHernandez case this morning. Many thanks to everyone for helping spread the word and getting her photos out there. We will keep you posted right here for the latest information. ✅ — San Mateo County S.O (@SMCSheriff) July 11, 2018 SAN MATEO, Calif. (KGO) -- San Mateo County officials announced the search party for a missing Oregon woman who was traveling through the Bay Area has been canceled.Angela Hernandez, 23, was driving from Portland to Lancaster in Southern California when she stopped to sleep behind a Safeway in Half Moon Bay.Her family told officials Hernandez texted her sister Friday night and had not been heard from since.The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office took to Twitter saying, "we are following up on a lead for the #findAngelaHernandez case this morning. Many thanks to everyone for helping spread the word and getting her photos out there. "On Tuesday, Hernandez' family offered a $10,000 reward for information to her whereabouts.Christina Ambriz drove from the Los Angeles area to look for her younger sister in Half Moon Bay. "I hope to find my sister and bring her home," said Ambriz.According to family members, Hernandez left Portland in her 2011 White Jeep Patriot headed to Lancaster in Southern California.On Thursday night she texted one of her sisters to say she was parking behind a Safeway in Half Moon Bay to sleep. "She slept in the Safeway parking lot in the back according to her statement. Right now we have detectives who are following up on the video footage from Safeway to see if we can get any evidence there," according to Detective Rosemerry Blankswade of the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.Blankswade told ABC7 News there had been a homeless encampment there in the past, but that the owner of the property had cleaned up the area.By Friday night her family had reported her missing. Investigators were able to ping her phone, showing that it was in the Davenport area, less than an hour south of Half Moon Bay.The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office flew over the area Tuesday and found no trace of Hernandez or her car.Anyone with information is asked to call 650-363-4051 or 800-547-2700.<doc-sep>
Hide Transcript Show Transcript WEBVTT DAN: NOW TO THE SEARCH FOR A MISSING OREGON WOMAN WHO AUTHORITIES SAY COULD BE IN SAN MATEO OR SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. 23-YEAR-OLD ANGELA HERNANDEZ LEFT PORTLAND FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAST WEDNESDAY. HER FAMILY SAYS SHE STOPPED DAVENPORT ON JULY 6, WHICH WOULD BE THE LAST TIME THEY HEARD FROM HER. ACTION NEWS REPORTER PHIL GOMEZ WAS IN DAVENPORT WHERE DETECTIVES PICKED UP A PING FROM HER PHONE. PHIL WHAT YOU KNOW -- WHAT DO YOU KNOW? >> WE ARE HOPING THAT SOMEBODY, MAYBE EVEN ONE OF THE LOCALS, SAW MY SISTER PARK SOMEWHERE. PHIL: WE DID A FACETIME INTERVIEW WITH HERNANDEZ AND HER FAMILY AS THEY DROVE FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO THE CENTRAL COAST TO SEARCH FOR ANGELA HERNANDEZ WAS DRIVING A WHITE 2011 JEEP PATRIOT WITH OREGON PLATES. SHE LOVED MUSIC AND THE OUTDOORS. >> SHE MAY HAVE WANTED TO STOP AND PUT HER FEET IN THE SAND, TAKE PICTURES, SHOOT VIDEO PLAY MUSIC, IF SHE HAD HER GUITAR ON HER. PHIL: THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE ASSISTED WITH THE SEARCH OF HERNANDEZ MONDAY BY AIR AND ON THE GROUND. >> WE’VE CONDUCTED THREE SEARCHES SINCE SATURDAY. WE’VE DONE TWO GROUND AS WELL AS YESTERDAY. WE HAD A 90 MINUTE FLIGHT FROM THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ TO PIGEON POINT IN SAN MATEO COUNTY. PHIL: SO FAR, NO SIGN OF ANGELA IT’S ABOUT A 55 MINUTE DRIVE FROM THE HALF MOON BAY SAFEWAY TO DAVENPORT SHE TEXTED HER SISTER AT 7:54. THE PHONE PING PICKED UP SEVEN HOURS LATER AND ANGELA’S LA TEXT WAS AT 3:54 P.M. >> SO THAT MEANS MY SISTER MAY HAVE STOPPED AND SENT A TEXT MESSAGE, OR MAYBE IT WAS A FAILED TEXT MESSAGE FROM EARLIER AND IT JUST FINALLY WENT THROUGH, BUT ALL WE KNOW IS THAT THE SIGNAL FINALLY GAVE OUT AT 5:07 P.M PHIL: THE CELL PHONE PINGING HAS STOPPED. THE FAMILY PLANS TO HAND OUT FLYERS AND HOPE THEY RUN INTO ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE HAD CONTACT WITH HER. DAN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HERE IS A PICTURE OF HERNANDEZ AGAIN. SHE’S 23-YEARS-OLD. LAST HEARD FROM IN HALF MOON BAY ON FRIDAY, JULY 6. SHE WAS DRIVING A WHITE 2011 JEEP PATRIOT WHICH HAS NOT Advertisement Search for missing woman shifts to Monterey County Angela Hernandez was last seen in Monterey County Share Shares Copy Link Copy The search for a missing Oregon woman has shifted from Santa Cruz County to Monterey County.Angela Hernandez, 23, traveled south on Highway 1 into Monterey County Friday morning, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. Her family is offering a $10,000 reward for her safe return home. She was still missing as of Friday night.Hernandez is driving a white 2011 Jeep Patriot with Oregon plates. A Jeep matching that description was recorded by a surveillance video camera at a gas station in Carmel Highlands, Monterey County Sheriff's Cmdr. John Thornburg said.Aerial searches were cancelled for the past two days because of heavy fog, but a search and rescue team was assembled to search between Carmel Highlands and Big Sur Thursday afternoon, Thornburg said.“So far, there have been no sightings of her,” Thornburg said. "Deputies are looking up and down Highway 1." Hernandez left home in Portland, Oregon last Wednesday. Her family said she was driving down the coast of California to visit her sister in Lancaster, California. "The circumstances surrounding her disappearance is suspicious and the family is desperate for answers," the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office tweeted. Before her disappearance, Hernandez's family was used to talking with her and texting multiple times a day while she was traveling. But the phone calls and texts suddenly stopped.The last time anyone heard from Hernandez was July 6, when she sent a text message to her sister saying she was back on the road and heading south. She had spent the previous night sleeping in her car in a Safeway store's parking lot in Half Moon Bay. She then drove from Half Moon Bay to Davenport, where her phone pinged a cell tower. "All we know is that the signal finally gave out at 5:07 p.m," said her sister, Isabel Hernandez.Angela Hernandez could have stopped somewhere along the coast to play her guitar, family members said. They are hoping local residents may have seen her at some point. Isabel Hernandez wrote on Facebook Thursday, "Day 6. 6 days too long. Today has to be the day I bring my sister home. Angela, please. I need you."