next, the white house backtracks on president obama's comments that marijuana's no worse than alcohol so where does the administration really stand on pot? plus, rob ford admits he suffered a setback after new video shows him in a drunken rant. new video of richard sherman. what he was saying to reporters right before his now famous rant joompt let's go "out front." good evening. i'm don lemon in for erin burnett. tonight the white house takes the high road trying to blunt criticism from president obama's comments that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol.

press secretary jay carney said the president's position on legalizing pot has not changed. the preds who has admitted to smoking pot has taken aim at politicians who throw them behind bars when they experimented with marijuana themselves. what does this mean for lighting up in the rest of the country? jim acosta has the story. >> reporter: just days after president obama's comments on marijuana appear to put his own drug policies at issue, the white house is trying to close the air. >> the president's position on these matters hasn't changed. he's not endorsing any specific move by a state. he's simply making an observation. >> reporter: an admitted user of pot, the president was asked by "the new yorker" about his recent comments. mr. obama said it's important for it to go forward adding he doesn't think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol. the president's remarks reflect a shift in public attitudes in a

cnn/orc poll showing only 12% of americans think marijuana is more dangerous but the comments stand in contrast with white house national drug control strategy that this administration firmly opposes the legalization of marijuana or any other elicit drug. thnchts is your brain on drugs. any questions? >> reporter: the partnership at drugfree.org, the same group behind the brain on drug ads say legalizing pot makes it harder on parents. >> the question, i think, that we've asked on their behalf is is it necessary to add another toxic substance to the list of substances that kids are exposed to at an early age. >> though surprisingly the group admits the war on pot isn't working. >> there is almost certainly a middle ground here. >> reporter: the white house points to the president's comments in "the new yorker" saying that blacks are put in

jail more than whites. >> we've been counter productive. >> many of you may be thinking, well, drugs don't concern me. >> reporter: but the president's stance marks a big change from nancy reg began's warning on drugs in the early '80s. >> when it comes to drugs and alcohol, just say no. >> or bill clinton's embarrassing admission in the '90ed. i didn't like it, didn't inhale and never tried it again. >> reporter: another sign that the nation is evolving. >> i think he's very much a president in flux on this. i don't think he feels comfortable coming down on the side either of we support legalization. this is the right way to go. or saying we're against it. >> reporter: further evidence of those mixed feelings, the president also warned in that "new yorker" interview says that legalizing marijuana could be a gate way. they point to other comments that the president still believes marijuana use is a bad

habit or vice that he would not recommend to his own daughters. don. >> here we go again. thank you very much, jim acosta, for that. joining me tonight is former congressman patrick kennedy and editor and chief of reason, nick gillespie. congressman, you heard what the president said. you heard what jim carney, his defense of what the president said. what do you make of this? can he put the genie back in the bottle after making those comments? >> of course he can. his policy is important because, for example, he's been the best president so far on mental health coverage and addiction coverage so it's incongruous for his administration to be for a third legalized drug. we have tobacco, alcohol and now we have have marijuana. >> he didn't say he was for the legalization of it. he says he believes it's equally as bad as alcohol. >> so the issue is it's the

permissive environment that leads young people to think there's no big deal with smoking marijuana when, in fact, the marijuana today is ge net clickly modified, multiple times stronger than the marijuana that president obama smoked 20, 30 years ago. so there are issues here. it is harmful. if the president listened to his own nih director in charge of drug policy, norah volcock, she would tell him this is damaging to emotional growth as well as cognitive growth. >> for children. for children. >> for children. >> whose brangs have not developed. we're talking about, and if you're talking about this, you're talking about the legalization of marijuana which would be for adults. >> i have no problems with adults in the sense that there's consequences to allowing you and i have to a dubie. >> right. >> the consequences are -- >> you say that like you know. >> i know. i know. the consequences are that young people think it's no big deal so we ought to not speak out of the mouth and act a different way. that's the problem. >> go ahead, nick.

>> yeah. i think that that's absolutely true. there are consequences, there are also massive horrifying consequences to prohibition. we arrest 750,000 people a year for marijuana alone. if you're black you're four times as likely says the aclu to get arrested for simple possession of pot. to say that the status quo is okay is wrong. this is a terrible, terrible policy. >> before you respond -- >> to make pot illegal. >> i want to read about what the president said. the incarceration rate. middle class kids don't get locked up for smoking pot and poor kids do. the american civil liberties union issued a statement saying african-americans are four times as likely to be arrested for marijuana despite similar rates of use. that's the point here, don't you think? >> yeah. so, no, that's conflating two separate issues. you have the issue of racism --

>> wait. it's legalization of pot nkts and theable case of all laws because it's not just that. they're incarcerated much higher rates no matter what the offending offense is. frankly, just like alcohol, you'll see more arrests because now you have just like alcohol you have the not selling to minors, you have loitering. all these other issues. >> wait. wait. wait. >> that come with enforcing the lack of selling to young people. >> wait, congressman. >> because you'll enforce that. >> congressman, are you serious? can you possibly be serious to say that legalizing the sale of pot to adults is going to increase the amount of arrests for selling of pot to minors? already illegal to sell pot -- >> wait a minute. let him finish, congressman. >> no, no, no. an alcoholism model, we tried alcohol prohibition, it did not work. what it did, it did stop some

people from drinking and all of the harms associated with drinking got worse under prohibition plus you brought in organized crime and all sorts of corruption of constitutional rights as well as of law enforcement. the same thing is happening with the war on drugs. >> nick. >> i'm a parent. i'm a parent. i am totally confident that i can say to my kids, you know what, you're under age. you shouldn't be drinking. i'm going to kick your butt if you do. if you smoke a joint while you're under age, you're also in the dog house. >> can we take the criminal e8ment out of it. >> so anything's point is to get rid of the cartels. to do that you need to leemlize cocaine -- >> we're not talking about that. >> then if your argument about -- >> legalize coke or amphetamine? >> marijuana is just one piece. if you are really honestly

interested in eliminating cartels, that's the extension of your civil liberties policies. >> what i am interested in doing is first and foremost treating american adults like adults who are responsible for what they do with their life. we should criminalize intoxicati intoxication. >> of any kind of drug, right? >> yeah, that is fine. treat people as adults and then let it ride after that. the fact of the matter is we can have a legal weed industry that's coming. it's already here in colorado and washington state. and that is not -- what that will do is it will deprive cartels and criminal gangs of a lot of activity. it will also help the constitution. >> nick, the public is on the president's side here if we're talking about people who don't think it's -- >> the president is not on the people's side. the president has not said -- >> nick, let me get in here. more dangerous for people to use, 73% of people say alcohol.

12% say marijuana. equally as dangerous, 14%. should the use of marijuana be legal? 55% of americans say yes, 44% say no. >> i agree with the president. who will i mean is dangerous. what can he do about it? can he regulate the liquor industry? i don't think so. there's no way he's did go to regulate the sale to minors. the point is we don't want another big tobacco. >> that has to be the last word. >> please, come on. it's time for america to grow up and do what is right. >> nick, you know we'll have you on. you've been on here twice. still to come, she watched her husband get shot in a movie theater apparently over texting, and tonight she speaks for the first time about what happened then. new surveillance video captures a deadly plane crash in aspen, colorado. you are to see this video.

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so you thought the rob ford show had come to a close, did you? no, it is back in full swing. >> [ bleep ]. i don't mean t. [ bleep ]. >> an admission of alcohol use, a strange rant and dangerous behavior by toronto's crack smoking mayor and tonight he held a press conference. he admitted he had a setback and ended the conference like this. >> [ bleep ]. i'll be happy to take questions on the budget only. if you have any other personal questions, i won't be answering those. thank you very much. >> mayor ford. mayor ford -- >> our paula newton is in canada with more on the mayor's new

scandal. >> reporter: the circus is back in town at toronto city hall. center stage, you guessed it, mayor rob ford. >> that's how i speak with some of my friends. >> reporter: reporters were hurling all too familiar questions about a new video, had he been drinking, doing drugs, driving drunk? >> for me [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the mayor says the video was shot at a restaurant monday night and it's quite a show. mayor ford putting on a fake, some would seau fence sieve jamaican accent and complaining about how police wasted money on tailing him for so many months. at one point he uses profane language to describe the city's police chief, bill blair. >> i said, you know your eyes open. i swear to god -- >> reporter: just weeks ago the mayor promised he would never drink again. >> i'll guarantee that. guarantee it. >> so you've quit drinking for good? >> guarantee it, 100%. >> reporter: it was not to be.

>> were you drinking last night? >> yes, i was. >> reporter: mayor ford is trying to dismiss the incident as personal. >> no, i was with some friends and what i do in my personal life -- >> reporter: the mayor remains in denial about his addiction. the video has shaken city hall and many others in the city especially since a second video from the restaurant appears to show him sitting with alexander lisi although they can't confirm the man's identity. he tried to get his hands on a video showing mayor ford smoking crack cocaine. the apparent meeting with lisi that disturbed toronto's deputy mayor. >> he's got legal problems, possibly criminal ones, and i think that in light of the -- all of the revelations of the past couple of months, two or

three months, i would have thought that the mayor would have wanted to distance himself. >> reporter: even one-time friends are fed up with the mayor's antics. >> he made the guarantee that this wouldn't be happening again and it has. he has a problem, an issue, an addiction, it needs to be dealt with. >> ford's lawyer says it would be predictable trying to get sober. it's becoming clear that he may need a break to sort out his problems in private. cnn, ottawa. >> thanks, paula. we now bring in the host of hln's dr. drew. dr. drew penske. you've seen the video of this latest drunken rant video. what's your reaction to it? >> well, not surprised i'm sorry to say. somebody who he is a a bing alcoholic at the intensity with which you're seeing hanni fest here, there's a mathematical

certainty that he will relapse and do this again. we've not yet heard the last of him until something drastic happens and he has a moment of clarity where he can access and do something active, some sort of treatment to get him off of this merry-go-round, this will continue. >> zblooep it seems like, i mean, it is the ultimate denial. he is in denial. that looks like a moment of crisis, dr. drew. >> it is a moment. we've seen multiple moments of crises. my gravest fear is it will take years of that silence and, in fact, as you mentioned, this is denial. maybe it's what i would consider a mathsster class. he blames, rationalizes. every time you ask him if he was drinking, his response was, do

you drink? that is how an alcoholic gets away with their disease. >> a lot of people have urged him to get professional help. on october 18th cnbc's peter man bridge asked him about the help that he sought. >> i would say my excessive drinking at times. i don't do drugs and my health and my weight. i'm trying every day. i haven't touched a drop of alcohol in three weeks and i don't do drugs. >> is he getting the help that he needs and the support from the people around him? >> no. no way. his brother is continuing to deny with him. is it worse that they're there? should he have other people that are there that care about t. he's making a distinction

between alcohol and drugs. it's severely addictive in his own case. the other thing is that somebody who's a bing alcoholic, they have a declugs that they can control their loaf. what they don't rilelize and it is inevitable unless they swap. >> for some people a time celebrating, for some people it's thursday, i want a drink. they have many things with no heat. here is a prime example of that. >> thank you, dr. drew. coming up, the wife of a man who was shot for killing husband.

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it's just unimaginable. >> reporter: she and her husband chad had gone to this movie theater north of tampa for a date. >> i was just so excited and looking forward to spending the day with the love of my life at a place of entertainment, family entertainment. >> reporter: but the screening of "lone survivor" turned violent. her husband was texting the baby-sitter during the previews when this man, curtis reeves, confronted him. oulson threw a bag of popcorn at reeves and that's when the 71-year-old retired police officer pulled out a gun and fired. >> and just to think that in the blink of an eye my whole world just got shattered into a million pieces and now i'm left to try to pick them up and put them all back together. >> reporter: cnn has tried repeatedly to get reeves' side of the story but his lawyer will not return calls. police say reeves fired in

self-defense. his attorney says his client is also suffering. >> mr. reeves is certainly heart broken over the fact that someone's life has been lost here, but you know we need to focus at this point in time on gathering the true evidence and bringing that forth before the court. >> reporter: nicole oulson says she's grateful for the outpouring of words and wishes which has carried her through. >> it's so hard and it's so unbearable that i want to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. thank you. >> reporter: the bullet that killed her husband first passed through the hand of nicole oulson. it is possible that she may need follow-up surgery. a fund has been set up on her husband's behalf. so far they've raised a little over $20,000. curtis reeves, his next court appearance is scheduled for february 5 hlt.

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welcome back to the second half of "out front." an important development this evening in the iran nuclear deal. an exclusive interview with jim schudo. they say the obama administration has been mischaracterizing concessions iran made to the u.s. and other world powers. listen to this.

>> well, the terminology is different. the white house tries to portray it as basically a dismantling of iran's nuclear program. that is the word that they used time and again and i urge you to read the entire text. if you find a single, a single word that even closely resembles dismantling or could be defined as dismantling in the entire text, then i will take back my comment. >> what is it -- >> on -- >> admitting? >> no. what, the text? what iran has agreed is not to enrich above 5%. we did not agree to dismantle anything. >> so he went on to say the white house has been both underplaying concessions and overplaying iranian commitments in the agreement.

in it they said they would suspect it for 20%. a warning the images that you're about to see may be disturbing to watch. a shocking video has been released of that aspen, colorado, plane crash that killed one person and injured two others earlier this month. as the plane tried to land, five infrared cameras captured the plane making contact with the grouped and then becoming engulfed in flames. the pilot reported high winds. one camera captures three groundworkers who witnessed the crash. they're highlighted. one seems to put his hand on his knees and then kicks a piece of quick in anguish. a selfless act in upstate new york. 8-year-old tyler duhan rescued six relatives including six children from a fire in a trailer he was staying in. once outside he broke away from his aunt, he bravely went back into the burning trailer to help

his disabled grandmother. before the two could escape they were overcome by the heat and the smoke. >> he makes me really proud, it really does, but i just want him back. >> the two were found in a bed in the back room and it appeared that douhan was trying to lift his grandmother from the bed. it turns out the trailer did not have a working smoke detector. princess leia usually holds top secret information close to her, well, her white gown, but she may have just blown it. carrie fisher who plays leah, while she seemed to inadvertently confirm to tv guide rumors that harrison ford and mark hamill will return for a "star wars" episode 7. everybody in the studio is smiling because they all want to see t. she says the two actors are expected to return to work in march or april. oops. i don't know. fisher says she is also reprizing her role and has a suggestion for the director, j.j. abe bramts.

she would like to wear her own cinnabon buns but with white hair. it's a good look for her, don't you think? kind of cool. so millions of americans digging out from the storm that dumped record-breaking piles of snow all across the northeast, but in new york city some residents are digging in. they're turning snowplowing into an issue of class warfare, i kid you not. it is a fight that could have big political implications for president obama, too. here's the headline last night from the new york post, de blasio getting back to us by not plowing upper east side residents. the new mayor of new york city was hit hard today. listen to this. >> i'm sure you've heard complaints from parts of manhattan, that they were treated differently than other parts of the city. are they just mistaken? >> they're just mistaken. no one was treated differently.

>> i went to the upper east side. >> look, we had i think an extraordinairy effort. >> i could not see a lot of pushing. >> he was asked about it a lot in that press conference. those less familiar with the upper east side, it's one of the wealthiest areas. the median household income. compare that across the you stalgts $567891,000. so why do the upper east siders think de blasio is out to get him. they say they're not getting services. this was his message on inauguration day. >> big dreams are not a luxury rester of for the area where i put that, every community in

every bar row, when i said i would take dead aim at the tail of two cities, i meant it. >> it was the tale of two cities. the city that got plowed, that part. that part that didn't get plowed. his message is one that other dumb kratz will back fire. amanda saels is a couple turl critic. he has now issued a statement. after inspecting the area and listening to concerns from residents earlier today could have been done to serve the up perfect east side. they're doubling down on cleanup efforts on the upper east side. the you were perfect east

side doubled down on him. it doesn't make sense. i live in new york. i live on the upper upper west side a.k.a. harlem. >> that's where i live. my streets are pretty good. >> my streets are pretty good, too. >> people usually claim in harlem, brak lip. especially mid town, upper east side, upper west side, they don't have to worry. i love having bloomberg, is this something reversed or is this about snowplow unequality because he's talking about this kind of scheme, the thing is it's a good naet for for the larger a deand i'll till you why. it's black and brown people, lots of working class peemg of all colors who go to the upper east side to work jobs, to drive

cabs, run diners, those people in their apartment towers don't come out. those are 9 people who actually get hurt. if your streets get plowed in brak lynn where i grow up, you get on the subway, you can't actually get to work because there are no customers. >> we have been talking so much about christ and the bridge. the question is is this political pay back but he said where he's going. he's going to have taxes. they may not have supported them. >> ray hon is a smart guy. i think de blasio is the day -- >> he's not smart enough to know how the city works. look, the sanitation department, it's a complex big bureaucracy.

michael bloomberg for all of his faults wasn't a huge fan. he was the guy who actually knew how to make a bureaucracy work. >> got it. >> bill de blasio ran hillary clinton's office run. >> he got the job. >> i want to bring this back to the bigger picture. we're talking about income inequality. a lot of people are carried out about the bigger job. they're pushing a similar' equality. here's what the president had to say two weeks bago about that. >> the relentless chore and that is dangerous and it has jeopardized middle class american's basic bargain.

>> so it's what's happening in new york city a test case for democrats across the city. if you talk about a tail of two nations, that's exactly what you are going to get. i think it's not about what you're going to git. it's not what it is. they can live in a rose colored glass house. you know they going to get some rocks thrown if they don't realize what's happening. >> bill de blasio, warren are to the left much further than president obama ever would. we're in for an interesting few years. >> we'll have the smoke for a while in new york city. we'll be watching bill de blasio as well. stay warm. let's hope your streets get plowed. extreme weather from coast to coast. we have been talking about it tonight far from the frigid new york city temperatures. folks are experiencing some of

the area. in california some cities are tying the record for heat, sparking wildfires and there is no relief in sight. four months. here's our keon wild with the record. dna done, half of the being in the draw the. hurting al culture as well as the animals. >> reporter: harold kelly speaks to his horses. it's the call to feed. >> the grass is basically all gone. >> reporter: gone because of the drought, the worst in the century whampt that means for the ma just stick he features. there's simply no food. as kelly rounds left his 50

hours, there should be room. the 71-year-old rancher like all of the others in central valley is forced to buy hey. also skyrocketing in plies before the drought. >> not really. i hate to say that recently just to feed the horses. >> yes. >> how bad is this drought. you can see this is just dust now. >> it's getting there. anthony caglia runs silver wings rescue. look across the land here, what's known as the snags's salad bowl, and you can see why. formerly lush farms are arid deserts. owners are ditching their annual malls. >> i've been here all of my life

and i've never seen it this bad. >> you don't have to be too smart to figure out what you have to do. >> kelly is giving away all of his horses, every single one will have to go. he'll find them new homes. >> drought measured here not by rain last in good-byes set. >> there's no need in me trying to -- i can't make it rain but the drought is probably one of the most devastating things for this whole area. >> reporter: what kelly will not do is sell his animals to the slaughterhouses. other ranchers are making that choice by giving it to him. >> thank you very much. still to come, a brand new play.

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broken without anyone breaking the law. we're keeping them honest. a murder mystery, a young woman and her young brother turn up dead. the fiance is missing. a new development that could turn this into a triple homicide. those stories and the ridiculist at the top of the hour. >> thank you, anderson. we're getting brand new video of an interview with seattle seahawks receiver richard sherman. as you're about to see, sherman was fired up when speaking with foxx sports. >> you don't try to get me. crabtree is weak. >> what a play. >> hey, i'm the best to do this right now. >> you're going to new york for the super bowl. first time in your life. >> i feel good. we work for this. we deserve it. >> the denver broncos. >> lob.

>> fox deportes. >> it was an interview with andrews that you saw at the end of the clip getting a hug that had the cornerback speaking out today saying he is not upset over losing control but rather taking the spotlight off his teammates. >> if i had known it was going to blow up like that i would have approached it differently just in the terms of the way it took away from my teammates. so many people played great games that you would think the story would be about them. that's the only thing i feel regretful about. >> should sherman have known that was going to result in a crazy response. buffalo bills player joins me and sports commentator lewis johnson. good to see you, coy. >> long time no see. >> we used to be buddies. >> you had to leave us. you had to leave us. >> i know, football is an emotional sport. how tough do you think it is to manage that emotion in that moment. you said you've within that. >> it is. that wasn't richard sherman.

that was his alter ego. we have a switch. as any elite athlete will tell you, there's a switch. you transcend normalcy and get to the highest level of being a competitor. that's what we saw from >> you're a stanford alum so this hits you doubly hard? >> it does, don. i'm not proud of how he chose to represent stanford university in that moment. >> come on. >> truthfully it hurts. but at the same time i know where he's coming from. we saw what happens when adrenaline, endorphins and supreme competitiveness collide. >> lewis, you're shake your head. that new interview taking place minutes after the game ending, sherman says he got caught up in the moment. is that an excuse? >> no, i think it's really the truth. now we know why the nfl has the ten-minute cooling down period in the locker room. if you're the star of the game you've got to know there's a good possibility you'll have a microphone jammed in your face

within seconds after the game is over. not everybody handles it like russell wilson or payton imagine. there are two levels of responsibility here. i would love to have seen sherman calm down and tell a story about getting to that moment, the season, the game, the play, really take people inside. that's what i try and get athletes to do. then for the journalists, for those of us asking the questionsing be we're grabbing people and getting them set up for a live interview. we need to check them and make sure they're okay. crack a joke and get them to calm down a bit. then maybe they'll be more apt and ready to articulate what just happened and not go on the rant like he did. >> you're not buying that, don? >> i'm not buying that. and listen, i really don't get the outrage from people. i understand perfectly what richard sherman said. listen, when i'm in work mode i'm in work mode. >> right. >> so if you catch me coming hanging out with my friends, coming out of a bar, whatever, i may be in a completely different

mode. i'm not journalist on. in that moment he was a football player, cornerback who had just made the winning play. so cut the guy some slack. and as i've been saying, i said this last night, when you think about john mcenroe, used to talk smack on the court. >> right. >> to the ref. and made a name for himself doing it. what's the difference? >> it's a great point, don. and it wasn't what he said, it was when and how he said it. because you look at a guy like joe flacco, a couple of years ago he said i'm the best quarterback in the nfl. >> what's wrong with that? >> what's wrong with that? >> but it was the way richard said it. it was the way mr. sherman chose to project and vociferously proclaim and pontiff kaupo pont >> the way he said it is leading to people saying racial things about him. >> what we have to remember after that play there were 22

seconds left in the game. the guy's switch is still on. he's celebrating the moment. they know when you go to training camp you prepare for one thing, to try and win a championship. now they know they're going to the game. he has no time to flip that switch. what i really think is the issue he hasn't had the proper training to understand how to manage the moment. i'm heading to sochi to cover my eighth olympics here in about ten days. one of the things we thrive on is storytelling. it's getting kids to tell their story. we tell their stories. you need to be able to articulate yourself in those big moments when you've won that olympic gold medal. the athletes have to flip a switch maybe it's training to articulate what the moment means. >> why do you want to train them away from their authenticity. >> what's that? >> i think people want authenticity. why do you want to train away their authenticity? >> that's not what we're saying. we're talking about training them so they could really answer a question. how often do you watch television and say, okay, the

reporter asked him this and this guy's saying our backs were against the wall. we gave it all. the best team won. we don't want to hear that. we want to hear real things. he got a little bit too real. cleaned it up after the post-game interview and showed himself well. it was a little raw. >> i know you're itching to jump in. i'm sure we'll be talking more about this. still to come, a skydiver drops in on a nfl stadium. jeanne moos takes a closer look. hey guys! sorry we're late.

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what does mile high stadium look like from 5,000 feet? well, thanks to helmet cam video you can get a skydiver's eye view that's pretty spectacular. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: he's across the 50, the 40, the 30. clear sailing at the 20. but that's no running back. that's a skydiver. and if you've ever wondered what

it's like to drop into a stadium, come along for the jump. but how do you aim for that itty bitty oval down there? grab the steering handles. >> you pull down on the left you go left. you pull down on the right you go right. >> reporter: david billings is a member of the denver broncos thunderstorm. six skydivers who routinely jump into sports authority field at mile high stadium. after they jumped as part of the afc championship pregame show, they released the helmet cam video. >> if you've never landed on a spectator? >> no. absolutely not. >> reporter: there were some 77,000 directly beneath them. >> we're coming in at speeds probably about 50 to 60 miles per hour. >> reporter: they use high performance swooping canopies, the biggest hazards are the criss-crossing cables the tv cameras run on. >> every blue line is a wire we have to avoid. enter the field about here, do

our spiral, come in under these wires. now we're under all the wires until we touch down right over here. >> reporter: touchdown at the 20. who needs the end zone? the skydivers were greeted like heroes. but 20 years ago, an unexpected and unwelcome paraglider intentionally crashed a heavyweight title bout at ceasar's palace in las vegas. >> there he is entering at the left side. >> reporter: that guy got beat up up by fans and arrested. but the broncos skydivers get high fives. though a patriots fan did gave two-handed middle finger salute. >> the broncos skydivers have never had a problem. they make it look easy. i mean, what could possibly go wrong? well, there was the time more than a flag was flying in the outfield at a texas rangers game after an army skydiver got hung up on the pole. >> when's the last time you actually paid for a ticket to

get into the stadium? >> you know, i've never actually paid for a ticket. i've never had a ticket for the actual game although i've stayed for quite a few. >> reporter: they pay him to enter at this gate. talk about long yardage. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> so now you know. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening, everyone. breaking news in the heart-breaking story of a brain-dead woman being kept on life support in texas against her and her family's wishes because she's pregnant. it's a major development that could change the way a lot of people see the case. also on the program tonight you already know that washington's broken. tonight when it comes to trading money and power you'll see how it got broken without anyone ever actually breaking the law. we're keeping them honest. also it is not over yet. millions digging out from the snow or hunkering down against brutal deadly cold. and later, a little boy who ran into a burning home. you should know about this little boy. his story is incredible. he went