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hello, everyone, i'm beth troutman, and we have the best videos the web has to offer, "right this minute." a guy on a snowmobile is trapped. >> help! >> he's buried alive and we're watching it. >> see the frantic effort to save him before he runs out of air. >> i can't breathe. get me out. >> it's the new "it" sleep disorder. texting in your sleep. how one woman's nightly activity led to a morning call of shame. >> what did we talk about? a zoo does a disaster drill for escaped animals. >> like, what the hell? >> like, do they think a tiger is going to walk out on two
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legs? >> the tiger is clearly -- the tiger -- it's a story we will try to explain. and gentlemen, start your rants. >> valentine's day is on a [ bleep ] tuesday this year. >> see the viral video. >> which tells us what men really think. >> he kind of sold us all out. we begin our show today with some intense video, and steven has the story behind it. >> if you get clause tree clause tree phobic, i have to warn you, because we're about to see what it's like to be buried alive. a group of friends are in ontario, canada on their snowmobiles. and, of course, they all have gopro cameras on their helmets. around here, one guy stops and let's his friend go ahead up the mountain. so one guy stops, you see the other guy going up by himself.
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keep an eye on him. he gets halfway up and something happens because watch. an avalanche starts. and takes him down with it. in an instant, this guy's friend is completely buried. that guy was wearing a gopro too. here's what it looks like from his perspective. >> the camera is kind of sticking out. but his face is underneath. >> on top of his helmet, right? so he's completely buried. >> oh, my god. >> and trying to get the snow with his hands out of his face. >> he's buried alive and we're watching it. >> help! help! >> he gets his face uncovered, but his whole body is still down there in the snow. >> help! help!
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oh, my gosh. >> watch his friend who just got off his snowmobile comes over and immediately starts digging him out. >> i can't breathe. get me out. >> under me! >> eventually we learn he is still basically sitting on his snowmobile. like he's still sitting up right vertically on his snowmobile and completely buried. >> the snow just entombed him that fast. the rescue goes on for quite some time here. this is not an easy thing for his friends to do. at this point, he's getting more calm, saying, okay, i can breathe, i can breathe. >> did you get that on video? >> did you get that on video. there's a reason they went out there with their cameras. we've heard of walking in our sleep, we've heard of talking in our sleep. what about texting in your sleep? this is a growing phenomenon,
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and there are videos all over youtube of people doing this. some experts say that people are sleep-texting, due to the amount of stress in their lives. the woman you're seeing here, her name is kandi gay, and she is a paramedic in illinois so her sleep schedule is very different, depending on what shift she is working. >> they were like, no, we saw you texting and i would go back and look at my text messages and have full-on conversations. >> and she has been sleep texting for a while. >> she'll be up in the air with her eyes closed and have her phone texting and lay it down. >> i think you need to go to a specialist for this. just put your phone down. >> doctors say the answer can be as simple as putting your phone away.di's case, because she is a paramedic, she could potentially get a call at any time to go into her work so she keeps her phone close by. >> i kind of wish i had a friend to sleep-texted me just to see what they would write.
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do they actually get coherent thoughts? >> well, it's different for different people. some people claim they text gibberish. but in the case of kandi here, she has full-on conversations with people that are completely comprehendible to others. >> they're not surprised or dumbfounded when i call back and say what did we talk about? >> she might be dreaming, but she'll pick up. in malaysia, i think kfc stands for kung-fu chicken. this is at a kfc in malaysia. some of the workers come out the side door and all of a sudden one of them just charges at one of the customers and kicks him. >> what the heck was that about? >> the poster of this video said there are so many people there waiting for their food and all the employees are back chilling, not really giving service, not really making their chicken,
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frying the chicken. they're just chilling in the back. the customers started yelling stuff at the employees. the employees started yelling stuff back. they got all mad. and what other ways we saw this issue. [ screaming ] >> i have a theory. i'm not a detective. >> no. >> these customers know colonel sanders' secret recipe, and they were going to, you know, send a mass text message to all of their friends. >> everybody knows it's 11 herbs and spices. >> but what 11? >> the combination has to be just right. >> so colonel sanders called in to this kfc in it malaysia, told these employees, you better get out there and stop this. >> you know, i think that's exactly what happened. thank you, investigator. >> it's just a theory. [ screaming ] do you remember that video i showed you of those animatronic dinosaurs at that museum in
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australia? >> yes, love it. >> i found something similar, but it's not nearly as cool. ♪ >> yeah, you're right. it's not nearly as cool. can any of you guess what's going on here? >> i believe that there is a papier-mache rhinoceros and two men walking. >> why are there police officers trying to capture this thing? >> this is the zoo in tokyo, japan. and they are training their staff members in case of a rino escapes its pit. >> is this like a comedy? >> they want staff members to be ready to help corral it. >> this is a real gun. that's a real gun that the guy is shooting at the papier-mache rino. >> wait, there's the dart. >> here's another one. this is the zoo trying to capture a tiger, should it escape. >> oh, my god.
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>> oh, my gosh. >> like, what the hell? >> like, if they think a tiger is going to walk out on two legs? >> the tiger is clearly -- the tiger -- >> they're like -- >> the tiger is clearly upset. >> this is -- >> look at all the media there. >> oh, they got him. he's down. >> wait. >> there's more. >> oh, my god. why is he walking like he's drunk. boom, he's down. >> he's down. >> this is one of the weirdest things i've ever seen in my life. meet the ro bros. this looks like these are robot suits with somebody inside taking swings. >> it may appear that way, but the creators say they're real and hear how you can control them, "right this minute."
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here's a better idea... pillsbury grands! flaky layers biscuits. in just 15 minutes, the light delicate layers add a layer of warmth to your next dinner. pillsbury grands! dinner ideas made easy. i will never trust another boyfriend of mine again, especially about valentine's day. >> flowers on february 14th are the perfect personification of valentine's day. they're extremely expensive, and much like our relationships, slowly dying. >> oh! >> this video stars the guys of comedy in los angeles. >> why didn't i book a hotel room and order champagne and draw strawberries because [ bleep ] tuesday this year. >> this is the gentleman's rant which tells us what men really think. >> oh, you drank too much and passed out before we got home? surprise, surprise. and that i just dropped 145 bones pretip.
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[ bleep ]. >> enough to break your hard a day before valentine's day. but there is a lot of truth in this. >> i actually agree with some of these guys. >> i worry now that -- yeah, it's funny but dude kind of sold us out. >> we know that's what you guys think. >> there are some points here that ladies should adhere to and adopt and listen to. if you spend $200 on dinner, don't fall asleep in the car on the way home. ladies -- >> wait a minute. so what you're saying is if you buy dinner, you're supposed to get sex? >> it's valentine's day. it's amazing that we ever get together. i get that it's the one day out of the year where i'm supposed to show just how much i care about you. but what about the 364 other days, where i pay the bills, the mortgage and the payments on that new land rover you just had to have. >> you tell us what you think about valentine's day, head over to our facebook page, facebook.c
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facebook.com/rightthisminute. >> deejay, spin that record. ♪ you ever want to get some aggression out and just need to kind of duke it out? you can now, if you go to robros.com. it's a battle bot simulator. and if you look at the bottom of your screen right now, i'm just being brought down into the battle basement. >> robros, battle! >> i can control these robots. i'm the one in the blue. ♪ this is a real, live robot. and i can fight somebody else. >> this isn't a, like, video game simulation thing? >> no, we're turning over the controls to two of the most b.a.
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bots of created! >> so we've got the creators andy, chris and pat. >> where do the robots actually live? where are they in our universe? >> i don't know about your universe, but in our universe, here in dayton, ohio. >> give me an idea, the scale of these robots. >> they're what, 7, 7 1/2" tall, somewhere in there. >> so it looks like they have some sort of a control cord? >> yeah, for their robo bellow button. >> they don't punch hard is that intentional? >> maybe they're not angry enough, but hopefully when technology catches up they'll hit harder. >> it looks to me like these are robot suits with somebody inside taking swings. are these real robots? >> i guess it depends on what your definition of a real robot is. they physically exist. they're controlled by your
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actions online. and they to what you tell them to do. so from our perspective, they are as real a robot as you can possibly get. >> they were kind of secretive about their fighting robots. >> they might have a few turns inside these robot suits. >> yeah, maybe. next time on "right this minute." he figured out the perfect way to be a stay at home dad and stay in shape while avoiding gym fees and expensive exercise equipment. that's next time on "right this minute." a river boat trip in australia. and here's the entertainment. >> look at how freaking close you can get to these things. >> we've got the story behind the great croc adventure. wake up, wake up. it's the 1st of the month. >> he is the unlikely tv weather man. >> there's some oh old folks watching going, what is he saying?
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lot? >> beth, i know when you got to work today, you sat here and counted how many exactly. so how many shopping carts are in this video? >> there are 14,712. >> wow. >> that's a lot of people that shop here. >> yeah, they're popular. business is good in harbin, china. >> i've got to say, it's pretty weird. it looks like it's actually working. so far no problems. no one is falling over, no one falling down the escalator. >> they do everything like with discipline in china. evidently even loading shopping carts. >> i've got to be honest, where i am from, western p.a., we call these buggies. >> where i'm from too. >> this whole time i wanted to say buggy. buggy, buggy, buggy, buggy. >> we could rewind the whole thing and do it again. >> look at all these buggies, steven. >> that is the most buggies i've ever seen. how many are in there? >> there are 14,712. on an escalator. cut. >> time to go on a river boat ride.
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but had when they tell you to keep your hands and arms in the boat, better make sure you listen. this is in the river in australia. if you're in the boat, you have a few neighbors to deal with. these are jumping saltwater crocodiles. this video was put together on the page for marcus o'brien. and the river boat captain is morgan bowman. and you see, he's like dangling. look how big that thing is. >> that's enormous. >> they're dangling chunks of buffalo meat over the edge here. look at how freaking close you can get. >> that's got to be pretty cool. >> i've never seen anything like that before. it's just magic. >> look at this, how he jumps out of the water. he's missing a leg here. these things eat kangaroos, wild boars, dingos, sharks. >> a walla bee, being a small kangaroo. >> 17 feet long, 1,000 pounds. >> what is this boat -- sprung a
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leak. >> here we go. >> exactly what i am thinking. >> what if. marcus bowman says he has been doing this thing for years and hasn't had any accidents. >> of all the things, never even touched a crocodile. they have never touched me. >> woo. >> yeah. close call. look at the guy in the red hat here. look at the face he's making. he's like oh. yeah. >> is there room i can move down, away from the edge? >> get in the center of the boat, please? you all remember this? ♪ ♪ now you're just somebody i used to know ♪ >> the song is "just somebody i used to know" and it's a cover. ♪ and the group playing it is called "walk off the earth." >> yes. >> they're all playing one instrument. love it. >> this thing went viral. as you can see, over 50 million
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views on this thing. so any time something is incredibly popular, we can always expect a parody. ♪ now and then we like to play one guitar together ♪ >> this is a band called the king of awesome. ♪ and that's convenient since we only have the one ♪ >> to enjoy this video, you have to watch the original and the parody. so we'll put them on rightthisminute.com. you've got to check them out. we do love time lapse videos here. and today a compilation of some of the most beautiful ones. see the amazing places on our earth, next.
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♪ first of all, go giants. harris coming back like jordan, because the great poet and front of nellie once said, it's getting hot in here. >> this is the weather man in michigan. >> all of a sudden the coolest place in northeast michigan. i thought it was the coolest place for a while. i don't think we need a temperature to back that up. >> and he really spices his weather reports up. >> let's look ahead to that extended outlook. and i'm going to do my dance right off the stage as we talk about it. it's going to be a pretty warm first day of february. wake up, wake up, it's the 1st it of the month. and we've got that drizzle drizzly drake out there.
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>> i think it's safe to say this guy really likes his job. >> there's some old folks, though, watching, going what is he saying? >> tell us a little bit more about his style, we have tom via skype "right this minute." >> the funny part about all of this is i'm not a weather person. i'm actually a reporter and anchor at my station. i was really just keeping the seat warm until our next meteorologist got in. i just had been doing weather for the last week and a half or so. >> your entire body of work here is the last week and a half? >> i don't know the first thing about the weather. i just decided i i would just kind of be myself out there and let my guard down a little bit. >> what does snoop dogg need an umbrella for? a chance of drizzle. that's what we're going to have tomorrow. >> sounds like you're quite the hip-hop fan. >> wake up, wake up, it's the 1st of the month. >> a bones, thugs and harmony first of the month rapper. has the station got any calls from older people going we don't know what that young boy is
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talking about there? >> got a lot of complaints. >> oh. >> did you really? >> like a middle aged parent going over the hill, because we're all in the 40s right now. >> we're in a market where the majority of the demographics are seniors. so i'm just going to have fun with it. >> brrr, it's cold in here, there must be some wildcats in the atmosphere. >> that's going to do it for this edition of "right this minute." we're going to leave you with a beautiful compilation of time lapse footage from luke dergeron called "welcome to the earth." there's another 30 minutes on the way. there's another 30 minutes on the way. stick around. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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