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hi, everyone. i i'mbeth troutman. we've got the best videos the web has to offer "right this minute." >> 911. >> turns out that he is a she speeding out of control. >> she drove 2.5 miles in the wrong direction. >> hear the intoxicating story that comes with a twist. this woman claims facebook may have cost her her job. >> facebook fanatics are not going to like this one. >> it's time for real or fake -- see why we've got schooled big
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time. >> you guys have missed this one completely. >> and this is a bull hippo saying, i hate -- you dig? >> get the hell outta my house. getting things started with our first video and the story behind it. >> milwaukee county sheriffs may have saved the life of a bride-to-be and other motorists on a county highway. dashcam video from one of the deputies responding to multiple 911 calls. one car was following the driver. >> the county sheriff 911. >> just coming up on hampton. it looks like -- he's all over the road. going in many directions almost hit the rail four times. >> as that caller was reportsin this drunk driver the car stopped in the middle of the road. >> he's doing a u-turn. >> oh, no. >> catching up with 27-year-old rachel. she drove 2.5 miles in the wrong
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direction, multiple 911 call was coming in. >> going the wrong way. >> yeah, there is. >> yes, we have the vehicle stopped, sir. >> going the wrong way. >> we have the driver. >> other drivers say she nearly hit them and swerved out of the way. >> i dercht definitely had to sy car. she almost hit my car. i had to swerve my wheels to the right and thankfully i didn't get hurt and no one else got hurt. >> why was she driving in the wrong direction? >> saying she had a blood alcohol content of .23, nearly three times the legal limit. >> i'm surprised she wasn't slumped over in the seat of the car with a blood alcohol like that. >> so this woman in the car driving the wrong way down the highway is the bride-to-be? >> yep. supposed to be married this coming saturday. >> drinking and driving is so extremely dangerous. there's no excuse for it. we all use facebook as a
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social networking site. one oregon woman says that facebook may have cost her her job. mari brabb from ontario, oregon worked at the oregon natural market and was brought into her boss' office. >> they had a folder and pages and pages of my personal facebook page. >> and said that she was losing her job. she said they told her it was partly due to her facebook posts. >> what was she posting about? about the market? >> according to mari, deleted many of the posts in question was venting. >> just some way to get it off my chest. someone might be having a bad day, but that's not who they are. >> she says she told her they felt she was slandering the company. >> they didn't use bad language. i didn't say their names. i didn't say the name of the store. i didn't say any specifics about what was happening or going on. i was just saying you know, i'm frustrated with work. >> if you're going to say something about your employer and you still don't name names
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they're going to think, people know where she works, and this is not good for our brand. >> how did they find these out? she says she has her privacy settings to the most strict settings you could possibly have. >> the first thing that went through my head, how the heck did you get ahold of that? >> she wants to warn people to make sure they're privacy settings are at the maximum level. >> i'm bothered by this because i should have the right to say exactly what i'm feeling. that should be protected. >> laws haven't caught up with technology yet. >> her employer, the ones employering her, they have some rights, too. a sailing gun battle between somali pirates and a commercial ship was caught on video. take a look at this. this boat is approaching this commercial ship. what you're about to see will make you think that you're in war. [ gunfire
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>> this string of just shooting at each other. >> holy cow. >> they unload a barrage of gunfire. looks like it hits the side of the boat, but more action is to come. at this point the boat with the pirates is behind the commercial vessel. listen to what they're saying over the speakers. >> sergeant skip, sergeant skip -- a. second boat is on the way. >> oh, wow. [ gunfire >> this happened in the gulf of aden, but we don't know what the result of this gun battle was. >> an increased number of somali pirates taking over private vessels and commercial vessels and or march 24th, not this incident, the first time a somali pirate was killed by private contractors. >> the problem's gotten so bad they've invested in privaty security forces to arm their ships like we're seeing here. >> so many countries in that area have strict regulations, because they don't want people smuggling in arms and another arab spring, they're taking in risks. this is not an official army.
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>> how do you know these are somali pirates not just people out on the sea in a boat trying to get close to a giant ship? >> that has happened. fishermen from india kill bawd they were mistaken as pirates. >> seems that's going to be the risk of arming private vessels. walks in the park are supposed to be easy. not dangerous. keep your eye on the woman with the red jacket. >> oh, my god! >> that -- that tree almost fell on her. she, i think, saw it coming, because can you tell she kind of hesitates, sort of tries to move out of wait, but manages to still be missed by inches. there comes the tree. >> whoa! >> holy cow. that tree just -- >> just fell. >> if she had been walking just a hair faster, she would have been right in the direct path of that tree. >> really just never know when gravity's going to get you. >> a tree suicide? >> i think it is.
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>> in a tree, no individuality. >> my leaves aren't pretty, and i can't cast good shade. >> or maybe thought the girl in the red jacket was kind of hot, and was like -- >> ta-da! >> what's up, baby doll? >> want to tap that? ♪ dude, babes, doughnuts and tight turns. >> it's like, "jersey shore" west coast edition? >> yep. nope. but see what it's really about. coming up. and we're in the middle of talking about this video when we find out what he knows. >> my little pony friendship is magic. >> hang with us, and we'll try magic. >> hang with us, and we'll try and explain ourselves, next. now's a great time to get at&t u-verse tv. make the switch! [ female announcer ] call to get u-verse -- now with free hd -- for only 25 a month for six months -- our lowest price ever --
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welcome back to the show. but don't forget to check in at rightthisminute.com. great videos all day long.
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i don't know what to say about this except -- >> there's a whole lot of beefcake in this commercial about doughnuts. >> dudes, doughnuts. and milk. >> randy's doughnuts, and these dudes get into a -- with a girl and they're drinking milk and eating doughnuts. >> this is like, "jersey shore" west coast edition. i really think so. that's what i'm thinking. >> what are we washing? trying to prove here? >> trying to prove with the iq, you don't need to compensate for its small size, because this iq has tight turning radius and room enough for four people even though it's a small car. >> showing an i.q. with people with low i qs. >> this is what happened when you drive one of these. eat doughnuts and -- >> can i get my life back? >> yeah. this isn't their own video with
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supposedly good-looking people. >> doughnuts and milk! >> somehow that commercial is just as bad, and i hate to say it, but it was a little -- >> it's weird. the commercial may be, like, typically sick, because i was watching all the spinning, then made me physically sick just because i was watching it. >> the video of the day. thank you. . some make time to do what they love, others live what they love. that is the theme of this brand new documentary done by students at dixie state college in st. george, utah. the document vi calmed "the approach." the people you're seeing in the documentary are called dirt baggers. >> isn't that an insulted? >> dirt bag climbers meaning they'll do anything they have to do to not have a job so that
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they can climb. parts of this trailer are set to coldplay's "paradise." >> if you had a job that was also your passion, wouldn't that be the best of both worlds? >> it's been about 20 years. i decided to take a year off. >> he must have got a day confused with a decade. >> they must live super frugally, and bare minimum everything? >> that's exactly what they do. this is what they love to do, and they live to do it. you can see them kind of gathering in the community, in the desert. they live in tents or in trailers. they're all just hanging out together by the fire in the desert. >> three students put this together directed by adam ferraro, and they basically followed the lives of these people who are dirt bag climbers. >> kind of cool they have figured out what is important to them, and monetary thing, material things, aren't important. >> how many times have we heard, you're living to work. >> uh-huh.
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>> so many people just go to work, go to work, and they're so miserable and, you know, happy, and these guys are like, you know what? i'm going to go live my life. >> this documentary appears may 2nd in utah at red cliff cinemas. >> and this from the delta. a couple of tourists on a tour bus. >> oh, [ bleep >> whew. >> a safari, that bull hippo goes head-long, smashes into the side of this tour bus nearly putting a hole in the guy's leg that you see just getting out of the way. >> looks like the hippo's not phased by it. watches the truck he's driving and drops off into the wilderness. >> get the hell out of my house! >> [ bleep >> sounds like a car crash. >> a hit-and-run. >> even as you're watching --s fat hippo charged the car and runs off. >> still looks friendly and cute. hippos look like they've got these huge smiles on their faces.
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>> he wasn't attacking. it was a love tap! >> believe it or not, hippos are known to kill more human beings in africa than any of the other large animal species. sadly, we're not always on tv. but don't worry, because we're always on rightthisminute.com. full episodes, breaking news, great videos, always on rightthisminute.com. [ laughter cranking the boyfriend by lighting untp the shower scene. time for real or fake. and then we're slowing it down and breaking it apart. >> something that's just fun to watch, coming up on "right this minute."
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every week is our favorite part of our monday. time to check in with matt, our very favorite internet owl asking the question of, "hoo?" >> well done. who thinks it's real or fake? >> i will tell you. >> ah! >> our very first one, how to lose with style.
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>> oh. [ laughter >> ah. he's a winner in my book. that was fly! >> he ate it at the finish line but then did the worm. >> i'm going out on a limb and say that's real. >> yeah. real. >> i think he might have even got second place. so, to say it's real, definitely impressive. >> might be my favorite video you've of brought us. >> really? don't give the kids that much credit. >> next video. soccer ball head shot. >> oh. ♪ >> ah. >> definitely real. >> yeah. >> you guys have missed this one completely. this guy's trying to hit him in the head. probably do it about ten times. look at the way he falls down. so gentle. >> you're saying this is staged? >> totally. >> so did we just get trolled?
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>> yeah. >> this last one, crazy girlfriend cranks her boyfriend. >> who's that? >> it's only me. what do you want to do, ah, with your dad for fourth of july? >> oh -- ah -- >> oh, no. >> it wasn't well thought out. whatever they were doing, real or fake. >> almost dern burned down the e wide. >> a bit of a -- >> i'm going real. >> i guess i'll go real. >> what do you say? >> definitely foe. what you doing, dude? >> oh, for goodness sakes. >> as always, mack, it's been a real pleasure. and somewhat odd. >> this is a bunch of crap. >> okay, you guys. was that little thing real or
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fake? >> i think it was fake i. think that was fake. total setup. nick, you and i both love "game of thrones" on hbo. >> excellent show. >> this video was created by youtube user adecoy95 did it to celebrate the second season of "game of throwns." he uses the my little pony ponies. >> go to his youtube channel he explains how he does it. a thing that says tutorial is a less tia. that's not a tutorial. >> that's one of the character's names. >> which character? the upony? >> princess. >> i am not one of them, but there are a whole group of people call ed bronies.
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it's a bunch of 16 to 30-year-old guys that love watching my little pony. >> what? how are you even -- [ bleep . >> did youer what he just said? a group of 16 to 30-year-old men who follow little ponies. >> a new series. my little pony's friendship is magic. >> oh, my god. get outta here! >> i'm going to take you behind the scenes of smithsonian's antarctic meteorite storage facility. >> ooh. >> yeah! >> that's exciting. >> who knew we had one. it's in maryland. >> this facility is a clean room, why we're dress sewed strangely, and it is meant to essentially eliminate contaminates that may interact with the meteorites. >> they're afraid of alien bacteria coming to infect us and take over our planet. they house about 15,000 different meteorites here and all the goofy looking things that kinds of look like inside
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out gloves are pressurized with nitrogen. >> the reason they're in dry nitrogen, so they don't get exposed to moisture and in these cabinets so they aren't contaminateed by anything. >> if this is behind the scenes, what exactly is in front of the scenes? >> good question. go to the smithsonian you may see some of these things on display or some of the information that they learn from this, that's in front of the scene. >> keeping things like this and the meteorites we have in this kind of storage actually preserves them for the instrumentation getting better and better, 30, 50, 100 years from now we can make more detailed measurements than we can now. >> don't you they would be cool to handle something that's not of this world? that came from space? >> what we're trying to do with the research of meteorites, understand the solar system, every media we correct is an important piece into putting that much bigger puzzle together. >> i'ding more impressed if you got us behind the scenes at area 51.
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this dude is attempting to cross the street. >> oh. >> see why you should -- >> watch yourself before you wreck yourself.
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>> here we go. >> just likes it. >> check out those moves. >> a bounce and jump and she's doing like the -- something. >> holy high. she is so cute. >> it's a boy? >> that's not all. the family dog is, like, i've got to get near this. >> i think thaty. pip inspired the dog. >> i'm got to get her. >> sal arescue dog, just happy to have a new family. >> ah, that's a rescue dog? >> yes. >> so cute about this story, all kinds of stuff. >> a sheep friend, donkey friend. >> it's like "charlotte's web." >> and then charlotte will die. tea party in super slow motion. ♪ awesome.
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i like this. [ voices in slow motion, inaudible >> to a busy intersection in china, the red light has traffic stopped in the direction we're looking. to the left you see gentleman in a gray sweatshirt. then he cuts left to jaywalk and -- >> oh! >> didn't even look. >> he glanced over his shoulder briefly, but not enough to see this giant blue sedan coming and hits him, knocks him on his butt. looks like he wasn't hit that hard. >> why would he do that? especially because this other guy in the black and yellow jacket is waiting for his turn. >> jaywalking, more dangerous than you think.
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>> good reason to watch yourself before you wreck yourself. >> and absolutely true. one more video for you guys. this is called "silent world." it's photographs taken of iconic places like new york, beijing, paris, rome. this is paris. but you'll notice, there's no one in the picture. maybe just one lone person. and the idea behind this, pique our imaginations and combine reegality with a dream world. done by two parisians named lucy and simon. fwaunt to see it the entire video, head to our wreb site. that does it for our show. thanks for joini ining us and w see you tomorrow, everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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