hello, everyone, i'm beth troutman. it's time for the best videos of the day and the stories behind them, "right this minute." typhoon tragedy as a man is suddenly swept away in these violent waves. meet the stunned photographer who had just started shooting. >> and then 20 seconds later, the absolute nightmare unfolded. >> a guy spots something wedged in his front end. >> what's come out will shock you. >> see what got all up in his

grill. lost wedding band in a creek equals needle in a haystack, unless you've got this giechlt s -- guy. >> way to go tv metal detective. plus aliens among us. we've got the latest living doll and this. >> can anybody turn that off? >> yes. >> yes. >> we're going to begin our show with a disturbing video out of okinawa, japan. this video was shot over the weekend and, as you can see, these waves are crashing up on this area. this violent sea is the result of a typhoon which blew through the region over the weekend causing a great deal of damage, a great deal of destruction. pay attention to this man who's climbing on the edge of these rocks.

he's 29 years old. >> oh, my. >> oh, man. he didn't even see it coming. >> no. >> listen to the reaction of the guy shooting this video. >> hey! in the water! he's in! >> people do seem to try to run to help this man, but there's really nothing they can do because they are on a cliff and there are jagged rocks. you see the man floating out to sea in these violent xdwaves. now, unfortunately this man drowned ten minutes after he was swept out to sea by this wave. this video was shot by a man named james reynolds0d he shoots videos alljf over the world. we have him via skype from hong kong to tell us a little more about this incident. how did you end up getting this on camera? >> i had literally just got to my position on the highest bit of cliff i could find and set up

my camera. within 20 seconds of pushing record just to film the scenery, i saw this guy. then 20 seconds later, the absolute nightmare unfolded right in front of all of us and right on camera. >> when you see this, do you think, you know what, that could have been me? >> personally, i wouldn't have put myself in such a dangerous location. and if anything, i hope this video can serve as a warning to people. the ocean is so dangerous and so unpredictable, especially after hurricanes or typhoons. >> toward the end of the video there's a woman who's on the ground. do you have any idea who that woman is? was she related to this person? >> sadly, that was his wife. tragically she was there to witness the whole thing unfold. >> do you think this guy just didn't realize how close these waves were coming to the rocks? >> as you can see from the video, he thinks he's totally safe really, turning a back to

the situation and i knew the only way he could get rescued was by helicopter. it was really just a very wild and kind of savage place. it's a big dealfá to lose yr wedding ring, right? >> uh-hh. thatppened to a named ho his fi anniversary. >> can you tell me a little about the ring? >> it's just a golden wedding band. >> this guy was in the river with his friends, lost the ring in the river, so he called the tv metal detective. >> the ring came off. he knows roughly a 100-meter area where it might be. i'm going to go out and see if i can find it for him. >> seems like a trustworthy guy. >> when i find this for you, you'll be out of the dog house with your wife? >> yeah. >> okay, that's great. >> and they take back their search. >> i take back what i said earlier, there's no way they'll find that. >> well, after an hour, look what happened. >> he's searching the water, getting close, digging around. he's got the metal detector up

out of the water. so he's found something. lo and behold, look what he pulls out of the river. after about an hour, he finds thexd ring. >> unbelievable. this guy can find anything. >> holy crap. >> the internet skeptic wants to say this could be fake but these guys are canadians, they wouldn't lie about this, they're nice. >> another happy client. i'm just thrilled we found it for him and the best part it was his birthday today to top it all off. we've got a compilation of videos that are nothing short of small miracles. these guys seem to be very interested in the front grill of this peugot. they're looking, looking, looking and moving around trying to figure out how to repair the front end of this car. what comes out will shock you. >> it's moving! >> what is that?

>> wait, is it a fox? >> is it a coyote? what is it? >> get it out. >> this car is giving birth! >>c that is a dog, trapped in te grill of thisfá peugot. it was hit at about 56 miles per hour. out pops the dog and he's fine. the grill absorbed the impact and swallowed this dog up. you would think, gosh, this is a one in a million type thing. nope, this kind of thing happens more frequently than you would like to think. here's another one. this little white poodle mix survived an 11-mile ride between massachusetts and rhode island at speeds up to 50 miles per hour trapped in the front of a toyota camry. he's fine. here's another one, believe it or not,xd this onefá from santi chile, this little pup stuck inside the dprgrill. these guys lift the car up off the ground, completely remove

the bumper and gently pull this pup out. >> that's much better than the first one where they were yanking the dog outñr pie its legs. >> it's not something you practice for. it's like you i've got to get the dog out of the front of my car. >> this guy did suffer a broken paw, but pretty miraculous that he survived an impact like the other two dogs. take a ride in the way back machine to january 9th and a story i brought you after the bcs championship game between alabama and lsu. we were all pretty grossed out. you remember alabama won, and this scene in the crystal burger w]pa bunch of alabama fans heckg a passed-out lsu fan in the restaurant. it started people putting french fry boxes and food on this guy. somewhat harmless. until 33-year-old brian downing

came around and, for lack of a better phrase, whipped out his junk and put it all over this guy on camera. you remember this? >> how can you forget? >> as you can imagine, brian downing has been in quite a bit of legal trouble since this incident and just yesterday brian downing reached a deal and pled guilty to two obscenity charges that won't require him to register as a sex offender. however, he has agreed to a two-year prison sentence for this incident. >> two years? >> whoa! >> wow. >> one of his attorneys believed that could be reduced to nine months but as it stands right now, two years in the slammer. >> so for him he felt it was better to just do the time instead of living a time with a record of a sex offender. >> good point, nick. because brian downing has a 1-year-old son. now, this could have been a lot

worse if he had to register as a sex offender. he could have faced up to ten years in prison if he was convicted of a sexual battery count. formal sentencing doesn't go down until november 29th. the lsu fan has also sued downing as well as the crystal company and big easy enterprises in civil court. a warehouse fire causes one big blaze. >> oh! >> it's like a volcano! >> find out what it took to fight the flames on "right this minute." and if you're a geek and you want to propose, how do you do it? >> in 3-d. >> what? >> see how this

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of? old rolled-up socks he set on fire. in the youtube description he said he lost most of the hair from his hands, a lot of the hair from his forearm and suffered first degree burns on his middle finger. >> why would you do this? >> which is why i say don't try this at home. i've got a little video to lift your spirit. this is a video about paul ryan. this is more about his assets as a physically attractive male. >> well, it's important to be in shape. >> check out these videos at our website, rightthisminute.com 2a click on -- >> best of rtm. take a look at this fire that was caught on film by winnipeg news in canada. you see black smoke, but watch. >> oh! >> it's like a volcano!yú rñ th stores fuel. this is near speedway international in winnipeg. it took more than 60 firefighters and 19 fire trucks

to help get this under control. as you can imagine, the area surrounding this warehouse was evacuated. fortunately, no injuries were reported. this fire began after close of business on monday. >> those flames were like 200 feet in the air, like big fire clouds. >> this fire required a military foam suppression unit to try to get this under control. this fire caused $15 million in damage. >> oh [ bleep ]. >> this fire was captured by a construction worker and at this point you see a dark black cloud coming from the second story of this home. but look at what happens just a few seconds later. >> whoa. >> that black smoke suddenly turns into a full-on inferno. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> this fire did end up spreading and completely destroying three other homes and

it did also spread to one occupied home. fortunately, nobody was in that home. the cause is still being investigated but some people did see a worker using a torch point on a deck nearby right before the fire started. who knew that there was a klingon band that could sing on wookie liked -- and that they liked to belly sglans those are klingons singing in wookie. >> isn't that mixing the star trek, star wars characters? because wookie is star wars, klingon star trek. >> i thought it happened in a galaxy far, far away.

>> is that chewbaka in a belly dancing outfit. >> he would be male and this is female. >> it would have been chewbecky. >> slightly confused? what's going on? look at chewbecky's lips. i'm very, very scared of the lipstick. >> the thing is -- does anybody find that odd? >> yes.e1 very, very odd. >> i just -- i just, you know -- >> it's 2012. if they want to belly dance -- >> if they want to wear clothes, they should wear clothes. it's called parabatic. >> this is just flat-out fun. >> see a great video and a new sport "right this minute." and still to come, he's the newest internet sensation. >> this girl very successfully

made herself look like a doll. >> find out how she does it and if it's all real. and see what happens when a front loader teeters over. >> this is like the slowest actio

we know there's a trend where people like to dress up and make themselves look like dolls or real-life barbie 5adol.

well, this girl very successfully made herself look like an annamae doll. buzz feed has the video and also some photos of what she looks like. her real name is anastacia. but she has a japanese name. >> this isn't digitally enhanced? >> no, it's the way she does her makeup, the way she does her hair and the way she acts and moves. she does have a tutorial that shows u us how she does this. >> she has a tiny little eye and with all of the makeup it becomes a huge animated eye. >> it looks like she is wearing a really large contact lens. apparently she spends hours and hours a day trying to make herself look like this. she has reportedly said she's considering going under the knife to have this look permanently. >> i wonder what our friend will

say about this? >> i'm sure she would be a fan. it's exactly what venus does, just a little different. >> i think you two should wear your makeup like this on set. >> i would want to see it too. >> that would be hilarious. >> you weirdos. >> but it is not just her eyes. i mean the whole package here looks exactly like an annamae character. . when you're one part geek and one part nerd and you want to propose to that girl who you know you want to be married to for 70-plus years, how do you do it? well, when you do it, you should do it like michael, in 3-d. >> you may have heard that kate miller just accepted my proposal to marry her, which i'm told is a good thing. >> wait. i need glasses. i can't see it. it just looks blurry. >> i'll turn the 3-d off. >> so to propose to kate miller, i thought what better way than

to do it in 3-d and as you see, 4-d as well. >> so he used 3-d and even 4-d for what i think is the greatest proposal ever. >> you're saying he went to the fourth dimension? >> yes. >> using state-of-the-art cutting edge technique, we'll envelope you in the 3-d realm. now this? snow? come on, guys. nice, guys, tropical. tropical hurricane. at least there's no rain. thanks, guys. no, no, i can't do it like this. i've got to do it my way. >> what? >> will you marry me? >> and to tell us how this whole 3-d proposal went down, we have michael via skype right this minute to tell us how he got down on one knee with kate

miller. i know you work in post-production and you're a 3-d consultant but this is a pretty dramatic proposal. ì(lc&ll, i have a very short attention span and i thought if i could propose to kate in a way that was fun for me and also catch her totally off guard, this would be the only way i could do it and have it work. >> what did you tell her she was about to watch? >> part of what i do as a consultant is a lot of speaking engagements. i said i've got a three-d symposium coming up and i want to run some jokes by you. since i do that quite a bit, she had no ."idea. >> beth wants to know if the cameras were still rolling after she said yes and when might that tape come out? >> i don't think any other tapes will come out soon. >> were you worried that the ring will look bigger and nicer and shinier in 3-d? >> sure. >> well done. >> thank you. trying to get this tank onto this truck and then -- >> right off the other side.

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gooey... blanket of love. this video is entitled rope swing fail of the century. you tell me if it lives up to its name. >> oh! >> hurts to watch. now, he's not that high in the air. goes into the launch and before

there's any swinging whatsoever, grip goes gone, dude falls, back of the head right off the dirt. okay, is the rope short enough to get us out there? >> i think the rope is fine. i think he just lost his grip. >> that's what it sounds like when you get the wind knocked out of you. you can't look cool when you get the wind knockedxd out of you. >> it almost sounds like he turned into a monster. >> after all that -- >> i'm so dizzy, i'm so dizzy. >> did you get that on video? >> that's a concussion. >> an a good friend too. let's not check on him, let's keep rolling on this. >> you got that on video? sleepy kittens staying put.

let's check out some videos, including heavy equipment and the guys that don't seem to know how to run them. you've got a high lift forklift that seems to have gotten jammed on something up on the roof. the forklift is up on its nose so he very gingerly pulls back the boom arm, starts spraying it down, problem solved. >> oh, no! >> and this couldn't be happening any slower. >> i feel bad for the guy inside trying to drive this thing because he's probably freaking out. >> i lovefá that he's got his safety vest on but he clearly did not know how to run this thing or maybe just forgot. >> maybe he was trying to do some stunts in this forklift. check this out, freestyle forklift. >> i'm sure he got an earful from his comrades after that stunt. speaking of comrades, how about this wn. in this military displayfá of

might, up it goes, onto the flatbed and right off the other side. >> oh, into the crowd! >> that hardly seemed like a solid flatbed to get on. >> and the last one is so slow and in one i feel like they're going way too fast. they tried to full throttle it up to the top of this thing. you can see this one from a different point of view. >> those people are way too close. >> oh! >> that's amazing that it didn't injure anyone. >> good thing the girl had roller blades on. she scooted right out of there, watch her. see you later. that's it for us here at "right this minute." we'll see you next time. ♪

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