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i'm beth troutman. it's time for the best videos of the day and the stories behind his minute." cameras catch a mysterious explosion. >> it really shattered anything that was around it. >> see the devastation from one bad accident. >> he plays guitar with no arms and jammed with the goo goo dolls. now an update as george dennehy goes to romania to meet his birth parents for the first time. >> see the remarkable reunion
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that will break your heart and make you smile. it's a rare sight on rhino cam. >> there it is coming out of the rear. >> i don't think that's the rear. >> you know what i'm saying. >> witness the miracle for yourself. plus another day, another ipad to give away. we've got thursday's buzzword. and stuff we southern women say. >> somebody stole my buggy at the piggly wiggly. >> my dad is going to kill me. >> that's the most accurate. >> check out security cameras in saudi arabia and tell me if you can tell what happened? >> an explosion? >> another angle from outside. i think this is a parking lot. >> what the heck? >> then there's yet another angle. you see someone barely walking in the frame. >> is it a bomb? >> this was
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by this tanker that crashed into a bridge near dubai. it started leaking and then the explosion. as you can tell it really shattered anything that was around it. >> we also found these photos. it shows the devastation it caused. >> crumbled that building. >> there wasn't much left of the cars around the tanker because they are all charred. look at those cars. >> i don't think anybody can survive the blast. >> according to the report, 23 people died because of the explosion, 135 people were injured. >> that person we saw come into the frame from the security camera, you've got to think that person didn't make it. >> one of the photos shows someone injured taken to an ambulance. >> these photos were almost like apocalypse, everything destroyed. >> i want to update you guys on george dennehy. you may remember this kid. he was the one born with no arms, adopted from romania, but
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he got to live out his dream performing on stage with the goo goo dolls. >> he's the guy that plays the guitar with his feet. >> yes. he also plays the piano as well and he sings. sunday night at 7 news followed him as he went to romania to meet his parents for the first time. >> i'm excited but nervous. >> he's 17 but never left home since he left. he had never seen his parents. they were quite surprised. >> they didn't know he was coming? >> mom didn't know he was coming at all. >> and he also gets to meet his sisters that he had never met before, and then his dad walked in. >> why did this family give him up? >> beth, they were so poor, they could not afford to take care of
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him. it's believed because he had the disability, he would get better medical attention if he was somewhere else. he was in a home for kids when this american couple got an urgent request saying if he doesn't have somebody adopt him, he will die. so they went to romania after only seeing a little picture of him and decided this is the little boy we want. >> i held him and smiled at him and talked to him, and he just had this big smile come across his face and encouraged me there's potential here to help this boy. >> this really rips at your heart strings. although he's had a beautiful, wonderful life in america, after watching that mother's reaction, i can't imagine the last 18 years for her. >> it's been quite an eventful time of george's life. not only did he go to romania to meet his birth parents, he's made a single available on itunes called, "it's a gift." and he has a girlfriend. >> two options for me, either dead or where i am now.
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this kind of adoption is where i am now. >> an amateur race in california. everybody gets off to a clean start up to the first turn. there's handlebar bumping, rubbing there, part of racing. >> rubbing is racing. >> right. the 250 cc light blast, things are about to get really out of shape. a couple of turns are wiggley. the big jump coming up, big 90 foot. here it comes. watch what happens. >> he landed on that dude. >> he landed on that girl. that was a female racer just in front of him. she didn't jump up as high as he did. he went to the sky to jump. once he was in the air, he doesn't have much control over where he goes, landed right on top of her. >> and he's on a very heavy motorcycle. of course the weight of his body and the speed, how is this girl?
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how is she? >> i don't have any reports on injuries of these people. i don't know. i think erybody eventually got out of this okay b r on how seriously. >> he starts screaming, understand, has no control over it. >> chilling to hear him know what's coming, and it's kind of crazy to see the camera knocked on the ground and you see the official come out with the yellow caution flag. >> not before some other motorcyclist veered out of the way and not hit these people. >> we are giving away an ipad 3. this one right here is being shipped off to one of our winners today. >> this one is going to sharon wilkinson. sharon, it's on its way. >> we've got thursday's buzzword coming up in just a while. that's when you head over to our facebook page and click on the "win an ipad" button. >> you have to be 18 or older
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for your chance to win an ipad 3. >> beautiful day on the ocean and you're on your 102 foot yacht. you have not one, not two, not three but an entire pod of dolphins right there playing at the front of your ship as you sail through the ocean. look at them playing, jumping up and down, playing in the wake. >> you're telling me these dolphins were just there, they didn't put them there? >> they did not. >> these dolphins were in the ocean already. they saw the boat. they came over and we're like we're coming along. >> the video said dolphins would do this every sunrise and sunset every day. >> there's just so many of them all at once. i thought maybe just one. >> it has to be. >> they are literally plunging themselves from the water. how they do, that i don't know, from the water to the air.
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>> they were sailing from sag harbor, new york, to charleston, south carolina. they were seeing this all along the way. you've got new york dolphins and south carolina dolphins. >> this is real? >> this is real. >> i've worked here a long time and i've never seen anything like that. turn it back to the beginning. swimming and jumping. how do they keep up with the boat? they have to be remote control. you've made my life. i want to hug the computers. >> some dudes go in to rob a jewelry store and zap the guard with a stun gun. >> that stun gun didn't take out the security guard. >> see how the table turn when the robbers get served. i came across a video of a fashion show. then i was like, wait a second,
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it's time for another one of the animal expeditions. this one takes us to europe. first at the rotterdam zoo, i show you the birth of an indian rhino. >> that mom, watch what happens? >> a rhino birth is something i can't -- >> lays down. there it is coming out of the rear. i don't think the tusk is full grown at this point. >> i don't think that's the rear. >> you know what i'm skag, coming out of the posterior area of the rhino. she's laying down but she's going to get up. she realizes this cookie is almost baked.
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>> standing there. >> looks like a rag doll. >> feet first. >> is it alive? >> when you see how it drops and doesn't move, you're thinking it's not alive. >> what's going on? >> you notice this is taking place after dark, and you'll notice there's some light. it seems her keepers are noticing, hey, wait a minute, something is going on in there. her ears go back and she's sniffing her baby because this is her little baby. >> there you can see the baby was alive and happy and healthy. we leave the netherlands and jaunt on down to france, the notre dame cathedral. those birds are sparrows. watch what they do with them? >> cool. >> if you hold your hands up and are very still, they will come and eat out of your hands. >> kind of a religious experience. you're standing outside notre dame and they eat out of your hands. >> twogreat adntures in
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europe. icame a fashion show and it happened to be from phoenix fashion week to benefit susan g. komen awareness association. i watch and like sexy ladies. what's up, nadine? what's up, girl? then i was like, wait a second, who is this? our very own beth troutman on the catwalk modeling in front of all sorts of people. >> dramatic hair flip, too, beth. >> i love how she did -- laughed uncontrollably, waved at everybody. >> that was my way of saying i have no idea what i'm doing. i'm going to have fun with people because i feel awkward. i had a blast. i modelled a local designer, amanda patterson. she contacted me at "right this
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minute." she said, you know what, my motto is modest is honest, i'm going to make a modest dress for beth troutman. there were international fashion models, young girls from "project runway," people who knew what they were doing on the catwalk. i had fun. they played fun music. it was for an amazing cause. for that reason it was worth it. the fashion show featured breast cancer designers who modelled designe designers. that was amazing. every person that came out got a standing ovation. we raised thousands and thousands. the fundraiser is going on. >> you can't go out and meet anyone who hasn't been affected by breast cancer in some way, shape, or form. it's time to find a cure. >> nick and i were available that day. as you guys know, we've been giving away ipads every day to lucky viewers all across the
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country. people all over the u.s. have won this thing. the great "right this minute" giveaway. thursday's buzzword is coming up next. here is a sport where beating the other team has a whole other meaning. >> i can't quite figure out these guys there to play soccer or [ female announcer ] add your own ingredients to hamburger helper for a fresh take on a quick, delicious meal.
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beth, what's up? >> getting you ready for thanksgiving. folks can make awesome place card holders for thanksgiving table, dinner, it's easy and fun, something to do with your kids. look at them, pine cone turkeyeys. >> looks like cotton balls. >> and glue. >> head out to the website, rightthisminute.com and click on -- >> best of rtm. security guard in moscow earned his paycheck for sure. watch the surveillance video. see the security guard open the door and look out. somebody outside was blowing cigarette smoke through the crack in the door. as he turns around the man in the knit cap hits him on the back of the neck with a stun gun. another accomplice wushsfá the clerk away from the counter, smashes the counter and starts grabbing jewelry. the stun gun didn't stop the security guard. he shrugs it off. he stuns him, grabs his weapon.
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the guy looting the store turns around and sees the gun in his face and says, my bad, i'm sorry. >> he drops to quickly. >> that is one mean security guard because he wasn't fazed by the taser. >> he was a little thrown off. you saw him wobbly, pulls his weapon, saves the day. >> how crazy he had the wherewithal to kick the one dude out the door after being stunned. >> then he took control. >> he's good at his job. he needs a raise. >> y'all make endless fun of me over my southern accent, right? >> but we love it. >> i thought i would school you or as we say in the south i'm going to learn you. >> on things southern women say. >> with this video. >> you're saying it's accurate. >> it is dead on. >> heyial. my daddy is going to kill me. >> that's the most accurate.
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>some folk stole my buggy at thewiggly. >> what's that? >> a grocery store chain. >> someone stole my buggy. it's a shopping cart i didn't know until i moved out west that it wasn't called a buggy. >> how can i be out of hairspray. >> heard that. >> i'm fixin' to fry up some okra. >> i luch the fixin' until i got out west and nobody says i'm fixin' to go to the pool. >> when i was a cheerleader. >> when i was a debutante. >> when i was queen. >> i sadly was a cheerleader and a debutante. >> oh, my god. i know her. we we we used to pageant together. >> beth troutman, is thatfá you? >> i've said that. i know i've said it to you guys. >> mostly with people on facebook. >> he's a goober. >> what about doofy. >> i've been laughing about that
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since i saw the video. i was in the bathroom on the toilet and i was laughing. >> okay. >> now i feel like since you know some of these phrases, you can now incorporate them into your every day lingo. >> i'm fixin' up to -- am i using it right? i'm fixin' up to show some videos. >> fixin' to. >> i'm fixin' to show y'all some videos. >> very good. >> i did it. if it's thursday, and it is, that means it's time for "right this minute" ipad giveaway. >> got to love thursday and got to be 18 years or older to enter. >> and you've got to have thursday's buzzword. >> enter on our facebook page. but if you're entering with your mobile phone or tablet go to the first page and tap the mobile link. >> it's time for thursday's buzzword. thursday's buzzword is -- >> shocking really. that's the word. shocking. now head on over to
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there are so many things wrong with this video. >> it's going to be great. >> tell me if you can guess what this group of men are trying to do. >> looks like they are trying to slide something down off the roof on a ladder or something, right? >> not really a ladder. they literally took two pieces of wood. they leveraged it against that wall. >> a piano? looks like a dumpster. >> it's a pool. look what happens once they finally get it to roll down. >> oh, my god. >> of course. of course. >> well, they got it down. >> what the heck? >> everybody should have been up on the roof trying to hold it back, because if it does fall, it doesn't fall on anybody. >> fortunately it hits no one. even the guy right under it gets away. >> he's lucky this pool has a shallow end. that's where he got save. >> they would have been better getting in it and ridinging it down like a toboggan.
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>> at least they would have some fun instead of putting their lives in danger. >> i found a video that is a bit of a mampup between soccer and street fighting. >> isn't that called rugby. >> no, watch this. you're seeing jost ling but thing full on fights, punches in the face. >> this is iceland extreme football league. i can't figure out if these guys were here to play soccer or get in gang fights. it seems as though these moves are in the rules. seems like you can be dribbling the ball around and some deck you in the face and that's allowed. >> this is a highlight video. at one point there seems to be no soccer going on whatsoever, just knockdown, draggout fight. there is some soccer skills like here you see a guy make a move on the defender in the blue. then pass to his buddy before a little give-and-go and score a goal. >> that'ssoccer before
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doesn't matter how good you are if you can cheat and punch a guy. >> why let a guy dribble past you when you can break his notices if you want to. >> the first it almost looked like the guy stood there and let himself get punched. that was strange. >> that was strange. i don't know if that's part of the rules. here you see people jumping on the back of one another. watch this. to each his own. not the sport for me. you guys know i love body painting. i've got a new video all about body paint. this time they painted the bodies of cars for a new ford fusion ad. >> you probably like this kind of body painting even better. >> i kind of do. ford says when their new fusion shows up, all the other cars around sort of disappear. so they hired artist known as the invisible man. here is some of his work. have you seen his work? >> i love it. >> he paints himself into scenes and makes himself disappear.
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ford loved the idea so much they applied it to their new ad, taking cars, putting them in real scenes and painting them to disappear. pretty neat. >> i like it what a great idea, ford. >> so this car that they are painting on right now, they are going to blend into the environment it's in right now? >> exactly. >> it's going to blend into the restaurant? no way. >> so their ford fusion stands out, as they say it already does, the other competitor cars in the background are painted to blend right in. it's amazing how well it happens. that's going to do it for us here at rtm. thanks for joining us. we'll see you tomorrow, everybody.
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