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hello, everybody, i'm beth troutman. it's a brand-new week and we've got brand-new videos "right this minute." a car clips a gas valve to a worker rushes to shut it off. >> that wasn't that big of an emergency. >> the video that will change your mind. >> you don't expect to see this in your kitchen. >> a cougar or puma. >> why this cat came to eat. a new show about two guy in love with classic cars. >> look the at the gorgeous sex
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bomb. >> the boys in chrome underground reveal how to score some beauties. >> tell us how you started going into dangerous areas to bring these cars back. >> we couldn't find a job, we had to create our own jobs. >> the buzzword for your shot to win a new ipad mini. and gringo the chameleon is -- >> pissed. >> why early mornings are not his thing. >> oh [ bleep ]! a man in russia is going to be receiving an award for his bravery, but i'll tell you what, he was very, very close to not even being around to accept the thing. this the guy here. he's a worker at this gas station. watch this security footage. working evening shift when the bmw pulls in. watch this bmw. it comes in and makes a bad turn, runs into that big tank, knocks the valve off, all of this gas everywhere, could be propane, natural gas, regardless, it's flammable.
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now he's working, you see there's the bmw has no idea what it just did. but watch. he runs over to this thing and is able to shut the valve off. he explained to "life news" how he did it. covered up his nose and mouth and went over and shut the mouth off. you're thinking that wasn't that big of an emergency, right? after he closes the valve. watch this video, watch this. >> oh! oh! >> you're kidding me. >> it's like a sea of flames. there's a whole entire lot goes up. it would have been way worse if he didn't shut the valve off. >> they did it in the nick of time. >> do they know what ignited? >> it goes off like a second. he was standing right here next to this thing, moments before. a risky move. no reports of injuries but you can see the damage left behind from all of 0 the fire. the guy's award for his bravery. this video all kinds of
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scary but all kinds of sawesome >> the doorbell, he's right now -- >> look at that face! that's the face of a suspected burglar, and the woman inside happened to catch him on her cell phone. she heard a dude knocking at her door, she thought the guy seemed suspicious, kept ringing the doorbell, ringing the doorbell, she didn't answer. she gets her camera out and sees this guy peering in her window. but watch this. >> he saw me. he saw me. there he goes. i got him on film. i got him on film. he's running. he's running. running up the road. blue coat, black hat, white sneakers, tan pants, running up valentine way. >> you can hear the woman at cell phone camera is actually on the phone as recording the video. she's on the phone with the police. she keeps the camera on this guy as he runs away. and then watches this guy drive away in a getaway car, and
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because she kept this camera rolling, police were able to match this car to the suspect. they were able to see the license plate number. >> i can't believe he went right past her house. >> blue car, turn around. >> police identied the guy dars arrested for burglary before. cops caught this guy. >> caught him burglarizing another house. >> in the process of trying to rob another house, according to police, when they captured him. and, as you can imagine, this guy's facing a slew of charges. >> he's not very good at this. >> he saw me. there are two ways for wild animals to eat. they can hunt or get fed. we start with one that's probably thinking it's going to get fed, because it wandered into somebody's kitchen in santiago, chile. look at this cougar, trying to eat or do something with blinds. >> trying to get out. >> this woman went down into the
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kitchen to make breakfast. first she thought it was a dog, she saw legs and looked at it and goes, it's a cougar, or a puma, as known in south america, and she said it didn't attack her or her son or family dog. he was going around the kitchen. they called animal services. animal services showed up, shot it three times waite tranquilizer it pulled all three darts out and eventually got sedated. so they took it to the national zoo. >> that cougar trashed the place. looks like the night after a motley crue stage. >> or from "the hangover" there's a puma in the kitchen. anyone know how it got there? >> they believe it was well cared for. they think it either got away from somebody, somebody's pet, or released into the wild. >> there are two way for animals to get fed. this bear's like, i know how to get my own food. watch how easily it grabs the salmon. >> fishing that easy. >> it be. >> if you're a bear. >> after it gets salmon, it
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walks between the two rocks into its bear cave. it's like, i'm going to lunch alone, no thank you. >> got to be delicious. fresh salmon. >> mary kay spears captured the images. the other picture snapped on vacation, a bear in a tree, like, taking a nap. people can leave me alone, i can take my nap, call it a day. >> a salmon coma. a brand-new week is a good time to give away a new ipad mini. >> that's coming up the monday buzzword, telling you how to enter and win. >> you have to be 18 or older and a u.s. resident to win. >> the ipad mini giveaway coming up. ever been in this situation. >> [ bleep ]. what are you doing? >> this guy's got a camera mounted in his car, and up ahead you see a silver car dipping its wheels off the side of the road. he turns his radio down, honking at this car, what are you doing? >> this [ bleep ] is going to
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crash. >> not hard to predict what's going to happen. off the right side, into the dirt, overcorrects, back into the left side and into the pole, and just misses going head-on into that other car. this guy immediately pulls over, funny brevity moment in this video. >> call 911. >> call 911, please say yes or no. >> no thanks. we don't need road conditions, we need emergency services. >> wonder if that person was having a health problem, impaired, texting. you never know. >> this one is incredible. i'm going to tell you, you have to wait for it here. notice roads are wet, and there's a bridge there. there's water passing underneath the bridge. one car, two cars come across this bridge. a pedestrian just passes over that bridge. now watch this. >> oh! >> barely missed it. >> barely missed. that's a flash flood in la paz,
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bolivia. experiencing lots of rain over the last month. in fact, that rain's already claimed at least 30 lives and forced 21,000 families from their homes in the past two months. >> you don't see it coming. >> looks like an explosion. looked like a building exploded but that was water. the force of that water, terrifying. >> this is the river, and in this section it damaged five cars and left two people injured. >> some officials in the area say that there's not proper water flow underneath the bridge. i think this video kind of highlighted that, too, might be time for a new bridge. officials are requesting that. >> check out -- >> a 70-foot whale. >> how a drone is taking whale watching to a new level. and two pranksters pick up a passenger to pull a fast one. >> you want to go to jail? >> he's like, oh. >> see what drives the prankee to do this. >> ma'am ma'am.
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if you're going out whale watching, you want the best possible view of the whales you're going to watch. so, look, there's a whole new eye in the sky for whale watching. the drone cameras, the copter cameras. this is off dana point in california. the dana wharf copter cam, piloted by captain frank brennan. what do we see. >> that's cool.
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>> a 70-foot fin whale, endangered species and a beautiful look at fin whale, especially when the captain swings this copter around, and can see the whale in perspective with the boat. >> kind of neat, huh. >> we know there's regulations with boats and they're supposed to stay a certain distance away from whales, not supposed to ent act, change their course. is this going to have be regulated now? they believe we'll see more and more of these types of cameras up in the air. it's believed captain frank brennan could be the first whale watching operation to use this camera. but we all know these drones are getting everywhere. will there have to be regulations? are these drones going to affect the whales in any way? could it hurt them if it crashes? all of those questions are being asked because of the video. >> i almost want to laugh at that because, how can a drone up in the sky, affect a whale?
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>> you're about to start drooling, everybody else, you'll be excited, there's a new show about to premiere called "chrome underground" and it's all about classic cars. >> it's like a natural high. it's legalized gambling. it's about what's the highest price you can get, how fast can you sell it? >> these guys in the trailer for the show, they want to have the biggest dealership in the united states. currently, they have the largest dealership in austin, texas. these two are willing to go to some of the most dangerous places on the planet to get these cars. these guys definitely have some courage, and we have them via skype to tell us more. we've got them. tell us how you started going into dangerous areas to bring these cars back. >> we couldn't find a job, so we had to create our own job. that's the real story. we have a passion for cars and passion for adventure and combined the business to allow us to combine passion with
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business, make a living and have fun. >> dangerous situations, what do you mean? >> a lot of places are lawless, anarchy. we find incredible vehicles in mexico, brazil, argentina, and we find ourselves in some sticky situations trying to get them back into the u.s. are you finding what's valuable and collectible in america? is it not as collectible or value somewhere else? does it have a lower price? >> what we look for, rarest and the finest. you're trying to find one of a kind car or car that is absolutely the finest in the world, and the fact of the matter is, many of the countries, they have incredible wealth and the people that have wealth are collectors themselves and brought incredible vehicles from europe and different parts of the world, and now they're there and we go and get them. >> how much money do you think your garage is worth now? all that you have in there? >> i don't know how good you are in math, we've got 90 cars, most expensive 4.5 million.
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>> whoa! the cheapest is $5,000. generate an average from there. >> if you're going down to south america, that is a very long drive with a 4.5 million car. >> depending on the geography that dictates how we get the car out of the country and back home. that's what makes it interesting, unique, there's no two deals that are the same. each time it's a whole new ball game and each time it's a new adventure. >> check out "chrome underground" february 25th, 10:00 p.m. on discovery channel. that's right. that's a porcupine in a gift shop. >> hanging out, being friendly. >> the sweet story of the sharp, little guy next "right this minute." and still to come -- stepping off the edge for a daring jump. >> this is terrifying. >> see the free-fall that just keeps -- >> going and going and going. >> don't miss your chance to within a new ipad mini. we'll reveal th monday buzzword you need, next. whwhenen i i h havave e ane
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seselslsunun b bluluee scscalalp itch. guys, get ready, this is terrifying. >> yes. >> falling, falling, falling. where's the parachute in where's the parachute in no parachute? >> what the mek. >> bungee. it's a rope jump. these guys are in jordan, it's an enormous jump. 1,040 feet at exit. entire free-fall's about 928 feet. when i first saw this, my gosh, something's going wrong, the guy's going to die. >> they keep going and going and going and going, and when you expect the chute to deploy, they keep going. >> the point of footage gives you the sweats. >> i don't know how that recoil, that yank back moment doesn't knock you out. >> ropes they're using are climbing ropes, nylon, designed to give. because if you fall while rock claiming you don't want the --
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you would get hurt. >> it's terrifying they test the ropes to limits. they know what they're doing, of course. but it's -- >> this is something you could potentially do if you don't do this for a living, you know? make sure you're tied to the rope and that's it. >> i -- i -- >> i would totally do this. yes, i would. i totally would. >> oh, man. >> yeah. it's like bungee jumping on steroids. >> i'd make them measure the rope 50 times before, just double-check that, triple check. >> make sure it's not 1,002 feet. >> right. when is a prank taken too far? maybe in this case. >> we'll drive around l.a. for 30 bucks. >> popular youtubers, sam and suzi tube, they have come together for a prank. they are drive you around for 30
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bucks. good deal given a cab ride would be expensive in los angeles. >> they got a taker. >> douglas. >> suzi tube in this car picks the guy up, douglas. >> appreciate your service. >> i appreciate you picking me up, man. >> seems like a really nice guy. >> a prarng. i feel bad. >> i have to do a quick air in, this will take three minutes top. >> no problems. >> we're about to bring sam into the picture. >> don't talk too much, okay? >> he told the passenger, don't talk to this guy, who is about to get in the car. >> how does it go? >> good. >> everything went -- >> collected money, gave him the drop-off, it was fine. >> it's in the trunk. money's in the trunk. >> perfectly fine. >> who's this? >> i told him -- i told -- listen, i told him not to talk to you. >> you're doing this again. you're crazy! >> look at the guy's face in the back. he's like -- >> it's the last time i'm working with you again. >> i'm glad it is. i'm -- you want to go to jail
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again? sam, do you want to go to jail again? >> there's a gun in here. >> oh, no. >> when do pranks go too far. >> right. >> the guy in the backseat. >> no. >> it's a prank. dude, dude, dude, dude, dude! it's a prank. >> douglas in the backseat tries to choke him out and hold him back. >> these guys are lucky that that's all doug tried to do. >> hopefully they took him where he needed to go, too. >> and did it for free. >> would you want that ride anymore? >> no. >> i'd be like let me the heck out of this car. >> you idiot! >> all right, everybody, let's make it a great monday and give away an ipad money. >> you've got to be 18 years old, u.s. resident and have a buzzword. >> go not first post on facebook page and tap on the mobile link. >> monday buzzword is adorable. >> get over to
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facebook.com/rightthisminute. >> enter adorable for your chance to win an ipad mini. >> if you don't win today, we're giving away another one tomorrow. gringo here is feeling a bit cranky. >> oh [ bleep ]. >> he's ready to go to war. >> why you don't want to mess with a chameleon's beauty sleep. >> oh [ bleep ]. close!
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this crazy winter weather the country's been dealing with, it's been a bummer for most. but some guys saw it as an opportunity. >> hungry man dinner. >> is it. a frozen dinner, but it's sculpted into this guy's front yard. he's apparently known as talent, he's a muralist and a beach artist from virginia beach, and this is his front yard. >> break down what we've got
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here. chicken, like a vegetable medley. >> yep. >> mashed potatoes. >> with butter, with butter. >> what's this? >> dessert. >> the dessert. >> cherry cobbler. >> to give you an idea, 30-foot by 30-foot front yard. >> oh. >> like the whole yard. >> yeah, yeah. >> as big as his house. >> impressive. >> yeah. >> that fried chicken's the size of a truck. >> makes you wish it was real. >> makes me hungry. >> yeah. >> sea otter shows off the baby. ♪ >> nobody likes get woken up before you're ready to get woken up. >> i woke up gringo.
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>> gringo the chameleon doesn't like it. >> doesn't seem to be in a good mood. >> his chameleon. >> a beautiful creature, i will say, but making very not so beautiful noises. >> oh. excuse me. >> videos that regulate by warren g. and nate dog in the background entire hime, classic hit. >> oh. >> gringo's not having it. he's pissed. >> sounds like a -- >> land of the lost. >> i'll put you in a taco, [ bleep ]. throw sal sa on your ass. >> the guy groaning. >> look at the camel. you go military on me. soldier. >> he did change. he does look like he's got camouflage, ready to go to war. >> i think that gringo wins this battle because eventually.
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>> close this thing already. i was kidding. >> he tries to close the tank. that famous scene from the first jurassic park where the raptors' claws get trapped in the door? that's what he says this is like. >> man, let's go. [ bleep ]. raptor in jurassic park with the hand sticking in the door. >> what's funny at the end of the video you seat finger poking at chameleon's foot you see how small this chameleon really is. but when you see it on its own with that awful noise, it looks as big as a dinosaur. >> that's it for us here at "right this minute." we'll see you next time.
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hi, everybody, i'm beth troutman. we've got the best the internet has to offer "right this minute." a guy crawls across an icy pond to reach a dog. >> barely able to keep its head above water. >> why a lucky break and sheer bravery saved the day. >> firefighters rush inside a burning home where -- >> red glow is everywhere. >> how a helmet cam captures every heart-pounding moment. a ghostly image
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