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. hey, everybody, i'm beth trout man, and great videos are coming your way, "right this minute." a flash flood tips over an suv, and worst of all -- >> there's people inside. >> see the heros who refused to give up until everybody got out. this speedboat is still flying. >> flying through the air, it does. >> why the double back flip was not part of the show.
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minnie driver uncovers secrets in "who do you think you are." >> so incredible to watch. >> how it reveals the truth about the man she thought she knew. >> answers the mystery she had about her own father. a puppy rescue on a grand scale, and the dancing truck driver is back with the running man. the challenge that's more challenging for some than others. >> this is the running man? >> this is the running man. right now, it's monsoon season in nepal, and heavy rains caused some flash flooding. this video captures a terrifying moment when a transport van carrying several passengers tried to cross what looks like a very swollen river, and as you can see, even at the beginning of the video, that van is unable to make it. there are people inside, and now it's up to the people on the
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edge of the swollen river to spring into action to rescue the people crawling out of the vehicle. >> how? they probably don't have tools or a rope to throw them. >> people are there to reach for them and drag them to safety, all while the water is just rushing by them. watch this moment here, just as they made a human chain and get people out of the emergency door. >> oh. wow. >> there are people still inside. you saw some people get swept away from the water, but the people do not stop. there you see them rush down the river. another brave guy wades into the rushing water and gets to the vehicle to open the door so people can crawl out the side of the van. he brings women out of the door. he walks them to the edge of the river, but the current is too much. and they quickly lose their footing, and you see them get swept away in the water.
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again, these people are responsible for saving these lives. they still jump in together holding hands, forming human chains. they grab the people and bring them to safety. this video is from lake of the ozarks in missouri. >> woah, woah, woah, that flew through the air, oh, my gosh. >> and fly through the air it does. the drivers lose control over it inside where they'll begin 47 years old, and 44-year-old michael, they went in the air, overturn twice, and land on the bow of the cat ma ran. they were taken to the hospital, joel expected to be okay, but michael was in critical condition. >> looks like it is blowing in the wind like a leaf. >> they were going abo 179
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miles per hour. >> there is a puppy boom in west palm beach, florida, but it's not the good kind. look at these guys, four of the 19 that were rescued from a backyard breeder. that backyard breeder was not able to take care of all of them, so they were given up to the foundation, realized how many there were, and they got help from tricounty animal rescue, out in the heat, little food and water, you can see the ribs, and sad thing is, three of the moms they took in were pregnant, two had puppies over the weekend. they had 16 puppies between the two moms, so now they have 35 dogs, but one dog is waiting for her to give birth so they took in 35 dogs, and they need to raise money to give the dogs vet care and get them healthy to be adopted. >> now they are all over the
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news. people love puppies, so they'll figure out how they can adopt one. >> look how cute these little puppies are. of course someone's going to give hem a loving home. >> they were futured on the now in the area, so if you want a puppy, i know where you can go. >> one of the ones why you take a deep breath before you see it for yourself. it's stressful. this is a man known as the english spiderman, james kingston, does crazy stuff, a british runner and stunt man, 23 years old, this video from epic tv. here he is walking around some ongoing construction on a building in india, climbing a crane. that's high. >> not high enough i have a feeling. >> absolutely, not high enough. no harness, no safety anything. james has a good time not just climbing the 325-foot crane, but
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climbs to the top, this yellow part. you know, on the edge, right? walk along it like a tight rope. >> oh! how do they not get weak in the knees, clench and fall. >> good you mentioned one hand because that's what you're about to see next. this is the moment everyone's talking about. that's high. >> yeah. >> watch what james does next. here's the feet hanging over the traffic. think he has two hands on. no, one hand. >> one hand. >> one hand hanging there. look, covered in soot. isn't that slippery? >> i would think the same thing. >> five fingers holding you from death, keeping you from certain death. how cool is the shot? up there, king of the world, higher than anybody else in india, camera on a stick, talk about a selfie. what do you do when you turn left? >> slow down, put the signal on, and turn left.
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there's a really lovely show on tlc called "who do you think you are?"
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you may have seen it, it traces the family history of celebrities. it's so emotional. it's so incredible to watch. the season finale is about to premier. >> minny driver searches for the truth about her father happen. >> did you get the impression she was hiding something. >> how the ravages of war nearly destroy him. >> see a medal? >> he threw the medal. >> you're kidding. >> she tracks down a relative she never even knew existed. >> people didn't talk about things like that. >> an up earthed a bat tern of secrecy going back generations. >> oh, the tangled web we weav. >> doesn't the trailer give youn the season finale as she discovers a great deal about her family. her father, who was never married to her mother, didn't really share much about his wife, and she goes through all of these steps to find out who
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she is, where she came from. mainly because she wants to share that story and offer that information to her little son, henry. so exciting. don't you feel like the whole idea of finding out about your history, it's a brilliant idea. to tell us about the finale and about the show, we have an executive producer, dan, joining us right this minute. welcome to the show! >> thank you. >> how much prep goes into each one of these episodes? >> well, look, it's a documentary series. it's all real research. really documents. real historians and real genealogists. the point is to take this celebrity on a journey to meet a character, sometimes two, in their family's past. everyone comes from somewhere that ties to a tent pole in history or ties to them emotionally or answers questions. in the case of minnie driver,
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answers the mystery she had about her father, just one generation back. >> how is it all this information about people's background is lost? >> no matter what you learn in history books, it is the documents that generations don't hear about. >> what was it about the driver story that made you want to save it for the very end? >> sometimes the most emotional stories are the ones that tie back to one's own parents, able to unpack a lot of stuff about her father she didn't know. there's a lot of revelations in the episode making for a great way to end this first half of our season. >> if you want to catch the finale of "what do you think you are" do that tomorrow, wednesday, august 27th at 9/8 central on tlc. >> all this action could be super easily avoided, especially this first one. watch this. guy just cruising along, gets closer to the other driver, and this driver's about to make a
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left. no one coming the other direction. perfect time to make the left. until somebody from behind the driver with the dash cam, i don't know if the person was trying to pass, was that impatient -- >> did you see that little child on the other side of the road that was dangerously close to all that action? look. >> oh! >> oh, mied gy goodness, barely missed. >> that person should not drive. >> no. from there, we go to here, a car in front making a left, but watch this car here making a right from the road. somebody coming the other direction slams into that car. now, here, i don't necessarily who is to blame. >> that person pulled out in front of the mercedes, turned in front of them. >> pull out in front, hit the gas. >> have a car that can go 0 to 60 in a split second. >> i think it went 0 to 16.
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can i beat them or not? no, i cannot. >> now, this last one, not so much an accident, but somebody on the road who seems to be lost. a t in the road, go left or right? the cow asks for directions when the guy pulls up. listen. [ mooing ] that's a female cow because it asked for directions. scotland, one of the most beautiful places on the planet. watch this video, dynamic scot lan. roger did time lapse video and he captured some beautiful, beautiful imagery. he got some urban images because when you think of scotland, you think of william wallace and urban areas, but he gets the classic look in there because after you leave the urban areas, you do see how green and lush
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and lovely and old that scotland is. >> so spectaculaspectacular. fun to see in time lapse, the best part, every time we see it, the sky, watching the clouds roll through these beautiful areas. >> one of my favorite places to visit there, and he gets imrang -- imagery is the castle there on the hill. when you tour scotland, you can tour it. i'll just show people this is what i did on my vacation. ♪ tips to taking better smart phone photos. >> you can take selfies without looking like you're taking a selfie. >> see it next "right this minute." still to come, spike is one smart bird. >> he's feeding the dog, dipping
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into the milk bone box. >> divvying out the goods like a pro. headed into a workout, but then temptation gets in the way. >> a cup cake or browny today? >> i can't say i wouldn't take it. does dessert have them trading in their dumbbells? >> come on, why not?
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lick us on facebook.com/rightthisminute. stay in touch all day long. now, back to the show. >> i think spike is a brave bird. is that a doberman he's stealing from? >> feeding the dog. >> it's bigger, it's a great dane. there's two of them. >> he's divvying out the goods here. >> dipping into the milk bone box, and the dane is not going for the bird, but, like, thanks, buddy. >> that's smart ensuring safety later if the dogs decide to have
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a taste for bird, he says, bud, don't you remember? i fed you milk bones when your owners didn't. >> when they leave it out during work, i'm the guy to go to. >> yep. >> we move up to quebec in canada, the park safari, that's a water buffalo who likes carrots, but notice anything interesting? >> no top teeth. >> it does not, but it wants to eat the carrot. >> swallows it whole? >> chewing it. >> needs water buffalo dentures here. >> i think so. >> this horse is, like, that's not the feeding trough. that food is presented to the horse by -- look when the camera moves. that's another horse. >> you got to try this. >> like mouth to mouth, like birds feeding each other. this is like -- ♪ this is the night ♪ a wonderful night
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>> lady and the tramp. they can put their hoovs on the glass to touch. >> you complete me. ♪ if you're super into fitness, what you want to stay away from are the cup cakes. you know -- >> i never claimed to be super into fitness. i love cup cakes. >> this was put together by running late. these guys set up a cup cake stand outside the gym. >> free cup cake today? >> the gym goers went in, like, hey, how about a little cupcake. >> sure, totally free. >> i can't say i wouldn't take it. >> take one, and i'll get back to the car. >> come on, why not, you'll work it offing right? >> probably not. >> i love them, whatever. >> on the way out, we have short bread, pie. >> one bite. >> that was the greatest bite of
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cup cake i've seen ate out of the wrapper. >> there's all right. you worked it off. there's a little one, yeah. >> they were greeted by management at the gym. >> we were informed that we can't stand outside of the gym, so pa abe here and i are switching places. ready for it? >> free cup cakes? would you like a free brownie. >> this guy is associated with the gym. >> really upset. >> [ bleep ]. >> i feel a free cup cake would cheer you up. >> i'll smash it in your face. >> don't do that. >> they don't own the sidewalk. they can give away cup cakes. >> gym management, this is the perfect opportunity, go outside, set up a table, your tent with your gym membership and do a promotion and knock a couple bucks off, say, if you eat this, come in here. could have been a perfect deal. >> you're missing out. >> he's wiggling away the pounds
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with the running man, and now he's nominating you to -- >> do your running man dance video. >> what happens when we accept the challenge. >> is what the?
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♪ cat enjoys a massage. ♪ this guy's going to pump you up, recognize the handsome mug, that's john dreery from ohio, the dance truck driver, lost a hundred pounds getting the groove on. he's back. this time with a little internet
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challenge for us. >> everyone on twitter, everyone on facebook, do your running man dance video. >> remember that? the running man dance? i feel like he brought it back. >> never went out the style because it's one of the few i can do. there's john's passion and shirt, fighting the war on obesity. he nominates everybody. we'll get rid of the obesity problem in the country by getting up and dancing. >> oh, hooe's got moves. >> playing the popular song now "wiggle." ♪ you know what to do with the fat butt ♪ ♪ >> so good. >> really good. >> guy, the point of this is a challenge, do the running man, dance for john. >> he tweeted us all, right?
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we're obligated, required. our duty to do the running man. >> oh, boy. ♪ just like john, we challenge everybody. post your running man dance. >> do a better version than he did because that was pretty bad. >> yeah. that's all for us here at "right this minute". thank you for joining us. "right this minute". thank you for joining us. we'll see you next time. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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hello, everybody, i'm beth troutman, we have the best videos of the day and stories behind them "right this minute." ♪ paratroopers getting their jump on, except one. >> and now he's literally dangling. >> what's it is like to get towed 10,000 feet above the ground. >> they walked back. >> a rush to save two giant water head turtles. >> the story who who dump them in the dirt and who got them back where they belong. >> we thought they were

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