a rampaging elephant. >> i probably should have died that day. >> a runaway cadillac. >> i thought somebody put a bomb through the front door. >> and a terrifying earthquake. >> i'm thinking i don't know if i'm going to get to the bottom of this stairwell. >> on-the-job night players caught on camera. some end with a crash. others are blown away. and sometimes broadcast on live tv. >> i didn't know what to do. >> but hey, it's no use crying over spilled wine bottles. nine to fivers who weather the storm. >> they're having a great time, as you can see. >> and live to tell the tale. >> this isn't happening.

it was just so unbelievable. >> that was a bad idea. "caught on camera -- labor pain." hello, i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." we've all had bad days at work, stressful deadlines, demanding bosses, boring paperwork. but for the people we meet in this hour the daily grind becomes a once in a lifetime nightmare. earthquakes, runaway cars and armed robbers turn nine to five into run for your life! and while you might think your co-workers are grumpy, it could be worse. at least you don't work with an angry elephant. i hope. >> a zoo keeper crosses paths with a 10,000-pound rampaging elephant and finds himself

fighting for his life. it's january 31st, 1989, at san diego wild animal park. and young keeper david salmarcus is preparing to clean up the elephant enclosure. for david, then 20 years old, working with elephants is a dream job. >> it was a really good feeling when you would come into the barn in the morning to greet the elephants, and they greeted you back. it made you feel great. you can call them by name and they would walk over to you and rub against you. and they were so gentle, many of them. it was like having your own pet dog but 10,000 pounds. >> his work as an elephant keeper brings him up close and personal with the normally gentle giants, feeding them, bathing them, even riding them in the twice daily shows put on for tourists. >> when i would come out into a full audience and you would hear the crowd clap, it gave me goosebumps. >> but despite the excitement,

david knows that working with the world's largest land animals is inherently risky. david is warned about one elephant in particular. >> cindy had a lot of crazy behaviors with other keepers in the past. >> a known danger to humans, only keepers who had trained cindy when she arrived from a tacoma, washington, zoo are allowed to get close to the animal. newcomers like david always use the matriarch elephant nita as a shield when they are near her. for two years david keeps his distance from cindy but on that day in january, he . notices she's a little too close for comfort. >> cindy was next to the gate. i needed to get her moved. in the process of moving cindy, i opened the gate. and i should have closed the gate behind me. >> but david doesn't close the gate. a mistake that will almost cost him his life. just moments later he senses he's in trouble. >> i just had a feeling that she

was going to come after me. so i yelled for help. hey bob! and right when i yelled hey bob, she ran after me. she knew the terror in my voice. >> with 10,000 pounds of angry elephant heading straight for him, david lunges for the quickest escape route. >> the fastest way out was diving underneath the belly of another elephant so then i can have a buffer between me and her. i did that, she hit the side of that elephant and i was able to go through the fence. >> at this moment, david makes a fateful decision. he turns back to close the gate. >> it was really just instinct. it wasn't like i was trying to be this hero and trying to save the public. i saw the gate open, i knew what my job was. i was trying to contain the situation. >> but cindy is too quick for the keeper. she pushes the gate with her enormous head as this tourist catches it all on camera. >> he's thrown against the side of the block wall building. and then she comes after him.

>> and i looked up and saw cindy running right at me. and that will never leave my mind. that was terrifying. >> he couldn't get away from her. i thought she would kill him. >> hearing david's screams, the other keepers rush to the rescue yelling cindy's name. eventually the elephant backs away. and david dives into a moat howling in agony. >> while i was laying in the moat, i realized i was alive, the adrenaline wore off and the pain kicked in, then i could really feel it, some horrendous pain. i felt like everything in my body was broken. i damaged five disks in my lower back, i broke my clavicle lost a half inch in my arm. the bones were cut down. >> despite his injuries, in one sense david is lucky. when cindy pushes him through the gate, she sends him flying with her trunk before her head hits the 2500 pound steel gate. >> the most amazing thing is had her trunk not come through that fence and her head just hit the

gate, i could have easily died because the gate would have hit me square in the head. >> david spends eight days in the hospital and undergoes seven months of rehab. eventually he's able to return to the zoo but not to the elephants. >> after my rehabilitation, i was offered a job back with the elephants, and i thought i'd give it a try. so i went out into the field and i walked around the elephants and i greeted them. but once i heard the shuffling of the feet of the elephants, my heart started palpitating. i knew that wasn't going to be the right environment for me to be in. >> as for cindy -- >> after my attack, the very next day she went after and tried to attack another keeper. he was able to get through the fence. and cindy took it out on his wheelbarrow and she flattened it like a pancake. >> cindy is soon returned to her former home in tacoma, where she remains until her death. it's been more than two decades

since david was attacked by cindy, but when it comes to remembering that terrifying day, his memory is like an elephant's. he'll never forget. >> it's with me every day. it's made me look at life and realize how precious it is. i probably should have died that day. coming up -- selling bikes is no easy ride when a car smashs into the store. alert.

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caught on a security camera, a pharmacist gives these armed robbers a taste of their own medicine when he pulls a weapon on the intruders. when you think of dangerous jobs, a pharmacist may not be the first occupation that comes to mind, but it's becoming more common to see security camera footage of drugstores held up at

gunpoint as robbers go after supplies of highly addictive narcotic drugs. most robberies end without injury, but not always. in june, 2011, a man intent on stealing prescription drugs murders four people including the pharmacist and his assistant in a drugstore in suburban new york. only one month before this brutal attack michigan pharmacist jeremy hovan is caught on cameras coming face-to-face with an armed robber. he makes a decision that may save his life but will hurt his career. he'll later use the security camera footage to try to win public support for his fight against a new adversary, his former employer. it's about 4:30 a.m. on may 8th, 2011. security cameras capture the empty aisles at the benton harbor walgreens. hovan is at work behind the pharmacy counter when suddenly

two masked gunmen rush through the front doors and seize one of the assistant managers. >> one of the managers ran across an aisle holding a piece of shelving and headed directly to the stock room. this frightened me and i suddenly realized that something was wrong. seconds later i saw another manager with a gunman in the pharmacy area. the gunman saw me. and i saw him. >> hovan moves back to call 911 but the gunman hurtles over the counter. hovan draws the handgun he legally carries in a concealed holster during every shift. the robber appears to fire his weapon, although it doesn't go off. >> the gunman repeatedly attempted to fire upon me. i feared for my life. and in self-defense, i fired my weapon as i continued to move from him. >> he shoots three times missing the robber, who drops his weapon and flees with his accomplice. another employee picks up the dropped gun. if hovan expects praise for his

vigilante actions, he doesn't get it from his employer. instead he's fired. walgreens says hovan violated its workplace violence policy which prohibits employees from possessing firearms on company property. hovan obtained his concealed weapons permit after being held up in a 2007 robbery at the same store. he admits he did not notify his employer, and he says he was unaware of its policy. hovan sues walgreens for unfair dismissal. in a statement walgreens denies his claims and says its employees receive training on how to react and respond to a potential robbery situation and that law enforcement strongly advises against confronting crime suspects. a federal judge agrees and walgreen's decision to fire hovan is upheld in 2012. >> he was exercising his reasonable right of self-defense in the face of a gunman who attempted to pull a trigger three times and shoot him. he saved himself and he saved

the lives of potentially three other people. >> our next story is another shocking store invasion, but this time the intruder is a speeding cadillac. the out-of-control automobile smashes through a bike store window. >> i heard glass breaking, and then what just sounded like explosion after explosion. it was terrifying. >> leaving a trail of shattered nerves and devastation in its rear view mirror. >> i saw the customers at the register, but once the car passed, i couldn't see them any more. >> it's september 15th, 2011, a seemingly typical tuesday for sales associate ethan mcculty and his manager john bain at rock and road cycle shop in mission viejo, california. >> we have a great team here. >> the store has just reopened after an eight-week remodel. $250,000 worth of upgrades. as seen on the store security

video, a few customers are milling around including one woman on crutches. >> the store was kind of quiet and all of a sudden i heard the loudest noise i think i ever heard. i initially thought it was someone threw a bomb through the front door. >> it's not a bomb but a car tearing through the store, tearing through glass and merchandise and narrowly missing two customers. >> it hit every rack from here to the wall, so you can hear the sound of successive every couple seconds. >> it was absolute chaos. everyone was running around not knowing what just happened. it was like being in a war zone. >> i was in shock not understanding what i'm seeing. but the woman had her foot on the gas still. so she's in the wall and burning rubber on the floor. >> his first instinct is to check on the people inside the car. he discovers the driver is an elderly woman accompanied by her granddaughter. he also notices something alarming. >> i saw fluid everywhere. i said, you need to get out of the car. i actually had to unclip her

seat belt and literally had to drag her out of the car just to make sure the car doesn't explode or anything. >> miraculously, the people in the car are unharmed. however, that's not the case for the customer on crutches who is forced to leap out of the path of the runaway car. >> she left on a stretcher. she just previously had surgery done to her knee. apparently she had to go back in and have her surgery redone again a couple days after the incident. >> employees assess the condition of both the driver and the customers, then turn their attention to the store. the damage is hard to believe. >> i looked at all the glass on the floor and realized that she'd taken out the whole whole door, saw six or seven destroyed racks and realized the wall had been knocked down. that the car was halfway in the fitting room. i never saw a mess like that before. >> when the cadillac came through the shop, the handicap pole, the sign was flattened like a toothpick. >> it turns out, according to the police report, the grandmother meant to park the car but hit the wrong pedal. >> when she pulled into the spot, she was probably going

about 5 miles an hour. then she confused the brake with the accelerator which caused the car to basically peel out. >> no charges are filed and no further action is taken against the driver. she never comments on the accident. >> they didn't apologize. i just feel that that's wrong. >> despite an unusual and frightening day on the job rock & road bike shop opens its doors the next morning thankful they steered clear of total disaster. >> i'd rather go through all the work of getting our store back up and running than visit a co-worker in a hospital or having to go to a funeral. coming up -- flipping out. a reporter's day takes a turn for the worse. then later, a christmas tree installation goes horribly wrong. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso.

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here and hold myself in position. >> weather reporting can be hazardous for a tv correspondent. just ask al roker. during a "today" show report on hurricane wilma in 2005, a colleague has to hold him down to keep him from blowing away. >> i can hear you now, matt, just for a brief moment. the winds are -- this is how i'm staying out here. mike, our camera guy, is holding on. >> it doesn't work. >> our truck operator tom said don't you wish you had your weight back. right around now, i do. >> are you okay? >> we're okay. we're okay. we're coming inside. >> good idea. one that brian williams probably should have considered when 2003's hurricane isabel. >> we can get 70-mile-per-hour wind effect. >> during a live report, brian discovers what hurricane force really means when he calls over a weather channel colleague to take a wind speed reading.

>> allow me to introduce you to mike seidel of the weather channel. hang on, mike, what's your reading? >> we're kind of protected. >> it's not just hurricanes that have sent mike seidel flying. he's also found snow and ice on the ground can turn a weather report into a major slipup. >> is what happens -- ow, geez. oh, gosh. >> and there's another hazard when reporting on extreme weather. the kids are out of school. >> the children seem to be having the most fun of all of us here. they're all loaded up, as you can see, with snow. that probably wasn't the best idea i've had this weekend. >> no, it isn't. and the attack isn't over. >> they're having a great time, as you can see. >> and even when a reporter is expecting snow day fun -- >> it looks like rubin is in the

lead and here comes ali -- >> he can still get taken for a spin. >> that was a bad idea. at riverside park, rob leff. global news. >> clearly reporting on weather in the outside is no walk in the park, but surely a reporter is safe inside the studio. not always. as idaho falls anchors justine bove yea and tommy knoll can tell you. they host the morning news on channel 3. usually a warm and fuzzy place to be. >> every single morning we just had a blast. a part of us butted heads sometimes because we were really different people, yet we were different people who got along so well together. >> but on october 12th, 2010, a cold front moves in over the anchor desk. >> taking action for you, channel 3 eyewitness news, starts now. >> as soon as the show starts, it's clear something the wrong. >> there we are.

sorry about that. >> that's better. >> what is going on with weather and things like that, but we're here. >> and you'll be seeing the weather again shortly, a little less cluttered, i think. >> yes, exactly. >> we'll be seeing it again shortly already. justine begins to read a story about a multicar pile-up. >> near the road underpass, a loading ramp fell off of a flat bed trailer headed northbound on i-15. >> but trouble is piling up in the studio. >> when the other vehicles hit the ramp. >> even though the car crash is the opposite of a funny story, she can't stop laughing. >> unfortunately, this happened during very serious stories. no newscast wants to have weather graphics pop up and their anchors laughing during a serious story like this. >> the driver of the toyota and the passenger were both transported to the hospital. the driver of the jeep and a passenger crossing the street were not hurt. sorry, this is a serious story, folks. oh, my gosh. what is going on? this is crazy.

they kept going. final after two minutes, we went to commercial break. >> it turns out the out of control graphics are the result of a computer malfunction. >> i was the weather anchor and also the news anchor. right before the show started the weather computer completely crashed. i had to run back and reload everything. that's when the graphics started popping up on the screen. >> and the laughing? well, that's an understandable human error. they swear it's nothing to do with the incident, but tommy and justine both leave the station shortly after that blooper-filled morning. justine goes to michigan to study for a master's degree. and tommy heads to dallas to be a reporter at cw 33. perhaps not surprisingly, he's no longer in charge of the weather. coming up -- a park ranger is caught in a rare earthquake. >> i felt very, very, very terrified. very scared thinking that i may not get out of the building.

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i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening. fueled by 30 mile-per-hour winds the rim fire is now 10% contained. it is now more than 200 square miles covering roughly the size of chicago. and the white house says they have little -- say they have little doubt that the chemical weapons were used by the syrian military against civilian ast week. just today syria allowed u.n. inspectors into the site of the alleged attack outside of damascus. now back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. working as a park ranger on the national mall means preparing for all sorts of challenges. inaugurations, protest marches, even the threat of a terrorist attack, but when a magnitude 5.8 quake rattles the washington monument, that's not surprising

the ranger on duty at the top is a little shaken. a rare earthquake jolts a national monument, and a park ranger faces the test of her life. >> i felt very, very, very terrified, very scared. thinking that i may not get out of the building. >> then while inspecting the damage, an engineer is taken for hair-raising ride. nicolette williams has worked as a park ranger at the national mall in washington, d.c., for two years. she enjoys interacting with tourists from all over the globe. >> every single day, we work at our different memorials and provide historical tours for visitors. >> on august 23rd, 2011, she's assigned to the washington monument. >> it's 500 feet up and we have windows on all four sides. you can see very far into maryland, virginia, about 30, 35 miles at least. >> security camera footage from just before 2:00 p.m. shows

nicolette on the observation level as high up in the monument as visitors can go. she's waiting to take a group of about 20 tourists down in the elevator. >> as i'm sitting there, the elevator actually starts to make noise. >> she realizes immediately something unusual is happening. >> i know the elevator's noises and these are loud banging sounds, then the walls of the elevator begin to vibrate. >> the monument begins to shake dramatically. nicolette doesn't know what is happening, but she knows staying on the observation level is probably not a good idea. >> we're 500 feet up in the air. the windows don't open. the only way to go is down. so i jump off the ledge, i run down that stairwell. and that next level, there's an emergency exit for the stairs. i open the door to get the visitors down. >> debris rains down on the fleeing tourists. the building is rocking so violently, it almost knocks the ranger off her feet. >> i'm terrified. i'm thinking, i don't know if i'm going to get to the bottom

of this stairwell, i really think there's going to be something to knock the whole monument over. >> once she's opened the emergency door one flight down, nicolette knows she can't run down to the ground level. the ranger must always be the last one to leave. >> i'm standing at the emergency exit, debating this thought, looking at the stairwell as debris is coming down the stairs. i decide i have to go back up, but i'm going to run as fast as i possibly can. >> she sprints up to make sure the floor is clear. >> i'm running around that top level. there's a lot of debris that has fallen now. i go back down, but as i'm going back down the other stairwell, a father has run up from the floor below. he was crying his son's name over and over, so i knew that his son was already down because there was nobody else up there. i go down to the next level but then i stay and yell at him to come down the stairwell. until he does, i won't leave. >> once the area is cleared nicolette begins the 900-step descent to ground level. it's slow going as she's helping an elderly visitor with bad knees.

partway down she hears on her radio that a 5.2 magnitude earthquake has struck the washington area. until that moment, nicolette believes it's a terrorist attack. >> we work at the icons and our training revolves around attacks like that. that is the first thought that comes into your mind. >> it makes sense she doesn't consider an earthquake. this is the first large quake to hit the region in more than a century, but nicolette knows enough to realize the danger isn't over. >> i let out a sigh of relief initially but then i realized there are after-shocks and i'm still roughly 350 feet up in the air. so i still need to keep moving as fast as i can to get that last visitor out. >> ten long minutes before nicolette makes it to solid ground, but everyone is safe. it will be many months before she can go back inside the monument again. the earthquake has damaged the 127-year-old structure. to find out the extent of the destruction, the park service calls in the experts.

>> i got to come out and hike the monument with everybody and be one of the first ones up on top to really take a look at what's going on up there. >> eric is a senior associate with wje, the company assigned the complicated task of assessing the damage to the monument. once the interior has been inspected, it's time to see what's happened to the exterior. and there's only one way to do that quickly. >> we're a part of the society of professional rope access technicians. >> this means engineers who have spider-man-like skills and can scale the side of the tallest structure suspended only on ropes and a harness. even for these experienced climbers, stepping out on to the monument for the first time isn't easy. >> as you're getting out through the window, you're feeling a little nervousness. once you're out there, it's the awe of realizing that you're sitting on ropes, that there's nobody else up there with you and that you're on the national washington monument. nobody gets to be up there. that's just an awe-inspiring

moment. >> the engineers have a rare bird's eye view of the nation's capital. >> one thing we got to watch was the president flying through. we all waved at him. but i don't know if he was waving back or not. >> but eric and his colleagues don't have many time for sight-seeing. they have work to do. they examine the marble blocks using ipads to compare the cracks in each stone with a survey of the monument done in 1999. down below tourists and assembled media can't stop staring at the climbers. >> it must take a lot of guts. >> amazing, fascinating, a piece of history. >> the onlookers witness an alarming moment when ewreck is caught by the wind and swept 30 feet off the wall banging into the hard surface of the monument. >> a gust that came out of nowhere. it happened so fast, you didn't have any thought of what was going on. i was trying to keep my ropes from slicing around the side of the building. >> eric is no worse for the wear from his wild ride.

>> i wouldn't say that we're daredevils at all. we've done enough of this work that we're very comfortable with it. it's very safe. >> after six days they finish their inventory. they've also done initial repairs, removing any loose flakes of marble that could pose a hazard below. >> the majority of the damage was up at the level. we found cracks that were full height of stone. >> they say the monument is structurally sound, but it remains closed to the public until it's fully repaired. as far as park ranger williams is concerned, they can take as long as they need to reopen the monument. she's in no rush to go back up there. >> i will probably be a little nervous. so the more time that passes, though, the better and better i feel. coming up -- a helicopter pilot smashes to earth. >> it was an enormous pop, and a mighty thump as the helicopter hit the ground. jamie to checkout, please.

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a helicopter pilot installing holiday decorations comes within inches of his life. it's november 23rd, 2011, in auckland, new zealand. chopper pilot greg grible is helping erect a giant christmas tree. suddenly -- >> there was an enormous pop, which was obviously the blades exploding, and then an almighty thump as the helicopter hit the ground. >> the crash happens when the rotor blade catches on a cable sending the chopper into a tailspin. local news crews capture the

disaster. and it's soon broadcast across the world. at first people on the ground run for cover, but a moment later, they dash back to check on the pilot. incredibly, greg is not only alive, he's able to climb out and walk away. >> because it happened so quick, it was like a dream really. it was just like bang and the next thing i know i had a couple of guys undoing my belt. >> nobody on the ground is injured but the helicopter is smashed beyond repair. the next day greg surveys the damage. >> i don't know whether that was my head that actually hit that. >> he credits his survival to the fact that he's wearing a seat belt which stops him from being thrown out of the side of the chopper. >> that's the main belt attached to the floor of the aircraft. if i wasn't wearing that, it would have been all over. >> in our next story, it's a swimming pool that crashes to earth.

when a crane takes a dive into a garage. >> damn it! >> for electrician peter krause there's nothing unusual about a job wiring up a suburban swimming pool. he's done dozens of them in the six years he's worked for a minnesota electrical company. but on june 10th, 2011, he works on a pool installation that's far from ordinary. >> it's not every day that you install a continuous motion pool. they're not very common. and it's not every day that a crane lifts it up over the house. >> peter pulls out his phone to catch the process on camera. >> the main reason was just to show my son the clip. i thought that he would get a kick out of it. >> at first everything goes swimmingly. but as the crane operator is guiding the pool over the garage, peter can't help but call out a warning. >> watch out for the chimney. >> it looked like he was getting really close to the chimney. he couldn't hear me call anything out to him. the machine itself is really

loud. i just had an inkling or some kind of feeling that something might happen. >> peter's right. something will happen, but it's not the pool hitting the chimney. the crane operator maneuvers it safely past that obstacle, but as he starts to lower the pool into the yard, look out. >> holy -- i heard a loud pop, then i heard the crane operator scream and i knew to run at that point. there really wasn't much else to do. then the crane operator starts screaming, it's time to clear out. >> when peter turns to look at the crane, it's an amazing sight. >> the back of it is probably like, i don't know, 15, 20 feet, it was up in the air, a pretty substantial vehicle that basically upended, completelily up end. >> damn it! >> the crane operator is stuck in the cab screaming in frustration. >> he's just really upset and

kind of sounds like homer simpson, like really mad, ah! i can't believe what happened. >> peter turns off the camera to help. >> he was laying forward on the controls and we basically had to get him a ladder so he could crawl out of the cab of the crane. get him down to the ground. he was just shaking. >> amazingly nobody's injured in the crash, but the damage to the house is extensive. >> the crane landed on top of the garage, crushed in the roof, completely destroyed the chimney. all the bricks fell down on top of the motors and the blowers and the heater and everything for this pool and that setup was pretty much destroyed. >> but on the bright side, the pool did make it into the yard. the crane company covers the cost of the damage. they say the accident was the operator's fault. he no longer works for the company and could not be reached to see if he agrees with that assessment. >> if i was a crane operator, that would probably be the worst

day ever on a job. >> but for peter, an early start to the weekend. >> as far as bad work days go, that was nothing. it wasn't my accident. it wasn't my fault. it didn't have anything to do with our company. it was friday, so it was an early friday. >> the work day may have been a washout, but the job's not over. the pool itself has only minor damage. a few days later peter is able to complete the installation. he still can't believe what he saw that day. >> i've seen accidents, but like being right there when it happened, i've never seen anything like that in person in my life before. >> peter may have had a hair raising experience watching a crane on the job, but for these workers, stranded on a church steeple in new jersey, a crane is, dare we say it, a godsend?

pastor neal tollboom of the united methodist church believes that fixing his church's damaged steeple will be a relatively simple mission. >> steeple's been around for about 140 years. we hired a company to go up and take a look at the condition of the steeple. >> the work which is still in progress two weeks later that begins november 3rd 2011. it's about 1:30 in the afternoon when the worker's bucket becomes wedged against the steeple. they're stuck 122 feet in the air. church officials call the morristown fire department, who raise up their own ladder, but it's too short. next they try the neighboring town's ladder truck. >> second ladder was -- had maybe another 3 to 4 feet of reach above what the original ladder was because of our positioning and our angle, but it still wasn't close enough. >> the pressure is on. a crowd has gathered and word is out to the local new york city news media. a police helicopter arrives, but it's too dangerous for it to get close to the bucket.

so rescue from above is out. and rescue from below is impossible. the firefighters really need a miracle. eventually they decide to bring in a 150-foot crane. >> we had toyed with the idea of just using it as a high point to set up ropes to try to lift them up and drop them into a basket. >> but a rope rescue is also too dangerous. finally they come up with a solution that just might work. a man cage. >> so they put two of the firefighters, the rescue people in the cage, and they pulled it up almost 150 feet, then they lowered it down to where the guys were. >> the next step is risky, moving from one basket to another 12 stories in the air. >> the biggest concern was the wind and the sway. they were already tethered to their platform. so we carried that tether over to the man basket and they got locked into there and stepped across. >> it takes less than two minutes for the crane to lower

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wipe out. 6800 bottles of wine smashed to the ground, and a salesman runs

for his life. >> wine is flowing like a tidal wave everywhere throughout the store. i stood there with my mouth open, just in awe. >> 2011, let's just say it's not a good year for the wine in wisconsin. for peter, general manager of the family-run business, wednesday, july 6, starts like every other day. >> it was early in the morning just after 8:00. the store had just opened. >> salesman, nick, has just finished restocking the shelves. >> we like to clean up our mess, which we have a lot of empty boxes laying around. so i was walking right down the aisle over there, and i pretty much just bent over, was picking up some empty boxes. >> a moment later, the peace and quiet of the morning routine is shattered. >> i felt or heard like a shift. and i looked up and saw the shelves from the right here

started slowly tipping and as soon as i saw that section move, i turned around and ran as fast as i could out of there. >> the end of the shelving started pulling away from the wall, from the front of the store to the back of the store. >> in just under ten seconds, 68 feet of shelving holding almost 7,000 bottles of wine unleashes to the ground unleashing a tsunami of the finest wine. >> wine just flowing. and directly after, you could hear champagne bottles popping because they were so shook up that the tops were coming right off. it was so unbelievable. there was anywhere from one to two inches of wine snflowing ou the back door. out the back door. it's something you cannot fathom. >> peter's father is the owner of the store. he hears the crash. >> i saw the shelving tumbling.

and i saw the wine running all over. >> richard immediately focuses on cleaning up the mess. at first he underestimates what a huge task it would be. >> i said to my son, get a mop. a mop wasn't something we needed. we needed something to suck up all the wine. >> every inch of the floor needs to be cleaned up. the cardboard cases were soaked with wine. so we needed to pick them up and clean underneath them. and of course those boxes were all ruined. they were soggy. >> with the help of a professional cleaning crew and almost all the employee, the work is completed in less than 24 hours. the store remains open throughout the entire ordeal. >> we never shut down. somebody came in the front door we stopped them and asked them what they wanted and we brought them their product. >> nick is just happy he escaped with his life and his

reputation. >> thank god the surveillance video was there, that was pretty much my evidence that i didn't just demolish a whole shelf. >> as for why the shelf collapsed, that's as mysterious as the qualities of a fine wine. >> there was no one standing near the shelf, nobody physically stocking it. it just fell on its own. inexplikably, it's one of those things, it's a one time thing. in all these years, we've never had a disaster hike this happen. >> it could be worse. at least only security cameras are rolling in the wine shop. our next big break happens on live tv. >> this is a one of a kind piece. >> it's a jaw droping moment for a show host when an irreplaceable antique smashes. it's the day after christmas, 2002, and 29 year old techtv

host chris is in the middle of a 18 hour live programming stunt. the marathon call-in show has been going smoothly, especially considering this is chris's first timing on tv so long. but when he interviews this hard drive expert things fall apart. >> he brought a handful of devices and apparatus to show off. >> this is the world's first rotating media. it's an edison record. and they were made one at a time. >> as the guest shows him an antique recording cylinder. >> there's no other one like this particular one in the word. and you can -- >> chris notices something's amis. >> when the camera moved in on his hands, you could see that he was shaking. >> just minutes later, disaster. >> you see these pieces just scatter, like millions of pieces. >> followed by a huge tv no-no.

[ bleep ]. >> as he was forming the ffff sound, i started to get nervous and he went from that into the s-word. i guess if you're going to change up swearwords, that's a better way of going. >> chris tries to move past the incident. >> are you done with that then? >> yeah. i'm done with that. >> all right. >> it's an awkward moment to say the least. >> i didn't now what to do. i couldn't walk over and hug him. i mean, that's not really the -- i don't think it's the social gesture for when someone break as priceless artifact. >> do you have any guesses as to what's under the rock? >> chris may have moved on to the nest topic. but almost immediately, the show and tell moment becomes an on-line treasure. >> two days after this, i was sitting in a cafe, and a gentleman looked at me. he said i just saw you in a

video on the internet. it was you and an old guy, and he breaks it, and then he cusses. and this was back in 2002. before youtube. >> the cylinder breaking isn't the only segment from the telethon that will catch fire on the internet. several hours later, it's chris's self-control that shatters. >> i can't help it. >> hey, what's so funny. >> oops, sorry. >> excuse you. >> i need more pepto bismol. i haven't opened it yet. i was eating my nuts. all right. any way -- almonds, folks. >> after 15 hours on the air, it seems chris is unable to pick up the pieces. >> justin? >> hi. >> hey. i was ready to answer your question, i have no idea what the hell you're going to ask. >> it's okay. i can forgive you for that. >> i was laughing so hard i

couldn't see. and the only thing, have you ever laughed that you're squinting, you're laughing so hard, and i remember seeing the camera coming close. and the closer it got, i was just like i can't, i can't do this. held up my hands. i was like i can't, i got to -- pause, pause. but you can't pause live tv. you got to keep rolling. >> what can i help you with? >> it may not have been his most dignified moment, but chris finishes and finishes the telethon. >> tv hosts are unbreakable. >> i never had a stronger sense of accomplishment than i did at the end of that day. >> whether they ser viefed an on-camera embarrassment or a life threatening elephant attack, one thing is certain, these workers will no doubt look forward to a boring day on the job. here's hoping your work is as interesting, but maybe not quite as hair-raising. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of

caught on camera. security scam ras roll as innocent bus passengers survive a roll of bullets. an airborne race car falls directly at a cameraman. a pilot runs out of fuel and crash lands in the pacific. >> at those speeds, it's like hitting a brick wall. a powerful tornado. >> it's throwing 18 wheelers. this is something i have never seen before. >> target a small town. devastating everything