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>> you never know what might happen next. >> it's just pushing and pushing and pushing. >> you can see these big shapes of ice just coming at you. >> oh, my god! >> how would you react? >> you are fighting for your life, it is your life or his. >> what about now? >> todd grabbed me and said, "run, run." >> "caught on camera: didn't see that coming."
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>> a freight train and a truck collide. >> the train carts were just flipping in the air like it was a movie. and that's when it caught on fire. >> whatever it is, it's torching. what the blooup [ bleep ] is th? >> then a massive explosion. >> back up! >> i felt this hard thud on my chest, then i felt the flash of the heat. >> for like a good two seconds, you couldn't breathe. >> geez! holy [ bleep ]. >> may 28th, 2013. baltimore county, maryland. at about 2:00 p.m., eric beverly and his brother are driving into baltimore when they see a huge plume of smoke ahead. >> i immediately turned on my camera seeing the smoke because it was just amazing to see so much smoke like that. i heard about a lot of great
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fires, but never seen one up close like that. >> whole building is torching! whatever it is, it's torching. that's crazy! what the [ bleep ] is that, y'all? >> they have no idea what's causing the smoke cloud. as they approach the scene, huge flames are erupting. >> we felt a lot of heat, a lot of heat. i thought it was a building or something. >> that [ bleep ]'s crazy. >> the dark cloud is visible from miles around. people across the area start recording the phenomenon on cameras and cell phones, still uncertain of what's burning. >> 911. >> i -- i don't know the address, but there is something huge on fire. there's smoke -- >> 911? >> my windows shook. >> county 911 -- >> there's a tremendous amount of smoke coming -- >> 911 -- >> yeah, it would be a mile off. i can see the flames from here. >> there is a big cloud of smoke. there is a fire over here somewhere. >> moments earlier, the source
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of the smoke is recorded on eastern truck and trailer company's cameras. a csx freight train is traveling southbound behind the company's warehouse. as the train approaches a railroad crossing, it's moving at about 49 miles per hour. at the same time, a truck is crossing the tracks. they collide -- eastern truck and trailer employee mike tobias sees it on his security monitors in his office. >> the truck was coming across the tracks and the train hit it. drug him down the track about 40 feet. >> mike dials 911. >> a terrible train accident. train hit a truck. there's going to be really bad injuries. >> with emergency responders on the way, mike and some co-workers rush outside to try to help. mike records the scene on his phone. >> 911's coming, partner. >> with the fire rage, it was kind of a scary situation.
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>> holy bajoles. i hope those guys in the engine made it. i saw it on my camera, man. i saw it hit. >> nearby, at layer scaffolding warehouse, employee tim garver also witnesses the accident. >> i was probably 20 to 50 feet away from where the train was derailing. when they get near that intersection, the trains always blair their horns three to five times before they get to that intersection. and we heard that. and then he defendant just laying on his horn this time so i knew something was wrong. >> tim hears the crash and starts recording on his cell phone. >> this train just derailed. you can feel the heat from here. it's like 20 feet in front of our work. crazy. >> police arrive and begin evacuating the area as fears grow that the smoke cloud could be emitting toxic fumes. then, tim sees a sign that says the train is carrying flammable
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material. he realizes the cars could explode. >> that's when i realized, okay, stop videoing and make sure everybody's out of here. i ran back inside, instinct. >> tim is inside the warehouse for about ten seconds when -- [ explosion ] >> wow! >> [ bleep ]. >> holy [ bleep ]! >> we were just thrown to the floor, pinned down. at that moment, you don't know what's going on because i couldn't see out of the right side of my -- my right eye and i couldn't hear out of my right ear. so i'm sitting there thinking, like, oh, my gosh, is this it. like are we -- did we die? it was scary. it was very scary. >> the beverly brothers are still driving toward the smoke cloud when they see and feel the blast. [ explosion ] >> back up! >> it was people screaming.
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they didn't care if they of hit, going to hit someone else's car, anything. >> oh, my god. >> eric is most concerned about the safety of his young son who is sitting in the back seat. >> there was debris flying everywhere. we started rolling up the window, backing up immediately. >> move -- move. my first thought was just to get out of there. i didn't want anything to fly in the car and hit my son. >> mike and his co-workers are about 200 yards away at the time of the blast. >> i was actually standing here at the crossing when it exploded. i was directing traffic. a ball of fire. it was white in the center, yellow towards the outside and orange. it looked like the sun. it was incredible. >> the force of the explosion shears off the side of a nearby building and blows out windows in businesses within a mile radius. mike suffers a concussion and temporary hearing damage. tim has a concussion, an injured knee and arm, bruised ribs, and lacerations. firefighters battled the --
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blaze for nearly seven hours. an investigation by the national transportation safety board says that the train was carrying sodium chlorate, a highly volatile chemical. when the vehicles collided, the sodium combined with a combustible chemical in a nearby train car. hazardous material safety crews determined the chemicals are not toxic when inhaled and declare the area safe by 9:00 p.m. that night. the truck driver is identified as john alban jr., owner of a waste removal company. he is seriously injured in the crash. he's treated at a local hospital and later released. attempts to reach alban for his comment were unsuccessful. two workers on board the train, an engineer and the conductor, are uninjured. ntsb investigators say the
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conductor gave three horn blasts as the train neared the crossing. the ntsb's report states in part that the access road is marked only with cross buck signs and nonstandard stop signs, and there are no active warning lights or crossing gates in place. eyewitnesses are still stunned by what they saw. >> about two weeks, that's all we were talking about was the explosion. i'm going, i'll always remember this. never will forget this moment. >> back up. >> oh, my god! coming up, a struggle for survival. >> he just started shooting randomly. that's when i reached for the bat and started swinging back, fighting for his life. later, what is that? >> it's just pushing and pushing and pushing. as the ice got closer to the building, we both kind of panicked. there was nothing you could do to stop it. >> when "caught on camera: didn't see that coming"
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a storeowner struggles to survive against a gunman using a baseball bat. >> it was really bad -- that's when i started trying to defend myself with this bat. >> first thing came to mind, is this really going on? you're fighting for your life. it's your life or his. >> april 9th, 2013. chicago, illinois. this is a small, family-run business owned by luis. he's behind the cash register while his brother-in-law is on the other side of the counter.
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luis' son, juan, runs another store close by. rough, very rough. it had been changing a lot lately. >> it's late afternoon, and security cameras show a few men in the store. >> there were three people in the store, and as the third person was leaving, the other two were like making signs to each other. >> luis notices one of the men sniffling and hands him a tissue. second later, the other guy grabs hold of luis' brother-in-law and pulls out a gun. he points it at luis and demands cash. his accomplice runs around the counter to the register. >> they go around, i was behind the counter. >> the gunman has his brother-in-law in a tight grip. he starts shooting at luis. >> move! move! >> and hits his partner instead. >> come on --
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>> you shot me! >> he shot many times, but somehow he didn't get me. he hit his partner to be in the situation. >> he realized he shot his friend instead of my father. he got more aggravated and agitated and started shooting randomly. that's when my father reached for the bat and started, you know, started swinging back and fighting for his life. >> the gunman and his injured partner try to leave the store with the cash in hand, but the front door is locked. and the buzzer is behind the counter. the gunman tries to reach it, but luis fights him off. as the man fires multiple shots at close range. >> that's when he got the strength to keep attacking the guy and not letting him out. so he kept on hitting him and hitting him. and that's why he was hitting
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him is when he got shot. >> it's sheer chaos as luis and the gunman battle. then one of the bullets hits luis in the thigh. the robber backs off for a moment and runs to the door. but he quickly returns, leaping over the glass counter to try again to reach the door buzzer. just when luis thinks the nightmare is about to end, he has to fight again. >> when he was almost coming to the door, i think it's over now. but when he come back, i just know i hit him many times. >> in the middle of a barrage of hits from luis, the gunman manages to reach the buzzer and unlock the door. luis' brother-in-law throws a chair at the gunman. then a fire extinguisher. >> my uncle surprised me because he's very soft spoken. he's very timid.
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so for me to see him even move like that, it was great. >> the men race out the front door. and luis' brother-in-law pursues them out to the street. luis is still in danger. he's bleeding from his bullet wound. >> oh, my god. all around was blood. so that's when i decide to call to the police. >> luis first calls his son, juan, then 911. >> i own a business across the street. and so he called me, and he's like, "hey, i was just robbed." when i ran up to the door, first thing i saw was him in a puddle of blood. >> police find evidence of multiple gunshots in the store. incredibly, only one bullet hits luis, justice missing a major artery. the injured robber goes to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. he matched the description from luis' security cameras. when detectives question the
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man. whose name is cornell mack and show him the video, according to police, he confesses to participating in the incident. mack also identifies his accomplice, keith owens. both men are arrested. both men are charged with multiple crimes, including attempted murder and armed robbery with a firearm. in may, 2013, each plead not guilty to all charges and are awaiting trial. luis says the men took about $7,000 from the cash register. >> i think they come in because i was cashing a check. you know, he got his money. after that, i don't cash any more checks. >> luis spends two days in the hospital. he makes a full recovery. luis' family is relieved he's alive and impressed by his courage. >> my father's always been my hero. i think if it were myself in his shoes, i probably would not have acted as he did. >> but the incident has also made them more aware of the
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we both kind of panicked. >> it's just pushing and pushing and pushing. oh, my god! their door's in. there was no way that this ice was stopping. >> may 11th, 2013. milax, minnesota. darla johnson and her husband are visiting darla's friend, nicole thompson at a lakeside resort. it's unusually windy, and there's more ice on the lake than normal for this time of year. >> everybody was joking this year about how we would have an ice opener instead of a fishing opener for mother's day weekend. >> then they see something odd -- sheets of ice moving off the lake toward the houses. >> the first thing i thought when i saw it was, this is kind of neat. i've never seen anything like this before. >> darla starts recording the approaching tide of ice with her camera phone. >> pushing forward. this is crazy. look at this.
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it sounds like a train. it kept going sh, sh, sh, sh. just kept breaking as it was moving. then more would push, then more would break. it was really cool. it looked like these big diamond crystals. >> but then things take a dangerous turn. >> it was bringing up rocks and boulders and tearing out all the brushes and the hedges. >> oh, my god! nikki -- look. >> the wall of ice was about 12 town homes wide. it just came in one big section. that's when i started thinking this thing might not stop, and it can cause a lot of damage. >> the ice tide hits one of the town homes and piles up. >> nikki, it's really pushing in. micah, get away from it. it's just pushing and pushing and pushing.
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the first thing i thought was, you know, maybe we should get the patio furniture out of the way. no, we should move it. glass table, hello. just put it right up here against this. >> look, look at that. >> as the ice got closer to the buildings, we both kind of panicked. >> i got worried about my family and us. i knew 911 couldn't help us. it was too fast to stop it. >> nikki, it just busted that gutter off that house. look at it. just plowing over that bush. it's crawling up the walls of the houses. the ice was already almost to the door. and i couldn't believe how quickly it happened because when we had first started recording, which was probably a minute and a half to two minutes before then, it was still a good ten feet from the house. there was nothing you could do to stop it. it -- it wouldn't have mattered
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what we tried. >> darla keeps recording. they're powerless to do anything but watch the icy onslaught. >> i was afraid that if you fell in between it while it was still moving that it could crush you. it was pretty big. there it goes. hitting that people's house. yeah, it's up against it. >> the ice wall appears to slow down. but in fact, the layers are simply piling higher, pressing into the homes. and then -- >> oh, my god! their door's in! nikki! it just busted through a door over here! all the way through! the door's caving! look at that. it's going right through their [ bleep ] house! you need to call somebody. >> who do i call? >> most of the townhouses are vacation rentals, and no one
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else seems to be around. >> there was a door missing and half the wall was caved in, and there was ice entering the home. and it just kept moving. >> seven minutes after the ice tide began, it abruptly stops. in amazement, darla surveys the area, now a surreal landscape of ice shards. >> okay, so there is the aftermath of the ice. i've never heard of anything like, you know, ice just coming out of the lake into people's homes. i've never -- it was something i never expected. >> no one is injured, but there's damage to a neighbor's property. following the unusual weather event, bulldozers clear the ice away. minnesota conservation officer christopher tatro is impressed by the massive ice heaves. >> some of the locals said the last time they recall this occurring to this extent was about 50 years ago. some areas the ice piles were up
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to 30 feet high. >> he says ice heaves are caused by the interaction of wind, water, and ice out on the lake. >> the wind comes to the middle of the ice and creates large waves on the water and will move that ice. the ice will move like tectonic plates. it will push on each other and shove up to where it can stand up like an ice heave. that large ice had so much momentum that it started to pile everything up on the shore. >> this is the absolute most amazing and unforgettable thing i've ever seen. coming up -- a horrifying scene in a parking lot. >> the stroller with my son in it, and they were dragging him. then, a car in reverse at high speed and not where it's supposed to be. >> i just see this car backing up toward me at this very fast rate. and later --
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hundreds of thousands of residents in and around toledo, ohio are without tap water for a second day. levels of toxins from lake erie have fallen but are still at unsafe levels. the u.s. government says it is appalled by the disgraceful shelling by israel at a u.n. school sheltering some 3,000 people if gaez. ten people were killed. u.n. calls it a criminal act. hours after that attack israel announced most its troops have now left gaza. back to "caught on camera." it's a terrifying moment for any parent. >> he just backed up and took off. what was going through my mind is, i can't lose my son.
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because if anything would have happened to him, i'd be devastated. >> june 25th, 2013. muskeegan, michigan. it's about 10:30 on a quiet morning outside sam's drink-all convenience store. arianna courier is leaving the store with a friend. she's pushing her 18-month-old toddler, elijah, in a stroller. the parking lot is nearly empty as a man leaves the convenience store directly behind them. he gets into the driver's seat of a parked minivan. >> usually when you see someone like passing behind a vehicle, you're supposed to wait. but he didn't. >> the women stop behind the car, and arianna bends down to the stroller. the driver reverses and plows into them. the impact knocks courier to the ground. >> i look up, see what happened, and then i see the stroller with my son in it attached to the bumper of the van. and they were dragging him.
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>> the driver accelerates, dragging the toddler across the parking lot. courier races after her son. >> i knew i had to get up and go after him and save him. >> the driver stops momentarily, and courier struggles to unstrap elijah and free him from the stroller. courier embraces elijah while her friend and another man who witnessed the incident stand by. they're all shocked. >> first i was like not really thinking straight because everything just happened. >> then they're stunned again. the minivan driver hits the gas and takes off with the stroller still wedged under the bumper. >> they stopped for like 30 seconds. and then they sped off. i just couldn't believe it happened to me and my son. i honestly never thought i'd get hit by a car and almost lose my son. >> courier has minor cuts and bruises. elijah, protected by the
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stroller, is uninjured. public safety director jeffrey lewis is impressed by courier's quick actions. >> she acted very quickly, calmly. she ran immediately to the child and got the child out of harm's way. >> police later find the minivan abandoned nearby. but the driver is nowhere to be found. when police review the security video from inside the convenience store, they identify a 20-year-old antonio ragland. the muskeegan prosecutor's office issues an arrest warrant charging him with leaving the scene of a crime and driving without applying for a license. both are misdemeanors. in 2014 while in jail facing unrelated felony charges, ragland pleads no contest and is sentenced to 30 days in jail for his role in the stroller dragging incident. courier realizes just how fortunate she and elijah are to have escaped virtually unharmed. >> i realized how short life
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really is. i realized you have to cherish and love your kids no matter what. and hold them close because you don't know what can happen. security cameras capture a terrifying scene. a guide dog and his trainers. one of them wearing a blindfold, caught directly in the path of an out-of-control vehicle. >> it just seemed like the car was right on my heels as i turned around. i mean, almost thinking is somebody trying to kill me. >> june 10th, 2013. san rafael, california. >> sit. oh, good job. nice boy. >> todd jurik is a supervising trainer at guide dogs for the blind where he's worked for more than 20 years. >> the training here at guide dogs for the blind is a ten-week cycle to train them from when they come here from the puppy-raising home to when they're finished with the
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training and are ready to be paired with a blind person. >> the school has about 300 dogs on campus at any given time, including the puppies. out of each class of trainees, only half will graduate and be paired with a blind person. the rest will be placed in homes as pets or find other careers. >> a really successful guide dog is a strong temperament. a dog that can deal with the world. stay. >> o'neil is an 18-month-old yellow labrador near the end of his training cycle. >> come. >> his attitude about it was very good. he was very motivated to do the work and very happy to do it. whatever the trainer, danielle, would ask him. >> the instructor, danielle, fell for his personality from the moment he began working with him. >> o'neil, forward. he has such a good work ethic, and he loves to train. >> reporter: danielle has been training o'neil for eight weeks on the day they lead to downtown san rafael for his final guide work test. it's late morning, and danielle,
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todd, and o'neil are walking up 4th street at the end of the route. danielle is playing the role of the client, wearing a blindfold, while todd spots her. security cameras on local buildings are recording them. >> my big job was to assess o'neil in his guide work. and danielle's job was to work him under blindfold and make sure he's doing all the fundamentals that need to be completed. >> but there's no way any of them could have been ready for what happens next. >> i heard this big pop which was a breaking of the glass of a window just behind me and i just see this car. >> a car is rapidly backing up toward them on the sidewalk. >> i wasn't sure where we were on the block when i started to hear all the crashing. i knew it was a car, but i figured the car was in the street where cars belong. >> todd and o'neil turn around to see the danger coming at them. todd grabs danielle. >> i felt like i was falling over.
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and if he didn't have a good grip on me, i would have fallen. >> they race around the corner and narrowly miss a direct hit. >> if the corner wasn't there, i don't know what might have happened. >> it's especially dangerous for danielle who is blindfolded. >> once we round the corner, i finally am able to lift the shade and see as the car goes right behind us. >> they're all shaking with adrenaline. >> it was very scary. frightening. as soon as i compose myself, i noticed it being a couple of elderly people in the car. the police say she was trying to parallel park, and then she was trying to go forward again. instead of thinking it was in forward, it was still in reverse, and when she kind of hit the gas, she panicked and just kept on punching it. >> when they review the security video, it's clear o'neil didn't miss a beat. in fact, he turns his head before todd does. >> i think o'neil actually heard the car come up on the curb. then i heard the pop of the window. then i saw the car careening toward us.
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it was such an incident that you would never think would happen, especially them coming up the sidewalk in such a straight way and squeezing between the building and that concrete area. it just kind of shaved both sides of the car off. >> for danielle, actually seeing her near-death experience on camera is even more surreal. >> in my head, i was thinking did that really even happen? but watching the camera, like, yes, it did. and seeing how close it did get just made it hit home a little more. >> it's also given danielle more perspective on the dangers and challenges facing those who are visually impaired. >> it made me really appreciate what our clients have to go through and the fact that i do have sight. >> for his part, o'neil seems no worse for all the excitement. it's just another day on the job. >> he almost thought maybe it was a training scenario, you know. where he was just like, wow, that was pretty weird. or incredible, what just happened.
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lifetime. >> complete adrenaline rush. and i was very, very angry. >> april 27th, 2013. new orleans, louisiana. max is out for a night of music during the city's annual jazz festival. >> i was watching my friend's band play at the spotted cat on frenchman street. it was jazz fest. so they were playing a late night show. >> frenchman street is a popular strip in the area and is packed most nights with people enjoying live music and dancing. but it isn't always a party. >> i moved into this neighborhood, and people said, be careful when you walk outside your door. be careful of the neighborhood. >> ken karen is a long-time mariney resident. >> late at night, crimes happen, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 in the morning when there's not a lot of people in the street. people have a little to drink, their defenses come down. >> many of the neighbors here
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have installed security cameras outside their houses. >> we actually created a network on our street. so our cameras are tied in to each other. so it's not like that it stops crime, but it certainly -- there's a number of times we've seen things on there and turned over the footage to the police department. >> at 5:00 a.m., he leaves the bar. the neighborhood security cameras record him walking down burgundy street. >> i was alone that night. and just walking back to my car which is probably about five blocks away from the main strip of frenchman street. >> bragner is text messaging a friend and doesn't notice a man approach from behind. >> i was in my own little world. and it just -- i just saw a movement out of the corner of my eye. >> bragner pivots and finds himself staring down the barrel of a shotgun. >> and my first thought was, you don't know if somebody's going to shoot you, then rob you. he just said, "give me the money."
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i didn't have any money. >> in this terrifying moment, he spots something -- >> i noticed he had a pistol grip right up to his face. growing up around guns, i was like, that's not how you hold a gun. i just sensed the fact that he was an amateur. you're messing with the wrong guy. >> instinctively, he swats the gun aside and grabs it. >> by the time his mind realizes what's going on i already had the gun. >> the would-be robber turns and flees with bragner in hot pursuit. >> he just turned and ran. i tell you what, he can run. that kid shouldn't be out there robbing people with shotguns. he needs to have a track scholarship, be in the olympics. that dude was fast. >> it turns out the guy with the gun isn't working alone. his cohorts are in this car circling the block. bragner's cell phone fell on the pavement just out of camera range. the thieves find it, pick it up and drive by him as he's walking back to the bar.
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>> these guys came around, he said you want your phone back, just give us the shotgun. i was still upset, so i bashed the window out with the gun knowing that the police could identify it a lot easier. that way. >> after smashing in one of the car windows, bragner loses a chance to get back his cell phone. he races back to the bar with the shotgun in hand to call police and report the incident. >> how can i help you? >> some guy tried to assault me and rob me with a shotgun, point-blank. >> later that morning, a police detective who knows ken karen texts him to see if he has footage. karen is stunned by what he finds. >> i was a little bit in shock. i don't think anybody expected to have that kind of video. i mean, it was pretty amazing. what surprised me is how quickly the guy reacted, the victim, and how quickly he thought to take the gun away. it's not something i certainly would recommend.
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>> bragner also says he doesn't recommend that others take such a risk. but he can't say he would take his own advice. >> i'm just one of those people, you get me in the corner, and i'm going to fight back. and i don't -- maybe not wise enough to try some other kind of tactic. >> investigators released the video to news stations and request the public's assistance in identifying the man. 16-year-old carlos mcginnis turns himself in to the police and is charged with three counts of armed robbery. in march, 2014, mcginnis pleads guilty to three charges of simple robbery for his role in the burgundy street incident and another the night before and he's sentenced to seven years in prison. neighbors say the proliferation of cameras is helping solve crimes and is a growing trend in new orleans. >> the majority of crimes that get solved here, they're on video. there's a lot of cameras. coming up -- road hazards come in all shapes
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an unlikely bus passenger makes a dramatic entrance. >> i was driving, you know, i saw a brown flash in front of the driver's side window. and next thing i know, the right side window had something smashed into it. >> my cell phone rang from work, and it was our manager of safety and security. and he said, "are you sitting down?" and i was like, "this can't be good." >> may 14th, 2013. johnstown, pennsylvania.
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cam tran spokesperson josh yoder is at home when he gets an unusual phone call for his supervise he. >> he just said i want to preface that i have not been drinking. he said, a deer jumped through a bus window. >> let's start at the beginning when cam tran city bus driver john porter is halfway through his regular evening shift. >> i was just driving down the road normally like i would do, looking for passengers. >> as porter continues calmly down the road, he gets a surprise. the front windshield shatters as a deer topples into the vehicle. porter is so stunned, that at first he doesn't understand what's going on. >> i didn't actually see the deer come through the window because i was looking down the road. i saw the deer beside of me at the front door area. >> the deer is just as stunned as the driver and struggles to escape. >> he tried to get back out the same way he came in and pushed the window back out where it
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couldn't get out. then it scampered around the bus trying to see how to get out. because the bus had a lot of windows in it. >> fortunately the bus was empty except for one passenger way in the very back. >> it was unusual for that time of day for the bus to be empty as it was. >> the deer is thrashing around desperately behind the driver's seat and porter realize they're in a dangerous situation. the deer might harm him, the passenger, or itself. >> i had to -- my window open on the side of the bus. i was worried it would feel the air and would try to jump over me or try to get out that window there. >> porter decides his best bet is to let the distressed deer out the front door. but the new bus safety technology throws him a curve. >> as a safety feature, the bus has to be completely stopped for the door to open. so he couldn't just open the door and allow the deer to get off. >> porter pulls over the bus and opens the door, the deer is all legs as it slips and slides on
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the floor. but it can't seem to figure out where the exit is. meanwhile, the lone passenger in the rear of the bus remains seated, calmly talking on her cell phone, apparently unperturbed by the unusual scene unfolding in front. well, the buck stops here. the deer finally finds its way to the open front door and exits. when yoder reviews the footage, he's impressed by his bus driver. >> i was totally amazed that -- that first and foremost the deer flew through the windshield with that much force and velocity, that our driver was able to keep his cool in a situation like that. i mean, safety was his top priority. he had a passenger on the bus. so he wanted to stop that bus and -- you know, obviously protect the passenger that was on there. but also motorists that were passing by. >> i never heard of a bus driver hitting a deer before. now if it was a split second earlier it probably would have
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come through the driver's side window. a high-speed chase is stopped short by an unexpected roadblock. >> and that's when our friends walked out from the side of the road. i decided to try and get the ducks off the roadway. >> may 12th, 2013. portland, oregon. officer mark james is with the city of portland's traffic division. on any given day, he deals with the normal traffic issues, duis, crashes, and speeding drivers. it's late afternoon on mother's day. officer james is parked on northwest bridge avenue, monitoring the cars heading downhill. it's a stretch of road where drivers tend to go faster than they are supposed to. >> it's posted 35 miles an hour. both the bridge access and the bridge itself.
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who knows why people speed. i guess to get some place faster, but it is a problem area as far as speeders go. >> it's raining lightly, but that doesn't slow down some drivers. a vehicle flies by officer james' parked car going well behalf the speed limit. >> the driver in this incident was going at 52 miles per hour, as they passed me in this 35 zone. >> officer james hesitates for a couple seconds to give the driver a chance to decelerate. >> i thought maybe they would slow down once they saw me. >> but police radar shows the driver clocking nearly 20 miles above the speed limit at the bottom of the hill. officer james takes off in pursuit. >> by the time i got to the highway, they were almost out of sight. i was probably going 50 to 55 miles per hour, trying to catch up to the other driver. >> between the chase and the overcast skies, someone less observant might have missed the tiny moving objects on the road ahead. not officer james.
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>> it was a mama duck and her two babies. little ducklings. it took me a second to realize they were even there. they kind of blended into the background of the pavement and the rain and whatnot. >> the duck family is in danger of being mowed down by traffic. officer james stops his cruiser in the middle of the road and gets out while the speeding driver gets away. >> at the time all i had was speed on him. so i just made a decision to stop for the ducks because there was a wall of traffic behind me that was stopped for a red light. >> officer james manages to herd the duck family in the right direction before the stoplight changes behind him and the cars start coming. >> she and her babies turned around and walked back to the ditch. i simply followed them over, made sure they jumped back in the ditch. >> before disappearing, the mother duck gives the officer some attitude. >> she turned around and squawked at me a bit or quacked. and i told her to quit griping
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at me, that it was mother's day, and i was just trying to do her a favor. when the portland police department shares the video with the public, officer james gains a lot of fans. >> i mean there's been plenty of comments online and whatnot, in different web pages. no pun intended. >> and the speeding driver, he or she escapes a $160 ticket. >> apparently it was the driver's lucky day. >> but it may be james' fellow officers who enjoy the incident the most. >> you know, names like officer duckville and some rubber ducks mysteriously appearing on my locker and duck signs and whatnot. things like that. but that was all good-natured.
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there are some things we mere mortals can't explain. >> i swear to god -- >> from mysterious lights in the sky -- >> it looked triangular in shape, and at each corner it had what looked like a red l.e.d. light. >> to a creepy night at the museum. >> the statue was actually moving. >> i thought someone was playing a trick on me. >> mythical beasts. >> what is that? oh, man. >> and monsters at sea. >> what in the heck is that? those things are big! >> you've got to be kidding. what is this? >> i'm convinced there's something in that lake. >> if it's real and true, i think a portion of the population would freak out. >> i got it on tape! i got it! ♪

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