when our feet leave the ground, there's no telling how high we can go. >> i wish i could get on the cloud and float? >> i said if i see black mist, i'll freak out. >> or how hard we can fall. >> i felt like i'm about to die. 60 feet is not enough for my parachute to open. >> in this hour, two-men air collisions send daredevils plummeting to earth. a lunching plane drops from the sky and crashes into a lake. >> it's hard to imagine anybody surviving that. >> a man teetering on the edge

requires a rescue 70 stories above the streets of new york. >> the fear in the situation is the unpredictability of it. caught on camera, up in the air. >> welcome to caught on camera. throughout history, humans have looked for ways to sorar, if ony for a little while. flighting, floating and free falling. a lot can go wrong high up in the air. some of our stories are about dreamers who find a way to conquer new heights, while others are about daredevils who relish the trip down. our first story is about a man at a low point in his life and the effort high above a city street to save him. >> 70 stories above the streets of new york, a desperate man

condeco contemplates ending his life by jumping from a skyscraper. >> something has brought him to the edge, and we want to figure out as quickly as possible. the job could always go very wrong. >> august 10th, 2011. detectives james coal and shaun solar of the new york city police department's emergency services unit are on duty when the call comes in. >> we started our shift at 3:15 that afternoon. almost immediately, as soon as we finished loading up and checking our equipment, a call came over that there was a jumping up on the top of 30 rockefeller plaza. >> detectives raced to where the 23-year-old man dangles his legs precariously from the 70th floor observation deck of 30 rock. >> the first thing i see when i

get up there is him scribbling at a notepad. i tried to communicate with him as much as possible. >> several onlookers and the local nbc affiliates sky cam record the action as it unfolds. >> he was in the northeast corner, standing on approximately a two foot by two foot wide piece of the building. >> there was about a seven to eight foot glass partition between us and tim. what i initially did was climbed up on top of a piece of the building where i could talk down over the partition at him. seeing them helping you communica communicate. >> i positioned myself to the other side of the individual. >> he was limited to the one corner of the building, and this is something we tried to do as soon as we got on the scene. >> as police clear the streets below to protect bystanders from possible injury, the detectives begin a dialogue with a distraught man.

>> at one point, he handed me his bag, saying, give this to my mom. i handed it back and said you're going to give it to your mom. we wanted him to know, even though he feels no one is there communicating with them, we are there to help him. >> the glass wall and strong winds makes it difficult for the detective to hear the conversation. in a bold move, he went over the glass. >> if that piece of glass were to break and shatter, it's going to fall to the street level, which could hit an innocent bystander in the street. >> detective solar says he fakes injuring himself to appear less threatening to the subject. once over the glass partition, he's in a position to grab the man, should he jump. even with safety harnesses, the detectives are risking their lives. >> the fear in the situation is

really the unpredictability of it. the person on the edge is obviously distraught. you don't knowviolent. >> if the subject wanted to strike at me, there was a good possibility that he would not only fall himself but actually bring me down with him. >> to diffuse the situation, the detectives offer the man water and cigarettes. >> he said he didn't smoke. we made a joke, this might be a time to start. he kind of laughed at that. >> what that does for us is allows me to move a little closer to the subject. it also allows him to understand that i'm there to help. >> eventually, he started to talk and he said he was there because he just lost his job and a manuscript he had written, he couldn't get published. it's a good sign if someone is on the edge and they're communicating with you. if they're communicating with you, they're not jumping. >> according to new york city's department of health, nearly 1 in 10 suicides in the city is an

out of towner who chooses to take their life at a well-known landmark, like this nevada resident is threatening to do. >> at one point, he stood up and put his hands on the glass. we didn't know if he was going to try to jump, whether he was going to climb up on the glass and jump off there, or scale the glass and try and do a self-rescue. >> cole makes a split second decision. >> i jumped from where i was positioned to get into a spot where i could block him from pushing himself off the building. >> when the subject hoisted him up. the crew brought him safely to the top of the roof. >> once he was over the glass and secured in handcuffs, then we know that the job is pretty much over. >> at this point in time, we tried to continue to talk to him and explain to him that he's making a very smart decision in

handling the situation he did. >> the man tells police he suffers from schizophrenia and is taken to a mental hospital for an evaluation. >> any time a job goes as well as this job, it's always a feeling of a sense of accomplishment. >> i think any one of us in the emergency service unit when we have the opportunity to help someone, it's a sense of satisfaction. then we're kind of off to the next job. coming up, a plane slams into a lake. >> it's hard to imagine anybody surviving that. when shifting winds push a sky diving off course. >> 9 times out of 10, you'll hit what you're trying to miss. >> brace for impact. >> when caught on camera up in the air returns. $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don't think so.

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a peaceful day of fishing in summer ends in disaster when a small airplane comes barrelling out of the sky and slams into a lake. >> water sprayed 80 to 100 feet in the air. pieces of the plane flying everywhere. it's hard to imagine anybody surviving that. >> july 29th, 1994, waterford, michigan. mark gomez is shooting his public access fishing show on pontiac lake, hoping to reel in a big catch for the camera. >> all morning long, there had been a plane or two that went over the lake. there was one plane that came over and sounded like it stalled. that's when i realized that the plane was in trouble. >> tape that, man. >> the airplane's pilot and his passengers are on their way to an air show in wisconsin when

the engine suddenly fails. >> about 800 feet, the engine began to sputter. i figured that landing in the water with my gear up was probably the best choice that i had. >> gomez speeds over to the wreckage to see how he can help. fortunately, the plane crashes in only about four feet of water, so it doesn't sink. >> i got there very fast. there was already people in the water calmly bringing the people out. >> bystanders are able to rescue the two injured passengers from the wreckage. they need help with the pilot. he's still inside the cockpit and bleeding from his head. >> the camera guy, he got a

little squeamish about the whole thing, so i grabbed the camera. i started shooting after that. i was more concerned about making sure i got the scene on tape. >> sergeant john holland is the only fireman on duty in white lake kotownship when the call comes in. >> i see the aircraft. i can see still the pilot in the plane. with that type of impact, an aircraft has fallen out of the sky and hitting the water, my biggest concerns are spinal injuries. >> the situation seems under control, but sergeant holland knows there are hidden dangers. a two-ton plane leeking 75 gallons of jet fuel can be a s recipe for disaster. >> everybody wants to come and look. you have fuel in the water. you have a combustion engine coming in, and the fuel could be ignited. >> despite the danger, holland goes in after the pilot.

>> i actually received first degree burns around my upper check and arms from fuel. it felt like having acid on your skin. >> in the adrenaline-fueled moment, holland doesn't feel his injuries yet. he's focused on rescuing the pilot. >> floated a backboard underneath him to support his spine and bring him to the shoreline. >> fortunately, everyone survives the crash, but the pilot, elliott, doesn't believe luck had anything to do with it. >> the training that i had, i believe, is what saved my life. had i not had that, i probably would have spiralled down and crashed. >> the pilot and the propaassen suffer the same spinal cord

injuries, with one difference! the passengers recovered completely from the injury. being a little bit older, my injury continued after the fact. i was never able to get into an airplane again. just pleased that i had the training that i did have, and i was able to come out as a whole person. >> did you get that? >> yes. coming up. >> i started to see zach move backwards and thought, oh, no. don't do that. >> midair collisions and miscalculations send daredevils dropping from the sky. >> you can get speeds up to 200 miles per hour. >> plummeting 6,000 feet into a frozen wilderness. >> i thought i'd about to die because 60 feet isn't enough for

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a spectacular aerial stunt goes horribly wrong. not one, but two midair collisions 10,000 feet above the earth, causing chaos in the skies. wing suit flyers are daredevils in aerodynamic suits, going faster than 120 miles per hour. it's the closest a human can get to actually taking flight. >> basically, i feel like i've got my own private and personal f-16. >> your arms are your wings. your legs are your engine. wherever you go, you fly to that place. what else can you do that feels like that? >> scott and scottie are veterans at the sport. >> most people go ride a roller coaster for a thrill, and that's about something to put me to

sleep. >> the greater the thrill, the greater the danger. >> i would say the most dangerous thing is the risk of collision. if you lose sight of somebody else that you're flying with, you can wind up with closing speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour. >> the main fear with being hit is to be knocked out or killed. >> the biggest risk for collision comes when wing suiters fly dangerously close to each other in formations called flocks. the most important person in the flock is the base. the person flying out front, guiding the team to their target. there's nobody scottie burns would want as his leader more than his friend scott. >> scott has been leader of more large formations than anybody else on the planet. the number one thing we know is we can always trust him to get us home. >> they look to me for the point of reference. i have to go a speed and hold it right there, no matter what

happens. >> if he falters in anyway, his flock could be thrown into a state of chaos. >> if we're all going in the same direction, doing the same thing, the chances of collision is fairly low. but that can change. >> and it can change in an instant. like it did on a clear day two miles over puerto rico. bland is struck by another wind suiter and spirals out of control toward the earth. february 16th, 2008. it's the third day of the annual puerto rico free fall festival. scot bland, scottie burns and their team have been having a blast. >> it was another perfect day in pa paradise. it's gorgeous. the beaches are beautiful, the water is beautiful and the sky diving is terrific. >> their team has been jumping out of planes all morning.

on their fifth jump of the day, they decide to take up the adrenaline and try one of the most dangerous formations a flock can perform. it's called a stack. >> it's when you get a number of wing suiters flying one over top of the other. you can only see what's in front of your eyes. you have a hard time seeing the people behind you, and you have to rely on the people to do the right thing and not fly into you. definitely a large risk, whenever a stack goes wrong. >> all seems okay on exit. team leader scott bland points the team to the drop zone. as scottie burns and another diver shoots the action from the wing. fellow wing suiter hits a pocket of dead air, caused by another flier's wake. >> i started to see zach slightly move backwards and thought oh, no. don't do that. >> he's dropping like a bowling

ball and slacking into the back of bland's legs, sending the base of the flock into a free fall. it's a scary moment but bland recovers quickly. scottie burns dives to check on his friend. >> i flew over next to him and gave him an okay signal. he had a big smile on his face. kind of a look like, what the heck was that? >> i know what he interpreted as a smile was a grimace. i said, ouch. >> he is hurting, but he has a bigger concern. >> i didn't know if my gear had been damaged. it could have been opened at that point and i might not have been aware of it. i could see from his face that nothing else was wrong. at that point, i knew i was okay. >> bland immediately turns his attention to the safety of his team members, who start reforming around him.

>> i need to make sure that i'm aiming myself back toward the drop zone to make sure i'm safe and make sure that everybody else gets back. i consider that my responsibility as the person on the bottom. >> as quickly as bland reorients himself, unbelievably, it happens again. another pocket of dead air and another midair collision. this time, two different wing suit flyers. as they tumble in the sky, the team reaches 5,000 feet and bland signals to pull the parachutes. unsure if everyone is accounted for. >> after we opened the parachutes, i look around to see the correct number of people there. i knew how many people we had in the flock when we left the airplane, and i counted that number of parachutes plus mine when we opened. i knew everybody, at least, had a parachute open. they could have been hurt, but they weren't dead. >> when they land, bland finds out everybody in the group is

okay. his legs and back are very score fr -- sore from the impact, but he's thankful the episode was over. >> it was a feeling of relief to my my feet back on the ground. it's a rule, it's better to be down here wishing you were up here than to be up there and wishing you were down here. >> if you think this will stop scott bland from jumping out of planes, think again. >> people think we have a death wish. this is not the kind of thing i could do. there's no payoff without some kind of risk. if you take a graduated risk, the payoff can be well worth it. jumping from 6,000 feet above one of the coldest and most remote places on earth. a wing suit flyer misjudges his attitude and crashes into a snow-packed mountain. >> it was a trip of a lifetime

and nearly ended up costing me my life. >> april 10th, 2009, russia. professional wing suit pilot is traveling through russia's far east to shoot a documentary on its extreme landscape. >> covered in snow for nine months a year and has the most active volcanoes. they call it the land of fire and ice. >> he's eager to make it one of the most thrilling jump. >> we'd done three other jumps and it was obvious this would be the last jump because it was getting dark and we were nearly out of daylight. >> he follows the lead wing suit flier as he jumps into an icy gorge. >> i was filming. i have a ring sight on my left eye. i wasn't looking through both

eyes. plus, we were flying through snow. in a cloudy day toward sunset, you can't make out the texture. it's white. >> the plan is to deploy his parachute just after the lead opens his. although it's dangerously low to the ground, he's determined to capture as much of the flight as he can. >> i was committed to stay there until either he pulled or i knew it was the 600 feet. >> the other flier pulls his chute. >> i saw him reach for his chute, but he immediately, in my vision, i saw the ground. rather than being at 600 feet, i was at more like 60. i could see the texture of the snow and ice. then i thought the most likely thing was i'm about to die. 60 feet isn't enough for my parachute to over and i'm going 100 miles per hour.

he pulls his parachute, hoping for a miracle. it didn't open in time but slowed me down enough that i'm still here today. i swung out and landed flat on my back. it spread out the force of the impact. if it opened a little before, i would have landed on my legs. >> he fractures his spine, breaks ribs, but survives the 6,000 foot drop. >> my initial thinking was, that's it. parachuting, flying, it's all gone, finished. >> three, two, one. >> but time heals wounds, and he can't stay grounded for long. >> after six months, i started to miss jumping. to be happy in my life, this is what i do. this is what i am. i'm going to jump. i fly. >> peawelcome back. coming up, a thrilling jump ends in utter disaster.

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i'm richard lui. in less than an hour, a ebola infected doctor is expected to arrive in nebraska. dr. martin salia will be treated at the nebraska medical center. he has permanent residency in the u.s. the arctic cold will keep temperatures cold until the middle of next week. back to caught on camera. welcome back to caught on camera. the history of sky diving dates back to 1485, when leonardo da vinci sketched the first

blueprints for a parachute. these days, hundreds of thousands of people jump from high places and planes every year, deploying parachutes to bring them safely back to earth. according to the united states parachute association, the likelihood of a fatal crash is roughly 1 in 140,000. the sky diver you're about to see escapes that fate by the skin of his teeth. an experienced sky diver is sailing down to earth at 45 miles per hour, like he's done more than 300 times before. this time, something goes horribly wrong. >> are you okay? >> i've been in other situations where i've got out of them. this one was one that the winds happened to catch me at the wrong time, and i had to make some really fast decisions. obviously, that's -- it didn't

pan out the way i wanted it to. i was hoping i would miss it, but i didn't miss the trailer. >> april 30th, 2011. high above colorado's fremont county airport, sky diving instructor tommy is instructing for his third and final jump of the day. >> i had already put out two loads of students. the day was going great. this was my third jump that day. i tell the other two jumpers that i will film them coming out. >> he gets out on the strut of the plane to capture the other sky divers as they jump nearly 4,000 feet to earth. >> i just let go of the aircraft and watch it fly away, which is what you do. >> after free falling for several seconds, he pulls his parachute and plots a plan for landing. >> i was facing into the wind the whole time. i'm thinking, i'm not going to make it back. i think, maybe i should land there. >> he decides to land about 80

yards north of his intended target, until a sudden burst of wind knocks him back on course. >> i got a big gust of wind from my backside, like a downdraft. >> he is heading directly for the trailer parked inside the drop zone, which is used to pick up jumpers once they land. >> i got fixated on the trailer. when you get fixation, 9 times to o out of 10, you'll hit what you're trying to miss. the last thing i remember is, well, if i turn now, i can do a hook turn into the ground. >> they can be used to avoid obstacles by doing a hudsudden degree turn right before landing but they can be fatal. at the last second, he chooses not to hook turn and slams into the trailer. it may not look like it, but

it's a decision that may have saved his life. >> it was a week later. a gentleman did the same thing up in around denver. he hook turned it and hit the ground, he's dead. >> he survives the impact, but he doesn't escape injury. >> i broke eight bones. i bruised my left lung and crushed my arm, being yanked out of the socket. it broke all the nerves that control the left side of your arm, your hand, your fingers and stuff like that. >> every nerve is severed, and he loses all feeling and movement in his left arm. three and a half months after the accident, he makes a difficult decision. >> i literally asked them to take my arm off. it was cumbersome, just hanging off of me and doing nothing. my doctor was like, yeah, there's no use keeping it there. >> he may have suffered a

serious injury, but that won't stop him from taking flight again. >> i just enjoy the sport, and as soon as my amputation heals up, i'll be back in the sky again with one arm. just when new yorkers think they've seen it all, a woman dangles without a safety harness from one of new york city's monumental bridges, twisting and turning 300 feet above rush hour traffic. if you're wondering, this is not legal. >> when i said fly high or die, what i was really saying was, give me liberty or give me death. >> july 11th, 2011, aerial dancer prepares for one of the most dangerous performances of her life. >> i knew that i would be performing on the williamsburg

bridge the second i first laid eyes on it. it wasn't a question of if. it was a matter of when. >> the bridge links manhattan with brooklyn. on the evening of the performance, there is a friend with a camera on the bridge. >> a friend e-mailed me on the day of her performance and said to come to the bridge with a camera, not knowing what to expect. >> a fellow performer scale the camera in ten minutes, where she attacks her silk cloud swing. >> it is a double trapeze made of silk. you can twist, spin, side to side and back and forth. it gives versatility. >> once the swing is secure, sharp begins her dance. >> she was sort of enrobed in the silk, so i started shooting. i just thought, i'm committed to

keeping the camera on her. >> i choreographed the scene as a duo, but at the last minute, my partner decided he didn't feel comfortable doing it. i ended up doing an improvisational solo instead. >> it was stunning to see this massive metal industrial looking structure and this tiny, like, fairy like creature suspended from the silks. there was a moment where she dr drops. even though i was mesmerizemesm was, like, she could have fallen then. >> i've been an aerialist seven years and i've never fallen. there was no difference between not falling 13 feet and not falling 300 feet. when your body knows how to fly, it's not going to let you fall. >> but after about 15 minutes, the high winds whipping sharp around take their toll and

fatigue sets in. >> i didn't want to push it any more than i already had. i was exhausted. i was ready to come down. >> i think that people were really excited and proud that she was doing this and that they were there to see it. so much so, that when the police came, people were cheering for her and, you know, showing their support. >> i wanted people to see that i was being arrested not for breaking the law, but for breaking tradition. >> sharp is arrested and charged with multiple felonies. she's locked up for three days before she's released on bail. the felony charges are eventually lessens to misdemeanors in court. sharp is offered a plea deal, and she pleads guilty to the reduced charges. her sentence, five free aerial shows for children. >> my decision was neither reckless nor endangering of others. it was planned, controlled,

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a father-son project elevates a homemade aircraft higher than they ever imagined. >> i said to myself, if i see blackness, i'm going to freak out. because, of course, that meant like space. >> when we saw the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth, and the blue glow that the earth gives off, we were just stunned. i mean, it was just the most incredible thing ever. >> cinematographer loves doing cool and crafty projects with his 7-year-old max, else psspec when they involve cameras. >> we came upon this project online and the potential of the outcome was so huge, that we couldn't pass it up. >> the boys planned on launching a camera into space with the aid of a helium-filled weather

balloon. >> took eight months to research it and build different crafts and do tests. >> you attack a parachute to a little thingy. through it from the kitchen window to the backyard and had the parachute deploy. >> we did a low altitude test to put it up in the air and bring it down. >> the first model was a takeout container with wings and balloons. >> we were looking at how shaky it would be, how much it would be influenced by wind, things like that. it actually told us a lot. >> it's essential the aircraft rise and fall with as little resistance as possible. this will keep it stable enough to capture a steady shot. >> the foam outside was done with spray insulation that you'd use for your windows in your home. that made kind of a hard case, made with this chamburger shape

that was aerodynamic. >> we spray painted it so we could see it if it fell in the forest. it was traffic cone paint so it stood out. >> although the neon paint will make it easier to spot, they will need something much more dependable if they want to find it.

it was pretty fast. after two minutes, it took off. >> they tracked the craft coordinates, but that's no guarantee they will be able to retrieve it. >> the batteries in the phone could freeze. it could not give out a signal and we'd never find it.

if it falls into anything that would block the transmission, falls into dense trees too deeply, it could lose reception. if it falls into water, that would bed baa. a l -- be bad. >> until they recover the craft, it will be a mystery as to what the camera captures. fortunately, it lands only 30 miles north of the launch site, and they're able to retrieve the footage. >> to be honest with you, we got a little sick watching it. we were eating and watching it at the kitchen table for the first time. we were so focused on the screen and eating at the same time, swishing around. >> once it reaching the stratosphere, everything levels out. >> we were shooting from about 80,000 feet. it was twice as high as a plane, but it went three times as high. >> according to the high phone, the craft is about 100,000 feet or 19 miles above the earth on its 95-minute voyage. >> at the very end, the balloon is stretched to its absolute maximum capacity. it's about 22 meet in diameter.

it's enormous. the little craft below it. >> it got like that big because the pressure, when you get up, there isn't a lot of oxygen. the air the air is very thin. >> the pressure of the helium inside the balloon is greater than surrounding air pressure, so it continued to expand until, finally, the balloon popped. the craft comes plummeting back to earth at more than 100 miles per hour. >> so the parachute deploys maybe 30 seconds after the balloon bursts. it doesn't do anything until it gets to heavier air. >> at one point, it went head over heels. it didn't have head and heels, but it went like this. there were a lot of reasons it wouldn't work. >> i shot a lot of things, and that by far is the most impressive thing i ever shot. coming up, party balloons, a

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a gas station owner lives out his childhood fantasy, floating above the earth at the timered h-- tethered to brightl colored balloons. >> it's a peaceful experience. >> this is not just a flight of fancy for ken's couch. in 2008, he tries to break his own record for number of miles traveled in what's called a w s cluster balloon. >> it's a way to get up in the

air with a group of balloons. some people would use weather balloons. i've never done that. party balloons seem to be dependable. the funny thing is usually i use a lawn chair because it's comfortable and i can sit up, lean back. it's red neck, and i'm red neck. >> there are some federal aviation rules to follow, but remarkably, as long as the aircraft stays under 254 pounds, he isn't required to have a pilot's license, nor does he have to register it with the faa. but couch does need some technical assistance. >> mark is a techy guy and makes it safe. >> cluster ballooning has come a long way since it was first attempted in the early 1930s. ken's lawn chair is outfitted with the gear he'll need to

survive the long trip, from a gps system so his ground crew "ze8#kkl@t ;j.ç;tók camerauf to document his voyage. in preparation for breaking his record, the most valuable tool for couch is the experience he's gamed from his earlier attempts. like this white knuckle flight in 2007. >> the wind would shoot me one way or the other, and it was a little treacherous. fatigue got to me because i had a big parachute and it was bumpy. my back was killing me. i was running out of weight. >> if he gets too low, he drops some water out so he can go back up. when he gets too high, he pops a couple balloons. running out of balance into the

ride, you lose the ability to control altitude. >> each time, it made things better. learning from the previous flight. >> i started using a pilot's parachu parachute, which is comfortable. we add more balloons, more balance, more security and safety, better communication between me and the ground crew. >> july 5th, 2008, ken couch attempts to fly from bend, oregon, to boise, idaho, and break his record of 193 miles traveled in a cluster balloon. >> we have to be up at 3:30 in the morning on launch day. >> usually 50 to 70 volunteers make this work. we'd normally have four or six helium stations. each station has four people in it with a different roll. >> takes a minute or two to blow up the balloon. we don't blow them up all the

way because we want them to expand. >> we put them in clusters of five, and then start assembling those into larger clusters, 15 or 20. >> he kisses his wife, and with cameras rolling, begins the ascend. >> i can't steer myself, and that's what i like. you go where the winds take you. >> the thing you probably wouldn't realize is how peaceful it is up there. it's super quiet. he's traveling at the same speed as the wind. even when he's moving at 50 miles per hour, he can set a b napkin on his knee and it wouldn't go anywhere. >> it's like you're floating on a cloud and you live a moment of what you dreamed as a child. >> nine hours later, he crosses into idaho, but he's not going to make it to boisboise. the winds pushed him 85 miles north of the city. >> i was tired of being up there. i'm not a guy to sit still. >> despite missing the mark, he

knows he's still broken his previous record, so couch prepares to land. >> you have to have a way to make sure you can get the balloons popped on the way down. my preference is a daisy red rider bb gun. >> only takes a couple balloons to change from ascending to descending. >> looking for no fences, no wires, no houses, no roads, is what i'm hoping for. >> couch touches down in cambridge, idaho, to a hero's welcome. his new blcluster balloon recor 235 miles. >> i think the next flight, i'll get enough balloons and balance to go to overnight and maybe break my record and go part. maybe i can go 500 miles. >> luckily, cluster ballooning is a rare past time. the aircrafts require training

to operation safely, as well as some luck. that's all for this edition of caught on camera. sucker punched caught off guard. this commuter thinks that commuter is talking too loudly on her cell phone, so she takes matters into her own hands. >> who knows how far the escalation would have been gotten with a gun. >> a patron goes from impatience to out of control. >> i thought the lady lost her mind. >> a convenience store break-in on four wheels forces the young clerk to run for his life. >> i hear a loud choice coming from my right, turned and saw the car. a guy walks into a bar with a