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who remarked famously, "i can't see the zipper." and i think that's the most concise way to view what happened. i'm richard lui covering a breaking news story this hour, search efforts set to resume for an airasia plane that fell from radar yesterday. le u.s.st is offering any help needed in the search and rescue activity set to resume in an hour. contact was lost just 42 minutes intoly if the 8501 from as it took off from jakarta on what is generally a shortly if the to singapore. the pilots were facing tough seasonal weather conditions and had asked to any to higher altitude to avoid clouds in the
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area. that was the last time they were heard from. families of the 162 people on board have been gathering, waiting for word on their bait of their loved ones. wither watching that here. most of the passengers are indonesians, though there are also three passengers from south korea, including an infant and one each from malaysia and singapore. we will continue to stay on top of this story and bring you the very latest hear on bhchlt snbc. right now, we return to you our regular programming. \s everyday situations spiral out of control. >> it was just devastating, you know? it was just brutal. >> things escalate quickly from calm to chaos. and pushing the limits can sometimes spell disaster. >> oh, my god! >> i saw him lifeless. i was really scared. >> when the boundaries are crossed between right and wrong,
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clever and foolish, humble and arrogant. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> things can go too far. "caught on camera: to you the of bounds." fists fly on a california freeway when rush hour frustration turns violent. >> it's one thing to have a one-on-one fight, but to kick a guy on the ground when he's down? that's just brutal. that's inhumane. >> june 12th, 2012. los angeles, california. it's late in the afternoon when 24-year-old emile age is driving to football practice after school on the i-5 freeway. >> it was rush hour.
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people are so frustrated, getting off work, ready to get home. >> los angeles is infamous for its congested roadways. in fact, it's among the top three worst cities in the united states for traffic, according to a 2012 "forbes" magazine study. california highway patrol officer chris baldinado knows these maddening conditions often lead to road rage. >> road rage is probablly more common than you think. from giving the finger to verbal arguments to people physically fighting. just a matter of how far it escalates. >> there's always road rage in los angeles. >> spotting some commotion ahead, emile begins to inch on the freeway to take a closer look. two cars are blocking the right lane and an argument is under way. as emile slows down, he sees things are escalating quickly. >> i was like, oh, my god. they're going to jump him.
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so, i'm just thinking i need to record this. >> emile rolls down his window with his radio blasting. he's just inches away from the fight. >> so i filmed it from the passenger seat leaning over. >> the verbal dispute intensifies in an instant. both men toe to toe, fists in the air, begin what look like a bare-knuckle boxing match in the middle of the road. >> the guy that was by himself was giving one of the guys upper cuts to the jaw, like some gnarly punches. >> but it doesn't stop there. >> i guess one of the guys said, i'm not going to let my friend get taken advantage of. so they started jumping him. >> getting both of his attackers in a clinch, the man in the brightly colored shirt is only able to hold them for a brief moment. >> and then somehow he lost his balance, and they both slammed him. they're punching him on the ground and they started dragging him.
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and then one of the guys went from behind him and kicked him in the face. >> the man is knocked unconscious. but the two aggressors continue to deliver blow after blow to his limp body on the ground. >> it was just devastating. you know? it was just, like, brutal. >> the two assailants quickly leave the scene, unaware that the entire attack is caught on camera. witnesses rushed to the site. >> did you take a picture of that? >> i got the whole thing. >> get the license plates. hey, get the license plates. >> i was thinking, like, this guy is either dead or he's suffering a major concussion. >> you all right, bro? >> onlookers call 911 to report the assault as emile continues to record and encourages the injured man back to his feet. >> get up. you can't get up?
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>> the victim not only survives the brutal beating, but he decides to drive away before the police even arrive. >> come on, dude. >> i said dude, you should wait here, you know? because i had to get to practice and everything. it's a normal day for me. he said he's fine driving. and he got in the car. >> by the time our units responded, all parties had left. traffic was moving. >> it's not until emile age uploads his video and it goes viral that the victim, jerry patterson, comes forward to police. patterson explains his side of the fight on the local news. >> i cut three guys off accidentally. i tell them i'm sorry, my bad. they got in front of me and stopped the car. and it just escalated from there. >> jerry never thought the fight would escalate to the point that it did. for him, the next day is business as usual.
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>> the next morning, i was really dizzy and my coordination was off. but i took some aspirin. i had to go to work, you know? >> the california highway patrol asks the public for their help identifying jerry's attackers. >> the video did help in the sense that it was a clear image of all parties' faces. we got a plethora of calls coming in. and that totally helped the department in obtaining those particular individuals. >> in response to the video, david menendez and adis ramirez turned themselves in and are charged with two counts of assault. they bleed no contest and receive three years of probation. numerous people have questioned why emile didn't do more to help defend the man who was clearly out numbered. >> my mindset was i want to jump in, this is wrong. but the best thing i can do is get it on tape so that the chp can do what they do, you know. you don't always have to be violent and be a good citizen.
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>> to videotape it is perfect evidence and helped us in obtaining the particular individuals. i applaud him for doing that. i don't know if he got out and helped that that would have escalated the situation and hurt himself. >> everybody can relate to road rage and being in l.a. traffic. >> you just don't know who you're talking to. you don't know what the other person is capable of. they could have a knife or gun. is it worth it? never. coming up, when a dare goes too far, there are serious consequences. >> i literally thought i just saw my friend die. >> when "caught on camera: out of bounds" continues. hidden fees on savings accounts of bounds" continues.
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a teenage boy takes a dare too far when he jumps off a cliff into the rocks below. >> i saw blood just burst around his head. i literally thought i just saw my friend die. >> it's the fourth of july, 2006, in belton, texas, a city just outside of the biggest army base in the united states, fort hood. to beat the texas heat, soldiers and civilians alike head to a local swimming hole. a group of teenage boys are there that day. >> the lake during the summer is one of the biggest hangout spots. >> the group decides to bring video cameras to film their antics. >> we decided to film anything we thought was worth watching over and over, from skateboarding to doing stupid stuff, playing pranks on each other. we were just going to be adolescent boys at the lake. >> go now. >> the idea for this video is to record each other cliff jumping,
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an activity not unusual for a hot summer day. >> this is going to be funny. >> the cliff we were jumping off of was probably around 20 feet or so. there's not much runway. it's a lot of rock and a lot of brush. >> chris handly, a 15-year-old local, is one of the teens. >> if you jump properly, you have no problems, you don't hit the bottom and bounce back up and keep having fun. >> but if the jump falls short -- >> you land in water that's about this deep with jagged big rocks underneath. >> as the boys take turns launching themselves off the cliff and into the water below, a crowd begins to gather. >> i kind of felt obligated to do something, like put on for the party or whatever. >> so chris decides to take it up a notch. >> the plan was for chris' jump, he was going to set this bush on fire. he was going to jump over it.
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so the kind of insanity level of this jump was up there, for sure. >> you can't even see it. >> pour the lighter fluid. hell, yeah! >> as chris tries to light the bush on fire, cameras record from above and below. jay jones is one of the teens filming. >> i was in between the bush and chris on top of the cliff filming. i guess mainly the only thing i was worried about was getting the bush lit on fire, 'cause i've seen chris jump over that bush before. >> you can hear jay shouting to make the fire bigger. >> that's not enough. >> first, we tried lighter fluid and it wasn't making a dramatic enough effect on the bush. so then it turned to the gas. >> now you got to light it again. >> we struggle for awhile to get it lit. >> just before chris is about to jump, spectators on a boat just
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off camera offer up another challenge. >> somebody dared me to do it naked. so it just went to a different level. >> chris is the kind of guy, i've never seen him back down from a dare. >> it finally gets lit. >> yes! go! >> i felt rushed because the fire was going out fast. we used everything that we had to make the fire. >> chris rushes to pull down his shorts before the dying fire goes out. but as he runs for the cliff, his friends can see that his swimming trunks never come completely off. >> as soon as i saw his shorts get caught, i instantly knew something bad was going to happen. >> chris trips just before the jump and falls 20 feet over the cliff's edge. >> he didn't jump out at all. his forward momentum pulled his body through the flaming bush and head first down so the back of his head hits on the rocks. >> oh! someone go down there. >> he disappeared over the edge. all of a sudden, you hear a
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smack against the water. people started freaking out. >> oh [ bleep ]. >> aaron strunk doesn't think twice. he jumps in after chris. >> as soon as he surfaced, i actually saw him floating there. >> he was like a bobber on a fishing line. >> chris' body quickly begins to sink beneath the surface. >> we thought he might have just been passed out at first. that's when we started seeing the blood emerge. that's when things got real serious. >> call 911 on my phone! >> luckily, one of the boats of onlookers happen to be a group of army medics from fort hood. they immediately jump into action and swim toward chris. as the medics try and stabilize chris, his friends are panicked. they fear they may have just filmed their friend's death. >> call 911 right now!
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>> one of the first things that popped through my head was he could very easily be dead. he could have very easily broken his neck from the fall and could be dead. we might have just seen our friend die. >> chris handly makes it to the hospital. and after five hours of brain surgery, he emerges alive. >> had a subdural and epidural hematoma. so, both the outside and the inside of my brain were breathing, which was causing intercranial pressure. the doctors said i was really, really, really close to the point of not being able to come back. >> while chris may have eluded permanent injury, he and his friends are scarred by the memory of that day. it's a lesson they will never forget. >> the fact we caught a near-death experience on camera really, really reminds chris and reminds all of us all the time
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that it can happen like that and you're gone. and you're never coming back. so that definitely alters some of the choices we make in life. >> with a little time and maturity, the group gains perspective on the traumatic event. >> i definitely think that i took it a little bit too far. it was just dumb and reckless. and not a very smart idea. i would tell kids to just chill out and think about what you're doing before you do something that could possibly end your live. >> oh [ bleep ]! oh [ bleep ]! coming up, a coach steps out of line. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> what he did is uncalled for. and it's horrible. and chaos erupts in the outfield. >> within that moment, they went at each other. >> stop it, guys! >> when "caught on camera: out of bounds" continues. my hygienist told me that less tartar means less scraping. so i'm going pro. [ male announcer ] new crest tartar protection rinse.
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been defined by its love of hockey. even the $5 bill celebrates the nations pride, showing children playing the sport. but at a rink in vancouver, one coach brings shame to the game. like many young players, elizabeth papasis' son was introduced to the beloved sport at an early age. >> my son, michael, has played since he was 4 years old. >> he was playing in the championship game against the uvc hornets in yellow. >> we were all hyped up, like all the parents. my family members were there, too. we were all rooting for them. >> team manager tammy holeg is
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also at the arena, cheering for his sons also in blue. >> this particular league, everybody wants to win. it's good hockey. >> at the sound of the closing buzzer, the hornets prevail, winning 5-4. the final game of the season may be over, but the action on the ice is just about to heat up. >> at the end of every game, you have your handshake, which is a sportsmanship thing. no matter where you play. nhl does it when they lose a stanley cup. everybody does it. and that's where everything changed. >> coach martin trumble of the hornets doesn't look like a man who just took the gold. instead, he seems to rush through the line of the children barely shaking any hands. >> seems like he was on a mission trying to get at a certain boy. so when we saw that he sticks it foot out and trips my son and
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the other boy, they both fall down. >> outrage erupts. it appears the coach intentionally trips two players. elizabeth's son is one of them. >> i was so angry that he did that. my son, he was pretty shocked. he's a very sensitive boy. why would he do that? i don't understand why an adult would do that. >> the other boy, whose family requested he not be identified, breaks his wrist in the fall. according to witnesses, this boy was a target of the coach's rage the entire game. >> it's horrifying, because it doesn't matter what the kid did, if he did anything, that an adult had to do that. it's awful. >> the hornets coach denies the trip was on purpose and says he merely slipped on the ice. but parents on the richmond steel disagree. they call the paramedics for the injured minor and the police for martin tremble.
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>> we were very angry, the parents got up and were yelling and screaming. the coach gave the bird to us. so it wasn't a pleasure to watch. >> and then the icing on the cake? a hornets player follows his coach's lead and throws a water bottle at the crowd. >> a coach is not just a coach. they're also your mentor. you have to lead by example. they're showing it's okay for them to do it. >> in an ugly scene, the hornets' players support their coach's bad behavior and skate off the ice, taunting the angry crowd. >> the coach tripping really, really took away from the kids. >> martin tremble pleads guilty to assault, received 12 months in jail and probation. he is banned coaching from the
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vancouver minor hochuwho ca hoc. and since the video hit the internet, the court of public opinion has already convicted him of being a sore winner. >> i mean, they won the game. that's it. should be happy. shake hands and go home. >> i think that's why it went so viral and went so big. because it's embarrassing for him. >> can you imagine if he did lose, what would happen? parents at a little league baseball game strike out as role models when a fight breaks out on the sidelines. >> you just hear people screaming from the centerfield. at that moment, they went after each other. >> stop it, guys! >> july 6, 2012. in columbus, georgia, little league is a big deal. home to the 1996 olympic
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softball games, the town has dozens of diamonds. >> there's major little league pride here. we have a number of kids playing in the majors now from columbus. even in our newspaper, it says locals in the majors. >> it's midway through summer. but for little leaguers, it's the end of the baseball season. joe paul, a reporter for the local paper, is covering the district championship game. >> it was the last night of a week and a half long tournament. the kids are playing every night. i was shooting photos for a gallery for our website. >> family and fans surround the field as northern little league take on the harris county all stars. bernard ashley runs the little league here. he knows how important the win is to the players but also to the parents. >> the winner it meant going to the state tournament. losers go home. the fans were, you know, they were all revved up on both
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sides, supporting their teams. >> the game is a shutout. northern defeats harris county, 10-0. >> they were jumping up. they were high fiving each other. everyone was excited. [ cheers and applause ] >> to celebrate his son's win, a father on the sidelines, charles davidson, blasts a not-so-subtle song "all i do is win." >> all i do is win, win, win no matter what, which kind of rubbed it in the faces of the losing team. >> probably was bragging. all we do is win. >> the harris county fans are not amused. >> one guy came over to tell him to turn the music down. he said i'm going to mess you up. and the other guy said, well, here i am. and within that moment, they went at each other. and then you just hear people
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screaming from the centerfield. >> chaos erupts just over the fence with a fight between the family members of opposing teams. >> i seen punching and mostly pushing and shoveling and wrestling. people jumping in, trying to break it up. >> what are you doing? >> so everyone's there to kind of break it up, but they're also taking sides at the same time. >> the one on one quickly escalates into a brawl. >> you know, we always get a bit of bickering between parents, but nothing to this magnitude. >> wives worry about their husbands. >> i'm not in it, honey. i'm way on this end of it. i'm back here. i'm on the fringe. >> and coaches bring the children together to shield them from the drama. >> that's stupid. >> we told them, you know, it's nothing you did. you're all out here playing ball. they just got out of hand. >> soon, parents on both sides
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call the police. they arrest the two men at the center of the argument on charges of disorderly conduct, charles davidson and iram king. >> he came over here and jumped on me. >> i know. i saw him. >> iram king pleads guilty and ordered to pay a fine while the charges are dropped against davidson. despite the fighting among the grownups, the kids show great camaraderie. >> kids showed remarkable sportsmanship. they had a group picture taken together. and normally, the winning team will take the banner that we give them that says district 8 champions and make a victory lap around the field. they invited the harris county team to go with them. >> in this instance, it's the kids who set the example for their parents. >> often said the only reason we need an umpire is for the managers and coaches.
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hi, i'm richard lui. here is what is happening. in 30 minutes, the search will resume for a missing airasia flight with 162 people on board. yesterday, ground control lost contact with flight 8501 after it took off from indonesia heading to singapore. before that plain disappeared, the pilot asked to change his route and increase altitude to try to avoid bad weather. two other casters say bourful storms, including showers and hail, were in the plane's path. stay with msnbc for the latest developments on on this breaking story. for now, back to caught on camera.
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a daring stunt goes awry when a magician dangling 50 feet in the air catches fire. >> bring him down! bring him down! >> oh, my god! >> i was really scared that he was getting burned badly. or even die. >> where are we supposed to go? >> the blue tarp. >> the blue tarp. >> august 28, 1998, mt. clemmons, michigan, a suburb of detroit. every year, the bat city festival draws thousands of people to the banks of the clinton river. >> jasen's the man! >> the closing act is the popular area entertainer and magician, jasen magic.
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>> he had this grand idea. he really wanted to break through the local market into a national spotlight. >> jasen is performing an extraordinary feat, one that has taken four months to prepare. it's a well-known escape act created by harry houdini in the '20s. the stunt entails hanging upside down and escaping from a straight jacket. but he wanted to take it up a notch. >> he decided to perform the stunt with the rope holding him up upside down on fire. >> jasen's best friend, joe chasney, works as his emcee. he remembers the morning of the show real clearly. >> we were out on site really, really early. we had to run through so many things with so many people. >> jasen's entire family is in attendance. >> how do you feel about your brother performing? >> very, very calm. >> they filmed the events of the
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day from a distance. >> so excited. >> the local news is there to cover jasen's story. as jasen gets ready to take the stage, the weather begins to turn. >> you maybe can't see, but there's a huge storm blowing in here. the wind is majorly picking up. and it's raining. >> night falls and the crowd is filled with anticipation. >> we were so concerned with putting on an entertaining show -- i'm telling you, it never occurred to us at any moment that the rain would be a factor. a hurricane could have come to michigan, wouldn't have stopped us from doing this. >> but as the rain pours down, they need to make adjustment. >> because of the rain, we wanted to put a bit of extra fuel on the platform and on the rope.
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i knew that the fire would burn through the rain as long as we had more fuel than we had rain. >> minutes away from the performance, jasen appears relaxed, even jovial. >> and they set the magician on fire, too. >> just after 9:00 p.m., joe makes the announcement. it's show time. >> ladies and gentlemen, the man of the hour, jasen magic! let's hear it. make some noise! >> a professional camera crew records the action as jasen gets strapped into the harness and joe lights the rope on fire. meanwhile, jasen's sister in the audience can barely watch. >> oh, god be with you, jasen. >> oh, my god. >> i've got the hugest lump in my throat.
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>> the crane lifts jasen upside down 50 feet above the river. >> so jasen's job was to get out of the straight jacket, detach himself from the harness. he'd be free and clear from the rope. and with any luck, as he's being brought down, the rope burns through showing a dramatic finish to a successful stunt. >> but things don't go as planned. immediately, joe sees jasen struggling with the straight jacket. >> the canvas that these straight jackets are made from will shrink and tighten in the rain. it's just that much harder to get out of. >> jasen's sister is getting impatient. >> go, jasen. my god, go. >> with seconds counting down until the rope burns through, jasen begins to break free. >> he's got his arms out. come on! >> after three minutes in the air, jasen escapes from the straight jacket, and the crowd goes wild. >> he's not done yet. he's got the rope. he needs to make his way to the
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safety rope in time before the rope burns through. >> now i'm really relieved. all he's got to do is get the clip off of the harness and, man, we're good to go. we're home free. and he starts pulling on the thing and tugging on it. you know, twisting it around. what's going on? why can't he get the clip free? >> panic begins to set in as it appears jasen is stuck to the burning rope. he cannot unclip from the harness and no one's able to reach him. >> bring him down! bring him down! >> oh, my god! >> in a terrible turn of events, the flaming platform falls directly on to jasen and it seems he is burning alive in front of thousands of people, including his own family. [ screaming ] >> i didn't hesitate a nanosecond and i told that crane operator bring him down.
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we needed to get him down and close to us. >> jasen's sister yells in desperation. >> i remember people yelling, go faster, bring him down. but he couldn't. he was literally going as fast as he could. >> the crane operator lowers jasen into the river as firefighters battle the flames. >> i saw him lifeless, hanging back. i was really, really scared. i didn't know what the situation was at that point. i knew it wasn't good. >> but then slowly, joe chasney sees signs of life in his friend. it turns out the burning platform hung just centimeters
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from jasen's body, causing only minor burns. >> the only bruise i got was to the ego of a perfectionist who wanted to finish a stunt the way he wrote it on paper. >> ladies and gentlemen, he escaped from the straight jacket, battling flames all the way. let's give a big round of applause to jasen! >> i was so emotional. >> do you want to say anything to the fans? >> yeah. >> and now ladies and gentlemen, jasen magic. >> i put the microphone on, took a big swallow, thanked everybody for being there. apologized to everybody. >> whatever you do, don't hang upside down with a burning rope. you'd be an idiot to. thanks again. >> jasen may have failed to complete the stunt the way he imagined it, but he does get the attention he had hoped for. and the entertainer in him will never let one disappointment stop him from going even bigger the next time. in fact, he performs this stunt
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again a year later over a bed of fiery nails. >> i think everybody enjoys just a little more. just give it an extra little kick. i think that's what the audience wants. and i believe the next stunt is just going to have just a little bit more than this last one. coming up, a horrifying look inside one new york school when a teacher is caught on camera beating a student. >> nobody have no right to do that to anybody's children. and later, a grandma becomes a target of relentless bullying. >> oh, my god, you're so fat. >> yeah, you're fat. >> when "caught on camera: out of bounds" continues.
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caught on camera. a teacher goes too far when he disciplines a student with a beating. >> i thought when you send your kids to school, this is supposed to be a safe haven. not a teacher knocking the kid to the ground. >> june 2012. a reporter from "the new york daily news," ben chapman, obtains disturbing footage from a high school in brooklyn, new york. >> i received an e-mail from a anonymous source identifying themselves only as "angry
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administrator." >> the silent video is from three months earlier and shows a 15-year-old student, christoph john, arriving at westhinghouse career and technical high school. christoph's mom, diane. >> every child going to that school, have a photo i.d. when you enter the school, you have to scan the i.d. >> according to christoph, the school security dean and teacher, stefan hudson, asks him to step to the side when his i.d. card doesn't work. christoph says when he tries to go through again, the dean becomes enraged, believing christoph is acting disrespectfully. >> immediately, when i looked at the vide again, i could see it was in violation of the rules of the department of education and probably it looked like
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something that was illegal possibly criminal to me. we went to diane john's house to show her the video of her son involved in this altercation with the dean. >> when i first saw the video, i got nervous, like my belly start hurting. i feel like my stomach left where it was and went somewhere else. i see the dean grab on to him and throw him down. picks him up, throw him into a table violently. picks him up again and throw him to the ground. >> at 5'5," 120 pounds, the 15-year-old boy is no match for the dean who is more than twice his size. >> they throw him around like a rag doll. so he was trying to get up. but he couldn't, 'cause the man had him in a lock down there. >> for christoph's mom, the only thing worse than watching the brutality against her son is knowing that when he came home that day and told her what happened, she didn't believe him. she says the school told her it was christoph who was aggressive toward a teacher. >> the same dean who was beating
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on my child is the same dean that call me. when my son came home, i asked him, i said what happened at school today? and he start telling me, but i said to him the school gave me one story and now you give me a different one. so i don't know who to believe. you don't think the school is going to lie to you. >> according to diane, the principal calls a few days after the dean to discuss the problem. >> the principal call and she told me there was an incident that happened in the school with christoph. she's gonna to look into it and get back to me. she never call me back. >> it's not until the reporter shows diane the beating that she realizes what happened. >> i was like, oh, my god. i can't believe this. i am pissed. that was my words. nobody have no right to do that to anybody's children. i don't care if my child was rude to you. you have no right putting your hand on him. >> christoph refuses to return
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to school for his sophomore year and moves to his mother's native country of grenada to live with family. >> i know my child. i saw the change in him. he was not interested in school anymore. my son never behave like that before. diane sues the city of york. when the video surfaces, the department of education immediately removes the dean from classrooms. following a hearing in march 2013, he is fined and ordered to attend an anger management course. in april 2013, the case against the city is settled for $50,000. hudson begins the 2013 school year in new york city's absent teacher reserve pool. >> we should always believe our kids, because you know what, the truth came out in the light. coming up, another case of bullying. but this time, it's the kids who
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"caught on camera" vicious verbal abuse on a school bus brings a bus monitor to her breaking point. >> karen, are you sweating? karen. karen, are you sweating? [ bleep ] you're not sweating? >> no. >> why is there water on your face? >> i'm crying. >> i thought it was only kids that got bullied. i really didn't think too much about adults. >> unless you have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. >> how about you shut the [ bleep ] up? >> june 18th, 2012. greece, new york. for students at athena middle school, it's the last week of classes before their summer break. 68-year-old karen kline is a bus monitor and has worked in the
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school system for more than 20 years. the bus driver asks karen to supervise the back of the bus on the ride home from school. >> it was always the same kids that went to the back of the bus. every once in awhile, they'd make a snide remark. i told the bus driver i didn't want to go back there. >> oh, my god. you're so fat. >> out of earshot of the bus driver, the group of four rowdy boys starts taunting karen, recording the entire incident on a camera phone. >> karen, you're fat. you're so fat. you take up, like, the whole entire seat. >> when kids bully, what they're looking for is a vulnerable target and then a big reaction from that vulnerable target. that's what makes bullying fun. >> what size bra are you? zzz? >> triple sag. >> zzz. >> look at her [ bleep ] stomach. >> but karen keeps her composure for the time being. >> i was trying to ignore them.
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i really was. >> you're a troll. >> oh, geez. >> you're a troll. you troll. >> ugly. >> the bullies seem thrilled by the notion that the video will later be seen online. >> so, you're putting this on facebook? >> they thought this was a cool thing. they thought they'd get a ton of likes on facebook. they thought they'd get a lot of laughs. they thought they'd be heroes. they weren't thinking about the consequences. they're not connecting real things to those words. >> i'm going to [ bleep ] take a crap in your mouth. >> i'm going to [ bleep ] in your mouth. >> i'm going to break into your house and then steal everything. >> wait. there's nothing to steal. >> they were increasing their taunts and their harassment, even their physical touching of her. they were doing anything in their power to get her to react. because that for them would have been the prize, but she was not going to take the bait. >> karen. he touched you. >> that was john. >> no, it wasn't. you freaking just touched her arm flab. >> the barrage of insults and
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profanity continues, and no one on the bus tries to stop it. >> you old ass. you're going to [ bleep ] die of diabetes because you're so fat. >> i tried to make it go away so it couldn't hurt me. >> she's going to get her freaking sweat all over it. she's going to pick out which kid she's going to rape next. >> but they -- i gave up. >> and then one particular dig that karen will never forget. >> but you don't have a family because they all killed themselves because they didn't want to be near you. >> why are you looking at me like that? >> tragically, karen kline's son did commit suicide years earlier. whether the students were aware of that fact is unclear. >> i was trying to think if i had told them about rusty. i don't know. >> the ten-minute video of karen's devastating bus ride home quickly goes viral. people worldwide are upset and outraged, including one man 170
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miles away in toronto, canada. >> i couldn't watch it until the end. i was so shocked. i was so appalled. i almost started crying when i saw her getting abused like that. >> immediately, max decides to take action. he starts an online fund-raiser to give karen the vacation of a lifetime. the goal, raise $5,000 in 30 days. >> i don't think anyone could have expected what happened. i could never have expected what happened. >> within three hours, the site reaches the goal. within three days, people donate more than $200,000. >> this whole internet community, 86 countries, they all came together. they helped this woman out. >> after 30 days of fund-raising, the grand total is more than max ever expected. raising, the grand told is more than $700,000.
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>> i was blown away. i really was. i still am. >> karen retires from the school system and intends on taking that dream vacation. she also plans on donating to charities that are close to her heart. but karen's greatest treasure from this experience is the outpouring of love she receives from around the world. >> wonderful, wonderful messages, letters, i mean, books. can't even begin to mention all the wonderful people. i think it's great. >> karen's middle school tormenters and their parents issue an apology. the school takes action against the children. 50 hours of community service with senior citizens, completion of a bully prevention program and suspension from school for one whole year. >> in this situation, they clearly took it too far. but you have to remember that most of these kids aren't really bad kids. 95% of kids who bully can be rehabilitated. that's really our goal. >> i really hope they've learned their lesson. i really do.
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hi, i'm richard lui. here's what's happening. search-and-rescue efforts have resumed this hour for a missing air asia plane. with daylight arriving this hour, officials from indonesia and singapore hoping that ships and aircraft will get a better look at the area that the plane was flying over when this disappeared. other countries, including the united states, are offering experts and equipment to help with this search. air asia flight 8501 vanished from ground control contact midflight from indonesia to singapore. the pilots had asked to fly at a higher the attitude to try to avoid some rough weather in that

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