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>> at 370 miles per hour, cameras capture is me dead.
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and face the consequences. >> that was gnarly, yeah. [ bleep ]. >> high-stake stunts. >> this was 100% unprecedented for me, and unimaginable. >> that go terribly wrong. >> i can feel my eyes like moving out of my head. get ready. >> you're just thinking, go, go, go, faster, faster. >> for the ride of your life. >> caught on camera, high velocity. at speeds never reached by a car. >> the vibrations, the sounds. >> a daredevil puts his life on the line.
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and this time, the devil gets his due. >> when i went for the parachute, i knew i was gone. at utah's bonneville salt flats, mother nature has cooked up just the right recipe for speed. >> the salt is white. it's cold to the touch, even when it's 100 degrees. and one of the flattest places on earth. goes on for miles. >> george has been coming here to set speed records for 20 years. >> bonneville is my hobby. i don't belong to a country club. i don't have a boat. i don't play golf. this is what i do. >> and what he does is race a type of four-wheeled vehicle called a streamliner, that looks more like a jet than a race car. >> i've been over 400 miles an
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hour 32 times. nobody else can make that claim. >> good luck, george. >> he's trying to break his personal record, a blazing 462 miles an hour that makes him one of the fastest race cars on the planet. ♪ ♪ he may not look like one of the world's fastest drivers, but then again, you don't know george poteet. he's loved racing ever since he learned to drive a tractor at his father's knees. >> on a bicycle, on a wagon, as long as i can remember, he's wanted to go fast. >> at his mississippi farm, he's assembled a dream car collection. >> this is a '61 ford that i built to run on the bonneville salt flats.
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>> he buys the same cars he drag raced with in the '60s, customizes them and sets records at the bonneville flats. >> it's the biggest satisfaction that a human being could have to know that i'm number one at anything. checkers or dominoes or racing. >> september 12th, 2014, high noon. poteet's about to make a high stakes run to test a new engine and the crew's expectations are soaring. >> in my mind, i was thinking about a 470, actually, to be honest. >> i have a very calm and confident feeling every time they close the canopy. it's like you're in a different world. it's serenity. >> one camera mounted on speed demon is recording its view looking back. >> we were in the push truck. and watching george go and he
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was on a tear. the mile times were amount afept stounding. >> while another camera records his point of view. >> it feels better than sex to me at my age. i've never had anything to feel like it. >> the speed demon is devouring a mile of salt every 12 seconds, but at this speed, nothing is simple. and fault conditions have been especially wet this season. >> just like driving on ice, or on the express way at nipt miles an hour. >> suddenly its wheels start to spin out of control. >> i reached up and pulled the parachute and realized pretty quickly that that wasn't going to work that the canopy and part of the body blew off. it was that moment, i knew it
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was over it. he was off the ground for 550 feet before he hit again, and started spinning and barrel-rolling. >> george poteet is in extreme danger. in a crash so violent, it's ripping speed demon to shreds. 16 seconds after losing control, speed demon's nightmare run is over. his crew wondered if george poet eat is dead or alive. >> my crew arrived within seconds of when i crashed, but i had already taken the steering wheel off the car and unhooked the seat belt and was in the process of crawling out of it. >> at 370 miles an hour, to walk away, he walks with god. >> a state of the are the harness and roll bars helped save his life.
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poteet stays in the hospital for observation overnight, but is released with only minor injuries the next day. >> flew home midnight sunday night, i was back at work 5:00 monday morning. >> even one of the most electrifying crashes ever caught on camera can't dampen george poteet's addiction to bonneville's fault. he's already planning to building a new speed demon from scratch, to get that rush back, just one more time. >> it's a lightning jolt going through your body when you see the 5-mile marker and pull the parachute. you just feel like screaming, with joy. coming up, a skydive stunt stutters, and stalls. >> i was 20 seconds from being lay dead in the field. and later, an amped-up car hits the slopes in the alps.
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when caught on camera high velocity continues.
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♪ >> a skydiver is running out of time. and altitude. >> i can see my altim ter going to 2,000 feet into the red zone. >> the only two things that separate him from almost uncertain death. >> this was 100% unprecedented for me and unimaginable. >> the parachute center and ocampo, california, is open for business, weather permitting, 365 days a year. world championship skydiver craig stapleton, has more than 7,000 jumps under his belt. >> everything can happen in a split second. it can all change in a moment's notice. you've got to be ready. you've got to be on the edge. >> stapleton is one of an elite group doing formation sky dives,
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involving risky maneuver, homeding on to another jumper's shoot in mid-air. >> on this day his partner is a daredevil in her own right. >> she's the kind of person to take it on. >> craig and i jump together all the time. >> march 10th, 2013. hanson's recording their jump on her helmet cam. >> everybody has cameras. this is skydiving. >> stapleton and hanson are a good team with more than 11,000 jumps between them. stapleton has done this stunned they're about to tackle before, but it's the first time for hanson. >> there's like a learning curve where you actually have to figure out what could possibly go wrong. >> at 8,000 feet, they start their high-stakes stunt,
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tethering themselves together with both chutes open. >> i've actually crawled down the lines of her parachute so that my feet on her shoulders. >> he lowered down the tether, all i had to do was clip it in. then in the most delicate part of the maneuver, they separate and start to unfurl a huge american flag, which isn't seen yet on camera. >> its like flying in a hurricane, 80 miles an hour straight at the ground. >> but something goes terribly wrong. >> stapleton gets his foot tangled in his line, partially collapsing his parachute. >> first i'm thinkings, i'm such an idiot, i can't believe i let this happen. my arms got caught in the lines of the parachute. i knew i was dead right there. we were doing 60 to 70 miles an
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hour to the ground. >> i released my end of the flag, so the problem became just craig's and then i started just following him down. >> stapleton manages to free his arm and release the flag, but he's losing altitude and hope fast. >> now i'm down to one problem. i have a malfunctioning parachute. skydivers are trained from jump oun how to deal with a malfunction. >> the primary parachute was jammed. so the only way to cut it loose is to set it free. he can't get to the knife had his leg pocket. >> i put part of it in my teeth and was trying to hold tension and i couldn't do it. >> fighting desperately for his life, stapleton is down to his last resort opinion. >> i was 20 seconds from landing dead in a field. so i stopped doing what i was doing and i fired my reserve.
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>> i was watching, just please clear, please clear. >> stapleton's reserve parachute is so tangled, it can't help the primary chute slow down his fall. >> i'm at 1,200 feet and i've got a few seconds to think about what's important. >> about to land in a vineyard, a fellow skydiver's cell phone records stapleton as he plummets to earth. hanson races to her friend. >> don't move, craig! don't move! >> i was 100% sure that he was dead. >> hanson drops her helmet cam to the ground. >> what's your name? >> craig stapleton. >> where are you? >> south of the drop zone in the wine [ bleep ] field. >> amazingly stapleton is breathing and conscious but does
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he have internal injuries? >> i'm allergic to penicillin and iso dine. >> the first person to get to me was katie, and the relief, i can still hear it in my mind, oh, my gosh, you're still alive. >> he's rushed to the hospital and released that night with no broken bones and only minlor bruises. >> at 7:00 p.m. that night i walked out of the emergency room. >> in the hospital parking lot, friends are waiting to celebrate. >> it was probably the best sight i've ever seen. >> it turns out, stapleton may owe his life to the one row of freshly plowed dirt that helped to soften his 8,000-foot fall. >> so i landed right about here in front of one of these plants. >> five weeks after the accident, craig stapleton's back doing complicated formations. and there just may be another
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stars and stripes jump in his future. >> i pulled all the equipment out for that jump and i was looking at it, going, you know, i'm going to have to do that jump again. coming up, a skateboarder takes on the open road. >> you get this feeling of like holding on, barely in control. when "caught on camera: high velocity" continues.
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a long boarder hits a mind-boggling 60 miles an hour. >> my board started to move and bounce all over the place. >> no safety net. >> out of control. >> no surrender. >> san francisco area native james kelly is deeply rooted in california's skating culture. >> i've been skating all my life, but i really got into it when i was like 14. >> kelly came into his own in the western sierra mountains where his family owns a cabin.
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>> these roads are designed around old logging trails and deep mountain passes. so there's lots of big, wide, deep roads to go down. >> kelly's the 2012 world dune hill skateboarding champion. and he's gone faster than pretty much anyone on the planet. >> i don't call myself like a speed demon, but definitely an adrenaline junkie, you can't get away from the rush of the speed. >> but in addition to speed, it's the feeling of skating that's the essence of james kelly's style. >> with a long board, you can get down low and feel the g forces pressing against you as you turn and your body's hanging off the board. >> it's not an easy thing i do, but it's super soulful. >> august 19th, 2014. kelly's on a chute for a video to launch his own line of pro skateboards. >> the weather was perfect that day. sunny, clear skies, like 75.
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classic california stuff. i was free-riding style, around the hills, no weather, enjoying the hill. i was really high to start out. i was skating really hard. >> and also breaking the law. crossing the double yellow line. in the essence of california, skate speak, kelly describes what it feels like to be in the danger zone. >> you're in the apex of the vortex and you're just like feeling utopia through the tips of your skateboard, surf board, whatever it is. you're lost in the gnar, getting at it. >> that's gnar as in gnarly. and his ride is about to get really gnarly. >> you get this feeling of holding on barely in control, like right on the edge. i just got to the bottom section, just started like pinning it.
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>> at 60 miles an hour a helmet and slide gloves are kelly's only protection. >> i turned one way and the board went, i turned the other way and the board just escalated. my board started to move and bounce all over the place and yeah, just move out of control. >> kelly does a push-up on his slide gloof saving his face and maybe even his life. >>ical >>ical >> kelly's lucky to escape. >> when you get that feeling that you're about to fall and you commit to trying to hold on to your board as much as you can, or you commit to falling. i jumped. >> kelly has raced in organized competitions on five continents, but he'll never forget the cardinal rule he learns from the beginning, in races on the streets. >> when you forget to respect
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your skateboard, it will bite you with road rash. >> at another high octane pastime, a powerboat catches air at 179 miles an hour. >> i couldn't believe what i was seeing. >> and takes flight. >> it's like the boat was in the air for five minutes. >> this incident is something that you will never forget. >> [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> august 23rd, 2014, lake of the ozarks, missouri. it's the grand finale of a 12-day celebration of speed, called the shoot-out. a mile-long powerboat competition where pros battle it out for top bragging rights. >> it's like christmas morning, waiting to open your presents, waiting for that first big run. it's exciting. >> cory phelps is more than one of 100,000 powerboat enthusiasts who come back each year.
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>> it's the biggest party i've ever seen. the weather's always good, the sun is shining, it's fun. >> the temperature is a blistering 97 degrees. >> good morning, everyone. >> and local announcer brendan matthews is covering the event live. >> we've been on the air for a little more than an hour, we know we could see some history made in very short order. >> a local news camera captures a two-man crew, driver and throttleman, at the beginning of their first speed run in a new carbon fiber boat named "no stress." >> it's like the boat is on rails. it's a perfect 10 out of 10 run at this point. >> cory phelps has a different vantage point. >> we were anchored probably a few hundred yards up from the finish line. that's where we like to be, because that's where they're hitting their top speed. grabbed my camera, and when i saw it, it was running about 180
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miles an hour. >> firefighter jonathan rudea is standing by on make an emergency rescue, just in case. >> when you're reaching speeds close to 200 miles an hour on the water, anything can happen. >> and it does. >> the nose started coming up, and i knew he was in trouble. he did a complete back flip, and then his nose hit the water and that's when he got really high. >> whoa! >> i was immediately in shock. and i was scared. he had to be up there at least 50, 60 feet. >> the powerboat slams into the water upside down, and flips back right side up. >> spectators are holding their breath, scanning the water for any signs of life. and then -- >> we have somebody in the cockpit moving. >> we have movement. >> first responders on the scene
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in seconds. >> we had one patient sitting upright, still belted into his chair. we saw another patient who was pinned on the floor of the boat. >> both victims are rushed to the hospital. joel is released with minor injuries. but tragically, the throttleman dies a few days later. >> it could have been anything. but it looks to me like air got under the nose of the boat and sent it up in the air. >> chewed-out competitors will feels loss for years to come, but fans say his legacy will endure. >> mike's a big name out here, he's done a lot for the community, a lot for this lake, and it's not going to stop now. it's going to continue to grow. coming up, fast and furious on a slippery slope in the alps. >> it's kind of scary and i knew we were going to roll.
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>> when "caught on camera: high velocity" continues.
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hello, everybody. two alleged gunmen were shot and killed out of a muhammad art exr exhibit in texas last night. a security was shot, treated and released. police shot the suspects. they are checking the suspects' vehicle, trying to ensure there are no bombs. we'll continue to monitor this situation and bring you the latest. now it's back to "caught on camera." >> a four-wheel drive car with a thousand horsepower engine goes airborne off a 20-ton ramp, in one of the scariest stunts ever caught on camera. >> i can feel my eyes like moving out of my head.
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>> march 18th, 2014, france. for more than a year, rally driver gerlan has been on a mission to break the world's longest car jump of 332 feet. >> it will be okay. i just need to do it. >> months of meticulous planning and preparation have come down to this. >> the timing was really, really tight. >> he has to make his record car jump before ski lifts open at 9:00 a.m. and the weather is less than ideal. >> the snow was really melting, so i was losing grip, and the visibility was really not good. >> during the past week, the trial jumps have been perfect. each jump increasing by a staggering 50 feet. >> i really felt i was really
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light and flying like a bird, you know. >> he's lived here in france his entire life. he seems to know everyone in the hard-core ski resort famous for its rugged terrain at the foot of a glacier. >> he's the team's ambassador for europe. >> he put the town on the map, with four world free ski championships. and if you need any further proof that being a daredevil is in his dna, just two months earlier, his car crashed at the gruelling dakar rally. >> he's a free spirit, and ready to try anything. >> but make no mistake, he's also a control freak. his engineers have calculated more than a dozen jump parameters. >> the ramp has been built specially for this event. >> the morning of his world-record attempt, he's
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scheduled for two final speed runs. >> my family was there. my newborn baby was there and my wife was watching me. >> with weather conditions getting warmer by the second, he decides to skip his second test run. it's go time. but the only way he'll be able to reach 100 miles an hour is to get further up on an incline. 40 gopro cameras mounted inside and outside his camera are recording every second. he revs his engine and heads toward destiny. >> i was really focused on my drive. the car was really moving a lot from the snow, so i was really focused on my life, as i tried to stay straight as much as possible. >> if he doesn't reach 100 miles an hour, 160 kilometers per hour
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on his car's speedometer, he can abort at the last second. >> when i saw 160, i say, yes, wow, boom. >> in a heart beat, he's airborne, taking a look out of his window, 60 feet off the ground. >> just to see where i was, because when the car is jumping like this, except the sky, i cannot see anything. >> his adrenaline-charged eyes reflect the fear of a life or death moment. his car has rotated too far forward and lands nose first. the g forces are so violent, he can't pull his arms back into a tuck position to protect himself from the seemingly endless
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spins. >> the g force was really, really too strong. i did almost three loops in the air before hitting the second time. >> after 12 jolting somersaults, his battered car comes to a wreck. his wife doesn't know if he survived or if he's been torn to pieces by the force of impact. >> [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> you feel like you could have possibly lost your other half and the father of your children. yeah, you can't explain that. >> he's alive inside the wreckage, but frightened by the smell of gas, and a possible explosion. he gets out as quickly as possible. >> i was so, so, so thankful that my girls have their dad, and my love of my life is okay.
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>> after an overnight stay at the hospital, he returns home. >> i had 20 stitches in my leg. that's nothing crazy. >> in retrospect, he said he felt the car's undercarriage hit the ground the instant he reached the bottom of the ramp. >> that will make the call we're done. and that's what happened. for sure it's kind of scary and i knew we were going to roll upon. >> even though his astounded 341-foot jump isn't official because he crashed, it's 9 feet longer than the world record. >> he always tells me he's a machine and i believe it. >> and there's always the prospect of sailing into the unknown one more time. >> you just have to wait and see where i go, you know. coming up, a daredevil breaks the law and pays the
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price. >> i thought, this is it. this is me dead. and later, the world's fastest land animal chases a record. when caught on camera: high velocity continues. just for men touch of gray velocity continues. "caught on c velocity" continues. you used to sleep like a champ.
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>> it's better than sex, i'd say, riding a motorcycle. >> go! >> if it's a passion and you're connected to the motorcycle, it's an amazing thing to do. >> named for the quaint pub at its summit, the cat and fiddle has a sobering claim to fame. according to road safety experts, it's the most dangerous road in all of britain. >> yes, come and enjoy it, by all means. but do not ride beyond your means. and that's as simple as that. >> according to motor vehicle statistics, 44 people died or were seriously injured here in just four years. bikers like jack sanderson know the laws and risks, but they're drawn to the cat and fiddle's hairpin curves anyway. >> imagine being sat on a rocket that's firing from the front,
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that's the feeling you get from riding a motorcycle. >> especially when you're onboard a 110 horsepower sports bike like jack sanderson. >> 163 miles an hour, i clocked it at. >> the speed limit is 50, but dry road conditions mean anything but to jack sanderson and a friend. >> we were having a bit of a play. we were going quick. >> and it's all being recorded on sanderson's helmet cam. >> usually you get some good footage you can make a little video of. >> they don't have a road to themselves so there's a bottleneck when they gain on another biker and have to slow down. that's when sanderson starts to get antsy. >> i was behind my friend, and i saw an opportunity to overtake. >> sanderson breaks the law and crosses the double white line, the right lane in the uk, and
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can see there's no traffic coming. but the next two curves are blind. >> i noticed i was going a bit quick and going a bit wide, at which point i decided to brake. >> seconds from a head-on collision, jack sanderson's about to become the next cat and fiddle statistic. >> rime i'm faced with two choices, hit the car, or avoid the car and hit the fence. i chos the fence. >> the camera flies off his helmet. he catapults down the slope and bangs his head. >> all my vision was black and white, and i couldn't hear anything. >> lucky to be alive, he picks himself and his camera up and climbs back to the road. >> i missed the car by inches.
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and i was lucky it wasn't a stonewall like this one. i'm lucky it was barbed wire and i'm also lucky that i landed in a field full of grass. i ended up about 50 feet down into the ravine there. >> fortunately the car didn't veer off the road, and it's hard to believe jack sanderson's motorcycle is the only thing destroyed in the crash. >> i had a cut on my index finger and a cut on my thumb when i crashed into that, and i ended up with a slight concussion as well. >> his video goes viral within days after he posts it as a warning to others. >> i thought if it just slows one person down, even just one mile an hour, it's doing its job. >> but the video's popularity backfires when it gets the attention of police, who show up at sanderson's door two months later with a summons for dangerous driving. >> i received a two-year ban from the roads, a 2,000-pound
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fine, 300 hours community service and a 12-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months. >> sanderson's determined to climb back on his bike again, after he gets his license back. >> it's something that's going to stay with me forever. >> but next time, sanderson says his need for speed will be tamed by his experience on the cat and fiddle. >> you can't treat a public road as a racetrack, that's just wrong. on another challenging road in europe, a runaway rally car suddenly veers off course and heads straight for a crowd of spectators. >> my only thought was, where are we going to end up? >> october 6th, 2014. 9:00 a.m. in italy in a scenic village nestled high up in the
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alps. cars roar around hair-pin kuvss in the first stage of the annual val dofta valy. >> instead of going on vacations, we spend our money on racing. >> navigator diego's job is to help the driver drive the car by making sure he anticipates curves and road conditions on the challenging rally route. >> translator: the day started out cloudy, but road conditions were dry. and perfect for racing. >> mario gets his jolt of excitement as a spectator. recording and posting rallies on his youtube channel. a few minutes after 9:00 a.m., he starts shooting from the end of a straight-away, where he has
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a good view of two curves at the top of the stage. >> translator: i ended up in that exact spot by chance. >> his camera records the precise fraction of a second things start to go terribly wrong for car number 19. >> translator: i saw a car sliding towards the outside of the curve. i think the wheels didn't hold because we entered the curve a little too fast. it went off the road here and the wheel jumped this curve. >> there were barrelling towards spectators at 80 miles an hour. >> usually a wall is a pretty safe position. >> the wall was about two meters high, so it seemed safe. >> but not this time. after going airborne, the car slams into the hill, and stars to cartwheel end over end toward
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a group of spectators. >> in that moment, i didn't think i was on top of the wall. that poor girl who was sitting there was so frozen by fear she couldn't move. >> she escapes being kraushed by just inches. >> it fell from here and landed out in the street. >> after crashing upside down, doreen's car rolls one last time before coming to rest. >> translator: i unfastened my seat belt and got out of the car. >> the naveigator and driver are hospitalized with just minor injuries. >> translator: a little bit ahead is where the people were watching. >> amazingly, the female spectator escapes without a scratch. >> translator: the video only lasts a few seconds, but when you're inside it, it never ends.
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it keeps going, going, and going. >> but not long enough to quench diego's thirst for racing. >> translator: i think i'll continue because i've always raced. and it's my passion. coming up, the world's best sprinter struts her stuff. when "caught on camera: high qult" continues. vqult" continue. . . . . . . . .
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only one creature has bragging rights as the world's speediest land animal. >> you're just thinking, go, go, go, go, faster, faster. >> so explosive it can accelerate from 0 to 60 faster than a maserati.
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>> june 20th, 2012, a fan from the cincinnati zoo is transporting a cheetah named sarah, to a sort of cheetah racetrack on the outskirts of the city. the cincinnati zoo is proud to have one of the world's leading cheetah conservation programs am. >> we say we're the cheetah capital of the world. >> all thanks to the program founder kathryn. >> this is the cat that i snatched. we put a pink ribbon around her neck so i could tell her apart. she starts to pace back and forth and back and forth, because she knows she's going to run. >> she came up with a common sense but novel concept, if a cat like sarah is born for speed, then let her run. >> go go go! >> there are no cheetahs in cages at our zoos. no cheetahs in cages anymore. >> when cheetahs are forced to
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lie around, they gain weight, they don't look good. they lose a lot of their sparkle. our cats have sparkle. >> sarah owns the fastest time ever recorded for the 100-meter dash. and on this day conditions may be ripe for a new world record. >> i think it was upper 80s maybe. it was a warm day. >> more than 50 cheetahs have been bred in captivity here at this farm. >> they're found in the savannah of africa. there's a small population of them in the middle east, but they're primarily savannah species. >> hillker has loved cheetahs her entire life. >> i saw cheetahs at or cincinnati zoo in cages when i was a little girl. >> cheetahs are one of the world's most endangered cats. >> from 100,000 in the 1900s, down to 10,000 today. that's a terrible slip.
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>> sarah's one of the stars of the cincinnati zoo's cat ambassador program in schools, helping to raise funds and awareness. >> we have bought land in africa to make it safe for the cheetah. we have given money to many cheetah projects in africa where cheetahs are saved from traps. >> the funny little zoo on the ohio river has made a big difference in cheetah conservation. >> on this june day, national geographic is using special slow-motion cameras racing alongside the cheetahs on a 410-foot track, hoping to capture a new world-record sprint. >> cheetahs are the fastest animal in the world because they're built for speed. >> hillker gets cheetahs to run fast in captivity by simulating the conditions in africa where cheetahs chase their prey. only her system uses an
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artificial lure. >> you want this? >> that lure system which we use to pull the string with the dog toy on it. that pulls the string fast enough that the cat ka chase it. >> good girl! >> the lure's movement has to be realistic enough to mimic actually prey on the run, or the cheetah will lose sbr, and its reward of meat. >> they must want that thing more than anything in the world. >> you have to make sure that that lure, is just within reaching distance of that cat. so every stride they cake when they're running, they think they're just about there and just going to get it. >> sarah takes off, but is the tempation of the lure enough to break her own world record. ears tucked back, she races against the clock. >> she was at 62 miles an hour and still accelerating.
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♪ [ applause ] >> good girl! >> 5.95, she broke her own speed. >> sarah crushes her own world record for the 100-meter dash with a time of 5.95 seconds. >> 11 years old, she breaks her own record, going uphill. >> that's amazing. >> that's pretty old for a cat. so we always tell people it would be like your grandmother beating usain bolt at the 100-meter dash. >> unfortunately, national geograph geographic's cameras missed sarah's world record sprint. >> it's the most challenging animal to get video of. >> but their cameras are able to record precious seconds of astounding footage of other runs, that capture the mystery
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and the magic of what makes cheetahs the world's fastest land animals. >> i think the most important thing we learned for us from that video footage was the head. the head never moves, in the entire run. the nails are digging into the earth, then you see the hind legs coming clear up besides the shoulders of the cheetah. no other animal can do that, and you look at that and you think, oh, my goodness, that must never go away. we must never say goodbye to that. >> sarah has taught her human companion what's in the heart of every cheetah kept in a cage at a zoo. >> cheetah would say, if you do not let me run, you will not let my spirit out of this body, and i will never, ever feel that wind in my face. i'll never feel the pounding of
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my feet on the ground, i will never feel those things if you don't allow me to run. ♪ . this sunday, beyond baltimore. the unrest in american cities. >> police officers are out of control. >> six baltimore police officers charged in the death of freddie gray. >> no one is above the law. >> what needs to be done? >> i'll be joined which by the mayor of baltimore, stephanie rawlings blake and the former mayor and governor of maryland, o'malley. the front-runner for the democratic presidential nomination. >> when i say hillary clinton, what do you say? >> give me a word or phrase, first thing that comes to

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