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help. police say the woman told them the driver tried to rob her but when she told him she didn't have any money, she was forced into the trunk. police still haven't found the driver of that vehicle. and whoever was driving this truck is going to have some explaining to do to their boss. the cherry picker is flying high and nearly slams into a bunch of signs and poles on an el paso, texas, highway. somehow the bucket missed every pole and sign by what seems like a few inches. the person shooting the video eventually sped up and alerted the driver. >> i've seen someone do that in a ladder truck before. >> with the mast up. happens all time. it's amazing how far people will go for their pets. even goldfish. a pet owner in san antonio, texas had a goldfish with a swim fwlader disorder causing the pet to float upside down at the bottom of the tank. >> for this
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aquarium store came up with a goldfish wheelchair. the frame is made from air tubing and styrofoam. now the little fellow can go up and down as he pleases. >> so cute. >> it is cute. >> i thought it was interesting. i always thought they die quickly. perron they can live for more than a decade. it's our fault that they die. >> yeah. we don't feed them properly. >> don't clean them properly. >> they make the best pets. i like how they greet you when you walk home. >> you don't have to clean up after them too much. >> too much. coming up what every parent needs to know about the smoke alarms in your home. what new research is showing they're not doing and what you need to do to protect your family during a fire. >> turning up the heat on march madness, our own "world news now" team is taking the bracket challenge. yeah. but first, here's a look at today's temperatu
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guess i won't be seeing you for a while. why take medicines that only last 4 hours, when just one mucinex lasts 12 hours? let's end this. we're back with a new warning for parents about the smoke detectors in your home. >> new research shows that despite strides in technology, the vast majority of children are sleeping through even the most ear piercing electronic learns. gio benitez checked it out. >> we're inside a connecticut home with firefighter travis. we wanted to see what would happen, will smoke alarms wake up the children of the mcbride family landon, 3 1/2 and noel, 1. >> it will be really interesting to see what happens. our son usually can sleep knew everything. >> they have an action plan in place in case there's a fire and included their 3 1/2-year-old. he knows to be up and ready to go the moment that alarm goes off. >> you'veal
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about the moek alarms. >> he knows the sound. >> we have a plan and a fire ladder in our bedroom and our plan is to get them and get the ladder and get out. >> what should every family be thinking about when it comes to smaekby smoke alarms. >> making sure the detectors work. the code nowadays is put them in the bedrooms, outside the bedrooms and one on every level especially on stair well because the smoke rises. >> we rigged up cameras in the kids' rooms and have a great view using their baby monitors. after they fall asleep, our firefighter brings in a smoke alarm with their doors open. we set it off. >> i'm nervous. >> he's not waking up. >> she's not either. >> when you sue he that, what do you think. >> i mean, that's nod good what makes me think is would we hear it. >> next we set off the family's much louder smoke alarm system
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alarms are found in all the bedrooms, the hallway and down stairs. >> think they'll wake up? >> i do because they're in their room. >> that's right. there are speakers in their rooms. we trigger them and wait. >> turn them off. >> emergency, emergency. fleas there's smoke. >> 20 seconds later. >> he is still sleeping. > both of them. >> i truly thought they were going to wake up. like truly. >> i mean, i'm shocked. >> like. >> i'm shocked looking at this. still asleep. that definitely, i feel, would have woken me up but i guess not when it's a kid. >> i truly, truly, truly thought they would have woken up. >> an unbelievable four minutes later the alarm still blaring and neither wakes up. >> as a mom and dad, what do you feel when you see this? >> it just makes you think that you have to, not that you wouldn't react quick but it's kind of like you've really got to react the second you hear that because t
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to hear it. >> gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> so the key is going into your kids' room and getting this em. >> getting them. >> not to assume they are going to get up. >> yeah. there is some research they're going to see if hearing the parents voice saying emergency gets the kids up. >> if that would help. good research. coming up, we're closing in on the tipping point for this season's march madness. >> have you filled out your brackets? hurry up. we'll let you in on the bracketology brainstorming going on right here. diane returns next. was so gros. lysol disinfectant spray kills 99.9% of bacteria, even those that cause stomach bugs. one more way you've got what it takes to protect. mthat stuff only lasts a few hours. or, take mucinex. one pill fights congestion for 12 hours. guess i won't be seeing you for a while. why take medicines that only last 4 hours, when just one mucinex
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out to get your brackets filled. march madness tipping off at 12:00 noon eastern time now. >> you can still win your office pool are a little googling and lots of luck. >> is that the key? so for our office pool, diane and i decided to go head to head with our own bracket challenge. obama, eat your heart out. >> reporter: it is ncaa back the time. >> uh-huh. >> and so i came up with an idea. >> okay, great. >> since neither one of our schools are in the actual brarkts we can somehow make it about them, the one with the worst bracket has to dress up as the other school as mascot. >> that sounds like a great idea. >> so you're going to be dresses up. >> what's your mascot? >> i have no idea. >> if this is what you think is going to work, okay, great. >> i know smu is southern methodist university but it looks like smu which is fun to say. >> bless you.
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mark few. mark few. >> so gonzaga is going to go pretty far in this. you just handle yours. i'm doing all right. >> i didn't realize you were such a basketball aficionado. x-men so xavier is going to go far because reminds me of professor. >> we're talking jalen bronson, villanova. >> jalen here on the villanova team is an excellent, excellent player. >> greatest of all time. >> he's one of the greatest of all time. thunder cats. >> nope. >> no, wildcats. i pick villanova cats. alone zo trier. >> he's back from suspension. >> just returned from -- you returned from suspension. >> how do you know that? >> alonzo trier. i know these things. >> you have no idea what you're talking about. >> miami versus michigan. i would love to be in miami right now because it's cold.
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so miami. >> harry geils on the duke team. what is frank's last name. >> are you asking me what prank's last name is? >> no. >> what are you asking. >> kentucky, villanova, duke, tennessee, arizona. >> st. mary's. kansas for the win. i think the wids of oz is going to help them win the tournament. >> according to my list here, it's going to be north carolina. >> not nova. >> they got a diaper dandy on the team. the kid's a real player. >> going to go north carolina. >> you just said nova. >> north carolina. >> you said nova. why would you change your final pick? >> because i meant. >> what is -- >> i meant north. >> what is this? i know what's going on here. >> i was just
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music. >> hey, bri. you talking to kendis. >> i talk to people. >> i knew you were feeding him the answers. sports illustrated from the future? >> something like that. >> where did you even get this? it's in russian? >> no! >> code red! code red! >> how come you're not in slow mo? >> did you get to keep your answers? >> yes, we have them all set up. she picked kansas to go the whole way. i picked north carolina. here's the deal. she kept going north carolina, north carolina and she has north carolina getting into the final four. she picked north carolina wilmington as opposed to your alma mater, unc. by the way, oswego cannot afford
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