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hello, everyone, i'm beth trautman, it is tuesday, october 4th, and you're watching "right this minute." the video astounding. a puppy washed away by giant waves. >> was your heart just pounding
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during this whole thing? >> oh, my gosh. >> we found the guy who helped come to the rescue. >> you're about to get an unusual invitation. >> i'd like to invite you into my home to watch my home birth live online. >> meet the doctor/mom who wants millions to watch her deliver. it's a robbery in progress, only until this boy hero steps in. and regular planking so 2010. "right this minute," it's all about the bro plank. >> i feel sorry for the top guy, his head is kind of in an awkward position. >> oh! so i have an animal, and a human rescue to show you guys. this is coming to us from chicago. and this is right near lake michigan. so there was bad weather this day and this guy is capturing it on his camera. and then he notices that there's a woman like right in the middle over here.
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>> a puppy. >> wait, wait. >> you see the little spot in the water? >> there's a little dog in there. >> a puppy. >> so she goes in to try to get her puppy. and a guy comes in to try to get her out of the water and it turns out eventually the guy that's capturing the footage. he puts the camera down and goes over to tries to help the guy that tries to help the girl. we have alex, on skype "right this minute." it was very cool what you did. >> i definitely had like a moral issue. i could have filmed the rest of it and got a million hits on youtube or something. but i had to set the camera down and go see if i could help. >> was your heart just pounding during this whole thing? >> oh, my gosh. it was -- the biggest adrenaline rush i had since i went on the top fuel dragster at cedar point. >> how did everything turn out?
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was everyone saved? >> we got the guy out, he walked home because he was soaked and cold. so he needed to go home and put warm clothes on or whatever. >> and the lady whose dog it was, she sat on the edge near the water. she was in shock for a little bit. and yeah, the dog was fine, it was cold. shaking. just a little rat dog thing. >> thank you so much for talking to us, alec. i think you're a hero. it was the short drive amanda knox hoped for. the one that took her from prison to freedom in italy. she had spent four years in jail for murder. when the verdict was read, take a look at ha happened on this twitter feed. tweets were flying faster than you could attempt to read them. one twitter measuring site claims that amanda knox was one of the top things people were tweeting about on monday afternoon.
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this video looks like it was directly out of an old "miami vice" episode. that's why i loved it and i wanted it show it to you guys. what you're looking at is a semi submersible submarine driven by drug cartels. on board is $180 million in cocaine. the video taken by the u.s. cot d and comi tfrom the defens imagery system distribution. what you're seeing are five crew members of this semi submersible submarine just off the coast of honduras in the western caribbean. coast guard, fbi and honduran navy were searching for this submarine for ten days, it happened back in july. they were able to recover $180 million worth of cocaine before this puppy sank. geez. did they sink it on purpose? >> i believe that the submarine was scuttled purposely. so the law wouldn't be able to recover the drugs.
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you see the crew members jumping into the water. they were rescued and detained. i thought that was remarkable video of this whole bust. going down. >> that boat is not -- it doesn't look like it's going slow and he's got his arms up like i give up. he might fall off. which it looks like some of them might. look at it go down. >> don johnson would be proud of this one. >> where's tubbs when you need him, you know? we're fresh off of the colts/tampa bay buccaneers monday night football game. american tradition, but something was missing from last night's broadcast. ♪ are you ready for some football ♪ ♪ on monday night party >> that famous song by hank williams injure was pulled from last night's espn broadcast because of the comments from hank williams junior earlier in the day on fox and friends, take a look at this. >> you remember the golf game they had. >> you mean when john boehner
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played golf with president obama? >> oh yeah. yeah. and biden and kasich, yeah, uh-huh. >> what did you not like about it? it seemed to be a pivotal moment for you. >> it would be like hitler playing golf with netanyahu, okay? >> espn said we're extremely disappointed with his comments and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast. >> you don't call people hitler. you don't call the president of the united states hitler, i don't care if he's a democrat or a republican. you don't call people that. >> hank made a statement that said in short some of us have strochb opinions and are often misunderstood. mine was extreme and it was to make a point. >> people can say whatever you want to say. it's american. >> buff you have to be ready for people to say, what the heck are you saying. >> this is pretty crazy
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surveillance video. what you're seeing pause on your screen here is a quiet district attorney's office. 1:00 p.m. on sunday afternoon. >> so nothing is going on. >> oh! that car under arrest? >> green pickup truck drives right into -- wait, the district attorney's office and backs out. the craziest part is that the truck had to drive up a few steps in order to get up to the actual doors and windows in order to crash in. and then back out and drive away. they still haven't found this person. if anybody has seen this truck, missing a side-view mirror. >> i can't believe the person crashed into the door and backed out. went back down the stairs and is still missing. >> they don't know if this was intentional. if this was an accident. but they're still looking for the driver and the green pickup truck. >> he obviously knew where he crashed through.
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>> ironically, the jail house is right near this building. where he might end up if things don't go well. this might be one of those videos that just says -- if you're planning a robbery, don't do this. >> it's 10:00 a.m. in the morning in this busy station off scenic highway, where you can see lieutenant bw brown walk by on the left side of your screen. a minute later, 21-year-old steven daniel walks up to the counter demanding cash. >> give me all your money or [ bleep ]. >> some robbers, got to feel for them. >> so listen, this video comes to us from wsb tv channel 10 news in atlanta. they got ahold of the footage and they tossed it off and they arrested this guy. >> i don't know what he's going on, but he's not dumb enough with me standing right behind him. >> he wasn't armed, he wasn't doing anything particularly dangerous. except going in there and trying to hold up the place with a cop standing right behind him the
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whole time. >> he was probably so nervous he forgot to like case the place. look around, check his surroundings. >> when the cashier is cracking up the whole time he's standing there, like what. and all of the customers are still you can see them in the video, are ringing up their stuff, whatever, fine. >> what happened to steven, do you know? >> what happened to steven was that he did get arrested like you heard and he was charged with robbery by fear. although they did note that nobody was really afraid because everybody was just laughing way too much to be afraid at that point. >> i never even heard of robbery by fear. from dumb criminal to brazen robber. look at this surveillance video from turkey, with an unlikely hero. this video coming to us from ntv. a masked gunman comes into a jewelry store and there's a 12-year-old boy right behind him who grabs for the gunman's gun. enough to distract the gunman, he runs out the door. turkish police wound up arresting a man who lived nearby after this dramatic video was
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captured and seen by police. what a brave little boy. probably not the smartest thing to do, but thwarted a robbery. forget kate plus eight, now there's mom of six, she'll clear up the latest shenanigans in a house full of boys. and we've got an exclusive interview with justin bieber. okay, it's not really justin, but we'll tell you how this guy is making bank off the beebs.
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i'm curious, if you're like a mile away from water and you saw a well, would you be able a little perplexed? >> i would assume it's not a whale at first. >> that's what happened near yorkshire, england. they found this. this is a whale. 33 feet long, they found it a mile away from water. what had happened is the tide
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had come in that far, it was actually a shallow tide. and they think the whale had gone in to find food and got strand stranded. they say they're going to be able to use her for science. this is the third time it's happened in the area. they think it's due to a change in sea currents. that it's bringing water closer to the shoreline and causing these whales to come in it try to find food. >> a mile? that's a little mind-blowing. >> guys, quick, i want to you look at the screen and tell me who are we looking at in the pictures, just look. >> beebs. >> the bieber. >> this is a bieber impersonator. >> get out of dodge. >> this is anthony delatorre, he doesn't just look like bieber. anthony has begun touring all over the country, going to teens and 'tweens birthday parties and is getting paid $300 to $ 600 per hour for these appearances. and he's got you know, girls
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running up to him and fainting. and he's been signing autographs. 17-year-old anthony is joining us via skype right this mint. anthony, we feel like we're talking to the beebs, man. >> when did you realize you looked like justin bieber. >> a ton of people started telling me at school. and then when i searched him up and i was like, holy crap, this guy really does look like me. >> anthony, you've been to ohio, new york, kentucky, boston, performing at these parties. you have a little beef with bieber. because you've got the famous bieber haircut, right? >> i have a family to feed and he cut his hair. >> how are you coping with the fact that bieber changed his hairstyle? >> it's really hard. it's really hard. a lot of sleepless nights. i'm hoping that he gross it back out soon. >> have you yet been paired up with a selena gomez? >> funny story, my sister, she just got hired as a selena gomez
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impersonator. and we're going to our first party together in new york, for thanksgiving. and it's going to be hilarious. someone doesn't want a bath. take one. >> get in the bath. aurora, get in the bath. >> get in there. go. go on. get in the bath. aurora, get in there. go on. get in the bath. get in the bath. get in the bath. it's great when the magic moments in the life of a parent are caught on video. this is youtube channel known as the mom of six boys. >> awww. >> that's a big job. >> and sheryl is the mom of six boys. and this just happened to be one of her daily adventures in parenting. >> try it again.
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>> this is little leon, and leon -- decided to try on his training potty list. >> oh, my goodness. >> we can actually find out how leon ended up with the toilet seat on his head. because we have the mom of six boys "right this minute" via skype. okay, sheryl, how did leon get the toilet seat on his head? >> that is a complete mystery. but i can tell you that he watched his twin brother, dane, do it a few months prior. so i guess he learned from his brother. >> what are the ages of your boys? >> dylan is almost 11 and then linden is eight, i have eight, seven, janine is three and the twins, dane and leon are two. >> the moment i'm sorry we missed was the moment when mom said, you have a toilet seat on your head, hold on while i get the camera. >> i was happy i didn't have to
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go far to get it. it seems like there's never a day that goes by without some moment that my boys seem to get themselves into and i'm so happy i have a camera nearby to capture it. we're down on in our news room looking for stories. nick, are you going to wow me? >> i'm going to electrify you with tesla motors new sedan. they had a demonstration this past weekend of their new, much-anticipated four-door sedan. the model s, it's got about 160-mile range on the base model, but you can pay more and get up to a 300-mile range. 6,000 people have reserved one. >> this like the high-end electric car. the luxury electric car? >> exactly. it's pretty slick-looking car. a car that you're seeing goes for about $50,000. that's after some government tax breaks and things like that. not tremendously expensive. >> how fast will it go on the highway? >> they did some demonstrations,
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and they did a zero to 70 quick start and people were impressed with how quickly it got up and went. they expect to make about 20,000 of these each yea and they hope starter july. >> i love the electric car is making the comeback. now we have to make sure we have charging stations everywhere so that people can plug their cars in when they get to work. >> and i like that it's an american company, too. >> yeah, way to go, usa. attention all bros, we have a new kind of bromance bonding, the new trend you're going to want to try. this tiny dancer stole the show. and whether you have a little brother or not, you'll love this video. oó?ñ?ñ?ñ7ówñóñ?oñ'o
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♪ little brothers can be quite the rascals. but these you just got to love. >> so this is taylor. and this is a few years ago when she was in high school. practicing, you know, her drill team's routine. this whole time, their mom is cracking up. because she's behind the camera, recording this. taylor thinks she's laughing at how awkward she's being on camera. not realizing there's a little guy putting on the real show in the background. he's finally gets caught and the last thing you hear before the
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video comes to an end is -- i need to know what happens to little bo after the mom yell. >> i tried to get in, but i didn't. so i didn't actually beat him up or anything. people think i did. >> in this video, bo is five years old. it was a few years ago. he's now 13 and he's on skype ready to talk to us about that fateful day. are you surprised that your dancing is getting so much attention? >> it had like 200 views and now it's like 100,000. >> maybe our news channel, our hometown news, but no, it's been a lot bigger. >> bo, of all the dance moves you did in the video, what's your favorite in. >> 007, the wall. >> i can relate with this little guy, man. when you get the opportunity to embarrass or freak out your older sister, you got to do it. okay, everybody -- look at the scene before you.
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where is the octopus? i see him, i think. bottom left? here? oh! >> oh! >> what? >> it came out of nowhere. >> i mean could you tell that was an octopus? >> no. where was he? >> that's roger han lon, in woods hole, he works for marine laboratory. he was shooting under water. he screamed when he saw that. >> they did it in slow motion so you could see it coming out. i think i would have swam by that not knowing what it was, if it hadn't taken off and sprayed its ink. >> that's cool as hell, do it again. >> i think i've seen something like this before. >> if you want to see what we're talking about and see how an octopusappeared outf nowhere,
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minute.com. you guys know on the show i like to say the word bro as much as possible. it's not just a show, true. which is why i love the video of the bro plank. >> oh. >> no way. >> we're joking around, that's a serious feat of strength. i mean look at these guys, it's just one guy lifting himself up off the ground, his other buddy there with his arms around his friend's waist. are they including batmanning into the bro plank? >> a perfect observation, nicholas, yes. the first-ever recorded video of a blow plank with a batmanning background. >> wow. >> this video comes to us from the youtube channel sunday fun-days. there's got to be some sort of science explanation here of how they're able to actually do this. >> they're kind of cantileverd
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on each other, right? >> this takes major core strength to do. to be quite honest, bro, i'm impressed with the blow plank. >> i feel sorry for the top guy. his head is kind of in an awkward position. >> oh. can you imagine if the guy on the bottom -- >> we took this to a whole different place. >> your butt smells so good today. mmm. gross! fire so intense it spawned a fire tornado and as you'll see, swallowed up a giant fire engine. and a dude documents his entire ink evolution, step by painful step. so it almost looks like the tattoo is sort of growing out of his arm.
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it's a video tour of duty. soldiers in rare form as they roll through afghanistan.
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you'll trek along. she's had a baby before, but now, this woman wants you to watch her give birth online. why are you doing this? we'll have answers straight from mom. if you like bookish guy, then you will love the men of the stacks. >> i don't understand how -- >> we'll explain it, steven. welcome back to "right this minute," everyone. we bring you video from all over the world and right now, christian is going to take us to afghanistan, right? >> it comes from a camera positioned 0en a soldier's helmet. it's a point of view we almost never get to see. because this is a soldier in a middle of a gun fight. shooting the activity and what is going on. they're actually in an area of afghanistan called the regional command south, a stronghold of the taliban. and it's also the center for
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opium trade. so it's a highly dangerous place. i want to show you guys this instance right here. because you know, oftentimes they inadvertently shoot innocent people in the area. we see the soldiers hold their fire and let a man who is on a bike just bike past where they're at. before they continue shooting. >> that goes to show you what's going on in afghanistan. that a man is on his bike riding his bike through a gun fight. we typically don't see stuff like this except in the movies. >> he's whipping out his iphone to take a picture of the sunset, no kidding. >> it makes you incredibly grateful for what our men and women in uniform do every day, for us. >> yesterday, a tremendous blaze broke out about 30 miles south of dallas. in a place called waxahachie, texas. take a look at some of the
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images from this fire. this is at a plant, a chemical plant called magna-blend incorporated. they do custom chemical blending for everything from oil companies to industrial cleaners to construction companies. and the fire moves so quickly, that it overtook the sprinkler system and had burned out half of the back of the building of the factory before firefighters could even begin to battle the blaze. >> take a look at a different view that i found. now look at some -- you could see the burning liquid moving along. talk about how fast this fire moved. it moved so quick that firefighters couldn't get their fire truck out of the way. one of the fire trucks was trapped right near the fire. this is about a million-dollar ladder truck that the fire department lost because the burning liquid just flowed rght underneath the u and in seconds. >> they had to evacuate an
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eight-block radius around the fire. it came dangerously close to the railliners right by the flames. luckily none of those went up in flames. all the employees, all the visitors at the plant got out safely before the blaze. >> those rail cars were also loaded with a chemical called naptha, which is another dangerous chemical. it's remarkable that the blowing fire didn't light those cars up, either. >> and over here to the left of your screen, you see something that's pretty rare. a fire tornado. >> wow. >> you see it just spinning, churning there in the middle of your screen. >> i didn't even know that was something that exists, a fire tornado. >> remarkably no one was injured in this tremendous fire. it's time for some protest footage. this time it's not coming from wall street or from the middle east. this is happening in the capital of iceland, reykjavik. for the fall session, the government talks a walk.
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thousands of protesters gathered, they threw yogurt and eggs, hit some members of parliament in the face. you see torches in the background. >> is there some kind of dairy subsidy they're protesting. >> they've been struggling since 2008. they want to remove inflation indexing on home loans, debt correction. this woman is the first lady. she comes out of the line, away from the march and starts hugging protesters, shaking their hands. and then, she climbs over the fence and joins them. >> whoa. >> where do their husbands stand on the issue? >> it doesn't matter, she's got the country the country are saying we want this would to be the next president of iceland. her husband was one of the government officials who had an egg thrown at him. there's questions as to whether or not there is a pr stunt or if she is really in support of the protesters. >> i want to know if she and her
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husband have a disagreement on political matters. i myriam bedard-time was interesting in their house. we see all kinds of things happening online today. and we still have a lot on the show. this is the first time i've ever seen anything like this. >> hi, i'm dr. nancy with your birth coach.com. i would like to invite you into my home to watch my home birth live online. >> you can sign up to see it on her facebook. would you give her your email and first name and then you'd be able to be notified when she goes into labor and how you can watch. we actually "right this minute" have nancy on skype with us. why are you doing this? >> i'm doing this because i've always been very passionate about letting women know that birth is normal. and they're capable and have all the powers in them to give birth naturally. and yet we are in a culture where everybody is terrified of birth and we don't know what to expect, except for these crazy images that we've seen on sitcoms and movies that are not representative of what a normal,
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undisturbed woman would look like in labor. >> what reactions have you been getting from people so far to what you're going to do and on your web page? >> having so many people saying, oh, this is so wonderful and good luck for you and your birth and your baby. most women would never experience that much support right before they're about to give birth. >> have you had children before? or is this your first child? >> this is actually my third. >> doctor, what types of methods are you using to get through this, pain-free? >> the pain that we have in childbirth in our culture, is because of what we do to laboring women. how we position them, how we intervene and we create stress and tension and fear. and all of those things physically lead to the pain of labor. >> i think you're very brave for showing your birth online. >> you're not going to actually see any of the graphic images that you may have in your head of what a birth would look like. >> did the baby's father try to talk you out of this? >> no, he didn't, actually. when i first told him about it, he was like, okay.
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and he, obviously was a little hesitant because he was like, what does that mean and what is that going to look like? but he, he knows my passion for empowering women through birth. and empowering them to know that they can do it and they're capable. and they've got all of what they need within them to be able to do this. so he gets it. >> what do you guys think about it? >> i'm all about wanting women to feel powerful in their own bodies and capable in her own bodies. and that's her goal. that turned me, because i was skeptical at the beginning. guys, i want to walk you through some intense firsthand flood video coming to us from cambodia. this video is taken by michael paid and his wife, lisa, volunteers for the mennenite central committee. a relief development and peace organization in cambodia, it had been raining 18 to 20 hours per day.
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cambodia, usually benefits from a lot of rain. because it helps, it's rice crop. but not obviously this much rain. >> don't drop the keys. i got to not think about snakes. >> what you're seeing here is their house. the bottom level is their landlord's property. they actually are on the top. their place was salvaged from the flood. but they show us some pictures of what the landlord's place looks like. >> the water running all the way through, down under. >> that's not like a couple of inches deep. >> no, somehow they have electricity. which -- a lot of people, a lot of neighbors do not. but they worry now that a, there's going to be waterborne diseases and they're worried about the rice crop being completely damaged from too much water. >> which would be devastating for that area of the country. that's their whole life. >> the worse flooding along the
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mekong river in 11 years. this one's for the ladies, we've got the calendar shoot that will make you want to hit the books. aladdin's not the only one who can take a carpet ride. see how a cartoon fantasy is becoming a reality.
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this is art on top of art. that's dave allen's forum. and he's getting a tattoo of all kinds of different cameras. dave's a photographer, into cameras. what he did here was take over 1,000 different images, and he took a picture every time the tattoo pen was out of the frame. so it almost looks like the tattoo is sort of growing out of his arm. talk a little bit about this sitting and how this video was made. the guy attached to this arm, dave allen. dave, tell me about this process and what made you think to do this. >> as you can see, it's definitely a painful process. a slow process. >> you had a camera set up on a tripod looking down at your arm and you had a remote control in your other hand, you were able to stay still and snap a picture. >> every time he would finish a line or a section, every time we
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thought it would look cool, we took a picture. you can see the actual lines being done and the shading is done over top of it. >> are there any tattoos on either arm or anywhere else for that matter that you regret? >> luckily-day not regret any quite yet. brad versus duck. action. >> hey -- oh, whoa, gosh! >> we've all seen those charity calendars where people like senior citizens or maybe flight attendants, are scantily clad to raise money for charity. but i bet you haven't seen one like this. it's called the men of the stacks.
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these men -- are librarians. 80% of librarians are white and 72% of them are female. the men of the stacks wanted to shed light on the fact that there are some dudes who can be pretty pleasant to the eyes, who are librarians. so they put a calendar together to raise money for the it gets better project. >> i don't understand how why some of them are just like shirtless and other ones are in the library. >> i'm all about the humor. you would expect a librarian to be well read. and if they can come up with creative and intelligent different poses or funny. use their humor. i don't get the naked dudes. 's the bottom line is to raise money for charity. i think it's funny because they're dudes. >> i see what you mean. my vision of a librarian is an old lady with the hair that goes up like this and there's a pencil sticking through it and she's smacking people with a ruler. >> that's not what these guys are and they wanted to dispel
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the myth that that's what librarians are like. it costs $19.99. i'm interested in the calendar and i'm interested in a few library cards. it's the wonka golden ticket with a twist and you won't find this one in candy bar. joe jonas's latest song is getting a lot of buzz. which lady love is he getting a lot of buzz. which lady love is he apologizing to? that have earned the keurig brewed seal of approval. the keurig brewed seal is our commitment that the coffee inside will deliver a delicious cup of coffee every time. keurig brewed. look for the only mark of genuine keurig quality.
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this is our take you back to your childhood video of the day. the wonka chocolate company is -- creating one of their golden tickets just for you. what they're showing you here is a storefront promotion that they're using to promote the new digital golden ticket. >> a ball gets released up above. it travels down a track for some distance. now it's going to be your typical track, because this is wonka. and they enter our machines, which process these ingredients. >> this huge contraption is going to be in the toys 'r' us storefront in times square. the wonka company is doing a dimgal golden ticket promotion this year. releasing five digital golden tickets, there's a bar code inside of each wonka chocolate bar that you buy and each ticket is worth $100,000.
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a trip to l.a. and you get to be the wonka chocolate taste tester for a day. >> go to wonka.com/ticket game and you put in your bar code and it will see if you won the ticket. >> is there a chocolate river. and do i get to swim in it? >> there is no chocolate river. but this little contraption might be the equivalent. but i'm a little sad that you don't get to like open up the bar and then like, there's a golden ticket. how would the song go ♪ i've got a golden ticket ♪ in my computer >> this is starting right now, so go out and buy yourself a bar right now. it's time for a break for entertainment in this week's "people" magazine, they did an interview with joe jonas, where they asked him, when is the last time he apologized was. and he answered, i wrote a song called "i'm sorry" that i sing every night on tour.
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♪ what can i do to show you i'm sorry ♪ >> it's about breaking someone's heart and this is my apology. you may know who it is. but i try not to say names. the question is, who is he talking about. >> is it taylor swift? did he date taylor swift? >> he did date taylor swift in 2008. >> first of all, taylor swift is too tall for this guy. she's way taller than him, she's a tall gal. he's not very tall. so maybe he should get back with demi lovato. >> she's supposedly dated wilbur val valderama. he's showed up to two taylor swift concerts. he was a surprise guest at her concert in early september in san jose, california and showed up to her l.a. concert after the vmas. is he trying to get taylor swift back? >> i think that answers the
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question, it's all about taylor swift. >> researchers at princeton have invented a magic miniature carpet. okay. it's not quite magic. but it does fly. >> what am i seeing there? it looks like an air hockey thing. >> what you're looking at is a four-inch piece of plastic. that has conductive threads in it. they send electrical currents through it that makes it fly. >> it makes it fly like an inch off the ground? >> actually you would be correct in that assumption. because they said it's basically a hover-craft like thing like in "back to the future ii" not exactly like flying thousands of feet in the air. but they're hoping that eventually they could get it up to three feet. >> i'm a little disappointed because it's so small that a human can't ride in it. but i think you could put a hamster or gerbil or something like that on that thing. >> what's the real-world application for something like this? >> you just have these
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electrical currents going through these conductive threads. it moves pockets of air underneath this piece of plastic. and that moves it. the implication is that if you could make this widespread, could you have things hover over the ground where -- things with motors can't. if you've got a gritty surface and could you fly something up a hill in afghanistan rather than drive it with a humvee, you'll have a better likelihood of getting there. soldiers embark on a mission. but this one leads to laughter.
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>> yeah. >> put it at the corner of your bar. new mexico is truly the land of enchantment and one of the reasons is, they have a huge balloon festival in albuquerque each year. they've been doing it since 1972. and this year, they set a record. on saturday, they had 345 balloons take off in one hour. the record was previously set in
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lorraine, france this year, where they had 343 balloons. they only beat it by two, but who cares, we won. really, this gives new mexico its name, the land of enchantment. how enchanting is it to watch a balloon that looks like a butterfly? >> it's beautiful. and each one is so unique and yet collectively, they create this amazingly beautiful painting in the sky and the different shapes of pa loons, too. it's remarkable with how elaborate these festivals have gotten. >> some guy posted a video that he caught and put it on youtube. it was at night. >> that's really pretty. >> so beautiful seeing the balloons lit up like that. >> glowing at night. >> i've seen videos of the festival in the day, but i've never seen anything in the dark, that's really pretty. >> i want to go on an air balloon ride, i've never done
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it. >> do you think beth would go with us? >> no. >> beth? we're down in our news room. this is where we find all of our videos, do all of our research. what have you found? >> i found a very important video on steven j.bartells' youtube channel. it's a scout platoon. one of their important duties is to do room clearing and search different rooms to make them clear and safe. in this video we get almost an exclusive peek into a very special room-clearing mission. ♪ >> i knew it. [ laughter ] >> get it, get it!
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>> if somebody pushes that thing over those guys are going to be mad. [ laughter ] i love that they can incorporate some comic relief into their very tense duties. >> you said duty. >> what's he carrying? >> i want to show you his weapon. he's carrying a mannequin's arm. >> i wonder if he saw something suspicious, if he was going to slap it around. >> that's it for our show today. we hope you enjoyed yourself. we'll leave you a point of view shot of a bicycle flying down a winding road going nearly 60 miles per hour. enjoy, and we'll see you tomorrow, everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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a johns hopkins university student is sexually assaulted. how police are working to find her attacker. amanda knox is heading back home as a free woman after the appeals court overturned her conviction for killing her roommate. a new device allows men to experience some of the joys of motherhood. first, a hopkins student was sexual assaulted in an alley across the street from the mane campus -- main campus. roosevelt leftwich joins us with more. >> reporter: authorities have

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