hi, everyone. i'm beth troutman. we found the best stories and videos of the day and it's time to show them to you, "right this minute." they thought he died in an avalanche with his master. but this dog dug his way out and found his way home. we've got the truly remarkable story.

>> [ inaudible ]. >> trapped on a burning balcony, a grandmother makes a split-second decision. >> i put my grandbabies off the balcony. >> hear about the heros waiting below. >> the octopus gets >> how one clever creature goes undercover on the ocean floor. >> and leapin' lizards. scientists unlock secrets to the reptile's tail that can change our world. >> we don't need robots. we can just use lizards. it's time to get our show started and our first story comes to us out of montana. take a look at this. this is actually the aftermath of an avalanche that happened around 2:00 p.m. on new year's eve. a couple, david and keri gaillard, married about a year were cross country skiing when this avalanche hit. dave gaillard was swept away in the avalanche and killed. this video was shot by doug.

he works for the gnfac, which is the after lav center. >> that's where he was buried, two, three feet under. this is path that went down. see all the snow on the side of that tree down into the gully. >> a frightening sight. you would think it would be difficult to survive something like this. here is the bittersweet part of the story. this is ollie. this is the gaillard's welsh core ki. we got this video from abc news. he was with the gaillards on the mountain when the avalanche hit and carry saw the dog get swept away by the avalanche and said he was almost swimming in the snow. four days later the coregy was found sitting outside their motel room, whim perring and even going across the street to where the gaillards had had breakfast the morning of the avalanche. >> i can't believe the dog remembered where they stayed and had breakfast. >> cook city officials found the

dog, called keri and they reunited the dog with the owner. >> i'm glad there was some comfort that she could derive from that tragedy. >> she said it was bittersweet. because she loves the dog but there's a part of her that wishes it were her husband, dave gaillard, who survived the avalanche. the quick action of some neighbors and firefighters managed to rescue five people from a fiery apartment. we got this video from nbc 2 and this all happened in rancho cordova. check out this cell phone video a neighbor was able to catch. there are five people caught in that apartment right now two adults and three children. margaret muton was trapped up there with her grandkids. the fire started in the apartment next door. that neighbor left the apartment, climbed over the balcony and joined margaret to try to escape the fire. >> flames were just coming towards the back window. it was just coming closer and

closer. >> a neighbor down below, nicole rhodes, started yelling up to the balcony and said, throw the grandkids over the balcony, we'll catch them. >> i put my grandbabies off that balcony to these folks here. my grandbabies was not staying on that balcony. >> within seconds the grandkids were safely on the ground and thankfully, the firefighters were there in no time because they are literally like 200 yards away. >> i'm so proud of our guys right now. they did such a great job, along with our community here in rancho cordova. i honestly believe we saved five lives tonight. >> they're lucky. you see the firefighters guiding down margaret and the neighbor. >> the neighbors were playing the role of firefighters and rescue workers in this one. they were actually able to save some people before the firefighters got there. >> that fire must have spread incredibly quickly to have flames that size with the firefighters able to get there as quickly as they were. surveillance video catches a lot of bad stuff that goes on in convenience stores and this video shows how a customer tried

to come to the aid of a clerk during an assault. >> oh! >> what's going on there? >> somebody is getting decked. >> this happened in los angeles. police say two guys between the ages of 17 and 20, tried to buy some beer from that clerk. >> they asked for i.d. and then the fight starts. >> me, it almost looks li ke t t kidser goingoi to take anrun. >> yeah. >> i think the clerk said hold it and that's when they like jumped the guy. >> that fourth person you see get involved is a good samaritan. tried to come to the aid of the clerk. >> feel terrible for the situation. he was getting pounded. >> the clerk is getting wailed on. the good samaritan outside has wrestled the other suspect and is keeping him out of the store. and he still has a drink in his hand when he goes outside to tackle that second suspect. >> oh, yeah he does. >> oh! >> the first suspect pushes the clerk out the door, near the end of the fight and then both suspects jump on the good

samarit samaritan. >> for a 12 pack. >> police say neither the clerk nor the good samaritan were seriously hurt. you really shouldn't be involved and get involved. what you should do is be a good witness. who can say no, if you see somebody getting wailed on like that. you often see people get religious tattoos, a cross, or maybe like some praying hands. how about getting a tattoo in a place of worship? >> wait. you mean like a tattoo parlor in a church? >> this is the serenity tattoo parlor which is located inside the bridge church. the bridge church is in a shopping mall in eastern flynt township in michigan. and the reverend of this church, steve bentley, says this is, you know, a way of getting different kinds of people it interested in their church. >> feels good to be able to come in here and know that it's a

nice, safe environment. >> i guess anything that you can do to get people in the door. >> was that ron burgundy on the wall at the beginning? >> that was ron burgundy's face. >> it's funny you bring that up, nick. that is ron burgundy because reverend steve bentley said that only family friendly tattoos will be administered to people's bodies in this particular parlor. you're not going to go in there and get a naked lady or a skull and cross bones in a tattoo par lo. >> yeah. >> no way. you can get a tattoo of ron burgundy. >> are you sure that's ron burgundy. that looks like anchor man. >> that is ron burgundy. >> i'm thinking of ron jeremy. >> i don't think you can get a tattoo parlor to get a porn star -- that's not family friendly. it's that time of the week where we bring you real or fake. >> yeah! >> always a good time. >> and our favorite dude is here to lay it all out for us.

>> we're taking you to the raptor center. >> yep. >> where you'll see some cool video of how a raptor catches its prey.

welcome back to the show. but don't forget to check in at rightthisminute.com. great videos all day long. the octopus gets mimicked. you see this mimic octopus and that fish right there. >> the exact same color. >> that is a black marble jaw fish, has the same coloration. the mimic octopus will my mimic the shape and behaviors of the other fish like the lion fish and the sea snake. this fish right here, it's not known to mimic anything, but they say this fish, on its own, decided to mimic the octopus to leave the area.

>> they say what's interesting, this jaw fish usually stays in an area and doesn't get too far from its home. but, it took the opportunity to mimic this octopus, which is something jaw fish don't do. >> so it looks like it's this color all the time? >> uh-huh. >> it didn't change. that would freak me out. >> maybe he thought this mimic octopus is a really big fish that looks like me, so i'm going to hang out with him, let's hang out. he's a very progressive fish, reaching out to different ethnic groups and trying to say, hey, let's all be friends. >> not only is it different ethnicity, it's a different species. >> that too. if you want to test the durability of your product, i guess this is one way you can do it. guy from g form said to create this extreme electronic [ inaudible ] have rigged up their g form extreme [ inaudible ] for the ipad with an ipad and they've also put some locater controls and some

extra cameras on a big weather balloon. take a guess what they're going to do, nick. i think you probably already know. >> launch it into space, drop it. >> boom. they launch this thing up to what they say is 100,000 feet. they call its edge of space. and watch this thing get super dup high. getting some pretty pictures. look, it gets up and up. we're seeing like the curvature of the earth here. and eventually you hear the pop. and down she goes. plummeting from, again, what they say 100,000 feet in the air in space, back down to rerts. earth. here's its crash landing. the guy from g form tracked this thing down and according to them, it's all in one piece and fully functional. >> i feel like they could have achieved similar results by going like this. >> yes. >> i don't go into suborbital

space that often and if i did, i don't think i would drop the ipad i was carrying because i would probably need that for other things. good commercial, maybe? >> yeah. effective. i still think they could have thrown it out a car. >> maybe off a bridge. >> true. i think it's time for our weekly check-in with matt from e-bomb world. what do you think? >> yeah. >> always a good time. >> let's get to real or fake videos. the first one is, how not to put up a closet. >> [ inaudible ]. >> oh! >> again, why would somebody film this? >> why is there a camera there, right. >> and the screen seems a little bit delayed too. >> i was going to go with real until i saw him crawl out from under it and cut the camera off. >> yeah. >> that's what got me. >> yeah. >> i'm going to say fake also. the little details you have to pick up. >> you want this to be real

because it involves one of your favorite folks. rob on a hoverboard. >> oh. >> are you serious? >> yeah! >> i'll tell you what -- >> that's like a really bad photoshop job. >> this looks like the ear early '90s. >> i think everybody wants one of the hoverboards but if deer deck has one that loud mouth would be shouting it out nonstop. i'm saying fake. >> all right. our last one, i love the title of this one, woman shows up two guys. ♪ >> oh. [ speaking foreign language ] >> steven, what are they saying? >> i'm going to go get the dryer. you hang here. no, we're going to get the dolly. i heard dryer and meant dolly. >> the words are similar. >> she similar.

>> both start with "d." [ speaking foreign language ] >> eastern block women are built like ox, we know. i'm saying that's real. >> there's something fishy about that blue piece of fabric, like hallowed out maybe. >> i'm going with real because i know strong women who could pick that up. >> i don't want to step on any women's toes it has to be real because there's a lot of strong women out there. >> oh! floppy disk, big chunky monitors, they're history. is the mouse next in line? >> evidently the world needs a new computer mouse. >> see the new gadget our tech expert says could take its place. look at this woman. she's about to transform herself

into a male celebrity. see how she does it and if he'll recognize which celeb she is.

welcome back to the show. don't forget to check in at rightthisminute.com. great videos all day long. >> steven, it is time for the best in steven monday madness tech roundup. first in our talking tech moment, we've got the end click,

evidently the world needs a new computer mouse. >> the pin is kind of on the mouse. you hold it like a pen but still take your finger to press the buttons and scroll. >> they're saying that is less harmful for your hand than the standard mouse clicking position. >> especially if you have to use your mouse for extended periods of time. >b itcom and wired form. the second piece of yummy science has to do with a lizard. this is a new berkeley did. they discovered that the lizard's tail as a lizard is flipping or jumping controls whether or not it pitches forward or destabilizes. if he didn't have that beautiful tail of his he might pitch forward and kind of fall out of control. see how his tail goes. after studying the lizard tail they determined robots could use the same lizard tail mechanism, they could control the pitch of the fall, so it doesn't go like head over heels. watch the difference.

>> dive bomb. >> like that robot is broken. >> when they employ the lizard tail, it laid it flat. >> he's going to land flush with the ground. >> i think that our tech expert zach could clear this up for us. >> zach. >> hey there. >> thanks for joining us. >> always ready to join us at a moment's notice. >> that's what haem here for. >> was i right in calling this the pitch of the tail. >> yes. they don't want the lizard to smash head first into the wall so what these lizards do is use the tails to make sure they don't smash face first. >> how would this apply to anything in real life? >> mainly for robotics. almost inherently unstable. >> everything good comes from nature. we don't need robots we can use lizards. >> what about the pen click. >> might be nice for people more accustomed to pen or pencil. same repetitive motion. >> a lot of dopey videos every day but this time i want you to learn something from the smarter, everyday channel,

destine is taking us to the southeastern raptor center. >> raptor training. that sounds interesting. >> i love this. >> hold on a second. raptor center. >> raptor center. >> like -- >> i think he's probably talking a little more like birds but birds are the closest animal to the dinosaur. >> he's going to use the phantom high-speed camera to show us how these birds fly and catch their prey. birds use their entire wing to control their flight and that's what we'll be able to see in the high-speed footage. >> there's the meat. >> it's a little piece of meat with a lure for a lack of a better term. a little piece of bait. watch this shot again. >> whoa! >> here it is in slow motion. >> look at those wings. >> in the slow motion you can really see the twists and turns and unjulations of the bird's wings. watch them come in.

>> oh, man. that's kind of freaky, actually. >> that's awesome. >> you can see in this next demonstration how the bird adjusts when he misses the target and how fast they can see and adjust. so the bird is about to miss this target. and sees it and tries to adjust at the last minute. look at that. >> oh! wow. >> it's like it's applying its air brakes, expands the wings, and shifts. >> but it's a beautiful video of these birds in slow motion. it's really kind of neat stuff that you don't normally get to see. >> it's so impressive. in slow motion. that bird just puke? >> that bird did puke. >> oh, i think he thought the guy was his baby and he was trying to feed him. okay. now you're just a few minutes away from the end of the show and spending a lot of time on our favorite website, say it with me now,

rightthisminute.com. rightthisminute.com. okay. now back to the show. >> a look into the life of backpacking in a foreign country. looks nice, right? we'll tell you where we're headed when we go exploring, next. e coffee.

try to hand it to him on the street. the dude is like no thanks. >> as known on youtube, dope 211, wants to look like drake and so she's going to show us how she uses makeup to do just

that. >> isn't drake a male rapper? >> yeah. >> why would she want to look like a male rapper? >> i might need to see what drake looks like. >> i believe i need to see what drake looks like. >> she shows all these tricks she uses to change the shape of her face without getting a lot of plastic surgery that makes her look like joan risk vers or cat. >> i'm taking this bronzer to shape my face. >> at this point she's starting to look like a guy. >> i think the eyebrows and hair line did it. kind of looks like lady gaga when she played the call da ron character. >> now giving herself a beard. >> oh. >> isn't that amazing? >> she looks a lot like him. >> puts on her husband's clothes. this is her final look. drizzly drake. >> what if you came home from work and your wife suddenly looked like this? >> imagine if he comes home, late, crawls in next to him, hey baby. >> what am i doing? >> weird. >> i don't think she looks like

drake. i think she made herself look like a guy. doesn't look anything like him. >> i think the eyes look a lot like drake. >> she doesn't look like a dude. too pretty of a girl to look like a dude. >> good job on the makeup. that's it for our show. we're going to leave you with images of what it might look like to backpack across southeast asia for two full months. enjoy. we'll see you next time.

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