tv Right This Minute ABC January 16, 2012 4:00pm-4:30pm EST
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lurches forward. a man pinned in the middle of the melee. we go to france for a serious topic. >> girls taking their clothes off in important places. >> what's going on here. >> before you get judgey -- >> you need to hear what was behind the stripdown. forget a stream, this is a nuclear winter sport. ice drawing a big crowd. a mother elephant dropped a big baby. >> we're going to see a video of that. >> if you don't like the wonder of nature, don't look. >> time to get our show started. christian has our top story for us. >> this is surveillance video captured outside a convenience store. can you see what appears to be an altercation between three people. the driver of the car is tomorrow and with her her cousin
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david thomas. the alleged attacker can be seen shirtless. you saw him take a punch at david. >> she's trying to get away. >> trying to break off the side-view mirror. grabs a brick and threw it shattering the windshield making tamyra lose control and smash into mohammed, an employee of the convenience store, who was out there trying to figure out what was going on. according to reports, when he saw the two cousins walking to the store, he immediately became confrontational and started asking them, what are you doing in my neighborhood and in my store. it and to be a dispute over turf. >> the guy that got hit had nothing to do with this fight at all. >> that is exactly correct. now, this happened one month ago. tuesday he was arrested and charged with attempted felony murder because the injuries that mohammed sustained from this accident could have taken his
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life, and he did end up having his leg amputated above the knee. >> a shame. the wrong place, the wrong time. the guy works there, what do you want him to do. >> he called $1,000 worth of damage to the car, and police are still investigating the relationship between hall and the two cousins. i'd like to talk to you guys about a serious topic. >> with a smiley face. >> girls taking their clothes off in important places. >> all right. >> let's go to the video. we see three lovely ladies outside of the very famous museum in paris, france. they have got their trench coats on, and i think you know what's coming next. they make their way inside the museum and they put on a bit of an exhibition of their own. >> bravo. >> a pink, yellow, and blue. they are strutting their stuff around this museum. i like when they go by this
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older couple here. honey, i swear to god, i'm not looking. >> did you see the guy with the cell phone actually following them? what's going on here? >> before you get judgey, this is a publicity staunt for a lingerie company. at the museum, not happy, not because of the nakedness but filming inside the establishment. typically museums don't like cameras or video inside, because that shows off the copyrighted images all over the place. museum officials are threatening to take legal activities. it's not the only time these three lovely ladies have strutted their stuff. >> god bless. have you got another video? >> eiffel tower and charles de gaulle airport going through security. >> i know you love this approach to marketing, don't you? >> well, you know what, i like this kind of idea better than all the air brushed models in
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catalogs. they are selling exactly what they are showing, lingerie. >> i used to love going to the demolition derby at the county fair when i was a kid. always fun to see. you never want that kind of destruction on a city street. this is in china, you see a traffic cop running down the street chasing a guy who had just stole an car. the guy in the stolen car is not stopping for police or anybody else. he continues to try and escape police. >> whoa. >> starts blindly plowing into this crowded intersection. >> the hood of his car is folded up. he's not going to be able to see anything out of the car. >> i don't think he cares what he sees, what he destroys, what he smashes into. you see a guy on a motorized like rickshaw kind of thing back up into him, backs up, almost hits two other traffic cops. now he's around the bend of the intersection smashing his way through there. this is a crowded intersection
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with cars, pedestrians, people on scooters. this is really dangerous. >> where the heck does he think he's going? thought he was going to jump over, miraculously land on four wheels and speed away from the cops. >> the smoke is coming out of his car and he'still trying to drive that thing around. 'sotv worth >> this guy smashed up 13 cars busting our previous "right this minute" mass destruction limit of indiana. he was arrested and charged with endangering public safety. about to enjoy the miracle of birth. this took place in eastern thailand. as you can see -- >> we're going to see a video of that? >> yes, we are going to see a video. if you don't like the wonder of nature, don't look. you see the baby's head already out. the baby is coming. she doesn't lay down. she does kneel on front legs.
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>> it fell out. >> i didn't think a baby elephant would fall to the ground like that. look how she's nudging it. she's nudging, moving. it's a live birth. i think the baby is okay. >> she's roughhousing the thing. >> it's all cleaned up. what's weird, it was like a standing birth. the mom was standing up and the baby fell out. >> with an elephant, she going to lie down. >> do they make elephant-sized stir ups. >> i love how she raises her back leg. >> she should be very careful when she sits her foot down not to trample on the guy. >> they invited the media to come look and see this happen. apparently the mom is very, very popular. >> i wonder how she felt about all the cameras while she was going through the miracle of birth. she probably wanted to be alone.
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>> it's the fifth one. probably so easy i can do this in my sleep, boom, here is a baby. if you're a "family guy" fan, you're going to love this one. >> hey -- >> sounds like peter wright. well, there's more where that came from. if you close your eye you think you're listening to the tv show. and you'll feel like a captain in this exclusive hotel. >> you're going to need price line negotiators for that one. >> see the luxury digs that
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roof before it collapses. >> are you serious? >> dead serious. >> they are on top of the elementary school, meaning the school is buried under all this snow. >> oh, yeah. there's six feet of snow. you'll see a guy with a sheet of metal. you'll see him. they will slide it in, cut the snow like a big saw, and then the guys behind him can come in and try to take big chunks of snow away and sort of just dollying this snow off the roof. >> bury up the sides after they dump it off. >> the giant bulldozers down below are being used for. they are dumping it off the roof. the bulldozers are coming in and trying to take it away. here you see everybody in the community trying to take it in. look at the chunk of snow. >> a washing machine. i don't think i've seen anything like this, unless an how-to building ig look video. this is nuts. >> i've got a winter sport to
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show you i've never heard of. i'm really excited to show you. we saw this video on care 11 in minnesota. called the red bull crashed ice championships 2012. it's the first time it's happened here in the u.s. it is going on in st. paul, minnesota, on the steps of the cathedral of st. paul. basically what it is, a bunch of these racers get geared up in hockey equipment, hockey skates, hockey pad, and go down this giant track, hair pin turns, jumps. you can imagine they are walking away with a few bumps and bruises. these guys are going downhill up to 40 miles per hour. no chance of landing it. >> he was like in a split in midair. >> red bull calls it downhill ice. people up for an extreme
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challenge. think it's a bunch of tough guys doing it but there are also some females in the competition? >> would you do this? >> i would make it six feet down the hill and fly the rest of the way on myeaend and my m rm tt would be fun. >> defending championship was world championship in last year's crashed ice contest. are you guys familiar with the fox tv show "family guy?" >> yeah, i think everybody is. >> there's a kid in county dublin ireland who can do 20 impressions from this show. >> hello. >> hey -- >> i want you to meet sean burk. >> so just found out -- >> hang on some jerk behind me is honking his horn. >> you might want to get yourself tested.
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♪ ♪ always better than the right one ♪ my left foot always gets me where i need to go ♪ >> if you close you eyes you think you're listening to the tv show. >> do you have to go like this. >> i want to make sure i don't -- >> i'm sorry i can't have you in here punching the meat. >> oh, my god. >> i know. >> oh, no. >> we need more lemon pledge. >> more lemon pledge. >> he lives in ireland? >> yes. >> i was waiting to hear some irish accent slip through. >> nobody but mcfinnegan could handle that creature. >> how much episodes do you have to watch to be able to do this. >> how long do you have to practice? >> please don't spit in my eggs. please don't spit in my eggs. >> the best clip from this show is i want him to do the
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impersonation? when peter has the aaron neville -- next time on "right this minute" -- >> this is what you want in a proposal video, your fiancee to be lifting up his dress to pull out the ring. >> you think that's the craziest part of the video, huh? that's next time on "right this minute." the longest hike you've done? >> two feet. >> we have nothing on this guy. he hikes and hikes and documented it all along the way. find out just how far he went for adventure. and they say till death do you part, right? well, this wedding tale goes a
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the length of the pacific crest trail from british columbia, canada, all the way to the mexican border. he took a picture of himself every day to kind of document his entire trip. >> i feel like in his pictures he tries to pose in like an 1880 picture, where they stare blankly. >> an epic beard, the accomplishment of the smile over his face. isn't that cool. ipod, does the victory dance to tell us a little more about his epic journey, we've got colby kirk, condor, on skype "right this minute." >> didn't have the time or money. that's where my ex-employers came in. they decided to lay me off. so i had the time and money. within 28 days i was on the trail. a lot of people think i look
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very upset. you have so many different types of expressions you can make, it's very hard to replicate it every time. i realize if i relaxed my face, i could take the same shot all thtie. >>youulenar a lot aouth you're . >> london has a new very exclusive hotel. by exclusive i mean one room. >> you need the price line negotiators. >> take a look. a little different than probably any hotel you've ever seen. it's actually a boat perched on the elizabeth hall, the west bank, of the river thames in london. >> whose idea was it to take a
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boat out of the water, put it on a building. >> the architect and artist modelled it after this author, joseph conrad in the congo in the late 1800s. that trip inspired his very well-known story, or book -- >> right, yeah. >> this hotel just won the "a room for london" international contest, which is kind of this artistic hotel contest they have. >> how do you book this thing? >> this hotel room is already booked through june of 2012. they will begin taking reservations for july through december on january 19th. >> how much for one night? >> $185 american dollars or around 120 pounds per night. >> pretty reasonable. very reasonable. >> okay. i'm supposed to remind you to go to "right this minute".com. so there. president obama has an image
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them before the wedding. so far this is probably like ah. here is a picture of the ceremony. what do you think is going on here? >> is she dead? >> she's dead. >> oh, god. >> he married his girlfriend of 10 years four days after she was killed in a car accident. >> oh, wow. >> had a traditional buddhist ceremony, invited his friends and family. the ceremony was broadcast all over thai television. and of course blowing up on the internet as well. people are talking about it on facebook, people are passing photos around. people have all sorts of opinions about this thing. >> i could see how he would be motivated to do something like this because he loved her that much. >> he could have done this while she was alive. sad he wasn't motivated to marry her until she passed away. >> their wedding date kept
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getting moved around because of the extenuating circumstances. you know what, i think this is really nice. we treat death in our society much differently than other societies treat ath. we're cre erica. i don't know. i think it's kind of sweet. president obama has an image problem. so he thought, you know, why don't i get a translator to prove to people i really do get angry. >> so there's no more confusion we've hired luther to be my anger translator. first off, concerning the recent developments in the middle eastern region, i just want to reiterate our report for all people and their right to a democratic process. >> all y'all dictators out there, keep messing around and see what happens, just see what happens. watch. >> as you can see, this isn't the real president obama. the guy playing president obama is jordan peel, the guy playing
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luther is kegan michael keys, actors from the new sketch comedy show, key and peel on comedy central debuts at 9:30 central. it's pretty darn funny the president thinks he needs a translator to get across his anger. >> i am not a muslim. >> that's my intention as your president are coming from the right place. >> coming from hawaii, which is where i am from, which is united states of america, okay? this is ridiculous. i have a birth certificate. >> i feel like president obama is going to love this video. i like to picture obama sitting at home on his twitter or on his facebook, michelle saying this to him, hey, did you see this? >> i had a conversation with michelle -- i did not say that i did not say that. >> that's it for this show. thanks so much for joining us. we're going to leave you with colby kirk's hiking adventure. this is an awesome avalanche. enjoy it. we'll see you next time.
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