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hello, everybody. i'm beth troutman. time to take a look at the best videos and stories of the day, "right this minute." he's a drunk driving suspect whose pants say as much as he does. >> what is this all on the front of you, man? >> urinated. >> urinated. >> heat a lot of liquid. see the sobriety test to end all sobriety tests.
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>> why did they make him take this test some. >> another cop out trolling for dui suspects nearly gets hit by one. >> at 70 miles an hour. >> see why this case had more than its share of surprises. >> if there's a zebra nearby, keep your head on a swivel. >> good advice, but a little too late for this woman. >> oh! >> and, a dog dumped in a parking lot, cowers under a car. >> that is the cutest little puppy. >> how her rescuer finally coaxed her out. we're going to get things started with a story that steven has. >> the ohio state highway patrol recently released this video of a traffic incident from december to, quote, illustrate the dangers of impaired driving. so, guy is getting pulled over in marietta, ohio, on his way home to west virginia. cop pulls him over, gives him the whole, yeah, got calls about your driving, i'm watching you
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swerve around here, going 95 in a 65. a lot of reasons to pull this man over. but then he asks him this question. >> have you yourinated yourself >> no. >> are you sure. >> one of the dangers they're trying to illustrate is going the bathroom on yourself while intoxicated. >> what is this all on the front of you then? >> urinated. >> urinated. >> i urinated. how much have you had to drink? i think i've had one wine. one wine, this man is slurring his speech. >> one bottle, one barrel, one -- >> maybe his first ever glass of wine. >> now, he goes on to fail miss rably the heel to toe test. and we get a nice clear shot here of the, for lack of a better word, urine stain down the front and the back of this man's pants. >> that's a lot of liquid. >> one, two.
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>> the guy can barely count let alone stand up straight. the sobriety test continues where the man says pick a leg and try to stand on it and count to 30 seconds. when he does -- and good night. >> why did they make him take this test? >> yeah. >> he couldn't even stand up. >> gayle, i wondered the same thing. the man was given a owi operating while intoxicated, spent the night in a drunk tape and embarrassed himself on this video. >> i think you've had too much to be drink to be drivin what do youthink. y. we've seen lots of immaagf the costa concordia, the ship on its side. this is a different look. this infrared video was shot late friday night into the early hours of saturday morning as people in the pitch-black dark were trying to escape from this
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vessel. people are lined up on the side of this ship. they almost look like ants in this video trying to escape this ship after it fell in the water. >> i haven't seen those. it's a lot of people and they're all lined up going through a little tiny opening. >> members of the crew, members of the wait staff, entertainers even, all came to try to guide people in the right direction. >> this happened at night. 9:45 is when that first alarm went off. could you imagine being on a cruise and at night, this is going on. it has to be terrifying. >> there is a number of people who have died. there's a lot of people still missing. but it all was so close to the coast, you know. it wasn't out in the middle of the ocean and something went wrong. it surprises me, you know, that they weren't able to rescue everybody and everybody wasn't able to make it to safety. if you look at the end of the video there's a crowd of people and it almost looks like they're waving, waving up to this aircraft like saying hey, look, here we are, can you save us.
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>> according to reports some passengers did jump into the sea and swam to shore but the waters were cold and it was dark. i can't imagine. must have been hor fiing. >> when the ship hit the rock that cut the large chunk of the hole in the hull of the ship it was only about 150 meters from shore which is basically 500 feet. researcher has shown us that texting behind the wheel can often be more dangerous than smoking marijuana or drinking alcohol. so people shouldn't text behind the wheel, especially bus drivers. this bus driver you're seeing here was caught on video in sydney, australia. he was captured for two minutes texting on the phone and when they analyzed the video, they say he only looked up 25% of the time. >> wow. >> blows my mind there's another one of these because this isn't the first time we've seen almost this exact same story of a bus driver texting behind the wheel. >> he takes both hands off the
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wheel to text, mot only looking down, he has both hands on his phone. >> come on, the bus steering wheels are big, knees right there, totally able to handle this. >> his knees weren't holding the wheel in place. >> the busses are well designed and can drive on their own. >> tell me this guy lost his job. >> this guy didn't lose his job. at this point his license was suspended. >> i don't know that you need to necessarily lose your job -- the bus companies typically have a three strike policy. real egrinch shus -- >> would you get on a bus with this guy driving? >> i prefer not to. >> excuse me. >> actually. how cool would it be if you won a competition to be able to do this. >> he got to push of the button.
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>> she got to push the button. >> not cool? >> that is pretty cool. >> awesome. >> this building was demolished by a 41-year-old woman sarah griffiths in the uk. it's a former campbell's soup tower. and there was a competition to be the lucky button pusher. >> it is cool but like it's kind of a lame implosion. like just the bottom comes out and the thing falls over. if i won the contest to push the button i would want to see it go -- >> you want to blow the thing sky high. >> yeah. >> you want to know what's cool about this explosion, though? >> yes. >> the woman that pushed the button is the daughter of mic lock who in 1995, died in this factory. he was a worker at the campbell's soup company and he
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was burned by a lot of steam. >> wow. >> and so for her, being able to take down the building that, in essence, took her father was in some way poetic justice. this room's all wrapped up. when is a present not a present? >> i love it. i love it. >> a story about an afterholiday gift. or prank. a quad race. what could possibly go wrong? right? >> watch closely as one car gets too close. >> oh!
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welcome back to the show, bunt but don't forget to check in at rightthisminute.com. great videos all day long. i've got a dog rescue video
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for you guys that will tug at the heart strings. somebody dumped little cora in the parking lot of a walmart. >> oh. >> people tried to rescue little cora for days, but she was too scared. to the rescue came elbad hagarr. we featured him on our show before. he's trying to lure cora out with pieces of bread. he said he spent more than two hours trying to help out. >> that is the cutest little puppy. look at her little face. >> and it's no wonder she isn't coming because she has no reason to trust a human after what she was put through. >> you can see how visibly shaken little cora is. he has his hand close and finally makes contact with her. >> oh. >> petting her little paw. >> this part is hard to watch. they make contact and she lets him pet her a little bit, as he goes to pull her out you can see she sort of backs away and looks like it hurts her paw. >> shows how much he loves
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animals and doesn't have any protective wear on his hands. >> he's able to pull little cora out from underneath the car. >> she looks like she warmed up to him quickly. >> and comfortable there riding shotgun, takes cora to a rescue center. >> a facebook page where he uploads videos of his dog rescues. he works alongside his wife to save these animals and also works with the hope for paws animal rescue organization. we're a few weeks past the holidays. >> sadly. >> a lot of people traveled for the holidays. some people are just now getting back into the swing of things. >> it's tough. it's tough after the holidays. >> ian wept away for for the holidays. his roommate decided to have a little fun. leave ian a present. >> okay. >> for when he returned. >> good. >> welcome home gift. >> he wrapped everything in ian's room. >> wait a second. actual wrapping paper. >> actual wrapping paper, christmas themed wrapping paper.
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>> he had to have spent a fortune. >> this is after christmas. >> so he got the sale paper. >> the sale paper like in the 99 cent bin. this makes everything looks like it's a gift when you get home. my bed, my shoes. >> yeah. >> but then it's like i already had all this stuff. >> now ian, the next morning, arrives back at his pad. >> wow. >> i love it. i love it. he says you know what, yeah. you got me. i love it. the bed is the most impressive part to me. looks like a fitted sheet. >> reminds me of an episode of "the office" when jim, for christmas, wraps dwight's desk. >> looks almost identical. >> the thing is, you can't get mad at a prank like this because everybody likes opening gifts. that's half the fun of getting a gift, ripping open the wrapping paper.
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just another day on the job for this officer looking for drunk drivers after a football game sunday night in wisconsin. he's driving down highway 41. >> wait. oh. >> headlights. >> boom. >> he swerves out of the way of a car that is coming straight at him. >> the wrong way. >> obviously driving in the opposite direction. >> in his lane. he immediately turns around, you can hear him rev up the engine trying to catch up to this driver who almost hit him head-on at 70 miles an hour. >> this is in a two-lane highway. the other lane going the other way is way over here. looks like at first the guy coming in the opposite direction. no. these are two lanes meant to go this way. >> turns out the person driving this car was a 17-year-old girl. ended up being cited for driving under the influence. >> wow. >> so she barely had her license
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for, i don't know, what, maybe a year, and she allegedly was drinking underage. driving the wrong way straight at a cop. >> it's funny you say she's had her license for a little while because she was also cited for driving without a license. >> oh. >> yeah. >> she's in trouble. king of the jungle? sure. like a cat with this thing. >> a christmas tree to tame the beast. >> what's going on? i'm so confused. >> what's going on. >> a chance sidewalk meeting with a movie star. maybe. maybe not.
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welcome back to the show. but don't forget to check in at rightthisminute.com. great videos all day long. if you're a photographer it's always best to get close to the action instead of zooming into the action you want to get close. here we go to argentina. this is a race with some four-wheel quad motorcycles. you see the crowd keeping a respectable distance behind but there is one carlos dray, up by the flags, one carlos doesn't realize it, but he's in a bad position right now. >> the guy is standing up there with a shoulder bag.
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>> exactly. watch as carlos gets too close to this. >> oh! >> you know what that -- >> wow. >> that is right. it snapped his leg in two places below the knee. >> oh. >> him and the rider of that quad taken to the hospital. >> why would he stand there? >> like to get right up in there to get the action. >> but that's dumb. >> looks like during football games when the camera guys get taken out by the players except this time it's like a quad. i think that hurts a little more. >> and i mean, the surface they're on is sand. there isn't a barrier, it's not a road, you know, so, obviously, these vehicles can come by and slide out and that's what looks like happened here. >> i want to know how much he was getting paid for this gig and if it was worth it. >> any photographer will tell you, not enough. over the holidays, we saw lots of videos of domestic cats in christmas trees. those aren't the only kind of cats that like christmas trees.
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>> oh. >> it's christmas tree massacre brought to us by our friends at big cat rescue in tampa, florida. they get some unwanted christmas trees. this time 100 of them. they gave them to the big cats to play with. i'm talking lions and tigers and christmas trees. it's like cat nip to them. >> it would feel good, like a bunch of little mini back scratchers. >> and it would make you smell all fresh. >> i didn't know they like pine scent. >> this is fun to watch. not a lot of pine trees where tigers live. >> yeah. no. >> normally. >> here comes the big lion. look at him. he's like a pussycat with this thing. look at joseph, rolling around, feet up in the air. sasha, all cool, what's going on? >> how do they know these big cats like christmas trees? >> it's a cat thing. they don't understand. >> big cat rescue says they love the scent and to chew them up. >> first video you liked. >> i like the big cats. you're a few minutes away
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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. back to the show. the zebra is right there, but she's going to go talk to her friends. >> see why you should always pay attention to a zebra head in your car. >> crunch. >> oh, my gosh.
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here's a good rule of thumb. any time a zebra is close enough to your car that it can stick its head through your window, you might want to keep your own head like on a swivel. >> what? >> maybe put your window up. >> what? >> yeah. you never heard that rule? >> keep your -- keep your head on a swivel. never heard that rule, but -- >> me either. >> i'm going to start using it. checking your surroundings. >> if there's a zebra nearby, keep your head on a swivel. >> okay. >> have like -- >> so this girl is in the front seat of her car. looks like she has food in her hands. the zebra is right there, but she gation to go talk to her friends. i got crumbs on me. there's a zebra head in the car. >> have like crumbs -- >> oh! >> bit my -- oh, my gosh. >> here it is in slow motion. >> oh, wow. >> you see the zebra, goes in and crunch.
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>> oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. what did she think was going to happen with a zebra putting its head in the window. >> rears his teeth, big bite on the shoulder. >> the zebra didn't want her, the zebra wanted the peanut. >> $5 says there was a sign at the front of the park that says these are wild animals, don't roll down your window to feed the animals because they might bite you. >> he bit my shoulder. >> let's go to london where this man, this person, is trying to video tape a homeless man walking down the streets of london. >> stop filming me. stop filming me. >> the guy keeps filming him. >> i know that woman. rosario dawson. >> this homeless man is being taped he runs into -- >> rosario dawson, please. >> super star rosario dawson. keep filming. >> she's currently in london
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filming a movie there. >> you was in [ inaudible ]. >> i think this is a put up job. >> yeah. doesn't look real. >> he named all her movies. >> and no one else is mobbing rosario dawson. >> whatever you do, keep filming. that's rosario dawson. ♪ ♪ you walking through the limelight ♪ >> i'm so confused. what's going on? ♪ >> this is james samuel, the mastermind behind the uk band the bullet. this is their video to their song "super cool" that is releasing in march. ♪ >> i see. >> and this is rosario dawson making a cameo in it. ♪ >> it's cool of her.
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she's kind of dancing goofy and acting weird, a side of her you don't get to see. ♪ >> thank you, rosario. >> you're welcome. okay. >> thank you. right now, "right this minute," it's the end of our show. we're going to leave you with one last look of the christmas tree massacre at big cat rescue. enjoy it. we'll see you next time, everybody. ♪
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noad above revealed a new spending plan. what it could plane for your family. >> and the search for the missing from a cruise ship has been suspended. now the captain has a new reason as to why he jumped ship. and the go to website for the quick fact check but it's dark tonight as a protest against anti piracy bills. first the governor revealed his new spending plan today as maryland facing a billion dollar deficit. jeff joins us now. >> reporter: there is no mention of increasing the sales tax ohrt gas tax, at least for now. the governor wants to raise income taxes for e

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