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i'm beth troutman. there are a lot of great videos out there on the internet. who has time to look through all of them to find the very best? we do. time to take a look at them, "right this minute." a woman drives like crazy to evade the cops, bobbing and weaving and bailing out. >> she still keeps going. >> we have the story behind her
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great almost escape. >> did you hear the one about the baby elk, the bear and the wolf? >> this is the most epic [ bleep ] ]evr.e ee the incredible race up the river. >> like a michael phelps. >> michael phelk. panic at the rink as horrified parents realize a roof is about to collapse on an ice hockey team. and there's not enough food in the world for this squirrel and teddy the porcupine. >> my favorite guest on rtm. >> teddy's back and hungrier than ever. we begin our show with dash cam video of a car chase that happened in morgantown, north carolina. you see a 1998 toyota corolla and you see an officer kind of knocking on the window, trying to get the woman's attention. instead of complying with officer's orders this is what
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happens instead. >> see ya. >> wow. >> are you kidding me? >> she backs into the officer's car and takes off. she begins a high-speed chase that goes on for ten miles at speeds of nearly 80 miles per hour. the woman driving the vehicle is 28-year-old alexandria hoffman. earlier in the day she was being served incompetency papers by the burkes county sheriff's department. these papers were filed by her sister, basically they were trying to declare her incompetent to take care of her own affairs. >> oh, my goodness. >> she seems pretty competent to me, at least at evading police. >> >> watch what happens as she tries to get on the highway. >> she turns on her blinker. >> she signals. >> she's competent. >> didn't want to get a ticket after all this. >> this officer continues to pursue her, you see her tire come off the front of her car, but she still keeps going. she finally pulls over to this grassy hill. >> what?
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>> gets out, begins to run away. there's a barbed wire fence up there that snags her. >> i feel bad for this woman if she was mentally incompetent and was afraid and wanted to get away from those papers and that what could mean for the rest of her life, that's sad. >> she ran from the cops when she was pulled over. she got herself in more trouble from fleeing the scene. >> this happened on friday, she appeared in court on monday for felony speeding to elude arrest after her arrest on friday. she has a probable cause hearing on february 13th and she also has another court date set for march 31st on charges of failing to heed lights and sirens, failure to yield, injury to personal property, reckless driving to endanger, speeding and three counts of resisting a public officer also from the chase. you guys remember alfred hitchcock's movie "the birds." >> yeah. >> new scenes have just been released, remastered and in
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color. >> no! >> weird. >> i kid. these are actually images from la grange, kentucky, where thousands and thousands of birds just swarm the skies. >> the first time i was scared. i didn't know what was happening. >> it's like a cloud of birds, but a giant cloud. the whole sky will fill up with black birds. >> they've been doing this for months and it's become such a problem, that people are kind of taking matters into their own hands. this is darlene and billy arms and they take out this cannon that they got from the kentucky department of agriculture to scare off the birds. >> i feel like i'm watching that scene from "steel mag noll his" where the dad is trying to scare the birds out of the tree with a loud gun. >> sounds like rain coming down. >> the woman said there's so much poop it sounds like it's raining outside. >> some people are claiming
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they're having respiratory issues caused possibly by bacteria from their waste. it's not uncommon to see this happen in different places. what is uncommon is for this community to deal with it. >> what's the community's biggest complaint? >> that it stinks. >> smells like -- makes you gag. >> we have to learn to live with the animals and allow them to do their thing. >> just live through it. how bad could it be? >> you wouldn't want do that if they pooped on your motorcycle all day twice a day. some youth hockey players recently escaped some big-time danger on the ice but it had nothing to do with their sport. this is in slovakia. you see the players are on the ice, but then the parents, who are there at the practice, started to notice something strange going on with the ceiling. before you know it, huge cracks in debris from the ceiling start falling down on the ice.
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all the players are off the ice but they're still kind of right there behind the board. this ceiling at this ice rink just caves in. you see the lights are flickering. >> just buckles. >> this had to have been because of the weight of snow or something on the roof of that building, right? >> this is a relatively new building. it just opened in november. but yeah, you're right, beth. they did experience some heavy snow as of late and they believe that's what caused this ceiling to collapse. but here's the most interesting thing about this video. after the collapse, you see a guy walking around with the camera and it looks like he's going through some sort of tunnel. that's like the walls and the ceiling, buckled over. what's holding it up is the glass, the boards. this is the boards from the hockey rink. where this guy is standing right now is sort of like the bench where the players would stand during a hockey game. and these tunnels actually helped a lot of the people get out of the situation. >> was anybody injured in this. >> fortunately nobody was injured. they were able to get all the players off the ice safely and
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out of this place which is surprising considering how much damage we saw. >> it sort of reminds you of a few years ago when the metrodome collapsed because of snow in minnesota. still, this is crazy video. >> if you're doing something that store workers or owner might think is suspicious, don't. because you could get tackled like this guy. that's what happened at a convenience store in park chester in the bronx, new york. [ inaudible ]. >> what was that? was that a needle or something? >> that was a needle. the person who shot the video said that the man that they've tackled to the floor was trying to take some things. a worker saw him, stopped him. he tried to get away and the needle comes out 37 this is the boss coming down to talk to the guy because they've called the police and they're holding him and waiting until police get there. >> i'm sorry. >> [ inaudible ]. >> the boss is like you want to do its hard way.
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we can do its hard way. he's not happy, this guy tried to take something from him. at one point he begs him to let him go. >> pease let me go. >>igcan't. [naud iible ] w can't. >> i promise you i won't come back, yo. please. let me go before -- >> friends to give him $20 so he can just give it to them so they can get. >> i'll give you money. give him -- give him $10 to let me go, please. >> yo, please. i don't want to go to jail, man. >> near the end of this video, we haven't seen any weapons, just that needle. and then he brings up a knife. >> i didn't take out a knife, yo. i wasn't going to use it. i was just scaring you. please let me go. >> according to caesar who shot the voiideo the man and his frid were both arrested when police showed up. >> give the shop owners credit. >> i think the shop owners and workers showed some pretty good
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restraint. >> they were incredibly brave to what they did. >> let go of me. the police are here. in the river, a baby elk. on the shore, a wolf. >> was there not a bear down there too? >> i saw a bear too. >> yep. there's a bear. and the chase is on. and last week we showed you this video and the question became -- >> is it real or fake? >> is this video too good? nick wants answers.
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this video i'm about to show you it's crazy to watch. it's the circle of life happening before your eyes. this is in alberta cannen da, close to calgary. you're wondering what these people are trying to focus in on and then you hear it.
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>> oh. >> that is a baby elk in the water running away from that wolf that you see on the bank of the river. >> oh. >> was there not a bear down there too. >> i saw a bear too. >> oh, your' about to see more of the bear. >> oh, boy. >> yeah. >> swimming against the current of the river. >> you can see the current is dragging the bear down risker. >> a tough task swinging across the river. the bear realizes this is a tough task. watch what the bear does. he gets out. >> bears are fast. >> he makes a run for it and here comes the bear. >> oh, my goodness, no. >> this is great. like an action movie. >> you can hear the elk still screaming under the bridge, but watch what happens. >> oh, wow! >> oh. >> this is most epic [ bleep ]
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ever. >> now they're swimming with the current. the bear is gaining on this elk. but the elk starts pulling away. >> he's like a michael phelps elk. >> michael phelk. >> we don't know exactly who won this battle, but according to the poster, the elk makes it to land, but the wolf is waiting on the train tracks. >> oh, my gosh. this is a bad day for this little baby elk. >> wow. >> in my little world the elk got away safely and with it moms drinking a little milk. >> in my world the bear and the wolf shares the baby elk because there's plenty more elk. the circle of life, elton john taught us about it in "the lion king" ♪ the circle of life >> that's what elton john would want too. >> hey! artists often use very
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unconventional ways to create their art. well this girl, her artist name is red and she used many different mediums. >> what do you want me to do with this? >> paint. >> paint with a basketball? >> yes. >> okay. >> and you're thinking, what could she possibly create with a basketball? a painting of what? >> like dribble it around, do some ball handling drills. >> she's going to appropriately create a portrait of, none other than yao ming. >> what? with a -- huh? >> uh-huh. >> like a textured brush, but instead of a brush it's a basketball. >> very unconventional. you asked if she was going to dribble. >> to make looks like some shading. >> look at her dribble. >> she's quick too. >> handle that. >> she can handle the rock. >> i'm sitting here thinking, hope she doesn't get her nice long jacket full of red paint.
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>> she's an artist. if she does it's just a sign of her art. >> she's confident in her abilities. >> she's not gointo get messed up >> knows wh she's doing. > s's fly. is painting now a basketball using a basketball. >> it's pretty cool. >> she is very, very talented. to be able to use that medium is unbelievable. >> this happens to me a lot. do you ever eat so much you like get into a food coma? >> oh, yes. >> just -- >> want to veg and lay there. >> didn't know what happened to animals, namely squirrels. guy goes to check a bird feeder and notices a big fat squirrel has himself stuck in this bird feeder. >> he ate so much he can't move. >> this video is a few years old but it's trending around on the blogs now. see this guy. what's wrong with you? what's wrong with you, squirrel? the guy eventually removes this piece of glass or plastic here and is literally poking the
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squirrel, saying move, move. >> come on. >> this thing is sitting here, it ate too much apparently and it's just pooping. >> can't stay in there. >> the youtube poster said the squirrel got up event and left on his own power, he's out there. >> he's out there, you know. he had to go work off the food coma, probably out there ransacking other bird feeders as we speak. >> what's wrong with you, squirrel? next time on "right this minute" -- >> sam's dad bet him $100 that he couldn't do a back flip every day for an entire year. >> that's next time on "right this minute." just a walk in the old glacier park, right? >> they were completely covered by dirt and dust. >> we'll show you what happens next to some tourist hikers. and, a big storm on the sun gives us beauty in the skies. see a very rare northern lights
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show, a little later.
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franz josef glacier? new zealand is considered a gem. a group of tourists had a fantastic time and on their way down, from the glaser, they experienced something even more spectacular. ♪ >> a rock slide? >> this is a rock fall and a
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massive amount of rocks came crashing down. >> oh, boy. >> with the tourists not very far away. >> it looked like somebody set off dynamite. >> that's exactly what it looks like. everybody was completely stunned, but they did have expert guides that immediately guided the tourists to cover their heads. so that's what you're looking at here when you see the camera go off to the side. >> they had to take an emergency stance and cover their head and everything? >> yes. they were extremely close. they were completely covered by dirt and dust. and, some of the rocks got really close to them. you can see one of the tour guides pick up a rock and show it to them. >> got this on camera. >> that's not a small rock. >> no. this happened in october, but the video is tarting to really make its way around the web. the entire group was safe and everybody made it out of this
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okay. they probably had their adrenaline pumping. >> it was crazy. and they're fortunate that they were where they were. they could have really gotten hurt. guys, a few days ago i showed you a cool video of a motorcycle riding a narrow ridge in some snow. huge dropoffs on either side. ever since i showed you that video i've been getting a bunch of e-mails and facebook postings, it's fake. there's no way, totally fake. people were saying the front wheel isn't even moving. no way the guy could keep his head this straight. had to be a helicopter shot. all kind of crazy theories as to why this isn't real. >> i consider myself a skeptic on many things, but nothing about this seems fake to me. >> nef he occurred to me this could be dummied up. >> i think his bravery is unreal. >> he has a pair of stones to ride when he was riding. the rider is chris mcmahon,
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riding in grand junction, colorado. s got chrison right thi miteo eathe air and tell us is it real or fake. >> of course it's real. looks like my head is not moving because the camera is attached to the helmet. >> why would you ride on such a steep hill and a very extremely narrow road? >> don't forget the ice. >> i ride quite a bit. that was the first time on that ridge and the first time i ever rode in the snow and the first time i ever tried out my homemade stud but it worked out. >> what are you talking about homemade stud? >> sheet metal screws screwed into the knobby tires. >> that's why you got such good traction on the snow. >> absolutely. >> you had to have been at least a little frightened by your stunt, though? >> you kind of go into a zone i guess. >> you make it sound like this is what you do every saturday afternoon. >> exactly. every weekend i go out riding, try to ride somewhere new about every time. >> what can you say to all these
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doubters out there to prove this is, in fact, real. >> come out to colorado and i'll show you. >> there it is. >> there it is. >> it's real. >> take that, doubters. i'm back and here's the thing, rightthisminute.com never went anywhere. it's always there. the best videos 24 hours a day, seven days a week. rightthisminute.com. always there. me, not so much. ♪ my my my. >> mine mine mine. >> mine mine mine. >> those poetic words can be only one thing. the latest an
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accident with a tanker like this, i want all the help i can get. >> guess who's back to pay our show a little visit, steven? >> i think i already know. >> my favorite guest on rtm, teddy bear the porcupine from zuneniers havesity in dallas, texas. i'm bringing him back today because our viewer sandy and her son cody love teddy the porcupine. teddy has a special valentine's day message today? >> really? >> mine mine mine. >> mine mine mine. mine mine mine. look at the tin here. teddy -- >> has already finished them. yeah. there's no kernels left. >> you ate all that corn already? >> [ inaudible ]. >> yeah, i did. >> yeah, i did. >> [ inaudible ]. >> he's being friendlier than he is sometimes. sometimes when you get too close to his food, teddy kind of gets
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an dri. >> teddy usually doesn't like to share his food but in this case he's had so much, you can have a bite. >> now what? it's all gone. >> no. teddy. those are for display only. i guess he'll eat anything. >> gets the corn taste out of his mouth to move on to the next course. >> teddy, the most popular porcupine in the world. that's going to do it for this edition of "right this minute." we're so glad you joined us. we're going to leave you with a look at the aurora lights over alaska. another half hour of our show is on the way. stick around. ♪
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