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outrage. a school fight between the principal and value tick tore yan. how one word is causing her a diploma. >> i'm shocked. >> they know how hard it is to fight city hall. >> we are going to bring our toilets out. >> see what made them drop their pants on the beach. the first day of school. >> they do it different in russia. we have the full on celebration. >> i'm so happy you made it to third grade. cell phone video from venice beach, california getting attention from the media and online. four officers trying to restrain a young man on the ground. you see the officers have him pinned down, then there's a punch to the face.
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[ bleep ]. >> that's 20-year-old ronald. at this point, he is restrained and cuffed by police. >> oh, he's already cuffed and they are punching him and there's four of them? [ bleep ]. >> police claim they were stopping him for skateboarding on the wrong side of the road. when they told him to stop, he did not stop. he says he was on the wrong side of the road because he claims he saw gang bangers on the side of the street he was on. he didn't want to get mixed up with them. when he heard police call, he didn't respond because he thought they were talking to the gang bangers. >> am i missing something here? >> he's cuffed, face down and three guys on top of him. i don't think he's going anywhere at that point. >> what is the punch for? >> there are two investigations going on. he spent two nights in jail and was released. he's charged with interfering
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with an officer and resisting force. he suffered a concussion, broken nose and chin. it's not because he fell over on his skateboard? it's because of what the police did? that's insane. >> it's what the video shows. of all the people to be denied a diploma, you wouldn't think it would happen to the valedictorian, right? it's what's going on in oklahoma. kaitlin nootbaar finished top in her class. a 4.0 average all through high school, never got a b in high school. she's being denied her diploma. find out what she said and what happens next. kaitlin is joining us right this minute from weatherford, oklahoma. tell us the line from your
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speech that the school district had a problem with. >> there's a part where i basically said, we really don't know what we are doing and when i said that, i said who the hell knows. >> the direct quote was when she first started school, she wanted to be a nurse, then a veterinarian and now she's closer to graduation and people ask her who she wants to do she says how the hell do i know. >> are you shocked that they won't want to give you your diploma? >> i was pretty shocked. i figured i would catch some crap from some people. i didn't assume i wasn't going to get my diploma. >> how do they justify it for one singular word? >> i was told it was disrespectful to the principal and the people at the graduation. >> i understand when you gave them the written copy of the speech you had the line in there
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and you said heck, not hell. is that what they have a problem with? >> yes, i think that's the problem. they didn't expect me to say hell. i hear it in church. i have heard teachers say it. it's on tv all the time. >> do you plan on apologizing? >> no. if i was to apologize, i would be lying. i was speaking mainly to my parents and my class. neither of them were offended by it. >> how do you feel about this whole thing? are you angry or upset? >> i wasn't angry but i started thinking about it. i thought they were just on a power trip. >> i know what you are asking. why are they walking with toilets on the beach? what you are looking at are protesters on a beach in australia and oh, my goodness, not only do their carry toilets to the beach, they dropped trow. they are protesting the fact
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they don't have enough facilities for people to use the commode at the beach. they want city council to do something so they are going to bring toilets out in protest. >> why not just pee in the ocean? >> you can. some people need to do things more than that. >> am i the only one that doesn't pee in the shower or ocean? >> it's a massive body of water. >> everything pees in the ocean. >> i would pee in the ocean every day of the year. i would go out just to save water on my water bill. according to this report, it was a cold day, but people were happy to be there to bring up the issue. >> it would be funny if one guy didn't get the note they weren't going to go to the bathroom in the toilet. they are like ralph, you poed
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inccording to you, he can go out in the water. >> i said pee in the ocean is fine. >> keep it classy, people. firefighters were called to a backyard that had a 12 foot well in it because, listen to this -- >> i hear barking, but i don't see a dog. gracy, a neighbor's dog fell into the well. it turns out that gracy is 12 years old and blind. she probably didn't see the well owner. she called the fire department and animal control came into the scene and they both collaborated to save gracy. >> they threw a ladder over the well. as you can see, one of the firefighters is getting punished. >> they are going to lower him down. >> look at this part here.
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they are using the bumper of the patrol car to secure that line as lieutenant gets ready to go down. >> they set up a block and tackle system so it's not as heavy to pull him back out. that's cool. >> this is the moment where they pull gracy out. >> good girl. >> i got her. i got her. there you go. >> the rescue took about 45 minutes. they were able to get her out. they drag her off and she did not have any injuries. >> wow! >> you can see the owner is so happy. >> successful rescue. yeah to the firefighters. >> that guy went 12 feet. you get worried being six feet under, he went 12 feet under. an egg, a boomerang and a trick shot. this one blows my mind.
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and created a mix mash up off all the videos. ♪ >> she claims there was no additional mixing, it was just the perfect blend of all these videos. >> what's nice is how he paired the voices together that compliment each other. i can't imagine the time it took to do something like this. it probably isn't hard work for him. he hears it in his head before he puts it together. >> finally, it's a different song. >> if i hear sexy and i know it one more time, i'm going to jump out the window.
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i think this is cool. the whole worldcoming together to sing one song. >> i'm at a pay phone -- it's trick shot time. a guy is in australia for how ridiculous it is to use a boomerang. >> let's see what we can do. >> this one blows my mind. >> yeah! he did it. >> are you kidding? that's great. this is cool. i haven't seen a boomerang slicing on egg before. >> did you see he managed to catch the boomerang, too. i bet the guy who caught the egg tegg >> splattered aou me. i don't think i got any on me. >> nice. >> when you think about how unlikely that is, the egg is yeah big, the boomerang maybe
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that thick and they meet in the same place on the planet. >> good trick shot video. new and innovative. >> a destroyed egg. first day of school for a lot of people. parents are taking their kids to the bus stop, making sure the boots are tight. they do something different in russia. a dad dropping kids off for the first day of school. here is how you celebrate. >> oh! >> i don't know, machine gun out of your trunk and, you know, have a firing stash. >> he is out of his mind. he's out of his mind, breaking out a gun like that at a school. >> i have no idea what's happening. the people scurry. i don't know if he's like, i'm so happy you made it to third
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grade. >> there's a little girl and she's like jammed through the gate. >> i would, too. i would hit the deck in a second. >> this kid will never have a problem with bullies in school. >> who carries a gun like that in their trunk. >> where does the gunfire land? in the neighborhood hills? when he's done shooting, one of the school children run over to get the shells. >> this lady is going to slap some sense into him. >> look how the suspension is on that car, too. i wonder what else he has in the trunk. a couple land mines, grenades, flame thrower. andrew hales is back with a reason to celebrate. >> i hit 100,0 00 subscribers. he's going to bust a move right this minute. you can get them sweet deals
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>> she ended up having to quit the dream of going to the olympics and, crap. what was i saying? >> the prankster put this together. it's funny. you have to go to the website. it's kind of long. >> you can't get away. they keep talking and talking. head to rightthisminute.com. little boys in the united states are inside playing with their x-boxes, this little boy in cameroon doesn't have one. this is a remote control car. basically, this little boy used found items to build a remote control car. >> those are the tires. you have sardine cans. sticks? and rope. >> basically, he's taken trash and built himself a toy car. he also have a steering
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mechanism. the front wheel can go like this and he can steer from left to right. he can steer the car while st pushing from behind. that stick he's holding is what steers the car back and forth. >> show me how it moves. >> pretty neat. this is a couple years old but for whatever reason it's trending now. i thought it was super cute. >> he puts so much thought into the detail of building this car. this is amazing. it's interesting to see how wenh ki d'tha ything, twi t junk and something out of it. >> nothing goes to waste in cameroon. >> wow. i'm andrew hales. >> andrew hales is back and stoked because -- >> i hit 100,000 subscribers. >> more people than us like him. this time to celebrate the
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100,000 subscriber mark, he's going to people on the beach doing this. >> can you hold this for a sec? >> he goes up to people, hands them a speaker device and the song is remixing, "crush on you" and he busts into a hilarious dance. >> he is celebrating. >> it's what you do when you celebrate. >> this guy had no part of it. okay, funny. where's the camera. >> he got other people in on the fun, too. >> friends bail on her. shees left there holding on to the boom box. >> he's been all over the place. 100,000 subscriber, not an easy fet terks. >> what the heck is this? it's denomic but very, very interesting and cool. >> see junk born again in too
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>> any business that wants to get in on the deal. >> does it scare you? >> there's privacy issues. >> i'm going to get zach's face tattooed on my face. >> you get a coupon for a day. >> the little thing of the internet, there'sn artist wknd incredible. check out the sculptures of nemo gouldis. they are not just sculptures, they move. they are all made from bound or salvaged parts. i did it. i thought it was a clock. it's a robot with hands. >> it looks like an old radio, maybe, with parts from instruments. it's cool. >> it could be anything. that's a bike chain. >> i would have this in my house. i like it. >> crazy. it looks like something that would be in a tim burton movie.
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it's denomic, but very, very interesting and cool. >> he likes things that are sci-fi. you can see the thing with the robots he has. i think this video is incredible. it's 20 minutes long. you can see it on his website. look at that. it's a robot driving a ship. looks like rocking chair parts. >> it's fun to see what's used. >> an ant. >> it's an ant! >> not the first time he's heard that. >> it's weird. i want to hug the art. i want to hug it. some of them are robots and you are not creeped out. >> we are made progress, nick. >> this breakthrough. >> that's it for right this minute today, see you next time.
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a big old rumble, big boom. >> a deadly trail derailment in ellicott city takes the lives of two girls. they were days away from becoming juniors at respective universities. today families are saying good-bye to two lives cut short. it happened in a matter of moments on the csx tracks. elizabeth nass and rose mayr were killed just after midnight. we have been covering the story throughout the
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