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oh mygod! >> see all the drama down toggs. >> three, two, one. are two sad things about this video.his isoned but number two, someone was left abandoned inside. stray rescue of st. louis got a phone call from police because something was making noises inside so they >> i see him. >> him being they call ig vern. [ barking ] s big vern.orgeous dog. >> that's a gorgeous st. bernard that they call big vern and he is just sitting there,hey deploy the sausage tactic. >> there you go. you want to gobye-bye? >> it's working, without hesitation. >> oh, yeah because the dog is p these people are abo ure him. she's likel throut. >> put your head through the hole. thank you very much. >> self-res then he's like okay i'll walk>> the award for easiest rescue in history on "right this mi -- >> big vern. because big ver basically f.gh while

in the car he's little aptsy but he lays yantsy butownad. surrounded by food. >> i smell cat food and bird ts. if you're in the st. louis area, big vern is looking for ahome. >> hopefully som that loves him will give him a home. dash cams are super even when the car isn't even rolling. here we are at a parking chile. you see someple looks like maybe that there, a little.sly somebody has come help out. under start lifting the car however, don't they look shifty? >> yes. >> the't look like be every time walks cars drive by they d back into their car and try andhide. >> they're knicking the wheels foexactly. in less than two minutes they are able to nutshe car jacked up just >> that's so wrong, >> and one wheel, two wheelsof the car that they came in and off they go. >> oh so they were there to

helped themselves to somebody else's stuff. >> not surprisingly the car they were in was also stolen. have seen the videot track these guys down. obviously thateo will them outlot. over to a convenience store in sydney. when you don't type of ause of laws. this guy is working in a convenience store. to two other sn behind with go cigarette cabinet behind the register. and dopily tries to press buttonng to get the open and he makes the poor employee show them which buttonsn up the register.man. at that point, you don't want to fight back. >> the s away with about $500nd thousands of dollars in cigarettes. the owner of the shop is not quite sure if his employee iso bother returning to work. >> would you?bout that time of the year where people are still o hold on to their new year's resolutions. this couple bought themselves some new workout g hit >> those are interesting workout clothes. >> aren't they? >> stability, tightness, compression. it looks like h no support at all.

>> oh yeah. i've seen that before. >> i'm thinking you really got to have a good body to wear a shirt that tight. >> this couple before they hit the gym paid aisit to jen, the body and had their workout gear painted on. >> most of it. see, that's why the painting tricks don't work with the guys. they do have wear underwear. it becomes pretty obvious pretty quickly. >> wow, really clinging fabric. >> right? >> sam, have you noticed anything about their outfit? >> no nothing at all. >> it's pretty cool. really well done. >> some people are in on thi but there are a few that a little confused. >> do you feel their outfits are good for the yeah they're good yen everybody figures out what they're doing, i love this moment here, there's this guy at the and just walk casually by. >> thumbs upmbs up. >> yeah.our eyes peeled. you never kno body painted people are going to be walking right neu. people like to say when it comes to gifts, it's the thought

that counts. well if that is has come up with theghtful gift i've ever seen. >> a lot of heart and soul into that. >> her grand, pening this gift. it's a oh lovely. grams love blankets. they're alw >> unravel it open it. it. watch the blanket. open it up, unravel it. >> look what's on it. >> oh! >> is that what you wanted that shirt for? she initially cracks up because on the inside of this blanket is this shirt, a shirt that had been requested from her, but it's the explanation of the gift that hitsbody right in the steel. >> now you can bring him to your chemo treatments and right there with you. >> frances is starting chemo. husband of 56 years passed a few years ago, but whatyn has done is by stitching one of the shirts to the inside of the blanket, he'll be there to wrap his arms around her whenever she goes to che -- i know --

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with the new year comes the hope of new things but, my friends, as long as there is russia as long as there are dash cams there will be videos like this. here you have a guy driving down an icy road. now, this is near leningrad, and as you can see, the ice is right here but then the ice ends. >> still going very fast for the conditions. let's be honest. >> oh yes, a little too fast. but then the inexplicable. >> oh snap. >> car swerve. >> oh, no. >> oh that isy explicable gayle. >> i'd say so. >> it's the speed and the corner. of course your back end is going to get loose. >> what is inexplicable and why the guy was driving that fast over an icy road around a curve like that next to a river. did you notice that? >> if somebody was driving that fast and i was in the car, my back end would get loose. >> the problem with some of this stuff even though the road looks clear it doesn't mean it is. we've heard of black ice, that thin layer of ice on the road that you can't quite see t will

catch you out like that. >> could be but in this next video it could totally have been avoided if somebody else had been watching their speed. >> dummy, dummy, dummy, dummy. oh man! >> oh! >> of all things to get in front of you as well. you can't go left, you can't go right. it's like plow! >> but this car saw that car coming. >> i mean, both drivers are at fault. you saw that one coming a mile away. >> you can't even throw hem out of the way of the big old long hummer. >> it was a wall in front of you. >> it's good to know though even though the cars were damaged, nobody was hurt. ♪ winner ♪ snow day, snow problem, especially if your name is marcus cleveland. this is apparently him just messing around at home off the roof. wee! >> nice. >> pretty good if you ask me. >> not just pretty good very very good. if you're wondering why he seems to be so good at this marcus

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these fisher fellas off the coast of australia caught themselves a nice tuna. they were so excited, except they weren't the only ones that spotted that delicious piece of tuna. there's a line and it's attached to their catch, but watch this moment right here when that beautiful bronze whaler shark comes in for the bite. >> oh! >> that shark takes a delicious bite off the tuna and starts shaking like crazy in the water trying to get a bite. >> there's a bunch of them right? >> yes! >> they enjoy their meal and the fishermen are left with what? >> a great video. >> and story. that's a big fishtail. >> they end up with a great fish tail. [ bleep ]. now another pretty saw some encounter also off the coast of new south wales, australia. this family was on a boat and two very curious whales decided to come up and say, hey.

>> they're just sitting there. >> i feel like these humpbacks are trying to send messages. i feel like they're trying to communicate with us. like it's getting hot down here. >> they say they felt like the whales were following them and wanted to come be close and hang out with them for a little bit, before moving on in their journey. >> you're okay with that? i'm okay with being followed by whales. not so much by sharks. whatever hit the majority of the united states the snow bomb the winter bomb the freeze bomb whatever they are calling it people are starting to freak out. getting cold everywhere, but not jason tate. jason tate decided to seize the opportunity of the low temperatures and decided to put a misting hose up into a tree. >> oh my gosh. >> for four days and four nights that hose misted out water and froze all over this tree, creating quite a delightful sul sculpture.

this is in mouldon, south carolina. >> you get food coloring into different places and run down got your own art. >> something tells me jason is like oh yeah! running outside right now. >> that is so cool. i've seen this being done before but like in canada. >> not south carolina. >> the cool part about it though there's no snow around it. even people driving by are like what?! >> he took it a step further and decided to light up the sculpture. >> that is cool. >> it is quite beautiful. i'm afraid for jason's sake the tree will be like -- >> i'm afraid for the tree but that is pretty cool. she's trying to make out what her man is saying. >> here. >> i. >> i. >> ate. >> ate. >> this game is so funny. >> it's speak out. >> what starts as a game is about to change her life. >> are you

chourizo in there? >> all of the above. the whole thing is amazing. look what i can do. ♪♪ ♪♪ [ laughter ]

>> [ bleep ] that's pretty sick. you know what they say? a good artist borrow a great artist steals. they are great artists because they've stolen an idea from jimmy fallon's boiled eggs roulette game. they have six blue and six pink and only one is soft boiled. so we get started. okay that's a hard boiled egg no problem. moves on, picks a pink as well. that's hard boiled as well. maybe we'll move on to the blue. that's hard boiled as is the next blue. back to pink. >> the suspense is building now. >> still nothing. by this point, everyone's okay this is getting a bit strange, but let's just keep rolling.

keep rolling. >> wow. >> it's comes down to the last two eggs one pink one blue. there's only one option. you g