in court, sam sulaimon as part of a plea agreement pleads guilty to felony assault. he's sentenced to a year in jail and three years probation. his wife is three years probation and also ordered to do 30 hours of community service. >> john modis i'm going to sue the living -- >> john maddis is still concerned this may not be over. >> at the sentencing the judge gave him an opportunity to apologize to me and yet he turned to me and said that man was the cause of my problems. that man is dangerous. he uses a microphone as the deadly weapon. >> maddis is thankful that phillips decided to intervene and also thankful the camera man thought better and decided not to intervene. >> he kept shooting the whole time so that when the police came it documecouldn't be oh mr maddis attacked me. they looked at the tape and that was it. he was gone. so the camera man saved the situation, saved me. >> coming up, rescuers battle to save a man at the edge of niagara falls. >> if you go over in that particular spot you are not going to survive. >> we thought for sure we were going to see