i'm contessa brewer. that's it for this edition of "caught on camera." >> this late night talk show host, these intrepid reporters, this politician, and this city bus driver, may seem to have nothing in common, but they all share a common bond. embarrassing, funny, scary, and unbelievable scenarios that all happened on the job. "caught on camera: a hard day's work." >>> hello, i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." one of the most embarrassing moments ever at the worst possible time in the worst possible place, on the job. in this story, you'll see professionals doing what they do best until they trip up or slip up and then goitold saying, laugh at yourself and the world will laugh with you. >> this is fashion week over in paris. there was a problem out there today. a model fell down twice. >> it looked so funny. like, i'm still laughing when i see this video. how is that possible to fall like that? >> you all are just really with -- tickled by this, aren't you? >> it was clear i don't have t

i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera."h security cameras, cell phone cameras, and surveillance cameras working 24/7, it seems like every experience these days is captured by someone somewhere. in this hour, we'll show you communities from across the united states who are ready to welcome you with open arms. [ speaking foreign language ] of course, we may have different ideas when we go to the german pavilion. [ laughter ] the most competitive in the world. our workers are the best in the world. our products the best in the world. so again i want to thank angela. i suspect the results as a result of this great event will see more partnerships, more grade, and more good jobs for our people on both sides of the atlantic. and angela and i will go check out some exhibits. but first i know she wants to say a few words, as well. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] [ applause ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> we have been listening to president obama there, making some opening remarks. the world's largest

i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." remember when your mother said "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." we're not sure what your mother would say about the people in this next hour. they take that to heart, even if it means breaking bones along the way. this is a club where no quitters are allowed. as you watch their spectacular feats, remember, do not try this at home. not that you could, even if you wanted to. a high-flying bmx rider crashes to the earth. ouch. >> in my opinion, bmx is just as dangerous as what evel knievel was doing. >> steve crandall should know. he's been part of this strange bmx culture since he was a kid. he owns a bike company and has been to hundreds of unofficial stunt events held in back allies and parking lots. >> bmxers in general are pretty subversive. it's an underground culture, a lot of outcasts, misfits, hell raisers and good time havers. >> thank you all for coming out. we'll run this at 4:00 exactly. >> today steve's in richmond, virginia, s

i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." it's the stuff of nightmares. you're on a plane, in a car or on a boat when suddenly you find yourself in a terrifying life or death situation. in this hour, you'll meet people who face their biggest fears and lived to tell the tale. their stories are real, and they're all caught on camera. just minutes after takeoff from burbank, california, the crew of jetblue flight 292 discovers a problem and prepares for an emergency landing. >> brace, brace, brace. >> a terrified passenger films the entire ordeal and records what could be his final good-byes. >> just thought i'd leave a message just in case that i love you. >> normally dave is a light-hearted guy, a comedian from southern california. >> you were filling the gas tank you would never leave. >> but on september 21st, 2005, he's in no mood for a long cross-country flight to new york. >> i woke up early and i woke up tired because my girlfriend and i had been in a big argument the night before. >> i dro

i'm contessa brewer. >>> the power of the natural world surrounds us, and though it can be awe-inspiring, it can also be deadly. disaster could strike without warning and leave behind other devastation. when battle lines are drawn between man and nature, frequently, nature has the upper hand. it's like a time lapse movie scene. >> this looked like something apocalyptic. some kind of end-of-the-world moment. >> though you can see it coming from miles away -- >> and look at the size of this thing. oh, yeah. >> you can't escape it. hot, dry weather is the stuff of legend in the sprawling metropolis of phoenix, arizona. here in the valley of the sun, summer temperatures can exceed 100 degrees for weeks on end. being surrounded by desert only makes things hotter. on july 5th, 2011, the combination results in a spectacular phenomenon that fills the sky. >> the storm spanned from one side of the horizon to the other. >> this time lapse must be seen to be believed. the storm is called a haboob. >> haboob is an er

i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." when it comes to sky diving, you may want excitement, but you don't want surprises. certainly not at thousands of feet in the air. but surprise is what one skydiving instructor gets. not once, not twice, three times in one day. all while heading straight for the ground below. [ screaming ] >> it was really not my day. i should have stayed in bed that day. >> oh, my gosh. >> adrian "wildman" thuma is a skydiving instructor who take people on jumps in australia. on january 12th, 2007, he's getting ready to head up again and joking from behind the camera with his next passenger scott. >> ready to go? >> i'm set. >> did you see my last one? >> no. >> good. >> good because it hadn't been perfect. that was when thuma got the first surprise of the day. his main parachute developed a tension knot in the lines. >> so the lines have slack in some stage. so they went through themselves and created a knot like this. >> you're always prepared for your main parachute

i'm contessa brewer. in this hour you'll see the most incredible video of collisions and meet survivors who were lucky to walk away alive. you might envision a racetrack or highway. but in our first story the scene of the accident is about the last place you would expect. imagine you're sitting outside your home enjoying a quiet family barbecue when a military plane swoops in and explodes in your backyard. it's a sunday picnic one family will never forget. air shows, exciting displays of the best in flight, held all around the world. a showcase of the rare and classic. an exhibit of thrilling tricks and intricate maneuvers. but at 10,000 feet, even the smallest mishap can result in disaster. september 1997, mark mcdonald and his family are visiting relatives in essex, maryland. nearby, hundreds gather on a warm, sunny day to watch the chesapeake air show. >> i was aware of the air show, and they did have quite a few planes that came in and made some very low fly-bys as they were making their landings. i c

i'm contessa brewer. every day we go about our daily routines never thinking that at any moment we could suddenly find ourselves in harm's way. not much feels as ordinary as a trip to the convenience store, sightseeing in the park, or even filling up your gas tank. but as one ohio man discovered, trouble could be lurking just around the corner. a carpenter filling up his gas tank suddenly finds himself pinned to the ground, surrounded by flames. >> it was the lunch hour. so i'm more so on the cashier's desk, and that time is pretty busy. >> laura works at the sunmart gas station in munson township, ohio, and loves her job. >> we're smiling at 6:00 a.m. and smiling at 9:00 p.m. when it's time to close down. so we have a lot of regular customers. >> one of those regular customers is jim, a building maintenance supervisor. >> i come to this gas station every day for lunch during the workweek. >> october 9, 2009, is as routine as any other day. laura behind the counter. jim enjoying his lunch. >> it was towar

i'm contessa brewer. have you ever witnessed a crime, a scary accident, or someone in serious peril? all of the people in our next hour did and though they could have shied away from danger, each of these ordinary citizens chose the opposite, to step in and help out. a fire rages through an apartment and trapped inside the inferno is a terrified 4-year-old boy. cory owns a variety store on the first floor of the building. after hearing someone scream, a little boy is in the building, he grabs a ladder from his store, climbs the fire escape, and is first on the scene trying to rescue the child. >> i was trying to make my way inside. i couldn't. the smoke was way too much. >> stuck outside the window, he can't reach the child and with smoke enveloping them he knows the boy desperately needs oxygen. >> i told him, just breathe. breathe outside and make sure you keep breathing. >> things aren't looking good. but to his relief, firefighters soon arrive on the scene. >> i see a ladder setting in place and bring

i'm contessa brewer. the story took the country by storm. an unsuspecting teen lured to a house of horror while two teenage boys stand as lookouts. the girl is badly beaten. but if that isn't terrifying enough, the attackers videotaped the assault, hoping to post it on the internet for their 15 minutes of fame. well, they got fame all right, and some may even get a jail sentence to go with it. this is what the world saw, 16-year-old victoria lindsey, or tori, as her friends called her, being punched, kicked and cursed at in the home of her friend, mercedes nichols. >> ooh, yeah, baby. ooh, yeah. >> the beating is an ambush. tori had spent a week at nichols' place in lakeland, florida, because she allegedly is having problems at home. so why would mercedes and five other girls turn so viciously on tori? polk county sheriff grady judd. >> this all erupted as a result of our victim supposedly trash talking these other girls on her myspace account and through text messages. >> you can hear one of the girls talking about the myspace messages. >>

i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." the courtroom has always been a place for high drama, it is the suspenseful, long-awaited scene in so many movies, novels and television shows you about this next hour is not about the fictional courtroom, it's about the real one, whether it is a victim's family coming face-to-face with a man who threatened a beloved family member, a suspect who grabs a deputy's gun or a man who tries to escape. you will witness reactions that aren't scripted or rehearsed. chaos erupts in an ohio courtroom. >> i was shocked. i couldn't believe this was happen-ing right in front of me. >> it's november 16th, 2006, warren, ohio, a small town, two hours northeast of columbus. 24-year-old jason howard is about to be charged with aggravated murder for killing a man and shooting at two others. but it's the family of a victim in another murder case that suddenly charges into the courtroom in a raw and emotional outburst. five months earlier, howard's ex-girlfriend, jamiel west

i'm contessa brewer. how well do you think you know yourself?this show we pose the question, what would you do? in situations that are confusing, dangerous, and even life threatening. some present ethical questions. some are questions of judgment. and others are uncomfortable. but briefly put yourself in the place of the people in these stories and ask yourself, did they make the right choice? and what would you decide? a car with its hazards on runs a red light and pulls into this hospital parking lot. with police in hot pursuit. the driver is nfl running back ryan moats. earlier that evening his wife tamisha gets an urgent phone call from a nurse telling them to come to the hospital. tamisha's mother, sick with cancer, is very close to death. >> get in there. get in there. let me see your hands. >> excuse me. my mom -- >> get in there. put your hands on the car. >> his mom is dying. >> officer robert powell gets out of his car, gun drawn, as tamisha moats tries to explain. >> my mom is dying. >> do you understand? >> as i turned around, he has

i'm contessa brewer.l seekers don't just put their own skills to the test, they challenge the laws of nature, too. in our next story, a kite boarder stakes his life on the fickle wind, and it lets him down hard. a pro kite boarder soars into the air and slams into solid steel. >> oh! >> oh, oh! >> i just saw my life flash in front of me. i started kite boarding 11 years ago when it first started. >> dimitri lives to fly. for wings he uses a kite in a relatively new sport called kite boarding. >> the appeal about this sport is the freedom. it's just like jumping and pure power house, but you are using nature to do that. >> the greek-born dimitri also flies to live. he's a pro and owner of a company that manufacturers and sells kite boards. >> i was very lucky to get into kite boarding. i did it for myself and got sponsored by two different companies and finally started my own kite company. >> kite boarding combines the appeal of boarding, riding the waves, with the pleasures of flying through the air on th

add contessa brewer reports, it's inspired pie a small and very resilient type of bird. >> i am dying in here! >> reporter: the movie "concussion" highlights the long-term consequences of brain damage from football. in the film, alec baldwin plays real-life neurosurgeon julian bailes. >> we realized years ago, a decade ago, that helmets weren't the answer. helmets weren't working. >> reporter: why? helmets can't protect the brain from slosh, when the brain slams against the skull. bailes and his partners were inspired by the woodpecker. it slams its head more than 80 million times over its lifetime without concussion. the bird's long tongue wraps around its head, compressing the jugular vain. bailes replicated that with a collar for humans that gently presses the jugular vain like a necktie, reducing bloodflow out of the brain. bat creates a backflow, about a teaspoon extra, making a tighter fit in the skull. so it's like bubble wrap for your brain. >> yes, exactly. te reporter: what's the downside wn increasing the volume of blood inside the skull? >> there's none that we know of. >>

i'm contessa bluer. brewer. an estimated 40 million americans suffer from phone i can't say and one of the most common is claustrophobia. we'll bring you the stories of people trapped in some of the scariest most confined places possible. an air tight safe, a sinking car and elevator. the fear of death in these situation is all-too real. so it's up to the rescuer putting their own lives on the line to help those in danger get out alive. it's 9:30 a.m. in thailand. a fire rages in the kitchen on the first floor of the royal hotel and quickly spreads. but 16 floors above, american rochelle stein sami knows nothing about the blazing inferno below. no alarm, no phone call, no notice at all. her husband is in china away on business, and she's in her hotel room with her 7-year-old daughter, sona, when something catches sona's eye outside their window. >> i noticed some smoke. then i noticed it was coming from straight down below the window. and then i heard people screaming. >> rochelle panicked, rushes to the door, o

c contessa brewers reports. >> i am dying in here. i'm dying in here.lights the long term consequences of brain damage from football. in the fill temperature, alec baldwin plays real life neurosurgeon julian bales. >> realized a decade ago, helmets weren't the answer weren't working. >> why? helmets can't protect the brain from slosh when the brain slams against the skull. bales and partners were inspired by the woodpecker. it slams its head more than 80 million times over its lifetime without concussion. the bird's long tongue wraps around its head compressing the jugular vain. bales replicated that with a collar for humans that gent presses the vain lick a necktie reducing blood flow out of the brain. that creates a back flow. a teaspoon extra making a tighter fit in the skull. so it is like bubble wrap for your brain. >> yes. exactly. >> reporter: what's the downside to increasing the volume of blood inside the skull? >> there its none that we know of. this is such a novel device, the question that we get from parents is it safe for my child? >> repo

i'm contessa brewer.ition of "caught on camera." >> this late night talk show host, these intrepid reporters, this politician, and this city bus driver, may seem to have nothing in common, but they all share a common bond. embarrassing, funny, scary, and unbelievable scenarios that all happened on the job.

i'm contessa brewer for this edition of "caught on camera." >>> he was precocious from the start. provocative until the end. >> you can't help but be sexy. >> the makeup, the heels, the lace. >> he was dangerous. >> he was about ten people in one. >> already breaking down all the boundaries. >> magical, master full. mysterious. >> you never knew what he was going to get next. >> his last days were filled with mystery. too. >> how can you talk to someone one day and then -- they're gone? >> what was behind his sudden death? >> there are some things regarding this investigation that i will not be able to talk about. >> emotional tributes pour in. and now, revealing stories pour out. >> we were family. >> would you say he's one of your greatest loves? >> absolutely. >> i said prince, are you okay? and then we talked for nearly three hours. >> these guys sound-tracked every important moment in a generation's life. >> tonight, we remember. >> prince was very quiet. but his music spoke volumes. >> you felt you were on the journey with him. >> you hear that song, boom. ♪ ♪ >> prince, the

i'm contessa brewer."caught on camera." >>> a race car driver hits the wall. >> he's out! >> he's out. >> a kite boarder slams into steel poles. >> it felt like i got hit by a truck. >> motorcycle riders scrape the street. >> whoa! >> super athletes push the limits. >> i just remember hitting the horse. >> oh, man! >> and a huge amount of pain. >> daredevils goes for broke. >> i practically almost died

i'm contessa brewer.ambitious fishermen are always pushing the limits, trying to reel in that big one, scouring the ocean's for the world's most exotic and elusive sea creatures. in our next story, a young angler battles a giant black marlin. and what happens next is no fish tale. 30 miles off the coast of panama, a family fishing vacation turns into a desperate fight for life. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. >> i didn't really think it was happening. i thought it was a dream. and then when i woke up, i was on the ground, being pulled into the corner of the boat, spitting up blood. so then it became real. >> 17-year-old steven schultz, his dad, bob, and his sister allison are on a fishing trip in the deep blue tropical waters near panama. it's one last summer trip before both kids go off to school. >> my brother was leaving for college, so we were going to be going separate ways again and i was excited. >> spirits are high. it's the threesome's first deep sea fishing adventure together, and it's a chance for b