. >>> felix baumgartner the guy who jumped from the edge of space inspired a bunch of people.d fat sam to try his own red bull style stunt. here he is on the roof of a house getting ready to do his style of jump. so fat sam puts his helmet on, dons his gloves. your costume was better. >> way better. >> thanks. here he goes. he is going to jump from the edge of this building to an earth model. >> he missed completely. >> right in the tail bone. >> that is a back and soul shattering jump. >> what was he trying to do? was he trying to do a butt bounce off the ball? trying to stand on the ball? >> two vertebrae broken. he spent a week in the hospital and had surgery before he uploaded the video. >> i feel like he would have popped the ball. >> if he did land on the ball and it bounced him somewhere he would have had a face plant. >> i think gravity in my tail bone. >> you know what the worst part about this is you have to show up at the hospital in this felix baumgartner suit. you have to explain what you do. >> the whole thing was just dumb. >>> it's that time. real or fake. a go

brian skydiver felix baumgartner made history with his record breaking thirty nine kilometer jump from space russia doesn't climb that high but still produces stunts that arguably just as dangerous and speak to kill one is. forty seven year old bees john has become the flying king of the mountains deforming his germs in a wing suit to fix this but it's bad gardeners did a great thing the project itself was very expensive using lots of new technology however it wasn't a very hard jump in terms of power sharing technique i'm still more focused on projects where i can apply my skydiving skills brazos career as an extreme sportsman started in the army where he was a professional mountainy or at the age of twenty nine his wish to parachuting becoming the two time world champion and in one thousand nine hundred eighty one the most prestigious can be shown in extreme sports the x. games in sky surfing the flow focusing on skydiving in a wing suit and helping revolutionize the sport one of this kind i mean legends most breathtaking feats was accomplished at one of the most iconic mountains on

. >> i guess felix baumgartner -- >> you never know. >>> speaking of ginger, this has been a week wherelot of well-deserved accolades after sandy, including members our extreme team here at abc news. take a look at this. >> whose response to hurricane sandy best qualifies him for to be president? 30% said barack obama and 30% mitt romney. 40% said handsome meteorologist sam champion. >> well deserved. there was a little tribute to ginger we might say and involved a little hip-hop music and the recut some of her reporting in the middle of the story. listen. ♪ >> that is great. >> i love it. the hat, ginger -- >> that is good, ginger. my hat was coming out. >> you're jamming out there. >> do we know who made it? >> i don't know who made it. i saw it. >> perhaps your future husband? >> yes. you want to jump out of a plane? i love how you make funny of me already. >> ginger zee, we told you. >> her next weather forecast will be brought to you with a large clock worn around her chest. we'll be right back. keep it here for more "good morning america." ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] jill and her mouth