hugh alexander is now exhausted trying to stay afloat and alive. and then -- >> hey! hey! conditions seem right for another rescue attempt and alexander appears for the second time. as the life guards swoop in, you can hear the cheers from the relieved crowd from up above. but it's not over yet. >> all of a sudden we saw the victim come out of the cave, the life guard grabbed him and got on to the jet ski and they took off only to fall off the back end because of another swell that washed him off. >> it's a nightmare that just won't end. luckily, this time there's a life guard tethered to a life ring and alexander has the help he needs to survive. >> fortunately they held on this time and managed to get out before the next big set came in. >> cut, cold, exhausted, but alive. alexander is taken to the beach for medical attention and later recounts his ordeal. >> i had cuts above and below my eyes and under my chin. for 2 1/2 hours i was sure i was going to die. just like being tossed around in a washing machine. >> miraculously, he suffers only minor injuries. but the traum

. >> reporter: travis alexander was a motivational speaker, compelling and effective. he was also a close friend and co-worker of david hughes in the fall of 2006. >> and i knew that he was single and he was always looking for miss alexander. >> reporter: enter saleswoman and aspiring photographer jodi arias. >> and i told travis, hey, there's this cute girl that i work with, you should meet her. and he goes, introduce me. and so i introduced them and then they were able to develop a relationship pretty quickly from there. >> they met in vegas. the night they met it seemed that they -- things heated up very quickly because jodi arias has said within a week or so they're having sex in the car. >> reporter: jodi and travis had an instant physical connection, a whirlwind romance, but a long-distance one, with her in palm desert, california and him five hours away in mesa, arizona. still, that wouldn't slow them down. shanna hogan is the author of "picture perfect," about the jodi arias case. >> from the very beginning travis and jodi were almost in constant communication. they talked every day. they exchanged thousands of e-mai

bags it's a nice lone liberal rumble joining me scottie nell hughes and horace cooper let's get back to it yesterday n.s.a. director keith alexander met privately with democratic and republican house lawmakers to lobby against a republican proposed amendment to the defense appropriations bill that would cut off funding for the n.s.a.'s vast phone data collection program and then it was authored by congressman just an ambush i believe it's amateur maybe it's amish the libertarian republican from michigan and co-sponsored by liberal michigan democratic congressman john conyers meanwhile senator ron wyden of oregon a democrat one of the staunchest critics of the n.s.a. surveillance programs spoke out against government surveillance tuesday at the center for american progress and his speech made an interesting comment about the potential uses of cell phones check it out. without additional protections in the law everything go one of us every one of us may be and can be tracked and monitored anywhere we are at any time the piece of technology we consider vital to the conduct of our everyday purfling professional life although smart. ha