this is country wake boarding, huntsville, ohio had some flooding.ey grabbed the boards and hit the water. they're doing it. they tied a rope to the back of the truck and they hit the gas. >> this is right in the drainage ditch on the side of the road. looks like it goes on for a while, too. >> you don't have a lake, just hop in the ditch and go. >> they do have a lake near actually. >> you don't have a boat. >> correct, correct. >> you got a truck and a ditch. you are set. >> and you don't even have to waste a lot of gas. you can just go to grandma's house and have a lot of fun on the way. >> yeah, because there's telephone polls like every hundred feet or so. good grief! >> it looks like he's about to run into a telephone post. he has swerved right around it. >> i thought once the water comes to an end, the ride would be over. but, no, he skips up and over the muddy patches into back into water. >> but i think the fun kind of outweighed the cold. >> this is an ontario disturbing 20 seconds. 16 degrees fahrenheit. >> he's ice skating on his driveway

. >> huntsville, alabama, president kennedy here with von braun, begins a two-day tour -- >> i read aat he wrote to kennedy, when he said, how can we beat the russians? and von braun's letter basically said, we can't beat them they were except to be the first on the moon. and so, that's what we committed to. >> may 25th, 1961, the president made a dramatic announcement before a joint session of congress. >> i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> we didn't go to the moon to collect rocks. we went to the moon to stick the flag in the moon before the russians did. >> if we didn't have the cold war, would kennedy have had the same -- >> no. >> -- zeal? >> no. >> to have something that would show america's ability to respond to a challenge as well as to do it in what in a full, open, and peaceful way, i think really did catch the imagination of the american people and of the politicians at the time. >> catch the imagination, it did. >> we're under way. >> on febru

. >> it's early may, 2011, and marcus tate of huntsville, texas, is visiting fight town for the firstg on the strip with some family members when something catches his eye. all the sudden i see two guys arguing. it went from playful to serious. >> marcus can't believe what he's seeing. it's a scene right off the comic book pages, only this is no joker. >> that's what turned my head to the whole situation, was batman getting loud. >> maxwell allen, aka, batman, bat mask, has been making a living by dressing up as the caped crew saider for far more than a decade. first on hollywood boulevard in los angeles. and in 2010 he moved to the las vegas strip. >> i like being my own boss. i like working with kids. and i kind of like being out there. >> like virtually all of the street characters on the strip, bat max works solely for tips. posing for photos and relying on the generosity of batman's adoring fans for his income. >> everybody thinks you're making great money, every, every day, which is not true. i mean, one day you can do really well. up to 100 bucks a day sometimes. and other days

we found a company that responded in huntsville, alabama., we're here because you ended up selling one of your devices to iran. >> by accident, certainly. >> lynn leaper is the ceo of az technology, which makes aerospace testing equipment. she sold kakavand this spectroreflectometer, a device with various uses, including, the government says, enhancing the capability of long range missiles. she says kakavand's trading company lied to her in their emails. >> we asked who the end user was, which is one of the questions on-- >> the end user. >> right. >> yeah. oh, did they tell you it was going to iran? >> they said it was going to malaysian telekom. >> did that make any sense? >> yeah, actually it's a reasonable request. >> so she sold it for $95,000, and off it went to kuala lumpur. we know actually from the indictment of mr. kakavand that he had arranged for your product to be flown via iran air. >> [chuckling] >> right into tehran. do you know even know who the actual recipient of it was? >> in the indictments, there were two companies list

. >> this is the huntsville times.urns secured his seat in the house after winning a special election in alabama's first district. bradley defeated burton le flore. this was, of course the first time the chamber of commerce and joe rickets and other business interests got involved to go against somebody they voted too extreme for the party. >> you will love this next story. >> i will. >> a blind man, and his guide dog, cecil williams fainted, fwel off the platform onto the tracks. his seeing eye dog orlando bravely jumped onto the tracks to help him. orlando alerted everyone by barking and trying desperately to pull his owner away as a train approached. police say the oncoming train hit the brakes but nearly two cars still rolled of williams and orlando. miraculously, he suffered minor injuries, they weren't hurt as much t. only problem is i think he's running out of insurance or something to cover the dog. so the local papers are working on that story. >>> and from the l.a. times, 59 previously unreleased beatle's tra

host: markets-huntsville, alabama. -- mark is next in huntsville, alabama, democratic caller.aller: i'm not a small business owner, but i work for a company, and it is well -- i mean, there are hundreds of employees that work for the company. they call it a full-time temporary, which i work 40 hours a week, every week, but there is no benefits because every 10 months, they lay you off for a week, and then they rehire you right back after a week. so that, i think, is kind of a loophole that they have come up with so they do not have to pay you any benefits. we get no help insurance, we get no 401k, no vacation, no sick days, no nothing. employ hundreds of people. first of all, i am not even sure that is legal, so i do not know if the gentleman can address that are not. i had one more question as far as obamacare and health -- now it is the law, so you have got to sign up for it. i just can't figure out how the government can -- how they crunched the numbers just based know,r income, you because the irs knows how much you make per year. how do they crunched the numbers and say t

this is video from the huntsville, alabama fire department showing how fast a christmas tree can go upflames. another reason for fires because your tree may be dry, they say it's very important to water your christmas tree. >>> the sims recycling plant is working with redwood city on safety measures after two fires there. the company plans to increase staffing overnight and will allow random inspections. the most recent fire broke out last tuesday and caused very unhealthy air during the south bay on a spare-the-air day. the plant received a public nuisance citation for a fire last month that distributed a lot of toxic smoke throughout the bay area. >>> time is now 7:25. a gun industry trade group is suing the city of pleasant hill because of a new gun control ordinance. the pleasant hill city council approved the ordinance back in november. it requires gun dealers to have a police permit and it bans gun stores from being within 150 feet of homes. but the national shooting sports foundation says the ordinance was improperly approved and it violates existing laws. it's also filed a laws

here's one such example from huntsville, arkansas, which is in the congressional district which i used to represent when i was in the house. this constituent writes about how he and his family must have to take drastic steps to be able to afford the cost of obamacare, not the least of which includes returning to work after retiring last year. the email reads -- "i have never before contacted a senator until today. sir, i am outraged about the obamacare issue and the affordable care act. because of recent developments over the affordable health care act and the obvious problematic issues related to its operation, policy and implementation, we are selling two of our vehicles to save money. this is due to the direct impact of this legislation and due to the broken promises of president barack obama that have been repeated over and over to us for three years. we are also canceling our cable tv in order to save about $1,500 per year. we are cutting back on internet and switching to save another $1,000 per year. we are christmas shopping in january. our purchase of a new vehicle is now delay