and you climb down those and they lead to a ledge and the ledge wraps around underneath here and it drops down into another spot that you go through a saddle and around to the other side and through another saddle and down and around. it's this circuitous route that's constantly carrying you down deeper and deeper and this is the landscape is just covered with these. i don't take maps out there any more out into this place because it's all memory. this place is the map. i went down with my wife, reagan, and we went down a fairly large cliff face but one that had some good ledges on it so the only reason to have rope is to lower your pack. but we didn't get all the way down before sunset, so we set a camp out on the face. and it was the most spectacular camp i think i've ever had in my life. that's my spot. and it was just this narrow ledge. i had a thermorest with me and it wasn't as wide as the thermorest so i had to put a rock under the thermorest for my head and reagan slept on top of me. nights are so solid, you don't move all night. just to get our stuff out to that ledge, you couldn

it's still under that ledge. i hope. i'd like to take you on a route and show you a way down to one of these artifacts. now, a lot of people look across canyon land, say, in southeast utah where this picture is, and it's not really clear how you get around, how you get from place to place. but if you know this place well enough you know right over this lip of white sandstone, if you go right over the ledge and hang your foot over this side, you can't see it but you can feel it with the tip of your foot, there's a little toe hold down there, then if you get on that toe hold you drop your other foot down and there's another toe hold. it happens a thousand years ago somebody carved just a series of toe holds down this rock face. and you climb down those and they lead to a ledge and the ledge wraps around underneath here and it drops down into another spot that you go through a saddle and around to the other side and through another saddle and down and around. it's this circuitous route that's constantly carrying you down de

ledge. i had a thermorest with me and it wasn't as wide as the thermorest so i had to put a rock under the thermorest for my head and reagan slept on top of me. nights are so solid, you don't move all night. just to get our stuff out to that ledge, you couldn't actually go with a pack. you had to take your pack off because there is a drop. you kind of have to jump from left to right. so you come up against the wall, you put your foot around and you do that. and then we unloaded our packs piece by piece and then handed each piece across so that then we could set our camp on the ledge and in the morning, we continued down the face lowering our packs until you get down to the next level. and the next level falls out from itself. the ground constantly opening up. you can feel the wind and the water opening the earth as if there was no bottom to this, constantly finding the next route it take you from ledge to ledge to ledge, down through cracks and narrows, chimneys leading down step by step. un

it's still under that ledge. i hope. i'd like to take you on a route and show you a way down to one of these artifacts. now, a lot of people look across canyon land, say, in southeast utah where this picture is, and it's not really clear how you get around, how you get from place to place. but if you know this place well enough you know right over this lip of white sandstone, if you go right over the ledge and hang your foot over this side, you can't see it but you can feel it with the tip of your foot, there's a little toe hold down there, then if you get on that toe hold you drop your other foot down and there's another toe hold.

as he steps off the ledge, shay hugs lewis close. lowered down to the floor below where more firefighters pull them in. >> relief came when we got pulled in. >> both giagos and lewis are taken to the hospital and treated for smoke inhalation. it takes the fdny another hour to control the fire. afterwards, shay and barr talk to a local reporter. >> you're looking at two guys, high profile. it could have been anybody. a lot of heros up there. you only see us. it's a lot of guys, a whole team. >> he was first. i'm just fast. it's nothing that anybody wouldn't have done. anybody would have done it. >> is this the reason you became a fireman in the first place? >> no. it's the whole reason. the whole reason. >> an exhausted by elated patty brown weighs in. >> so proud of these two guys. 50 years on the job, the most courageous thing i ever saw. these two guys hanging 13 floors. right, patty? >> in the decade that follows this amazing rescue, the men of rescue one and the fdny continue to serve the city of new york. but sadly three of the

>> she came back up, gave him the biggest hug, she thanked him for pushing her off the ledge. we shot that two months ago. sadly they broke up a week ago. it had nothing being pushed off the ledge or anything of that nature at all. >> i would certainly consider it may be a reason. >> he was really close. he wasn't harnessed in. >> he was harnessed in. >> if she grabbed on to him, he would be okay. >> yeah, we made sure he was completely safe. >> so far you kept the location of this video a secret. can you reveal it to us now? >> the big rope swing, every day you go there now people are doing the rope swing there. that location is special for people, so we want to respect them so they asked us not to share it out to the world. if we make it mainstream, everybody takes it over. >>> horse eating a banana. ♪ >>> steven, it's the best time of the day -- >> pet time. >> pet time. this is darn cool. we're looking at a new technological advance called myo, it's basically wearable gesture control. what? >> it doesn't control your gestures, you wear this device and you can control your

they're on a ledge he does show us. >> it is not as big as it looks in this.orribly uncomfortable. >> they're laughing and smiling. i am blown away at this. the ropes work. they're just stuck. >> i imagine they're on their way down because the ropes are above them at this point, so they're probably descending and the guy says we do have something to keep us company. >> luckily we have two things here to keep us company. >> pack rats were nibbling through the gear the entire time. >> hopefully they don't have a taste for rope. >> i think they'll eat anything. they were up there for a while and say they had enough battery and cell reception to call for help. if they didn't, they probably would still be hanging there and eventually in the video you see a helicopter coming to the rescue and of course they're pretty pumped. >> there is our rescue. >> in the last shot we see is pointed upwards at the helicopter as the rescue probably is about to start. >>> a 24 hour blizzard left thousands stranded in their cars over night in ukraine. this family was stuck in a hous

>> we're ledge slaying to -- ledge slaying to help with that. >> [inaudible] not privatize our n.h.s. >> i will urge my friend to look closely as these regulations. i think he will find they are in line with the principles that the last government put in place and the affect of withdrawing the regulations, which would mean that you have more competition in the n.h.s. rather than managed competition. the affect what you want could be the opposite of what he seeks. >> the energy secretary, if prime minister, the committee on climate change, the chair of the energy and climate change committee and a group of over 35 businesses are among those in this country that want to -- [inaudible] can the prime minister have failed to include such a target in the bill? >> we don't believe it makes since to set a target range in 2030 in advance of the budget. take the power in the energy bill but setting it wouldn't make sense. >> thank you, mr. speaker. in 2008, labor commissions reports the state of the n.h.s. to celebrate its birthday peat. we know those reports were damning and raised issues. tho

you're not going to be able to get around them by ledges lating every single problem. >> it's not ledgesting every single problem. i work with him every day. >> sparky. i've seen you on imus. he's a poster child for lawsuits. >> i'm kidding, by the way, don. turn the oxygen tank down. my point is that you -- you know, you have to grow up and realize in the workplace there are mechanisms in place without using and adding another legal law. >> if you think that employers knew these laws were in place, they might hold back and wait until they get home to kick the dog. >> so now you're for kicking dogs. >> no, i love dogs and cats. >> you're arguing it's another layer of silliness. >> you can't ledges late this. >> anything that brings more lawsuits, she's jumping at that. the judges can throw out a frivolous lawsuit. >> we have to agree on a definition then. you guys can't seem to agree on one. >> well, no, because it's too vague. >> that's exactly right. who was the justice that said he knows what he sees? >> >> we have to decide. conditiocan someone have a bad d scream without getting sue

>> we were next to a ledge and this crocodile swam up and actually swam between us, and then settledext to us. >> what first went through your mind? >> well, lots of bubbles and just panic. >> the panic was understandable. nile crocodiles are africa's largest and most feared predator. but surprisingly, this one didn't attack. brad and andi have been getting closer and closer to these creatures ever since. >> you do get a different sense of them. they're very beautiful animals, speckled in gold and black, and you see them as more timid, i think, beyond the teeth and the terror. there's an incredible creature that is actually an amazing animal in its own right. >> you actually think they're beautiful? >> i do think they're beautiful. i didn't used to think they're beautiful. but this is a whole different view of them. >> this is the view most people have of nile crocodiles. patient and stealthy killers, they grab their prey, drag them into the water, then drown and dismember them. it's not just animals they eat. hundreds of people in africa are killed each year while bathing, launderin

why would you word war with a ledge gend dairy word warrior like woodward? [cheers and applause] [laughter] hairball. [ laughter ] woodward, of course is the hand some redford half of woodward and bern styne. it goes back when he said the white house moved the goal post on the current sequester proceedings by suggesting tax increases inlew of cuts. the republicans agreed to spending cuts. a fair accounting of overall debt would allow them -- so the notion that obama was moving the goal post was less accurate that -- sorry. wanted to wake you guys back up. [laughter] apologize. [cheers and applause] that's actually as far as we got even writing frankly. it was -- [snoring] [laughter] it was after that article that woodward received a rather curious e-mail. >> and it was said to me in an e-mail by a top -- >> what was it? >> it was said very clearly you will regret doing this. >> you won't be threaten bud a senior official. you've gone through worse than this. >> jon: (bleep) got real mother (bleep). [ laughter ] you'll regret this. [laughter] these administra

. >> reporter: new state ledge lakz could let the -- legislation roll on past 4 a.m..no would let cities and counties work with the state to servical as late as 4 a.m. -- serve alcohol as late as 4 a.m. >> the bartenders would love it, make more money and people that want to drink longer, i guess. >> it would let them compete with cities like new york to close in the we hours. >> it would consider job growth, business expansion and increase of money for the client. >> having the ability for a later night creates more opportunity for them to have a great time and to spend more money. >> i was shocked to find out when i moved here that everyone died at 1:30. >> later hours could mean more late night headaches. >> people would be drinking too much and then they'd be driving. and too late and the noise and i just don't think it's good are for the community. >> even some bar managers have reservation. >> as far as public transportation, not being able to facilitate some of the comings and goings could be a problem. >> it could reach the governor's desk by the end of summer.

only jasper kept going.over the cliff's ledge! jasper swam to shore on his own.. miraculously jasper walked away with only a bruised liver, bruised lungs and a scratch on his leg. >> in sports. 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick attracts a big crowd in the east bay. the warriors don their sleeves as thy take on jeremy lin and the houston rockets. gary has those highlights and the rest of the sports. next been waiting for the price othen don't miss sleep train's beautyrest and posturepedic closeout sale. save up to 40% on closeout sets from beautyrest and posturepedic. save hundreds on floor samples and closeout inventory. these prices are falling fast, but these deals won't last. the beautyrest and posturepedic closeout sale is on now at sleep train. superior service, best selection, lowest price, guaranteed. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ so she sees her allergist who has a receptionist susan, who sees that she's due for a mammogram. mary has one that day. that's when she finds out she has a tumor. she has a successful surgery and becaus

bit more prepared ended up in a seating position and sort of skipping across the rocks and down the ledge in a seating position the whole time. >> the conservation group watches helplessly. >> my initial concern was that the guy who went over head first and backwards was probably going to suffer a serious neck injury and possibly broken bones, spinal injury. >> seconds pass as the man disappears into the tide pool. when he emerges, it's clear he's in tremendous pain. >> when he came up out of the water he was screaming. i knew at that point he was conscious and alive. which was good. but the best thing for him would be not to move. >> several people in the tide pools rushed over to assist them. it was just minutes after that that the paramedics were here. >> the gentleman was removed from the lagoon area on a back board. as he was carried past, i could see he had significant cuts and scrapes down his sides and arms. the woman walked out on her own accord but had some lacerations on the back of her legs. >> the victims are loaded into an ambulance and taken to the hospital. where they're t

> finally he hits a rocky outcrop that is able to slow his momentum down, and eventually he hits a ledge and his pack ends up stopping him. >> how badly hurt is he? >> he has broken bones and bruises. he said in the moment he knew at least his ankles were injured because they hurt a lot to even try to move them. >> the only option to stop were the axes and it appears he lost them on the way down. >> i wonder if his friends even know this guy is at the bottom of the mountain. >> he immediately gave them thumbs up to let them know he is conscious. they called a rescue team and he was rescued within 30 minutes of the fall. lowered a from down to check him from spinal injuries and check him for spinal injuries. before he knows it, he'll be climbing again. >>> i'm ready for this. that is my money. >> according to the person who posted this video, this person with the long hair and blue jeans ordered a frappe. there was some overflow, so she asked them to put it in a 32-ounce cup. and they just poured the excess out and she got mad. >> and anyway i'm supposed to be working. >> coffee and caffe

and it's hats off to a ledge end in children's literature. a new exhibit for children of all ages. >>> big st. patricks celebrations planned across the area. what you need to know if you're headed to the san francisco parade. hgn . >>> tomorrow san francisco will hole the st. patrick's day party. this is video from last year. 100,000 people are expected at the parade. the parade will start at 11:30 at 2nd and market street. it will run down market and end at civic center whether a festival will run from 11 to 5:00. >> i love the bagpipes. >>> mark is enjoying the sun in arizona for spring training. fred is at team usa. >> the semifinals start on sunday. team usa failed to reach the semis in each of the first two world baseball classics. they need a comeback tonight. pagan revved up his teammates. he scored the first run of the game against the giants ryan vogelsong. this is a crushing blow. andy gonzalez a bases loaded double. puerto rico leads 4-0 after 6 1/2 behinding -- inning. vogelsong could be back tomorrow. giants hosting texas. that's

the cumulative effect of the fresh cut with the debris sitting on the ledge, luckily we have a chance there to protect us from rocks going on the street. >> this is one type of rock salt and we will look at a few others. what will we see? >> i think it would be appropriate. we have been talking about rock salt. there is instability that occurs at telegraph hill. this was more in the earth flow and debris flow kind of movement. this moves downhill as a result of the rations from the earthquake. that is where we are headed next. >> here we are on the next stop of our landslide for parent though this is the lagoon ouna a area. this is different from where we all were just add on telegraph hill. this is a whole different concept. tell us what we have to. we have the big hill behind us, what kind of formations do we have? >> this part of san francisco, we are out in the dune sands which makes up the hill to my right. a crusty old drainage that we are standing is bedrock, 160 million year-old sandstone. the project right in the hillside over there and then farther down along the path that g

. >> groups say it's time for the ledge slay tur to act. >> i think the personnel policy should be reviewed top to bottom. >> so they recommend offering a cash buyout now and suggests lawmakers take a look at long term costs before using furloughs again. live in sacramento abc 7 news. >> tonight a major win for walmart in a fight to bring the first super center to the east bay. the state supreme court decided not to hear a petition from opponent that's would likely allow walmart to move forward with construction. walmart approached about that expaengs nangs 2004. the bigger store including a bakery and enhanced outdoor living department. state treasurer has called off his plans to wife. he fail filed for divorce vors after nadya admitted to being a drawing addict and having an extramarital affair. nadya lockyear just completed drug rehab. a spokesman says they worked out differences. the lock years have a 9-year-old son. >> still ahead an east community gets hands dirty to save a gardening program. >> and a trench collapses in southern california trapping two workers. >> you'll need umbrell

fortunately, he's able to find a tiny ledge to brace himself. >> nice. >> he was able to kind of maneuver his way over to it, then totally adjust the rope. >> i thought that with only 100 feet left, i could basically force my hand to, you know, control my descent. >> but at this point, everything goes from bad to horrifying. >> now everything's out of control and i slam from one side of the canyon to the next. >> as eric falls, his life really does flash before his eyes. >> my thoughts go to my life, what i had accomplished, what i had done, my thoughts go to my family, you know, thinking i shouldn't see them again. >> hey, you okay? >> and he's feeling a searing pain. >> what caught my attention was the sound of the rope. >> at this point, i can feel the burns on my hands as i'm trying to stop. i hit the side of the wall with the back of my head right here, and i believe that that knocked me out. >> you hear one hit, you hear the second hit and then you hear the final thump. in my mind, i'm just wondering what just went on, what happened. >> david scrambles to the canyon's edge and peers

weekend justin timberlake hosted "saturday night live" for the fifth time and brought along some of the ledge end gends of "snl." >> welcome. we've been expecting you, mr. timberlake. >> i always thought an 'n sync member would make the five-time club, it would be joey fatoon. this is the hall of portraits, drew barrymore, inducted in 2007, john goodman hosted 11 consecutive years. and of course, chevy. >> alec baldwin and tom hanks. >> two wild and crazy guys! >> ladies and gentlemen -- >> once again -- >> justin timberlake! >> thank you to jay-z, dan aykroyd, alec baldwin, candice bergen, krchevy chase and paul l simon. what a show! >> i heard the first 15 minutes were jam packed. >> i feel bad for whoever is hosting next. >> i definitely want to watch that on demand. >>> the first lady takes to twitter to chat about healthy living. mrs. obama is set to take questions on her initiative using her official twitter account @flotus. >>> you're in luck, it's national napping day. okay, it's an unofficial holiday, but a brilliant one created back in 1999 by retired boston university professor and

my own story and then the flood gates open because people realize that they're not standing on that ledgeajor things is transparen transparency. i have the luxury of being able to talk openly because i don't have a 9:00 to 5:00. i don't have a boss. it's not going to ruin my life in any way. because i have that transparency, it allows somebody else. i just got back from therapy. my therapist said on twitter or on facebook or wherever i am because it's something i wanted to share. it allows somebody else to sort of be with me privately. what's therapy like? that's somebody that's going to go find it out. it's a slow process. i thought we end stigma tomorrow. >> i think we need to go even more basic than that, and it's this whole idea of taking care of yourself. loving yourself. eating sleeping properly. we find that people who don't take care of themselves who have all sorts of physical issues, their depression gets much worse. >> we talk a very good game of loving ourselves. we think we love ourselves. we talk a good game about loving ourselves, but when you allow people to treat you a ce

what could be most interesting out of this visit -- i'm going out on a ledge here -- i would say that the president would do it everything for the palestinians that would not upset the israelis. that is prepping up the palestinian authority, especially on economic level and the organizational level, in such a way that netanyahu once spoke of economic keys with the palestinians. they would like to see some prisoners released. he would like to have more spending on education, more bridging with gaza, more as such ay to govern palestinians state could -- state. >> it will be interesting to see exactly what concrete comes out of this. thank you very much. the un human rights council has approved a resolution demanding that sri lankan government .nvestigate alleged war crimes rebels are accused of atrocities at the end of their civil war which lasted reggie six years. -- the issueiving strained relationships with india. proud, students from across chennai are making their feelings known and that the international community take a stand against sri lanka for human rights violations hearing

so ledge they were part of plan con doors scheme coordinated between the continents leaders to catch leftist activists among the twenty five defendants on the stand argentinian junta leaders rafael the dela and reynaldo be known already serving life sentences for crimes committed under the former dictatorship of argentina. a grenade attack in a suburb of kenya's capital nairobi left one person injured two explosives thrown into the roof of a pub police and paramilitary forces later secured the area vote continued vote counting continues in kenya following the presidential election there violence after two thousand and seven as poll left more than a thousand dead. mount the italian on the italian island of sicily has erupted violently sprouting huge amounts of lava and smoke plumes into the air roads have been blocked to traffic in the area it is one of the highest active volcanoes in europe more than three thousand meters it's the seventh time it's erupted since the beginning of the year. u.s. secretary of state john kerry said he supports states in the middle east arming syria's opp

prison on the ledge breach your bail conditions.north korea's cut off a key military hotline with southern neighbors claiming war may break out at any moment it was the latest form of communication between the two states military drills conducted by washington in seoul as well as the u.n. sanctions off north korea's latest nuclear test have increased tensions earlier ordered artillery and rocket units into combat posture aimed at the u.s. . finally in the news block less than a day to go before the soyuz spacecraft embarks on a record breaking mission will be the first ever six hour flight that takes the new russian american team up to the international space station artie's enter farmer looks at the ups and downs of a fast new wrote and what it means for the crew. rolling out what will be an historic mission the iconic sillies rocky will set another record from by canoe with a sweet taking three crew to the international space station in the fastest time ever it was slashed the journey from two days to just six hours and we achieve

and someone says, "well, why don't you climb that ledge. "when you get closer to the surface, the water pressure will be a little bit less." will that be a true statement or a false statement? true. it would be a true statement. and where do we live in? we live in an ocean of air. so we've got a pressure acting down on us. so when we climb a mountain top, are we getting closer to the surface? now there isn't a sharp sharp surface with the air like there is with the water. it kind of peters up and peters out, doesn't it? in fact, you guys know if you go about 3.5 kilometers high, is it 3.5 kilometers high? it's in the textbook, i forget the figures. yeah, 5.6 kilometers high gang. you've got half the air underneath you. and you go up to what is it, 30 kilometers high, okay? that's about 19 miles, 30 kilometers high, 99% of all of the air is underneath you. so you went flying in an airplane and the airplane pilot says, "hey, we're at 40 kilometers high." honey, he has made a mistake. you've got nothing to ride on up there, right? the wings ar

from of the muslim brotherhood and also protesting against what was a legit tact by the missing via ledge attacked by mr bobbitt members last week on journalists were seen injuries coming off the front line with people with severe head injuries in addition to people fainting and vomiting from tear gas and i also saw earth civilians holding hand made weapons shotguns i wasn't able to ascertain which side they were on but there were a lot of gunfire in these battles between the rival civilian protest groups and basically is what it's showing is a divided egypt as these a civilian protest and continue to clash it doesn't seem to be any hope of dialogue between oppositional forces and the president protesters here say that there's been no change in the last two years in egypt the president mahmoud morsi is ignoring their main demands and instead they have a constitution that has been written by an islamist dominated constituent assembly the brotherhood for their part say that demonstrators are violence and head to the headquarters and therefore they've been responding in a way of defense what

guantanamo bay detention center in cuba have acknowledged more detainee's are joining the hunger strike or ledge mistreatment and one rights group representing several inmates has reported the numbers now over one hundred the pentagon though claims that the figures much lower well either way the protests are into the forty fifth approaching forty six day which according to doctors marks a critical point when the bodies deprived of food he's going to treat you can a small. just this friday morning the spokesperson for guantanamo robert do read and responded to ortiz inquiry here's what he writes as of friday we have twenty six hunger strikers with each receiving actual feeds this is an increase from thursday which is twenty five a day each we have to detainees of the detainee hospital for rehydration observation also an actual street last time robert durango back to us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although defense attorneys had been saying there were many more will now rather do and says there are twenty six we cannot independently verify

and it's hats off to a ledge end in children's literature. a new exhibit for children of all ages. >>> big st. patricks celebrations planned across the area. what you need to know if you're headed to the san francisco parade. hgn . >>> tomorrow san francisco will hole the st. patrick's day party. this is video from last year. 100,000 people are expected at the parade. the parade will start at 11:30 at 2nd and market street. it will run down market and end at civic center whether a festival will run from 11 to 5:00. >> i love the bagpipes. >>> mark is enjoying the sun in arizona for spring training. fred is at team usa. >> the semifinals start on sunday. team usa failed to reach the semis in each of the first two world baseball classics. they need a comeback tonight. pagan revved up his teammates. he scored the first run of the game against the giants ryan vogelsong. this is a crushing blow. andy gonzalez a bases loaded double. puerto rico leads 4-0 after 6 1/2 behinding -- inning. vogelsong could be back tomorrow. giants hosting texas. that'

he is ledge lating his own idiosyncracy to the rest of us and not helping us what people need.mberly: you are? >> dana: she is single, bob. >> kimberly: don't remind him. he is forgetting. >> dana: who is response to believe fix it. >> eric: i'll take issue with what you said. you said carson is extreme exception. rather than say thatting, how about saying he should be held in iesteem to show we don'have - >> kimberly: a role model. >> eric: born in poverty and we don't have to accept that. >> bob: i was city light school in washington for kids like this. they are the exception. but for the most part, the chance to bring them out of that. if it's up to me, if the mother is drug addicted i would take them hostage and put them in with those in orphanages. >> eric: that is different than what you said. you said he is the exception because people are born in poverty. take care of them from grade to grave. college. >> kimberly: what about deadbeat dads? people should pay the child support. if you have a child be response to believe make sure as a parent financially, emotionally, and

gene, you are a ledge -- legendary investor, i'm not sure people kn that.n you rang the bell at the new york city the dow was 1700. you side, buy, buy, buy. you said the market would two up from there. we're sitting at 14,000. what is your prediction of the dow? >> it will go up. the marketplace is not undervalued. listen to an idiot like me. if i understand and believe in america, the political pundits out there take note, the stock market is alive. it's well. it's great. europe is imploding. america is doing great. and we'll get, eventually we'll get over this big hump. you're right. i'm glad you mentioned it. rock and brews, go to rock and brews.com and you will find the best food and best booze and best experience. melissa: paul, do you agree with thatassessment of market? do you feel confident in america and confident in stocks? >> absolutely. as i said ultimately everything comes around. it doesn't take a kreskin to say that market is, down it's going to come back up. melissa: yeah. >> here we are at 14, 4, 14, 5. that will, take care of itself. our e

whidbey island north of seattle, ledge wood is the community if you want to take a look at it.scrambling, trying to get their stuff out. i'm surprised the authorities are letting them anywhere near their homes, to even get their stuff out, brooke. >> i saw the pictures of people walking along that ledge. chad myers, thank you very much. >>> from washington state there, now to the highest court in the land as it takes on what could become the biggest cultural turning point of this generation. that being whether to legalize same-sex marriage. today's focus, this federal law, the defense of marriage act, or doma for short, the acronym, defines marriage as strictly between a man and a woman. there are more hints here as which way the justices, chief justice could go, and you'll hear the audio for yourself. we're going to get to that in a moment from inside these oral arguments today. first, let me hear from an opponent of same-sex marriage who talked just after the arguments ended today. >> it appears now that doma is very shaky, and while we stand for the defense of marriage as be

and someone says, "well, why don't you climb that ledge. "when you get closer to the surface, the water pressure will be a little bit less." will that be a true statement or a false statement? true. it would be a true statement. and where do we live in? we live in an ocean of air. so we've got a pressure acting down on us. so when we climb a mountain top, are we getting closer to the surface? now there isn't a sharp sharp surface with the air like there is with the water. it kind of peters up and peters out, doesn't it? in fact, you guys know if you go about 3.5 kilometers high, is it 3.5 kilometers high? it's in the textbook, i forget the figures. yeah, 5.6 kilometers high gang. you've got half the air underneath you. and you go up to what is it, 30 kilometers high, okay? that's about 19 miles, 30 kilometers high, 99% of all of the air is underneath you. so you went flying in an airplane and the airplane pilot says, "hey, we're at 40 kilometers high." honey, he has made a mistake. you've got nothing to ride on up there, right? the wings ar

. >> college fraternity is $1 million richer because of the late american bandstand ledge old "dick clarkter being a member of a fraternity. he died last year after decades of show. >> there will be a celebration this weekend, for st. patrick's day. the weather is very important. >> is that why you are wearing green? >> yes, yes, that is why. >> now the forecast, mike. >> the live doppler 7 hd shows the entire state and it is dry right now. not great for skiing. it is great for getting there. temperatures in the upper 70's through low 80's. 62 in monterey with high clouds. los angeles is at 78. palm springs in the mid-to-upper 90's. and from lake tahoe, it will be 61. no record, but that is warm today for tahoe. 57 on saturday and down to 51 closer to where they should be for temperatures on sunday. sue, how is the traffic? >> on the bay bridge we have wood debris in the lanes. i tried to put on a live camera shot with crews moving off to the right side, up to 9 cars have flat tires because of wood debris that is beyond the metering lights on the incline. traffic is getting by okay, but t

i was going to like roll him underneath, you know, like where you stand, underneath the ledges or ifldn't, i was going to ask somebody jump down and help me roll him. >> chris said people helped him in the past and he couldn't pay thithem back and he decided to y it forward. >> shepard: it appears he did. >> how about that. >> shepard: glad there was a camera so we know about it. >> you saw the camera there. other people didn't jump. >> shepard: the third rail scarce the dickens out of me. >> it was far enough away that he was all right. >> thank you, strickster. >>> an update to a story we first brought you some time ago. dozens of airport security screeners finally face punishment nearly a year and a half after some serious violations came to light. all of them happened at newark's liberty international airport, an airport with a long history of security breaches. according to the reporting of the transition security administration, four screeners are now fired and dozens suspended after months of legal wrangle ling. it was 2011 when hidden cameras caught the agents failing to sear

. >> brought down off the ledge. >> we only have a couple of minutes left. and economic expert here, i want to talk for just a minute about cyprus, the idea that tiny nation could set off shock waves for the entire global economy is amazing to a lot of people. on the other hand, when you hear one of the things they're considering is actually taxing everybody's bank accounts. >> if you look at the size of cyprus, it has an economy about the size of vermont. but, what it underscores is the fact that years on into the european debt crisis, there's still no common way to resolve a country that's going into sovereign collapse, to get a banking system out of bankruptcy. europeans don't know what will happen. as you said, the first proposition in cyprus, would have included a one-time tax, essentially taking depositors' money. they could lose their money. that's presumably off the table. it looks like the cypriots will be trying to hit the offshore money. bottom line is, if you live in another beleaguered country like spain or italy, you might be thinking of going

a little two-foot by one-foot ledge perched more than 5,000 feet above the ground.ans, there's only one way down. >> when i jumped off, i gain speed and go vertical the first few seconds, then flattened out. >> so far, his flight is going as planned. >> after 10, 12 seconds of free fall, i said, okay, this is nice. i have a nice path i made. the rest curves. a slight one to lose some height and also gain speed. i made a sharp right turn, going pretty close there and then making a left turn into the neighboring valley. i was like, this was marvelous. and my hair was like, whooo. oh, on my neck and it was awesome. >> now, streaking along the mountainside at about 110 miles an hour caught on a helmet camera, a great jump turns disastrous in an instant. he's getting too close to the mountain. he deploys his parachute. >> and when i open my parachute, i'm very aware that i have 30 meters to the wall to the right. >> if he crashes into the mountain, he knows it could mean death. so he fights with everything he had to turn the parachute away from that menacing wall. >> ins