mickey wilson climbed a lift tower.id himself 30 feet across the lift's cable, before trying to free the skier by kicking him loose. the ski patrol threw him a knife. he caught it on the first try him. skier, who didn't want to be identified, told the post it happened hen his backpack got tackled. it was kind of surreal pip knew i was going around the bull wheel and then i was back wards. all of a sunday, i was blacking out. wilson, a professional slackliner competing all over the world, balancing high over the ground on narrow ropes. they turned out the be the perfect spider-man-like skills at the right time. the skier should not have been wearing a pack. the lift was immediately stopped to help him. >> it's okay to use a backpack skiing. before you get on the chair lift, take it off. hold on to it. set it in your lap. and don't wear it on the chair lift. >> reporter: this is the third since dent in a month of a skier getting tangled with a lift because of a backpack. >> hang in there, bud. >> reporter: on monday, this

mickey wilson saved a man's life. we'll talk to him just ahead. >> we're seeing so many problems with the ski lifts this season. >>> and 80 million americans facing a winter weather wallop. some people are very excited. take a look at this video. this is from little rock, arkansas. a group of middle school students desperate for a day off. they're doing a snow dance. guess what? it started snowing there earlier this morning. >> my kids were by the snow day calculators last night. they were hoping. not so bad here. they're luckier than these kids in new york. check it out. forced to stay at school late into the night because of the conditions. you see them on the sleeping bags right there. eventually, they got a bus able to take them home. that snow still coming down for so many in so many places. ginger tracking it all. >> it's snowing from texas and oklahoma to right here in new york and parts of new england. look at this. almost the entire nation in some sort of winter weather alert. these are wind chill warnings. w

video shows a skier hanging literally being strangled by his own backpack that is when mickey wilson climbed a lift tower and slid himself across the cable to get to the man and tried to kick the man lose and that didn't work they threw him a knife and he cut the man free. the victim should not be wearing a backpack in the first place. >> it's okay to use a backpack skiing, before you get on the chair-lift take it off and set it on your lap and don't wear it when you are riding the chair-lift. he competes all over the world balancing high over the ground on narrow ropes skills he used at just the right time. >>> high above the earth astronauts are taking a space walk to energy the international space station. they ventured out this morning and connecting some fancy new batteries. and she now ties the record for the most space walks by a woman at able 56 the world's oldest and most experienced space woman ever. >>> coming up on "action news" at noon, a baby crib that rocks a crying infant back to sleep. the new digital parenting product when "action news" continues. looks like we're s

mickey wilson is the hero who rescued the trapped skier.with the victim who is now in a neck brace but he does appear to be okay. >>> an update right now on the little girl who accidentally ordered a doll house amazon's echo dot. this all happened after 6-year- old brooke was having a conversation with alexa, you know. of course you've heard of alexa. but since the young girl from dallas had a doll house she decided to donate the new one to the patients at a children's hospital. let's listen to brooke's mom. >> and since we come to medical city er with minor things with our children y'all have been so wonderful to them so we thought this was the place it had to be. brooke knows this hospital only and says that's where it's got to be. >> now in addition to that doll house brooke also ordered up four pounds of sugar cookies. brooke is no fool. her mom has since added a digital password to make sure all of these shenanigans don't happen again. >> that's what you want your kid to have. a four pound box of cookies. >>> a banker arrested for drun

one of his friends, mickey wilson was in the next chair behind him when it happened. >> we're wondering, where he is and that's when we hear the first scream. kind of more of just a yell and we turn around and we look we see his ski, one of his skis on the ground right where the chair lift goes up. >> reporter: wilson, a professional slack liner used his training and fearlessness to spring into action. he climbed up a lift tower and these incredible photos show what happened next. >> i realized that with my slack lining background and my long history of climbing rope and climbing trees and climbing scaffolding and climbing on ropes and slack lines and cables, that i could climb this lift tower and shimmy down along the cable that holds up the chair lift. and then climb down on his chair lift and get to him. the 28-year-old said he was able to reach his unconscious friend in less than five minutes, sliding 30 feet to get to him. >> at that point ski patrol, a ski patrolman had showed up and brought a ladder and luckily had a knife and made the world's most perfect toss, first try, 20 fee

. >> mickey wilson slid there, 30 feet across the narrow lift cable to save his friend. the friend was unconscious and hanging off the chair. after his back pack got caught in the lift and wrapped around his neck. wilson makes his living as a slack liner, which is similar to tight rope walking so he put his skill to the test and split across the cable to save his friend and his friend is fine this afternoon. >>> this follows another rescue from a chair lift at a ski resort in utah. in this case it was a boy dangling after his back pack got caught up. lift operators were able to use ladder in this case to climb up and hoist the boy back up into the chair. got to be so careful with the stuff you're wearing when you're on those lifts. >>> i've never heard of an incident like that. and to see two. but you do a lot of skiing. >> i don't wear a back pack. >> no. some snow coming down tomorrow, and cold weather is moving in too? >> the snow is getting closer. it's already on radar in virginia. it's actually snowing in the southern portion of the state. and you can see this area

as fate would have it, a ski instructor, this guy here, mickey wilson, had just gotten off the lift.hort, so he climbed up the lift and shimmied 30 feet to the chair. they threw a knife up to him and he cut him free. mickey, the hero there, said it was one of the most scary things i've ever seen. i kind of stopped thinking and started acting. what are the odds in your life as you're dangling from a chairlift, a professional slack liner. >> that happened to me and my sister on the same day, so it's not just backpacks, it's belt loops. >> you were dangling? >> i was climbing down the ski pole and they had to stop the chair. watch for belt loops. >>> house speaker paul ryan and dabbing. paul ryan was swearing in 150 members of the congress this week. as they posed for the photograph, congressman marshall's 17-year-old son cal held a dab pose. speaker ryan was confused. he had no idea what the guy was doing. speaker ryan admitted later having no idea what dabbing is. the congressman said his son was grounded. >> he's dressed like ken bohn. he's got the khakis and everything. this was ver

mickey wilson is a professional slackliner. that's kind of like a tight rope walker.hen we saw what was happening, he quickly put his skills to the ultimate test. a harrowing scene on top of a snowy colorado mountain wednesday. it happened at a ski resort. a man's backpack somehow got tangled in a chair lift. and he wound up hanging by his neck, falling unconscious. one of his friends, mickey wilson, a part-time ski instr t instruct instructor, was in the next chair behind him. >> we were wondering where he is. and we hear the first scream. we turn around and look at the chair lift behind us. and we see his ski, one of his skis on the ground, right where the chair lift goes up. >> reporter: wilson, a professional slackliner, similar to a tight rope walker, used his skill into action. he climbed up the tower and this is what happened next. >> with my slacklining background, my long history of climbing rope, climbing trees, climbing scaffolding, climbing on ropes and cables, i could climb the lift tower and shimmy along the cable that holds up the chair lifts and claim

mickey wilson who happens to be a professional slack walker walked by.ut the skier free. >> he was hanging lifelessly. i looked at the tower, i looked at the cable going down him and i said, i can climb up that tower. >> the skier fell about 10 feet onto the snow and miraculously he only had a broken rib and sore neck. this stuck with his backpack. we talked about that. they should rethink it. >> if you're skiing backcountry, you need to have a backpack with you because you have stuff in your backpack. you have an ice pick. >> maybe redesigning the seat. >>> a man in prison for killing his wife faces dramatic confrontation. i'm so frustrated. i just want to find a used car without getting ripped off. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com show me the carfax. now the car you want and the history you need are easy to find. show me used trucks with one owner. pretty cool. [laughs] ah... ahem... show me the carfax. start your used car search and get free carfax reports at the all-new carfax.com. wash my hair again now, i fuel it new pantene do

mickey wilson was skiing with friends when a member of therea crew got a mber his backpack ss stuck in back downrb the hill. talented slack liner jumped nouo act they're used to adventure at least climbed over the liftd ovr tower on to the cable before b sliding down to his friend.s f he was able to cut his buddyuddy loose. then the ski patrol was able tol rush him to the hospital.im to a no injuries though.nonjur treated and released there.here i guess when you're used to, yoy know, adrenaline thrills, that a little 10-foot drop from the ski lift is just a bump in the roadr if it was me hanging on there, i don't care if it was 2 feet offf the ground, we have a problem.am >> i'd be in the hospital forl the next eight to 12 weeks wks recovering. good right. >> but you can't because we need you t anuck.'tu we have lot of weather to talktw about.about >> my sprained knee that i got. >> you can't go anywhere. >> let's do the forecast.ou lots of we cather taneto's d tao storm number one out of here. h can you believe we got storm number two knocking on the dooro here. 32 in washington.nhing

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mickey wilson, a part-time ski instructor was in the next chair behind him when it happened. >> woe'rering where he is and that's when we hear the first scream, kind of leak a yell and we look at the chairlift beheend us and we see one of his skis on the ground right where the chairlift goes up. >> wilson, a professional slack liner similar to a tightrope walker used his training and fearlessness to spring into action. >> he climbed up a lift tower and these incredible photos show what happened next. >> i realized with my slack lining background and my long history of climbing rope, climbing trees, climbing scaffolding and climbing on ropes and slack lines and cables that i could climb the lift tower and shimmy down along the cable that holds up the chairlifts, and then climb down on to his chairlift and get to him. >> the 28-year-old said he was able to reach his unconscious friend in less than five minutes, sliding nearly 30 feet across the narrow lift cable to get to him. >> at that point ski patrol, eight ski patrolmen had shown up ready to help and they brought a ladder to get to

mickey wilson is a professional slack liner. kind of like a tight rope walker.n he saw what happened, he quickly put his skills to the ultimate test. a harrowing scene on top of a snowy colorado mountain wednesday. it happened at a ski resort. a man's pack got tang nld a chair lift and wound up hanging by his neck ending up unconscious. a part-time ski instructor was in the chair next to him. >> we're wondering where he is. we hear the first scream. kind of more like a yell. and we turn around and look back at the chair lift behind us and skis on the ground right with the chair lift goes up. >> reporter: wilson, a professional slack liner, similar to a tight rope walker used his training and fearlessness to spring into action. he climbed up a lift tower and these incredible photos show it best. >> i realized my long history of climbi climbing scaffolding, ropes, cables i realized i could climb the lift tower and shimmy down along the cable that holds up the chair lifts and then climb down on his chair lift and get to him. >> reporter: the 28-year-old said he was

nikki wilson jumped into action using his tight rope skill to walk across the line is rescue the man. mickeyin that red circle, he quickly drops to the chairlift and cuts the man lose, send him falling 10 feet below into the snow. his backpack got stuck on the chair and wrapped around his neck, he is expected to be just fine. all that happening in a snowstorm. hillary clinton coming out of the woods to run for mayor of new york city just weeks after losing her second presidential election. sources say she is considering running for the mayor of the big apple, news apps reported her inner circle urging her to go head to head in a current matchup against new york city mayor bill diblasio. what a debate that would be and those are your headlines. steve: the super bowl of the technology world and the consumer electronics show is exceeding expectations. what are the most innovative gadgets that got everybody talking? ainsley: the top tech items of 2017. >> you go to the show this year. usually it is the future, nothing we -- that $8 million dress. the deal is, very practical things that are less