walking across that raging niagara river. and credits concentration and focus and prayer and his dad who is on a head set in his ear for keeping him calm, 10:17 p.m., eastern time and he climbed on the two inch steel kascable ande began his careful journey into

. >> and now the site for those scared of heights, 20 stories above a niagara river, the daredevil makes history. the walk that took him to cloud nineteen error. that is coming up in -- cloud nine. stay with us. that is coming up. ming up. . >> as we head to a break, a birthday celebration months in the making. thousands gathered in london to celebrate the trooping of color ceremony as the official birthday of queen elizabeth. the queen and prince phillip were joined by other members of the royal family, including the veteran of cambridge. the queen's actual birthday was in april when she turned 86. we'll be right back. stay with us. with us.   joke see if i tried to get on one skeet -- . >> i could see if i wanted to get on one seat but three seats were paid for. >> that didn't stop delta airlines for canceling the ticket on the world's largest living athlete. he's an american amateur sumo wrestler. he's 6'7" and waveways 700 pounds -- and waveways 700 pounds. he was trying to fly from newark to italy for a business trip when delta cancelled his booking without any real explana

two inch steel cable with about 4,000 people watching here and another 100,000 or so across the niagara riverrney into the mist step by step traveling 1800 feet across the gorge wearing custom made shoes by his mother. when he reached the middle, when he reached the middle, that is when the mist got really thick. it was tough for him to see and tough for us to see him. it enveloped him but he never really slowed down. insped of the predicted 35 to 40 minute journey, he made it in 25 minutes at one point kneeling on the wire and pumping his fist and looking skyward, he printed the last 15 feet for a platform where he was greeted by canadian customs officials and then his wife and three kids. he talked about the challenges he faced during the crossing. >> if i looked down at the cable, there was water moving everywhere. if i looked up, there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. so it was a weird sensation. i think it almost made me feel more

but i know why you said that because we used to have a major economic partner just across the niagara river is this correct anything else is very far away. and i think that's a rancher heading north you know i think probably the closest point by land. there's nobody that flies on your reaction well listen do international economic forums like this one the same or others all of the really useful i mean in business terms do do they really help people make money or it's more just like a festival i mean for business people i think it depends on whether. the focus of the agenda is is right if the agenda of those kinds of fora actually focuses on issues that matter to companies and issues that are going to help them actually penetrate new markets for trade and investment then they're going to be successful certainly the apec summit we had which didn't have a primary focus on companies was i believe successful in that we made some progress in removing trade barriers between countries but there's so much more we can do and i'm going to be encouraging our canadian companies to take a greater interes

he will be the first person in 116 years to walk over the niagara river and the first ever to cross solose to the waterfall. abc will broadcast the whom tinge live on national tv but it is insisting wallenda wear a harness so some say people coming to see it should demand a full refund for hotel bills but there is talk that he might break contract and move the harness away so it is a deaf defying stunt. and now, peter, look, i want niagara falls to be busy, my brother works there, but you are putting a man with a wire and 2" wire when he normally walks on 1" or less, where is the dare devil with that. >>guest: we have come a long way, trace, since evil kneivel jumping across the grand canyon because of the lawsuits and bad publicity i guess abc is insisting on the tether and now the ruler he will take it off. it is a mutually beneficial situation. niagara falls and your brother gets free publicity and wallendas get back if the limelight. his family was well-known, but this is a way to resurrect the maim and the brand. so --. >>trace: but are the fans getting shortchanged? i don't want

eastern time last night about 4,000 people at terrapin point and 100,000 across the niagara river waitingor him to arrive and began the careful journey into the mist. when he reached the middle the famous mist was very, very tough for us to see him and according to him, it was tough to see period. and he is a 7th generation daredevil and he made it in 25 minutes after neiling on the wire at one point and pumping and looking sky ward, apparently in a tribute to great grandfather carl and sprinted the last 5 feet and to a platform for customs officials and wife and three kids and talked about the challenges. >> if i looked down at the cable, there was water moving everywhere, if i looked up, there was heavy mist in front of my face, it was a unique, a weird sensation, but i think it almost made me feel more comfortable, if that makes any sense because i couldn't see that wire moving and i got today other side. that wire was moving everywhere under your feet. i said really, it didn't feel that bad. >> and nick says it was a childhood dream come true and asked what he would do next, he said,

walking across that raging niagara river. and focus and prayer and his dad who is on a head set in his ear for keeping him calm, 10:17 p.m., eastern time and he climbed on the two inch steel kascable ande began his careful journey into the mist, 1800 feet across the gorge wearing custom shoes made by his mom and when he reached the middle of horseshoe falls, the famous mist enveloped him and it was tough to see him and tough for him to see and a 7th generation daredevil and he never slowed down and instead of the predicted 35 to 40 minute journey he made it in 25 minutes and neiled on the wire and, pumped his fist in tribute to his great-grandfather carl and was greeted by con customs officials and his wife and three kids, and talked about the challenges he faced during the crossing. >> i was very focused. the wind was definitely something that you could not train for, it was come from every which way. but, you know what? i made it through and the mist was powerful. you know? the mist was in my eyes, a couple times i had to b

niagara falls to canada and that is on a given to a daredevil, nik wallenda. his tight rope walk went into history. he was the first person in more than a century to cross the famous river on that wire. he feels like he's, quote occlude 9. >>> an animal rescue gets a little help from an unlikely source and seems there is nothing a cell phone can't do those days. what finally got a duckling out of the ugly spot he was in. >>> that is coming up next. ng >>> and there is nook ugly about our weather. >> plenty of sunshine and we're on the roll for father's day. the details and what you can expect. stay with us, we're going  we're sitting on a bunch of shale gas. there's natural gas under my town. it's a game changer. ♪ it means cleaner, cheaper american-made energy. but we've got to be careful how we get it. design the wells to be safe. thousands of jobs. use the most advanced technology to protect our water. billions in the economy. at chevron, if we can't do it right, we won't do it at all. we've got to think long term. we've got to think long term. ♪ . >>> we have been on a role as far as the great weather is concerned and it's not over yet. 82 degrees for a high;

kayaking in south america, and we were kayaking on a part of a river that was well-known for water falls, and i don't mean big water falls like niagarae drops from 10 to 15 to 20 feet which were certainly within my skill set, and as i crested one of the drops, i saw the bottom and realized that there was no clean exit, there was no water flowing out, and when i hit the bottom, the boat was pinned in the rocks that were submerged, and i was immediately submerged still in my boat. >> did you know at that point you were dying? >> well, i am a spine surgeon, and i stayed calm in stressful situations, so i went through the usual routine of trying to free the boat or get myself out of the boat, and reasonably quickly i came to the conclusion that i probably would drown. and at that point i knew i was out of air, and i knew that i was dying. >> you describe this though as peaceful. you talk about your conversations as this was happening, conversations that you had with god and challenges that you were given? >> i was so calm and peaceful and for me it was a very seamless transition from life to death, and i did leave my body. i was up and o