mini cooper. >> nick wallenda will be walking the inner harbor. he begins at 5:15 and we'll be broadcasting is live. will be important because nick will walk in rain. there's a slight chance for a thunderstorm. the cold front has not passed through yet. we're cooler for the end of the week. another chance for storms on sunday. we will be keeping an eye on thunderstorms for nick. >> that will be exciting. thank you. 65 degrees on tv hill. using hockey to show off his skills. more of >> a new king reigns over st. louis. this is the largest chess piece in the world. this set a new guinness world record. this will kickoff the chess championship. >> it is your move. ever let the boss whin? how about if the boss is the leader of a superpower? after seeing an hon tigehim hun, putin had plenty of room to do his maneuvers on the ice. he had a goal in regulation and an assist and a goal in a shootout and he was not checked during the match. >> he was not looking all that manly. >> he is a pretty accomplished guy. >> 65 degrees on tv hill. >> delays on the j.

wallenda. >> well, vic. nick walinda -- nik wallenda is the 7th ins in his family to do so. he did the entire act in just over seven minutes. >> reporter: it took nick nik wallenda, just over seven minutes to walk the inner harbor. crowds watched in silence, as he put one foot in front of the are the, pausing twice. his walk was a tribute to his great grandfather carl, who in 1973, walked over the inner harbor on a rope between two cranes. at 100 feet above the water, wallenda took a knee just before the happened of the walk. >> i always get comfortable when i am almost done. and i talked to my friend in the basket. and he freaked out and turned pale white. he was like, are you okay? are you okay? and i'm okay. definitely shows that i need to not lose focus. and that's when i lose focus.

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nick wallenda, everybody. ing here up there on june 15th. >> well, i'll actually be the first person in the world to walk a tightrope directly across niagara falls from one side to the other. >> now, i'm going to throw stats out here. june 15th, live. this is live. >> it is, it is live. >> live television on abc. >> you' will be walking approximately 1,500 feet crossing where nobody else has attempted to do. i have to ask you why. >> you know what, it actually started as a dream and started walking a wire at 2 years old. at the age of 6 i visited with my parents niagara falls and saying, it would be cool to be the first person in the world to walk a wire directly across niagara falls. so at 6 years old, seven generations and 200 years of my family, it's just in our blood. this is what we do. >> earlier you were in baltimore performing your high-wire stunt. you almost fell. very, very scary. >> it was. it was. >> are you sure you're up for this. >> yeah, i am up for this. i lost focus and it was a great lesson,

. >> nick wallenda is going to walk 300 feet out into the harbor to a barge that's 100 feet tall. a crane and he will be walking uphill. and it starts at 5:15. everybody is welcome to come down. we will have is a little ceremony here in front of the building at 4:30, announcing details of the museum. it involves a many cooper car covered have one millioncrystals. >> reporter: what else can people see. >> we have a 12-foot tall dinosaur made out of pop tart wrappers. >> reporter: oh. >> and 10-foot diameter penny made out of pennies. and we have of course we have the typical shrunken head and the two headed animals. one thing we have is 11 galleries and we have 120 interactive activities. so it's just not walking around and reading. it's a lot of interaction. this is our biggest museum as far as having interbeing atives. and this is our 32nd believe it or not museum in operation. >> reporter: we are looking forward to it. eye opens june 1st. and in the meantime, come down and see something that will make you say believe it or not yourself. it's going to be an incredible thing and i

. >>> high wire daredevil nick walling wallenda -- wallenda is practicing in canada.0 foot long cable. last week he walked over the inner harbor here for practice. he will attempt to walk across niagra falls the night of june 15th. we have a baltimore city school advisory. saint ber deans is closed to students because it has no water. the staff is being asked to report. >> do we know how much the bar nick wallenda carries weighs? >> i was surprised at how long it was. it looks heavy. >> he's doing a buy accept bicept curl the entire time. the fact of the fact remains, to hold something like that has to be heavy. >> concentrating on a wider picture. >>> we have got some pretty wet conditions in the area now. we are expecting them through the day. we will have those first warning details come ugh up shortly -- coming up shortly. coming up, it's olympic h -- oh lum -- olympic hurdler lo lo jones. we're take ing a break and -- we're taking a break and coming right back. frsz -- right back. ,,,, roar! alright, what do lions eat? that's all the horses sir. ...and the men? a

this is nick wallenda. that tightrope he's on is only an inch thick.suspended 90 feet in the air. nick wallenda walked on that wire and then kneeled on it, for 300 feet as it stretched from the harbor pavilion to a barge in the water. wallenda's great grandfather pulled that same stunt 40 years ago. ripley's entertainment organized the event to promote the opening of the new ripley's believe it or not oddties museum in baltimore. >> we've got that going on at the inner harbor, those people hanging from the old post office building. what's going on around here today? >> i don't know, but a lot of suspension, right? suspense, suspension, whatever. >> both! >> "nightly news" coming up next. >> see you at 11:00.

the television sponsor of nick wallenda history make cross across the falls are make him wear a harness. he says he will fight the issueuntil he puts his foot on the wire. abc is airing a 3-hour documentary airing it live as he walks. the harness will attach him to the wire in case he he slips won't fall. >>> around the nation this morning, a man is in trouble accused of punching a kid in movie theater. young kim says boys kept bothering him and his girlfriend as they watched the movie. the kid were running around and hit them in the back of the head. so kim seas he had enough and hopped a few rows over the seats and told the boys to stop talking. when they wouldn't listen, he says that's what set him off. >> i didn't mean to do it, but it happened. >> prosecutors say kim hauled off and hit the 10-year-old in the mouth so hard the tooth was knocked out. police showed up and arrested kim a short time later. >>> a man outside a new york city street passed out in someone's yard and for a number of hours, no one came by to help. people did stop by but didn't call 911. and instead, one man w

. >> daredevil nick wallenda is not happy about a decisionconcerning his upcoming walk over niagara falls. we will have his reaction coming up about the tightrope walk. >> temperatures in the upper 70s today. but record heat is on the way. i will tell you how hot we will get in just in time for the weekend coming up. >> reporter: and expect a slow ride on the west side of the beltway. i will show you how 95 and jfx are coming up in my abc2 timesaver traffic report. çñç?ç?çñçwçñçwç?ó?çwçñó?ç?çñó?çw >>> and welcome back. 6:39. a disturbing story out of new york. >> a man in westchester county passed out in someone's yard for several hours and he was robbed repeatedly. you have to see this. it was caught on camera. a man went through his pockets and actually picked him up. and he threw off his shoes to check his socks for cash a woman came by and took his belt. as time wept on, many people simply stepped over the man. others looked around for valuables but no one seemed to stop to help him. >> you can check this video out. an alleged puppy napping on camera. >> oh. >> there it is. a woman an

nick wallenda walked a tight rope. the 300-foot rope was 90 feet up and woe linda walked it without a net or a sixty device. he plans to walk across niagara falls next month. >> i can't. i've got to watch like this. i'm afraid he's going to fall. >> that's the thing. the whole woe linda family, the things you think is not safe, they execute it and for the most part it's successful. >>> the florida fish eman caught more than he bargained for and it was caught on camera. >> he hoped to catch a few fish but instead he captured an alligator attack. >> what the [ bleep ]. >> that's right. this is helmet cam video of the alligator jumping onto the kayak. the man was fishing on a lake in central florida when he saw a big flash. at first he thought it was a big bass fish and then he realized the alligator might be going after his yorkshire terrier buffy. i looked. she was in the water. i grabbed the leash and pulled her in my lap. she was so scared she balled up in my lap. she didn't want to move. >> the kayaker says he does n

this is tight rope walker nick wallenda. he was on the show yesterday arrange and he was 8 -- morning and he was 82 feet in the air with no net or safety device walking 300 feet -- oh did you see that? across the harbor. >> staged it. >> you see him right there. he almost slips if he doesn't fall though. now this walk was to bring attention to the opening of the rip lee's believe it or not museum. he made it across and the next stop is niagara falls. i believe he's going to be on "good morning america" tomorrow. >> okay, cool. >> were through yesterday? we would love the see the pictures, posterior pictures on the -- post your pictures on the wmar facebook fan page. >> does he ever get nervous? >> he never thinks about falling which is crazy because i'm like i'm going to fall. >> what does the family do in their spare time? >> i don't know. they practice i guess. >>> all right, he was -- he was removed from his mother's care because he weighed more than 200 pounds. >> stay with us because this morning we have a lot of us tal

.>> and nick wallenda gears up for the walk across niagara falls the one piece of equipment he won'tbe able to do it without. >> this is u.s. 50 and 611 in salisbury. foggy out there this morning. and that's a big story causing some delays queen ann public scs

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hundreds watch as nick wallenda crosses the water on a tight rope without a net. here is meghan mccorkell with the story. >> he made that walk over the inner harbor, the tight rope just one inch wide and it was the lejts lengths -- lengths of a football field. >> i thought he was going to fall. >> if you make a mistake, you die. >> half way there a waive for the crowd. >> i was like, oh, my god, i hope he don't fall. >> seconds later near tragedy. >> i looked up and was talking to a friend and i looked and he turned pail white. >> after just 7 minutes he makes it to the top. >> i was glad when he was done because i was scared. >> the walk to accept brat the june -- to celebrate the june opening of riply's believe iter not. this was wallenda's final balk before he teams to cross niagra falls. >> here a boat or something could grab him. niagra falls, it's different. >> there is extreme amounts of mist at times. it will be live in prime time, so it will be dark out. i have a lot of things to contend with. >> those challenges inspiring young fans. >> do you think you

. >>> nick wallenda has intensified his training.prayed him. it's in preparation for his walk over niagra falls. this month he walked over the inner harbor for practice and to promote riplies believe it or not. >>> fire workings light up the night sky in san front celebrating the 75th anniversary of the golden gate bridge. the famous span opened in 1937 right in the mist of the great depression. the celebration over night celebrated music, family events and an appearance by an aircraft carrier. more than 2 billion vehicles have closed the bridge in the last 75 years. >>> a new study ranks ball mother among the top areas for parks. easy access is a major factor to get a good review. >> this garden growing is just one of the neighborhood park areas contributing to baltimore standing among ur ban areas. >> they have lots of different amenities from swimming pools, tennis courts, basketball courts, playground equipment, green space, picnic tables, the shade of a tree. >> there are 270 separate park sites. trust for public land says balti

that's nick wallenda of the flying wallenda flying family, following in the footsteps of his great grandfather. >> he's there! >> just stay with him, can we? >> he did it! big finish! way to go, nick! and. >> he did >>> caps versus rangers. >> this is it, folks. game six tonight. dan's live at the phone booth. go big, or this is it, huh? >> reporter: that's right. we're cooking with gas. this is for real. i guess you can say, you win or stay home if you're the capitals. you're trying to stave off elimination here. the rangers win, they're moving on to the eastern conference finals. this is for all the marbles. carl alwalsner joins me now. it seems like every game has been nip and tuck. >> there's been nerves through every game. everything's been so close, when it does come to being an important time like this, we're kind of prepared for it. and with the last series, having to go to game seven and we're ready for these kind of challenges and it's going to be an exciting game for us. >> it seems like a lot of people have been saying that last lost to the rangers up at the garden, one of the most

nick wallenda of the flying wallenda's family walked a tight rope from the food pavilion.-foot rope 90 feet up. wallin da walked it without a net. no safety devices. he did okay. you see him there. he plans to walk across niagara falls next month. >> the rest of us have a hard time walking a straight line throughout the studio. >> i couldn't do it. >> talented. good balance. >> 5:51 is our time right now. tom kierein is here looking at keep an eye on the forecast. >> it's a lot like forecasting the weather too. is it going to rain? is it going to snow? today we're getting sun back in the wage of the rain and i know they're not in season yet, but that's a peach dawn over the potom potomac. live view from our hd city came camera, and the sun will be rising here in about nine minutes. sunrise this morning is at 6:00. 57 at reagan national and the winds picking up. gusts near 20 miles an hour. you can see the wind-swept potomac river in the foreground and, yes, the rain clear out. we have wet pavement but it's beginning to dry out. we did get about a half inch or more yesterda

. >>> high above baltimore's harbor, nick wallenda attempted to walk across.about 300 feet. there was one scary moment where he stumbled just before the finish but he didn't fall. it was an opening for ripley's believe it or not. >> if you are afraid of heights, this is not no you. >> he got all the way to the end. he did it. pretty impressive. like a high wire act every day here on the show sort of. just sort of balancing ourselves. >> the computers. >> always something. >> issues continue. the good news, we'll see plenty of sunshine today and it will be a beautiful day for you and tomorrow will be beautiful. sounds good. >> saturday will be beautiful. time to get the car washed. >> most of the mother's day will be beautiful. should be just fine conditions here, low humidity and a nice breeze out of the north and west. >> there you go. it is better for you do it yourself. >> if youer lines and smudges. >> fork over the ten bucks. >> if you can't tell, i'm stalling because i only have about 40 seconds ever weather to show you. let's show you hd radar. we are d

tightrope walker nick wallenda has begun practicing for his latest death-defying stunt, walking across falls. a two inch cable will be pulled across the falls for the big event youtube 15th. he is practicing on a cable that has been set up at the casino on the new york state side of the falls. his crew members had to add more weight to the wire after he said it felt like it was rolling under his feet. >> that just makes me cringe. when you saw him stumble, we were all just -- >> is that the came guy that was in baltimore last week. >> i think it was. >> he has been doing it for years. that is a name i kind of remember as a tightrope walker. >> i could find more favorable jobs. >> i bet he rakes it in too. >> you think so? >> you cross niagara falls and you make it $100,000. >> i'm sure he comes to birthday parties as well. let's get to the showers and they are moving on in. after a nice weekend, we are looking at a couple of days with a possibility of rain. a good chance. the chance of rain today, close to 100% so bring along an umbrella t won't rain every minute today but we will have

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nick wallenda practicing the first time on the tightrope he'll use to walk above niagara falls. june 15th. let's simulate that, guys. >> clayton: yeah, let's interview-- >> clayton will do that, thank you, ali. lawmakers outraged over the way the obama administration handled a foiled bomb plat nearing the anniversary of usama bin laden, including chairman of the house intelligence community, mike rogers. >> other students, i believe, were lost by the fact that it was leaked on monday, and now, all of what you see now is just simply isn't helpful to trying to make sure that people are protected, that security services overseas, our relationships are protected. >> it's just another example of president obama, quote, spiking the football. joining us to weigh in on this is middle east expert jeremiah. >> good morning. >> clayton: immediately when i heard the story and learned it was a british operative and mi-6 or mi-5 and the amount of time invested in this whole thing, my immediate gut reaction was, well, does this screw us up for future missions like this, now that the the cat's

you are looking at nik wallenda on the tightrope making a 300-foot journey over the harbor with no safety devices to break a fall. nickstopping stumble but successfully finished the walk. >> hold on, brother. nik comes from a family of daredevils. his grandfather walked that tightrope across the very same harbor way back in 1973. >> and i used to live in baltimore, maryland. i've been to that harbor many times. and that feat is something. >> got to be an easier way to get some crabs. >>> coming up, a favorite of mine back on the market this morning. yes, this lovely star is single again. coming up in "the skinny." >>> first, kids at risk because of the health care they are receiving. too much radiation, and what you can do about it. >> that is straight ahead on "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by cancer treatment centers of america. fda is calling for some pretty urgent changes. abc's dr. richard besser has some advice for parents. >> can you pull up your sleeve and show me where it hurts. >> reporter: lucas is 4 years old. his arm hurt. >> the x-ray looked fine. >> reporter: x-r