to grab the man. >> part of my equipment was the roof rope. use it. it had to be by rope because the ladders wouldn't reach him. >> lieutenant patrick patty brown is in charge of the risky operation. he knows if the rope frays or gets burned, it could snap and anyone hanging over the edge could plummet to his death. as brown leans over the edge to assure the trapped man that help is on the way, barr creates a harness with the rescue rope and climbs onto the parapet wall. the man is now standing on the window ledge of the 12th floor, looking like he's ready to jump to escape the growing heat and smoke. >> people will not burn to death. if they can jump, they'll jump. it's that painful, and it's like you're drowning in smoke. >> barr is not yet anchored to anyone or anything. but he kicks his legs over the edge almost 200 feet above the ground to reassure the man in the window. >> barr is already hanging over the roof without having a rope attached to anything, letting him know not to jump, we were on our way. >> quickly shay attaches the other

he's got the rope.needs to make his way to the safety rope in time before the rope burns through. >> now i'm really relieved. all he's got to do is get the clip off of the harness and, man, we're good to go. we're home free. and he starts pulling on the thing and tugging on it. you know, twisting it around. what's going on? why can't he get the clip free? >> panic begins to set in as it appears jasen is stuck to the burning rope. he cannot unclip from the harness and no one's able to reach him. >> bring him down! bring him down! >> oh, my god! >> in a terrible turn of events, the flaming platform falls directly on to jasen and it seems he is burning alive in front of thousands of people, including his own family. [ screaming ] >> i didn't hesitate a nanosecond and i told that crane operator bring him down. we needed to get him down and close to us. >> jasen's sister yells in desperation. >> i remember people yelling, go faster, bring him down. but he couldn't. he was literally going as fast as he could.

the rope line gets snagged.pedes must tug on the line which in turn sends debris straight down on them. >> the hard part is getting him down, all the loose dirt and all the loose rocks just hitting us. i was talking to him, just keep your head down because there's a lot of loose dirt and loose rocks. certain points i had to look up just to make sure what kind of debris was going to fall on us. >> cespedes also struggles with the loose ground which disintegrates right under his feet. >> that mountain was very steep, loose dirt, rock, very uncomfortable. so that kind of always is a hindrance of trying to do a rescue like this. you think you're placing your foot or hand on something that is stable or secure and that's not the case. >> the two safely reach the bottom of the hill and ivan is reunited with lola and his family. but admits he was worried the outcome could have been much different. >> he told me that if we weren't there we would have been able to hold on for about 20 more minutes. >> rescues can be a par

he crawls over with a rope tied to him and a second rope tied to the driver of the truck. people fortunately were able to rig this rescue system up. they could put the ladder on the window of the vehicle. the driver starts crawling back to where the people are. they claim the reason he was in the river the first place because he was drunk. >> here is another rescue. you will not believe what these guys are pulling out of this mud that is a construction zone. >> that is horrible. >> when they first got to him, this man was completely submerged in the mud. they are struggling to get him out. they manage to tie a rope around him. they are carefully pulling him out of this mud. they put him on the stretcher and took him to a nearby hospital for medical care. >> love between family members. miles is in for a big surprise. this moment is so great. >> little miles had no idea. all he can say over and over again. >> daddy home. >> we've got a second video from the same house. the german shepard also very excited. can't get enough. the dog won't go. >> firefighters came upon this h

they've got him roped up. >> tighten up the rope a little bit. are we on the lake?pen the restraining bar and push yourself away from the chair gently. >> the guy taking up the slack off to the left. he is prepared. the guy in the ski lift starts to lower himself down. maybe the ski patrol is not as anchored as he needs to be. >> i'm coming down. >> he kicked him in the rump. >> doesn't look like anybody's injured. just a little bit of pride now. upside down and backward. >> next time i have to get up there. >> the funniest part of all of this comes from the guy holding the camera toward the end of the video. he may be this guy's buddy. >> can i help with anything? >> was not to be rescued, the video. >> that's hilarious. >> you okay? >> all right. i got him. >> this kid had a rough start to his snowboarding season. check him out. hanging on for dear life. there are no people with repelling ropes but folks down below with catch mats. >> hold on. >> eventually, he can't hold on any longer and he does fall. boom. there he goes. >> he hit the snow hard. he was not inju

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swingers who misjudged how long their ropes needed to be.dal says blm policy is people use public lands at their own risk but the agency looks at a variety of factors including damage to the rock and the impact on those who want to experience the arch the old-fashioned way. ♪ and while they study the impacts, federal officials proposed a ban on rope activities at corona. >> we are putting out for public comment a suggestion that we institute a temporary two-year restriction on roped activities to give us the time and space we need to evaluate if continuing to allow the activities here is the most appropriate use of the area. >> brown: the moab monkeys, of course, say they love the land, too, and are happy to share it. >> seems like a long flight. >> brown: but haley ashburn says there are plenty of places for those who complain about the extreme sports. >> they can go to any national park, i call those no fun allowed zones. >> brown: national parks? yes, nice and quiet, nobody's going to be base jumping, nobody going to be screaming and yell

to try to lift them up and drop them into a basket. >> but a rope rescue is also too dangerous.ally they come up with a solution that just might work. a man cage. >> so they put two of the firefighters, the rescue people in the cage, and they pulled it up almost 150 feet, then they lowered it down to where the guys were. >> the next step is risky, moving from one basket to another 12 stories in the air. >> the biggest concern was the wind and the sway. they were already tethered to their platform. so we carried that tether over to the man basket and they got locked into there and stepped across. >> it takes less than two minutes for the crane to lower the somewhat embarrassed construction workers to the ground. it's been more than three hours since they got stuck. >> when they came down, the emts looked at them. i remember one of the guys looking at me and he said, i need a rest room, a couple slices of pizza and a coke. i was very happy they came down and didn't have any ill effects from being up in the air for so long. >> amen to that. >>> coming up -- oops. a rare antique sha

his soldiers to shoot to kill anyone who reaches over the rope to get freshwater. prisoners in andersonville have a choice. either drink polluted water filled with human waste or they could risk getting shot trying to reach freshwater. this is example of the kind of behavior of captain wirz that rises to the level of a war crime. similarly, wirz builds other barriers around the camp with explicit orders to shoot to kill anyone who crosses these barriers, even though these barriers seem to have nothing to do with what might be considered an escape. what they do do, of course is provide the opportunity to shoot prisoners whenever you want. the food supply, which leads to the starvation, the cadaver-like survivors we just looked at -- the food supply is, of course, an issue. defenders of wirz, lost cause historians, people who want these south to rise again constantly say wirz did the best he could under terrible circumstances because the south is starting. but if the south was starving, why were general sermon -- general sherman's troops eating better than ever befor

that's a whole different perspective. >> and then the other guys unclip from their rope and free fall for a little while. pull their chutes. i just love this. >> i honestly say i'd rather jump than hang there, you know i mean? that rappelling for me is scarier than jumping up. >> because you're just dangling. >> i feel like this should have been done before. i can't imagine this is the first time somebody's ever done this. but if it is, good job. >> this is pretty cool >> she's about to get a very special early christmas surprise. the homecoming that has everyone tearing up. and the video of a high speedboat race resurfaces. the spectacular wipeout the driver walked away from. o?oowq >>> stay with us at "right this minute" and follow the show all day long. >> i want you guys to pay close attention to the little girl in the purple dress. >> somebody is going to get a very special present today. >> and christmas is coming, but she's getting hers early. >> you get to have a special present today. what do you think about that? >> yeah! >> so the teacher calls her out in front of all the o

he was too heavy and the rope was too thin. regardless of the strength of the guys up on shore, it wasn't working. >> just then, jonah realizes that some of those bystanders are students from his class and they're wearing something that could help. >> do you want a belt? i have one on. >> all our students are standing there with safety belts. so we had one of them throw a safety belt down. paul held him up and treaded water like a champion, and i ducked under and tied the safety belt around him real quickly. >> with the belt securely in place, rescuers give it everything they have pulling james up. >> oh, my god. this guy is dead. >> when they get him to the surface, it appears their courageous efforts were in vain. >> he looked like he was dead. >> but one of the students in the class knows cpr. after about a minute of breathing and chest compressions, james finally began to show some signs of life. >> he began foaming at the mouth and nose we knew he was breathing on his own again, and almost to the point we could see he was

nervous. >> and something else is wrong with the rope. >> the rope was underneath him, starting to get tangled up and those knots happen on occasion, so he would stop, adjust it. >> i'm fighting for control, and usually, on a normal controlled descent, they can stop me at will, i can hang out on the side of the ledge if i want to. here, i'm doing everything i can to keep myself from falling. >> eric has to undo the knots. 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

looks like there are ropes. they are struggling a lot. they are on either side. >> i'm here to help you. >> the warden decides to get on his truck and reaches with a knife and starts cutting the ropes ever so carefully. they both run away. >> how the heck do they find themselves in that position. >> this one is pretty darn cute. that dog there is annie. annie apparently dug herself that hole. >> that's not a hole. that's the cage. >> that's trench warfare. >> she is after a ball. she comes right back out and leaves the hole behind. annie's owners saw her first digging a little hole six months ago. when they went back on thanksgiving they saw how huge the hole was. >> that's crazy. that's like 3 1/2 years in dog years. >> want to go in the hole? >> there is a reason they call it extreme sport. it's a conventional extreme sport. he is coming along. the danger is if you come to hard snow or ice. this is what happens if you do. whoops. and we go rolling down the hill. there goes the ski-doo. fortunately it's snow. he is able to catch the ski-

. >> crying, screaming or oxygen and ambulance and rope. >> amazing tales of survival. >> i knew theres no way i was going to make it to the surface in time. ♪ >>> "caught on camera: close encounters with death." when life hangs in the balance, when quick decisions make the difference between living or dying, it's rare for cameras to be there recording all the drama. in this hour, you'll see six different stories, death defying experiences that unfold with cameras rolling. in our first story, we head down under to australia, where a worker unclogging a drain pipe is in danger of going down under for good. >> it was a very wild sort of night. there was rain and very heavily. >> he was a news cameraman in brisbane, australia. >> the newsroom contacted me to tell me to be on alert for any flooding. the highway was blocked. so i thought, well, i'll go up just check it out. >> road crews have been busy expanding a major highway. but when damian arrives, he can't see any traces of pavement. >> when i pulled up, it looked like an ocean. there were cars backed for miles and miles. the water wa

. >> it was unbelievably wavy, the ropes broke lots of times. we did two three attempts to try get up the boat and we had to go up a rope ladder. >> the italian navy and the coast guard said, the appalling weather conditions and the fact that people had to spend so long exposed to the elements on the upper deck waiting to be rescued, it's a surprise more people weren't seriously injured and that for now at least the number of fatalities appear to be relatively low. despite that the italian authorities have started a criminal investigation searching the l ferry's lower decks in case other passengers are there. many are still at sea waiting to be brought ashore for further treatment if needed. the ferry itself will be towed to an italian port so a proper investigation ininto what went wrong, could start. simon mcgregor wood, al jazeera, bari. >>> an agreement has been made, will extend the terms forts senate andof thesenators and representatives. ahaiti will be left without a functioning government as it heads to presidential elections in 2015. ea

they were hit by a rope. ten people were dead and many more could be missing. survivoring passengering are telling authorities that fire alarms never went off. >>> how do you measure up to russia's putin? a big push resignation? and america's most admired living people? >>> first look at scrambled politics. later today perhaps an attempt to close a riff between himself and police new york city mayor will hold a closed door meeting with five police unions. >>> bold words from bernie sanders. the vermont independent calls income and wealth inequity quote, the great moral and economic political issue of our time. the disparity is a disgrace to everything this country is supposed to stand for. jeb bush resigned from another corporate board. the third since announcing the exploring the run for the president. >>> president obama is the most admired living man. followed by pope francis and bill clinton. hillary clinton is the queen on this poll. and new yorkers would like her as a new year's eve date as well. 37% of voters in new york state would like to spend the hol

assassinate an inmate who is a fellow gang member. >> i had a braided rope in my pocket.on his bed and i talked to him, and when he turned his back to me i stood on the bed and i put the rope around his neck and i killed him. >> how long did that take? >> five minutes. >> those five minutes must have been a very long five minutes. >> very long five minutes. he fought me. he threw me around the room. surprisingly strong. i guess when you're fighting for your life you have strength, you know? i was curious. i had never seen death before. in person, and so i wanted to see. so i watched his eyes change from the white. they became red. they started popping out of his head. he urinated all over himself, which obviously is a sign that it's over. his tongue swelled up. his ankles swelled up. um, it was very intimate. like you see on the movies how guys so cavalierly kill people. it wasn't like that for me. it was a thrilling thing because i had just earned my bones. i had just accomplished an assignment that was given to me and i prevailed. now morally, obviously it's a bad thing

he now is on a rope that is unable to be pulled back because he goes underneath the ice. being dragged by a current that is unbelievable because now it's pressurized. it's formed underneath the ice. he's almost like a water skier in a current being just straight out. >> now it's critical. so i looked at gary and said, we got to go. that's it. we got to go. we've got to go get him. >> rescuers on top of the ice cautiously give carella and moriarty the rope they need to reach the man, who is still holding onto that life ring just a few feet from the edge of the falls. >> when we first got up to him, the water was literally running completely over his face. i could see his eyes -- he was looking up at me under the water, looking at me. it was surreal. >> i never will forget this as long as i live because his arm was outstretched. he's almost losing the ring. pat reaches under and grabs the only thing that he could, the fingers that are out of the water. and he had him just by the four fingers, and he's holding him. >> i pulled as hard as i could. i was able to get his face o

the rope is like a mile long, and it's really cool. i love the event.s a small town, right on the river. and people are having a great time. >> today illinois wins. >>. [cheers and applause] >> whoo! >> next, chad heads to kentucky where trash isn't all he needs to watch out for on the river. >> here we go! with my andi can...m tracfone, order more shaving cream. pay the electric bill. keep towels piping hot. get kids to sit still. play beard styling tunes. learn new razor tricks. hire a pro waxer. post before and after pics. i can do all that with my android from tracfone. 90-day plans start as low as $20. unbeatable nationwide coverage. no contract. for a limited time save $20 on the samsung galaxy centura. now just $39.99. tracfone. do everything for less. not to be focusing, again, on my moderate my goal was to finally get in shape. to severe chronic plaque psoriasis. so i finally made a decision to talk to my dermatologist about humira. humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my sym

>> we've done the four ropes before. we've had as many as five ropes at one time.etty smooth. >> in theory, you've got us double roped? >> everything we do to make it dpood and safe. >> that's 350 feet looking down there. every year i kind of forget how scary this is until i look at this building and think what am i doing again? i can't believe it. >> you're in great company. brian cashman, bobby valentine and i think we heard instructions from the lead rappeller. what is more pressure filled, managing a baseball team or having to rappel down that building? >> i brought a shortstop with me so that gives you an idea of what cashman is thinking about. >> in about 45 minutes from now you and the guys are going to go over the side; right? >> that's the plan. >> rick w. reichmuth. the w is for walenda. >> you didn't mention you were going to be hanging off the side of a 22 story building when we talked yesterday. >> down the side he goes like santa does which officially starts the christmas season in stamford, connecticut. >> who got a big fat f for their comments this

the ropes broke lots of times. we did two three statements otry and get up on the boat and we had to go up a rope ladder. >> the italian navy tells us that given appalling weather conditions throughout this rescue operation and the amount of:00 passengers had to spend exposed to the worst of the elements huddled together on the top decks of the you stricken ferry it's a surprise there are aren't more seriously injured people and more fatalities. >> determining what caused the fire will come later. we can speak to simon live simon the italian ministry has just given an update. what did thy they say? >> yes basically announcing the conclusion of the rescue operation which has taken 36 hours in extraordinarily difficult conditions. but some questions remain unanswered barbara because the minltsminister of transport said the rescue of 427 people and all along you might remember the ship answer manifest, the list of -- the ship's manifest, the list of those on board was listed as 478. the italians are trying oplay it do

they're decorating with traditional ornaments such as a sacred straw to -- strike red straw rope known as shimenawa. the temple attracts millions of visitors during the new year holidays. the temple adorns its main hall with a huge shimenawa designed to resemble rice stalks. the centuries old tradition is intended to assure an abubdant harvest. workers at the temple have been busy tying straw bundles since early november. the completed shimenawa will be about six meters long and weigh about 00 kilograms. >> translator: visitors come here with all sorts of wishes. we pray that the sacred rope we're making will allow their wishes to come true. >> the decoration will be displayed at the front of the main hall from december 25th to welcome visitors. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. ññ arehe streets of hong kong calm are now after last night saw some of the worst violence since the pro-democracy protests began. police moved in with peppers gray and batons overnight, arresting some fording students -- 40 students who were trying to storm headquarters. a further

>> soap lady on a rope. >> is this the gift store?> this is the museum store, yeah. >> this is awesome. >> soap lady on a rope. this is dirt-scented. this is lavender. lavender scented. i'm pretty sure this one glows in the dark. >> you have a soap lady that glows in the dark? if she doesn't glow in the dark, she should. >> yeah. and there's only one place you can get a plushy megacolon. this makes a good neck pillow. >> put a colon around my neck for those long cross country flights. that's nice. you have to have a sense of humor. >> oh my god, yeah. if you worked here all day surrounded by death, surrounded by -- macabre, you need to have a giant stem cell to just cuddle at night. >> is that what this is? >> like my granddad said, if you're not laughing, the joke is on you. >> i think the store is open. >> we're in the commercial break now, we can go wherever we want. sea captain: there's a narratorstorm cominhe storm narrator: that whipped through the turbine which poured... surplus energy into the plant which generously lowered it

the rope is like a mile long. it's really cool.the event because it's a small town right on the river. people are have a great time. >> today, illinois wins. [ applause ] >> next, chad heads to kentucky where trash isn't all he needs to watch out for on the river. ♪ ♪ if yand you're talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me, about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspective. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal in

and then there was one point where i took a rope down on to the lower deck as the boat started to tip and became a bit of a panic. >> it was said they were coming and then they didn't because it was very bd weather. and tell me when you got off the ship and exactly how you got off. >> i was down at the bottom with these other lads, and we ended up having to climb back up with the rope because we couldn't get away through the garages. it was still smoldering and everything. so we climbed up through a window in the canteen area and went through that way. with the help of the captain, actually, who's very nice. he helped us all the way through. i must say, he was good. >> you strike me as someone who's quite happy at the moment, yet you've been through a very traumatic experience. can you explain that? >> yeah i can't wipe the grin off my face. >> are you normally like this? >> i'm normally quite over the top as a person but to be away from her for 6 or 7 hours and at some point around 5:00 this morning, really considering whether i would see her again. you know, and when all of a sudden

we got the rope to our ball that we have here on the desk, and what wife ' been doing putting stickers on our ball here to let things go, in honor of frozen the movie and the song, let it go. so, i think ken rot whiter said he wants to be better listener? >> ken? >> no, he was trying tore perfect. >> oh, okay. >> pat -- oh better listener. >> trying to be patient. >> is that yours mike? >> , no mine was getting rid of mucus. >> spelled mucous. >> yes. >> hopefully it will all be gone by tomorrow morning. >> and 7:00 a.m. you're losing it. >> oh, it is 9:00. so we are bea, well, little over 24 hours away from the mummers parade. >> that's true. >> how about that? >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> yahoo! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we'll be out to fourth and market outside playing. >> if you want a pro view of yourself, come on down. >> woodland, around since 1926. how about that? >> that's impressive. the ball drops the mummers what more do you need? >> we need people. >> come on down to fourth and market. >> i tell you what of course we'll have coverage of the mummers parade tomorrow. and the new route to talk about. some

that rope. >> oh, my gosh. >> oh, my goodness. >> i really hope there is nothing wrong here. >> wow.now for the next three, four minutes, until we get to wendy williams, we are not allowed to smile. >> okay? >> i've learned this lesson from kim kardashian. so this is her take. in many of her pictures, you will not see her smile because she believes that grinning or smiling, puts wrinkles on your face so kim posted this photo showing off those, you know, casino of pearly whites see, i do smile sometimes. yes, i even laugh on occasion. not too often though, because it causes wrinkles. yes, she wants to keep her youthful look, so she sent out this tweet proving that she does smile every now and then, this is at a christmas party but then that's it. she is not going to smile the rest of 2015. >> okay? can we do it? >> too late for me. >> are you smiling. >> bob, don't smile. >> will you had you. >> i already look like a catcher's mitt, so too late for me. >> you won't crack me, uh-huh. >> all right now, this is nothing to laugh about either this next story, because i love christina aguil

cuba is on the ropes. venezuela was giving it its oil, venezuela is on the ropes.es: it is too a certain degree but the question is why? why would we have to do this? when the president gave a speech on this. i was shocked with terms like shackles and colonialism and isolation hasn't worked. some of the things he said, hasn't worked for who? may be worth more slowly than we thought it did but we have cuba on the ropes we had the cuban people where maybe they might have done some things on there and to spark real long-term change that would benefit all of them. >> i don't think you can remove this from the political context. this has been the goal of the american left for a very long time. they say that castro brothers have a wonderful health care system and always wanted to establish a relationship. barack obama is a progressive president and he has said from day one that he wanted to do this and audi is accomplishing it and the templates is foreign policy negotiation template we are very familiar with with barack obama. he gives the other side gets. the next quest

once the nylon rope is stretched and anchored, meche gets to work.ut make no mistake, it's not. even members of meche's entourage, who all use a harness. ♪ >> meche keeps his fear of falling in check. >> fear is not good. if you don't know how to control fear, it's becoming way more dangerous. >> green lake, austria. meche traverses a distance world record, 525-foot, 12-minute walk over the icy cold green lake. >> it's really cold. it's about 45, 48 degrees. >> it's the longest slack line ever attempted in europe. getting past the midway the lowest point on the line, is the hardest. >> you have to like control your breathing, your body. hear into yourself, your mind is collecting so deep with your body, with your muscles, with everything. you feel the energy. >> also in austria, a walk 12,000 feet high through the clouds across two of the highest peaks in europe. for most people, it's plain and simple, terror. but for meche, it's just a warm-up. back in the u.s., he craves a tougher challenge and finds it. like in oregon's aptly named monkey face, an

climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite. 88 suspension bridge.g, plus a therapeutics win for children with disabilities, and even a sand garden with chines and drums. >> it is a visionary $3.5 million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. . >> good morning, everybody, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, december 10, 2014. my name is mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee, i am joined by supervisor john avalos and will be joined in a moment by supervisor eric mar i want to thank bill dillon and jack chin as well as the clerk of the xlit , linda wong. >> please silence cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards and any documents to be xlud as part of the file should be 134i9ed to the clerk.

facebook be implicated, could a rap artist at a concert citing lyrics with the in tent to entertain be roped in in the standard is lower than subjective intent. those are the questions the justice were grappling with today. it's unclear how they'll rule and if they'll rule against, how they would circumstance up scribe the law. >> he didn't do any of the things he wrote about on line, but when you're trying to divine someone's intent, do they have in fact have to walk out the door ready to do it before we say yes, he really meant to do it. >> they don't have to be able to walk out the door and ready and able even so commit it. the supreme court made it clear that you can have a true threat of violence even if the person doesn't intend to carry it out. the real question and what the argument is his message got lost in translation, they were merely raps and that his subjected in tent therefore must count. as justice robert said today, really what is a reasonable person supposed to know about rap music? that's kind of the objective standard that most courts have followed. how would an average p

it's like this giant web of rope that they have created between two cliff sides in moab, utah, with this little portal in the middle. >> it looks like a dream catcher. >> what it is is a nightmare releaser. >> lots of guys are enjoying this space net. look how you have to get out to this mothership space net. you've got to fly out. it's not as close to the rocks as you think. it's stretched in the middle of this cavern. they helped string this thing together. it's a neat sight. down he goes. perfect jump and smooth landing. >> this is definitely a first for "right this minute," something like this. and we've seen a lot of crazy stuff. the mothership, that's a new one. >> street dust caused quite the conversation in santiago, chile. they allege that man robbed that man at knife point. they beat him, stripped some of his clothes off and wrapped him in plastic wrap to a pole. they've got his hands tied behind hisisuy is getting away. they are telling him to be quiet. you can hear him screaming. >> they are not playing around. >> this man gets kicked in the head. it is a brutal attack. you s

. >> we have some some l-- soap lady on a rope in the gift store. soap lady on a rope. this is dirt-scented. this is lavender. lavender scented. i'm pretty sure this one glows in the dark. >> you have a soap lady that glows in the dark? if she doesn't glow in the dark, she should. >> yeah. and there's only one place you can get a plushy megacolon. this makes a good neck pillow. >> put around my neck for those long cross country flights. that's nice. you have to have a sense of humor. >> oh my god, yeah. if you worked here all day surrounded by death, surrounded by -- >> my grandfather said if you're not laughing, the joke's on you. we're on the commercial break now. we can go anywhere we want. . >> all right. [ male announcer ] it's a warning. a wake-up call. but it's not happening out there. it's happening in here. [ sirens wailing ] inside of you. even if you're treating your crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. learn more about the role damaging inflammation may be playing in your symptoms with the expert

broke lots of times we did two three statements to get up the boat and we had to go up a rope ladder>> the italian navy and coast guard said given the conditions, the appalling weather and the fact that so many people had to be exposed to the bad weather it's a surprise more people were not injured and for now at least the number of fatalities appears to be relatively low. criminal investigation specialist teams are continuing to search the lower decks in case other bodies are there. a number of passengers arrived in greece, many still at sea waiting to be brought ashore for further treatment if needed. the ferry itself will be towed to an italian port so a proper investigation can start. simon mlk gregor wood, al jazeera, bari. >> an amended draft resolution has been submitted to members of the united nations city you scoanl. you security council. the united states which has veto power at the security council has criticized the resolution. >> we think it sets arbitrary deadlines for israel's withdrawal of the west bank, those are likely to curtail negotiations rather than to bring t

that america is unique for a lot of ropes, and exceptional for one of them is we define our national interests in defense of in a benign way and we're perfectly willing to have others enjoy the rights we're seeking for our own people on exactly the same terms on which we enjoy them, which is one of the ropes, for example in asia, the countries in the regional countries there, are comfortable with american presence and prime si in the region but not so much with china because china does not necessarily define its national interests the same way. well, i thought, chris, maybe we could take some questions. i want people to have plenty of time. so let's do that. how do you have the moderator does it? call on them? okay. i'll just point. yes. [inaudible] >> okay. thank you for your remarks, governor jindal. a followup on senator cruz's remarks. he addressed the drone issue and what national security risk that was. i wish you would address the same topic but relating the u.s. deciding how to dispose of property and how that affects our national security. >> i didn't hear the senator's rema

part of this may be that the president feels a little bit on the ropes. his job approval rating is down at 40% consistently for the last couple of years since israel action. -- his reelection. he is the first president with his own journalistic tools. he has his own photographers and videographers. he has a newscast on friday mornings anchored by his former deputy, josh earnest. it is fine if the president wants to present his own version of what he did all week. most of it is behind the scenes shots of him with supreme court intices and leaders coming from wall street. it is fine that he puts it on the internet and that everybody can see it. those same elements should not be blocked from the white house press corps. >> does all of that work for him? >> i don't know. they have done the newscast for years. i think the reach out to his own constituency -- the people who would bother to go online to whitehouse.gov on friday morning newscasta four minute are more his supporters then detractors. it may hold the base. that is something has always been a hallmar

we did two three times attempts to get up on the boat and we had to go up a rope ladder. >> the italian navy and the coafg, said given the appalling rming conditions and people had to spend so long in appalling conditions waiting to be rescued it's amazing why more people weren't injured. it appears that be injuries are relatively low. sphecialtd teams are continuing to search the stricken vessel's lower decks in case other bodies there are. a number of passengers arrived in greece, and many are still at sea to be taken ashore, waiting for further fremont needed. the ferry will be towed into port to see what went wrong. >> strike against the senior leader of the al shabaab group the town of sekau in somalia. that is former region where a sr. intelligence operative from al shabaab turned himself in over the weekend. the leader was killed in a one year ago. >> calls for al jazeera journalists release. andrew simmons has the story. >> the rest of the world finds hard to absorb. it is now one year since a phone call to the news desk reporting the arrest of three of the network's journalists

this photo of a rope found in the form of a noose started circulating on social media this week.undtuse outside of oak -- found tuesday outside of oakland city hall. ktvu's cristina rendon explains. >> this capture as noose hanging from a tree outside oakland city hall. we showed the picture to people to see what they think. >> hisry in this -- history in this country, it is a bold statement. >> could be a prank. also could be malevolent. in oakland, could be any of that. >> reporter: a woman said it is likely a reaction to the black lives matter movement and the protests and she wrote if you are still telling yourself race based discrimination is no longer an issue you are lying to yourself. >> too bad. too bad for us. too bad for them. too bad for the world. >> reporter: police are looking into whether or not there was criminal intent. he said it is uncalled for. >> it creates racial divide and i don't know -- i mean, the intent behind it, i don't know what the purpose is but it is negative. one that we don't condone. >> he believes it is a scare tactic but says this doesn't bo

all these ropes are connected to pull this tree the right way. he's got his safety equipment on. keep a close eye on him. this is almost the end of him. the bottom of the tree slips. see how much he gets -- go back and watch the full weight of that tree just clonks him on the head. it's just straight in the face. all of his safety equipment seems to have done the job. he's okay. >> probably left a big knot on his head. >> in that first video, that guy has done everything right and it all went wrong. in this video, these guys succeed, but they do just about everything to kill themselves. this guy wants the tree to fall away and he shouts his buddy a warning. so he runs out, gets up, but the tree doesn't move. his chain saw is stuck in the tree. then you have his reaction to that. >> [ bleep ]. >> should have saw that coming. >> should get to the root of this issue. >> then he goes over to help find out who is using one hand to pull the chain saw that is still running out of the tree while pushing it with one hand. this guy tries to pull the chain saw out. this guy pushes the tree.

the fallout over sony pulling this "interview" is huge and sony is on the ropes right now.clooney has attacked sony and the entire industry for the decision but we found out somebody is on the case to actually help the studio and the picture chief. >> her name is judy smith and you're probably more fam

across the centuries, a rope-bound captive pleads for mercy. archaeologists now believe it was war and not peaceful stargazing that motivated the detailed star charts of the maya. the moon and the sun may have guided planting and harvesting. but the appearance of venus signaled a time for war. kan xul fell victim to such a war. but because maya kings used writing to create the impression of power and authority, kan xul's successors never mention his defeat. to archaeologists, the lesson is clear. you can't believe everything you read. what that means for the archaeologist is that you always have to find independent kinds of evidence to try to see how reliable certain kinds of information is. for example, if a maya king portrays himself as a powerful warrior, is there any other independent evidence in the form of fortifications or captives or ceremonies or burials or whatever, which would lead you to expect that warfare was going on on a fairly large scale ? sometimes there is. sometimes there isn't. keach: the carved steps of the hieroglyphic s

includes are sanctions is basically would target the arms deal basically the view is by those who rope this legislation, is that it is largely responsible in syria it allows president obama to provide both he that will as well as nonhe that will assistance. what this means it can provide -- roughly $350 million available over two years. echos by the white house, that in fact, it is the view of the united states that ukraine's territory should be restored and any actions to the contrary, by vladimir putin, will be met by the united states with very stiff and serious consequences. >> okay, thank you very much indeed questions are now being asked about how the man behind the attack was able to carry it out. >> if 16 hours it has been the scene of a siege. on tuesday morning it became the back drop to an impromptu memorial to the two that died. tori johnson was the manager of a coffee shop targeted. his picture was posted on the shop's facebook page, the other victim was katrina a barester and mother of three, this was published be i the daily mail. >> i think it's been a very sad day for

wait, i want to get the tail rope on. can you cut the engine? let's get it on. ready to come on. right after me. it's a female. hold that tail up. get the tail out of the water. >> they've been trying to pull this thing in for ten minutes now. it's huge, it's a tiger shark, and the first one of the expedition. it's really exciting. >> the first one is always the toughest. he's so big get that pump in. >> he insert a pump into their mouth. that's great because one thing they get to bite down on something and it makes them feel better about it, but two, it's artificially helping them to breathe, pumping oxygenated saltwater in their mouth over their gills. >> carolyn is an undergrad at the university of new england shark and research lab. she is one of the most crucial jobs, using this veterinarian's ultrasound to see if the shark is pregnant. >> tiger shark are tough because they're so massive, we can't get the whole uterus in one shot. >> this shows that this shark was not pregnant. the next major task, surgery to implant this transmitter inside the shark. >> this is the size of