>> on a skydive you have one minute usually of free fall time to practice your routine.nd tunnel you can go in there for an hour and a half at a time, so it's like doing 150 skydives. >> wow. >> do you still get nervous each time you jump out of a plane or off of a building or off of a cliff? >> i do get nervous depending on what i'm doing, if it's something new, but most of the time sky devidiving is super fu. >> do you have any irrational fears? >> i hate jellyfish. in my circle of friends pretty much everyone is pretty fearless. >>> that's it for us here "right this minute." thanks for joining us, everybody. and we'll see you next time. in touch with the ground ♪ ♪ i'm on the hunt, i'm after you ♪ ♪ smell like i sound, i'm lost in a crowd ♪ ♪ and i'm hungry like the wolf ♪ straddle the line, in discord and rhyme ♪ [ female announcer ] only yoplait light and yoplait greek 100 are endorsed by weight watchers. it is so good when you're on the hunt for something delicious. find yoplait original and light yogurt cups on sale now at your local safeway store. >>> hi, everybo

>> on a skydive you have one minute usually of free fall time to practice your routine.you can go in there for an hour and a half at a time, so it's like doing 150 skydives. >> wow. >> do you still get nervous each time you jump out of a plane or off of a building or off of a cliff? >> i do get nervous depending on what i'm doing, if it's something new, but most of the time sky devidiving is super fu. >> do you have any irrational fears? >> i hate jellyfish. in my circle of friends pretty much everyone is pretty fearless. >>> that's it for us here "right this minute." thanks for joining us, everybody. and we'll see you next time. >>> hi, everybody, and it's time for the best videos of the day "right this minute." ♪ >>> a trooper pulls behind a car when he realizes the driver is brandishing a handgun. how it went from traffic stop to high-speed spin-outs and a shootout. >>> rescuers try to free cows from a frozen pond. look at that one over on the end. it's, like, hey, you cut me a hole, let me try to get out of here. how some gutsy firefighters went

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but the stats on skydiving are really kind of incredible.n 2012 only 19 fatalities out of 3.1 million jumps. >> that is pretty impressive. that is one of the lowest rates in history. so it is technically getting safer. and according to the national safety council, a person is much more likely to be killed -- oh, see, look, this is why you say it is safe. this is from your recent skydive. >> you like my nice blue suit there? >> that's great. styling. but a person is much more likely to be killed getting struck by lightning or stung by a bee, so you're all right to jump out there. >> go out there in your little red vest. how about that. >>> coming up, i promised you that you would get fed on this show. we are ringing the breakfast bell a little early today. it is national croissant taste-testing day. we have the tough job of test-tasting some of new york's best. you're welcome. >> got to love that. >>> and i had another tough assignment. i was testing out the toboggan down super bowl boulevard. i had a blast. can't wait for you to see it. you'

an unconscious skydiver wearing a camera plunges to earth. new heart-pounding video of the daring race to save his life. >>> good evening. diane is on assignment tonight, and we begin with that sheer icy misery all across the south. the deadly chaos still unfolding in georgia today. the highways jammed with miles of cars and trucks abandoned, no one at the wheel, and tonight questions are flying about how a major american city became so snarled by the storm. all day long southern hospitality also on display. good samaritans handed out water and supplies to everyone in need. our extreme weather team covering it all starting with matt gutman in atlanta tonight. matt. >> reporter: good evening, george. tonight, parts of atlanta still look apocalyptic, mile after mile of traffic jam, and in many cases, we've seen cars abandoned by the side of the road by the hundreds. right now georgia officials are still trying to clean up this mess and de-ice part of this bridge, but this is taking quite a while. atlanta roadways frozen in place. today 20-mile

for the first time, the unconscious skydiver describes that plummet down from 12,000 feet. and the moment his friends saved his life. >>> and a good evening to you on this thursday night. we begin with the breaking news in the case of that american girl whose trial made headlines around the world. amanda knox, the american college student. today, once again, found guilty by an italian court of murdering her roommate. she is now living in seattle. and this ruling sets the stage for a diplomatic duel. will italy try to get her back? will the u.s. let her go? tonight, amanda knox says she's going to put up a big fight. and abc's neal karlinsky is in seattle with this bombshell day. >> reporter: in a case with more twists than a hollywood movie, an italian court has once again found amanda knox guilty of the murder of her former roommate meredith kercher. guilty of a crime that has been at the center of an international media firestorm for more than six years. her former boyfriend, raffaele sollecito, was also convicted after nearly 12 hours of deliberations by 2 judges and 6 j

that's a skydiver.ered what it's like to drop into a stadium, come along for the jump. but how do you aim for that itty bitty oval down there? grab the steering handles. >> you pull down on the left you go left. you pull down on the right you go right. >> reporter: david billings is a member of the denver broncos thunderstorm. six skydivers who routinely jump into sports authority field at mile high stadium. after they jumped as part of the afc championship pregame show, they released the helmet cam video. >> if you've never landed on a spectator? >> no. absolutely not. >> reporter: there were some 77,000 directly beneath them. >> we're coming in at speeds probably about 50 to 60 miles per hour. >> reporter: they use high performance swooping canopies, the biggest hazards are the criss-crossing cables the tv cameras run on. >> every blue line is a wire we have to avoid. enter the field about here, do our spiral, come in under these wires. now we're under all the wires until we touch down right over here

we have new details on a terrifying skydiving accident.as teenager is recovering from severe injuries after she fell 3500 feet over the weekend in oklahoma. >> her family says the parachute malfunctioned but the skydiving company denies the claim. makenzie wethington's family is devastated. >> it was her dream, her dream and my dad said, okay, on your 16th birthday, i will take you skydiving. >> she was already so excited and so gung ho and she's super brave, you know, i couldn't yank the road out from under her. >> the teen was transferred out of the intensive care unit yesterday and doctors expect her to make a full recovery in about six to eight weeks. >>> now to a story from michigan. a 10-year-old hero. danny di pi et tree was being driven home from a hockey game. he spotted an open garage door on a nearby house and thought maybe a dog had escaped so danny pestered his mom to go back and check it out. >> it was late at night and super cold out and i just in their garage was open and something just didn't feel right. >> well, it turns

would be good to fly if skydiving was on your bucket list.few days. >> there was another skydiving accident. but this was caught on camera and so was the amazing rescue. here is abc's dan harris. >> a group of skydivers are climb together outside of a plane preparing it jump experienced 25-year-old jumpers james lee, has done this plenty of times, but never has this happened to him. seconds after he leaps, a freak accident. one of his fell why divers legs hits lee if the back of the head knocking hum out. the camera goes wobbly as lee tumbles unconscious from 12,500 feet towards certain death. slowing video down, you can see his arms go limp. look at what happens next. his friends notice there is something wrong with him. they approach. giving lee hand signals to check if he is okay. seeing he's not, they reorient his body to the correct position and then deploy his chute. you can hear the his of the air relent as lee's descent slows down. >> it's pretty incredible when someone is unconscious and tumbling, it is virtually impossible to catch

skydivers fall at the rate of 120 miles an hour on average. look what happens next, his friends notice something is wrong with him. they approach giving lee hand signals to check in he's okay. seeing he's not, they reorient his body to the correct position and then deploy his chute. you can hear the hiss of the air relent as lee's descent slows down. >> it's pretty incredible when somebody is unconscious and tumbling, it's virtually impossible to catch them. >> reporter: this is not the first skydiving mishap to make the news of late. just this week, a 16-year-old girl in oklahoma making a hard landing after her chute fails. in 2005 a pregnant woman crashing down after her chute malfunctioned. both survived. as james lee drifts towards the earth in the english countryside, he regains consciousness with no memory of the incident. when he lands, you can hear him exhale. tonight he is vowing that this incident will not stop him from diving again. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> thankful for some amazing friends. >>> when we come back lorde. ♪

that's a skydiver.ve ever wondered what it is like to drop into a stadium, come along for the jump. but how do you aim for that itty bitty oval? grab the steering handles. >> you pull down left, you go left. >> reporter: he is a member of the denver broncos' thunderstorm. six skydivers who routinely jump on the supports authority field at mile high stadium. after they jumped as part of the afc championship pregame show, they released the helmet cam video. you've never handleded on a spectator. >> no, no, absolutely not. >> reporter: there were some 77,000 beneath them. >> we're coming in at speeds probably 50 to 60 miles an hour. >> reporter: they use high performance smaller swooping canopies. the biggest hazards on the crisscrossing cables the tv cameras run on. >> every blue line we have to avoid. enter the field about here. do our spiral. come in under these wires and now we're under the wires until we touchdown over here. >> reporter: touchdown at the 20. who needs the end zone. the skydivers were

a sweet 16 goes skydiving for the very first time. imagine this.ly said as she was approaching the ground her parachute failed to open. what happened next is a miracle. she's alive? >> yes, she's alive. in texas you have to be 16 to skydive. her family drove her to chickasha, oklahoma. her father and her on the plane. the plane went up. because of the balance the dad had to jump first. the instructor would dive first as a tandem but she got permission to go alone. something went wrong and began to spin. the instructor was supposed to jump but never did because another backed out so he stayed on the plane. he was trying to go through the details telling her release the first chute and pull the second one but she didn't. listen now to her sister. >> she honestly keeps saying, she thinks it's her fault because she couldn't reach up and pull the chute. >> yeah. so she didn't have an instructor behind her. she was on her own. somehow she just could not get at it. she began to spin all the way to the ground. she suffered a broken vertebrae, a shattered p

a bunch of skydivers, there's a helmet cam on one of the skydivers who has been knocked cold.lap around. he's rescued by his friends while plummeting through midair. incredible. we'll show you more coming up here on "good morning america." >>> those friends risked their own lives because they waited to pull their cord until they could get to their friend. >>> also this morning amanda knox awaiting another verdict in her murder case. this is the third one. she's already said she'll be a fugitive of italy if her murder conviction is reinstated. we'll tell you what happens next for her. >>> and dan abrams is back, the jury is out and he is fired up, people. one of the topics more and more colleges recruiting kids especially girls at very young ages. so are they starting too young? that is one of the questions. >> hmm. >> that we will weigh in on. >>> super bowl boulevard. we've been telling you about officially opened right outside our windows there. cheerleaders getting this ready and ginger. >> you are not but you will be heading a little south to that toboggan. six stories in

. >>> and mid-air rescue, a skydiver gets knocked out at 12,000 feet. his fellow divers jump into action while hurling towards the ground. >>> caught red-nosed, bad dog gets busted by his owner in a must-see video. >>> good thursday morning, i'm marci gonzalez. >> and i'm ryan smith. john and diana are off. and one of the country's largest metropolitan areas is still at a standstill following a winter storm. >> this is the scene around atlanta. abandoned vehicles littering major highways, helicopters took to the sky to search for stranded drivers following 2 inches of snow. abc's mary bruce has the latest. >> reporter: after two days of cold chaos, the cleanup is finally under way after much of the south was paralyzed by a rare winter storm. >> it's pretty bad. we were not expecting it. >> reporter: just 2 inches of snow fell in atlanta, but the city was blanketed in slick ice bringing it to a screeching halt. >> i was on ice, and it just kept slipping, and i thought i was going to tumble over. >> reporter: crashes, some deadly, blocked the interstate,

. >> the teenager who survived half mile fall from a skydive has made great progress in a recovery.cording to her mother. her daughter is leaving the hospital at the university of oklahoma today a week after the fall. her parents say the 16-year-old will continue her recovery back home in texas at a rehab center near dallas. >> her nose -- she said everytime she comes in there she wants to do something more than she did the first day. >> she wants to progress everytime. that's her own goals she sets. >> the mom says her daughter is in a lot of pain and hasn't been speaking very much. trace gallagher is here. do we know what happened here? what went wrong? >> reporter: mckenzie's father says her chute never fully deployed, kind of half opened and she just kind of spiraled down to the ground. but the guy who owns the skydiving center says the chute did fully deploy and the 16-year-old never followed her training guideline. some experts dispute that saying the chute was on a static line, was supposed to automatically open that and all she had to do was ride it down but the family says

she went skydiving wednesday in arizona.de the tandem jump strapped to a professional skydiver. >>> six people were killed and 12 others injured in that attack. in a "new york times" opinion piece giffords writes that she still struggles to speak and her right arm and leg are paralyzed, and she compares the fight to reduce gun violence to her rehabilitation. giffords argues that mental health resources should be a bigger priority writing, quote, so the dangerously mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch" now, macy's sheds jobs, and would you buy a burrito from a vending machine? wendy gillette is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, wendy. >> good morning, anne-marie. asian stocks were slower due to china's inflation last month. tokyo's nikkei lost 1.5%. hong kong's hang seng dropped nearly 1%. >>> it was a mixed day here on wall street. the dow jones industrial lost 68 points, erasing more than half of tuesday's 105-point gain. the nasdaq

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her parents say her parachute failed to open properly while skydiving.story. >> incredible story. the teenager expected to make a full recovery and get this, her father is already saying once she is healed, she wants to give this another whirl. only now with an instructor. she snapped this photo with her dad just before the jump of an oklahoma. most states require skydivers to be 18 years old and urge tandem jumps where you are strapped to an instructor before you go so low. but they drove to oklahoma where you can jump by yourself at age 16 with parental consent and after completing a class. so they get up in the plane, her father jumps first and then mackenzie goes, but her primary parachute did not open fully according to her family. she spiraled to the ground from more than half a mile up. >> her vertebrae broken half, her pelvic bone completely split in half, should more broken bones in her back, she has two broken ribs, her teeth, she hits the ground but she did not hit the ground, she, god's hands caught her. jon: the owner of that skydiving compa

how her birthday skydive went so wrong. her sister saying she was saved by the hand of god. ♪ this land is your land >>> and america's folk singer passes away overnight. the man who sang our country's anthems that got all of us singing along. a tribute to pete seeger this morning on "gma." ♪ from the redwood forests >> we were -- finish it out. we were just listening to such powerful simple lyrics but so powerful. >> what a sweet voice. >> oh, absolutely. >> what an american genre of music. >> yeah, exactly. >> ah, pete, you're going to be missed. >> we're going to share a little bit of that later. as we say good morning, america. this tuesday morning. we are live on super bowl boulevard this morning. yeah, cue the band. the big game now just six days away. we'll tell you why we have -- look at this, a clydesdale. >> oh, why not. >> and a frog. >> we're on. >> both bundled up this morning. you're right, lara, why not? >> it's cold. it's so cold. >> stay warm. >> kermit is staying warm. >>> but there's also a big security co

and my dad said, okay, on your 16th birthday i will take you skydiving. >> reporter: but the jump wentper get hurt out here pegasus airstrip. >> she did not open the second chute. her father told reporters the trouble started immediately. >> she was rocking this way, then she went into a spiral. >> reporter: a 3500-foot drop and her father, who jumped first, watched the entire thing from the ground. mackenzie is in the hospital with a broken vertebrae and shattered pelvis. her injuries consisted with being struck by a car going 60 miles an hour. >> if she truly fell 3,000 feet, i have no idea how she survived. >> reporter: the u.s. parachute association does allow 16-year-olds to jump, provided they have parental consent. joe wethington said he expected a tandem jump with an experienced skydiver but the company only offered single jumps. >> all she went through, she hasn't shed a tear. >> reporter: an investigation should tell us exactly what happened when she jumped out of that plane. molly hunter, abc news, new york. >> it is shocking that he let her go without doing a tandem jump. b

. >>> a skydiving accident sends a 16-year-old plunging to the ground from 3,000 feet in the air. we'll tell you what happens and how her friends are help being out. are-- helping out. >> super bowl security, some of the unique challenges >>> we have an update to a story we told you about with the congressman michael grim who apologized to a new york reporter who he threatened to throw off a balcony and break him in half after the state of the union address yesterday. it happened after the reporter asked grimm about an fbi investigation into his campaign finances. again that congressman apologized. he said he's passionate. he's italian and his mom would say she didn't raise him that way. he and that reporter plan to go to lunch next week. >>> a teenager recovering tonight after a parachute malfunctioned on a sky driving trip sending her tumbling 3,000 feet to the ground. >> it's amazing she survived. mckenzie webbington of texas wanted to live out her skydiving dream on her 16th birthday, but something went terribly wrong. her parachute didn't open correctly and the teen spiraled

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meanwhile, gabby giffords marked the day by skydiving.ded safely this afternoon at a skydiving site between phoenix and tucson. after completing her landing, giffords blew kisses and waved to the crowd of reporters standing by. and just before the jump, she tweeted this photo of herself and her husband, retired astronaut mark kelly. the caption reads, thanks for the good luck call. vice president joe biden, join me next time. she also tweeted, it's been step by step since i was shot three years ago. i've overcome a lot. progress has come from working hard. >>> it rathe iraqi government i going after a group connected to al qaeda in the city of roumani. it is said to show an attack on the headquarters of the city of iraq. the rise of al qaeda has become a serious challenge to prime minister al maliki's government since 2011. al maliki is calling on the militants to give up their fight. >>> now to the trip overseas that has become both a diplomatic headache and an international side show. dennis rodman in north korea again. he sang happy bi

marked the third in -- anniversary of the shooting that nearly took her life by skydiving. the attack in 2011 killed skit and woundede others, including giffords. >> the city of memphis is experiencing a pretty big tourism boom this week. people are flocking to celebrate elvis' birthday. museum is soul putting together a new exhibit. >> happy birthday, elvis. >> still love him. the final buzzer may have sounded on his controversial game, but dennis rodman is not out of the spotlight yet. >> he is changing his tone after what many are calling pretty tasteless remarks. >> police are looking into a deadly shooting at a prince george's county home. we are live with the latest. >> he is accused of trying to kill in alexandria police officer and now he is heading to court. >> he is being called a winter weather hero. what a snow pile driver saw that ended up with him and saving a man's life. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live from the abc 7 broadcast center, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>

for the first time, the unconscious skydiver describes that plummet down from 12,000 feet. and the moment his friends saved his life. >>> and a good evening to you on

for the first time, the unconscious skydiver describes that plummet down from 12,000 feet. and the moment his friends saved his life.

. >> rescue in midair, a skydiver knocked unconscious during his jump and what was down to save his liferst richelle carey with a look at the top stories. >> talk about atlanta. it's a mess. two inches of snow and ice delivered a wallop to the south, causing massive congestion on roads and interstates leaving thousands stranded for hours, many of whom only managed to return this afternoon. this thing lasted more than 24 hours. georgia's governor's the schoolkids are back with their families. it's called a small step forward. the syrian government and opposition said yes to using the agreement that emerged from the first round of the geneva talks as a basis for negotiations. the u.n. mediator says there's little chance of a breakthrough before both sides head home. the dow fell 100 and 90 points. the drop happened as the federal return said the economy is strong enough for cutback and bond buying. >> to the drought in california. this is the driest year on record. the crisis is growing and fears that 17 communities will be without water. lisa bernard is live in heeldsburg, california, wit

to that extent she celebrated this anniversary today by going skydiving.e giffords went skydiving today. >> still amazing. it is still kind of amazing to me. you made note of it at the end of the piece there. some of the legislation proposed seems common sense. high capacity magazine. what is the need of that? >> yes, and it had approval sending a message to everyone saying life does not end. here is a picture of her husband, a former astronaut. this is a picture of gabrielle giffords when she's about to land when her parachute drop today. good for her and her family for moving on. and they continue to cite the polling that people want it. >> david shuster with us. coming up on al jazeera america, a high school in jacksonville, florida, named after a dark period in american history gets a new name and a fresh start. "america tonight" investigative series >> we traveled here to japan to find out what's really happening at fukushima daiich >> three years after the nucular disaster, the hidden truth about the ongoing cleanup efforts and how the fallout could

an unconscious skydiver wearing a camera plunges to earth. new heart-pounding video of the daring race to save his life.

mackenzie wethington plummeted 3500 feet to the ground after an accident on her very first skydivingg me is her father and her doctor dr. jeffrey bender. good morning to both of. >> you good morning, kate. >> good morning. >> joe, how is makenzie this morning? >> she's doing well, considering. >> even being able to say that seems like a miracle. >> absolutely. she is a miracle. >> and what do you attribute to how she was able to survive such a fall? >> well, i guess, i can say, as the doctor said, her being healthy was helpful. she's a healthy young child. >> absolutely. >> and lady. >> absolutely. >> dr. bender, what kind of injuries are we talking about now? can you say she is in good condition this morning? >> that's correct. amazingly, none of her injuries actually required an operation to fix. somewhat ironically, the most minor of them, a broken tooth, may need some oral surgery later this week or next. but all of her other injuries including a ruptured liver and fractured pelvis and bones who numerous to mention will heal on their own. >> is it too much to say when she came in

giffords has previously skydived, but this was her first time since the shooting. in an opinion piece, giffords likened her difficult physical rehabilitation to the uphill battle for gun control, writing -- and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today with news from new jersey that could have national implications for one of the republican party's rising stars. on wednesday, "the bergen record" reported occupants proving top officials to governor chris christie is to cater the closure of several access lanes on the george washington bridge in september, near the town of fort lee, in order to punish that towns mayor for not endorsing christine's reelection. the lane closures turned the town into a virtual parking lot for four days and delayed emergency workers trying to respond to calls, including one involving an unconscious 91- year-old woman who later died. in one e

a fellow skydiver's legs hit him in the head. he was knocked out. unable to open the parachute. his friend grabbed him, turned him around. he landed safely, but has no memory of the accident. he says he'll continue sky diving. that'll do it for this edition of al jazeera. i'm thomas drayton in new york. news at the top of every hour. log on to aljazeera.com 24 hours a day. we leave you with a look at times square in new york city which has been travelled into super bowl sunday. a lot of activity ahead of the match up between the denver broncos and the seattle seahawks. thanks for watching. you're in the stream . our digital >>> our producer is here as always, bringing in all of your live comments throughout the show. most people, including you and

years being shot in the head at a campaign event in tucson, gabby giffords celebrated life by going skydiving over southern arizona. according to husband mark kelly, giffords landed beautifully. >>> and savannah guthrie joined giffords in the plane for an exclusive interview coming up on the "today" show this morning. stick around for that. >>> time to get down to business, macy's is planning to slash 2500 jobs, close five stores and add 8 macy's and bloomingdales stores. this effort will save the company about $100 million a year. >>> world wrestling entertainment will launch its own streaming service for under 10 bucks a month including their blockbuster pay-per-view events. >>> for about a million bucks you can own this one of a kind calendar made from 22 pounds of pure gold. a jewelry store in japan is selling the 2014 calendar, complete with images of mickey and minnie. is it worth it? >>> t mobile is willing to pay you for your mobile phone business. the company promises to cover termination fees. customers can receive up to $650 in credit after trading in their phones. >>> fast food re

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a 16-year-old girl falling more than 3,000 feet in a skydiving accident.this is amazing. >> reporter: she planned to go skydiving with her father for her 16-year-old birthday. this picture was snapped before this happened. most states require skydivers to be at least 18 years old and they are urged to do tandem jumps the first time. but they went to oklahoma where you can jump with parental consent. her primary parachute didn't open fullly and she fell. >> her pelvic bone split in half, more broken bones in her back, two broken ribs, her teeth. she hit the ground, but god's hand caught her. >> can you imagine? she is in intensive care at an oklahoma hospital. but bill, she is listed in good condition this morning. >> amazing comment -- god's hand caught her. how did this happen? >> everyone is trying to figure that out. the owner of the company has told a local news station in oklahoma that her parachute was operating just fine. he said it opened but began to rotate. she was trained for something like this happening and didn't use the training to sort the

no one would have complained how she marked the anniversary in grief, instead she skydived over southern arizona with a friend. her husband met her on the ground tweeting: >> a big pot pushback in colorado. why some fear easier access to marijuana could have a huge impact on young people. in the inductees for the 2014 baseball were announced. we look at who made the list and some of the stars that didn't make the cut. >> >> after not voting a single player into the baseball hall of files, the baseball writers association of america association sent three to ko cooperstown. greg maddux, joined by tom glavine, winning 305 games, winning 10 trips to the all star over his 22 seasons in the big leagues. is and the final member, 2-time american league most valuable player, more than 1700 rvi during his career. >> this class is notable for the names that didn't make it. including roger clemmens, barry bonds, martin mack gir and sammy soso and raphael palmiero. >> the texas elpass coe mens team was shaken up after a tip some players had been betting on their own games. federal bureau of investig

was really concerned about the soft landing maybe which i think everybody should be when you're skydiving. it looks like she hits the ground here. >> does she freak out? oh, she's so excited. >> there she is, in all her gear. adam on one knee, she whips her helmet off so she can smooch her now fiance after this awesome moment. good time for family and friends and they did a good job because it's hard to write in the stand like that. >> big time. it's huge. >> it was really big. everyone did a nice job. they have nice -- i would call that foot writing. >> did she freak out that she might have ended up in the ocean? >> paying too much attention to the marry me, jess, and not realize where you're going. >>> making art with bird flight. >> and it creates this beautiful almost painting in the sky. >> see it next, "right this minute." >>> and still to come -- this guy's got a needle, a blowgun and a target. >> oh, my god, did it hit him in the spine? >> see what it hits, next. >>> and we're giving away an ipad mini today, all you need is the buzzword. get ready. it's coming up. i've got 3-alarm

she later skydived over arizona alongside a navy seal. >>> the federal reserve released minutes fromts december policy meeting today. that's caused mixed reaction on wall street. this is a live look at the big board and you can see the dow is down about 91 points. >>> the talk of this week's consumer electronics show in las vegas is a big announcement from yahoo. as kiet do explains, ceo will take the company in new direction. >> please welcome marissa mayer. [ applause ] >> reporter: for yahoo ceo marissa mayer it was an hour of geek talk and star power boasting 400 million users every month, yahoo is launching contextualized home streams, basically apps that rearrange themselves based on your location like the gym, grocery store or the office. >> think about how much your phone understands about you -- your location, your contacts, your calendar, your emails. and now, imagine what happens when that context becomes part of the search experience. the future of search is contextual knowledge and we are investing to be part of the future. >> reporter: remember the startup that yahoo bo

giffords marked the anniversary by completing a tandem skydive. look at that.ust another step in her remarkable recovery. just yesterday, she reported she has now regained movement in her right arm. >>> jahi mcmath, the 13-year-old california girl declared brain-dead, is now receiving food and air through tubes. an attorney for her family says doctors completed the procedures on wednesday at the facility where she was taken earlier this week. mcmath suffered complications after tonsil surgery last month, but doctors and a court have declared her legally dead. but the family insists they want more time to see if she recovers. their attorney now claims doctors believe she is improving. >>> a meeting with a judge today for a special prosecutor looking into a controversial missouri rape case. the prosecutor's investigating daisy coleman's claims that she was sexually assaulted at a party and then the charges were dropped because the accused perpetrator was politically connected. coleman was taken to a hospital this week after her mother says she tried to commit sui

she's skydiving with josh ells of "rolling stone" magazine. this is the new miley cyrus. >> what a landing! >> we were both kind of terrified, i think. it was a situation where neither of us really wanted to back down. i think she just likes doing -- she's kind of like pushing the envelope right now. >> it's a very difficult thing to do. few can pull it off. when you make that break it has to be a break. you can't leave one foot in the preteen, tween world. >> miley moved out of her parents' house and in with her boyfriend, liam hemsworth to focus on a pop album and started distancing herself from the her wholesome, "hannah montana" image. >> she got a new label and new management. she felt like she needed a change because not that they were going to hold her back but just that they might be sort of scared of the way she was going to go. >> and miley was going to go for big risks. with her first single "we can't stop" she released a video full of sex, drugs, and in her words -- ♪ shaking it like we at a strip club ♪ >> it was the first glimpse

she is skydiving with josh elle of "rolling stone" magazine, and extreme, unafraid and ready for reinvention> what a landing. >> we were both kind of terrified, i think. it is a situation whereneather of us wanted to the back down. i think that she likes to doing, and pushing the envelope right now. >> and it is a very difficult thing to do and few can pull it off, and when you make that break, it has to be a braeak. you can't leave one foot in the pre-teen tween world. >> and miley moved out of the parent's house and in with boyfriend liam hemsworth and quit acting to focus on a pop album and distance herself from the wholesome hannah montana image. >> she felt that she needed a change and not that they were going the hold her back, but it is just that they might be sort of scared of the way she was going to go. >> and miley was going to go for big risks. ♪ la de da de ♪ we like to party >> and filled with lyrics -- >>. ♪ shaking it like at the club >> and you saw a woman with white hair rolling around the bed with stuffed bears. and it was the make or break moment, and she said, let me do

after being shot in the head at a campaign event if tucson, gabby gifford celebrated life by going skydivingsouthern arizona. she landed beautifully. >>> the people's choice awards kicks off the 2014 season of hollywood's best hosted by the ladies of two broke girls. >> would this interest you? it's an invitation to host the people's choice awards? >> yes, look, max! >> open bar? doesn't matter, i'll bring my own. >> brit my spears won her first people's choice award in her 15-year career. sandra bullock led the evening with four awards and justin timberlake won three awards. meryl streep got the best actress award for "saving mr. banks" but streep set, he was supposedly a hideous anti-semite and he was certainly on the evidence of his company's policies a gender bigot. i could just imagine walt disney's chagrin having to cultivate pl favor for the 20 years of work. it must have killed him to encounter a woman". >>> macy's is planning to splash or slash 2500 jobs, close to five stores will be closing and add eight macy's and bloomingdales stores to the list. the effort will save the company

. >>> and the father who gave his teenage daughter her first skydive for her 16th birthday. that jump ending in disaster when she fell more than 3500 feet after her chute tangled. he speaks out this morning for the first time about her recovery. >>> and we do say good morning, america, on this wednesday morning. and look who is there in our nation's capital, looking good, george. good morning to you. >> good morning, robin. of course, the state of the union address last night for the president. pretty tough sell for the president before an anxious country deeply divided congress but, boy, he brought all of them to their feet with that emotional tribute to an american hero right there, cory remsburg, army ranger. and we'll talk to vice president biden in a minute. >> the ovation went on and on. that was quite a moment, george. you were right about that. >>> one of many stories we have this morning so let's get right to it. that winter weather, dangerous ice, snowstorm now paralyzing an entire region of the country. ginger zee starts us off here in new york where the back half

. >> a 16-year-old texas girl wanted to celebrate her birthday by skydiving. is recovering after having a near death experience. mackenzie wethington jumped from 35-hundred feet. however.her parachute didn't fully open and she started to spiral down. mackenzie's family says she might have blacked out in the fall, but she survived. she suffered a broken vertebrae and pelvis and internal bleeding. but she's not paralyzed. >> she was just going it too fast. hours tried to talk her out of it. are trying to tell her what to do, she could not do it. >> mackenzie performed what's called a "static- line" jump -- common for first timers. this video shows how it works: the yellow cord connects from the jumper's parachute to the airplane. and as the diver falls, the line snaps, the parachute opens. the owner of pegasus air sports center in oklahoma suspects mackenzie didn't follow the training guidelines properly >> can you imagine being her father? >> we will be right back one of the developing stories we are falling, here's a live look at the funeral for a bart police