unicycle football. this is the unicycle football league.ad no idea this many dudes knew how to ride unicycles. >> who also knew how to play football. >> yeah. if you watch this thing, similar to your average football game, except they've got flags. it's like flag football. you're not tackling. >> you fall off the unicycle anyway. >> but when you fall out you're not in play. in order to do something football related you have to be pedaling on the unicycle. you can see there are punts, there are running plays, there are passing plays. you have the ball and you fall off your unicycle you're down right there. what you also notice is guys can like leap off the unicycle to catch the pass or intercept the pass. look at that guy. jumps into the end zone. that's legal. a lot of cool passing plays where guys are getting airborne off their unicycle which is pretty impressive. it goes down in san marcos, texas. what i like about it, some of the names of the teams, the narwalls hell on wheels, rolling blackouts and the unipsychos. field goal, watch this

>> this guy is doing on a unicycle. he's doing it in prague. he's going up a tv tower. his old record 299 stairs. >>> kobe bryant, in rehab for his achilles surgery. what does he do?

. >>> still to come, hard to ride a unicycle, let alone say it, let alone go up a flight of stairs on. how many this guy did to break a record, coming up. ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing good for me around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of craving something that i can't have ♪ ♪ turn around barbara ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪ ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ 90-calorie fiber one lemon bar. >>> a czech man has broke an record, making up a tv tower on a unicycle. he beat his own record of jumping upstates without touching you the ground ever, he went all the way up prague's tv tower made up of 736 stairs. his former record was jumping up just 299. his official record will be marked in the czech book of records. he says he actually did much better during training. >> where was that? 736 steps? >> maybe 1,000. who knows. i looked up how long it took him. couldn't find the information out. we investigate. thanks so much for being with us. next newscast at 5:00. also get the latest informa

i rode the unicycle. but i ended up running off to the circus, and then in the acting world. is back in the raising world with his new documentary series. >> vanes hudgens' fans get ready for a big surprise. the former teen queen is going super dark for her new role opposite nicolas cage and the results are prilling chilling. >> nicolas cage is on the hunt for a serial killer. >> this guy d they let him get away with it. >> as an alaskan cop in "the frggerated. it was all like it happened. these ladies who lost their lives as a result of this horrible person. >> john cusack killing as a cold-blooded killer, vanessa hudgens barely recognizable following up her dark character in "spring breakers" as a kung prostitute that gets away. >> they're characters that i'm drawn to. nice to push yourself. >> he was a in the super hero comedy "kick ass." >> i never was in it. >> not afraid to sound off on jim carrey's take that the film was too violent. >> it's more important to create things and turn them off even though i can't stand slashers. i can't and them, people need to create. >>

but on a unicycle? 736 stairs. a man did just that at the tv tower in prague. his old record, 299 stairs. >>> kobe bryant in rehab for his akillez surgery. a major injury at 35. sdwhat he do? he jumps 40 feet into a pool below. he sent that video out saying, hey, if i can run, i can jump. i don't know. >>> just ahead, donald trump offers miley cyrus some advice. >>> plus, new details on paul mccartney's latest project. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back. we're starting off with another damp day in the pacific northwest. it won't be as wet as yesterday. we'll actually see maybe a little bit of sunshine as the clouds try to break apart. seattle, 74. we will see scattered showers and storms down through the desert southwest. las vegas could see heavier pockets of rain. then as we start off the holiday weekend, the chance of showers and storms in the southwest. but most of the west coast looks really nice. seattle should top out around 82 degrees to kick off the labor day weekend. so anything but fall-like as we kind of unofficially end s

>> this guy is doing on a unicycle. he's doing it in prague. he's going up a tv tower.stairs. >>> kobe bryant, in rehab for his achilles surgery. what does he do? >> that's smart. >> jump 40 feet into a pool. why not. >> he's 35 years old. >> i hope that dive is worth it. >>> time now for our "first look" today's political stories and for that we turn to politico. kevin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. thank you for having me. >> i want to focus on syria. the president may not need congress's authorization for limited military action but do you think it's important he acts without their support. >> i think yesterday after a 90-minute phone call with top congressional leaders the message was loud and clear from congressional leaders and that is they would like to see their input in this decision. this is a president who back in 2008 really campaigned against the idea of a unilateral decision from the presidency, then bush, about the iraq war. so now i think there's a wide range of criticisms that could be lobbed the president's way as he tries to navigate an inc

. >> on the weekends, rides a unicycle. really talented. >> very talented. hungry. >>> go bears to sharks. get ready, a made-for-tv movie turned into a cult phenomenon. >> now coming to a theater near you, where you can see "sharknado" this weekend. >>> one of the summer's most talked about movies moving from the small screen to the big screen. >> there are sharks floodinging the streets. >> that is right, a killer concept. how about killer sharks sucked right into a tornado and then dumped all over los angeles? yeah, look up in the sky the premise of "shark"sharknado." reeled in an audience of 1.4 million viewers for its july premiere on the sci-fi channel. writered about this growing up in nebraska, and spawned a twitter-feeding frenzy of 5,000 tweets per minute, perhaps sensing box office blood in the water. forget "jaws," we have "sharknado." tonight for one night only. >> i will have nightmares. >> don't need to see "shark toe puss." that's the bad one. [ woman ] dear chex cereal, i've never written a fan letter before, but you've done the impossible. y

i rode the unicycle. but i endeup running off to the circus, and then in the acting world. >> he is back in the raising world with his new documentary series. >> vanessa hudgens' fans get ready for a big surprise. the former teen queen is going super dark for her new role opposite nicolas cage and the results are pretty chilling. >> nicolas cage is on the hunt for a serial killer. >> this guy did it and they let him get away with it. >> as an alaskan cop in "the frozen ground." >> nothing was exaggerated. it was all like it happened. these ladies who lost their lives as a result of this horrible person. >> john cusack as a cold-blooded killer, vanessa hudgens barely recognizable following up her dark character in "spring breakers" as a young prostitute that gets away. >> they'rere characters that i'm drawn to. nice to push yourself. >> he was a big daddy in the super hero comedy "kick ass." >> i never was in it. >> not afraid to sound off on jim carrey's take that the film was too violent. >> it's more im

wowing the country on "america's got talent" with the high energy performance combining basketball, unicycleshampions forever. >> the name is fitting. they are here this morning with their 12 kids who range in age from 4 to 25. >> yes. >> this is quite a little thing you've put together here. >> thank you. >> you put the act on the road but you started 20 years ago. >> i did. it has been a journey. we started out driving in one car and now we have a big bus. >> you need that. >> how does it work with the smallest kids? >> it works very well. they do a great job and we just start them right when they come out of the womb. >> in labor. start them early. >> you have a few tricks. >> we're going to set a record on tv here, the most anchors spinning the most basketballs at the same time. >> hey. >> you hold that. >> this is so much pressure. mine is going crazy. clearly we are not part of -- >> craig melvin. >> we get a lot of offers. >> how do you teach that? how does that even -- >> keep spinning the basketball, everybody grab a basketball real quick. a quick lesson. put your hands like this, li

i won ap in s rode the unicycle.but i ended up running off to the circus, and acting world is back in the rai world with his new documentary >> vanessa hudgens' fans get ready for a big surprise. the former teen queen is going super dark for her new role opposite nicolas cage and the results are prilling chilling. >> nicolas cage is on the hunt for a serial killer. >> this guy did it and they let him get away with it. >> as an alaskan in "the frozen ground." >> nothing was exaggerated. it was all like it happened. these ladies who lost their lives as a result of this horrible person. >> john cusack killing as a cold-blooded killer, vanessa hudgens barely recognizable following up her dark character in "spring breakers" as a kung prostitute that gets away. >> they're characters that i'm drawn to. nice to push yourself. >> he was a big daddy in the super hero comedy "kick ass." >> i never was in it. >> not afraid to sound off on take that the film was too violent. >> it's things and turn them off even though i can't st

no, when i was 40 years old in 1997, i had worked up-- i had done fire eating, juggling, unicycle ridingll the other circus stunts. bed of nails, glass eating, everything else. in 1997, i heard there were less than a dozen sword swallowers left in the entire world. and i said "ooh! i gotta add that to my list." so i worked on it for four years. - worked on it? how do you work on it? - you just practice. you just stick a sword down the back of your throat-- aah ahh-- at the back of your throat. - so, i mean you must have no gag reflex. - uh, i still have a gag reflex. if i were to cough on a piece of meat, i would still choke on it. but for those four years, i practiced 10-12 times a day every day. i calculated that out. it's about 13,000 unsuccessful attempts before i got my first sword down in 2001. - and so what did that feel like? that first time you succeeded? - it was scary. it was real scary. i was in my bathroom. i hadn't told anybody i was doing it. - how big was it at that time? - it was about a 22-inch long blade. - are you kidding me? - no. i'm not kidding you. and something h