he joins me via skype. thank you for spending time with us. one of the key issues is going to be how russia reacts if the referendum supports the referendum from ukraine. >> in my view russia will react as it reacted before. russia was interested in those things in ukraine. one, russian language to be recognised as a second national loaning wij, and decentralisation, and to be - have ukraine as a known anti-russian. more neutral than joining any international grouping and russia will have - as i understand, will have the attitude towards what is hamming as it is. it's a revolutionary instrument, not an election or referendum in a proper way. so it will be using the results as a new tool for pushing ukraine and the west towards discussing these issues which they put forward, which i mentioned before. the demonstrates, restructuring on ukraine. >> if i understand you correctly, we are less likely to see russia taking military steps, they are more likely to use it as a lever against the west. >> well i wouldn't put in such terms, lever against th

for the latest from eastern ukraine, we are joined via skype by philip shishdish from "the wall street journal." why does today's vote matter in the grand scheme of things? >> it matters because for russian separatists in eastern ukraine, about to declare independence. not for one but two provinces bordering russia. they need this vote to give their efforts a veneer of legitimacy. that's why there's been some people heading to the polls, that's very important. >> when you spoke to people at the polls today, was this a vote for independence and to join russia? or was this more frustration against kiev? >> it's a combination of both. if you look at public opinion polls, the ones that were conducted independently by professionals, there's very, very low support for any sort of independence or secession from ukraine here. interestingly, those same polls also show, as you said, great frustration with the interim government in kiev. the vote today, people that did go to the polls, and pretty much everyone who went to the polls would vote yes to the question of state sovereignty. so they were

via skype, one of the two professional sky divers we just saw break the world record.red is the son of a parachutist and did his first jump at the age of 10. 15,000 jumps and won numerous competitions, fred good to have you with us in every possible way, given what you went through. congratulations to you and vince rafet, all the know the building from mission impossible with tom cruz, mission impossible iv. it was pretty scary there. he was dangling out the window. you dove off the top. how frightening is that moment when you step off? >> well, it's -- i mean, we are used to jumping anyway. so, it's not -- we are not so frightened. the real thing was that we were stand on the platform that was to put us away from the very top of the building and to be standing on this platform was like standing in the middle of the sky and it was such a great vision, you know, and we were super excited. we have been preparing for this project for a long time. it's been incredible. >> others jumped from lower on the tower. you had the special platform built that added more height and p

. >> via skype from donetsk, simon, good of you to join us. these pictures are just horrifying. know you wrote in your piece for "the post" that donetsk is getting closer to mob rule? >> yeah. i mean it does feel like that. the police were utterly humiliated today by sort of stick-wielding and rock-throwing mob, and, you know, you have to -- the leaders of that mob were very, very ex plicit. they were outside the police station earlier in the day. they said, we are holding a referendum on may the 11th. after that referendum, the police answer to us. if they don't answer to us, we will remember it. they then went to the state prosecutor's office where a few dozen riot police were guarding the office, and they forced their way in past the riot police who were in disarray, having their shields taken off. they tried to mount a defense there was tear gas, rocks thrown, a crowd at their back shouting "fascists and at any raters." the police were could youering on the ground with the shields over their heads and stripped to their riot gear and led away with their heads bowed. >> it's a

best friends like no other ♪ ♪ how much i love her baby soon to come get it done ♪ >> we have kelly via skypem north carolina. welcome to the show, kelly. this is one of the best speeches we probably have ever seen on this show. what gave you the courage to do a rap. >> i still don't think that i had the courage, but, you know, i've known emily and josh for a long time and they are so fun. and something about when i came up with the idea just felt right. and so out of character as it may have been, i committed the whole way through and gave it my best shot. i'm still shaking thinking about it. ♪ now that the party is pump in the two are meant to be no mistaking ♪ >> how long did you practice this? >> forever. i probably practiced it for four or five months. i didn't even tell my husband i was doing it. i just went out there and that was it. >> that's awesome. ♪ to the happy couple love and laughter but most of all happily ever after ♪ >> what did they think? >> emily looked at me and said, i cannot believe you just busted that out. ♪ that's the end of my toast check it out ♪ >> if someone tol

. >> we have elle walker via skype from westwood, california, "right this minute."lcome to the show. who is your little one? >> hi, guys. i'm going to have to -- the conversation because i was not expecting this. this is ashley. my son is ford. >> are you getting a lot of grief from your friends? is that what made you create this video? >> not at all. they have been great. however, i was feeling very guilty. my husband would say, have you seen that person? i'm like, oh, my gosh, i was supposed to send her a text a week ago. i figured i would make a video and send it and it would be easier. hang on. can i run over -- i have a baby-sitter here, but she didn't know i was doing this. can i just drop ashley off? is that okay? see you in one second. >> sorry, guys! >> i am so sorry. that is how my life is, so, anyway -- >> has this video helped clarify your issue to your friends that they said, oh, thanks, now i get it? >> it told me i'm not alone because i've gottenmom s freaking out. that is my life. it is comforting to know you're not the only crazy one out there. >> d

positive and negative, but to tell us the story behind it we have andrew decker and little emmerson via skype. dad, talk to us about this process. >> ellerson is a showoff. she loves doing it and i love showing her off. >> you've been getting all kinds of attention. what do you have to say to the people who think this might be dangerous for emmerson? >> she has complete trust in me and i know what she's doing. i i'm not going to let anybody do it with her. i have never dropped her. we have a blast. >> are you surprised she picked this up so naturally. >> yes, very surprised. we started when she was 3 months old. before she could walk she would stand in my hands. >> yeah. >> we haven't been able to stop. we've had a lot of fun. >> tell us about this vine. >> that was the first time we ever tried that. we decided to do that at the beach and we videoed it quick. >> is she waking you up at 6:00 a.m. every day because she wants to practice now. >> yes. in cheerleading they go five, six, seven, eight, do toe touches and carteels and working all kinds of n tricks. she likesoing stuffd with me. >> is

. >> we have all three members from time for three, zach de pue, nick kendall and ranam meyer via skypewill you hold up one of your cases so we can see how big these things are. >> this is my violin case. >> looks like a carry-on to me. >> walk us through exactly what happened once you got on that aircraft. >> we were just greeted by a steward that said you have to check those instruments. we said they're valuable instruments. can you give us a chance to put it in the overhead and show you it fits. he said no. we get off the plane and standing on the tarmac. >> the captain says it's beyond us, it's faa mandate. we could be fined $10,000. >> i was like i'm going to play, maybe they don't think we're legit musicians. i said film this, i'm going to play for them. maybe that will get their attention. >> we reached out to u.s. airways and there is an apology. here's the statement. we apologize that the musicians were inconvenienced. we confirmed seats for them on a later flight and they arrived in fayetteville last night. we wish them good luck as they perform this week. >> what do you say t

we'll find out exactly what's going on with this little kitten because we have rich wirdzek via skype right this minute. the first question on everybody's minds, where's the kitten? where is the cat now? >> the kitten is with the family. we called the family and they were able to come up and grab the kitten. >> is the cat still in the area that the family's home once was? >> yeah. i found the cat exactly where the house was. they have a lot of rebuilding to do but they're going to be holding on to the kitten. one glimmer of hope that came out of such a tragic situation. >> were the cat's cries drew you to that section or were you walking around and the cat heard you? >> i think the kitten might have heard me. at first i thought it was a bird. it sounded different. i had my phone on me. i turned it on. wasn't sure what i was going to find at first. i walked up and the kitten was right there. >> how does it feel to be a hero? >> i don't think you can call me a hero. i was in the right place in the right time. usually i am in the studio giving the weather. >> tell us details about the to

we have that storm chaser via skype to tell us all about it. his name is ricky forbes.t before the camera started rolling that made you pull over? >> right before we were driving down the road and saw this makeshift sign that said "bears on the road" so i grabbed the camera thinking we would see something and not even two minutes around the corner we came upon this scene. pretty much exactly what's shown in the video. >> of all your storm chasing videos is this one of the most popular, one of the most viral of your videos? >> absolutely. we put a lot of blood, sweat and tears in short chasing but one bear video knocks out all our tornado videos. >> which one is more fun to shoot? >> a bit more adrenaline in the tornadoes, but the bears i don't think i'll ever see anything that cool again. that was pretty neat. >> that is the coolest thing i've ever seen. >> that's going to do it for "right this minute," everybody. we'll see you next time. >>> hello, everybody. i'm beth troutman. it's time for great videos from the web and the stories behind them, "right this minute." >>

. >> to tell us more about this show, we have the show's host, hakim, via skype, "right this minute.", welcome to the show. [ applause ] >> thanks for having me. i'm happy to be here. >> we have a few videos that will be featured on season two of "outrageous acts of science" and i'm going to let you explain what's going on here. >> i think we should explain what's going on first just to see how well, we did in our science class. >> no. let's not embarrass ourselves. >> let me tell you the first one is going to creep you out. 1,000 bed bugs in a jar. notice there's a shape in the lid of that jar. he's putting the jar of bedbugs lid down on his arm. letting the bedbugs bite at his skin. that's not it. watch what happens. >> it's like a bedbug tattoo. >> first thing i want to say last summer i was on a trip and became a victim of bedbugs myself. it wasn't shaped like a bunny. that's the thing. here's the thing about these bugs. they don't just bite and suck. right. they also inject chemicals into our bodies anti-coaggrants and such and our bodies have an allergic reaction. that creates i

her husband was aboard flight 370 and she joins us exclusively tonight via skype.ood to see you. thank you for joining us tonight. how are things changed, if ever, since last we spoke? how are you doing? >> look, things have gotten worse. it's gotten harder as time as gone on. to be honest, i was confident -- i was meeting every week and i was confident they were going to find it in this high priority search area. obviously they haven't. i've been preparing emotionally and physically too to prepare a memorial for paul. look, now that they haven't found anything, i'm back to day one. we're still 59 days he walked out that door and we've still got nothing. we're still back right where we were to begin with. >> have the authorities, the searchers, been any more communicative with you? do you get any more updates on a regular basis? >> look, they were bringing me daily while here in perth and with the bluefin 21 and the priority area, but since they found nothing there, you know, i think they're as confused as the rest of us because they were so confident they would fi

but to tell us the story behind it, we have andrew decker and little emerson via skype. dad, talk to us about this process. >> emerson is a showoff. she loves doing it and i love showing her off. it is a lot of fun. >> you've been getting all kinds of attention. what do you have to say to the people who think this might be dangerous for emerson? >> she has complete trust in me and i know what she's doing. i'm not going to let anybody else do it with her and i have never dropped her, will never drop her and we have a blast. >> are you surprised that she picked this up so naturally? >> yes. very surprised. we actually tried it when she was -- before she could walk, she was standing in my hand. >> yea. >> we haven't been able to stop. we have had a lot of fun. >> tell me about the vine. >> that was first time he tried it. we did that at the beach. we videotaped it really quick. >> does she wake you up now because she wants to practice now? >> yes, in cheerleading, they start on five and do, five, six, seven, eight, she'll do toe touches and cartwheels. she likes doing stuff

. >> we can find out because we have robert o'connor, via skype, "right this minute," from florida. robert, can you make this face for us now? >> yeah. ain't compressed air. >> it's not? what is it? >> one of the metal ring bracelets you wear around your wrist. my brother's sister has one, we got to goofing around and sticks in my lip and holds it out. >> hysterical. >> how do you think up these ideas? one of my favorites, the red neck weather man. >> go to robert with the weather. >> fancy red neck wind gauges flapping like hell. >> has the piece of plastic in trees. >> you get stuck in a tractor riding around all day ain't much to do but listen to the radio and think. it comes to you. >> what do you do? are you a comedian by trade or not? >> oh, no. i'm a farmer. that's what the weather man vine came from, because i was working a saturday and supposed to be warm and it was colder than [ bleep ]. >> we got here some clouds, the barometric pressure is going to come down, hit, and going to be colder than [ bleep ]. >> the weather men don't know what they're talking about. i'm going t

we'll find out more about this romantic proposal at tim hortons because we have jared and stephanie, via skypem canada right this minute. how much planning went into this? >> a lot of planning. it took about a month and a half two months to get everything in order keeping a secret from stephanie and to manipulate her to get there at that time that place. >> how did you know she was going to be at tim hortons that morning. >> when she goes into her office she stops in that tim hortons. i got my boss to call her and make a bogus appointment. the fun this thing about the story she was running behind and almost didn't stop. i had to get my boss to call and say he was running behind and i had a co-worker from her office call her and ask her to pick up a coffee. >> oh. >> yes. i had a lot of failsafes in place because i knew if i was bringing my buddy to film this thing and arranging everything with tim hortons i wasn't going to be stuck there without her coming through the dri drive-through. >> this video has gone viral. are you surprised? >> completely surprised. we were just excited at the idea o

are doing, we have zoo director pat, "right this minute," via skype. tell us what the conditions of the pup are now. they have porcupine injuries and were festering. >> we're still finding porcupine quills migrating out of them. they removed all the quills they saw on the initial physical examination, but some of the quills go into them and are under the skin and then start spoking out. at every feeding, every three hours, they're getting a full body check to identify any more quills. >> now, for wolf pups, great caution you take them in. they can be returned into the wild. tell us about the decision to take them in. >> a decision by the alaska department of fish and game. determined the mother moved off. they would be dead by now. we're a transition facility. we have experience in caring for these young animals, seeing to their medical needs and working with fish and game in identifying permanent homes for them to go to. >> what do you have to say to the wild land firefighters who heard the noises and rescued these pups. >> they're awesome guys. respo

. >>> joining us via skype from middle east human rights division, going back to the audio recordings that al jazeera obtained from these two inmates. they say electricity and water has been cut off. families are not allowed to visit us. they're going to kill us all. does that tally with your experience inside egyptian prisons. >> we know conditions are bad inside prisons, officials prisons and these unofficial places, we know conditions are extremely bad. extreme overcrowding, terrible hygienic conditions, terrible food and so forth. what is new in these recordings us the allegation that the authorities are imposing for collective punishment if, indeed, they're cutting off water, cutting off electricity, this sort of thing, this ratchets it up to a new height. >> indeed, and what about the use of torture to extract confessions which the amnesty report talks about. is that widespread? >> well, it's not something that we've been able to invest ourselves, but it certainly is consistent. it's certainly very credible. it's consistent with things we're hearing from very credible egyptian u

to tell us more we have the bus driver, bill clark, via skype from oregon, right this minute. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> tell us what it's like to be a hero. >> i did what i would hope anybody under the same circumstances i was under would do. so hero, no. >> tell us what the little boy said. was he scared? >> the only verbalization between james and i was when i was trying to find out what he would like to drink and i ran through a series of beverages and it wasn't until i hit hot chocolate that he responded. >> what do your bosses say? did you get a raise. >> i've been thanked by a lot of people, received a commendation and that's plenty enough. >> really chilling moment caught on camera in russia. watch this. that's a mercedes. behind the mercedes, a scooter, next to the mercedes. this is an assassination attempt. >> what? >> that's a hitman on the scooter and in that moment there, right in the middle of the intersection is when he pulled the trigger on his gun with a silencer hitting the driver in the head. the driver, a known businessman, then the camera switch

. >> and so you've had to see her for the first time via skype. >> yeah, so she can't come here. she's on a 16-year waiting list to come legally. that's why she can't come here and i can't leave because i won't be able to come back. so she and i meet on skype. which was a very painful, almost kind of liberating thing to do. you know, because i mean, how do you explain not seeing your mom for 20 years. like, i could not have written that as a writer. >> how do you think these personal moments will affect the immigration debate? a thousand people get deported every day. i make a film. i'm trying to humanize the issue and expose the complexity of it and what's really at stake. immigration has always been about families. >> it's also about being legal, about having documents. >> absolutely. >> immigration reform is stalled in strong right now. you have attracted a lot of critics. to many, you're illegal, you repeatedly broke the law, they think you should be deported. >> actually, i'm glad you brought that up. to be in this country without papers is actually a civil offense and not a

for more we're joined now from odessa via skype by philip with "the wall street journal."hat was the situation today? >> on the ground outside the building where the people burned to death last night, there was a russian rally and people were very angry. at times, there were scuffles. mostly older people, some younger people. they're very angry at the police too, because the police played a peculiar role yesterday, as they have throughout. what's more, there's video of footage that emerged yesterday from several fairly reliable ukrainian television channels and other videos that the police were sympathetic to the russian militants. and maybe sheltered them. this is what the ukrainans are angry about. the russian are angry that when the molotov cocktails were threw at the building, the police were nowhere to be seen and they allowed it to happen. >> so for an american audience watching, what's the significant that this violence is happening in odessa, a western part of ukraine, which isn't close to crimea, isn't close to the other areas that we've been hearing about in the

we spoke to him via skype. >> reporter: he said the titanosaurs roamed the earth about 90 million years ago. standing with its long neck up it would go head to head with a seven story building and weigh 77 tons! that is equal to about 14 adult elephants. >> reporter: the fossils were first discovered by a local farmer in 2012. the new species still doesn't have a name, but it will likely honor the area in which it was found, and, of course, the size of the dinosaur. jill wagner, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: today marks the 60th anniversary of the "brown versus board of education" supreme court decision. the ruling which found racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. last night, first lady michelle obama, addressed graduating high school students in topeka, kansas, the city at the heart of the 1954 ruling. >> "brown versus board of ed" isn't just about our history. it is about our future. because while that case was handed down 60-years-ago, brown is still being decided every single day. not just in our courts and schools, but in how we live our lives. >> axelrod:

. >>> let's bring in our safety analyst, david soucie in new york and mary joining us via skype from charleston, south carolina. begin with you, david. officials say the balloon's pilot tried to contain the fire by letting the hot air hout. anything else the pilot could have done when in trouble like that? >> at that point, no. actually, there wasn't anything he could have done, but leading up to the accident as well. there are surprises. we don't know at this point whether he had run low on fuel and wasn't able to climb back up to get over the wires, or what exactly what happened. it's too early to tell, but this certainly is a tragic situation. >> yes, and mary, how are investigators trying to collect data, evidence, trying to piece together what went wrong here? >> well, they'll be looking at a number of things and there are so many things to look at in a balloon accident. whether they can consolidated the charts and knew where the wires were. the skill of the pilot is always a very, the balloon pilot's, highly significant. more fatal accidents happen with inexperienced pilots. if

. >> via skype we spoke to developers in rome about their app inspiration. >> people need parking everyday, we just want to make this moment of valuable moment for them. >> here's how works. the flashing monkey show where users have parked their cars, in this case near dolores park. other users place bids to get those parking spaces when the users move. >> so they can sync with other drivers who are looking for parking, avoiding them to drive around. >> it can be a challenge to find parking. >> showing 440,000 parking spots citywide, 275,000 of those are street parking. >> that makes about 900 miles, that's larger than california's coastline. but in a city like san francisco those spaces are limited. >> there are over 500,000 cars in san francisco, and under 500,000 parking spots in san francisco. parking is eternally tricky. >> the man who wrote the book on parking in the city says everyone is looking for the sweet spot. >> the sweet spot is finding a parking spot in under 30 seconds. >> anything to end the endless game of looking for parking space. the app developers say this isn't like

she wrote a letter to amazon saying -- nina joins us now via skype from seattle.articularly in seattle, this has to be really upsetting all stop your local company, amazon, will not sell your book. >> it is painful. especially because issa poured it in my entire career will stop >> talk to me about how you found out about this and what the reaction has been. >> it started leaking out on the internet and through facebook. i believe it was may 9 when i got a letter by e-mail. is the publisher of little brown stop he published one of my books. i went to the amazon site to look at my book and i saw the evidence on the page. you support what little and brown is doing? >> these are two big corporations negotiating all stop i support that they both need to do it they are doing a we as authorsat and illustrators were not used as pawns. >> it seems like the role of amazon is so much greater in the publishing industry because we do not have small bookstores over the country, in the way that we use it, but we do not have the same waltons and borders and barnes & noble's. tha

cory johnson is back with me now in joining us via skype, global u.s.er security leader david burke. thank you for joining us. who are the cyber criminals? what are they looking for? >> thank you very much for having me on here today. the reality is we see a number actingerent cyber actors in the world for a number of years. number one, we worry about nationstate actors who are very geared -- good at what they do. they have excellent techniques challengefficult to to combat. we also worry about organized crime actors. these are also very talented, very intelligent threat actors who are very good at taking information and turning it into monetized value in a variety of ways. we certainly worry about individual collectives that will on a particular company to make a social statement or two dogma.l -- promote we are also worried about insiders, legitimate employees with rights and permissions, access to information that may be sensitive and may be working in concert with another threat actor groups i just talked about. >> david? one of the most important t