"caught on camera" viral videos, how, what, why? i'm contessa brewer, when i look at the web's most popular videos, the ones that go viral, they have me going back and looking at them again and again to try to figure out the method to their madness. we all want to know what on earth made them try that and how did they catch it all on camera? >> a few people have tried it. but no one has done it near to what we did it today. >> have you ever witnessed a miracle? >> it's like impossible. me, my boots and i, we're going to make it. in april 2010, an incredible video hits the web making millions believe in the impossible. a new sport is introduced called liquid mountaineering, essentially walking on water. could it ever happen? >> who doesn't want to believe that you can actually run on water? >> and you see that image of somebody actually doing it and it's exciting. >> you're going one step, going two steps, going three steps? >> we're discovering it as we go along. >> it feels like any other documentary you see about any other extreme

>>> and viral spiral. what started as an innocent upload, but five years and 436 million hits later, charlie bit my finger has made his family rich. tonight what it takes to win the online lottery. this is "nightline" march 29, 2012. >>> good evening, i'm bill weir. there's a better than 50% chance that you have at least one apple product in your home. over half of americans do these days. there's a good chance you've heard disturbing stories about how they were made. last month we took you to china for the first ever glimpse inside the apple lines at foxconn. we were there as the fair labor association began to assess how bad things really are for the $2 an hour workers who build the products. >> reporter: the journey began six weeks ago when we arrived at the foxconn gates, filled with fascination and dread. >> turn your mike off, please. >> reporter: it was an intriguing chance to witness the creation of the mac book, the iphone, and the ipad. ♪ >> reporter: the products that have fans sleeping on side

i think we hope to see a convergence of accountability through viral load monitoring. already half of states get vira the best way to monitor it? the volume of viral load testing is high and so, ensuring that we are able to get ensuring that we are able to get the information through laboratory systems, duplicated, not simple, but i think this is a critical area to learn about ensuring we have complete confidentiality and by saying we want viral low suppression on a community level, we say at all times that nobody is suggesting mandatory treatment for hiv, but we are suggesting that the treatment facilities use that information and accountable for whether they're reaching out effectively to make sure people are being given every opportunity to come into and continue treatment for h hiv. in terms of the value proposition, i would make a few comments. it is important we not over promise. hiv is with us, and it is going to be with us until we have a vaccine. it can be with us in a much less burden some way. we can drive down incidents. we can prevent maternal to child tra

and made it go viral was that argument. probably the most distressing stuff was the personal comments i would get as claudia mckinney. that would say like, i could not sleep last night. please, write me back and tell me it was fake. >> we almost felt we had to tell that this was not real, that it was fake. >> but online kyle does nothing to quench those queries. >> i haven't answered any of those personal messages from people. i let them swing in the wind. >> we may have exposed here that "exhibit b-5" is pure fiction. but one thing about the video remains an enigma. >> the real mystery behind "exhibit b-5" is how can his pants be that tight? >> if it's any tighter, he'll pass out from blood loss. >> chicks dig them. [ screaming ] >> rachel, it's me! rachel! >>> coming up -- two guys make an airport their personal playground. >> i'm pretty sure this is illegal. >> and put viral video viewer skepticism on high alert. >> oh, man, i'm going to go to jail. >> i'm like this is bad. [ male announcer ] this is lawn ranger -- eden

it is an after-school fight that has gone viral on a website. it happened at columbia's long reach high school just after dismissal. a man in a ski mask confronted and tried to assault a student. the man is knocked to the ground. the boy is seen throwing a punch. that student was just defending himself. >> the situation is under investigation by the school and the police. it has been turned over to the police department. >> it may have stemmed from a taunting incident at the school. a girl has been charged and the man who came to the school may have ties to the girl's caretaker. this is a video that has gone viral with more than 600,000 hits. a child psychologist says online behavior can take on a life of its own. >> taking pictures and putting on the internet, that would be one of the worst kinds of actions if there is malicious intent. >> in the video, it looks like the man was knocked out cold. police are expecting to file charges that could include assault and disorderly conduct. >> the mayor is taking steps to ease the fears of the city's l

young people are powerless before viral videos. it's how they learn about the world. >> jon: do you think there are other places that they're going to want us to care about? >> think? watch this. hey, jessica,. >> yeah. >> tell me everything you know about syria. >> syria. oh, yes, he tells me what to do when i'm talking to my phone. >> jon: syria is a country in the middle east, an uprising there is being brutally suppressed. many are dying. she didn't give a (beep) about syria. >> jon, allow me. hey, jessica. have you seen that new video with the dog? >> what? a new video with a dog. count me in. >> syria. you know what that is, right? the arab spring came and the syrians starteded protesting for their rights. >> cool. freedom is great. >> freedom is great. >> but there's a still calls homs. >> north of lebanon, sure. >> people there protested and the army showed up. >> yeah. instead of letting the syrians voice their discontent they started shelling homs. >> it's a war crime. ( cheers and applause ) >> oh, my god, you guys. we h

and by viral i mean since being posted online on monday march fifth it's garnered more than thirty nine million views on you tube here's a short clip. our goal change the conversation about cultures and give people the. truth we have printed hundreds of thousands of posters yard signs and fires that are right now today being put up in major cities all over the world. now documentary aims to bring awareness to just a leader the lord's resistance army which terrorized uganda for decades over the last six years has fled the democratic republic of congo in central african republic now briefly describe the brutal history of the l.r. in uganda the thirty thousand children that have been abducted over the years boys turned into child soldiers girls turned into sex slaves and the film calls on people to support invisible children to donate thirty dollars get a kit with the bracelets stickers posters all included and it tells the earth to participate in a day of action on april twentieth to spread the word hang up those posters and stickers all over the world and the endgame here is to have arre

the documentary has gone a viral.it including celebrities like three and a and george clooney. donations have been pouring in. >> the beauty is, it starts with the movie. the movie is an entry point to a mission. the mission involves influence in our policy makers so that they can take the steps on the ground from disarmament and demobilization and reintegration of all of the alar and fighters. >> it has also generated controversy for its simplistic presentation. of the war is over in northern uganda, connie's soldiers are not a depleted force that led to saddam. they still hold children captive. she was one of his former captives. " adapted from her home at age 12, her face was shattered and the government attacks on rebels. she made an escape in 2004 and eventually got treatment with the help of a nonprofit foundation. >> here is a live a view over san francisco. partly cloudy skies tonight over the bay area. we will see the weather change coming up as we go into the day on tuesday. tomorrow looks pretty nice. tempe

it will go viral just like the video has. >> some people say it is all too simplistic.ody argues it is a tale that must be told and a core that must be stopped. -- horror that must be stopped. >> we are expecting rain tonight. the forecast on the comeback. -- when we come back. >> the number of people filing for first-time jobless benefits is up. >> 362,000 people filed first- time claims last week. that is up from 354,000 the week before. the government is expected to announce additional jobs in february. >> the justice department says they are preparing to sue apple inc. and five e-book corporations accusing them of price fixing. that was at the time the company was preparing to introduce the first ipad. european regulators are also probing apple's pricing deals. >> air fares will probably continue to go up for the next decade. average prices rose 17% last year. it is up 4% this year. the faa says it might also be harder to book a flight because passenger numbers will double to 1 billion by 2024. prices will not drop until the airlines get more competition. that appar

it is an afternoon flight that is gone viral.ppened at columbia's long reach high school just after the dismissal. a man in a ski mask confronted and try to assault a student. the man is knocked to the ground. the boy is seen throwing a punch. that student was defending himself. >> the situation is under investigation. it has been turned over to the police department. >> it may have started forming taunting incident at the school. a girl has been charged and the man who came to the school may have ties to the girls caretaker. this is the video that has gone viral with more than 600,000 hits. a child psychologist says online behavior can take got a life of its own. >> taking pictures and putting it on the internet, that would be one of the worst kinds of actions if there is malicious intent. >> in that video, you did not see the man get up but he does get up and walked off campus. police are investigating charges against the man and charges could be assault and disorderly conduct. back to you. >> new details in the investigation o

>> a spate of viral hoaxes. our skeptic ron claiborne on the story this morning. >>> two words a lot of us don't like to hear. jury duty. we're going to tell you about a woman who faked crazy behavior, to keep from serving. she went on a radio show and bragged about it. not smart. the judge was listening. and now, this woman is going to be in front of a jury herself. >>> we begin with new information this morning in the shooting death that's shaken the nation. nearly one month after the killing of florida teenager, trayvon martin, the gunman's lawyer is speaking out. saying the neighborhood watch captain, george zimmerman, is not a racist. matt gutman has the latest from sanford, florida. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning. we've seen this man listic apartment of george zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain. now, his attorney, painting a very different picture of a devout catholic who was an insurance underwriter and mentored black children. for the first time, we're getting george zimmerman's sid

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is there viral is the word.s viewed 30 million times yesterday alone, propelled by celebrity tweets and fans on facebook. especially teens and young adults. with more, he's cecelia vagilia. >> reporter: a viral video with an unusual mission. to bring down one of africa's most ruthless war lords. >> we're going to make joseph kony a house hold name. >> reporter: he's the leader of the army that has terror rised uganda. behind the movie, a group called invisible children. >> we want him captured and alive. >> reporter: the film urged view toers call, and tweet. the idea to create a celebrity army. the video posted on youtube on monday. on thuz, the oprah effect kicked in. she and other stars like justin bieber and ryan seacrest tweeted about it, the number of clicks skyrocketed. >> half hour of your life, just watch our video. >> reporter: at one point, 4% of all tweets were about kony's crimes. >> i'm aware of it. i've been briefed on it. >> reporter: this movie is not without critics. some say his army is no lon

a group that produced the video, "kony 2012" that went viral last week. ironically, he enlisted stars, including justin bieber, ryan seacrest and oprah, who tweeted their endorsements to their millions of fans. now, because he was so successful generating buzz, his arrest is that much more embarrassing. it's international news. today, invisible children seemed to blame russell's breakdown on the intense exposure he generated. noting, the past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, jason especially. >> we live in a world where any controversy gets magnified. any negative gets magnified. people i call the feedback society. >> 15 bombs hit this tiny village. >> reporter: both men have been trying to focus the world's attention on africa. clooney's cause is the humanitarian crisis in darfur. russell's a rogue resistance group in uganda. both in the news today because of these separate arrests. >> stars have to be extra careful about the causes they take on. >> that's a good question. >> each celebrity has their own dna. and the public feel

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now a viral video is calling for his capture, tens of millions of people have already watched it. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." rk vk -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> all that coming up, but now we get the latest on the kansas republican caucuses. >> i'm don lemon at the cnn newsroom. kansas takes the spotlight in the republican race today. cnn is projecting that rick santorum has won the kansas caucuses. here's the totals here, check them out with nearly all the caucus votes counted, santorum won easily there. he has 51%. romney has a distant second at 21%. kansas is a conservative state with a strong evangelical vote, both playing to santorum's strengths. we bring in chief political correspondent candy crowley joining us live from washington. big picture here, romney and gingrich pretty much let santorum have kansas so his luck holds here. is this an important win? >> you know, i hate to sound like everybody else but the fact of the matter is they're all important wins at this p

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it went viral.n jayne lynch guest hosting on piers morgan tonight, she talked to haggerty about her new-found celebrity. >> it just seems like it's a dream. it doesn't seem like it's real. it seems like something that i'm just sort of -- i'm going to wake up and this didn't really happen. >> haggerty says her son who happens to be a "wall street journal" reporter told her about the eat beat review going viral. she had to ask him, what does viral mean? you can read about it on front page of "the journal." they put it on the front page today. she's not just a food critic, ladies. she writes about everything and she has a sewage treatment facility named after her. >> she has a column named eat beat. >> she's an institution in both dakotas. >> i want to be just like her when i grow up. >> i love this woman. it's the eat beat. she talks about the olive garden having a tuesday can farmhouse style with a welcoming entryway. >> she's viral but she doesn't know what that means. >> no wonder it went virt. >>>

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showing support for a cause that has gone viral. first news on whitney houston's will, straight forward, leaving all assets to her daughter, 19-year-old bobby christine yachl the lawyer expects no complications as things with the family have been very smooth. and there is demi moore out of rehab and back in l.a.. she was checked into a treatment facility. on facebook, twitter or you tube you've probably seen a human rights video many have turned viral. >> arresting joseph kony will prove the world has new rules. >> nonprofit group invisible children produced a video hoping in taking down african war lord claimed -- blamed for kidnapping thousands of children, turning them into sex slaves, justin beiber tweeted this is not a joke, this is serious. rihanna left a link and read spread the word. diddy wrote you must all see this, if you don't know what it is about, watch this. i'm rachel smith in los angeles. >> and there is pat robertson's surprising opinion on marijuana why he says the government should go ahead and legalize it. >> a

why a viral documentary could help nab a victorious warlord on the run.he united states and the world. all straight ahead, i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> let's begin with syria right now, where there are chilling new pictures that seem to say it all. buildings ravaged, walls riddled with bullets. the besieged city of homs now a ghost town. no signs of life on the streets at all. another 62 people reportedly have been killed today. mean mile, new signs of cracks in the ruthless syrian regime. let's bring in barbara starr. he has the late-breaking details. >> reporter: signs of cracks in the regime, but what happens if the regime cracks apart? cnn has obtained this satellite image taken monday, showing the destroyed baba amr neighborhood of homs. bashar al assad's forces have pushed almost everyone out. >> he's gaining fill momentum, sir. >> an oil minister defected, some lower-level military as well. american officials say there are indications some elite are trying to relocate family and money. >> they start with a trickle, and then

it puts the spotlight on an kony and quickly went viral 43 milli 43 million hits in four days. here is cecilia vega. >> it's a stunning youtube sensation, a viral video with an bring to bring down one of africa's most ruthless warlords. >> we going to make joseph kony a household name. >> he is the leader of an army that has terrorized uganda forcing thousands of girls to become sex slaves and young boys to kill. behind the movie is called invisible children. >> we want him captured and alive for the trial as an international criminal court. >> the film urged viewers to call, e-mail, tweet, 32 policymakers. the idea so to create a celebrity army to enlist more supporters and it worked. video was posted on u-tube monday, then tuesday filmmakers say the oprah effect clicked in and then the clicks skyrocketed passing 25 million mark sweeping past 38 million today. >> just a half an hour of your life, watch the video. >> 4% of all treats was about kony's crime. >> i'm aware of it. >> this movie is not without critics. some say the guerilla army is still dangerous but no longer terr

it touched off this viral culinary firestorm. dan kloeffler is here with more.reporter: good morning to both of you. for decades, marilyn ha fwrksges been telling the folks of grand forks what is good on the menu. thanks to her latest write-up, she's cooked up national attention after her tell-it-like-it-is review went viral. one of the biggest internet sensations this week, this woman, 85-year-old marilyn hagerty. >> somebody told me i went viral. i didn't know what that meant. >> reporter: why the buzz? because this north dakota food critic wrote a detailed review of grand forks' latest culinary hot spot. >> people were very excited about the olive garden. it was packed with people for the first several weeks. >> reporter: that's right. that olive garden. the endless addictive bread sticks olive garden. but chain status aside, marilyn did her job. writing the place is impressive. saying it's the largest and most beautiful restaurant now operating in grand forks. and describing the ambiance as relaxed. in a rough and tumble world of restaurant review, where cri