visser surfaces.e the jet ski has only moments to get him to safety. >> a lot of friends, people i competed against in big waves said, you know, if i just caught one, i would have been just thrilled. for me, it was such a big milestone. so scared in that environment, to have actually pulled it off was like the best thing ever. >>> next on "meet the press." today president obama returns from vacation to face a crucial national security question. >>> and what can be done about the hundreds of isis fighters with american and western passports. i'll ask mike rogers, chair of the house intelligence committee. >>> and healing the racial divide. calm is returning to the streets of ferguson, missouri. but this morning, new concerns about whether the police officer who killed michael brown will face criminal charges. i'll be joined by the governor of missouri and the reverend al sharpton. >>> plus, exclusives. rising political star rand paul on a mercy mission

visser shares every surfer's dread.ng off a monster wave and being crushed by its enormous power. >> i could face the worst of my life, so i thought of all the things i trained for in the daytime to be ready for that. the only answer is doing that again times ten. >> visser and his team stimulate an underwater nightmare to prepare. >> they blindfolded me and taught me that if i blew a bubble and it went down, i was upside down or i was upright. one of the biggest fears i had was drowning or being caught in cave at night. >> narrator: july 20th, 2011. after three years of careful planning, the night to ride jaws arrives. >> the conditions were pretty good. we did have a full moon. >> narrator: a jetski tows him into place. the massive wave rises up behind him like a dark wall. he lets go of the tow rope and faces jaws. >> you can't really see the wave that well. it's more a feeling versus actually seeing. i just was chanting through my head, stay on your feet, stay on your feet if there were bumps or chops to either side

visser surfaces.cue the jet ski has only moments to get him to safety. >> a lot of friends, people i competed against in big waves said, you know, if i just caught one, i would have been just thrilled. for me, it was such a big milestone. so scared in that environment, to have actually pulled it off was like the best thing ever. >>> daring rescues in frigid waters. >> i can't see anything! i need help! >> massive floods. >> oh, my god. >> it was unbelievable just how quickly that the water was moving. >> and danger at sea. >> absolutely life threatening situation. >> get ready to get wet. catching air and crashing cars. falling in. >> it was a real quick, violent crash. >> and flying out. >> my gosh! >> when it comes to the power of water, expect the unexpected.

these developments not enough to save a highly visserible -- visible relationship between obama administration. -- and government of israel. just moments after he claimed that president's relationship with israel is quote, strong and unchanged. ernest said this. >> that suspicion that hamas fighters are operating in the vicinity of innocent civilians does not justify taking strikes that put the lives of those innocent civilians at risk. lou: white house condemnation after state department spoke person used language with which to criticize the government of israel over the weekend. saying that the obama administration is quote, appalled at what she called a disgraceful idea of shelling outside of a u.n. school in gaza, saki could not come up with a ponce to questions that -- responses to questions that respect that netanyahu warned john kerry, to never second guess me again, after hamas violated against a humanitarian cease fear agreement on saturday, we'll have more on israel's battle to irk ra irk r, threat. we'll talk with retired four-star general jack keane tonight. >> automatic death toll

. >> we mentioned leslie visser. highly acclaimed pro football hall of fame sportscaster.her 40th year of covering sports. the first nfl ceo of the nfl. >> more and more girls are getting involved in sports than ever before. i am just wondering if it is too soon for something like this. i am wondering what is going to work. i like that they put in a former beauty queen because that is what they did with nfl sunday back in the day. so, it could work. shows with women sitting around talking about certain issues. >> i know the male mind, guys don't need the eye candy, men love women who can talk about sports. they don't care what they look like. >> you don't care at all what a woman looks like? >> i will watch a different show for the eye candy. no. >> so of your andrews looked like dennis. >> thomas making a point visited necessarily going to be women watching the show. it could attract a lot of mail eyeballs as well. >> the only issue i have is the title. "we need to talk." >> might as well call it "where were you last night"? >> do women need a women specific broadcast for

if the melting ice caps and rising oceans don't get us, we will all die in the visser of each other's oxygen. and i think that we get that message clear. >> excellent. i will turn it over to questions. take me to slide 18, because i have one public service that i always do whenever i have these kinds of talks. and this is looking at the national natural gas usage and what you'll notice is that 60% comes from residences. one of the things i love about both of these books, and they are fabulous books, they are page turner, which in the environmental area i don't see very often. but the important thing to understand is that these are complex and nuanced issues. when people say that they are anti-tracking code cracking, you need to understand your individual impacts on those debates. every time you turn on or natural gas stove and you go and use the natural gas heater, you are encouraging the use of hydraulic fracturing in our economy. so it's something important to understand as individual responsibility, and a lot of folks do not. so let me turn it over now with back to questions. pleas